skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably would've been inclined to argue about how Emacs "should" be used, but I'm not about to presume so with someone who's been using it for two years longer than I've been alive.

If you're inclined to amplify on your perspective of how Emacs has changed over time, I'd be delighted to hear anything you have to say on the subject. It's so much more powerful than anything else I've ever used that I'm still very much in the honeymoon phase despite having used Emacs as my sole editor for almost a half decade now; I would value most highly the privilege of hearing from someone with a more experienced and balanced understanding, such as yours.
Fewer accidents drives down the insurance costs.
There are many other possible explanations for fewer new businesses:

1. Technology has disintermediated many of the barriers in bringing your service directly to customers, and so more people are becoming freelancers rather than working for an organization. I would love to see this chart compared to rates of self-employment, Kickstarter campaigns, and people who make their living off EBay.

2. We're in a cyclical depression in new business formation. The economy is still pretty sluggish; few people feel they can gamble on striking out alone under these conditions.

3. New businesses are either folding quickly (before the one-year mark) or getting acquihired, because technology makes the feedback cycle of whether or not an idea is going to work faster.
What they mean is AliPay - http://global.alipay.com/ospay/home.htm

Jack Ma spoke on it last year at Stanford - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRp4jiJed3c

My prediction: Alibaba is on a path to take over the world. In the next 5 years the startup and silicon valley landscape will change dramatically with the introduction of Alibaba as a major player stateside.

Yahoo will be bought, all these spree acquisitions and product dev based on borrowed time and money (ironically from Alibaba) is to walk away with as much money from Alibaba when that inevitable moment happens. Maybe that's why Marissa Meyer has such confidence.

If you work on anything tangential and remotely related to ecommerce, enterprise, or logistics, at scale--the type of scale that can actually impress a man that has the indirect democratic approval of a a nation composed of a billion people--you now have an additional avenue for exit aside from Amazon.

Alibaba will become an American household name overnight, that took 15 years to happen.
I agree. If search ever becomes less important (e.g. voice stuff like Siri takes over), then Google will struggle.

Google management is intensely aware of that, which is why they're investing so heavily in voice search, wearables, etc. It's not to mainly grow their market, but rather to keep from being stuck in a shrinking one.

Apple is also intensely aware of Google's vulnerability, which is why they're developing things like Siri and maybe even wearables.
Does this mean that djb is the original hipster?!
I like the idea. I can't think of a specific use-case for me yet, but email integrated apps are often pretty cool and make for easier adoption.
> Don't spend $100 on shoes every year, spend $600 on shoes that will last for 10 years.

Honestly, if you take care of them, they'll last a lot longer than that. As mentioned below, I just sold my late stepfather's 40 year old Florsheim shell cordovan shoes for $100. They've seen lots of wear but I wouldn't be surprised if they're in use for decades more.
What exactly about this makes it a 'hipster' domain finder?

edit: Obtuse question I guess. What makes it a hipster domain finder is the fact the author called it one. Please, carry on.
What are the current timelines for self driving cars?
Remember: your app doesn't have to be launched to the general public immediately after Apple's approval process is done. Just set an availability date in the future. You can then make it available manually when you are ready.

You can even submit an app that is not yet finished (if it is a game, it may be missing levels, for instance), as long as it is usable in the current state and does not crash. Of course, when you update you have to go through the process again, but at least the application name is yours already.

If simultaneous launch is required, that seems to be a better approach. I am not sure if the Play store has the option of not making the app available immediately after launch, but if it has, you could flip the switches all at once.

Also, do you have to release a web version? It doesn't seem to be paying off.
Unless you count the wave of innovation coming out of cryptocurrencies, which are really just protocols for managing a blockchain. A decentralised Twitter could theoretically be built with this model.
I like the idea of knowing whether people are actually using a feature or gesture that I as a developer thought, but was just guessing, was so important. So that I can remove or improve it.

(I'm not an atom developer. I just envy being able to make decisions in the context of data, having spent most of my developer life without it.)
It failed to list in Hong Kong after HK said the partners could not retain control of board nominations after the sale

"""The negotiations foundered after regulators decided they would not allow Alibaba's partners to retain control over board nominations, maintaining that all shareholders should be treated equally, sources said.""" [+]

So does that mean that the SEC is going to allow them control? Does that mean HKSE is better governed than NYSE?

[+] http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL4N0HL10H20130925?irpc...
SB-1077 California mileage-based fee pilot program
Yesterday discovered Inoreader, already tired by Feedly's lack of Android's notifications, ATM seems to me the best platform to substitute/improve Google Reader.
From the article:

> Google also won’t even use the data that moves through the platform or display ads in Classroom, either, in accordance with its new policy announced last week.
What were his arguments? Can you point to something? I spent about 5 minutes googling, but I could only come up with his explanations for when to use it, and when not to use it. For example: http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html#std-shared_ptr
This is great, thanks. Money spent!
GIL also exists on PyPy.
To add another datapoint: I work for a large medical device manufacturer. We often need patient databases for debugging problems in the field. Although everyone who gets access to the raw data is HIPAA trained periodically (if your training expires, so do your data access credentials) we have implemented a "download database" feature that scrubs all patient identifying data before it's transmitted over the line.

Sure, there may be some edge cases where we need that ID stuff (haven't come across it in the years we've been doing this), but the point is that we take patient confidentiality very seriously (and the business takes being dinged for a HIPAA violation just as seriously).

It may sound fluffy and Pollyanna-like, but it's hard to be successful in this field without genuinely caring about the patient at the other end of your software.
HealthCrew Makes Your Doctor Scalable With Online Patient Mentorship
"Blackboard's market share among universities slipped to about 45 percent last year, down 26 points from six years before." And I question whether their share was really that high or just that high amongst universities that purchased a commercial LMS (as opposed to having a home-grown one, free & open source one, or no school-wide LMS at all).

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/techflash/2013/09...
Maybe it was how you implemented it? That's also a sample size of one.
There are a lot of people who actually get paid to trawl internet forums and say good things about a company or divert people to that company's products.[1]

Declaring your affiliation is mainly a gesture of good faith, since it shows you've nothing insidious planned. In longer, discussion-type posts, it's an invitation for the reader to consider any biases the writer's affiliations cause them to have.

"Disclosure" type statements have always been common in specialized communities where decisions involving time and money are discussed. You see them all over the place in forums for luxury goods consumers (fountain pen enthusiasts, audiophiles, coffee geeks) and investors. When people start discussing the exchange of money or time for a specialized good (be it discount ebooks or paraglider motors), disclosures start to come into play.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill
This was not what I expected. I thought it would be about toxic customers. It's actually about a set of very good customers who happen to like products that are doomed to failure. The idea is that some people have a distinct out of the mainstream taste. Kind of like when I tell my daughter I like her outfit so of course she won't wear it again.
Research subjects suppress immune responses using physical conditioning.
I believe Vagrant is for quickly and repeatably building development environments - I don't think it's meant for production.

Look into packer for building out Production images, and Chef/Puppet/Ansible for additional configuration ontop those images.
I like the selection of names.
eunu.ch anyone?
How can we be sure about that?
It would be handy if you could attach a js or css file to the email which would be used in the published page.
moot, why do you refuse to speak to us on 4chan while go happy hand-in-hand with all these web 3.5 cloud entrepreneurs here? Want to find some investor friends? Thanks for ignoring your actual friends.
You can build the Linux version right now. Same for Windows.
Rust has builtin types &'static str for strings that live for the entire runtime of the program and ~str for strings that live in dynamically managed heap memory (from the more general ~T for T that live there with T=str). If the function always returns a static string it can return the former type and won't need a ~ or any allocations for that.

If you need something more dynamic... you could have a user-defined type that can hold either and remembers whether it's responsible for freeing the memory, but that doesn't fall out of the builtin types naturally.
I don't love the single responsibility principle
I believe this has to do with the inability to issue non-preferred (non-voting) stock on the HKSE, something that is allowed on NYSE.
I cannot believe that fetus.es is still available!!
It's not necessary. The code is under 6MB. Remove the top level .git directory if the size bothers you.
I feel like I'm watching this happen in slow motion with Google Keep. I've been using it since its release for transient stuff like shopping lists, mostly because it has a nice Android lock screen widget.

It's over a year old now, and it's only received very minor updates. Still can't even reorder notes in the web interface. I won't be devastated if/when it goes away, but it just seems like a huge missed opportunity for Google to actually put some effort into this kind of application.
fan.gs was definitely the best. Who's the lucky one who snapped it up?
Am I right to say this would've been easily prevented by putting the hash(salt + password + client IP) in the cookie, instead of just hash(password)?
Easy, Fast, Powerful: This is Your Rails on Ninefold (Review)
As someone mentioned above, a lawyer. I feel it's extremely rare someone is going to steal an unreleased game in the first place, If you're a well known developer or big gaming company, maybe the probability goes up slightly, but even then, a big game success is still a shot in the dark.
The Los Angeles Times Reimagined
The answer seems like it will be no since they're enabling it for Apps for Education customers. For customers outside of that, I'm not sure, but even so Apps for Education is going to be the majority using this.
So, how are the student accounts handled and can I call someone when we have a problem?

[if the answer is G+ account, I don't think I can risk it given Google hate for certain types of names]
You wouldn't get it.
I didn't renew my App.net subscription, there really was no value for me. Checking it along with Twitter got tiresome (I was hoping someone would integrate the two into a single client) and overall everyone I care to follow is on Twitter, it was difficult to get people interested and on the App.net bandwagon.
I mean, I guess you can't unless you can a) see the source code yourself and b) deploy it yourself.
deflowr.com is available. Perfect for the startup that wants to be the ebay of virginity auctions. /s
Not really surprising - the whole idea of web desktop apps is kind of crazy, especially for something that you want to have good performance like a text editor.
Because you can then separate out what re-sizing is. Maybe you write a plugin that lets you drag with a mouse to re-size, but maybe someone else never uses their mouse, and would prefer a re-size plugin which auto re-sizes everything according to a tiling layout similar to a tiling window manager.

Separating it out has a lot of advantages, especially by not putting in much opinion by default.
I don't know. Community members usually undervalue the product owner's involvement as well.

Stewarding a community is a difficult job. You need more than just passion and I imagine finding one and feeling confident that they'll do a good job is quite difficult.
If you enter a race, and chase after the fastest runner, you will find you are always at least a step behind.

Instead concentrate on your race, choose your own route, your own pace. The fastest runners may take a wrong turn - and had you been following them you would have taken that wrong turn also.

There are plenty of people ready to prevent obvious market abuses, and we have yet to even glimpse the shape of the world of tomorrow. Focus now on the problems for which we know the shape of the solution, poverty, war, famine, medicine and worry about Google and Big Data when we know what we want it to look like.
I updated the phrase. That's a good point to direct to publishers who aren't crooked but are mistakenly trapped in this DRM mentality. Such ones can be convinced.

For example GOG is successful in negotiating with various gaming publishers about releasing even recent games DRM-free. Negotiating with crooks who use DRM for side reasons can't be productive, but negotiating with those who use DRM out of habit or notion that "it's a standard in the industry" is possible. According to GOG, they had many meetings with representatives from various companies and they asked for graphs, charts and other information about how GOG operate and how successful is their DRM-free approach. Sometimes that results in DRM-free releases. And the more they do it, the easier is for them to demonstrate that.

Unfortunately video industry lacks any serious distributor who would want to do such kind of work. Netflix and Co. are too comfortable obliging the DRM insanity.
freez.es would be a fun name for a programming blog.
Developers are most certainly not the only group of people who suffer from this.

I also think that there's actually some truth in feeling like you can change the world through code. There have been a huge number of code projects that have impacted out culture a whole lot over the last 20 years and in many ways they've been by far the most visible cultural lampposts.
Read http://python-notes.curiousefficiency.org/en/latest/python3/... and tell me if you still not convinced.
You can reorder notes in the web interface by dragging them, but oddly enough you can only do this in the grid view and not the list view.
Why You Should and Shouldn't Use Koa
Another idea: you could also use S3 as a web seed for a .torrent you hosted somewhere (or even a magnet link); it seems likely the speeds would be much better as well, since you'd be able to take advantage of S3's load-balancing.
What time is it? Just ask... Firefox OS?
Of note, the NASDAQ has lost year to date what Alibaba will be valued at. Interesting anomaly in the market.

Also a tough time for a tech company to go public since the general marketplace seems pretty overpriced as it is these days. The fact that Alibaba is an established business with history should help it perform well on IPO day.
> GPL [...] prevents anybody but the original author from making those pro versions.

This is only true as long as they accept no 3rd party contribution. In this case, accepting 3rd party modules is a crucial feature, so GPL+commercial wouldn't fly.
When we first released Deis, we were most interested in answering questions around workflow and how you should design a PaaS that leverages Docker from the ground up. We used node convergence and Chef databags because it worked and alternatives weren't available.

Fast forward to today... CoreOS/Fleet and Mesos are finally stable enough to build upon. They offer simpler, faster and more reliable ways for managing containers across distributed systems. Meanwhile, we've been able to hone our workflow and tooling using the legacy cluster management implementation. We're a better platform because of it.

TLDR; we _love_ Chef -- just not for managing containers across a distributed system.
Ballistic rescue parachutes
I did a little business startup competition over the weekend (aside: won too), and one of the main discussions in the marketing panels provided was on the use of Kickstarter not purely for the money influx, but more as a way of price and feature discrimination. By cleverly arranging your stretch goals, or making them fluid, and then by providing price determined plateaus for models or entry points, Kickstarter actually provides a lot of information that you might have to do some pretty painful market research, survey's, ect... to get.

The Reaper miniatures Kickstarter linked above was a particularly well done form of this, which has continued to experiment with the follow-ons. They were one of the first (maybe the first?) to provide the "buy once, get them all" tier for accessing stretch goals. They also got a lot of good market data and well discussed customer feedback with every post on what types of models people liked, how they liked them made, what they were willing to pay for them, and where the breakpoints in value / model were in the consumer mind. It was a pretty amazing shift from the ways of Games Workshop and the like with $5 / figure, $10-20 / big boy, take it or go home.
Xbmc Chromecast
I've made a channel with various solutions for Xbmc and the Chromecast.
That's quite the prediction. I have been following Alibaba for a while now and it is an incredible phenomenon. What you predict might very well come true.

Reading up on Jack Ma is time well spent.

Didn't he retire from Alibaba? He's listed as the CEO on the F-1 so I presume not but he announced his intention to step down quite publicly at some point.
For products in the hardware, gaming, platform, and OS space, I understand that a lot of code is often bought, licensed, or shared between companies in a manner that would prohibit open-sourcing the software without a time-consuming IP hunt.

However, I don't think I've ever worked at a web startup that didn't require all employee and contractor-contributed code be granted irrevocably and without limitation to the company, and the last few companies I've worked at have also required that all third-party dependencies be licensed in such a way that the company could use them in an unlimited commercial or non-commercial manner.

Everything I've worked on in the last 5+ years could, I think, be open-sourced with the flip of a switch without IP or legal issue provided the company decide to do so. In a few cases I know about, projects I worked on were open-sourced after I left without even notifying me.

Do I think it's a bit irritating and potentially somewhat immoral? Sure. I'd have liked knowing that my code was open-sourced retroactively, if for no other reason than to add it to my OSS resume.

But I've never worked in a web startup where my employer wasn't effectively free of IP-debt, or one where the "flip the switch and-open source it" method wasn't legally viable.

I think I agree with your point, though: "just open source it when it dies" is a naive argument that ignores how much work putting code out there can really be.
Unless you develop natively on Linux, Docker must still run inside of a VM, so there is no real battery savings.
This is just so disgusting, i remember thinking about this when this guy was at techcrunch disrupt last year, acting like he's trying to make the world a better place. The tech community will stay silent because nobody wants to bite the hand that feeds them.
Bummer, all the good ones are reserved for 'Corporate service' according to the referral links and are $200/yr.

Edit: Found & available elsewhere for cheaper, but probably for the best since I don't need to be buying domains...
and " won’t even use the data that moves through the platform or display ads in Classroom"

Note the language, they say they won't use it for "ads in Classroom", but what about for other purposes?
http://ask.metafilter.com/103558/why-not-modus-operandus
"Completely Static CMOS Design" - you can run this down to 0 Hz.
windows 8 isnt such a big upgrade from windows 7 in performance. i would posit that at the moment windows 7 is better, but doesnt really lead to higher future income for microsoft. With WinB, they are building an appstore, selling UI packs etc. Once you ave windows 7 the only addition may be Office, and you are done with microsoft. So actually for economic sense they should just give out win8 for free to all, hike price and withdraw support for windows 7. Then they should launch an appstore for windows 8 and enable further revenue streams eg adverts on apps etc
This is an excellent idea—I've received many requests from people who want to be able to use the BeeLine Reader browser plugins to read their email. This would accomplish that goal. Even without a JS/CSS helper, this is still really awesome because people can use this tool in combination with our browser plugins. Please contact me (nick@BeeLineReader.com) if you end up allowing JS/CSS helpers so that we can work with you to make ours compatible. Thanks again for this awesome product!
Humanitarians change the world but so do inventors.

I would argue that Edison, Bell, Ford and the like all changed the world significantly. Did they change it for the better? Who is to say?

Mandela, King and Ghandi certainly were overt in their motives to change the world for the better, so in many ways they may be more visible targets, but Bill Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, and the whole current raft of inventors of Twitter, Facebook, etc. have certainly changed the world.
spas.ms

wow, that actually makes sense! Good match for a multiple sclerosis awareness website.
Glass used to be compatible with most Android apps. Not anymore.
Because of inane comments.
This got me to thinking about discoverability, seo, and distinction in general. Acquiring the domain name is one thing, but getting your business or app popular enough to outmuscle established businesses with less hip domain names is another.

The domain and term [limelig.ht] caught my eye.

In this instance, if you'd like to be known and searchable simply with the term "limelight" you'll have to beat out, limelight.com (Limelight Networks), a 1952 movie of the same name, and the dictionary definitions (wiki, etc.) for the term (it's actually not that bad really).

At this point, even if your domain name is [getlimelight.com], you'd be counting on the same seo, success, and buzz as you would by using [limelig.ht], except that you wouldn't have to explain to anyone that, "it's limelig dot ht".
I liked brac.es. It could have been my new business's name. Sadly, it's gone. :(
The term "hipster" has become more or less a catch-all for words such as

* pretentious

* egotistical

* artsy

* self-involved

* preachy

* irreverent

* trendy

and many many more. My favorite thing about the linguistic history of "hipster" is that it started out defined as "one who is hip", but has come to describe both the hip person and the hipness itself. Phrases like "hipster shoes" or "hipster band" come to mind.
Be patient: after a while it segfaults