skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
might help solve simple & large problem - confidentiality in everyday usecase...
wish it worked on ios7 as 4s iphones will no all be updated due to slow-down with ios8 upgrade
This reminds me that I have two Wyse WY-85 green screen terminals in the attic. I got them when they were being thrown out by a university in 1997 or 1998. They've been sitting there getting more and more depressed and dusty. At some point I really need to grab a Pi and a USB<->serial adapter and get them up and running. I've seen some blog pages from a couple of other folks who have managed to get them working in a similar way.

At this rate my wife will throw them out with the perfectly valid excuse that if I haven't set them up in the last fifteen years, I'm unlikely to do so in the next fifteen.
If you use Facebook, Yelp, and Reddit, you should own a part of it too
While I understand that serving users at Reddit's scale is no small problem - from an outsiders pov, Reddit's engineering culture is very different from something like Pinterest (who also has the same problem wrt highly curated user feeds).

Despite this though, what I really meant that whatever Reddit is doing now doesn't seem to be working. Scaling back their remote workers might be the solution - in any case we will know sometime in 2015.
I heard that too but http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Windows_1.0 seriously? Who would mix that up? Also, given "One product family. One platform. One store" and the Xbox One they would have a cool One theme to build on.
> Apple iPhone - First Modern Smartphone.

Depends on your definition of "modern".

The iPhone wasn't the first to support apps (Windows Mobile / CE handsets had been around for a while, but they weren't nice to use as a "phone". Also plenty of feature phones, eg most of Sony Ericsson's pre-Android range- supported apps too).

If you meant "the first smart-phone form-factor", then there were Nokia and sony handsets long before the iPhone. But they weren't all that great from many of the accounts I heard (which always put me off buying one). Blackberry and Palm (remember them) also had some great offerings for their era too.

If you meant the "first with capacitive touch screen", then LG beat Apple to the market with an iPhone-like device by a few months.

However Apple's iPhone is still the handset we all remember as being the groundbreaker. I don't know if that's because Apple PR team have done a wonderful job rewriting history; or because Apple happened to build the most successful product of that era that it made other products before it seem forgettable. Maybe a bit of both. But in any case, I think if you want to credit the iPhone for it's importance in history then it's only fair to credit the numerous other handsets which preceded it and pioneered the various different technologies and paradigms that Apple then went on and merge together so effectively.
Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRTC implementation
Microsoft had technology to do just this in 1999 (!). It was known as 'HTA' (Html Applications) but was ahead of its time - the rich DOM manipulation and CSS effects we have now didn't exist. HTA was discontinued years ago afaik, but in hindsight it was a peak at the future.
Who could afford BBSs?

In Portugal it meant long distance calls to Lisbon or Porto, into systems that were time limited and with up to 10 connections.
> So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working. Gaming the system may continue to work if you go to work for a big company(...) But that doesn't work with startups. There is no boss to trick, only users, and all users care about is whether your product does what they want. Startups are as impersonal as physics. You have to make something people want, and you prosper only to the extent you do.

I don't believe this is true. I think the startup ecosystem actually learned how to game "making something people want". After all, startups are companies, companies need to profit, and "making what people want" vs. "making what people will pay for" are similar, yet not perfectly aligned goals.

pg may be right that startups are "as impersonal as physics", but users aren't, and herein lies the trick. One of the most blatant ways of gaming the system is the exit-seeking, toilet-paper startup. It exploits the disconnect between "growth" and "making something users want". The algorithm works like this:

- find something people apparently "want"
- make a half-baked solution, maximize it for user-acquiring candies
- market the living hell out of it
- keep the growth until you can sell your startup or get acquihired
- kill the product; who cares about it, anyway? oh and don't forget to thank your users for the journey, you couldn't all share this awesome moment without their help.

I want startups to be like pg describes. Maybe the most successful ones are like that. But there are so many that don't care about users that people are already developing a huge mistrust with everything-SaaS. I guess it's exactly like univerity - you can game your way through it if you treat is as an intermediate step. That your trick-grades don't reflect any actual knowledge doesn't matter after they get you a good job.
yeah, I reconsidered the wording since 'tool' has a certain connotation that I didn't intend.

I was hoping to be part of the several voices that were telling you you were wrong, because maybe hearing it from lots of people would make it more convincing.
I've been developing a Clojure on Node.js curses terminal UI library[1] for some months, and though development has been going stronger than ever lately, I feel my motivation doubled up in seeing my interfaces displayed in this glorious orange glow. I should start working on a text game about being alone in a spaceship or a war-ravaged post-apocalypse right now. Suddenly my brother will go from joking that my computer must crash a lot because all he ever sees is terminals to being in awe.

I had tried Cathode for OSX but it didn't work, and now you come and tell me I can have it for free on my linux dev box and that it works flawlessly? Thank you.

[1]: https://github.com/goldfeld/i9n
Apple was the first one to put all of those things together in a single package that really worked well - thats what I mean by first modern :-P
I'm glad I don't have to deal anymore with people who irrationally cite such "articles" as argument fodder. They exist, in large numbers. But not on my team.
Linting CoffeeScript is a good idea, too (using coffeelint).
Not was, is, the vertical service codes still work - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_service_code
You could turn that around; if they contribute more to society through their own sacrifice (years studying and learning, probably on low income), shouldn't they be rewarded for that? Does it not make sense for society to contribute something to the tremendous benefit they get from this person's sacrifice?
This is certainly the case.
On the other hand, "best papers" are not necessarily really the most important papers. Often politics, e.g., proportional representation of all important sub-fields among the best paper nominees, decide about whether a paper gets named "best" or not.

Anecdotally, I know of awesome papers that were not selected as "best paper" and 'cute idea' papers without substance that got a "best paper" award.
>"Well frankly, it's not called the Ivy League because of its academics." That's always stuck with me. Athletic scholarships? You betcha. Academic scholarships? What are those?

What are you talking about? Ivy League schools do not offer athletic money and all (now, not when I was applying) are need-blind, giving tons of money to those who need it.
right, when i saw "iconic phone" my first thought was the nokia 1100, but the 3210 is indeed more deserving of the title
He seems affiliated or at least heavily invested: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pinky07

In my head OpenERP was the company that took contributed code, changed the license and slapped a price tag on it? (Anyone: Feel free to defend them, - it might just be my bias against AGPL and the fact that I thought their price tag for the commercial version was unrealistic last time I evaluated it.)
I disagree with you on academia, as the checks & balances plus the peer review system for worldwide recognised published research kill and destroy bullshitters. I am not saying there aren't any but having been in both academia & corporate, the latter is infested with them.

In startup world, they get also eliminated quite rapidly as they will just fail. Success of any startups is not to raise funds but to get customers who will pay for value and for that bullshitters cannot trick the system.
Well, in that case, the same class from different versions of C should be considered distinct (i.e. when the compiler sees `a instanceof C.A`, it actually translates it into `a instanceof C_V1_53.A`, where the version is appropriate to the current module (and so is different if accessing `C.A` in modules `A`, `B`, or potentially the main program).
My company maintains no hardware (everything is "in the cloud"). No server grade stuff or gaming rigs here - I did a purge of some desktop PCs over the summer.

The closest thing I have is an xbox 360 in a closet. I've got a 4 year old macbook pro in a drawer that I keep as a cold spare, a 3 year old macbook air that gets used about 4 hours a month, and a 2 month old macbook pro that is my bread-and-butter machine.

However, I do know people with basements full of hardware.
ARM releases new RTOS to boost IoT development
"Light Table will continue to go on strong."

Sure.
Names and Personality
From my observations as a participant of such events, people actually working on startups don't frequent them.

The composition of people attending your typical bi-weekly unmeeting is: few people with money, lots of people who would like some of that money, few random CEOs who look for free employers, and the rest that just wants to hang out with "startup guys" because it's cool (and maybe they get to see some new toys).
I never got the point of all these alternative languages.

I rather use the real thing without any extra layers.
Why you you feel serving text is easier than serving other shapes of bits?
"Dropped "dark wake" support on OS X, which was preventing portables from going to sleep when there was a stuck job. We now use a variation of the CUPS 1.4 sleep support to do a cleaner sleep (<rdar://problem/14323704>)"

At last.
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Awesome terminal, but too bad it's so cpu hungry. My laptop heated up in like 5 minutes.
Angry Birds maker Rovio lays off up to 130 people in Finland
I hope one day we can all stop doing the 'Post title that's the opposite of the popular opinion, but the content actually supports the popular opinion, it just couches it in an unpopular way, so as to gain clicks with a headline that makes it seem like the article was ACTUALLY going to support the unpopular opinion'.

This is, in essence, just another form of slimy clickbait (albeit, one that flies on HN).
That makes a lot of sense. Regardless of where your data is, you want to best map your accesses to the underlying reality of whatever hardware is in use. And memory has significant locality on any even moderately big system.

I do think this glosses over the difference in data structures that someone focusing on efficiently storing and reading the data to and from disk might use versus the data structures that someone focused mainly on efficiently representing the data in memory might use, ignoring durability. Queries are one part of this, but dealing with updates and indexing can also be quite important.

I don't know if that difference is fundamental to the design of a database or just more of a lingering consequence of many databases being designed around most data being on disk, but it is what I observe looking at a variety of current database solutions.

Getting back to the main article here, I've been doing some basic testing against MemSQL today and, "world's fastest" aside, I like a lot of what I see, other than painfully long query parse/compile times. It does, however, appear to be true for my queries that most of the performance benefits are due to the distributed query engine and not due to any fundamental data structure differences compared to something like postgres or mysql/innodb. But my queries are very anti index.

SpaceCurve also sounds interesting, hopefully we can firm up our use cases enough and get far enough along in a technical evaluation that I can find time to play with it.
Burning mountain has been on fire for 6,000 years... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain
Yes, is a font problem in some browser because we use SVG for the "IN BETA", we going to change it to a PNG.

Thanks for the feedback :)
Don't forget CUPS is an Apple product. I'm sure they have a plan :)
Same here, every now an then something 'new' pops up where creators claim that its better™ than what it compiles to and that it solves all the problems but after a while this 'new thing' fades away entirely.

But then again, that's the same way C (and many other languages) was invented (as far as I understand), to replace assembly, for example, and it's still alive and kickin'.

I guess there is a subtle difference in here somewhere.
ReSharper also has great support for JavaScript. ReSharper isn't just a refactoring tool - it also points out errors and other potential issues in your code and offers to help fix them.

I'm just waiting for ReSharper the Vim plugin!
Rubicon development: Can anyone help us become successful developers?
Ungrateful 4 year old, he'll back before supper. If Ruby raised you well, I know python is a bit of a sloppy father though its heart is in the right place and he brings home the bacon, you'll know it's not just about the 5% code reduction. It's about abstracting away the inconsistencies of the language, revealing its inner elegance and power. CoffeeScript is not a cloak to hide JavaScript, it's the suit that makes you see and respect its power.
Oh and if you're using VS, you could use TypeScript, which in my limited experience seems to make JavaScript better 'just enough'.
I have no comment about CUPS, but I will say that I find this site to be pleasant on the eyes, even if it is just bootstrap. I feel like half the reason people don't want to use Debian or GNU stuff or other free software is because the sites themselves are fugly remnants of the mid-nineties and leave much to be desired from a usability standpoint.

How hard would it be to simply wrap their boring html and drop it into a bog standard bootstrap? Like, a day?
Digital Ocean gives away t-shirts for commiting to public GitHub repo in October
"Do one-time alcoholics - functional or otherwise - who have sought treatment and then completely quit drinking for a fair number of years, ever manage to go back to moderate & responsible alcohol consumption?"

I did, but I've no idea how common that is. I had a fairly bad drinking problem in my early 20s. Very much the functional alcoholic. Once I kicked that (with a year or so of pretty close to abstinence — through personal choice, no programme) I went back to social drinking fine. Not had a problem since, which is about 20 odd years now.

I have a few rules of thumb (I generally don't have alcohol in the house past a decent bottle of whisky every month or so, and I don't drink alone) but sticking to them has never been hard, and the times I don't stick to 'em haven't cause a relapse and slide into doom.
Ok, then maybe indicate as such? And not present it, as if it were a quote from the article you're linking to?
This is not related to me at all, I just like their games, amd they seem like a group in need of good advice.
I'd argue that the Motorola Razr V3 was iconic. In the middle 2000s, nothing else looked like it.
Symbian and Amiga OS also have device names.

As for Windows, in the NT line you can also refer to drives via \Devices\... when using object paths in Windows API.
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So this is a kind of teenage hubris thing ? In which other field this would be normal ?
I play the devil's advocate there, but please bear with me : IMHO, this attitude is among the causes of the high failure rates of many projects (personnal or pro).

The constraints are minor, the gains of coffeescript quite clear. There is no important gains in sight that justify moving to js. So why changing ?

Changing for the sake of change, is silly and something all of us do. A successful project needs as much technical stability as feature stability.
Heh, I already thought of this and wrote a little Go script to locate them all last May when I was choosing my new company name. I now have a 5-letter company name and a corresponding 3-letter .io domain name.

I had initially considered various strategies for mining longer names, using an algorithm to find English words and word-likes strings, but in the end there were so many .io domains that I couldn't not do this. The list was still sufficiently short that it only took a few hours to go through it manually and shortlist about half a dozen potential names, from which I chose what I considered to be the best one.

I'll save you all some effort and confirm that there are no real words left, unless someone has allowed one to lapse in the last year or so (which seems unlikely).

You might find the occasional acronym though. For example, as someone who mostly learned to code in MSX Basic, I was quite pleased to find msx.io wasn't taken. I plan to do something with it when I have some spare time (it's just a holding page for now).
Look at the commit beneath the commit message.

From the README: "The architecture is a simple MVC heavily dependent on RxJS" and that's exactly how it looks, just linking different components together without hardly any glue code.

If all his code looks like this, he certainly doesn't need it to be in CoffeeScript.
try the 80/20 rule; where 80% of the stuff that makes u burned out is from 20% of the stuff you do. try to address that

i would recommend setting aside some time each day for doing something that makes u happy. or google also gives employees 10-20 % of their time to work on their own projects. vigorous exercise or sport really really helps burnout go away after only a few days. beer and beaches help also.
Does this mean they have a public API for this?

I know they have this API for repair outfits, but they restrict it with client authentication certs.
I like the iterator metamethod, I think I'll borrow that for myself.

It's questionable whether labels/goto are needed at all (Lua didn't have them until 5.2), in my opinion the language could do very well without.

Coroutines would be nice though.
Apart for UI the other major factor was a browser and a browsing experience which did not suck.
OpenWebRTC, a flexible cross-platform WebRTC client framework based on GStreamer
It's the same basic form as the StarTAC.
I dropped Dropbox for simple reason - russian mail.ru promoted 1 tb free for Cloud.mail.ru and I got it.
> They'll catch those pesky "var" ... typos.

So will "use strict";

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Is this an honest question? I mean, really? I'm as pro-legalization as they come, but it is well documented (and well known) that yes marijuana is addictive. For example, you could start at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_dependence, then http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=marijuana+addictio..., and work your way through 5 decades of research from there.
I generally feel that jokes on HN are acceptable if they are contained within an otherwise useful comment. If you make a comment just to make a joke that's what's not acceptable.
Is NOT offering a free trial a bad idea for a new product?
Hi,

I'm working on a project that will help users manage servers from remote.
This service will use my servers, and for that, I will have to buy those servers up front.

I first thought about offering a 15 days free trial, but I'm wondering if this is a great idea : I'm affraid that I will have too many curious users that will only try the app, and not go further the 15 days trial. This will led me to buy too many "unpaid" servers and may fail the whole project in term of cash.

Don't get me wrong, I really would like to let people try before paying and I'm pretty sure this is a feature I will enable if/when the project is working and I can pay the servers without having money difficulties.

But for starting, I'm wondering if not offering a free trial is a bad idea.

In my opinion, forcing the user to pay to use at first day will bring only really interested users, but I may loose others that would first see, and then be interested to pay.

I don't have much experience on that side, that's why I'm asking it to you.

Thank you for your help :)
I can see why you'd make that assumption, but I assure you I'm not.
Well that's now more a question of personal bias / preference than something that can be defined as cold, hard fact.

What worked for you might not have been someone else's preferred method of using a smart phone. As well polished as the iPhone was, I found many of its design implimentations worked against the way I liked to use a smart phone. And I think the fact that Symbian (amongst others) outsold iOS for the first few years of the iPhone's life would suggest that I wasn't alone.

So I think even by that measure, it's still unfair to exclude other handsets of the same generation which were just as popular.

But then I guess history is written by the victors, not the other pioneers who've since fallen by the wayside.
Key players in Internet of Things promote Thread protocol at Google campus
Walrus mass in vast numbers on Alaska beach as sea ice retreats
For those interested in Google's implementation:
https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%...

or browse the code:

svn checkout http://webrtc.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ webrtc-read-only

Also Ericsson's code is on github (I couldn't find a direct link from the parent article): https://github.com/EricssonResearch/openwebrtc/
They do have systems of marking applications of prospective students approved by a coach.
I have this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6553994 /

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2htaam/iphone_6_glass...

Got my iPhone 3 days ago.
I remember reading that there was speculation that the Russians were mapping out oil and natural gas wells, using what I remember as seismic mapping, in the Afghanistan mountains when the United States unofficially used small nuclear warheads in the post-911 invasion. It has been mostly scrubbed from the net at this point.
"Also, in the end of the
day, your generated JavaScript is just about 5% more verbose than
actual CoffeeScript code, so I don't see real benefit."

I disagree with this sentence.

Anyone use coffeescript only to
reduce the code verbosity, maybe wrong.

It's a simple evolution of thejavascript language that currently has an old syntax.
Do not confuse old syntax with popularity and power of the language itself.

Many programmers have figured out that readability and clarity code are a good stuff, especially looking forward if the project will become big and much complex.

It's why Swift or Rust were created, not why their code is less verbose of Objective-c or C, but because they have a clear syntax, and it helps programmers in their productivity.
> I'm missing something in your post...

You added the word "consistently". However, once you got something approved, it is assumed beneficially working and rarely evaluated again until there's a lawsuit for the side effects (e.g. VioXX) or patents expire.

Consistently showing improvement is not actually a requirement.