skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may also want to take a look at vimium for google chrome. I prefer it a little more than vimlike smoozie.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dbepggeogbaibhgn...

This made my switch to chrome from firefox much easier.
I was the first person to discover this. The chaosmachine mentioned in the article is me :)

I even got an interview request from Wired, but didn't call them in time.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/05/52426
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It's because he hasn't yet come to believe he's God. Hopefully he'll stay that way.
I used to think a good C++ screener question might be: "When would you use the 'nothrow' constant, and when would you have empty 'throws' specifications in method declarations?"

But then I realized this is just getting tricky with C++ arcana, and is unfair. I once read all of Herb Sutter's 'Exceptional C++' series, and they scared me so much that I still get the frights, years on, when contemplating approaching a C++ compiler.

And I used to think I was OK with C++ too. But after Sutter's books I had to accept that, nah, at best I was mediocre. I admire people who can boldly cast out and rapidly prototype a library or something. Or who have the patience to iteratively engineer a Boost library. I will never achieve this, despite once desperately wanting too.
Hmm, with that logic, all private Facebook albums, EtherPad documents, MySpace images, and [insert obviously private thing here] are also public.
Glenn Beck is not the worst kind of person. You see? You're saying something blatantly false and everyone agrees with you. It's sad.
"Doesn't this mean that people with inflexible schedules (i.e. people who are in lower income brackets) will be charged more?"

If their inflexible schedules coincide with the time during which there are expensive rates, then yes.
Honestly, I think the 'pick your brain' approach would work better in a lot of cases. Particularly if you are inexperienced, young, etc. Personally, I would almost never turn down a request to meet from someone who wanted to ask me for help, advice, introductions, etc, but as soon as someone says they have ideas for me I get pretty suspicious. Nine times out of ten that guy is trying to sell you something.

Of course, if it's something you can legitimately add value to (e.g. you actually have been diving into crowdsourcing or whatever) then your approach may be the way to go.

Great post.

By the way, if anyone actually wants to buy me a drink at Tres Agaves (which is very close to my office), please let me know :)
500,000 cars in what given area? People commute to the city from all over the Bay Area.
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Driving is a luxury not a right. Parking should get more expensive to curb demand, lessen traffic congestion on the streets and make it more friendly for other modes of transportation. Public transit, biking, and walking are options to be considered.
This is a very high competition, relatively lower demand market than straight web app development. A single designer can build interfaces that will put a whole team of developers to work. If I'm interviewing designers and I had to choose between the better designer and one that could do reasonably good HTML/CSS, it'd be the later all the way.
Good news for all those mac users in Antarctica:

"Date and Time fixes provided for: Daylight Saving Time rules to reflect recent changes in areas including Argentina, Fiji, Pakistan, and Antarctica."
Your way of thinking on whose part? Are you saying that opinionated Americans deserve credit for those peaceful democratic transitions? ... that American neocons do?

I have no problem with people in their own country deciding to dislike the regime and trying to act politically to change it. That's organic democracy.

I have a big problem with armchair revolutionaries in the US encouraging people to sacrifice their own lives so in a revolution. Few political goals are worth anyone's life, and most people weighing in against China are part of various interest groups who stand to gain from China's turmoil or demise.

It's only politicians who think that their own political goals/aspirations are worth the lives of others. How many lives is it worth to accelerate China's liberalization by one year? How many is it worth to make the Iraqi people have an election?

I love the idea of organic, heroic revolution toward democracy and the creation of transparent, non-corrupt institutions as much as the next guy, but I have a big problem with American interests trying to spark revolutions around the world.

I think westerners have a very strong bias about the sorts of institutions that may be viewed as democratic. I'd argue that, for example, Islam is a heavily decentralized, democratic institution. So I'm highly cynical when the US steps in, requires secularism, and picks winners and losers, while telling all of us sitting on our couches back in America that the reason is women's rights, etc. That's nonsense, the truth is that we just like picking winners and losers but our leaders have realized that they get a lot more mileage selling war when there is a set of underlying humanitarian talking points.

Even in the absence of perfect political institutions, people lead happy, fruitful, day to day lives. They enjoy their work, their families, nice weather, food, etc. It takes tremendous hubris to tell someone somewhere else that he/she ought to get involved in a political struggle, that his/her country ought to be embroiled in conflict, that his/her children ought to know the sound of bombs or gunfire.

As we learned in the Iraq fiasco, Americans fall for any romantic story about eradicating evil and bringing women's rights to the third world. I think it's time that people woke up and realized that the US has no moral high ground and that it's all about controlling resources and harming current and potential enemies (like China).
I can't think of a worse kind of person.

Glen Beck obviously isn't the worst in this category.
I have a standing desk now. Highly recommended.
If you can tell me how to secure the printed receipt in a motorcycle, I will agree with you that the "box on the block" idea works better.

Let's also not forget that with the muni-meter, you have to make an extra trip between your vehicle and wherever on the block the meter is to acquire the receipt and put it back inside your car, and also that if the meter is broken you are on the hook to run another few blocks to find another, whereas with the individual meters you got a free spot for two hours.
Why not the frontlog?

Site looks great, by the way. One thing I'll say is that I ran into the same reel after just two clicks -- this should be pretty easy to avoid, either by shuffling an array of reels (rather than pulling one out at random), or by tracking which reels I've seen in a session variable.

Good luck!
Interestingly, there's one difference between sucrose and a 50:50 glucose/fructose mix: the sucrose will have less sweetness per calorie, because it's only one molecule (a disaccharide) and can thus stimulate only half as many sweet receptors.

Given that the body attempts to measure current calorie intake by calibrating past calorie consumption versus past perceived sweetness, this means that the glucose/fructose mix will prime the body to crave sweets more intensely. This is pretty much the only biologically plausible argument against HFCS.

Compare: the studies showing that diet sodas actually lead to an increased risk of diabetes (doi:10.2337/dc08-1799).

Compare: the various diets encouraging the daily consumption of nearly-flavorless olive oil (example implementation, unsuccessful: http://lesswrong.com/lw/a6/the_mysteries_of_shangrila_dietin...).
Looks even more demonic now
NAND gates have two PMOS (pull-up) transistors in parallel and two NMOS (pull-down) transistors in series. This matches well with most CMOS processes, in which NMOS are faster. NOR gates have two PMOS in series and two NMOS in parallel, so either your pull up time will be significantly longer than your pull down time, or you're going to have to make the PMOS pretty big.

None of this really mattered at the time; the Apollo used resistor-transistor logic (RTL), which in turn used bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) instead of the CMOS (C is for complementary, meaning NMOS and PMOS) used for most digital logic today. In RTL (there are analogous logic families using CMOS too), instead of having a pull-up network of transistors, there is a weak pull-up resistor that makes the output high by default, unless it is pulled down by a network of (usually NPN) BJTs. In the case of an RTL NOR gate, it is just a bunch of NPN BJTs in parallel for the pull-down network, so it's pretty efficient ( http://www.play-hookey.com/digital/experiments/rtl_nor4.html ).

Sorry for the longish post.
I haven't been very happy with several of Apple's latest moves but I have to applaud them for this. It's encouraging to see that some tech companies have the guts to stand up for their values, even if it costs them real revenue.
It's also missing a semicolon.
Yes, this is called working within the system to subvert it. It applies copyright like no one else conceived of, at the time the GPL was created, to achieve an ends other than "make money".

If there was no copyright, or copyright is abolished, would there be a need for the GPL?
I'm not aware of the profitability of Fox News specifically or any of the Fox related ventures, I not surprisingly have no interest in such things. No doubt what you're saying is not outside the realms of possibility though.

But I guess I figure a safe assumption to make in most situations involving musings on the motives of publicly owned corporations is that money and relatively shortsighted plans to acquire more of it tend to trump most else. e.g. Foxtel in Australia shows John Stuart and Stephen Colbert most weeknights. Not I suspect, because the execs at Fox agree with their POV but because there is an audience for that POV and the execs can spend their money in more places than they can spend their moral conviction in their position on the political spectrum.
how are you handling the load? web server/db/etc?
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It's weird. I have seen so many posts here that says "Review my startup" even though it's only an app/site.

Here you are calling it "my site". I would actually call it a startup.
As big business gets even more directly involved in politics through nearly limitless donation we need to become much more aware of which companies we choose to purchase products from. Realistically I don't expect people to totally change their buying habits but if it's a simple Coke vs. Pepsi sort of choice it's easy enough to make a difference.
There are reports of 10.6.3 causing problems with MacFusion/sshfs, so if you rely on MacFuse to access files remotely, take caution.

References: http://groups.google.com/group/macfusion-devel/browse_thread... , and a guy in my office who sent an email out after his 10.6.3 upgrade was useless for him.
:-) Hacker News comments are really humbling. So many brilliant people here that really call you on your shit in an intelligent way. You can never mistakenly think you're brighter than most. Most of the time I feel, “Wow. I have nothing to add.”
There are prototype meters in some locations (mostly near the Embarcadero) that use central fareboxes instead of individual meters. They get around the printed receipt problem by having you specify the parking space number when you pay and keeping track of which numbered spaces are paid for instead of issuing a receipt to put in the vehicle.
you know how we have those calling cards and you have to call this long number and then enter in the international phone number you're dialing? anything that helps that process along would be quite cool. I'm using skype at the moment but it still can't beat the calling card price and carrying around the card or remembering long international numbers is a major hassle for their use.
With ebooks coming out the cost of distribution of books drop to zero, leaving zero money in the hands of authors.

Can't really see how we would do without something like copyright.
First of all, you shouldn't get downvoted for this. I disagree with you, but its a question that is good to ask.

Secondly, while I don't think google buzz, in itself, is something the Congress needs to focus on, I think its good that they are looking to set rules early on instead of waiting for an even bigger issue.

Privacy is going to be a hotly debated topic and if Congress can start talking about it now, it will be good.
I found this in early 2000 and wrote about it for a Leeds based fanzine. There are two pictures on that single as far as I remember, I forget what the other one is of.
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I want to have a really cool answer for this like Cassandra and nosql and clusters and nodes and server side javascript and all that cool stuff, but the truth is not that exciting.

I have two servers, events go to log files and log files get processed and put into the db.

Servers are win2003 and win2008, db is Sql Server Express (lol), and webservers are IIS6 and IIS7. Long term I want to get nginx or mochiweb in place for the tracker servers but for now it's beyond my skills and time/money budget to do that.
I've thought that a sailing app would be great.

Using the compass you can put your iphone on the deck and have an arrow point you to your next waypoint that you have plotted on Google maps beforehand. You can also record the route you've sailed and load it into a google maps mashup when you get back home. Or you could use the accelerometer to record how good or bad the weather has been on your trip (the more a boat rocks back and forth the worse the weather)

I haven't thought out exactly how it should be, but I'm pretty sure it would be a neat app. If you find it interesting my mail is in my profile.

There's no reason to publish it for free, it's probably something people will pay good money for :-)
Well it is a startup, but I think startup and site are pretty much synonymous in these parts.
470,333 vehicles registered to San Francisco residents according to http://www.sfmta.com/cms/rfact/documents/SFFactSheet2009_Nov...
This bears repeating - is working for the man getting you down? Then be the man - and be a better man.
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For the same reason that Apple and Google supported Proposition 8: it's the right thing to do.

The 'best financial interest of shareholders' for Apple is long-term, and they believe the good will generated by doing the right thing will make the market look more favourably upon them. I know I do.

It's a lack of a short-sighted, myopic view that's gotten Apple where it is today. Putting their advertising dollars into ads on another channel (or websites, etc.) instead of Fox News isn't going to cost them a significant amount of sales in the long term, but it is going to hurt Fox in the short term (well, the boycott will).

Meanwhile, Apple's not worried about their profits for the next year; they've got so much cash in the bank they don't even need their employees to show up to work for the company to outlive any of us. Their iPad ads will go elsewhere, and will earn them sales, and the shareholders won't suffer at all.
Keep in mind that SF is highly gentrified. Lower income people get pushed out to Oakland and to the cities south of San Francisco. Additionally, lower income people have less options when choosing a place to live. Hence, a car might be the only viable option for some.
They'll move their ad dollars from Fox to some other channel and get their sales there instead. I doubt Apple has a huge market among people who only ever watch Fox.
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Ask HN: Do you want to learn Hindi?
Hi guys,

I am Indian, my girlfriend's English. She's really keen on learning Hindi, so I've been trying to help her. I'm thinking maybe I could help more people.

I always had an itch for creative writing and speaking in Hindi. I used to write and direct plays in school and college. I haven't done that stuff in such a long time, so I thought it would be fun to get back into it by doing some videos and articles teaching Hindi and see if people find it useful. A lot of people travel to India. Even though you can totally get by speaking English, it's useful to know some local lingo.

Would you guys be interested? What kind of things would you like to learn?

Thanks,

Hrishi
The article linked from TUAW talks about the growing rift between Beck and Fox. That Fox has let Beck go on this long is likely what Apple's upset about, but taking fire for harbouring hate is probably not what Fox had in mind. They might start to reign him in if the rest of the network starts suffering.

The rest of the 'journalists' on Fox News are upset enough already. Maybe this will help stir up dissent against Beck's lunacy amongst them too.
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For the companies pulling advertising it's less about politics and more about protecting their brand/reputation. I doubt any of them care if Beck has a job or not. They just don't want their name anywhere near Fox News because it's becoming too risky. People who love Fox News probably won't notice or care if the ads are gone. Fox News is big for a cable network but for a company like Apple doing big network ad buys Fox News is just a blip on the radar. More risk than its worth.
Rules I live by to get things done (that work for everyone):
1. Figure out what you have done.
2. Decide what task demands your immediate attention NOW.
3. Stop debating and devote yourself fully to doing #2* and disregard time* completely while doing so.
4. Repeat.

#'s 2-3 constitute a task or procedure but can scale to either smaller or larger scales.

This could be anywhere from taking your next breath to factoring a complex polynomial.

Always live within the lowest common denominator (subroutine) within any given procedure.

Use your internal clock. Work accumulators (internal clocks) are better measures of elapsed work whereas clocks just measure elapsed time. (How many times have you stopped to look at the clock and say, "Wow, I've been working for 2 hours! Better take a quick break." This is how you lose your mojo juice and start looking for crap like SMART goals or self-reflections as a cure for laziness. Work is the only known cure for laziness--and goal-setting is a symptom.)

Never waste energy thinking beyond the next task. This is because the distant future is uncertain whereas reevaluating the past per iteration of a task provides a clearer picture of where you're heading. However, this model works best in an environment where your work is predetermined like in school or a day job. In a startup you would have to devote a small fraction, say no more than 10% of your time, to developing a mental "big picture" and the rest to the model presented here. As we all know, while ideas change, work stays constant.
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I'm quoted in the article too.
What is that supposed to mean?!
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This isn't a bad way to do it, but then a two wheeled vehicle is in the unpleasant situation of taking up an entire space, or not knowing which spot to pay for if between spaces.
because that worked so well for K5.
If you're truly data-driven, the yes there is an absolute need for A/B testing. The thing about behavioral psychology is that behavior can be quite different given different variables. I'm constantly surprised when I test things that I'm absolutely sure will work... that don't.
I can relate to the feeling when people suggest that, "It's all about who you know". The well connected seem to have a monopoly on relationships that matter.

I really admire your quick thinking but I feel that you don't always have an opportunity. I have been to lectures where as the lecture is over, the speakers seem to be escorted out.

Establishing a personal connection is difficult. One of the things I love about HN is how accessible everyone is, but not everyone provides a point of contact.
In a lot of cases, the guy at the other end of the stick is going to do his damndest to make sure you stay where you are, because he likes being wealthy/in charge/whatever.
very cool. It'll be interesting to see which companies file comments to the appeal
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Wow, how did you get those designers on board? There's some real good stuff on there. I hope this takes off. Good luck.
So you're asking for OOP, no generic programming / templates? I know template metaprogramming magic becomes madness real fast :-)

I tend not to ask direct language questions anymore, everything is related to the code written on the interview. Like, you asked for a function doing something with an array of ints, and when you get the code you say "now, can we have this function work with arbitrary types instead of just int", "what are the constraints about this types", "what happens if it has a copy constructor but no assignment operator" etc.

And I accept everyone knows and uses some subset of the language.
What's new is people reading magazines sitting on the toilets for hours :)
Patronage. http://www.schneier.com/paper-street-performer.html. Work for hire. Nobody can copy a work you haven't made yet.
while i'm all for using modern css capabilities -- i think ie7/ie8 will keep us from relying solely on them. i haven't looked into Aristo's source, but using sprites as a fallback the less capable browsers is pretty much the only option atm. add to that the fact that it's typically difficult or impossible to sprite gradients and rounded corners well, and the number of images used don't seem ridiculous anymore.
I am confused as to his point.

The number of words is proportional to the imagined worth of a person by the contributors of wikipedia?

Or is it that the contributors of wikipedia maybe just know more about Lost than they do about Ruth Ginsburg?

.joe
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I want to choose songs on my laptop and have them play on my iPhone or Android phone. My audio cable doesn't stretch from where I sit to my speakers. Does such an app exist?
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Is there a way to analytically test if Fox News is bringing in their target demographic? Aside from Girls Gone Wild and Comedy Central, I haven't observed matches that make really good sense. The web is such a better platform in my ignorant opinion.
An app which allows me to control the music played by my iPhone from my laptop.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1228560
Good point. The government is horrible at getting out of the business of... business.

Its possible to get around this with come kind of scheme where ownership is given away over a period of years... 10% each year for 10 years maybe. I wonder if having a rigorous schedule, instead of just a goal, will help.
I'm a C programmer, not a C++ one, but at least in C, you sometimes need volatile to have a correct program.
Well if he's not the worst, he's certainly the most outrageous.

That anyone is fooled by his crying, low and high angled shots, and creepy close ups on his eyes is beyond me.
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