skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In short: Yes, but it's not a problem.

Consider the situation, say, 5 years ago. We all watched TV. That's consume-only; no user production involved. We all read books. Same deal. Radio, newspapers, etc. All the same. But, we all also had computers, and we used to them to produce, interact, etc.

The point is that we used a number of devices, we did some producing, but mostly we consumed. Now, perhaps a few years from now, when newspapers, radio, etc., are all dead, we will do all this with just one or two devices. But we should still expect each individual to do a lot more consuming than producing.

(Note: This is not to say I'm happy with the Apple/Amazon-runs-the-show model of computing. I don't own a Kindle, or an iPhone-OS-anything. Nor do I intend to get one.)
It helps that they sent out a forewarning email to all SX site owners telling them about the impending change; Andrew has an SX site. Still a great effort on Andrew's part to pull it together, thanks!
Makes you wonder how people can have the gall to suggest that humans have any sort of purpose.
Two cameras, a GPS, better graphics, and an open operating system. Very nice.
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Hacker News Robots.txt Failure :(
So here I am, sitting in front of my mac book pro wondering why my Hacker News app that I am developing began to crash. Turns out that Yahoo's YQL service began respecting robots.txt, and as a result is obeying HN's request to not allow scraping. With this, I beg you HN to allow at least minimal front page scraping for services like YQL. My app, that I hope you guys will be able to use in the near future, will be able to exist.

Thank you.

EXAMPLE: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%22http://news.ycombinator.com%22%20and%20xpath%3D//table//table//td[%40class%3D%22title%22]/a#h=select%20%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%22http%3A//news.ycombinator.com%22%20and%20xpath%3D%27//table//table//td%5B@class%3D%22title%22%5D/a%27
Yes, this app was definitely inspired by that awesome talk
This article says absolutely nothing about suicidal tendencies. His entire argument is that the iPhone is well-established. But plenty of people who seem to have it going for them are suicidal; just look at celebrities.
I thought this article would be about other laptops lacking IPS and having a terrible viewing angle. For something that promotes more social usage like the iPad, the viewing angle being huge is critical. Most laptops in my experience are hard to view and share at the same time.
I wonder how this will effect spdy://, Google's potential replacement for HTTP. Maybe it will be good; you can hide spdy:// too and make the difference transparent to the user.
Continuations for Objective-C
If you tap on the address bar then it shows the http://.
There are several approaches you can use on large company's including Enron style accounting fraud but clearly it's much simpler with small ones. Other options include http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html where you try to hype the market segment not any of it's products. But a far more legal approach is to simply kill off the R&D program and look for a sucker/greater fool to buy the rotting shell which looks great on paper.
I don't know much about Google Go (or coroutines, for that matter), but from the description it sounds like you are correct.
I do the best I can not to comment on competitors, although I can't always live up to my ideal.

There are a lot of companies built on the business model of making low-cost, low-quality pages for long-tail Google search results, either algorithmically or with low-paid humans. There's clearly an arbitrage opportunity there, providing some kind of semi-crappy web page on a topic so narrow that there isn't anything on the web yet, but low quality content doesn't interest me at all.
The people that could afford a site aren't the people that answer questions for free.

The main problem was that there was no way of charging the people who asked questions - who were the only ones likely to want to pay.
I think you should try sending pg an email
Hear hear.

A Q&A site is not a piece of legistlation; it's an entreneurial endeavour.

It's best to leave entrepreneurs to be free to create, experiment and adapt.

Stackexhange will miss out on some great sites by rejecting them before they even get a start. The best sites will be those where the founder/s constantly adapt the site to demands of the community, not those who have the best idea upfront.

But as you say, that's where the OSS optios come in. :)
How to make a fortune selling music online. Or not.
http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/treating_url_protocol_sche...
I didn't say that nerds need completely different software: I implied that nerds were the only people who would put up with SO-style numbers games, because their need was so great and they can grok the system.

Nor did I say the software per se was irrelevant: I agree it's vastly important to how a community interacts. But when it comes to community building it's beside the point: phpBB is very bad software for discussion, yes, but some excellent communities have formed nonetheless.

Good software facilitates communication and -- crucially -- it enables readers to use their established social skills. It stays out of the way, in other words. Metafilter, for example, has none of your "requirements" apart from a basic tagging system, but avoids every one the problems you think will result -- and it does it from nothing more than good relationship management and community stewardship.

By trying to automate away (or disperse to the "crowd") the hard work of that relationship management, StackOverflow has boxed itself into a niche where only nerds-with-a-need could bear to live. The rest will turn away and keep on searching, as the experience of StackExchange has shown.

[edit: first attempt made no sense!]
Reminds me of another dominant tech company with a history of thinking it knows better than its users and making awful UI decisions.
what's pg's email?
I must give a big thumbs-up to CDbaby though, created by HN regular Derek Sivers - the only commercial offering that actually passes most of the profit onto the creators of the music. Kudos!
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What are you trying to scrape? This is HN's robots.txt:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /x?
Disallow: /vote?
Disallow: /reply?
Disallow: /submitted?
Disallow: /threads?

That doesn't look like it blocks either the front page, the /newest page, or article pages (which have the form /item?id=N).
There was a hacker news discussion a while back by one of the principals of Coverity in which they asserted, with no small experience, that there is no such thing as a C language. This is due to the wide number of variations in what compilers accept and that users of C compilers expect.

Sure there is an ideal, but practically, there is not consistent definition of the C language.
I would tell you to read the manual, but they didn't post release notes on the rails blog this time!

Anyhow, Ruby 1.9.2 is recommended.
there is also a http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html
That's strange, because I also have a System76 Starling and it seems very sturdy to me. I even dropped it once and it was none the worse for wear. It's been a very hardy and well-functioning machine for me.
try: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%...
Yeah, I looked too, I might have misremembered, or been thinking of D3s or something. Bummer.
If you're just getting feet wet, the (~$1000) Canon T2i will do that. but most of the time you wouldn't want to. Autofocus is horrible on video, even on the best gear I have used (like a varicam). YMMV may vary of course if you are trying to shoot sports or certain documentary stuff.

I think you would do far better to get some good used manual lenses and acquaint yourself with focusing manually.
There's a lot on money on the line with programming. The quicker we get answers, the faster we get our job done. I can't think of another field where answers are even so possible as in programming. If it were possible with Law or Engineering, I think you would see those type of professionals flock to an SE type site too.
What exactly is "required" for living a good comfortable life? It's easy to set the standard as long as it either doesn't apply to you or cuts out things you don't personally like.
I'm sure the same thing was said about inner-tube tires. I mean, why re-invent the wheel?
You can't have a CNAME record for something that also has another type of record.... I think that includes SOA records or NS records. That may be where the confusion comes from.

There is also confusion regarding how they are resolved.

If an A record is requested, but a CNAME is encountered, the resolver will then look up A record for the resource indicated by the CNAME.
If the CNAME is specifically requested, it will return itself as expected.

Couple this with different implementations of mail servers (and other stuff) not strictly following RFCs...... that led to a general consensus among many greying sysadmins now to try to avoid using CNAME records wherever possible, as they were more trouble than they were worth.
Works for me--- I clicked "test" and got what looks like a list of HN's front-page links in the results.
Here's David's full post about it on the Unity blog: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2010/04/10/unity-and-the-iphone-os-...
Please don't contact me. You have my permission to reprint and sell whatever words I posted here on HN .. without attribution :-)
very weird, this is what i get: http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/290/screenshot20100413at8...
PeepOpen: An editor-independent fast file opener.
For those who haven't paid and are wondering: think of this as TextMate's Command-T only it works everywhere (emacs! vim! etc!)

See http://blog.peepcode.com/tutorials/2010/file-navigation-in-text-editors for the thinking that led to this.
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Upvoted in agreement. Without Project Euler, I probably wouldn't have been able to wrap my head around Scheme, and subsequently, I wouldn't have learned how to program without mutable state. The early problems are general enough that you don't usually need some specific abstraction or language feature to solve them, and the later problems are hard enough that you can't let the language itself take too large a share of your thoughts.
Of course there's a difference. Who said there wasn't? But the attitude is the same. "Screw your opinion, go home if you don't like it".
Wow, it already did not work??? It seems it was only yesterday that Joel announced he would be raising money for it. Internet time is fast indeed.
To answer your last sentence, no and no.

Fonts are designed for 300dpi and up and are made of mathematical vectors instead of pixels, to make them look good on 72 and 96 dpi (Apple & MS) hacks like hinting and antialiasing are used by the rasterizers (software that converts mathematical vectors to pixels) in their products. They are hacks and not real solutions as there aren't any, they have the tradeof you mention. However I advice you to go for the hinting and antialiasing for small fonts on screen and leave the large ones alone as long you don't display it on some megascreen, they both will come out perfect on your printer (unless you made bad settings or use cheap fonts). Subpixel antialiasing is mostly antialiasing with the help of color while normal antialiasing is a grayscale one.
Canonical?
Think of this as TextMate's Command-T, only better and available from any editor (emacs! vim! etc!)
Twitter Releases Its Competitive "Blueprint"
The modern functional languages of the ML family may come closer.
We removed error_messsages_for because it wrapped up something really simple (iterating over error messages) into a something that seemed magic and hard and was impossible to change.

It also violated a core Rails statute of never dictating look'n'feel of the end application. The error_messages_for included both fixed copywriting, HTML structure, and relied on CSS. Ugh, bad shit.

We've replaced the output in scaffold with the unfolded iteration. As you'll see, it's incredibly simple.
We have a new contender for most-hack-attempts-on-a-single-website awards...
Like all of the articles praising Apple's actions, this one focuses solely on the conflict between Apple and Adobe, as if that's all there was to it, as if those decrying Apple's actions are doing it out of love for Adobe and not because Apple's actions and public statements on the matter are inconsistent, hypocritical and are causing huge collateral damage to various companies and individuals who have nothing to do with Adobe or Flash or Microsoft and have only been adding value to the App Store.

I found this piece on Ars Technica to be more insightful and closer to reality (i.e., outside of the Reality Distortion Field):

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/steve-jobs-weighs-...
The money raised is being used to support the new business model, which is described on another frontpaged article. The new business model was in response to the failure described here.
I'm using the latest dev release that has this feature implemented. Let me tell you how it actually works. The location bar looks like this:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263512

When I select it and press Ctrl-C it copies this to the clipboard:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263512

Nothing is broken.
For some reason, I knew this would involve the iPad vs PC but I still clicked to make sure :/
Maybe you have different goals than us. You're trying to build communities... we're trying to make the Internet a better place to get expert answers.
no opposite end of country - Bmore
IANAL but it seems as though a lawsuit would be filed pretty quickly if Apple blocked Adobe's interpreted apps and didn't block Rhomobile/Unity3D/MonoTouch interpreted apps. Seems fair to block possibly harmful technologies, not competitive competitors.

We all got pissed at Microsoft when they were giving themselves preferential treatment, but what if Microsoft had said "eeerrrrmmm, Wordperfect is no longer welcome on Windows, but AbiWord is okay".
If we need what we were going to do before we did it. We'll, we'd just do it then and there.

Ruby code is simple enough that the process from good idea to implementation is small. That makes road maps meaningless because you can only map what you know. And if what you know can be turned into code instantly, why not do the code directly instead of writing down that you're going to do the code in the future?

We do deprecate everything gracefully, though, and there'll always be a good alternative to go to. For error_messages_for, all you need to do is add 1 line to your Gemfile and you're all good. Not exactly shattering.

If you find other, specific places where backwards compatibility is broken without proper deprecation or with a suitable plugin to carry you over, please report. We consider that a bug.
Useful to know, but I have to agree with portman. What about switching to an https: URL? Loads of sites default to http when they should be secure.
Joel and Jeff wanted to raise money for StackOverflow, not for StackExchange.
But maybe the VCs couldn't see the value in having three site and licensing the software to another company(Fog Creek), so the obvious way was to fold StackExchange into the StackOverflow company.
I think only time will tell if this was the right decision.
You're picking it apart but you seem to have missed his point entirely. It's not about money or even having the trivial words taken. It's about being attached to something that you aren't actually attached to, or more specifically, not having control over what you and the work you've done are attached to. See, that's the bothersome thing. As he writes:

Because when some dick weed uses and sells my stuff without permission, I seldom lose anything more than theoretical (non-)money from a junk project that’ll be forgotten in a month or two. Whatever. Happens every day. Don’t care. Nope.

But. When somebody creates the indelible impression that I relinquished control of my work in the service of that complete piece of shit when I did not? Well. That, to use an old publishing term, is fucking bullshit.

This is exactly how I feel when I see "blog comments" that are actually just scraped from comments on other sites (like HN). It's not that I want compensation at all: I just don't want my name and words attached to something I had nothing to do with, and it's infuriating that there are so many people out there who feel entitled to do exactly that just because I happen to have put some words on the internet without asking for money.
> Adobe's product would invalidate Apple's product it is about to launch: iPhone OS 4

Adobe can't 'invalidate' iPhone OS 4 unless you're claiming that Flash CS5's Flash-to-iPhone cross-compiler prevents developers from using Apple's own development environment.

> (and iPhone experience in general).

You can't 'invalidate' the iPhone experience. If everything about the iPhone is so micro-managed by Apple to be perfectly what they want, then explain to me how 'fart apps' fit into Steve Jobs' grand plan for the iPhone. People don't need Flash CS5 to create crappy apps for the iPhone. In any case, I thought that the AppStore approval process was there to keep out crappy apps. Apple is the gatekeeper for all apps that are allowed in to the walled garden, so why should they care how the app is created so long as it meets their standards?

> From your link: Apple doesn’t want Flash-created apps on the App Store for a simple reason: It reduces the iPhone to a lowest-common denominator platform, and at that point Apple loses all control over the iPhone OS experience.

This is a false statement. Apple has supreme ultimate control over the iPhoneOS experience. Every application that is allowed to run on the iPhoneOS has to be approved by Apple through their AppStore approval process.

It's already been proven that 3rd-party developer tools like MonoTouch can work. 10 of the top 100 apps on the AppStore were built with MonoTouch, and there are hundreds of other apps approved by Apple that are on the AppStore as well. The idea that allowing developers to step outside of Apple's ivory tower of developer tools to use something else is a guarantee of lower quality products is a joke.
If you are not getting at least some rejections based on your price, you are probably too cheap.
Seems like this would always be a step behind what is current. I think mono suffers from this... it's always a game of catch up.
We know that sleep plays an important role in memory and skill acquisition, although exactly how is still unknown. I wonder if a coma like this works in a similar way; taking the experiences she had with German TV shows and building the pathways needed for speech and recognition.

I wish we could induce skill-building comas safely! I would love to absorb a language or formalism in days instead of years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataphysics#Pataphor

http://cuiltheory.wikidot.com/what-is-cuil-theory
USBoot: Boot Windows XP from NTFS USB Drive
It's not just that 10.6 was low on features but that it also took a long time. And now there's a rumor that 10.7 has been delayed. Having to wait 4-5 years (from 10.5 to 10.7) to get new features is downright Vista-like.
It it possible to write C/C++ apps for Android?
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263061

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Surely you have to build communities to do this, though? Your earlier answer mentioned how you needed voting so the "community" could choose best answers, you needed tags to keep sub-communities separate and so on. And one of the rating criteria for the new SE sites seems to be how much of a community they manage to create.

If it is the case, I think this is the fundamental tension: You've built software geared to rating and creating answers, but to get those answers you need vibrant communities -- and the resulting software is so complex and strictured it is effectively anti-community.
The Importance of Researching your Job Recruiter
After spending a good six hours working on updating my resume as an independent recruiter looking to get his foot in the door with a progressive company, I received a number of emails from recruiters. Two of these emails stood out to me.

Mainly because despite being from two different recruiters from two different companies, in two different parts of the world, these emails read exactly the same. Verbatim. After some time Googling, I eventually found the originating job post on a company website and became quite infuriated. In fact, one of the emails did not even address me by name, the greeting line was "Hello Consultant". I decided to respond to the emails separately. This is one of them:

http://pastie.org/918524

Now, the reason I am sharing this story with you is to share the value of people. As someone who spends a lot of time with people, networking and making connections, I've seem many companies who try to build the ideal candidate based on qualifications and skills. Understandably, I sympathize with their desire to use company resources as best they possibly can. That's where things go sour. They end up hiring black hat recruiters, or employing black hat recruiter techniques like this one: nabbing job postings from future clients and blasting emails across the internet. The goal of this often results in no one actually filling the position, and the recruiter walks away with a number of new resumes. Candidates grow frustrated because they've responded to a recruiter who isn't going to work for them until it's financially convenient (i.e. they find a candidate who pays a juicy enough contingency fee), and the candidate in the long term has to continue burning up their own resources looking for work.

Beware the Black Hat recruiters. Research is obviously important when looking for more work. Research is just as important when dealing with recruiters. I just wanted to share that with HN after seeing a couple posts about startups looking to hire.
Just a note, subtitles on DVDs are actually video layers, not text. (Closed Captioning is text)
I think the reason SO first took off was the same reason HN took off -- a person who was famous in the community the site was based on started it. Without some kind of catalyst, I'm not sure if I know a way to get a site like that going.
Have you thought of relocating?
Will Knewton.com Make The Grade?
Internode revamps plans, plans FetchTV launch
It might be the most productive machine to you because it limits your distractions, but in a head-to-head I'm about 99.9% positive I'm far more productive on my Mac Pro w/ dual monitors because I don't waste my day consuming media. And, I'll put my money where my mouth is. :)
> Selling 300 000 of these on the first day means nothing I guess.

So you can guarantee me that the iPad will without any doubt whatsoever 'take off' solely based on the fact that they sold a ton of product on the first day?

It is by no means a guarantee of anything. It's possibly indicative of a trend, but first day sales shouldn't mean anything other than how successful the product was marketed. How well the product takes off after that is a function of marketing, how well it meets consumer expectations (i.e. it could somewhat miss on consumer expectations, but be bolstered by an excellent marketing strategy), and how much of a market there is for it.

> A car, whatever poferful it is, it'll be always way behind any train. So?

Not everyone can afford to have a device for every purpose. Many people have to budget around getting a single device that can do as many things as possible.

> Meanwhile enjoy your well thought multitouch suppor of Windows 7 on HP slate and the battery life with real multitasking.

What are you trying to say here? That because he wants 'real' multi-tasking that he's an idiot and should be sent off to use Windows 7 and have poor battery life? Is it such a crime against humanity to want to have a decent multi-touch experience and 'real' multitasking?
My guess is: http://wordle.net
Looks like this thing is getting pretty full! If you hit the "Insert > Add Row" at the end you can enter your info.