skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since this seems so ideal for my parents and I'm sure others out there who aren't terribly fond of twitter, let me recommend something like the following:

"Oops! SproutRobot doesn't seem to know where that is just yet. It's learning countries quite fast though, so if you tell us your email, we'll be sure to let you know when you should come back!"

To elaborate a bit: starting with a single country is very much understandable, but the assumption that one lives in the continental US is a frustration we encounter daily on the english-speaking web. This way you get them invested into wanting this service by getting their zip code (bonus: instantly gauging most interested international locale) and the promise of just tacking on one's email to eventually get to use it should be "just right" for most users. This is as opposed to geoIP blocking at the homepage level, which really makes me never want to visit those sites again.

Edit: Depending on how much you intend to anthropomorphize the robot, maybe change the copy to "visiting countries" or some such.
Exactly right. Pay, and you don't get loading request delays.
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"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" seems a good rule to design languages by. The common case should be expressible with as little syntactic friction as possible, without making the language ambiguous or unreadable.

": class inherits public" is just 23 characters of pointless line noise.
Cute idea, vim script is... unintuitive, and reminiscent of bash.

But, similar to Javascript in a browser, half the battle is knowing the environment (ie vim's internals, analogous to DOM for js).
I'd be happier with this if it would, for example, parse the google results and just print them rather than opening a browser window.

Also, it seems to be broken with chrome.
Oh it's not about insincerity - I think we're all very used to "we mean it but we don't" doublespeak from companies nowadays.

It's about the fact that they practically lied in their communication about what they have done - sure, this isn't especially scandalous, but it is low.

If they had some canned stuff like "we're sure you're doing great things, and would love to work with you individually to tailor our product to your needs... yadi yada" that'd be a-ok.

But they had a bot pretend that they actually visited my site and looked at my company's offerings... that's pretty lame.
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I use eclipse mainly because of auto complete, it saves me a lot of time, and I see and correct my mistakes immediately (tight feedback loop). If this is a serious project for you, yours should have this one feature for sure.
No need for rigging the system, few simple rules and many individual actions can produce complex behaviors.

New queue on reddit moves very fast - currently the oldest item is just about 7 minutes old. It's very easy to go unnoticed by target audience (people who would upvote the submission) in such short time window.

Multiple submissions mean post has higher chance to get noticed.

Eventual downvotes come from people who want to decrease competition for their own submissions, giving them extra few minutes in new queue.

Also people may check submission queues of familiar users because they like their submissions, thus increasing chances of such submissions being noticed.

Similar thing already started to happen here on HN. Even with new queue being much longer (at about 1 hour) there are multiplicities.

Many times the same post (though not necessarily the same url) gets submitted multiple times and only later submissions get promoted to the frontpage.

Well, sometimes it even happens that in a span of few hours/days the same story appears on frontpage several times, with completely disjoint set of commenters not being aware of earlier discussions.
My first thought was, "Thats kinda cool!" =)
Since your day-to-day weight fluctuates, daily weighing wouldn't show you accurate day-to-day improvements properly. My guess is that weighing yourself daily is more about staying focused and engaged; you're constantly checking-in with what you're doing, and more likely to think about it and stick with it.
The West rails on China pretty relentlessly, sometimes with little provocation or justification. Nowadays China is like the boogeyman the government likes to pull out of their pocket on-demand - a lot like the Soviets back in the Cold War.

I know expats who are uncomfortable protesting openly against China because of this - to protest against China is to side with the West, and thereby tacitly support this sort of boogeyman tactic.
To quote the relevant parts from [http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html]:

"As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub."

The "paradox" (or "fallacy", as you called it) here refers to looking at a language that is more powerful, but not realizing that it is. By contrast, when looking at a language that is less powerful, this is usually obvious.
Not quite everyone - I've been developing in Java (among other things) for around ten years with Vim, and I personally know a few others using either Vim or Emacs exclusively.

Unfortunately, although we fit the "don't use Eclipse extensively" use case, this probably doesn't help the OP very much since it's doubtful that Yet Another Editor is going to be compelling to people heavily invested in their chosen tools.

On the other hand, what I would like to see is something that can run some Eclipse plugins, e.g. the BPEL editor, without needing to run the full platform.
A couple of notes:

1. This paper is from 1996 (oh my! 14 years), and so does not consider the syntactic clean-up performed with C++0X.

2. The paper is co-authored by Damian Conway (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damian_Conway), perl legend, author of Quantum::Superpositions (http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Quantum-Superpositions-1.03/...)

3. This seems to be part of research conducted on 'Human Factors in Programming Languages', which includes another paper on the design of SPECS (the syntactic clean-up mentioned in this paper), and another interesting-sounding one: 'Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design' (see http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/).
And I guess there's always google juice to consider - may be more relevant to pages about Hackers, but if it's being indexed that often than all the sites HN links to must benefit from association.

(I think this comment really shows my SEO naivety, but I hope you get the gist.)
If your posts stay at 1 upvote then you've probably been blocked by the spam filter. If that is the case you just need to PM a moderator to take a look at the post and then will unblock it. It won't help for that posts, but the spam filter should learn from it and not block your future posts.
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I actually had quite a few that had overpaid, not to mention overpaying the government.
Design looks amazing, great work. I really like the concept, and the pricing seems very reasonable.

If I had a yard I would definitely sign-up.
Well done, great idea overall and I like how "fisher price" (in a good way) the site looks.

I would like to see more fruits and a "select all" when I sign up for the email, but overall very well done.
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It's much easier to do hardware accelerated 3d drawing with a toolkit for an interpreter than it is to make a full virtualization layer properly do hardware acceleration.

Your opinion is indeed uninformed. Fortunately for you, correction is easy to get on the internet.
No because the free phones would still be in use, but the person using it may not have gotten a Android/RIM phone if not for the deal.

Example: A father has a smartphone from work. His wife likes using it to check her e-mail, use apps, etc. so when they buy new phones they buy a smart phone for her to use. If there is no b1g1 than their teenager would have just gotten a regular phone but because of the deal they have an extra "free" smartphone that they give to him/her to use.
Anybody want to put this into plain English? (Why are the example usages void of output?)
OK then, put 1 million dollars as an option on the form. Maybe you'll get lucky and can become someone's private gardener instead of being an entrepreneur. :-D
Where did you find the database?
Nice reminder of how ahead of its time was Smalltalk and the stuff built on it. So much of what came after it seems so... primitive in comparison.

For those of you who are reading this and think Eclipse+Java and Visual Studio+C# are the most sophisticated development environments, grab a copy of Squeak by Example, download a copy of Squeak and play a little.

It will be enlightening.
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Nice site. You could use a new logo however. I am a freelance graphic designer. I can create a new logo for you for free. Email me at mediarosh(at)gmail(dot)com, if you are interested.
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I say quit trying to convince them to get into Lisp. Lisp does not maintain rockstar status like Python or Ruby nor does it have the big daddy status like Java or C++, although it is older and (in some cases) better than all of them combined.

You yourself stated that you got into Lisp as you knew that some of the best literature uses it as a medium and you were hungry for knowledge. This may not be so for your buddies.
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It's still too soon.

That said, when it is time, Radio Shack can always move into that space too. However, what's more likely is that fab machines will come down in price quickly enough that people can have their own.
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True, the native executables are bootstrapping that jar.

If you're going to download it manually, you're going to specify the jar on your classpath, use com.breve.bre.BRE as the entry point, and specify the first argument as "com.breve.core.Breve"

The final command looks something like this:
java -cp BRE.jar com.breve.bre.BRE com.breve.core.Breve
Considering I'm new here, there are no names I recognize. So the answer is no.
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What are your favorite blogs and posts on the general topic of scaling?

I find that all of the best scaling resources I have ever come across were mentioned right here on HN. Since this is an issue that so many of us face, I think it would be useful to put together a list of such sites.
Not feasible without Australian distribution centres unfortunately - all the seeds would be seized by customs. Even inter-state transfers are quarantined in some cases (you can't take fruit into WA for example).

Add to that multiple, totally different climates and plant species and it's essentially a separate business in another country. Good opportunity for a partner site though!
Good luck! As everyone is saying this is a great idea. And has great potential, tapping into a new market.

Props to the illustrator. As I live in Australia, can't really see past the main page, haha.
Oh that's fun.

Just curious and if you don't mind answering: Do you know how you will/did resolve that with your customers? Can you go back with the governments involved and get credits?
It might be buggy. There are things you could and should change soon. But the fact that you know this and are ready to start the iteration process already means you're really a million paces further than most bootstrapped startups that are still vying for perfection. Congratulations on the launch and best of luck in the most exciting, anxious, and valuable time in your startup!
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Larger 3D printers are still a bit off. The mechanics get increasingly tricky when you move beyond a certain size.

That said, modern ink-jets would be marvels of precision mechanics when I was in college. Things change in a decade or so.
The thing with Reddit is that it seems biased against new users and accusations of linkspam are far too prevalent. Sites like Reddit are going to have to learn, eventually, that the nature of sharing content on the Web has changed and self-promotion isn't a bad thing. If it were, Facebook Fan Pages and Twitter accounts wouldn't exist.

In terms of submitting stuff and actually getting traffic from it, I'd recommend 2leep ( http://2leep.com/ – disclosure: I helped with the site's layout, but I did it for free because I liked the idea and thought it deserved more attention), which at the very least is a consistent stream of traffic and gets your page in front of a lot of eyeballs.

I think that one shouldn't put all their eggs in traffic. Traffic is nice. If you have a good idea and good content, people will notice. I have a steady freelance writing gig from my work on http://shortformblog.com/, along with fairly regular mentions on The Atlantic's Web site and lots of awesomely random notices.

It's not major startup fund capital or anything, but I'll take it because it's exposure. And that exposure pays more than ads do when you're starting small.

My point? Do cool stuff and you don't need upvotes.
While those are all dandy and great activities, I think I say for all of us here that doing a startup is our hobby and life because it's the most exhilarating and fulfilling way to spend our time.
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If I'm hit/miss on an article, I'll look at the submitter. Otherwise, I don't really pay attention. I upvote only articles I really enjoy, which is roughly 2-3 a week so it's really not a factor.
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Same here, but doing any one thing day in and day out has a tendency to make you necrotic.

It's just like when you are taking a shower and an idea hits you, it's because you aren't focusing on work and you are in complete silence. You need time to relax, recharge, and recover. Believe me I only learned this through experience, but you need a break every now and then.
I realize there are lots of special cases and exceptions to what I'm about to say but I've come to 2 good general rules of thumb when it comes to designing concurrency:

1. prefer processes over threads -- because your architecture can scale horizontally across multiple boxes easier, because you become free to write each piece in a different language, and because mutable shared memory is problematic in very subtle, counter-intuitive ways

2. prefer events over processes or threads -- because you can handle much higher concurrent IO traffic on a single machine, due in part to reduced memory use
That's something we definitely need to market better in Tender then or talk with user about. I hope that's not the under understand most people have. One of our main focuses was to allow for anonymous submissions of issues and implement a straight forward email option so people do not have to register for accounts. Implementing a Single Sign On system was our very first priority to avoid all need when coming from another web applications, so you can go straight to the form and ask what you need to without any hassle.
This isn't just a sample size of KirinDave, this is a common theme for many people I know. If we are all caught by a spam filter, then Reddit is doing something very wrong.
This means that you need to install vim itself first, but there are three packages for vim. Use vim-nox if you don't care about the GUI. It does what it says: just installs vim, without gvim running on X. Then you can install vim-python.
Before Fabrik was LabView (I see it referenced at the bottom), and that engine is underneath the Lego Mindstorms robot stuff. It is used in several industries today and continues to evolve. I am unaware of other modern graphical programming environments with quite the features and flexibility.

ni.com/labview

Sorta Disclaimer: I do not have anything to do with NI, but I did play with some toys that used this language and thought it was a cool approach to programming.
Article mentions that users can "unlock" online modes for $10 - looks like it's $10.00 for EACH used game - http://www.easports.com/onlinepass

Not going to be a popular move for EA but it's a smart business move.
I'd love to see a Fabrik-like environment for the iPad.
Luckily, this was the first one for the current year and I just moved the discount below the taxable items and then added the non taxable items. The past, issues we'll call them, have not been fixed and I doubt the government would be very forgiving about this.
Only incidentally. Mostly, I look at the article. I recognize a lot of submitter names after more than a year here, but I don't always notice those when I visit the new page (or the main page) on HN. At least once, I have read an article without even noticing that it was submitted by the one and only HN user whom I know in offline life.
What does HN think of my unoriginal startup?
I've launched http://www.soundfolder.com

It's a simple service for musicians to publish tunes on the web. There are a hundred of these services already, but we're aiming to be 1) a bit nicer, and 2) profitable.

I don't think (self-funded) startups need to be based on a new-and-paradigm-shifting idea.

So the question is, what does HN prefer for bootstrappers, "better" or "revolutionary"?
Same, except I was using privoxy as well, so suspected that.
Kept me er ... amused for a little bit longer than yourself most probably :-)
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wow this is super clever. i wish i had dirt to garden in so i could use this.
I actually sort of like Reddit's model on those two points. Essentially, that you should: 1) lurk initially, not submitting links until you understand the community and its culture; and 2) primarily submit links you think people will find interesting, not your own links that you're trying to promote (or at least, actively identify when it's your own link, e.g. "hey reddit, I made an X").

Not every site has to be like that, but it seems fine for some sites to be that way. The fact that Facebook fan pages exist is different from saying that everything on the web has to go in similar directions.
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I'm in the middle of setting up a website in China. The way things go is that you have to get the icp license. To get it, you have to agree that you will censor any user generated content that should be harmonized (guidelines are not very precise, but the chinese government regularly provide a list of topics that are not allowed for the season). We actually outsource our censoring to a chinese company for 500RMB/month as it'd be a hassle to hire someone only for this.

On the other hand, our website is bilingual, and we don't really need to monitor the english part since the government doesn't care...
Can you imagine if Netscape had managed to stifle free alternative implementations (not simply alternatives; free alternatives). I don't think anyone could refute the idea that the world would be a much better place right now if Microsoft hadn't crushed the market for web browsers and let it lay fallow for six years. (I'm not a Microsoft hater, but no changes to one of the most important pieces of technology in the history of humanity for years? Fuck everything about that!)

Macromedia/Adobe's closed nature should be looked upon as a strategic necessity. (I'm aware of the fact that the SWF file specification is open, and that Adobe has made significant contributions to OS JS [I've personally downloaded and browsed their SpiderMonkey engine]. I feel it's likely that they could have possibly held back key implementation details to prevent Microsoft or another party from creating their own version of the Flash player. I don't know if anyone outside Adobe could say for sure how earnest they are about openness in the player.) Openness is a great thing, and crucially important -- I believe our future depends on it. I also believe there's room for some non-threatening technologies that are unencumbered by standards bodies who can innovate quickly. Maybe Flash Player is the guy that quietly amasses a ton of pieces on Kamchatka, convincing everyone they're incapable of taking over the world, and then blam -- blows everyone else away. But I really doubt it. Let's not forget that Safari's implementation of Canvas was met with nerd-rage because it hotdogged around SVG. One party making something fucking awesome and then other parties adopting it is how progress gets made.

In relative terms, if we're comparing apples to oranges, Flash pushed innovation far more quickly than the browsers have thus far. It might feel like no time at all that we've gotten <canvas>, <video>, and <audio> all rolled out, but it has ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element ), and they're still only partially implemented. Between the time IE6 rolled out in 2001, and IE7 rolled out in 2006, Flash added the following features: proper video (<video>), unicode support, pre-coded UI components, a vector drawing API (<canvas>), a second version of ActionScript, advanced typography (including custom fonts [@font]), filters, blend modes (damn -- not until HTML6), bitmap caching, sockets, alpha transparency in video, a third version of ActionScript, two giant/comprehensive code libraries, and many, many more features.

It's probably not fair to say that Adobe ignored performance concerns. There's been steady improvements to Flash performance, and the shit that sets your processor on fire is usually due to an over-ambitious developer without enough optimization experience. I can guarantee you that you'll see the same kind of performance Hindenburgs with <canvas> if you haven't already ( see article... ). They're a gigantic company with a ton of money, so doubtless they could have done more. You raise an excellent point about VLC decoding H.264 without thrashing.
"This is an important inflection point in our business because it allows us to accelerate our commitment to enhance premium online services to the entire robust EA SPORTS online community"

Read:

"This is an important inflection point in our business because it allows us to extract more money out of our customers"
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The 'newest' page links all have rel=nofollow on them, though. Does it still index the targets despite that?
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