skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I voted you up, and then I watched the video. I understand (now) why the submitter added that bit. While I don't agree that they should be killed, it's hard to believe they deserve a punishment as light as imprisonment.
> Buybacks can work just as well if you are buying back at the right price. A lot of management teams are bad at capital allocation and buyback stock at 52 week highs - that is almost always incredibly stupid.

The stock price for buybacks doesn't matter, if you only care about getting money back into investors' hands.
The line numbering behavior is curious. They seems to disappear when I click, but not if I click-and-drag to select.

Syntax highlighting with line numbers is tricky business. It is very difficult to get both 1) Perfectly aligned numbers and 2) Support for copy and paste without numbers.

There must be a decent Javascript solution...
You Can Outsource Customer Development, You Can’t Outsource Learning
Cool. When are you guys going to support posting Ruby rack applications? TeX and PostScript would be a nice addition too.
I can easily do 8k in Pittsburgh, if I gave up my car (insurance is crazy expensive)
Yep, I was going to post exactly this. You can be making 200k/year, but if you're a trader and your peers are pulling 400-600k, you're very likely to be unhappy with your predicament.

Humans are competitive. If you have the best mud hut of everyone you know and know of, it seems likely that you'll be just as happy as that top trader, with regards to wealth.
The Mongoliad App: Neal Stephenson's Novel of the Future?
Yeah, line numbering is tricky. That's why we hide the numbers when you click -- it's a mode that's built into CodeRay.

Note you can still just paste github gists on their own line and we expand those too -- so that's still another option.

Also you can probably just hide line numbers completely using CSS if you customize your theme.
That's part of the proposal: real world data requirements will soon completely fit into RAM available on a rather standard system.
I hate the fact that Apple is soo good at what they do. They go after the dumber people trying to be in style. They are such a closed company. If they were a government, they would be totalitarian country. I for one will never support them because of their closed mindedness.
"You earn money as opposed to being paid money..."

I think the original of this goes to Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad where if you have your own business you "make" money; if you work for someone you "earn" money. But I may be wrong; correction is welcome.
While I hate generic ads, I think that targeted ads are actually a boon to me, which is why I'm looking forward to a more smart-grid approach to advertising in the future.

Think about it. There are millions of people throughout the world who like to watch the trailers before a movie. Those are just ads.

I, personally, like watching ads for any new TV shows that fit my viewing habits, or for any new products that I could be interested (cell phones, new TVs, etc). They keep me informed about new products/entertainment that I may have missed otherwise.

I find ads only intrusive when they have nothing to do with me (Tampons commercials, grocery store sales, evony, etc), but any ads that are a) funny or b) apply to me directly cease to be ads, and are more like information.

Just my 2 cents.
> "Fanboys" call them the underdog due to their 7-8% market
> share of the computer market compared to Windows ~90%
> market share.
>
> I'd still call that an underdog.

I wouldn't. You're ignoring several factors:

* Even though Microsoft may own 90% of the market, the fact that their company as a whole (which includes other markets) is worth less than Apple is telling. The investors certainly don't think that they are an underdog.

* A few years ago Microsoft own 95% of the market. (i.e. The trend is towards a shrinking strangle-hold on the market)

* The 'market' usually refers to the general PC market which (IIRC) includes corporate purchases. Most corporate purchases for the foreseeable future will probably remain in Microsoft's court, but that doesn't prevent Apple from taking over the personal computer market. [Yea, I know PC stands for 'Personal Computer,' but here we are referring to personal in terms of ownership, instead of personal in terms of desktops vs mainframes.] I would definitely not call Apple the underdog in terms of personal/family computers.

* Apple has great mind-share right now, as well as a number of devices that tie-in well with their Macs. Those devices (iPhone,iPad) are at the top of a lot of people's minds and at the cutting edge of their respective niches. Those devices will probably do well at driving people towards Macs when they next upgrade their desktop/laptop even though that probably isn't their ultimate goal.

* You're ignoring the other markets that Apple is in where they are not the underdog (mp3 players, tablet devices).

> Also who is the "you", that you are referring to?

To the poster of the comment I was replying to? Maybe I should have phrased it as such:

Though you claim that saying, "AAPL is worth more then MSFT,"
is a sign of fanboy-ism,

I was refuting the claim that talking about Apple's worth vs Microsoft's worth is a sign of fanboy-ism.
Totally. But knowing how to test puts you at a competitive advantage; if you had two applicants and one knew how to test already, wouldn't you hire that one?
Will windows C++ die?
Will windows C++ die?
While not 100% invisible, I've always been impressed by this video of an invisibility cloak that was produced in japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKPVQal851U
The Copyright Act specifically applies to "original works of authorship", and in 1991 the Supreme Court decided that phonebooks specifically are not original works of authorship, although individual design elements in the book itself may be.

http://www.ivanhoffman.com/database.html is a good overview.

However, there is what's called a "compilation copyright", which is covered rather nicely at http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html - the theory there is that the selection of data is original authorship. This is still based on the same Supreme Court case (Feist), where the Court stated that if the underlying data (phone numbers and names) is uncopyrightable (you can't copyright facts), then if that data is "selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship" the database may be copyrighted.

But the basic point of Feist is that phonebooks in particular are not subject to copyright. That's why I led off with that example, and it took me one Google search (on "database copyright", and these links were #3 and #4) to confirm my vague memory.

I'd actually say at this point that the database in the original post is probably not copyrightable. Which is all fine and good, because it won't stop a company from suing you, and may the richest man win. So it changes nothing from the practical standpoint - copyrightable or not, the original poster would be better off finding independent sources of data.
Just buy some of everything (index fund), and always put the disclaimer in, and it will become meaningless.

(Or do you have to reveal your net position, with shorts netted against longs?)
Even if dairy farming or animal abuse were remotely on topic, I absolutely do not want to see HN become regarded as a venue for rousing an angry mob. Flagged.
Right after hosted php scripts.
Because it's on a Website that may impose terms of service in a defensible way. And much more saliently, because it is provided by people with more money than you. (Probably.)
I wonder what percentage of these start ups wouldn't exist if it wasn't for PG writings?
Whoof. I support any effort that competes with AutoDesk -- they're an abysmal company that go out of their way to encourage people to compete with them -- but you're picking quite an ambitious project here.

If you want to produce a closed-source product, your programmers will be somewhat limited in the various open source projects that they can use as an effective foundation for this.

I'd say, purely from a software development standpoint, to produce a version 1.0 of something that might have a chance of competing with Flame, you're gonna need: a good UI guy, a brilliant 3D hacker, a pretty sharp math guy (fortunately they're cheap these days :-), a good programmer, and an experienced project manager with some respectable coding chops just to keep the project moving along. So, say a minimum of $250k combined yearly salaries. If you're a strong businessman, and if you get the right team together, you might be able to get a beta released in 12 months.

That estimate is high or low depending on how much higher or lower your goals are in terms of a first release, but it should be kind of ballpark.
DropBox is not disruptive. It's nice and useful, but it's certainly not disruptive.
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And hosted coldfusion scripts. =D
Ironically, Nike is now quite highly regarded for their current work conditions. They had a massive cleanup about 10 years ago. But the stain remains ...

Moral - don't underestimate how long people will hate your guts for mistreating workers.
To continue your thought, this was the most brilliant move Jobs made by moving the consumption off the machine that produced. Now jobs can control the distribution from the machine that produces content to the machine that consumes content. He plays middle man, owns the vertical, and collects 30% every time a purchase is made. I wonder how much this strategy evolved from the early days or if the idea of separating content and owning the distribution channels was the strategy from day one. Either way it is clear in hind sight that the play payed off.

On a side note I saw a statistic earlier (reference has been lost) which said Apple sells 10% of consumer computers but captures over 50% of the industry profit. I would search for the reference in a different tab, but I'm on my iPad and can't. Thanks Steve.
I know location will be big but not sure Foursquare will be the winner. Square and Toktumi both look solid to me.
they sold those shared long ago.
Similar, In Australia, phone books were also recently ruled (I'm not a legal person, a judge made a ruling in a case I think) to be not covered by copyright.
It would critically depend on the frequencies used by RFID (and multipath) but perhaps it could be done by measuring the time of transit?
I play games on the weekends. It's good to take a break and just relax for the upcoming week.
Now all it needs is inductive charging.
You know what, when you are really old you don't care about sex at all. But you need lots of money to go thru the pains of the golden years.
Tell HN:  Linkhive, a tool to backup your saved HN stories
Source is here: http://github.com/achea/linkhive

Basically, it's a tool written in Python to download/backup your saved stories to a MySQL database. You can then use a minimally functional search program written in C++/Qt to perform SQL SELECT queries on it. A screenshot ( http://imgur.com/RJt01 ).

Setup is a little involved at the moment, at least until I write proper install scripts.

Any feedback/ideas for improvement are appreciated. :-)
We use a Brother HL-5370DW at work and the first high yield cartridge didn't run out until about 10,000 pages. We do a LOT of printing and it was pretty impressive. The printer was around $250 and a high yield cartridge is about $130.

Although we did have to put tape on the sides so the printer would stop complaining. It ran on that "empty" cartridge for another 2 months ;-)
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Taking the LOL out of the GOP
"it turns out we're each, on average, creating $48,000/year in value."

This isn't true at all. GDP is gross domestic product--not net. It doesn't factor in externalities (status/positional externalities, pollution, competitive externalities (e.g. two competing ad campaigns that both just serve to cancel each other out)).
It's okay, but it costs a fortune yeah?
> So, it's much better to try to learn some thousands-year-old techniques to boost your concentration, focus, attention and some relaxation and priming up methods, instead of reading crappy blog posts. =)

Buddhism had to start as crappy blog posts, too. =)
can you provide references for #2?
Any plans on releasing PolyTeXnic soon(ish)?
I suppose that's true, but I can't really think of a way to respond to his comment without mentioning that "large" is a relative term. The logical thing would have been to not reply, I guess; but I thought it was worth responding to.
You sound insufferable.
> Facebook will get you laid.

How does Facebook accomplish that? I'd rather count sitting behind your computer as a counterproductive.
Kurzweil is not one of these people.
I couldn't agree more. This is _the_ place to go for learning Rails _and_ about other programming must-haves.
Ah, common sense. The silent killer. ;)

For example:

don't leave it there if you have a front seat passenger

Even if you try really hard to mount the iPad such that it is precisely centered on the passenger-seat air bag -- which you probably won't do; that's awfully far away from the driver -- how sure are you that an air bag deployment won't launch the thing toward the driver? Or cause a ricochet?
Founders splitting the pie: The Quick Handshake: A Valuation Penalty?
A very vocal but small percentage of users would beg to differ, and that percentage seems to be vastly overrepresented online. Most of the less demanding PC users I know seem to like it, and that's what matters for a big company like Apple. It gets most of the big things mostly right.
Yes, but there was literally 1.5 years during which "No way to delete an application" was an open issue. And, unlike the numpy issue, you can't make the argument that "deleting an application" is a difficult feature to implement. Which is why it was so galling that "No way to delete an application" was open for so long, despite how many people were clamoring for it to be closed.
Because you can afford to suck in something you find extraordinary when you're rich, whereas you can't if you need to get paid.
if we create them, then they are our children. oedipal perhaps, but children nonetheless.
Also, some editors have their own rule for how many spaces a tab makes - some use 3 and some use 4 - or if you're like my designer co-worker, you manually use the space bar arbitrary. Gave me a big headache when looking for matching css selectors.
In fact it might represent both an absolute and a relative component, all it really says is that in the USA today that combined figure seems to be $60k.
Seen an entire reception planning system not realize he was a satirist.

See: 2006 whitehouse correspondent's dinner.
I still don't fully understand haskell's whitespace usage. :-/
not really. the supercomputers used for brain simulation are massively parallel.
I was not aware that D and Lua had the JVM as targets.
This tutorial is great.

One question for experienced Rails folks:

I noticed that a lot of the test code seems to be somewhat redundant and not actually testing many different paths of execution.

E.g. I saw a lot of test cases like this in his examples:

it "should be successful" do
get :new
response.should be_success
end

it "should have a follower attribute" do
@relationship.should respond_to(:follower)
end

it "should have a followers method" do
@user.should respond_to(:followers)
end

it "should render the home page" do
post :create, :micropost => @attr
response.should render_template('pages/home')
end

Writing a unit test that verifies that some object has a new method/attribute that you're about to add to it, or that some request returns a 200 OK, or that some request renders a specific template? It all seems very...boilerplate to me.

Is this a common practice?
Wow, that article was terrible. iAd is going to "slay Google"? Right. Apple is going to replace all internet ads with iAd content? This is a joke right?
Somewhat tangential but: this blog and the author's writing is fascinating. Where did you find it?
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I tried Songbird, but that was just too buggy to consider using seriously. Nice idea, but it was just as bad as iTunes in my experience.

I used Amarok before the upgrade, and liked that pretty well for a while. Easy keyboard shortcuts are great.

So far, I've been sticking with Foobar because it has a nice amount of customization built in, and components for everything else. Unfortunately, I haven't found a good one to sync to my phone (not that iTunes offered that of course...), so I'm trying doubleTwist for that.

However, I'm not really set as to what I'm using, and I'm still looking around to see if there's anything that catches my eye. Must haves are good library management for about 8000 or so files, keyboard shortcuts, an easy search method, and some form of filter pane view (iTunes did do those last two right at least). Any recommendations?

Edit: I should add that I'd really like to replace doubleTwist. It takes forever to start itself up, and it doesn't even automatically scan my music folder for new media. However, I really could use some form of automatic management for my Droid, since it's my only music player other than my computer at the moment.
single sales rep in 5 years.

That's what google thinks about sales and that's why they keep getting it wrong. They thought for the longest time they can get away with dealing with big ad agencies without having an office and sales folks in NYC. Luckily they realized that wouldn't work.

Look, a great consumer product like google.com can spread virally. But enterprise requires a very focused and elaborate sales effort.
All the more reason to see if they'll let us do it?
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7 Key Turning Points That Made Apple No. 1
How do you arrive at this figure? When you purchase items like t-shirts and cd's in bulk you usually get a pretty sizable discount.
Young'uns more guarded about online privacy than older folks
When I first saw the post I thought of Live Mesh.

I find it very strange Microsoft has both of these services available.

http://www.mesh.com
Android Dalvik VM performance is a threat to the iPhone
Yeah I realize why one would write an open letter like this. I guess I was just complaining about taking this approach. Seems like a thinly veiled attempt at drawing attention to their product and nothing more.
I currently attend a high school with 800 students looking to use a simple and efficient organizer for teachers, classes, and students. Because it integrates with Google Calendar, I'm hoping future versions include support for assignments; it will be a huge help to our teachers and students. Would it be very difficult to add support for assignments/homework?
Our greatest shortcoming is our inability to understand the exponential function
Mozilla bringing Firefox Sync to the iPhone
Everyone here seems to be missing the fact that in the video he differentiates between the "experiencing self" and the "remembering self".

With respect to the "remembering self", the reflective state, the more money you earn the more satisfied you are. Or to paraphrase Socrates:

The unexamined life is not worth living, unless you are poor.
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Edit: I have to agree with the vote for CKEdit, I hadn't looked at it in quite a while. The newest version is really excellent, ant it weighs in half the size as TinyMCE.

http://ckeditor.com/ FTW

TinyMCE: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

Quite a nice WYSIWYG 'web-control' editor that I've used on a number of admin sites for my clients.

They have a jquery version out now too that makes it a bit cleaner to integrate if you've already got jquery going (you can always run the regular, non-jquery version as well).
Calves and cows being kicked in the head, stabbed with pitch forks, beaten with a crowbar, and other brutalities. And it's actually worse than it sounds.
How many people eat meat but don't consume milk in some form, whether that be directly or through cheese, ice cream, butter, etc? I'm guessing its a pretty small number.
Somebody told me the best way to learn a foreign language is to date a native speaker for three months or more.

No kidding.
Maybe. But "Free Sign Up" sounds/works just fine.

Having said that, a hint of a potential "but" (i.e. trial-ware) is good at times so that the users don't take the free part for granted and they are aware of an upgrade option.
This is mildly off-topic, but has been on my mind recently because I've spent a little decompression time recently hacking on my study system project.

I may be alone here, but I'd really like to see some sort of online community learning site, where students can organize based on the topics they want to learn, and collectively hire a teacher to assist them. Does this sort of thing even exist?
Even worse, once you close out of that page a few times and navigate back to facebook manually, at some point they just delete all of your interests, unprompted.

Totally obnoxious.
CKEditor blows every other editor out there away in my opinion. It's a huge improvement over the older FCKEditor.
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Anchoring and its effect on public policy worldwide
Thanks for the estimate. I figured it would take a team of 50 programmers @ $100k/yr salary 2 years to complete it (which is how long i want to give it), which would equal a total cost of $10m, which i imagine would be reasonable considering it wouldnt take much to recoup.

Seriously, it would only take like 5 people to write a program like flame from scratch?
Usually these kind of goals are ones that are only realistic if you have already made it big and can fund something expensive without the need to see real returns for a long time. Like what Elon Musk has done with spacex, wouldn't have been possible without large personal wealth.
Incorrect. If your stock is overvalued, a buyback is an inefficient and destructive method for getting money back into shareholders hands. You would be better off giving a special dividend instead.
Does the syntax highlighting support mixed PHP and HTML? Very few online syntax highlighters seem to handle this very well, not even gists from github.
The diference between a managed fund, where you're just investing in a basket that someone else controls, and a self-direct investment defines went to disclose or not.
Can't a guy trail off if he wants to in this place?
You're looking at it the wrong way. The number of people not complaining is not relevant - they simply have no opinion. What must be compared is the number of people who are complaining about it vs. the number of people who are applauding it.

And don't give me that crap about how the complainers shout louder than the applauders, because on almost every tech website, including this one, the Apple fanboys are louder than the Apple haters.
America Speaks Out - If you waste taxpayer funds, at least get a good developer
What do you think is wrong with iDisk? I'm just curious because I've had pretty good experiences with it over the last few years. The one issue I run into are the slow sync times. I have to manually press the sync button more often than I'd like to moving between machines. Interestingly I don't see this problem on the iPhone iDisk app which makes me think it's unique to the way OSX handles iDisk shares. (I recently began using iDisk Sync with local caching which has so far provided more consistency)
Aussie firm Pioneer to launch Android iPad rival
I believe that when he starts he memorizes the words in another language. After that he starts memorizing definitions involving other words in his target language.

When he was learning Japanese I think he memorized the translations to Mandarin rather than English, because those two languages were more similar.
Will .co domains fizz like .biz?