skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Recovering applications?
My HD just crashed. Not too worried about the files courtesy of Dropbox, however, the applications that I downloaded I obviously have to download again.

I remember seeing a site out there that let you bookmark all the different apps you have and with one click start downloading all of them. Anyone know of the company or url?
How about moving it forward enough to make it wrap around?
the voting system is broken if my comment was brought to -2. just because someone may disagree with the comment doesn't mean my karma should be lowered. that just encourages groupthink and political correctness. not cool.

to fix i propose allowing only a small number of trusted admins to be able to bring a comment below 1.
Just say no.

That document is far too vague, so you go out and do something else later that has nothing to do with what you spoke about in this meeting and 10 years from now when you are facebook big they come back and sue you for using their ideas because they now seem to think that the discussion and the project you worked on overlap.

That would probably not happen, but that is the kind of thing you seem like you would be opening yourself up to.
I found a more detailed look at Aloha on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/draftkraft/aloha-editor-contentedi...

In particular, there are some screenshots which show table editing, insertion of images, and what appears to be navigation and forms as well. My favourite, though, is on page 37, where it looks like some user-defined paragraph classes ("info" and "alert") have been included in the formatting toolbar -- it looks _really_ slick!

There's at least one other project which is trying to make editing web content better: http://www.wymeditor.org/

I recall reading that, due to the way that WYMeditor makes the HTML structure explicity (while still keeping it relatively end-user-friendly), it tends to encourage users to produce "nice" HTML -- simply because poorly-structured HTML looks ugly in WYMeditor. :)

But wow, Aloha looks absolutely beautiful! The sooner FCKeditor and tinyMCE die, the better off we'll all be.
IANAL, but can't you just write down all your ideas on to a piece of paper and get it notarized ( http://www.redsealnotary.com/ )at least a day before (they will put their seal, signature and date on it) and then be covered by clause 4(a) of this document?

4. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Participants shall not have any obligation with respect to any Confidential Information that:

(a)	has been independently developed and documented by such a Participants without reliance on any Confidential Information;
There are countries where people are not used to having conversations. I've heard of a wedding of a cameroonian to an american, where the cameroonian guests thought the american guests were crazy because they spoke so much.
Why we are switching from Ruby/Sinatra to Node.js
Are programmers and similar more likely to "break" the second Gricean maxim?

From the link: Quantity of Information

* Make your contribution as informative as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange).
* Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.

I recall a discussion here about the quantity of information we tend to give relative to the "average" person
This guy went from a paperclip to a house: http://www.oneredpaperclip.com/about/.

A couple of my friends actually got a barbecue from him off of Craigslist. Sadly, I think the transaction only involved money.
What you describe is the h-index ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index ). It is one of the fairest ways of measuring merit, but for most social sites it has the problem of being too fair.

If you're maintaining a site like stackoverflow or reddit, you want lots of comments, and it is better to reward lots of marginally interesting comments than a few really insightful ones (since a lot of marginally interesting comments will make people come all the time to check for more and find new things to entertain themselves, keeping them at the site looking at ads, etc).

Maybe HN could display the h index of a user instead of his/her karma.
He's a businessman, but whether or not he's good is a question for debate. Most people working the same hours have a higher income. Do the math, if the Porsche trade represents all of his "income" from bartering he made $3.6 an hour, if it represents half of his income then he made minimum wage.

It's interesting, and somewhat novel, but hardly astounding or terribly impressive.
I'm not personally totally sold on the theory, but the video was cool.
That sounds kinda crazy. 5-6 hours daily for two years could have easily earned him money to buy a Porsche, for cold cash.
I still long for the old http://docs.jquery.com from the 1.3.x days. The new site that actually serves all the material, api.jquery.com, feels like exactly that--an API reference--while the old format was much more browsable. Instead of just alphabetical lists of methods you got a fuller explanation of what each function did, and the methods in each section were organized by purpose with surrounding explanations, not as a sterile alphabetical list. A world of difference to the newcomer. Had the docs been the way they are now, I'm not sure I would have been so happy to read them and get started.
But even Consumer Reports says it's their highest rated smartphone.
Bing's UI is really hands down much better than Google's new image search UI. In terms of results I don't really find a big difference anymore.

I sometimes resorted to google's image search because it was faster. Dynamic image loading really does take a big toll on performance(at least for me). I wonder why neither Bing nor Google have switched to SilverLight/Flash respectively yet. Maybe they are just waiting for html5?
Ask HN: Which .co domains did you register today?
Just curious which .co domains people registered today. http://opportunity.co/pigsfly/
Minting it and keeping it increases the value of others' money. It causes deflation, because there's a strictly-finite amount of possible "coins" (single-digit percentages of which will likely remain in a couple years. Difficulty in finding them increases exponentially).
the red paper clip guy actually hired a pr firm to help him gain publicity and achieve his goal (I knew a guy at the pr firm he hired)
If the data is indeed valid, it might have less to do with the privacy concerns and the ads, I don't think mainstream users care about either that much. The site is designed such as to exploit some of the weaknesses of people, such as the fear of missing out or the compulsive hoarding (of friends).. As such, many users might feel addicted to it, but at the same time feel miserable for wasting time on it. That might show up on the survey as a vague negative feeling. Kindly argue why I am wrong before downvoting, please.
Here's a more programmatic theory, more pragmatic based, but IMO it's more valid:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis
I dont hate my competitors, without them it'd be like running a race all alone. You dont know if your running too fast or too slow cause you have nobody to compare yourself to, its just you running down the track by your lonesome.
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nobody got to me
iPhone man Jonathan Ive returns to Staffordshire roots
MonkeyLives (aka low memory global address $100) was a system global that was usually off. If you saw it on, it indicated that the equivalent of a monkey was loose on the keyboard. IOW, don't do anything dangerous when true.
That's what I thought. But I doubt he actually spends that much dedicated time. Rather he's probably multi-tasking, checking in periodically over the course of 5-6 hours.

I bet he's mastered some important negotiating skills.
Teen hiker who fell to his death may have been distracted by his cell phone
You mean for truth? I lol'd. I'm living proof.

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This is a compelling business reason why "Zero signup! No contact!" are not nearly as popular every else as they are here...
Since I didn't know:

"Riak is a Dynamo-inspired key/value store that scales predictably and easily. Riak also simplifies development by giving developers the ability to quickly prototype, test, and deploy their applications

A truly fault-tolerant system, Riak has no single point of failure. No machines are special or central in Riak, so developers and operations professionals can decide exactly how fault-tolerant they want and need their applications to be."
That it only took 14 trades to go from phone to Porsche is most impressive. He's gonna have an awesome last year of high school with that ride.

Wonder what his insurance costs?
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the fear for us isn't so much that we have existing plans they'd be overlapping, it's that a year or two from now we could come up with a vaguely similar concept, can't get in touch with them to get their express consent, and then we actually build it.

Even though they never followed through on their plans, we could be culpable for "stealing the idea", even if we've forgotten what their idea was.
You seem to be confusing copyright and patents.

Neither of which can protect an idea.

Law concerning Trade Secrets comes closest to protecting an idea. But that doesn't preclude parallel development whatsoever, only theft.
fixed many thanks indeed.

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I have to admit that's a pretty funny name for a DDoS client.
Caml Trading talk at CMU
This video is a reasonably good source if you're interested in understanding more about how and why Jane Street uses OCaml.
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Yeah, like searching for all the 'flying rats' (pigeons) in GTA and shooting them. Utterly pointless.

For the life of me I don't know how people do endless, repetitive bullshit on World of Warcraft either - I keep away from those that do. Seems like an utter waste of time, and I immediately think of the South Park episode 'World of Warcrack'.
You're partially right..

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Denial_of_Service

also, there are irc servers that people set up for different events, but that's getting more into the chanology side of it.
How is better to spend 29$ to break a license? Because I suposse the upgrade license needs a "base" license.
Bottom line:

Point 1: You had a problem with me referring to President Obama as a scholar. Regardless of your semantic arguments, dictionaries also define scholar as simply a student or learned person.

Point 2: The university statement clarifies how and why Obama was regarded as a professor -- and not just an "honorary" one.

Point 3: Most academic doctors or professors with publications do not go on to become the President of the United States. Have you ever stopped to think maybe he was busy in service of the public as well as his family?

Honestly, the original point was about the contrast in perspective, as far as the Constitution is concerned, between Obama and Bush. I really don't see what you are challenging.
We use Website Payments Pro on our site (shameless plug - http://www.littleheroes.com). I cannot say enough about how great their API is. I have Python code if you'd like, but it's really just straightforward POST. You can do subscriptions and one-time payments, as well as doing pre-auths.

And it's great because customers don't leave your site. You can withdraw the money from your PayPal account to your bank account anytime for free, so long that the amount is > $150. Otherwise they charge a small amount (can't remember, $5 maybe?). PayPal's fees are much better than many merchant account providers I've found. We pay $30/month for the account and then 2.9% + $0.25 for each transaction (so for a $100 transaction PayPal takes $3.15).

Plus they allow you to export your entire transaction history to CSV so you can load it into your own accounting system.

Strongly recommend PayPal to anyone who (A) can program and (B) wants to keep customers on their site.

As for PCI compliance and all that, why would you ever want to open up that bag of hurt and store people's credit cards? Let PayPal do what it's good at and stick to what you're good at.
There are those people indeed. So, pay these specific people their trivial $400, and then (a) figure out what your site did to create an 'exploitable' gap in expectations, or (b) figure out what your process is doing to create an 'exploitable' failure to meet those expectations.

The answer to this problem could be as simple as a banner stating something like "in the event your room cannot be booked, you will be notified and a [comparable room] will be provided if you'd like to continue with your trip".

Or, it could be that the reliability of property managers becomes a business metric, and managers who are overly casual with reservations are either (a) paid less to offset refunds that will be generated, or (b) excluded from the service.

In the meantime, there's one (1) of these parties here; why not do what you can to make them evangelists?
Is that what is called arbitrage ?
There is absolutely nothing about methodology on the ASCI site. Here is their official commentary on the results:
http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task...
The MSNBC pretty much lifts sentences from there.

This is a bigger picture summary of how other industries fare to give some perspective:
http://www.theacsi.org/images/stories/ACSI_TREE_07_10.pdf

It's hard to tell if these findings really mean anything, since this is social media's first year on the survey. And without more information, it's hard to say if a direct comparison across industries even makes sense.
aka botnets?
You took words out of my brain. The more popular reddit has become the more difficult it has become to find comments that say something other than being funny.
The most recent time, because they sent me a deluge of junkmail. They seemed to have morphed into a marketing organization that also did some legal work. Maybe the problem was that I gave them more than the normal amount of money; maybe the more you give them the more mail they send you.
haha - hey i'd rather be honest and open that i need help, than be closed & act like i know it all..
One other piece of trivia wrapped up in QuickDraw is US patent 4622545 (inventor William D. Atkinson, assigned to Apple Computer). That patent covers the methods required for updating of non-contiguous 2D regions, which could have any imagined shape.
Adding to your comment, it's my understanding that many people feel the site is poorly designed. I've often heard "I wish there were an easier way to..." in relation to facebook.
Interesting to see google on the sponsor list.

Blizzard should kick down something. They've made a fortune off lua.
The reason why I submitted this (beyond the fact that I totally subscribe to his views) is to ask if anyone knows something about this guy. I used to follow his stuff, especially the 30 ideas in 30 days, then he stopped posting 2 years ago.
AFAICS, there is no unsafePerformIO in any of the above except for stringtable-atom.

AIUI, it's possible to implement generalized memoization in haskell w/o unsafePerformIO, and both memocombinators and MemTrie do so. I take your point that if necessary, they could have been written to use unsafePerformIO, and as long as the library authors know what they're doing, and are careful, that would be OK.

So, you don't actually need to read CS papers to do memoization in haskell. You just need to know that the libraries that do it have "memo", not "memoize" in their names. This stuff, could, perhaps be easier to find.
I think that the basic design of HN is also good for community selection -- people who are more interested in good content than the wrapping.
Sounds about right, in all three cases there's essentially no competition. Airlines are uniformly awful (with the partial exception of Southwest), cable companies have a combination of natural and government-granted monopolies, and Facebook is the poster child of dominance via network effects. Satisfying customers doesn't have to be a high priority for any of them.
Now that I think about it a bit more, and have lost the ability to edit, I think it may happen when it's a relatively low ratio, or maybe even even, as all histories must be continually re-proved to stave off attackers. It seems there has to come a point where it becomes trivial to devote more attacking CPUs to a single history than histories/CPUs devotes.
What evidence is there that BP fully lived up to US safety regulations? I'm not sure that's the case but I don't have all the details.

Personally, I don't view BP as a "foreign" entity, they are a trans-national corporation.

Regardless, you do make a good point, if the US had as stringent of standards as required in the North Sea likely none of this would have happened.
While the site is inherently predatory, and while a lot of the problem of facebook comes from those problems, outside of the teen bracket, persons are very much concerned with privacy issues, especially where their employment is concerned. That said, the most visible activity of facebook is the adds, and it does have a history of changing the site format.

Consumer opinion isn't often about root causes, but the most visible issues.
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The drive is incredibly impressive. The kids 17! You can use math to water down time spent to gain any result:

Kid plays quake through middle school to determine he wants to learn computers so he tinkers 6 hours a day through high school. Then goes to college and spends another 8-10 hours a day working on school for 4 more years, then he works for 3 years to save up enough money to buy a porche in cache.

Hah, nice spelling mistake. Back to fixing this bug in my cache.
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My goal with these scripts is really to prevent inappropriate use of the constructs I described. Reading the article over again, I do see how it makes it seems like I'm on a quest to ban these constructs. That's my fault for not being clearer. ;)

Most of the time, my students use these constructs without thinking about it. That's the real problem.

Perhaps I should have posted a few paragraphs from a recent draft to highlight what I meant by inappropriate (or excessive) use, but I don't think my grad students would appreciate a public shaming.

As I mentioned in the article, there are times when the passive voice and adverbs have their uses.

It would be a net positive if my grad students removed all their adverbs and all passive voice from their recent drafts.

(Of course, the optimum would be to leave only the appropriate uses of these constructs.)

I'm willing to bet this is true for a lot of new grad students in science or engineering first learning how to do scientific writing.

It was certainly true for me once upon a time.

Having the scripts highlight these constructs forces students to ask the question, "Is there a way I can say this better?"

If the answer really is "No," then they can leave it in.

But, I want them to think about it.

/article author
I'm getting rreeaaalllly tired of voting, reputation scores, and badges.
>“Facebook is a phenomenal success, so we were not expecting to see it score so poorly with consumers”

What, do they not talk to people? 9/10ths of the people I encounter / talk to / overhear (friends or not) on campus & otherwise house quite a bit of dislike for Facebook, "but all [their] friends are on there", so they feel obligated to stay. About 9/10ths of the remaining people have no strong feelings either way, and the left-over 1/10th actually like it.

edit: And yes, I do actually mean those ratios. In the past year or two, I have heard only a couple people say they like FB, and quite literally hundreds of dislikes. Nearly everyone on campus has an account, and that means you can sometimes catch a dozen or two (or more) remarks daily out of several thousand students if you listen for it.
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Hi. Since you always seem to give me unsolicited advice, allow me to give you some:

I've never met you and you clearly don't know me. Strongly consider the limits of your actual knowledge concerning my actual position, versus what I choose to share in a public forum in generic terms, before telling me what I should do to change my actual life. Also consider that your rather personal criticisms, however well-intentioned, may be construed by others to imply that you actually do know me, when you don't.

I'm using my talent to build my company (http://www.thinkcomputer.com) if that's not already clear. As I've also made clear before, I can do that and comment on things about which I'm uniquely knowledgeable at the same time. And if you don't like it, tough.
Please suggest some talented designers who can beautify a web app
Im finished my web app. Its has a very simple design. Its a list of links (think hacker-news/reddit). Now Im looking for a high end developer who can help me bring the look and feel of the site up a few notches (by producing a couple of mockups).
The reason I need a high end developer is because the site design is very constrained since its just a list of links. The only other major element of the site is the header.

Where can I find high end designers who are willing to work on such a job?
Please suggest any designers that you know are quality and are available.
Here's an trick that reduces the noise in the results (the first time I tried your link the results were very noisy, second and subsequent times not bad at all): pick a section of text that doesn't include quotes, ideally bridging two sentences, e.g. "in U.S. history. In Act II, we" and then add site:wsj.com, ideally trim browser specific stuff and you get something like http://www.google.com/search?q=%22in+U.S.+history.+In+Act+II...
Joking is tolerated here only under very strict circumstances, including where your joke can be interpreted as a serious comment.
Technical solution itself rarely has big value until it resolves some actual business or social problems.
There are some things it makes sense for; flagging submissions, downvotes, and perhaps a few other things being karma-restricted removes some issues associated with people trolling. It's also useful for identifying comments which lots of people find useful - or ones which are useless. It's basically a community-powered spamfilter and measure of relevance. That said, I would be entirely in favor of hiding or obscuring karma, outside of comment sorting (and even that could be obscured while still being useful).

Of course, hiding/obscuring karma could remove some of the motivation to upvote comments. It would be interesting to see how usage patterns changed if it was hidden/obscured ...

An option to hide karma would be useful as well, for people who aren't interested (like you). I wonder if there's an extension for some browser which does that; if not, it probably wouldn't be too hard to write one [stripping out everything in the form of "# points" and the (#) next to the username in the bar at the top of a page ... adding display:none to all the score_# classes and applying a bit of filtering to pagetop would do that.]

I'm also in favor of getting rid of downvotes, mostly because I see them abused too much (people being downvoted for expressing unpopular opinions, especially anti-apple), but that's neither here nor there.
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