skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what I had to do: a local install of Ruby and rubygems, installed bundler, and let bundler take care of the rest (and let me know what -devel packages I didn't have installed ;-).

This will likely be a much less painful process in Fedora 14; 1.8.7 will be shipping with it, although unfortunately it looks like Rails 3 didn't make it in (at least, it's not in Rawhide right now).
I like the examples at the Go Playground.
Ideone uses gc-2010-07-14 so it seems to be quite ancient but ok - it is not the up to data version, but I really do not get your comment about speed (do you mean the execution time, response time or what?) and the indent feature (It seems to me there is no auto indent feature and the "Tab" key moves you to the examples list).
From looking at the voting habits of California residents, it looks to me like people will generally vote for anything that gives them something without much cost, and vote against anything that looks like an increased cost without a visible benefit. I wouldn't be surprised if people are making these votes, then trying to fit them to whatever political philosophy they have.
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Keep it up, I love new OSes.

My dream is to write a cloud programming language that compiles high level code to a low-level kernel and deploys. I abhor waste, so efforts like this are a great start. I look forward to more!
What would you propose? Require an essay declaring your intentions for every domain prior to purchase?

How is it less valuable if the purchaser wants to make $100 from selling the domain versus making $100 on it selling trinkets?

I own a lot of domains that I may or may not do something with in the future. What should the cutoff point be? Should I be penalized after my 10th domain? 30th? 100th?

(I don't like squatters in general, but that doesn't mean I think they should be outlawed.)
It doesn't account for the likelihood that my actions fail to save anyone and simply increase the death toll either, which would be a paralysing fear for many people in real life.

This particular scenario seems an odd one because I simply can't conceive a situation in which I could ever be confident a falling
fat man would stop a moving train. My instinct would surely be to trust everything I'd previously learned about the laws of physics.
Browser is too strategic, you can't allow a third party to develop the one on your platform.
Threats to online privacy, net neutrality could destroy Web, warns Berners-Lee
How can a point be both unfair and valid? And I have no problem with people ranting about stuff, as long as they do their due diligence.
If you're thinking about mice, apple mice are not for you. Apple know damned well that geeks who want lots of buttons will go out and buy a Logitech. They have tested the acceleration curve to destruction and know that it results in faster navigation; They also know that if you know that it exists and are annoyed by it, you are nerdy enough to use USB Overdrive.

To call Apple mice lousy is to completely miss the point. I really like the basic set of hardware buttons that an Android handset requires for navigation, but my mum can never remember which one does what. The iPhone has one button that does one thing.

The average user is not like us. Our biggest failing as developers and designers is when we forget that.
How to Search for a Premium back-end Web Developer?
Hey guys, I was wondering where the place are to look for a first class back-end web developer.

I am only 24 but am a partner with a funded wall street startup that is in stealth mode. I am in charge of putting together an all star web development team yet I am a bit lost on where to find the best.

My strategy so far has been to poke around hackernews, techcrunch, mashable lists, LinkedIn groups etc. I have found and interviewed some good options but I have not been dazzled by any.

My question to you guys is>>>is there an alcove somewhere on the internet where the best in this field congregate??
Qik's iPhone broadcaster doesn't access the hardware video encoder, which unfortunately means that the output of their app is more like a slideshow than a real video stream.

We deliberately waited until the platform could support an app we would be proud of.
If you're going to play the odds and assume the blueblood is a "parasite", shouldn't you also assume that the lower-class black man is not present to support his family anyway?
> So the question really becomes: kill one man, or kill one man and ruin his family's chance at a decent life.

In the article they said that conservatives favored killing the "black" man while liberals favored killing the "white" man. It isn't as clear as the background simply providing more data. The internal stereotype and moral values of the subject are also influencing it. It would be a terrible study if they had just lumped everyone into one big pool. It became interesting when they gathered other information about the subjects and then found correlations with their behavior.

Thus, it really isn't about what the common stereotypes are, but rather how two groups can perceive the same situation differently enough to make different decisions.
Woo, got it to return relevant results, finally. If anyone ever does anything with the Amazon API, when doing an ItemSearch always include a BrowseNode.

Post any queries that get bad results.
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Ask HN: Do startup founders experience midlife crisis?
I was wondering if startup founders are susceptible to midlife crisis? Reason I ask is, it seems many issues that people deal with during their midlife crisis- losing your pride, figuring out what you want out of your career- are things that founders have already gone through or are forced to deal with in the process of doing their startup. Or maybe it's just my youthful ignorance speaking.

Would especially love to hear from folks here who have experienced middle-life.
I also see this as being a three horse race. Android will eventually end up in the #1 position. Apple #2. With RIM, webOS, MeeGo and Win Mobile 7 vying for the third position.

Even now Blackberry Enterprise Server installs are falling. It won't be a single player that take RIM down, it will be the all the majors have good enough exchange and security support.

I liked what I have seen so far of MeeGo but I am afraid it will only been seen as a less popular alternative to Android and will have the low market share to match.

Until the changing of the guard, I just don't any new successes out of Microsoft. Besides it will be the next version of Windows Mobile that gets all the effort. There is a MS cycle enter market with a product better than all their competitors and capture a large market share, stagnate, half-hearted release, start picking things up, and release something good again. E.g. IE6 was better than everything else at the time, IE 7 was lipstick on a pig, IE 8 was basically a rewrite to have a better foundation, and IE9 might actually be good. This pretty much mirrows Windows Mobile 4 - 7. I see Windows Mobile 7 at the IE 8 level.

Palm was some really interesting stuff and with the money of HP behind them I really don't see why they couldn't be number 3.
I am in no way surprised by this. I have 2 laptops and a desktop computer that are collecting dust now that I have an iPad.
Why not just ask Chip or Tyrone whether they feel their lives are worth losing to save a hundred others?
I think it's important to point out that the names chosen are not only denotations of race, they are denotations of class. Maybe instead of the liberals feeling better about killing the white guy to save the black guys, they feel better about killing the rich guy to save the poor guys.

There is a tendency to conflate class issues with race issues in America, and I think that really muddles the debate somewhat.
What would you like to see as far as the API?
Sure, and maybe the novelty of your approach just caught me off guard.. was only sharing my initial gut reaction... wasn't meant as well thought-out criticism :)
OpenX is being DDOS'ed, that's why the site is down.
Senate Passes $30 Billion Small Business Credit Measure
It bugs me when stuff like that is described as "xenophobia". It's possible to dislike something (or have a preference for the alternative) without fearing it. Even when the basis for the dislike is irrational -- if you prefer chocolate ice cream does that imply that you fear strawberry?
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That's just jaw-dropping.

Can't wait for these things to enter the mass market.

Just imagine the possibilities when they add some sort of "grabbing" device (robotic hand) and teach them to open doors, carry stuff from A to B, etc.
Most people will claim to have absolutist morals. They will say that it is wrong to kill someone and that ends do just justify means. What becomes interesting is that almost anyone will display circumstantial morals if confronted with a trade-off like this. The interesting question is at what point do their morals change and why.
See my comment above - OpenX is being DDOS'ed. The upgrade didn't bring it down, though it's likely that the DDOS is intended to keep people from upgrading.
Ask HN: Review my startup Litsay.com
http://www.litsay.com/

Litsay is a website for posting creative writing (short stories, poetry, novels, plays, etc.).

It's intended to be for writing what Youtube is for videos. Members can post writings, comment, vote, and create communities.

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Also do you have any good ideas on the best way to market the site?

Thank You.
There seems like an open backdoor to arbitrage abuse from middlemen. For example, I am a respectable developer from the US, with an impressive resume, portfolio, and verifiable LinkedIn, Hacker News, etc. accounts. Can't I create an account with a minimum rate of $35/hour and turn around and pay my team in the Philippines $4/hour to do the work?
I see an employer has already posted a job that seems to break the $35/hour rule. In this case a 100 in 1 iPhone Game App (including artwork!) on a $1000 budget. Which, even at 1 hour per game works out to $10/hour.

What checks do you have on the jobs posted by employers?
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Am I the only one seeing a huge chunk of Viagra spam ("A proposito viagra 50 mg di pazienti affetti da malattie coronariche 10,8-11,8 arteria laureato rilevando ...") in the middle of that article?
Alertia is a great idea! The biggest barrier in my opinion will be dealing with the governments of the 180+ countries than the technology!
Neither do I, I think anybody would be crazy to not test their design. I'm just not confident in design as a primary design mechanic.
Is cosmology a form of theology for a secular age?
Direct link http://www.litsay.com/
I heard a rumor that, internally, they think the secret to their success is their referral program.
Looks interesting. I just ordered a used copy.
similarly, i own domains that i've used in the past that are now sitting dormant. i don't want to let them expire and immediately get snatched up by a squatter, so what am i to do? if i put up a "for sale" page on them, am i a squatter now?
Really?! EVERYONE?! Hmm, which query on the interwebs did you use to find that fact???

I better go check my registrar account because someone must have broken in and put a useless domain name in there... I hate it when that happens.
If the plan is to include more countries e.g. Israel, 35$ makes sense - average salaries for programmers are different in different countries.
Ask HN: Would you review a CV received without a subject line in your inbox?
When you are looking for a good talent for your company what would you do if you received an email message with Resume/CV without a subject line?

A) Mark message as a read / Low prioritize applicant

B) Star it / Review applicant

C) Delete it / Ignore applicant

Personally I would choose C, it's a case of non-responsibility... I don't need such employee in my company.
Freelance programming - do I need to register or get a license?
Do I need to do anything official such as register with the state or setup some separate bank account to be able to do freelance programming and accept payments?

I searched and read that unless you incorporate you will need to report taxes as a sole proprietor. Do I need some legal stuff to work as a freelance programmer?

I am located in the US, and have a green card. I have a fulltime job and am looking at doing freelance on the side.
Ahold goes Google: International food retailer moves 55,000 employees to G Apps
In my opinion, the difference between trinkets and domain names is that you can manufacture an unlimited number of trinkets, however, there is a very limited number of useful domain names. Normally, very limited resources (such as radio frequencies) are regulated so this is not an entirely new concept.

Obviously it's hard to come up with a definition of what should and what shouldn't be allowed because chances are that it would be either unfair, easily circumvented or both. None the less, I believe there should be some way to take away domains from obvious squatters.
Simulating :hover and Double Clicks With Pure CSS on Mobile Devices
Why is this so hard? The law clearly states, if you do nothing you are free. If you do something, you have taken the liability of said action. Unless by doing nothing, you are in violation of your duty. But still I would gladly accept an administrative slap, than a legal one... 100 people or not.
This article raises an interesting point. However, I would argue that the startup costs have fallen across the board, whether you're a software startup or a startup in another field. First, it's much less expensive today for startups to obtain key services due to the prevalence and availability of offshoring. Second, new technology enables many startups to handle some services in-house, whereas before it required hiring an expensive service provider (e.g., Google AdWords). Third, there is a shift in mentality towards a leaner, smarter mode of starting up. Founders no longer feel the need to obtain overhead that (a) requires substantial investment and (b) creates little direct value for customers. If I remember correctly, a story from the dot com bust was when eToys used some of its funding to BUY a high-rise office building in Los Angeles.
There is a tendency to conflate the two because they are strongly correlated. It's not a mistake to assume that Tyrone is poor and black and Chip is rich and white -- it's a best guess based on observations about reality in the US.

Does it make it absolutely moral to make that assumption? Of course not, people should be treated without regard to previous biases, etc. But it doesn't mean the statistical inference is invalid.
Absolutely. I find myself all the time typifying relationships - that is, classifying relationships in an object-oriented-typesystem-influenced way. Since computers tend to be very literal this leads itself to prejudices that are often funny when you take them far enough.

For instance, an Engineer "is a" Person who "has a" Job. They tend to be statically and early bound to their properties and functions, and if they need to change jobs, they have to be recompiled, which is expensive. If you ask them to do something that they don't know how to do, they will probably try, though may fail spectacularly segfault style, taking the whole program down. Engineers are written in C++.

A graphic designer is a Person who may or may not have a Job, or may intermittently have something that fulfills the function of a Job without being a Job itself. They tend to be dynamically late bound to their properties and functions (just ask my wife, who does a lot of freelance and contract work). They are written in Ruby.

An Entrepreneur is a Person who may or may not have any number of properties or functions at any one time, and may or may not delegate work to some other party. They are written in Javascript.

Engineers tend to have very well defined ideas of what is public and private, whereas designers wear their heart more on their sleeve. Entrepreneurs may have a public interface, but they tend to be so outgoing as to not have private data - they may have public knowledge that is simply inaccessible and out of scope.

It might not be the most correct train of thought, but it is amusing, so long as you don't take it too seriously.
Another trick is to use .org or something. I got my four letter domain name a few years back, and it's even pronounceable! And it was pretty close to the kind of thing I wanted.

bluh.org, a great website name for pointless nonsense!
You should put some numbers there. How many job offers can one expect from your mailing list for instance. Or how many happy hackers there are because of your service.
...clearly, a utilitarian argument.
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The Harper's one bewilders me. One of the Marines is faded out, as if he were symbolically missing. That people would misconstrue that as "these pictured Marines are AWOL or deserters" worries me.
don't you love it when the rules are so simple?
http://www.masterbranch.com/ creates real resumes out of open source contributions.
Sometimes the thing that has to die, is my moral code. Of course we must save the most people; of course it is immoral, and my immortal sould will suffer, but I am only one person and its worth it.
The pictures may be used by the OpenStreetMap project because OSM is missing lots of details and with exact date when this photo was taken, it would be great to have these photos available.

Aerial images of Dortmund, Germany for example were published for OSM use and the map quality in Dortmund exploded, it was a huge benefit for OSM.

It would be great to see photos to be used with OpenStreetMap.
I'm using GWT to build a html5 (excuse the buzzword) game engine. It's brilliant. The documentation is first-class and it works perfectly.

If you have experience working with java, and know your way around the web, you should be fine. The only real limitation I'd come across was developing UIs, but this solves that problem.
True, though unlike photographs, paintings aren't generally assumed to be "the way things really were."
hint: you don't make much money selling dumbphones, no matter market share.
You might get a better response if you tell us where you are located.
Unfair given the lack of context.

Valid because a mouse should be portable to any computer, especially made from the same company.
I would consider collateral damage less of a problem when Americans die because all Americans are responsible for the present situation in Iraq, while most Iraqis are innocent bystanders.

Why would you say that?

If you'll grant me for the sake of argument that the war is justified, then the Iraqi people are every bit as guilty as we are. In both cases, we (and the Iraqis) have allowed our respective governments to do immoral things. The fact that Iraq is not a democracy might temper the blame that we assign, but the fact is that they've failed to rise up to overthrow their evil government. When evil things are being enabled by the contribution one makes to the society, it is (I believe) morally required that it be stopped. (And I note that I am guilty of failing to do so, underscoring the point of the OP)

I am similarly perplexed by people damning the US government, yet maintaining the nobility of our soldiers. If the war is wrong, then the soldiers are wrong for following the orders to fight it. "We did as we were told" is not a moral defense.
Ask HN: Good NoSQL hosting services?
I'm trying to compile a list of all NoSQL database hosting services.

Apart from AWS SimpleDB, MongoHQ, RedisToGo, CouchOne and Cloudant, do you know any others ? Can you share your experience with them ?
That would be a nice fate for Windows--"the best operating system for web browsing." ;-)
Do you have HW encoding on Android? Does it vary by device and/or OS version?
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Ask HN: Paypal Pro rejection - any ideas?
We have a client in the UK fashion industry who is established (running for around 10 years), with no debt, registered with companies house, HMRC etc.. and we're working with them to set up a new e-commerce site.

However, PayPal have rejected their PayPal pro application without giving a reason and have said to re-apply in 90 days. This is quite a big problem as it's going to delay the site go live whilst we set up a different solution (Paypal basic or another gateway). PayPal not providing a reason is infuriating as we don't even know what to do differently next time. Does anyone have any ideas on why this would be? Cheers.
I don't know these numbers :-)

An hour after official announcement, I hope two or three offers per day and a lot of happy hackers. But it depends on the companies and their offers, of course. We'll never publish bad offers and we prefer an empty day.
3 weeks with NiMH batteries isn't a good counterexample.

I use a Microsoft bluetooth mouse (the best bluetooth mouse I have ever found) and the batteries last about a few months with heavy daily use. It takes 2 AAA batteries.
Unless he meant to post to psychicne.ws
I'm interested in a couple domains that appear to be unused, but I'm having trouble contacting the owner. How do you go about making the offer? I've emailed a couple contacts now obtained off of whois and it seems they never reply.
C - lack of online etiquette isn't a great start for a prospective employee of a tech company.
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I think I have the same mouse - GREAT device.
Here is what I think is going on.

First, you're putting people in a position where they are on the boundaries of what they consider acceptable. Anything that affects those boundaries, will affect their choice.

Conservatives in general have no problem with tribalism. In the abstract any life is equal to any other life, but it is only reasonable that I should personally protect the lives of my tribe (be that ethnic group, social class, country) more diligently than I do another tribe. So conservatives tilt towards protecting their tribe.

Liberals are not only not comfortable with overt tribalism, they are sensitive to accusations of racism. So when pushed to the boundary, they won't tell the interviewer that they'll kill the black guy - that could be seen as racist. But the white guy doesn't have that protection, so off he goes.

Liberals no more want to off the white guy than conservatives do the black. But silly things like "my tribe" or "I don't want to be seen as racist" affect choices on the boundary.
Why voicemail systems need to be optimized
Shouldn't a voicemail say "Sorry [NAME] isn't here. Leave a message.... BEEP"

Not this way: "Sorry the person you have reached at 310-555-5555 is not available at the moment. If you would like to leave a callback number press 1 now. If you would like to leave a message please wait at the end to leave one or press 2... ... ... BEEP"
Does the universe have a purpose?
Neither would I. I love my MacBook's trackpad. The first few times I used the computer, I plugged in a mouse, and then realised I wasn't even using it because the trackpad was so easy and convenient.

Now, that's not just the hardware--- OS X's single-button usability makes a huge impact here. When I have to boot Windows for SolidWorks or Matlab (or pretty much anything else), it's basically unusable without also plugging in a mouse.
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