skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there's a bit of discussion in that link's comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1665999
> A byte is always 8 bits, and therefore contains unsigned numbers 0 to 255 inclusive.

That definitely isn't true. Historically, bytes went from 5 to 16 bits, it was just the number of bits required to handle a character.

If you want to talk specifically about 8-bit bytes in an architecture-independent manner, use the word "octet" (which happens to be the word french people generally use).

`char` is a technically independent (though often related) datatype defined as being >= 8 bits by the ANSI standard and the definition of `sizeof(char) == 1` is an axiom of the ANSI standard, not the consequence of anything but itself, though the standard definitely seems to confound (confuse?) chars and bytes:

2	The sizeof operator yields the size (in bytes) of its operand, which may be an expression or the parenthesized name of a type. The size is determined from the type of the operand. The result is an integer. If the type of the operand is a variable length array type, the operand is evaluated; otherwise, the operand is not evaluated and the result is an integer constant.
3	When applied to an operand that has type char, unsigned char, or signed char, (or a qualified version thereof) the result is 1. When applied to an operand that has array type, the result is the total number of bytes in the array.88)	When applied to an operand that has structure or union type, the result is the total number of bytes in such an object, including internal and trailing padding.
You don't win friends with salad/Cucumber
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
The article reads "The challenge with using these libraries is that they all have their own quirks that can make working with HTML, CSS and Javascript challenging."

And that's true only if you only want to do page manipulation in Javascript. I'm perfectly happy with my page manipulation in Ruby w/ Nokogiri. Here's an example:

(code formatting on HN sucks, so it's on my blog, apologies)

http://blog.knowtheory.net/post/1074676060/xml-manipulation-...
OK, define char. If it is a type built-in C - then of course sizeof(char) = 1. And there is no reason to write such posts.

The problem is people are confusing the definition and the usage, because this particular type "char" was supposed to hold a numerical representation of a symbol, which in case of a multi-byte encoding is not 1 byte anymore.

So, sizeof(char) is always 1, and what they trying to say is sizeof(numeric-representation-of-a-symbol) which is not a concern of the C language.
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Samsung releases Epic 4G source code
So, you read this on a page you reached from an HN post...

Well, if HN do some censorship I think that they have to fire who checked this link ;-)
Fresqui: Conectarse
Personally I would find a person who did this really boring (no apparent life outside of the activity).
Looking at how similar things are done before. It is a list of words and list of movies. Something like this:

- kill, blow : blow.mov
- word, word, word : word.mov
etc...
If you're ever building or reroofing a house, look into a corrugated steel roof. Sure, it has all the visual appeal of corrugated steel, but it's cost-effective and the sound of rain on a steel roof is very beautiful. My parents had their house reroofed with steel a couple years after I left for college and I've always loved the sound of rain on it.
Thank you. I wrote and published the book Zero to Superhero after four years of research and self-experimentation (I thought my profile bio was disclosure enough. I guess not).

If you're not completely happy with the purchase of the book, let me know and I'll refund your money immediately.
Ask HN: The money/debt problem
Has any of you tried to tackle the money/debt problem? Any advice for those who would like to try it?

I think it must be possible to create an online bank-like system without interest and with control mechanisms to facilitate payment in smaller communities and between friends. What would you think of such a system, any encouragements and tips?
"Other archive formats like WinZip..."

The guy immediately loses credibility in my eyes for referring to the most popular archive format as 'WinZip'. It's the ZIP file format, designed by Phil Katz of PKWare Inc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)

To add injury to insult, the rest of his proposal is pretty similar to ZIP, which also accomplishes the nice-to-have things he mentions at the end.
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The medium is the message. This means any alternative money systems that would be based or linked to our current forms of money will always suffer from the same problems we're facing today.
I posted this because I was wondering if it was a new not-so-clever strategy to stir up a little controversy & pageviews.
Full disclosure: I wrote Zero to Superhero.
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Stay indoors. Seal out all natural light. Replace all your lights with theraputic Seasonal Affective Disorder lamps to simulate the natural light spectrum of the sun. Work out an automated schedule of turning the lights on and off--or varying their brightness, if you find ones with dimmers--to trick your body into thinking it's daytime when you want it to be daytime, and nighttime when you want it to be nighttime. This might actually work, but I've never tried it.
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Why not post an article and then tweet the link, that's effectively the same and would be a lot easier on the eyes than trying to piece together a bunch of tweets.

The funny thing is that with multipart-sms the medium that twitter is copying is no longer hampered by the this limitation, but the imitator still is.
Is Apple's Ping a Haven for Spammers?
It's a bit weird that you stopped reading because of that, yes.
I would do more calls but only where those more calls help with self describing.

REST interfaces should help the caller find what they want to do and how to do it.
I don't get why "talking politics" is something to so desperately avoid in the US. Many intelligent people just wont talk about leaving mostly the close minded life long party members to be the only voices. Personally I think this is why the political landscape is so awful in the US.
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And if there is no interest whatsoever, and there is no need to repay everything? In that case you get a positive netto value instead of a negative one, without debt. So you would have a system based on goodwill instead of debt.
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The world of cinema can be an extremely exclusive place...Take a look why?
I made a neat roguelike in JS last week but couldn't fit it in under 4K :(
The only sane thing is to use if statements, imho. No ninja cowboy engineer nonsense.
But on the other hand, any carrier and manufacture can inject the needed tracking code without asking anyone.
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They could be notified by the site when they log in. People investing in thoughtful comments, or even attempting to add value to the site, who have been arbitrarily banned seems quite tragic. A community with secret rules is one to think twice about investing in. I've learned this the hard way in the past running afoul of moderators because I disagreed with one of them or their friends.
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Yep, I've seen similar monstrosities often.

There's actually two problems with such code: one is that it doesn't actually make the code easier to read, but harder.

The other is more subtle: using constants like this is working at the wrong level of abstraction. The correct way to write this kind of code is to use a wrapper function which knows how to put together URLs, since there are lots of special rules to how URLs are put together (encoding, etc.) But a lot of people don't bother, and instead simply concatenate strings with a SLASH between them, and think that because they define the slash in some constant that makes the code correct.
Just as ~90% of programming job applicants couldn't code fizz-buzz if their life depended on it, ~90% of drivers couldn't correct an oversteer safely... when their lives actually might depend on it.
HN deletes posts to try to keeps things on topic. It's heavy handed, but there aren't a lot of ways to stop flame wars and pun threads.
It should be noted that not all C compilers are fully standard compliant. Many embedded system vendor compilers for example use incorrect operator precedence. Available library can also do things in non-standard ways.

This does not look like advice about coding for the real world, it seems to be about how to invest your time to maximise feelings of smug superiority.
I often see design contests for open source projects.

Why does no one seem to mind when there is usually an uproar against commercial contests/spec-work/crowdsourcing sites?
I made a truly marvelous proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Javascript. 1k is too small to contain it.
That eHow book looks sorta cool. Thanks!
I assume you have comprehensive personal experience of everywhere else in the USA, nay, the world, to be able to say this. I'd love to hear of your extensive travel experiences.
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Probably the same reason why no one objects to developers contributing code to OSS.
The real life US missile defense systems was pretty awesome - particularly the Sprint missile (0 to Mach 10 in 5 seconds!):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_%28missile%29

Video of a Sprint intercepting a RV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZZV464z9g8
Bhutan & WIR, alternative economies die in Switzerland
Er, how is this either news, or something that satisfies one's intellectual curiosity?
The best quote IMO is Knuth: programming is the art of telling a human what you want the computer to do.
http://www.managementenliteratuur.nl/1971/sander_tideman_%E2...
Original: http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/the-future-of-silve...

From the HD Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."
+7911... (Russia, MTS) - nothing in about 30 minutes.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any email-to-sms gateways to this carrier (quick googling finds a rumor that there aren't any working public gateways, as they're too abused by spammers), so can't help much.
The key is to make things that are so indispensable to your customers and/or users that they will speak up to defend you when you are attacked.

In that sense, the business principle of it being better to have a few customers who really love you versus many customers who are lukewarm is similar to the political reality that a well-organized but small special interest will run all over the collective good.

There is really a double benefit because part of the way incumbents defend against disrupters is to go after their weakest point. Who is going to vocally defend Craigslist's erotic services section? How many online media enterprises even have a weaker point than that? It is not a coincidence.
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Granted, but if your team doesn't have experience setting up a server, I question whether they have the required skills to run a startup's technology. A startup CTO should be able to set up a server reasonably quickly, effectively, and securely...
Yep, 100%. Have not added any AJAX goodness yet.
I have to admit that I would just make that line:

url = "http://" + ....

:-)
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I notice that the wikipedia links are fairly accurate. The foursquare ones are obviously less accurate as they allow any old guy to add a bar and there isn't obviously the same amount of fact checking going on in the foursquare arena.
"dances with"...
30 years out we'll be hearing more about India than China

I have that bet on, and in good size

Everything we know about top-down vs. bottom-up design says that China is supposed to appear to be doing better than India, until eventually it suddenly becomes clear that it is not.
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What I like the most is: "You can only connect the dots looking backwards". It is a very good perspective when things don't make much sense in the present, and also gives an insight about the Jobs-Woz relationship. Woz was definitely the hacker, and Jobs, after his two years at Reeds College (and the calligraphy stuff), sedimented his experience as a designer (the "pony-tail guy").

Looking at the role that design plays in Apple nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised at all to see Jonathan Ive filling Jobs's shoes in the future, and that would be an excellent choice IMHO.

Of course, I also wonder how the young Steve Jobs would evaluate some of the current Apple's policies...
Sometimes, if-statements unnecessarily add lines, and the lines become harder to read.

I would say it's a case-by-case statement. Well, okay, more specifically, I would say that the use of a single ternary if is a case-by-case statement.
> Because tar does not support encryption/compression on the inside of archives.

Yes it does? Just encrypt/compress all the files before tarring.

> Not indexed

The reason tar doesn't have an index is so that tarballs can be concatenated. Also IIRC, you only have to jump through the headers for all files. Still O(n) where n is the number of files, but you don't have to scan through all of the data.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=763570 - How some chap explained REST to his wife :)
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The guy sounded like a sleaze bag, so I don't trust him -- "a convicted murder" over and over. In general very highly spun, thinking we're stupid. Moses was a convicted murderer.

Russia is corrupt, but this guy is a sleaze bag and this story is worthless it's so spun, pathetically overspun. I think Jews do that, thinking there so smart they can fool everybody. It's false whitness as far as I'm concerned.

How about You, God? God's no schmuck, that's fer damn sure.

God says...
ends maidens intermit I

God says...
C:\TEXT\BIBLE.TXT

ll not be afflicted in that
same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

23:30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day,
the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

23:31 Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

23:32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict
your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto
even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
That is true. One of the reasons why I didn't add similar 'friendly' URLs to Foursquare locations.
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Can you post something a little more specific to your point, like the contents of the emails in question or the FAQ page where it backs up your point?

And thanks, I feel special.
> It tastes like a combination of steak, Guinness and soy sauce.

That's amazingly accurate except its like a thousand steaks, 1000 pints of Guinness and 1000 litres of soy sauce in a 200ml jar.

It's impossible to get over how intense the taste is. Even a wafer thin coating of it is too much on toast.
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Why more efficient lights may lead to increased energy consumption
Why would they basically recap the entire article from ThinkVitamin?

P.s.: Great article, just don't understand why parroting is better than a regular hyperlink. Some good discussion going on in the original article thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1652263
I'd go even further with the issue. These constants do not offer _any_ abstraction or readability, and precisely this is the issue.

Naturally, I like constants like POPCORN_PRICE = 12 or whatever. They add meaning to meaningless numbers.

I am on the fence for HOUR_PER_DAY and MINUTE_PER_HOUR, because they never change, but they at least add a certain security if you chain them together. bar = lengthInSeconds * SECONDS_IN_MINUTE * MINUTES_IN_HOUR * DAYS_IN_YEAR. In this case you can simply match. Seconds - Seconds, fits. Minute - Minutes, fits. Hour - days... wait, doesn't fit.

However, if you look at PROTOCOL + COLON + SLASH + SLASH versus "http://, there is just nothing added.
I apologize.

I deleted my former post, because the censorship accusations were based on an error on my side, I had been reading another comment thread related to the author of the post[1] and mixed things up.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448309
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Ask HN: When should you make a business plan?
A lot is changing around in the start up world. Whats the deal with business plans? Are those things still made? Just before boot strapping or before your first angel approach or before vc? What do you put in a business plan? Do we still go by those decades old templates vc firms used to love?

I am in India. I was talking with my first potential angel and he was quite surprised I didn't have a business plan already in place. The whole idea of sitting down and putting all kinds of arbitrary anchors in my mind around pricing, growth rate, future revenue and all that feels a bit... premature. I feel like my first beta would be a much more appropriate place to do this. In fact, it feels wrong. It feels like I am being asked to be dishonest.

I will make up something. Seeing this idea come alive is so much more important. But I was wondering how is it over there at the valley. When did you all put down your business plans? What has your experience with them been?
Wow, there really are areas where the US suck hard.
Then they are Winston Smith, not Big Brother.
Why would you think that Australia would have the same demand for basic infrastructure that Africa does, considering the relative economic positions of the vendors in each instance?
> For example, what force is required to copy a movie? The force is all on the side of lawyers and policemen arresting people to compel them to treat a very, very long number as property.

Strawman. Libertarianism does not defend the idea of IP.
Please read through that wikipedia link you posted and list all the newspapers you find. I think you'll agree it's a very short list.
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> I am on the fence for HOUR_PER_DAY and MINUTE_PER_HOUR, because they never change, but they at least add a certain security if you chain them together. bar = lengthInSeconds * SECONDS_IN_MINUTE * MINUTES_IN_HOUR * DAYS_IN_YEAR.

Ideally, especially if you're using a strongly typed language, you should just use time-unit types (or at least macros or inlinable functions) for that: `fromSeconds(lengthInSeconds).toYears()`, lengthInSeconds.seconds.to_year, `SECONDS_TO_YEARS(lengthInSeconds)`, new TimeSpan(seconds=lengthInSeconds).toYears(), etc...)