skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have my Emacs config here: http://github.com/nileshk/emacs

startup.el is the main starting point (I load that from my .emacs). Can't say it's the cleanest set of config files, but you might find something of use in it.

Some of the things I've configured:

- Detect whether Emacs is running in OS X, Linux, Windows (native), or Cygwin; and I do platform-specific configuration when necessary

- For OS X, I use fixpath.el to load my path by executing bash (I've tried various methods of doing this, and this was the most reliable)

- For Windows, I have Powershell configured

- I'm using guess-style ( http://nschum.de/src/emacs/guess-style/ ): auto-detects indentation style.

- I had a Clojure setup that was working nicely, but it's been a while since I used it and I need to update it for Clojure 1.2

- ido-mode is great. I have some specific settings for that. For example, enabling ido-enable-flex-matching makes it easier to quickly match files

- Backups go to ~/.emacs.d/backup instead of littering ~ files everywhere. The backup folder is created if necessary.

- YASnippets. I've created some snippets of my own, such as for wikipedia-mode

- I had problems using markdown-mode with YASnippets (both want to use the tab key), but was able to fix this. See my "eval-after-load 'markdown-mode" for this.

If you use YASnippet, I've taken Jeff Wheeler's Textmate-to-YASnippet conversion script and improved it here: http://github.com/nileshk/snippet-copier
That also contains a Eclipse template to YASnippet convertor script I started on which kinda works, though not perfectly.
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If I'm brokering a multi-billion pound deal with you to relieve hunger in half the third world and your wife is ringing to ask when the dogs appointment to be wormed is .. then yes.

It's not about priority. If someone stops talking to their partner to talk to their boss it's not because they love their boss more.
Awesome, I've been wanting someone to make this for years, and I even drew up some specs to make this myself. It's in principle quite similar to http://www.cookingforengineers.com/ .

But the make or break deal on this is going to be the online recipe collection / organizing application, so that you can plan meals on the website, upload the shopping list to a shopping app (or make it so that another app can download it), and have the phone app access the prepared cooking instructions. The '22 tasty recipes' on the main page makes me think that there are only 22 recipes, and that you can't add any as a user, is this correct?

Secondly, are you planning an Android version? I'd pay $10 for it, just for checking it out. If the online service works well, if it can suggest daily menus for me and automatically make shopping lists + cooking instructions and if that works well for ingredients readily available here, I'd even pay $10/month for it. Then over time it should learn my tastes by letting me rate the recipe suggestions and adjust future suggestions on that.

I have thought about using car navigation systems to run something like this. You'd put one on the fridge or kitchen wall with the suction cup that they usually come with, and the software would run on that device. They're usually more rugged than phones. I know someone has a Linux version that runs om TomTom, I don't know if anyone made an Android for TomTom yet...
I think it looks fantastic but I'm not sure it's not a bit style over substance.

What you really need is the critical path mapped out rather than multiple tasks in parallel. People generally cook doing one thing at a time - prep this, chop this, add to pan, now chop this so on and so forth.

For a nervous cook I can see this being slightly confusing, or at least a non-optimal presentation of the information. For an experienced cook it's just noise.

I think you're onto something laying things out visually, I'm just not sure that this is the way it will work best.
Many of the security attacks on Apache (and other browesers) were based on invalid requests.

The original Mongrel was known for its powerful request handler that didn't let many of the same security attacks through. In fact, in the Ruby world, many other non-mongrel web servers used the mongrel handler for that very reason.
There's no way I'm 100% focussed on anything in the morning.
Site seems to be down; here's a google cache for now

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I remember running into this issue with their minifier at some point as well.
>I just hang up on my gf who is, literally, in the other side of the world (i'm in seoul, she is in costa rica) and were discussing the same stuff.

Hope you finished the conversation first. ;0)
Hah. I don't know ...

I mean, they Strunk & White don't know what the passive voice is. I wouldn't use them as a grammar guide. But they're both solid writers and their tips are--most of the time--quite wise. Of course, you run the risk of sounding like New Yorker fiction...
Above, a variation on "we don't know how X happened, so it must have been 'insert diety here'" - nice ad hominem at the end too.
Microsoft has all the pieces to do a really great consumer ecosystem. But they've been fumbling for so long, there's just no good reason to believe a product developed within the bureaucracy can pull it together.

The XBox succeeded largely because it was outside the bureaucracy during its formative stages. And since then, absolutely nothing from inside the bureaucracy has integrated well with it.

. Media integration into the 360 was not good.

. Media Center integration wasn't any better.

. 360/Zune integration was never really attempted.

. Live for Windows/XBox Live integration was not good.

. Live Marketplace/Zune Marketplace integration is more awkward than Live/Netflix.

etc.
A feature to add/edit your own recipes in the software would make this killer. Most recipes I cook come from books, so this app has limited use to me without the ability to bring the things I like to make into it.

Also, I had to borrow someone's iPhone to check this out. Having a demo video on the site might help to get an idea of how it works for those that don't have access to an iPhone.
This will happen to any similar foods. I have done this experiment many, many times with meat & potatoes dishes accidentally left in the pan on the stove for a period of months. (You all are fortunate you don't have to live in my kitchen, we'll put it that way.)

By day two or three, what little water remained after cooking evaporates, and they visibly shrivel a bit. Six months later, they'll look essentially identical to day three.

Is it because of preservatives, artificiality, etc? No. I cut and peel potatoes, take the meat out of the meat box, and fry them (and onions) in a lightly oiled pan. No secret sauce required.

If you allow them to get and remain wet, you get a real science project on your hands.
I had it explained to me that "MediaWiki's purpose is to power Wikipedia. Your personal wiki is a side effect."
I don't consider particle-antip pairs, like in Hawking radiation to be ex nihilo

That's an odd thing to say. What do you think creates them? And more to the point what evidence do you have for this.
<applause> Well done. The real test would be to try to cook something, but just on design and concept alone, I think it's great.
Excellent, thank you! Your original reply was a good insight too. I'm a pretty analytical guy, so they idea of mindset and soft skills coming into play has always been a bit of a blindspot.

Always assumed you could always build X to solve Y, etc etc.
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"Competitor Reddit.com started much later than Digg, and never really had a chance to catch up — until now"

That's not really true. Reddit started less than six months later.
What we all too often forget is that co-working can be extended far beyond the tech startup space.
High-speed photography of a bullet hitting a drop of water
Priority inbox, at a gmail account near you
Bruce Sterling talk at reboot about the future [video]
> The Pennsylvania researchers tracked 1,741 middle aged volunteers who completed a questionnaire on their sleep history, underwent a physical exam and were monitored overnight in a sleep laboratory. The death rate exceeded 50 percent for men with chronic insomnia, compared with 9.1 percent of those who slept well, after researchers adjusted for differences such as weight and smoking habits.

Huh? 9% of the normal men died, and half of those with insomnia? How long did they follow them for?
Use your pinky to interact with the phone. (Seriously, I keep my iPhone in the kitchen when cooking and my pinky generally doesn't get greasy.)
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I'm a big fan of coworking spaces. As a single founder, it's difficult to bounce ideas off people if there's nobody physically in the same room (or square mile) as you. I try to visit the offices of a company ran by a couple friends from college once a month.

After a few days of sharing ideas, helping out on each other's problems, and talking about the future of our respective ventures I head back to my home office with renewed energy and focus.

Of course, YMMV.
The subject has already much discussed on HN. I don't see how making the association with the bubble sheds new light to the App phenomena. I doubt the comparison even applies, or if it applies you could put the label "bubble" to anything trendy (and many that is what is going on... the bubble of using the word "bubble"). Apps can only be traded one way, you can't sell them back to someone else.

At least the target market for the iPhone apps is growing and a stepping stone to the iPad or any other device to come that will adopt IOS.

The author doesn't use many apps on your phone. I can bet he is not using many apps on his PC either. There are tons of things people buy or offer that remain never used.
Speculative bubbles have been happening fairly frequently for centuries:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania
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You skipped over the biggest one for most young people with a good job. Get a roommate!

I got a roommate which saves me 600$ a month and I should be out of high interest debt within 9 months. (Still going to owe 6k @ 4.9% and 9k @ 2.9% but there is little point in paying those off early.)

Edit: Also if you keep one high balance CC you can reduce the amount of savings you need to keep liquid in case of emergency. AKA 2k in your checking account is a great idea, unless your also paying 12% interest on credit card debt.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this app doesn't target experienced cooks. I classify myself as one of those and would agree, a lot of this is (beautiful) noise. Some recipes won't translate well either.

But for people who are not at all adventurous in the kitchen, I think this is a great way to get them into cooking more than just hamburgers and frozen pizza.

Consider a recipe like chicken cacciatore. It's easy to make, but involves several parts. Experienced cooks recognize the patterns; prepare sauce while you get the chicken started, then braise. But look at the recipes out there and it's a mess. A flow diagram is a great way to getting someone to say "this is something I can do".
The thing that makes Sharepoint completely unusable for me is that all the links are of the javascript() variety, so quickly opening pages in tabs is functionally impossible.

It would be nice if browsers could handle middle clicks a little more gracefully in this situation.
"Stephen Hawking warns over making contact with aliens"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8642558.stm

(Also from his new book)
I was hoping I could run this realtime in vim, but it appears too slow on a 1000 line JS file.
I think he meant that the concept is simple to grasp.
Ask HN: When did a news story first appear online?
Hey everyone,

We have a news related startup using a unique algorithm and right now we are trying to back test it against competing news organizations.

Yesterday, you all may have heard, there was a hostage situation at the Discovery Channel building. Our software picked up the story at 1:07pm EST. News reports say that the gunman entered the building at 1pm EST.

My question is: First, does anyone know if 1pm is accurate? I find it hard to believe he entered the building at exactly 1pm, but thats what all of the sources say.

Second: How can I find out when news organizations first reported the story after the fact? We are working on automating this using the NYT API, but thats not working now, and I'd like to find out how competitive our app is sooner rather than later.

It looks like we beat @BreakingNews though, this was their first tweet on the story: "Discovery Channel building near Washington evacuated after reports of gunfire, man with explosives"

Thanks!
and you're not worried by CBS-owned last.fm or spotify? they seem very similar. what's the difference? i couldn't find anything on the page that convinced me to switch or use in addition to these.

p.s., those side-sticking things are really annoying.
Thanks for the suggestions!

We haven't though much about how to evolve this thing further, gotta think it through before i start implementing things.
I'm hopeless at manipulation, but I know people who are really good at it. And like any skill one develops, one has a certain admiration for people who are good at it.

Example: a friend was with his 10-year-old sister in a supermarket. He's in college. She wants junk food. He says, "No, we're having dinner soon." She starts screaming and pretending he's her father and doesn't ever give her or her mother any money. Everyone looks at him. He's like, OK, here's your junk food.

And it was a good decision to manipulate him like this, because he ended up loving her more for it.
I second the Android request. It seems this is an app that would fit my way of thinking well and would ease some pain in cooking.

I'd love to have it and would gladly pay for it and a dynamic recipe collection.
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> I find most people dislike or hate one while justifying more or less the other when they are both basically the same.

Fair enough, I'm not here to argue the merits of one murderous dictator over another. The point is that Wikipedia has 36 sections on Castro with only 3 slightly negative, and 24 on Pinochet and 10 of them are very negative. You'd agree there's a bias there, yes?
Reddit saw an uptick of about 30 percent in “self-serve” ad sales this week

Their graph shows an uptick, but only for the first part of the week - http://www.reddit.com/promoted/graph
Ping feels like an exploratory project for Apple. Given the current status of Ping and it's design this looks more like an add-on to designed to work with Facebook and less of a standalone social network.

Apple doesn't seem comfortable letting iTunes users speak directly to each other. I get the idea that they are uncomfortable allowing anything that would require moderation happen in their walled garden. And the anarchic and freewheeling nature of a vibrant social network seems somewhat counter to Apple's culture.

The part that got my attention during the keynote was that it's supposed to cover concerts as well as recorded music and media; that's a very interesting model to build a social networking application around. It's early days yet, and if Apple can recruit enough artists that can use the channel to engage their audience, and loosens up and lets people talk to each other without requiring that every single gesture they make on Ping be tied to their actions in iTunes (i.e. let regular people post comments unadorned, or even their own music and videos) it may yet become a game changer.
Ask HN: Is USA that bad when it comes to health insurance, etc?
In Sweden we annoyingly socialist and have completely ridiculous taxes.
Any discussions on this subject with swedes usually results in the other person saying something like "What do you want, a society like the USA where people can't afford healthcare and you have homeless people everywhere?"
Now, how accurate is that? Is it actually a problem to pay for premium insurance and save up to your childrens college degree, etc?
I've been an AudioScrobbler user since it's inception. I stopped seriously scrobbling shortly after they (LastFM) got acquired by CBS and things went downhill for people trying to share their music for free, to users who weren't paid subscribers. I've been using SoundCloud to disseminate my music since, but I'm on the lookout for something that bridges the gaps between data mining, free distribution and social aspects of such services.

Give listeners and artists an import tool for LastFM/SoundCloud/iLike/Spotify/etc., learn from SoundCloud about player usability, and you might attract lots of users who got disenchanted with your direct competitors and predecessors.

Good luck & keep up the good work. Judging by the scripting.com review, Ping is just another top-down sales-driver. We still need somebody to do it the right way.
I was wondering about the consequences of introducing some kind of a supervisor system on HN. So practically every new/low-karma HN-member will be assigned to a high-karma HN-member. Every submission and/or voting needs then to be approved by a supervisor.
This would imply more work for high-karma members but I am sure they would love to contribute to the quality here on HN.
Yeah, you can't add more recipes as a user. At the current state it's just a minimum viable product, but I guess we will be developing the app furiously further.

Android version will be coming, but one of the difficulties is that I won't be able to sell android applications from Finland.
Are you talking about the screen ratio being standard 16:9/10 widescreen rather than following the Apple iPad 4:3 setup like on old non-widescreen TVs?

I'm guessing most of them are just re-using existing netbook screens, just as the original netbooks re-used portable DVD screens.

Being close to the same ratio as most videos and android phones probably makes it a sensible choice. On the other hand you'd hope Apple had more than just aesthetics in mind when it chose the iPad screen ratio.
Well, the idea would be that the casual viewer couldn't distinguish the 'new' from the front page and so would treat them the same.

Otherwise people will ignore new as they do now.

(Point score could be left off of the front page to help this).
What does "1/10 of 1%" actually mean? How is it different from 0.1%?
Actually, I think this article made me realize that in any situation it is important to ask "what are the rules?". It's not like there is a sign posted above the door saying "do not tip for better seating". Who says it's wrong to tip for priority seating?
That's tunable again tho.

Not all front pages need some new mixed in - you can adjust both the amount of new and the proportion of 'contaminated' front pages.
Very simple facts/methods about weight loss
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>And you're talking to a power user of that site, who just told you he doesn't ever downvote things.

As an aside, what makes you a "power user"?
Not the most disappointing discovery.
Judging from the specs, this might also make a better ebook reader than the iPad: smaller and much lighter (easier to hold) with a higher PPI screen (smoother fonts, easier on the eyes).

Someone should install the Kindle app on it and give us their impressions.
I like how it actually allows you to see @username replies in context.
Where to study abroad?
I have plans to study my 3rd or 4th year abroad and want to experience an interesting and different culture but also have use for it in my career.

I guess the obvious choice would be China, learn the culture and perhaps at least to speak the language(writing takes forever I suppose).

What other interesting places? Brazil is a growing economy with a nice culture and have some good universities.

What else? Anyone been in China, especially Shanghai?
Ok,

I don't know how much your budget is but I would do this...

Use a Zebra wireless printer
http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/index/products/printers/...

Combine it with a smart phone or an enterprise PDA (eg Motorola Enterprise Mobility - you can drop them, run over them, throw them and nothing will break).

I work in delivering software solutions to factories etc and Motorola (was previously Symbol before they got bought out) is the defactor standard for wireless handheld devices. They are built to last but if you need many, may not be so cost effective.

I guess a simple app on a smartphone may be able to do it.
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I've been using a co-working space in Toronto called Camaraderie (http://camaraderie.ca/) - Just as you mentioned, the variety of people coming in is of a wide range. We have some tech startups renting desks/rooms, but also a woman who runs a Beer marketing company, life coaches, event organizers, and more.

Although I love talking code/tech, it's interesting to see the variety coming through.
Interesting. My experience is that private offices are great for programming, and project-specific bullpens without people yammering on the telephone are OK, too.

What's it like to code in one of these coworking spaces? Can you concentrate for extended periods? Obviously, being surrounded by lots of other startups is psychologically useful. But what are the tradeoffs?
Scripting.com: It's even worse than it appeared

(running on windows, one might add)
It must have a massively robust landing gear design.
all time best stories please.
I pop into Camaraderie frequently. I'm organizing Freelance camp with Rachel / Wayne.
Serious Questions for Super Angels
Ask: How does lolcats website work and if I can get a clone (code) for free?
I want to start a lolcats kind of a website (I know Meh!). I have a domain sitting around that I want to use for some website hits and sell it off if it kicks off.

Is this a lame/ancient model?

I want to know how does lolcats work? I know it uses Wordpress as its engine but who creates the content? Are those submissions done by users?

What is behind images like this: <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fb1d6537-8bd6-42c7-ab85-0dbae400f146.jpg">lolcats picture</a>

with all the borders and witty (and not-so-witty) slogans?

If there are some other engines apart from wordpress, I would like to know about those as well.

thanks a lot.
Insane use of tons of reusable parts. I was hoping he would go more into if he went comet or websocketd and the kind of latency people were seeing when hundreds of users were connected to node.js
And has more traffic than Digg already...
Running a site on Windows is embarrassing enough, worse when your pants fall down like this.
Custom key bindings

;; Makes editing without Paredit more convenient...
;; But if you're on linux, first prevent it from logging you out!
(global-set-key [C-M-delete] 'backward-kill-sexp)
(global-set-key [C-M-backspace] 'backward-kill-sexp)

;; Command key meta forever.
(labels ((normal-mac-mods (&rest _) (setq ns-alternate-modifier 'none
ns-command-modifier 'meta)))
(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions #'normal-mac-mods)
(normal-mac-mods))

Aesthetics

(setq-default ...

;; Make the default buffer a little shinier... also, put
;; (message "Ready")
;; at the end of the file

initial-major-mode 'text-mode
initial-scratch-message (concat " ···"
"--—===== Welcome to Emacs"
" =====—--···\n===---···"
" "
"···---================---···"
" ···---===\n\n")
I am going to get this just for zune integration .