skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dup from 10 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803467

It took a long time to download on my machine for some reason, so I took the opportunity when it arrived to do some information extraction an analysis.

114736 Octets in the html
4803 Octets in an equivalent text item

That doesn't include image downloads, or any other magical transclusions.
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http://www.caniafforditnow.com

The App

Can I Afford It? is an affordability calculator based on your financial data that you provide. The data is stored completely anonymously.
Use it before you make any major purchases as a second opinion.

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This is our first application getting released -
We have a couple of other apps under development for a year
that we still think are not "good enough" but
we have been drinking the HN Koolaid for a while now
that we believe this app has hit the MVP status and that it should get some users.

We would like your much esteemed opinion on the utility of the app,its execution and of course, any other ideas you may have.

We have been looking forward to this day.
Thank you HN.

P.S.
The core of it was completed during the Rails Rumble competition (in 48 hrs) and
since then, we have cleaned up some things with no features added.
On the backend Zepto can get away with not having to standardize different browser implementations of and bugs with things like events, DOM manipulation and selectors since its only targeting a small subset of modern platforms. It probably also gets rid of a few utilities.

Whats left are what (at least I use) about 90% of the time: querying, manipulation and ajax.
One client was charging-off sizeable bad debts on their accounts receivable, but the program did not recognize that some of the receivable balance was for the sales tax.

With a five-line change, $250k/yr was saved (you don't have to remit sales taxes for money you never received).
Yep. I quit. (and launched a start-up)
Not one bit.

It was a situation where the common good outweighed the benefits of respecting copyright law handily, besides that the only thing that changed is the machine where the content was hosted.

I do not pass it off as my own, have a very clearly established procedure for removing the data at the request of the copyright holder.

Think of it as a hosting provider going out of business and a new one taking over the corpse of the old one. That it happened without contacting the owners is simply because the vast majority of the owners does not have contact information to begin with.

See the reocities faq for some more info on this:

http://www.reocities.com/newhome/faq.html
Apple joins Google in counterattack against Paul Allen lawsuit
We had our first child when I was 26. It's a young person's game. Lots of late nights, lots of tiring days. I'm pretty certain that I will still work the same 60-70 hours a week when I am 40 or 50, on some startup or another. The idea that you can "get the work out" young and then wait to have kids is a fallacy (at least for me). I'd rather burn the candle on all ends when I'm still young enough to handle it.

So far so good.

EDIT / PS: Moving to Boston to be near family has been a lifesaver for us. Despite all the negatives (from a startup standpoint) of being here, there's actually very little chance I could work as hard if we didn't have the support.
Such phrasing is not all that uncommon. But I agree the following few paragraphs could do a better job explaining what the word means.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgi6E1ECgo
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
> "If everyone was required to pay taxes like they pay their utilities, attitudes would probably change."

I wonder how people would react to a $500/year Antiterrorism bill.

[Ballpark for 08-10? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_cost_of_the_Iraq_War#...)
Technology is a great lever to circumvent government regulation. Technology brought us the foreclosure crisis++, but it also brought us Wikileaks. I think technologically-minded people will continue to circumvent the government using their tools, but I don't think we can be herded into a party :)

(++) Those credit-default swaps, etc need lots of technology to manage the accounting.
Is video effective at increasing the sales conversion rate?
I'm trying to figure out ways to increase sales conversions. I'd like some empirical evidence, even if it's just anecdotal, that this works. Ideally somebody has A/B tested this.
Headway 2.0
New version of headway (the wordpress theme with the visual editor). I was under impressed with 1.5 but im back excited with this release... thoughts?
I find it difficult to avoid a bit of embarrassment... yes, I did learn from it... The goal isn't to learn, failure is failure.

I try to find comfort in the things that went right and aim to not let it happen again, but it is nonetheless embarrassing.
your pocket calculator uses solar technology that was invented 40-50 years ago, and my point is the technology hasn't advanced a lot since then.
Ruby development tools for Emacs and Vim
Embedly (YC W10) releases new version of their API
Are you sure about smiling? Read myth #1 at http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile...

Of course one will have more success if women come to them, but I think it only works if you have the natural looks to pull it off. Some people, even when they're not ugly, don't have the looks required to entice women to message them no matter how they dress, pose, or how much they go to the gym.
Thats very interesting, many many years ago I almost built a startup on your very post - but changed my mind at the last minute. Basically workstation software that reported back to a central server its idleness in increments of X minutes, giving large orgs an overall picture of their idle machine drain.
The Effectiveness Of Email Marketing Campaigns - hypebot
It's third now and keep in mind that PHP is 3 times as old as the iPhone so you're dealing with momentum issues also. Most sites more than 5 years old are PHP and the switching costs are too high to leave the language.
I use an in-house language and Lua at work, mostly Lua and C for my personal projects, and, after getting really into Erlang earlier this year, I've been learning the Erlang platform (OTP, etc).

I've dabbled in a lot of languages, but those seem to be the ones I've settled on lately.
You did your time. Get the hell out and start something new.
I agree with your sentiment that you should consider the motivations of the author (in any writing really), but it seems like they've done a pretty fair job of analyzing the data.

I think the 12.4x marriage rate is slightly misleading, because if you don't use a dating site then presumably you don't have as much trouble meeting potential partners, and thus are more likely to get married anyway.

But they did round several figures to benefit the match.com, and the statistic is impressive regardless.
I can refute pure libertarianism in one word: externalities.

The fact that our particular government is systemically broken does not mean the concept of government is inherently flawed.
I don't think I'd go that far. I think it's trying to differentiate itself from the Kindle, but they're still selling the E-Ink ones. The E-Ink screen is a big selling point for me with an e-reader ... if I wanted a tablet I'd buy an iPad. So I'm not sure where this fits in the market.
Here is a link to the HN feed in the terminal that I was remembering:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/follow-hacker-news-from-the-con...
If by

> put out on the first date [...] Make sure you can easily get a prescription for antibiotics.

you mean "don't bother practising safe sex", then are you nuts or am I missing something? Some STIs are for life and antibiotics aren't gonna cut it.
Offer HN: Web mining/crawling/scraping help
I have experience fetching data from the web, both via scraping and via APIs. If you could use a certain dataset to build or improve your application, I will help you get it.

I will either collect the data you need and send it to you or I will give you the code to collect the data yourself. I will consider helping you with existing code.

I will not:

* help you spam.

* help you get unauthorized access to data.

* write a generic, multi-purpose crawler for you.

Breaking a TOS will be considered on a case by case basis.

You can mention your preferred language, in case I have to give you the code to do the job. You should also mention your preferred format for receiving data. I will most likely use cURL. If there are a lot of responses, I will prioritise interesting/useful/easy requests.

You can find my contact information in my profile.
I'm pretty sure your second definition is an upper bound (big-O) and the first definition is a lower bound (big-Omega).

EDIT: adding a link to the wikipedia article defining Big-O and Big-Omega: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation
http://www.playframework.org/ supports Scala too.
Building an HTML5 Drag & Drop File Uploader Using Sinatra and jQuery: Part 1
> "The problem with Universal Healthcare is you're taking a limited resource (doctors, medicines, equipment, etc...) and trying to treat it like an unlimited resource"

No, that is a lie. What Universal Healthcare is about is about a better distribution mechanism.

The market is a mechanism for efficiently distributing a limited resource based on people's ability to pay.

Universal healthcare aims to distribute a limited resource based on need not ability to pay. Proponents like this because it is fairer and doesn't leave people suffering. Capiche?
I don't mean to be overly critical of the guy who posted the poll, these come up periodically and almost always have those issues.

IMHO, tracking the overlapping between them would be an interesting data point - Python and C, Python and Javascript, Ruby and Javascript, etc. At that point you've got a cartesian product of everything to track (in this format), though. It would probably be best to do the polling completely differently.

Also: "which language + which niche" would be good. This seems to be skewed toward web programming.
I also had him in 2007 for Automata Theory
There are a massive number number of features left out - not to mention critical functionality.

Just taking a quick peek, for example if we look at .show()/.hide():
http://github.com/madrobby/zepto/blob/master/src/zepto.js#L5...
http://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/effects.js#L...

There is a major case where Zepto's technique just straight-out breaks: If you are showing or hiding anything that isn't a block element. This includes inline elements, table rows, or inline-block elements.

There doesn't appear to actually be anyway to unbind an event once you've attached it. Nor any way to detach all handlers of a specific type.

There is not a single bug fix for querySelectorAll - this includes the fact that querying from rooted nodes is completely broken for most cases.

I can keep going but yeah - there's a world of difference between Zepto and jQuery.

If you're only targeting bleeding-edge WebKit mobile browsers then yeah, Zepto might be fine. However in the jQuery project we take a far more pragmatic view of web development: There are more browsers than just WebKit and the market is much more complex. You can read more about it here:
http://jquerymobile.com/strategy/
This is a good starting point: http://bit.ly/WdezH
Thanks. That sounds more reasonable than your original comment.
I had a small stint with online dating, even met and had a relationship through one. But it didnt work out long term and I never went back to the site afterwards (was using plentyoffish at the time).

A friend of mine actually charges people money to write their dating site profiles. He boasts a seriously good turnover for relationships (for the record he didnt write my profile :) Its all truth, but some people have no idea what to write on those things.
I found the argument underwhelming. I'll give just one example in response, private prisons. The profit motive, when applied to certain activities, gives the opposite of a good result. There are two recent and famous examples of this in the private prison industry. One was a judge who got kick backs for sending kids to a private prison. The other is the arizona immigration bill which was written by the private prison lobby.

I'd much rather path taxes for a public prison system that doesn't have a large financial interest in locking up as many people as possible.
Was Derek Sivers Wrong?  Are Public Commitments Counterproductive?
I'm married to a girl who was friends with a girl I met through OkCupid. Does that count as "Married to someone met through OkCupid?"
protip: look at some guy profiles. it'll immediately teach you how to stand out from the pack.
Angels vs. Venture Capitalists (March 2010)
Not to mention, I don't think he even read the article. He didn't say they were unimportant, he said they were inefficient and over-reaching.
See this is based on the assumption that "you did it for the project" or "to learn and grow", but failure (for me) is based on goals and one's inability to meet them. If your goal was to "create a project", you have succeeded even in the face of "failure", unless you never created your project. Most of us, however, have goals: get 100 users, design a great user experience, play 45 shows in a band, get a record deal, get famous.

I don't think you can repurpose your project as a learning experiment... even if you learned, what was the goal?
Thanks, I read that but it sounds like a hassle, I guess I'll have to bite the bullet. Thanks!
I don't think he was arguing for a government that's profit-driven.
Also, the management of email subscriptions on top of RSS has been extremely valuable to me.
But what is your point of saying "most" important then?

To most parent's their children is the most important so I don't think you need to spell that out, we know.

Therefore I can only assume that you meant something different. If not then fine, then I just don't understand the purpose of your post.
PS. I'm always embarrassed by the code I wrote ages ago as well... seriously, what I was I thinking?
Right, that's my point. He was motivated by a dream of bring dead baseball players back to play baseball in a cornfield. An actual dream. It's about as tenuous a motivation as a movie could actually have.
If it's so obvious, can you at least link to some backup data?
This and every other small gov / gov inefficiency screed I've read glosses over the point that most of all those billions the government "wasted" is paid to private (as in non-government) companies. Big portion of the rest is salaries. [The gov definitely employs too many people, but what ya gonna do? With our capitalist economy demanding abundance of consumers to support corporate bloat even if there's not enough work for them]

The problem isn't government. The problem is corporatism & greed scamming/lobbying/abusing/leeching off of government.

Inefficiency is a matter of scale. The private sector is not magically immune. Have you ever seen the money that big enterprise wastes? One or two guys in their garage can launch an iPhone app on a shoestring. It takes large corporation tens of thousands of dollars, months, and a dozen people. [spoken from direct experience].
Dot Net is not a language.
man, I really had no idea how unpopular that comment was going to be! Last time I mention that show ever again.
I (really) don't care about failing at all. I throwed ~10 sites to the bin and kept 2 (http://www.learnivore.com/ and http://www.toutpourmonipad.com/).

The one thing I notice is that the more I do these, the more I get ambitious and confident :)

I focus mainly on learning (how to launch/promote).
i didn't mean to imply that if I did. He was arguing for the private sector to do most things the government does. I don't want a private prison industrial complex. I think it's outcomes are worse than mere inefficiency.
I don't know but I will tell you that if I had children almost all the decision I made would have been different and my life would have taken a different turn.Make what you want out of this
If people like this(the protesters) truly believed that God would punish people with eternal damnation, then they could just go about their lives - but they know that they are full of shit and so they lash out.
Practically married with someone met online (mIRC)
We use PHP at work with a few Ruby scripts, and I'm using Ruby & Node.js for my personal project
I can't take this man seriously. He's the frog in the boiling pot of water who is just now saying "Hey, wait a minute! This water's boiling!"

Sorry, sir, but if you've been paying "millions" into a system and have to this point not been engaged in what the fruits of your labors are spent on then I have real trouble synthesizing your argument.
The point of difference here though is that

(1) laws have been set aside many times when the net benefit for the common good outweighed the rights of the individual

(you can still disagree that that is a good thing though)

(2) such exemptions apply to libraries and other 'violators' that serve a different goal than piracy (for instance, preservation and access)

(3) in this case those that benefit the most are the original copyright holders

(4) there is a procedure in place to deal with those copyright holders that do not want their information out there

For the record, a fairly knowledgeable lawyer on copyright law in the netherlands here has reviewed the whole thing and think there is absolutely no problem defending my actions (just in case there would have been, I would have done whatever his advice would have been).

It's been up for a year, the one time someone threatened to sue (of course, some hotshot lawyer with a corporate page on geocities :) ), he backed off and became real nice once he realized that no judge was ever going to sign off on him suing for damages and whatnot without first asking politely to remove the stuff.

Laws are there to be respected. In exceptional cases - such as the going out of business of a repository of this size - you can break them if you go about it nicely and try to limit the damage as much as you can.

There are other people out there that have also made copies of all this data that have turned the whole thing in to an adsense fest complete with SEO spam tactics. That might be a better target for your anger.

Lastly, how much would you give for a copy of the library of Alexandria ?

I'm sure that geocities can not on average be compared with the quality of what was stored there but you'd be surprised by some of the stuff that I've found amongst the wreckage and we'd all be culturally poorer if it had gone to waste.
I certainly hope so. And it makes sense that they'd focus more on Europe this time, which hasn't been as infected with phone subsidies and lockins as the US has.
Ugh. Please, please, please could we leave the politics to another site?
China claims supercomputer crown
I don't think I'm ugly but not particularly attractive, either. However, your post is interesting because I apparently do look very similar to a certain B-list celebrity. That is what most women open with. "Has anyone ever told you that you look exactly like X..."
The environment is taken care of when it's privately owned. People take care of their own properties. Safety regulations and working conditions are improved via the free market and productivity increases and, to a much lesser extent, by the tort system which punishes unreasonable behavior.
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I guess the problem is this: from an engineer's point of view if one were to design an efficient (but as John says, not ruthlessly efficient) system that tends to the needs of society from scratch and design into that system a means for funding it would we end up with a system that looks like todays modern democracies, ignoring which side of the Atlantic we're talking about for the moment.

I think this simple maxim says a lot; all things being equal a smaller government is better than a larger one. This is a perplexing thing for me because as far as I can tell the parties that talk like this are on the right of the spectrum and I've viewed myself as left-leaning but I'm beginning to think that each new label is just another excuse to see somebody as an Other and causes conflict.

John wonders who to vote for. Even with my limited acquaintance with US politics it seems like Ron Paul is thumping the tubs that John is, maybe he should look towards the radical libertarian corner? I dunno, I don't either of the guys personally. :)

The vast entirety of geopolitical arc of history has given us the systems we live under today. John talks about inertia, it's like trying to even find the right lever in the dark in a storm to try and turn the biggest supertanker a fraction of a radian.

I know that a lot people on HackerNews think that governments take our money from us buy force if necessary but I ask you, how on earth do you get people to put aside their innate greed and and honestly and proportionately bear their burden? You could say that royalty and aristocracy created the mess that we're grappling with now but none of the issues John raises have any simple fixes.

If I were to go out on a limb and be a hippy idealist for a moment: I'd say strangling the war on drugs or at least radically altering it and demilitarizing the planet would be the first obvious branches of government to target for judicious pruning.

Not exactly HackerNews fodder but one feels a certain tension in the air these days that needs to be vented.
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Slashdot Developers Story | Oracle Claims Google 'Directly Copied' Our Java Code
jQuery is build to support IE end every other browser so contains double code. One for IE and other for every other browser.
The problem is that non-Microsoft products can't watch this. So if Microsoft is interested in attracting Linux devs to see how cool their stuff is, they should show the video in a format that isn't restricted to their own platform.
the point was that describing women in the manner of the last 3 sentences signals such a world view. Also, there's nothing wrong with casual sex, it's pretty awesome...

so like, you had these bad experiences after just letting the stereotypically passive sex chase you, maybe use a bit more selection and go after the really interesting ones and you'll have better experience

I mean if you put yourself in list for casual sex then yeah, you need to be super careful about the people that contact you because typically attractive sexually liberated females get enough attention they don't have to pursue males
I hate to be this negative, but the parenting threads on Hacker News have been almost uniformly useless to me. The one comment that stood out was: "Most of the advice you hear will work for everyone else's kids, but not yours".

Only you are the expert on your life. Reading other peoples' anecdotes is fun, but at the end of the day not often very helpful.

The one piece of advice I would give is to read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/When-Partners-Become-Parents-Couples/d...

It's an account of a study that looked at enough couples for actual trends to emerge. My wife and I found it incredibly useful.