skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how that solves the op's problem. The point is democracies and crowds often make bad decisions based on popularity, status, pride, anger, ignorance, whats good for the majority (at the expense of a minority), etc.

Heh, not that I have a solution. I'm just saying the OP has a valid point and crowd rule isn't necessarily going to lead to the best solution.
I developed PadPressed without having an iPad
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It's never been clear to me why people use the AppEngine for anything other than learning and playing around.

Why not just get a $40/mo. VPS?
One other thing - call this a feature request.

The problem I've been having with colouring my site has less to do with finding a colour, and more to do with finding a complimentary colour. Perhaps somewhere down the line you could include the ability to create a small pocket in the middle of the screen, so that you could:

a) lock the surrounding colour, and change only the colour of the pocket as you scroll around. This helps for creating things like navigation items, where you have a background in mind, and need to create something which stands out without clashing. You could even include the ability to set the background to an uploaded picture, since some sites don't have solid-colour backgrounds.

b) lock the pocket, keep the rest of the site as-is. It could help with things like setting the background for a preselected image. Likewise, you could allow the pocket itself to contain said image.

/2c
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Flip it around then. I submit that just as the American invaders cannot reasonably be compared to the Nazis, neither can the insurgents.

It's hard to say either side in this conflict has the moral high ground, so it's equally hard to say that a move to the detriment of one side or the other is amoral (unless it's clear that a move is to the detriment of both sides.)
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What is so sad about people engaging in a conversation? I would rather individuals give their own unfettered opinion and communicate to each other their agreement and disagreement than some hand holding by some benevolent start up who is going to direct us onto the way we should think or even direct our conversation.

People are complex and so is their communication with each other. You can not just follow a script as that limits communication based on whatever some benevolent start up finds correct. While currently, in the mids of chaos and confusion, understanding is reached, for people are communicating and if nothing else leaning how things are viewed from other people.
I find the new thin apple keyboards to be horrid, and it's not often I see people praise them (they're universally disdained on keyboard snob forums, even among dedicated Mac users). Have you tried any boards with Topre or Cherry browns/blues switches?
cool idea but the design looks really spammy.
I think this is a good point. However, its not clear to me that this would have deterred anyone. Consider Darfur.
you need to include an alternative to scrolling (perhaps +/- ?)

How about up/down arrows?
If people would just stop talking about Ruby 1.8, it wold allow for more meaningful discussion. 1.9 is a lot faster and has better support for concurrency.
This argument is circular, at least with respect to the Ph.Ds. The primary field of employment for those with Ph.Ds is higher education. The deal is they are paid by universities to teach students and do research. When there is less funding for the university and less students to teach, there is also less funding for research. And less money to hire Professors.

The fact that so many with Ph.Ds are underemployed is symptomatic of a lack of funding for these institutions. Using that data to claim that it reveals that these institutions are over funded reveals a lack of understanding of the field in question.

Furthermore, the rest of the posted argument takes the data out of context. The context is one of the worst economic downturns of the last hundred years. With the highest unemployment and underemployment rates we've seen in a long time.

Of course there are tons of people with college degrees working shit jobs. We knew that already.

Finally, those who the author calls "higher education apologists" want higher education to be a general thing not simply because it leads to more productive citizens, but rather because of the value society as a whole receives when the standard of education is higher. Especially with respect to our citizen's duties toward our Democratic society.

"In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance." --Thomas Jefferson
I don't have anything running on App Engine, in large part because Google is not a service provider I can trust. There's a really tough dichotomy between selling their magic scaling beans and the fact that anyone who needs said scaling beans also needs real support—something which is simply not in Google's DNA.
When I used App Engine I tried the Django port (0.96 at the time) but I quickly figured out it would be much trouble for very little gain. I actually liked the class design with post/get methods of the default framework, sometime the C style one function per url request of Django gets messy.

The thing about scaling from day one to me is a joke. Get users first and then figure out about scaling (unless you're google or amazon ?).
Thanks :) I'm working on the second beta version and am almost ready to take it live.
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Paul Graham recently mentioned that one of the characteristics Y Combinator looks for is "naughtiness" -- an intolerance for bureaucratic rules, a history of beating the system. Go read about it here: (http://paulgraham.com/founders.html)

So what are your stories?
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These all seem awfully "artsy". Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm just used to.. slightly more minimalist about pages.
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In order to determine the morality of the hypothetical shooting, you must establish who morally deserves sovereignty over Iraq and Afghanistan. (An inherently political question.) If America deserves sovereignty, you're right, it's like releasing documents from the WPP. If the insurgents have sovereignty however, it's akin to releasing documents detailing a drug smuggling ring.

So in short, you ask us to take politics out of the equation, and quietly assume your own politics as a given value.
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Is it just me, is the music in the video demo for PadPressed the worst choice of music for any demo video ever produced?!

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I'd hate it if my brain had slowed down to the point of being blocked by my fingers..
I heard at a seminar once that PHP is easy to write horrible code and get away with it. I think that's true.

Having said that, I think you're more likely to see bad code coming from really, really bad programmers who started out with PHP 4. This, and the fact that my first PHP codebase came from a setup where register_globals was enabled which allowed for strange variables to pop out of thin air, made my experience with PHP one I am happy to leave behind.

I would be surprised if the code quality of recent PHP projects is as bad as the older ones. From memory, I can advise you to stay clear of Joomla and phpBB - although circumstances may have changed.

Learn OO in PHP first, then pick a framework over a CMS to cut your teeth on, and you should have a good start.

EDIT: And please, oh please, whatever you do, don't mix your business logic with print/echo instructions.
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It's a stand-alone version of Swing appframework 1.03's ResourceMap implementation. I didn't want to use their entire framework and also needed a few extra resource loaders.
I'll go with: It is just you :) (really, some people do like it)
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Historically, mail-order purchases were exempted from sales tax - unless the seller had a presence in the state. Before there was the internet, before there was telephone, some retail companies got their start shipping catalogs to rural people. The people would order items via mail, and the items would be shipped via train or mail.

Two of the biggest mail order retailers were Sears and Montgomery Ward. To make sure that customers reached for the Sears catalog first, they made theirs slightly smaller (about 1 cm smaller in width and height) so that the folks in the house would stack the smaller catalog (Sears) on top of the larger one (MW). Those old catalogs had everything: clothes, furniture, tools and even house kits.

The 1897 one even had opium:
http://www.amazon.com/1897-Sears-Roebuck-Catalogue-Israel/dp...
I doubt there was much 'hunting' going on if you were really doing 80wpm. I'd bet you had some kind of hybrid form going on; anybody who types that fast is usually reaching for the next letter before they finish stroking the current letter.
Neither of those examples are biological weapons. Aum Shinrikyo used sarin gas, a chemical weapon, in the Tokyo subway attack. Jonestown used cyanide, also chemical, but this wasn't at all weaponized.

In any case, the argument was based on the umbrella term "weapons of mass destruction".

You're right that as a justification, it falls far too short, even had it been true.
If your argument is actually serious, it's in fact supporting my thesis since then, innocents will day every day, so we might as well release all the incriminating documents of the Pentagon and go about with the innocent just as dead as before, except that we'd now know the truth.

Seriously, how many people are completely unable to grasp the fact that you're complaining about, what, at most dozen people (and not even, because according to Wikileaks, there are no names in the war logs), when the American military forces have essentially forced the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Irak? And now you want to claim it's anywhere near comparable?

Again, really? This would not even be necessary in the first place if the criminals in Washington hadn't started a war based on lies. Stop making up bad guys and realize who put you in this position in the first place and that the worst thing is that it takes an independent NGO (which is putting the livelihood of its members at much greater stake than any potential victims the Pentagon might claim) to call out their bullshit, rather than an informed American citizenry.
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So two of my friends created this Frently. It's quite amazing to me since they have no real experience with the web yet so far they've executed so well. Yes, no technical co-founders.

No it's not a dating site.
No it's not for those who are socially inept.

It seems very airbnb-ish. I personally think it's very useful for those who travel to unfamiliar places and would love to be "show around town". Also, if your like my roommate who is very friendly and wouldn't mind having a little extra cash to help with her guitar addiction.
New York is one of the states that treats co-lo as enough of a presence to trigger the "you must now collect sales tax" requirement. I think TN is another.

However, in this case Amazon had at least one warehouse and at least one office in TX.
Any experience on how Lucene/Solr stacks up against other search tools such as Sphinx or Xapian ?
Looks like a great system to white label for recruiters and networking types.
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It's nowhere in the middle, but you're delusional if you can claim that there was any good will in this war. It was a war fabricated and perpetuated on lies, and those who started it deserve as much as any war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands, which I would hope is more than what any serial killer rotting away in an American prison gets.
I sometimes wish there is one with a special arrow button move to the next word instead of next character. Will help a lot with typing and programming.
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How is this so? Decorators are just syntactic sugar for defining a function then replacing it with the result of calling another function (the decorator) on it.
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Ask HN: Mobile analytics aggregator?
I've been driving myself nuts this past couple of weeks going back and forth between mixpanel, google analytics, bit.ly stats and my custom reports.

Most of my time I'm on my mobile .. I refuse to believe that there aren't people out there that haven't been facing the same issue as I am for much longer time. So I surely must be missing something.

Is there a good analytics aggregator that stitches all this data into a unified dashboard for mobile out there? I did a quick search, but didn't come up with anything interesting.
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I like the comment: "poor programmers get very defensive about their language"
Are you saying that you consider the subsidy for your attendance at Rutgers was a waste of taxpayer's money as well? Also, I'm not sure whether you passed out idiot students who attended Rutgers by being smarter/working harder, or that you have given idiots who learned very little a passing grade in the classes you teach.

I don't necessarily disagree with you about ending subsidies, but it seems as if you are trying to have your cake and eat it. Maybe I've misunderstood your position. If they were abolished, would you expect college to get cheaper and academics to tolerate a pay cut, or students to make up the shortfall by borrowing higher sums?
No, it was a bullshit war fabricated and developed. You can look up the PNAC's detailed history where they were just aching for excuses to go to war with Iraq and other Middle Eastern states.

The disputability of the intentions of the war is something only American citizens question. Everyone else knew from the start that there was nothing good in it.

Just for a start, Google the matter for a few minutes and you'll see that the supposed evidence for the war was completely fabricated, and the Security Council received outright lies from the American representatives.
The second link although ugly is less "guessable" if you want to skimp on the authorization check. That aside, sometimes an entity might not have a natural key that can be slugified (e.g. an invoice), in which case UUID is better. Also, using a generating/looking-up a UUID might be faster?
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I've worked out of a few different places in SOMA now. There often aren't that many good places nearby. Even if there are a few, you get tired of them. At ZeroCater, we have dozens of restaurants, we add more frequently, and they're all highly rated.
No really: How do you USE it?

I get the basics: EC2 VPS for computing power, and you get to pick a stack from a list of AMIs or customize one to fit your needs, S3 for storage, ClouFront CDN for better global distribution, but whenever I want to take a closer look, I feel so overwhelmed by the options that seem to be increasing over time.

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The power button really is a hassle if you use the 12 South BookArc stand. You have to lift the laptop out of the stand, open it up, hit the power button, close the laptop before it fully starts...

Some kind of external power button would be really nice.
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See which part of your youtube videos users are watching. A poor man's wistia.
Because he/she doesn't explain why it is not realistic, his/her comment doesn't add any value to the conversation.
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Unless you're in a group, and it becomes a social activity.
Unless computers become ubiquitous commodities that represent both consumer product and fashion-like icons of social status.
Unless services such as 1-800-GOOG-411 exist.

etc, etc.
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This.

Also: grouping keywords in different, Venn-like ways should be easy and intuitive.
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Wouldn't surprise me if future versions of OS X adopted sandboxed applications à la iOS.
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William K. Black, professor at the University of Missouri (and the senior regulator investigating the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s) said:

"This is a crisis that we know empirically involved million of fraudulent mortgages being made. We know that the losses are out there. We know that the industry extorted FASB to gimmick the accounting rules, so they didn't have to recognize the losses. We know that the Fed has huge positions as collateral in these fraudulent mortgages. We've seen the Fed, Ambac, Fannie, Freddie, Pimco, Blackrock -- all putting back after investigating tens of billions of dollars of mortgages, and saying, these were sold under false representations and warranties -- frauds, and absolutely no one has gone to jail for it."

and

"And the problem is we have zero criminal referrals out of most of the regulatory agencies. In comparison in the savings and loan debacle again - maybe 1/40th of the size -- we had thousands of criminal referrals , we got over a thousand priority felony convictions of the elites - these are not the little tellers, the vice presidents -- these are the top people at the savings and loans.
There are NONE now. The regulators have to serve as the sherpas to have successful criminal prosecution. We've got to do the heavy lifting, and we have to do the guide function, because the FBI can't possibly do this on its own.

Next thing that has to be done - the FBI formed a partnership with the Mortgage Bankers Association -- that's the trade association of the perps."
Chrome is taking some steps to improve this with its sand boxing and principle of least authority for its many processes. It will be interesting to see how this translates to a full operating system when Chrome OS is released. I hope it will push other operating system developers to improve along this axis.
Touch screen typing is NOT THAT BAD. I type 65 wpm on my iPad which is defeintely fast enough that I can rely on it to do "real work".
Pretty minor, but while working on FedFunds/Eurodollar trading software at a big bank, I came in on the weekend and reconfigured my cubicle walls so that the entrance was in the same aisle as my coworkers, rather than being on the opposite side and having to walk all the way around to talk to them.

Normally I believe that sort of thing involved the maintenance staff, etc, at who-knows-what expense.
They do it little by little. The next bill will be "since we already block the domain name, lets block the service as well."
A carte blanche war operation is a far worse thing to support. If you want the American War Machine to continue committing its crimes, by all means ignore this release.
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Um, no. Get some sense of perspective. Off the top of my head, no-knock SWAT raids are a bigger issue, because people end up dead. Often as a result of a raid on the wrong house.
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Hmm, this is not the case on the iPad: many people are able to type at 100wpm+ on the it.

How fast do you mean?
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