skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
_sooner or later you might end up having to support them_

It seems ironic that this is often cited as a reason not to use an open source project. Isn't the selling point supposed to be that you can support it if you really need to?

That said, the pragmatic part of me would rather work on my problems instead of my tools.
Search:
http://searchyc.com/submissions/track+every+release?sort=by_...

Finds:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1985008
http://jsfiddle.net/

Its not a complete IDE, but its a nice web dev sandbox.
I don't mean someone being good and writing a book. I mean it in the old sense of the word. Contributing to more than one non-allied fields. Like someone who's a painter and also a sculptor would not be called a polymath.

But someone who is recognised as a polymath. Jared Diamond for instance.
The main issue is that since you are using %searchterm% you aren't getting any real use out of indexes as you would when using something like searchterm%.

You could have a second table that has permutations of the data allowing indexing of the content, but your records would increase dramatically in that second table;

i.e.

| id | link_id | url_permuted |
+----+---------+--------------+
| 1 | 1 | oogle.com |
| 2 | 1 | ogle.com |
| 3 | 1 | gle.com |
| 4 | 1 | le.com |

This would allow you to search by searchterm% while gaining use of indexing...

Not sure if this is the most elegant solution to your current problem though - and it could result in multiple hits to the same record...
It used to be that that found good comments. It still sometimes does, but now it finds highly voted comments, which although correlated positively, is not the same thing.
Excuse me?

I'm curious to know by what definition Outlook shines when matched with Exchange. At least in all of the installations I've seen, I far prefer using gmail to using Outlook. And that is before you get into the fact that Exchange seems prone to crashing.

It may well be that I'm simply not in the target audience for Outlook. What I want is to get through my email, and then get on with real work. On a typical day I arrive at work with several hundred emails in 50 or so threads to go through. I generally get through it in less than half an hour, and the reading part I can do only hitting the j and space keys. Back when I was forced to use Outlook, it took me much longer to go through much less email.

Actually it seems very likely that I'm not in the target audience. Any time anyone talks about how great Outlook is, one of the first things that comes up is how good the calendar integration is. But I like living on a maker's schedule, not a manager's one. And therefore "good calendar integration" is a solution to a problem that I really don't want to have. And it is one that, if you're a manager, you should be deliberately not inflicting on your developers. (See http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html for more on that.)
WTF Would You Do With $100k Of Music Gear?
If it was done in a similar way to vimperator there should be a passthrough mode (ctrl-z in vimperator)
MuTanT: A Poly-ScriptEngine ScriptEngine
American people are obsolete only when American rich are willing to pay the $200 trillion debt. http://goo.gl/3fleL
What does inheritance give you that pattern matching doesn't?

Edit: Also, what raganwald says.
> Indeed, but it's still a fair question, just framed badly. What he should have said was "who works in every kitchen in every diner, and who maintains every public green space, and who builds every house?"

I've done farm labor. My father did the "follow the harvest" thing for years.

I completely reject the idea that there are jobs that "Americans" won't do.

Maybe you won't do them, but if you won't, why should anyone be taxed to support your choice?
The decline and fall of an ultra rich gaming empire
I fully agree that low wage seeking companies might leave the newly prosperous country. I was asking for examples where "once the corporation has departed, the original country collapses back into poverty."

That has not happened in China, as far as I'm aware. Or India - in fact, India is becoming a seller of higher quality labor, and wages are skyrocketing [1].

[1] A girl I went out with told me she left Bombay (for NY) for the experience. The money would have been better had she stayed (though admittedly Manhattan is cheaper).
You don't have to use hotmail for MSN messenger, xbox live, or other services. I signed up for a windows live ID using my gmail email address. You can use yahoo too if thats what you use.
That's true I guess - it's just more of a community thing rather than build-your-own. I think I've seen three new PHP frameworks pass across the HN front page this week alone. But each to their own.
Wikileaks defectors about to launch OpenLeaks
"OpenLeaks will be structured a bit differently than WikiLeaks. It will be designed to accept leaks in a secure and anonymous manner, but won’t publish them itself. Instead, OpenLeaks will work with other publishers, including newspapers and websites around the world, which will asses the newsworthiness of any leaked documents, and edit and redact them as appropriate before releasing them."

I can't be the only one who feels it strange to swap the initial censorship by organizations and government for the arbitrary editing and 'redaction' performed by the press, as if they exist in some isolated bubble and are not subject to pressure or bias.

I may not trust the government to tell the truth, but I trust them far more than Fox News.
I agree with this, but I will say that Outlook 2010's search is a vast improvement over the previous versions.
"I wonder, though, if there was a perceived need to guarantee the banks in order to keep Ireland attractive to multi-nationals. Iceland, I believe, did not guarantee its banks' deposits outside of Iceland. Iceland has been able to recover much better than Ireland has. Iceland had no need to placate the business environment for multi-nationals though."

I don't think it was to placate multi-nationals that the banks were guaranteed- it was partly to keep peoples' confidence in the banks (preventing a run on the banks, see this for an explanation of a bank run: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run) and partly to keep investor confidence up so that the banks could continue issuing bonds to investors in London and New York. The first part worked, I can still get cash from an ATM as normal, without fear that my current account will evaporate. The second part, investor confidence, failed spectacularly and now the government is pouring billions into the banks, as is the European Central Bank, which is into the Irish banks for well over a €100bn and no end in sight yet. It's necessary for government intervention because the markets won't touch the banks with a 10-foot barge pole at the moment.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/21920684-046d-11e0-8a3c-00144feabd...

The boys in Brussels and Berlin are getting completely fed up with this situation I'd imagine.

"I'm interested in knowing your thoughts on Ireland still being part of the Euro. Do you think it's a good idea? Is it a good idea simply because it's good for multi-nationals?"

Up until the current recession, I'd have said the euro has been good for Ireland. It's great for tourism, trade, it's very convenient and yes, it's good for multinationals too. It's easy to see how much you're getting screwed buying a meal in Paris, and lowers transaction costs from currency exchanges. However, what we really need now is more control over our fiscal policy, currently impossible due to ceding that power to the ECB - which is mainly concerned with keeping inflation under control in Germany, and keeping the whole Euro project from collapsing. The ECB doesn't really care about Ireland as such (our economy like a tiny bug on the hide of a massive elephant), but they need to keep us afloat due to contractual arrangements and to keep the euro alive. Currently, we really need to devalue our currency, something our government did in 1993, which would make us more attractive to investment and make us more competitive. We also need to keep interest rates low for a long, long time, so homeowners don't start defaulting on their mortgages in massive numbers like the US subprime situation. If the German economy starting picking up as people start buying Mercs and Beemers again, the ECB will hike up interest rates, which will be disastrous for Irish homeowners potentially leading to an even worse situation than we're in now. So it would probably be good for Ireland to not be part of the euro at the moment, but if the world doesn't fall apart and things get better (and the euro doesn't collapse, which is still a very real prospect) then the benefits of the euro will start to outweigh it's disadvantages once again.
It's not necessarily isolated, I think the argument is that it's more prevalent there.
This is an interesting comparison, but it is most likely just a high overlap between their userbases - people that use github also use stackoverflow, and vice versa. This also doesn't include the number of people programming with a language in a corporate environment whose work is not public nor on external servers.

Megan Squire posted in a comment this link to a collection of multiple source code repository websites datasets, although it is only open source projects: http://code.google.com/p/flossmole/downloads/list
I would choose order over anarchy any day. At least the government has a system of checks and balances; could be better but I'll take what I get. A utopia is built over time, instant is too soon.

Of course, a government has the ability to influence a situation more than the Internet; they can pretty much do what ever they want. I don't see them throwing that weight around to much though. In fact, if the Wikileaks documents has taught anyone anything, it is that the government is on its grind 24-7 365.

Dont get me wrong. DDoSing Paypal, Master Card, et al is pretty entertaining, but I wonder what that cost other people? They screwed with an individual organization, well they have millions of clients. Instead of giving the situation time to develop, the Internet took the easy path to instant gratification, destruction.

If you mess with ourIdol(X) we(Y) will not hesitate to take you(Z) down, and not care about them(ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVW)

A better solution would have been: Get the news. Allow the news to sink in. What is the gravity of the situation? Are there any opposing arguments? Let those arguments sink in. Rationally, which view is better? Has the news changed yet? Form opinion. Talk to opposition. Plan. Attack.

All of that should take at least a 1 or 2 days. Internet, their on it in like 5 minutes.
Agree about beauty---but I think the real genius of ggplot2 is the grammar. After using it, I think it becomes easier to think about data graphically and then quickly generate the visualization you have in your head. ggplot2 alone is a reason to switch to R.
Why pay a thousand people to leave when you can just leave yourself?

Why don't gazzilionaires start their own countries?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1947106
I could have sworn I read about this in GEB in '79, and I don't think Hofstaedter would argue that he was postulating anything new with Aunt Hillary.
Rails Tests Run in 2/3 Time w/ GC Tuning
Out of curiousity (and not snarky at all), what other approaches are there in the PHP world?
Is there an easy way to access a terminal shell in chrome os?
That's supposed to be "quit", not "quite". It's a typo I regularly make, my fingers naturally put the "e" on the end without me noticing. It's not too late to edit it.
The problem is that you really don't know who Random J Commenter is. That person could be a more successful and more knowledgeable person who just happens to NOT want to be a celebrity. There are plenty of smart people who simply don't want to play the popularity game. That doesn't make their input any less valuable.

Additionally, in my opinion, you are going to find more success in following tangential ideas from someone successful. You aren't going to duplicate what pg or Joel or any of those guys have done. The real value comes from intelligent people discussing tangents to some idea or theory. And if popularity is disproportionally rewarded to the thought behind the discussion, then the result will be less contribution to the site.
So, from the latest issue of 2600, I'm led to believe that someone who cuts "$119.95" of a web page and replaces it with "$59.95" so they can get a discount at Best Buy is a hacker, but someone Emmanuel disagrees with is not a hacker?
"If you go help in an aid program in Africa for a while, you could come home to find 10 years of email deleted."

That is more insulting.

We have Internet here so you can check your mail.
Coding Better Object-Oriented JavaScript with Closure Compiler
New Drafts of Eisenhower's Farewell Address Discovered
The same thing had happen to me. 2 months passed, lost to the mountains and wild of the hinterlands, I return and Microsoft has burned all of my letters and rented out my room. GMail was an easy choice.
Run Your Security Like You Run Your Business
I'm surprised. Considering most of what I hear about China is in relation to their government/censorship and manufacturing, what makes it an attractive place to move to? I understand they're rising in educational prominence (there was a story about that here recently even), but wouldn't the lack of freedom of speech and press be a turn off? I don't mean this as a diss to China, I seriously don't understand.
Any true hacker could be seen as an "aspiring polymath" at the very least. I don't dare call myself a hacker, but I am an aspiring one :)
A Very Short Explanation of the Monty Hall Problem
This already exists on HN; it's just sub rosa. If you read 'pg comments carefully, you'll get a sense for what's being done.
Reading this made me paranoid.

"Wait, I enjoy walking in the park. Is it possible that I'm not as smart as I think I am? omg, maybe the blood supply to my brain is blocked!"
The law that tries to make Facebook part of your will
Looking at the code behind our three uses of Apache Hadoop
The reason I asked was because a while ago you had posted about flagging people who you saw as breaking the rules, and I was wondering how you reconciled that with your very valid point here that the only way to keep a community vibrant is to break the rules. Your answer here makes sense and is pretty much how I think of it; for example, I knowingly break the rule of "don't bring it up if you're downvoted" knowing that my popularity will take a small hit.

The challenge though is that what rules "matter" and "better/worse" are subjective -- and when groupthink sets in, attempts to change the rules are opposed even if many people think they would result in a better community.

And yes, I've read PG's essay. My thoughts are at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=2091 ... our earlier discussion is in the first comment
I've been using nicedog for my micro-framework needs.

After looking over it, this is a really framework. There really isn't too much that I would throw out to make it smaller, except maybe the curl wrapping class.

A couple of things that would be nice are:

1) if your Controller classes had some state
forcing them to be static like you do means that there could be a lot of duplicated code between similar actions

2) if you had a 'layout' template that could be set that would wrap the results of the actions. Maybe this already exists, I just couldn't find it.

Its very clear that you intend to not do any kinds of magic, so I can see why you left a lot of things out that a lot of other frameworks have. Maybe that is why you don't have a layout wrapper template.
"OpenLeaks will be structured a bit differently than WikiLeaks. It will be designed to accept leaks in a secure and anonymous manner, but won’t publish them itself. Instead, OpenLeaks will work with other publishers, including newspapers and websites around the world, which will asses the newsworthiness of any leaked documents, and edit and redact them as appropriate before releasing them."

I can't be the only one who feels it strange to swap the initial censorship by organizations and government for the arbitrary editing and 'redaction' performed by the press, as if they exist in some isolated bubble and are not subject to pressure or bias.

I may not trust the government to tell the truth, but I trust them far more than Fox News.
While everyone is up in arms for Microsoft at deleting the emails after 270 days Google too has a policy which they can terminate your account ofter 9 months (30x9=270) of inactivity. It seems reddit needs to do a little reading up.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en-GB/program_policies...

However I'm not clear if they have it automatically delete it after 9 months regardless of the activity or if there are other conditions that factor into this.

The whole deleting emails is a bad experience though. Just another reason to back up important files.
That or its creators aren't concerned with the applications running on it as much as the maintainers of the JVM are. Sometimes I think open source projects can have an advantage in this respect. If they're not financially bound to their customers when it comes to what the product actually does, they can focus more on their vision of the product is, and not what the customers/users whine and gripe about. Moreover if the users are whining and griping about some feature not being present or not well implemented, they can put forth the resources to implement it themselves...now I'm just repeating the FOSS talking points.

Regardless, I think I agree that Mono is nimble because its user base is still relatively small or not large, but I think there are also other contributing factors.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990014
"Answer:
Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence...."
Try http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100420/full/4641111a.html

(I have the link handy because I was looking it up yesterday for my DNB FAQ http://www.gwern.net/N-back FAQ.html - DNB being one of the few brain games which apparently does transfer/improve 'in general'.)
American people and not obsolete. I think Adam Smith's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_motive concept is obsolete.
A really interesting comment was the following:
"To possibly refine the thought: both Microsoft and Google want people to spend time on their sites. Microsoft tries to get people to spend time on their site by giving them reasons to not leave. Google tries to get people to spend time on their site by giving them reasons to come back." Not only for the web but also for life, jobs, health, etc. The google attitude, I would posit, is the right way to live.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1989457
Frugalness, philanthropy, and community are not mainstream American values.

US citizens give more in private charity than anyone else, both in absolute terms and GDP percentage: http://www.jonholato.com/2007/06/26/us-more-charitable-than-...
It's a really interesting litmus test of what the media have - or have not - learnt after what felt like an acquiescence during the Bush rhetoric after 9/11 regarding Iraq in particular.
I dunno then, check Wikipedia. But I'd say there are far more who pass the test than are famous enough to rate a wikipage. The problem of finding polymaths is that non-allied fields are, well, non-allied. Often no one knows about the other stuff they are doing over in another field.
uhhh... that might be a coyote, but it looks more like a fox to me.
"it's actually about designing something that's a negative experience"
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1990369
Lost Civilization May Have Existed Beneath the Persian Gulf
"they cannot be sustainable without a certain amount of growth"

Why?
Indeed. When I signed up, however, it was the only option, so I have a legacy with it.
As Groucho Marx put it, "I wouldn't join a club that would have me as a member"

One thing that HN & Reddit do right is put a time limit on discussions... They don't quite close, but they become less prominent. So if the system "fails" and a bad discussion starts, at least it goes away.

There was a discussion on LinkedIn about the poor quality of discussion on LinkedIn... The quality of LinkedIn users might be a factor, but we see the same problem on AMZN. General discussions on AMZN are dominated by idiots and cranks, whereas the product reviews on AMZN are intelligent and useful. The populations might be self-selected, but mostly you've got the same people being intelligent in one format and stupid in another.

Both LinkedIn and AMZN have the format that the most "active" discussion stays on top. So if you've got some hardheads who've got nothing better to do than argue about abortion or creationism, they crowd out good discussion.

So you don't just have communities burning out, but discussions also burn out, so it's good to retire them before they reach heat death.
Ex-Programmer at Goldman Found Guilty of Stealing Trading Code
Thanks for the idea.

Many of the URLs are long. The average length is 43.9 characters. That would make the auxiliary table huge.
> Doesn't this mean that many supposedly healthy people are already more slow and forgetful than need be?

Absolutely. I imagine that if you summed up the various nutritional and environmental factors that impact on IQ (iodine deficiency, lack of aerobic exercise, vegetables and fish, poor sleep hygiene, dual n-back training etc.) you would find that many supposedly healthy people could increase their IQ by a fair number of points (probably <10, though).
http://kodingen.com/ is alright.
Please don't play that card. I can imagine that the places that would need some kind of aid program don't have that at hand (f.e. fair parts of Zimbabwe & Tanzania). We all know Nigeria does have the access, and NOFI but a lot of people have suffered from Internet enabled Nigerians through Hotmail ;)
Spanish Essay Supports You to Improve Your Knowledge of Foreign Language
Spanish essays are common writing assignments when doing Spanish coursework. Writing these essays will provide the tutors an idea as to how much of the language has been comprehended by the student. Therefore, ensure that your Spanish essay shows your language prowess.
Some companies continue to surprise, year after year. For me, Amazon and Netflix are the 2 that are the most frequently underestimated. I recall a few years ago when Amazon came out with AWS and stock analysts were like, "Why are they bothering with this tech stuff? They are a bookstore. They should focus on the core competencies." The analysts somehow missed that running a web site on a galactic scale was, in fact, part of Amazon's core competence.

Netflix, in its battle against Blockbuster and other media giants, seems to epitomize that quote that is often attributed to Ghandi:

First they ignore you

Then they laugh at you

Then they fight you

Then you win.
My girlfriend is going on a Field Study program with a Canadian university. She will be there for five months and have "very little" Internet access. She's forbidden from bringing her own computer, and the 40 students share a professor's laptop.

Sure, there's Internet all over Africa. It's one of the most connected continents, at least with mobile. But people going on programs there, from the West, typically don't get to access the Internet much. This is not a reflection on access to the internet there, but a reflection on how the Field Study students spend their time and money.

Please don't read into things that I said and be insulted by them. I meant nothing about how well Africa is connected, and I most certainly did mean to insult anyone.
I can't wait to read the long list of what the ASF would like Oracle to reconsider.