skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why should we judge?

When you submit something to HN, it is judged, no matter what. HN people are analytical and like to break things and analyse the system.
... and later you begin to discover different, much better ways to solve problems that you used to do with regexps, and your life will get back to normality and happiness. ;-)

For a solid scrapper in Perl I'd use HTML::TreeBuilder / HTML::Element. Perhaps slower than regexps, but does real parsing and understands tag-soup HTML.
Hm, checking the comments, there really is no mentioning about crippling by Apple.

However, I don't think anybody has a problem with App stores in themselves. The problem starts when the App store is the only way to get software onto the computer. It is a popular predication that Apple might try to push their "normal" computers into the same direction as iOS.

So when talking about why "techies" don't like Apple, what else than the dictatorship would be the reason?

Ubuntu has an App Store, too. So has Android.
Because they are not telling why this is a great group. There must be some basis on which there comments rest. If they cannot express that, better just upvote the story.
I'd be surprised if some pilots aren't already doing this.

There are only really 2 or 3 wavelengths right now with commercially available >100 mW lasers. However, they also happen to span the visible spectrum (red, blue, green). So you'd need a narrow band filter for each of those wavelengths so as not to block vision entirely. Narrow band filters get expensive fast.
Try https://datamarket.azure.com/
> I really hoped Armin would come around, and I committed to Werkzeug for a new project with eyes on 3.

All commits to Werkzeug are currently happening with a port to Python 3 in mind. However I am not going to do the same mistake the standard library made in many parts and change the semantics of the library for Python 3 and trusting 2to3 to do the correct thing.

A full port of Werkzeug to Python 3 will take time but it will happen eventually. The point here is that everybody should go with Python 2.7 and write the code forwards compatible. Then you have all the options (of going with PyPy if you need and upgrading to Python 3 if it's worth the effort).

All I can say right now is that so far users are not too eager with Python 3 yet and I have limited resources as well. If anyone wants to help out, I am more than happy to assist in any way possible to make Werkzeug run on Python 3. I also monitor changes in the stdlib that could affect WSGI on Python 3, so it's not that I'm ignoring it.

Python is not on the way to suicide. All I said was that right now you shouldn't be too concerned with Python 3 yet and instead make your own code upwards compatible. If your base Python version is 2.7 upgrading will not be the biggest problem, especially not if you are working on a high level like you do when you use a web framework.
To hook you like a fish
http://swombat.com/2011/1/20/how-to-write-good-startup-advic...

> When writing a startup article, be very careful not to extrapolate from one experience that happened to you to a general rule for startup. "X startup mistakes" or "Y startup tips" are basically collections of generalisations based on personal experiences. Some of your points may even be correct by sheer luck, but the short-form nature of a list of tips means that even those don't have the necessary context to be really useful.

Please pick each of your points in this blog post, and give it its own article, and provide the context within which it applies, and how to action it effectively. Then you'll have a great series of articles that make a difference...
> Just to clarify: A photograph wherein a copyrighted image appears but is not the focus of the image might likely classify as fair use, I assume?

It might, but there you are getting into vagaries of fair use. Dialogue, music, trademarked goods - all these things can creep into a video or a photograph and taint it with derivativeness. (Is there a trademarked Coca-Cola prominent in your photograph? You may be in trouble. Is there a TV in the corner playing _The Simpsons_? Lessig gives an example where copyright-clearing a few seconds of that TV crippled a documentary.)

For example, a sculpture is copyrighted and photographs thereof derivatives & copyrighted, except in Germany which has specially granted the photographer protection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama

Is there a nifty Apple-designed good coughiPhonecough in the picture in question? Now you have to worry about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design_right

Did you know buildings are copyrighted? http://www.wipo.int/sme/en/documents/ip_photography.htm#1.6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_architecture_in_th...
Sure, but these rich kids also face pressure to do whatever the family tradition is.

I know a girl who had big trouble with their family because she wanted to study medicine and become a surgeon (!) instead of studying business and managing the family investments.

Rich entrepreneurs are often not very intellectual, except for maybe tech and financial entrepreneurs. The grass is always greener on the other side.

Edit: That girl did become a surgeon after all, though.
Live a few weeks off a janitor job, then we'll see your participation rate.
Play that idea through.

Where do you end up, when can you get there, and will the results be worth it?

With major businesses that have their networks disrupted (Halliburton, HP, GE, IBM, Apple, etc), with the router and firewall and server and client and NAT reconfigurations, and a whole pile of administrative repercussions and squabbles from any revocation certain, where the sections of the blocks won't be available until after the businesses are able to clear the subnets, and how long will those recovered IP addresses delay the inevitable?

Wave a magic wand and recall, say, five US DoD /8 blocks back. (Something which will not happen, but we will assume for the moment that US DoD is on the front edge of IPv6 adoption.) How long will those five /8 blocks delay the exhaustion?

And how much of that consolidation effort will detract from rolling out IPv6 and 6to4 tunnels and NAT64 deployment?

Is the cost of all that effort and disruption worth it?
So will you sell memory related products to those who lost a loved one?

Edit: It appears you'll be taking donations for good causes. Maybe the culture in America is different, but I don't see this work for anything except helping to pay for the funeral. Most funerals are a moment of self-reflection on one's own happiness, not so much the world's.
Searching for this string on Google, as I have no access to blogspot, I fell down on ​http://asdfg.jodi.org (js art, NSFW and may kill your browser). It is related, somewhat.
Ok, I'll bite. how does it relate? the number cited does not say how many of the ~30 million are able bodied adults. If you deduct the children, elderly, infirm, graduate students, or people who simply have unreported income, I'm sure the number is a fraction of that figure.

And that doesn't even touch on the people who cannot get a job for any number of reasons.

So how do you extract any semblance of a number of people who prefer leisure to working?

(about 10%, assuming "hardworking" == full time for 50+weeks/year).

That is a huge assumption.
Intelligent water drops: an optimization algorithm
Not to brag about the program or disqualify your view European startup climate but I have to disagree strongly with this statement. Among the mentors you have people like Arican Wegter, founder of LOVEFiLM who just sold 58% of his company to Amazon for 312 million euros, Tanveer Sharif, founder of succesful VOiP solutions company Vopium, or Tommy Ahlers, CEO of Podio. Plus, in the upcoming weeks we will be announcing the mentors from the Spanish Chapter. Stay tuned for more updates regarding SBC
Currently, it just attracts people to the site (which it's done in a pretty extreme way). We'll probably follow it up with a level pack that's for sale, though.

In other words, we lose a little on each hit, and make up for it with volume!
I would like to see these sorts of studies controlled with a group that rather than meditate for 30 minutes a day do anything that requires concentration for 30 minutes a day. So e.g. writing, learning an instrument, etc. I would assume you would get similar changes in brain functioning as meditation. In other words it would be interesting to see if there is something special about meditation, or if its benefits can be achieved by any sort of daily period of sustained/enhanced concentration.
Why I bought Amazon Kindle?
Maybe they use AOL's perspective of what a "startup" is.
I'm not really surprised. Considering that activities like juggling also increase connections:

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2009/091012_2.html

I expect any new activity will change the brain structure and make it more "elastic". To really assess if there are long time benefits of meditation, one needs a way larger sample size and longer time period. I wonder how the changes juggling does to our brain compare to those of meditation or other activities.
I wonder whether I'm allergic to 'Eehhh...' and 'Ahm...' interjections? When a speaker uses them multiple times in every sentence, I only hear the Uhms and Ehms and Ahms after a while.
Woah, where is your sense of humor?
I'm not calling the changes in Python 3 suicide but rather the fact that so many library/framework writers do not update their code to support Python 3. This is killing Python's momentum in my view.
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي ومصر المقاصة
The reddit link in the post right above yours explains that sort is used to get a reference to the "window" object since sort returns "this" and by assigning it to a variable it returns the default context which in this case is "window".
Startups Get No Help From an Investment Bank
Not just that but you also create a valuable resource of relationships of your own from your good schools, sports clubs, etc.
tl;dr: please make sure you understand and can speak to each of the slides in your deck, especially these most common ones.

Note that this is very different from the takeaway suggested by the title -- avoid these slides. That may be the poster's opinion, but there is no indication in the article that it is that of the article's author.
Talk about mixed feelings.

As a libertarian I'm completely against the idea of some new set of laws about what I can or can't do with light, for cripes sake.

But as a pilot, and a passenger, hell if we can put up with people attacking airliners in this way.

We've reached a point where each individual has a lot more power over the rest of us simply because of technology and population density. For instance, 100 years ago if you lived in a cave up in the mountains I could care less if you had six tons of dynamite up there with you. Now the kid down the street going to online laser stores with his mom's VISA card is a bigger threat. Some random jackass hurts a bunch of people with tech, then we all collectively punish ourselves in an effort to prevent future random jackasses. It's a feedback loop that doesn't look so healthy for society.

It's interesting that for many decades scientific doomsayers have been saying the Earth cannot support the expected population growth due to lack of ability to grow food, or provide power, or some other problems. But what may actually be the hard-stop in terms of growth isn't actually providing for the people: it's having an increasing number of increasingly powerful individuals living in increasing close proximity to each other. It's as if you found a saloon full of drunken cowboys in the 1800s, locked the doors, then handed them all pistols. If they live through that their reward is that you cut off their dominant hands (to prevent future use of pistols) and then hand out hand-grenades, if they live through that, you cut off their other hand (to prevent future use of hand grenades) and then distribute foot-operated laser weapons, etc. The situation both cannot remain the same and it cannot keep changing the way it is. Fascinating problem.
Interesting, but what I really want to know is do those changes in the brain's structure manifest in any sort of measurable cognitive improvement. That should be the next thing to look at.
You think that the population as a whole does not include children? (They do have slightly fewer, at 25%.) Excluding children, the country as a whole has a FTLFPR (Full Time Labor Force Participation Rate) of 73%. The poor have a FTLFPR of 15%.

That's a calculation that took me 2 minutes. If you really cared about facts, you would have done it yourself. But I guess it's safer to raise questions and assume the answers support your views, rather than actually look into the data.

...and how many are elderly, ...disproportionately predisposed towards poverty.

Please stop making stuff up. The poverty rate among children is 27%, working age adults is 18%, and the elderly is 14%.

http://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparebar.jsp?ind=10&ca...

As for the disabled, if you truly believe that the numbers will contradict my case, why don't you post them? (I'm not going to do all your research for you.)
It only has such tools in so far as you can use macros to translate non-horrific syntax into something intelligible to the type system, which can in turn give meaningful diagnostics. It's still hard to create e.g. even simple value-oriented safe string semantics that don't bleed parentheses all over the screen in function or macro invocations.
The end of exclusivity doesn’t change the price operators pay for the iPhone
How exclusivity distorted the US smartphone market
How much does diet matter?
Best ad I've seen in a while
It's very wordy and you can almost sum it up with the following exercise:

"Lie on your back, place your hand on your stomach, focus on your breathing ensuring that you expand your stomach on inhalation and contract it on exhalation. Do not concentrate on any specific thought(s). If your mind starts to wander, acknowledge the thought(s) and then let it go. Do this for 30 - 60 mins a day.".

Discipline is required to do this, something I am terrible at. Either I feel like I am wasting time or I fall asleep. :D
Algebra books
Hi all,
With reference to this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=663791 Please advice nice books on algebra.you may even include all possible algebra books that you've read.

Thank You

Alok
Their last pricing strategy failed horribly because it was too expensive. I hope they're just searching for a price point rather than hiding their fees. Anyone in contact with them about pricing?
I let it run overnight, getting up to 60 generations. I cannot tell if the cars are actually improving that much, but the graph says they are. I saw one get to 245, but I missed that screenshot. Unfortunately a lot of the good cars spawn with their wheels upside down, or rotated, I wonder if spawn orientation is evolving along with the car. It would appear not. Here is the best car of the 62 gen.

http://i.imgur.com/H1Rrw.png
Wait, you want to include people with unreported income among the poor? How do you know that if we were to include the unreported income, they would still be poor?

You are correct. I don't have data to answer all your questions, though I do deal with children and the elderly here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2130441

Feel free to assume the one set of numbers I am unable to find in 5 minutes of google completely debunks me. After all, all the facts we do not know must support our preconceived notions, right?

And that doesn't even touch on the people who cannot get a job for any number of reasons.

Again: please read the first paragraph. It explains that "working poor" includes the unemployed (people looking for work, but who have not found it).

That is a huge assumption.

Please learn the difference between "definition" and "assumption". I don't know how you define "hardworking", so I chose a definition, explained what I meant, and presented facts concerning that definition.
Find a goal, and pursue it! =)
The commercial doesn't repeatedly flash "iPad Runs..." or "iPad does..."

Instead, the theme is the existential (and grammatically incomplete) "iPad is..." encouraging the viewer to complete the subject. Structured such that the viewer will project their own goals and desires onto the object, it intends to instill the belief that each unique idea can be brought to fruition by the device.

In other words, even such biased completions as "[The] iPad is an energy conversion device" are an valid and grammatically correct. Anything which pops into the viewers mind works within the pattern by marketing intent.

As the article points out, Apple's actions are along the lines of "We don't like people like you." The hurt to hackers when their expectations are unfulfilled by Apple may not be so much technical as social. The disappointment is not, "These damn screws," but rather "Hey, I thought you said I was cool."
AirPlay video support comes to Linux courtesy of Totem media player plug-in
This is common practice. It's called an attention placebo. In this study, they used a waiting list control group instead.
Are you doing some testing, because the site comes up, but no results are visible for me (tried on Chrome and Safari on Windows)

Nevertheless, I love the concept.

Future feature suggestion: add multilingual suggestions
I really think they need to define 'startup'. I don't think that word means what they think it means...
Symphony of Science - ’We Are All Connected' (Sagan, Feynman, Tyson & Nye)
How much I wanted the date to be 3 days earlier!
The Photoshop Effect (the female aliens in magazines)
Jan. 15th I was curious if the walmart was going to be a supercenter so I searched, "fallston md walmart," & "will fallston md walmart be a supercenter." As you can see either result does not show the most relevant and recent info about my query, rather it's littered by prominent job sites. Though on a search for "will fallston md walmart be a supercenter," i see the six result to be http://www.belairnewsandviews.com/2011/01/job-ads-out-this-w..., yet that information to me was weak;. it deduces from all the job listings that yes this will be a Super Walmart. Since I found the results/info lacking I immediately went to Twitter and found an even more detailed article(http://belair.patch.com/articles/fallston-walmart-may-open-b...) that had pictures that I think should have appeared in one of my queries. As you see that article was published Jan. 14th and Google did not point me to the most recent/up to date info rather it favored prominent job sites' listings, yet Twitter did.

Pardon, if this seems nitpicky, but just wanted to share one of my recent experiences where Google failed me(i have another example too but search was personal), while Twitter did not.
Why did the title of this thread change since I've left my original comment, which was in regards to PG and YC winning Angels of the Year?
Rainer Joswig (the guy who hosts the screenshots) did live demos with his machines at the "5. Hamburg Lispers Meeting" in 2008 at my company's office. Here are some photos of the machines and the event http://www.flickr.com/photos/srichter/sets/72157605318306397...

The SLIME REPL is very much modeled after the Symbolics REPL. I guess Rainer can tell more about that. Check out the videos on his main site (sorry Rainer, this may increase traffic again. :) ).
The most amazing part of his demo for me was, when he inspected a running Lisp process, changed the code and continued from there. The OS is (almost) completely written in Lisp, too...
What would you say if I saw http://www.whosofftoday.com/ and built essentially a clone at http://www.timeoffscheduler.com/ ?

I'm sure I'd end up doing many little things differently than you, and maybe even a few bigger things, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this example.
How Latin American startups are tapping into Silicon Valley
Thanks, I added a screenshot which hopefully makes it a little clearer.
The reason they failed is fairly simple. People are not that smart, on average, so the usage of their service, besides initial "have some fun" period, is limited to data researchers (of all kinds), scientists and students.

It may be not the smallest audience, but I think their best bet would be working on direct deals with schools and universities instead of trying to attract small-scale developers -- why would developers be interested in a project that probably won't ever pay back but will start charging after 2000 uses?
News Corp to launch iPad newspaper Technorox | Technorox
What about sites like ezinearticles? Where they do not pay for content, isn't that more like organic content from experts? They are not content machines.
I thought Android tablets sales were already at 25% last quarter. It wouldn't particularly shock me if they had 36% (and Apple had 35%) in four years time.

But since the introduction and success of the iPad seems to have been the trigger for all of Microsoft's partners to think they can finally make a go of a linux-based OS I personally would wait for the dust to settle before making any predictions.
At 2000 requests per month that is one request about every 20 minutes, laughable.
What I'd really like to know is whether these changes are permanent. I used to meditate daily for a few years in high school and then stopped for various more or less scary reasons.

There were three main effects I personally got from meditation:

1. A constant headache that lasted a few years and then promptly ended when I stopped meditating. Of course this could just be correlation, but it's one hell of correlation.

2. From my later experiences I found out that meditating that often and on that level (I could go into lucid REM within a minute of concentrating and then snap myself out of it at will) had a similar effect as constantly being on light doses of hallucinogenic drugs. It was really quite awesome, everything had a deep richness to it, colours were brighter, shapes were more pronounced etc.

3. Daily meditation also produced some quite interesting side-effects like being able to hold my breath for several minutes and reducing my heart rate to 40bpm (measured with an at-home cardiograph).

Another interesting effect of being able to go into REM at will was that I could live for a few years on 4 hours of daily sleep because I was in effect doing polyphasic sleep.

The only prolonged effect from meditation that I can still notice three-ish years after stopping is that I no longer dream like a normal person.

Maybe I should start meditating again, that stuff was kinda fun.
What does the front-end of an online hacker store look like?
Uhm you sure about that posture? (didn't read the book though)

As far as I've learned & experienced, meditation is always practiced sitting upright - it's actually a quite important part about it. Like that: http://www.google.at/images?q=mindfulness+meditation+posture...
These points could apply to most e-readers, they are too generic to lead to a specific product. From the title I thought that will be a post on the technical superiority of Kindle over other readers.
PyCon 2011: 5 Talks I Want to See