skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GroupMe Is Now Sending One Million Texts Every Day
Thanks, but we have a high level of awareness of what could be done better, and a high level of experience in doing it the right way. I'm not looking for ideas here, I was just trying to illustrate that bureaucracies can win quite a few rounds before you can wear them down with "I refuse to give an estimate until I do due diligence" approaches.
I'm interested !
If you 'incrementally' include changes which are incompatible, you end up with many more compatibility barriers to keep track of.

"Oh wait, this machine has foo 1.5.2, not 1.5.6!!!"

Though a solution to this scenario is to avoid including too many libraries in the standard distribution in the first place, so that incompatible changes in those libraries don't affect the base.

This in turn means that big packages with lots of dependencies would need to say "you need fooliba-1.5.6, foolibb-4.3.2, etc" instead of just "you need foo-5.2", but other languages do this and they seem to manage it alright.
So pay attention before you buy your phone. It's not hard.
So is the BBC.
"Perhaps the government should act as a countercyclical balance to the private sector?"

Perhaps it should. The question is academic in all the bad senses, because while people love to cite Keynesian theories about how government should behave as if it's some sort of proved theory that admits no debate (itself a false statement, it was considered essentially disproved until suddenly it told the government what it wanted to hear and got itself revived; I fully expect it to be considered disproved again until it ends up convenient again), they fail to look out in the world and notice just how thoroughly our government is not acting Keynesian anyhow. The whole Keynesian multiplier argument falls apart if the government appropriates a dollar and then generates $0.30 of wealth with it, instead of >$1.00.

I'm well aware of the Keynesian argument. What I've noticed is that even by Keynesianism, if the goverment proves incapable of generating a multiplier Keynesianism itself says the government should spend less.

Having a pretty economic theory does not remove your responsibility to look out into the world and see if it actually describes reality. In reality, what the government is doing is not Keynesian stimulus.... it's just spending money.

Austerity countries are taking their hit now. Non-austerity countries are taking it later, and will take it bigger as a result.
The way I see it, a lot of corporate people shop from work. If you're LL Bean or Amazon, support it.

If you're selling something people aren't going to purchase from or for their enterprise cubicle(s), forget it.

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Oops. I forgot to add research. A family member needs their site to remain usable/attractive to the significant corporate population in this area who will visit it while researching options from work. A lot of big, stuffy businesses whose employees are potential customers for this local business.
maps/reduces returning iterators objects instead of a list. Having to call list() on anything I map is just a pain.

Why do you require it to be a list?
With regards the Nazi reference, I suspect he's picking up on the "Ihre Papiere, Bitte" and the reference to jack-boots. The language, the phrase and the attire are all associated with the Nazi regime, although he never mentioned it by name.

With regards the "birther-ist" comment, the article does say:

"I think Quora’s ridiculous, birther-ist requirements
for a “government-issued ID” are a little bit rough,
... "

(edited for clarity)
> Did you ever stop to think what positive impact the deletion of these articles actually makes?

As far as I can tell, the only positive contribution that deletionism makes to the welfare of humanity is it makes individual deletionists happy when they destroy other people's work.

I wonder if anyone has done research into possible links between deletionism and mental disorders such as OCPD?
Very timely! Did you scrape the whole J! archive? Would you consider sharing your scraping code (and/or the resulting Q&A database)?
New Macbook Pro to hit shelves in March
Business models are re-usable, publicity stunts aren't. Guess which one In Rainbows was.
> By what measure of good customer?

My measure - the only one that counts ;)

I'm used to working in adverse situations, and charge accordingly. Don't spend any time feeling sorry for me. Where there's muck there's brass.
I'll be looking for freelance work mainly in the UK at the end of this academic year. Would it be OK if I were to post my CV for people to give me recommendations and improvements? I'd find that really useful given the demographic of this site.
Hardly unique to the US computing establishment.
IE9 To Get Automatic Update Feature Like Chrome & Firefox
My school separated comp sci major and non-major tracks. Very few were in the intro comp sci classes who were not intending to be majors for me. YMMV. At any rate the point is there's a very high dropout rate in computer science. Many more switch out than switch in.
Although I found the article amusing, I have to agree with you. Surely Feynman would have seen the "correct" answer as quickly as any of us mere mortals.
If Microsoft had introduced Google Chrome style browser updates (either at the beginning or as a default XP service pack) this wouldn't be a problem. But even without problems of enterprise lockin, the average person doesn't update software that appears to work OK very often. Some of them are probably still using Windows 2000 or ME, which doesn't even support newer versions of IE but is still fit for most simple purposes

A significant proportion of internet users don't know what a browser is, and if they see a website that advises them they need to download a piece of software to get it to work, they instantly distrust it. In all honesty it's probably better overall that people who don't know about browsers do ignore websites with buttons telling them they'll enjoy a better viewing experience if they download and install extra software.

Like people using the latest cutting-edge iPads, they'll just have to miss the occasionally useful flashiness that their default browser doesn't attempt to support. The average person that hasn't upgraded by now probably isn't going to be swayed by yet another broken rendering or "this site is only viewable in IE7+ or Chrome or Firefox"

The only party that can seriously reduce IE6 market share is Microsoft, by using OS updates to force upgrades and creating an "IE6 mode" that allows those kludgy enterprise apps to continue to function.
I'm hiring. iOS client-side work or graphic design, portfolio / prior experience required. Currently freelance only.

I'd prefer full-time availability but would consider part-time for skilled candidates.

E-mail is in my profile.
We geeks habitually look for shortcuts in everything. We love the "viral" concept because other people do the hustling for us. But sometimes there's no substitute for effort.

Case in point: Metcalfe/Ethernet: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1418874
How would you tell the difference between a human-level AI and a human? Sentience is not a well defined term. The best thing you can do is to ask the intelligence in question whether has subjective experience, if it says yes you have to believe that. I couldn't prove to you that I have subjective experiences. I think it's irrational to say that every cognitive ability a human has can be simulated perfectly fine on a computer, but only a biological brain is capable of subjective experiences.
Stay Away From Black Hat SEO
Same thing happened on Windows Vista 32bit with IE8 Installed...
Seems like they've underestimated the effort it needs to keep a database server running.
Translating Twitter Into More Languages
Gist is now part of Research In Motion (RIM)
Nokia Press Conference Video + Q&A Session
You still have to decide who's expense each item is. I've had common accounts with my business partner for 7 years... trust me, it's bad. We're lucky we don't really care about exactly how much each of us made, because we don't know. Since changing banks a year ago and getting separate accounts things have been heavenly. We just opened a separate account to store VAT (european sales tax) and didn't even blink at the expense.
Good catch. I didn't notice the picture accompanying the article until after I'd posted, and I searched for "bitherist" rather than "birther". Apologies to OP for overlooking their meaning.
Gift for HN'rs 5 Easy Valentine's Day Date Ideas + review startup please
Yea, I'm very much with you. Our goal (at my startup CloudFab) is that by making things for ourselves - or at least closer to what we want - that it'll mean less marketing driven consumer culture and people will want to keep their self-designed goods.

FYI - we can print in ceramics now - so that lid is replaceable if you've got a file ;-)
Very good videos where Stephen Elop among other things tells you he's not a Trojan horse.
Actually, my LUG is also considering doing some sprints. I'm more inclined to join them after using py3 and wishing there was more support for it (and feeling bad about my own laziness in porting my own stuff). The sprints are a great idea and we're quite lucky to have such support!
Not in the same way. PBS never plays commercials and actually takes several days off each year to ask people to donate money so that they can continue broadcasting.

It genuinely is supported by individual donations. Showing their programs to a wider audience could only result in more people donating to them.
Comfortable Mexican Sofa: Tiny yet powerful micro CMS for Rails 3
(Sorry to potentially hijack)

Incidentally, I just built a web-based wiki because I wanted one that was fast, wasn't hinged on git(hub), and could be modified easily to my tastes.

I'd like to know if there's any interest in a stripped down and fast alternative to MediaWiki as using it for a friend's project recently was killing me.
Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
I'm 24 and worked as a developer for a consulting company working on custom enterprise apps. I got tired of watching the startup world from the sidelines, so I took the plunge and quit my job to work on my own projects.

I don't have paying customers, thousands of Twitter followers, a large presence here on HN, or even a cofounder. I'm starting from absolutely nothing and will be building from the ground up. All I have is 12-15 months of savings and my hacking skills.

I moved back home with my parents to save some money and build the product out, but will hopefully be moving out to San Francisco sometime this year.

I started a blog (www.itschris.me) if you would like to stay up to date on what I'm up to or get in touch.
The decline of the public stock market
Deletionpedia appears dead; the deleted pages most recently mentioned on their 'Recent Changes' (disregarding server clock issues) are from June 2008:

http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Special:R...
Making Rational Pricing Decisions
The real question I have is according to that episode Watson does not take into account the category only the 'answer' and the already shown questions. It seems _really_ odd that they would ignore this bit of information.
Correct, Quora does know that you posted it, however other users won't be able to know:

http://www.quora.com/How-anonymous-are-anonymous-questions-i...
I'm curious, why did you choose to delete articles instead of improve them?
Imagine you are kid and the other kid approaches you with mug you really like:

- Take a look at this wonderful mug with Mickey Mouse. It's worth 20$
- I'd love to buy that but I only have 5$
- Would you pay 50$ for it if the mug didn't have handle?
- Yes I need a mug, but handle is so convenient...
- I can take 5$ (as he breaks of the mug handle)

Could you really buy this thing and not feel like he spat in your face?

It's not about market it's about psychology of human exchange. Someone destroys value with no purpose other than better conning his peers. How could that not infuriate specimen of social species?
> Wikipedia is not intended to be a dumping ground for every last bit of trivia.

One person's trivia is another person's useful information.

> Unless Alice, for example, has made some profound contribution to CS then it doesn't deserve it's own entry based on the limited number of papers available

If significant numbers of people are interested in the subject, then having an article about it promotes the public good. Deleting the article harms these people.

> even then it may not, the contribution could be listed elsewhere, perhaps on a general page about similar contribution or on the page for the language that has been most impacted.

If you have a phenomenon with its own name, it's better for a subject to have it's own article, rather than be a note in another article, because then it's easier to find.

> Or, as I said at the start demonstrating the notability and having the articles reinstated in Wikipedia.

Why should the onus be on hard-working Wikipedia editors to show their articles are worthwhile? Instead, it should be on the vandals who want to destroy work.
Too late - someone did: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/first-3d-printed-car...
Thanks for the answer, on the shopping cart I do have multiple prices, discount codes, and credits. Right now I actually was handling this myself, but if the cart can handle that, all the better.

Really just looking to learn from people with experience using them, normally one or two carts rise above the rest.
Ask HN - How do I find a reputable hacker to help design prototype?
I have been interested in applying for various startup weekends or programs, such as Y Combinator, but in order to gain entry one is required to have a working prototype. My question is how do you go about finding the right person/company to code for you? My idea is simple and based on existing API, just need to wrap into a new platform.
This was exactly my friend's theory of what happened.
As someone else mentioned in the thread, make the email address optional, with the understanding that without it they can't recover lost passwords.

This is probably an unacceptable solution for some sites, but I can definitely think of cases where the only reason you need email is for password recovery, and account loss isn't the end of the world.
Cool idea. Since we're talking trivia, here's a shameless plug for my own app: (Android only) https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mod0.pubtrivialive
This article is ignorant and extremely biased. The first paragraph totally ignores the fact that consumer behavior radically changes when the price of a good hits zero. People who would otherwise not listen to Radiohead downloaded it -- just because it cost them nothing. The assumption made is that everyone who downloaded it would have ran out and bought it in stores, which is a terribly flawed premise. Did they listen to it once, or did they listen to it a thousand times? They may or may not have bought it, but it's impossible to tell.

I feel as though they did fantastic, considering people had the choice to get the exact same good for free or not free, and an amazing 38% of them paid for it. I'd feel safe betting that if other artists could pull this level of revenue off, they'd be beating the deep cuts taken by the record industry.
Ask HN: Is revolution catching? How much part does the Internet have to play?
This morning, Iran seems to be following in Egypt's (and Yemen's and Tunisia's) footsteps. South Sudan has seceded bloodlessly.

I tend to think there are parallels between these and the Atlantic Revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. This time, we have the internet instead of the industrial revolution. What do you think?
Get something out there that people can use, quickly. Good luck.
I thought it was a reference to East Germany rather than Nazi Germany...?
Knowing Java and picking up C# doesn't have a major impact on your ability to express yourself. Knowing Java and picking up Lisp stretches you further, but you can only learn Lisp once. That is to say after you have experienced several different programming paradigms, you get less from learning yet another paradigm X language. Human languages have the same ability to impact the way you think.

What do I think is the best way to become a better programmer? Well learning new programming paradigms is good, it adds breadth to your knowledge. Building apps in specific topics is important it adds depth to your knowledge. That is to say a shallow but wide box is OK and a narrow but deep box is OK, but the biggest box is both wide and deep.
Well, most other languages use the incremental approach, python is the outlier here.

I'm not saying one or the other is definitely better, just that I'm looking forward to the final judgement after this multi-year effort.
Everyone who comments on an AfD "judges" something. It was my opinion that there were not enough citations, and I was open to the views of others. When others do not give their views, or when their views are so clouded by their rage that they cannot effectively argue their point, then yes, I become the sole person who is judging.

I don't ever remember saying that the notability rules were broken. However, if others think that they are, I can respect their opinions. Likewise, I don't think I slithered out when push came to shove. Actually, when push came to shove, I continued what I was doing with the understanding that the naysayers were a special interest group with an agenda (wasn't this my previous post...?) However, I did say I would stop and spent a good deal of time apologizing here when it was clear that my understanding was false. How is this not taking responsibility for my actions?

Yes, people told me that I was wrong. But at the risk of repeating myself, they did not give me any reason to believe that they were aligned with the goals of Wikipedia, and others more experienced with Wikipedia assured me that they were not in fact aligned with said goals. I was willing to cooperate with anyone who took any effort to communicate with me: for instance, the first message I received on my talk page was asking why I put a notability tag on his article. He said it was notable, and provided a reference. I thanked him and removed the tag.

I don't know why you are so sure that I am acting in bad faith. If my intent was to troll Wikipedia, I wouldn't have used my real name.
> The fact is that Wikipedia is full of articles about people's own pet research projects which have no users and no impact.

I browse WP a fair bit. I've never come across any such articles.

Even if they do exist, what's the harm? People not interested in the topic won't read them, people who are interested will find them useful.
That's good to hear. Actually I'd like to see more self-promotion from you here, or at least less fear of self-promotion.

When I read your comment I immediately wonder what kind of site had community engagement translate into increased sales. Rather than make me go to your profile and figure out which site you're referring to, please just put in a link. That makes it a lot easier for me. Don't fear self-promotion when you're on topic.
That doesn't mean he'd give that solution right away. This sort of run-around seems to fit his sense of humor.
Ambient noise is part of the reason why mutemath's drummer duct tapes his headphones to his head, no?

Do you think you could learn to play with a tactile click track? I always thought it would be interesting to build a thing you strap to your body that taps/shocks instead of blasting your ears with clicks. It doesn't help with backing tracks, but it might keep someone a bit more sane.

Think it would work?
Same- Lemmings seems like one of those games that's as old as computers
Don't move to SF before you're making the money to afford it. Those savings will stretch a lot further living with Mom and Dad.
I don't think your true objection is based on quantum mechanics. Based especially on one comment[1], I think you're making a hidden assertion that subjective experiences carry moral weight only if they cannot be explained in terms of other understood phenomena.

I'd like to examine this assertion: If someone could prove to your satisfaction that your present conscious substrate is something other than a human brain--say, a computer program with inputs provided by an advanced android body in the real world--would you consent to undergo the proverbial 50 years of torture in exchange for a dollar donated to your favorite charity?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2215074
Well, this is a timely announcement. I've been evaluating several applications in this space over the last week or so and while Papers is the one I wanted to "win", I was worried about what seemed like a lack of progress on the development front. I'm looking forward to tracking their countdown of the new features.
it was part of the cyber war that the people of egypt and the revolution were winners
You'd probably have better luck if you wrote a bit about the languages and tools you're using.
On a side note, you can get (at least) double the flowers for the same price on February 15th ;)
Creating a reveal tab for a Facebook Place or Page
Good for you.

I promised myself I would give notice today. I don't think it's going to happen. Maybe it's just because I'm older (28) and have more inertia (wife, dog, a bunch of stuff to pack or get rid of and moving) to overcome.
This is one thing the agilists have gotten right.

Estimate the size of the problem in abstract units like story points, and do it in small chunks.
Does it strike any one else as at least a _bit_ disturbing that he thinks his "mind" is in his smart phone, and finds no problem with this other than that service providers are greedy?

No. It is natural and true. Intelligence Augmentation is already there, in the form of the internet and our array of portable computers, which give us access to any information or computation we know how to find or express. We are already some distance to Stross's Manfred Macx (from his novel Accelerando) - lost and slightly bemused when disconnected from our external brain. It's not so obvious yet, and most of us still have some independence, but those of us who know how to use the web are lesser people without access to it.
In case anyone is still curious how this got resolved, Monsanto gave up. From his wikipedia user page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Christopher_Monsanto):

> Dear internet,

> You guys win. I will stop nominating pages for deletion.

> I wasn't doing this to troll or to slam any language community. I was just trying to help -- I read the WP guidelines for inclusion, and whenever I came across a language that didn't seem to meet said criteria, I nominated it for AfD. I think, with respect to Wikipedia's established notability guidelines, my arguments for deletion were airtight, which is probably why the articles were eventually deleted. I'm not sure my actions warranted the kind of internet-hatred I received as a result. If anyone thought what I was doing was wrong, they could have just sent me a friendly message and I would have politely discussed the issue. Few took this route, and I am sorry that due to time constraints and an overwhelming amount of invective I could not reply sensibly to everyone.

> Since the internet seems to care more about keeping these articles than I care about deleting them, I'll stop. I personally think a lot of the articles should have been deleted. I think that ALL articles I nominated for deletion fail to meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Here's a challenge, then, for the internet: instead of spamming my Wikipedia talk page (which I don't really care about), why don't you work on fixing WP's notability guideline for programming languages? Otherwise, some other naive editor will eventually try to delete them. Perhaps they won't have as much experience dealing with trolls and flamebait as I have had, and will become very hurt and confused. Nobody wants that :(
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