skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Closely related:

Checkout-Line Rage: When you empty your shopping cart with only one hand because you're on the phone. When you don't step forward to enable the next person to emply her cart. When you take 27 items through the express line. When you pay by credit/debit/check/etc. and don't know how. When you use coupons.

Movie Theater Rage: When you enter the theater 5 minutes after the movie started and complain you can't find a seat. When you talk during the movie. When you text during the movie. When you bring your baby. When you put your feet on my chair, next to my head. When you say, "Here comes the scene where the car hits him!"

Neighbor Rage: When your yard sale visitors block my driveway. When your idiot kid shovels your snow onto my driveway. When your dog shits on my lawn. When you play any Rick Astley song while you wash your car.

Work Rage: When you put the empty coffee pot on a hot burner. When you leave your fish sandwich in the refrigerator for 3 weeks. When you touch every donut just to see what they are. When you buy the last Snickers from the vending machine. When you wear too much fragrence. When you bitch about others wearing too much fragrence.

Previous Programmer Rage: When you name all your variables x, xx, xxx, and xxxx. When you have the exact same code 9 times in the same program and I only changed 8 of them. When you document anything 4 different places, all of them differently. When you promote your code before bothering to test for outlying cases. When you don't sign your work so I don't know who to bitch about.
That was strange indeed, this link to Techcrunch was a teaser for an article that was on Crunchgear that was a snippet of the actual full article on Forbes. It was a good read though.
The article said that this was the original recipe, which the article also said contained alcohol. The article also said that as prohibition started, the alcohol was removed. So says the article.
If everyone were perfectly courteous, everyone would be standing perfectly still so as to not accidentally infringe on someone else's perceived personal space.

In the real world, there really are people who block traffic in entirely unreasonable ways that effect large numbers of other people. Really the only way to properly handle that situation is to shove past, so that you don't add to the situation. There is no neutral position, you can only hope to be less rude.
Human is a word which points to a member of the human race, its not a pointer to a fully cognitively conscious self aware - whatever you are getting at.
They do, from the customer.
it sounds like you are advocating a apprenticeship approach, which of course is a centuries old solution to this kind of problem.
Are you paying more? From a user perspective, they're explicitly being charged the same for the content.

We can't view it completely from our developers perspective, because the average user just doesn't care.
Sadly we'll have to continue supporting inferior browsers for a long time.

Don't get me wrong, IE9 is certainly a step in the right direction for Microsoft but it still doesn't stack up. Luckily there are a lot fewer hacks needed.
they also take away any direct relationship a publisher can have with a customer

It takes 2 party to be in a relationship. Apple gives you the option of being in that relationship or not. Except for billing and shipping, I can't remember what the pros are for the publisher having my information. I do know that at the first chance they get they make money on the backside by blasting out my mailing address to every junkmail operation in existence.
I feel like Techcrunch does that a lot....
Because I'm apparently spending much of my day responding to HN stories, and because I wanted to see what happens when a page actually returns a 418 code:

http://nokiaplanx.com/?teapot=1
Is decentralization the only viable future for web search?
This is a very hacker-unfriendly device. I wouldn't buy one.

The SDK's compilation tool doesn't invoke a compiler; it uploads your code to a service running off of http://174.129.29.50:8080.

The Arduino is fantastic because the bootloader is open-source, the hardware is open-source, and it's easy to find out full information about the hardware and pull the MCU datasheets yourself.
In related news, the US Interstate Highway system will now require a 30% cut of the purchase price of every vehicle purchased in the United States. "Our philosophy is simple—when US Highways bring a new driver to the car company, US Highways earn a 30 percent share."

The US Postal Service considered a similar regulation, but found that customers would simply divert shipments to competitors UPS, DHL, and Fedex, and is instead filing suit against those companies for unfair trade practices, and lobbying congress for a retroactive grant of a business method patent on package delivery with corresponding extension of patent duration to life of the organization plus 70 years.

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Yesod does support sendfile: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/yesod/0.7.1/doc/...
we're looking to hire a freelance hacker who's an expert with java media framework and knows about CDN (amazon cloud front) to help us build our product. The product is a platform for people to easily share and learn knowledge. contact me for more details.
The FAQ doesn't mention any jailbreak support. It just says that there's no iOS support :(
Power Line and Load Regulation
and more to the point, Team City is free for up to 20 devs.

Potentially Hudson has a richer range of plugins, but both TC + Bamboo are a lot nicer to use.
Two words: Django.

Ok, that's only one word, but that's my only hold-up for moving to Python3.
I was curious about the origin of the photo of gaben w/ minigun that turned up on Reddit a few days ago...
I'm slightly surprised that Yale University doesn't have a standard mechanism for backing up employee laptops!
Very first site I blocked. (Would have been eFreedom, but I haven't seen them in the results for awhile. Thanks Google!)
Interview with Dr. Yu-Ming Lin - Research Staff Member with IBM
I've paid that much (and more) for watches that did nothing more than tell the current time and date.

Their price seems eminently reasonable to me.
Everyone makes mistakes, but they should never be encouraged. Beginners should be encouraged to explore, though.

I disagree about fear being only of something being taken away. I don't fear for my job because I know I am good enough.

Instead, I fear what repercussions my mistakes will have on others, such as the company I work for. I suppose you could argue that it's still somehow something being taken away, but it's much less tangible and I can't put it into words if that's so.

I also worry that I'll spend more time and effort on something than it deserves. It's rather a silly worry, but it does keep me efficient at my job, so it turns out to be useful after all. (Unlike my fear of heights and water which haven't helped me at all so far.)

I agree that third-hand "That's bad!" is often misleading, but I think those things are great for beginners. It lets them avoid the most troublesome mistakes while they learn. After they learn the basics, they can start breaking those rules. Art is much the same way.
Jeremy Ashkenas: Code is Commons, Keynote at Sunny Conf 2010
Philosophically this doesn't seem much different from a case where Apple requires a 30% cut on all commerce done through OSX, Mozilla demanding 30% of a MBP sale through firefox, or MS demanding 30% of that WinXP iTunes sale. I wouldn't expect it to escape the review of various competition authorities.
also, double-tap.
Share HN: StarChart.me statistics from 1 day on HN front page
I'm sharing realtime signup numbers now on http://starchart.me.

Stats as of today:

Total Charts Created: 130

Total Charts Completed: 26

Total Stars Earned: 489

Family Members Receiving Email Updates: 114

Basically we had 100 signups from being on front page of HN the other day (Friday) and it looks like a lot of parents are actually starting to use this.

Not bad for a little side project. I want to keep this free but I added a conspicuous link to another iPhone app we developed called DJ Baby. So we'll see if we get any sales from that.

My blog was the link on HN and it received about 2k visitors, of that 500 clicked through to the StarChart.me app. I should have linked directly to the app.

That's it, just wanted to share! And now the statistics are shown in realtime on the homepage.
Apples and Oranges, my friend. The highway and the USPS are funded by tax dollars. The App Store is a culmination of Steve Jobs and co busting their collective asses for decades on their own time without any mandatory help from you. Now they're going to charge you an arm and a leg for the privilege of using it. If you don't like it, you're free to take a stand with your dollars and go elsewhere.
IntoNow IDs the show you're watching by analyzing the audio, shares on Facebook
It's a small subset of apps that matter to each individual, but collectively it's a big number. Lets take my wife. She'd describe each of these as being indispensable to her:

- Quickoffice
- Local weather app (9news here in Denver)
- OpenTable
- Her password store (not sure what she's using these days)
- Evernote
- Probably 8-10 others

My list is completely different. These apps, together, create a lot of value for the phone. When we recommend phones to other folks we do it in the context of the applications running on it. Angry Birds has undoubtedly sold a ton of devices (both Android and iPhone) but it's hardly alone. Hell, I'm positive that I sold an iPhone one day while showing someone a document in Quickoffice.

Each app provides a ton of value to Apple. They owe us, not the other way around.
The entire premise of "happy wife = happy life" is that your wife is making you happy. This premise is false. A wife can marginally increase your happiness, or make you less unhappy, but happiness is fundamentally something you need to create for yourself.

However, many people fake the "happy me = happy you" by making you unhappy. That is often within their power to do. Then they give you respite when you do what they want. If you don't know better, you might mistake this for happiness. From what I've seen, this is how "happy wife = happy life" (or in it's more honest form, "if momma aint happy, nobody ain't happy") is usually implemented.

When my wife asks me to do something, she's really asking me to show her that I love her. And when she gets that feeling, she's very receptive to the idea of sex. Win-win, as they say.

It might be a win-win for you, but many people dislike trading labor/money/etc for sex (even when the trade is implicit). Personally, I prefer sex which is freely given for the sole purpose of mutual pleasure.
Reminds me of the Trojan Room Coffee Pot (the first webcam on the internet)

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Trojan_Room_c...
It also contains Coca extract... This obviously isn't the modern day recipe.
LG Optimus 3D Preview [Pics]
As far as I know, IE9 isn't planning to support WebSockets, either. How does Microsoft expect to break back into the modern browser space if IE9 doesn't even match (let alone exceed) the current offerings from Mozilla?
Visualization of Egyptian Revolution on Twitter (3:39 video)
The Fear of Choice
Thanks;)

I guess I was thrown off by the typo and was looking for something else.
Aggregate Demand, see my edit.
At my school, getting your Master's or Bachelor's degree requires a certain number of weeks (12? I can't remember) of work related to your field of study, which means that almost everyone gets a summer job or two in the industry.

However, you can do this at the end of your education, which renders it less useful. Forcing people to take it in the middle of their education would be a lot more useful, but on the other hand it would suck if the job market tanked and a lot of students couldn't continue their studies based on some external cause.
We're trying to make it as easy as Arduino to develop an app for your watch! To dodge the arm-gcc toolchain issue, we've built a cloudcompile system which allows all platforms Mac/Ubuntu/Windows to have an equally easy time compiling. Simply code your app in C, then run our python script to compile your code and load it onto your watch, wirelessly!
Whatever version of Chromium is in the Ubuntu repository. Though I use Firefox 99% of the time.
I'm not a chemist, but can't one just run Coca Cola through a mass spectrometer to determine the relative amounts of, say, the top 15 molecules (by their masses), then do some further sleuthing (e.g. X-ray diffraction studies of the component molecules) to determine what those 15 molecules are?
>(unless there's some reason, other than shipping costs which you can make customers pay, for limiting who can buy it)

Shipping goods for money internationally is a bureaucratic nightmare. A million possible edge cases to do with tax and so forth. This is why hardware startups often only take orders from their home country for their first batch.
It's also possible that Mozy's "forgotten password" function "succeeds" without showing any error messages to the user if the user has been removed.
Mozy is a piece of shit. I'm forced to run it on my laptop by corporate policy. My very favorite bit is how it pegs my hard disk for fifteen fucking minutes to backup a single 0 byte file. What those retards are doing in the meantime, no one knows.
That's just the query string - is the HTTP referrer removed from the header?
Ah - sorry - I was after physical dimensions - i can kinda figure it from the videos, but I'd like to know if it would actually fit on my writs comfortably.
The Kindle and Netflix apps were free when I downloaded them. The interesting part to me is that Apple apparently insists that providers' external sales prices not undercut the iOS price:

Apple does require that if a publisher chooses to sell a digital subscription separately outside of the app, that same subscription offer must be made available, at the same price or less, to customers who wish to subscribe from within the app. In addition, publishers may no longer provide links in their apps (to a web site, for example) which allow the customer to purchase content or subscriptions outside of the app.

This means that Netflix would either have to take a $3 hit on any $10/mo. subscription initiated from within iOS or raise the price for both the iOS and external subscriptions by a few dollars in order to offset the apple fee.

Not sure how this will play out, but it's interesting. Obviously Netflix and Apple can change their terms at any time. This is a decent opening move by Apple.
Honestly, I'm a little scared of using something like gunicorn. I could be wrong, but it seems like an extremely new technology, especially when compared to Apache, which has a lot of history behind it.
The C++ standard library shouldn't cause any problems on non-embedded platforms, including phones that support C++. Boost _may_ be a bit more tricky, though most of it is header-only, so it depends on the compiler more than the platforms (but if you use g++, there shouldn't be any issues). As for licensing, STL and Boost are both released under very unrestrictive licenses, similar to the C++ runtimes, so they won't cause you any licensing issues. Not too sure what license EASTL is released under. I know its an unrestricitve license, but don't know about the exact terms, so it may or may not be suitable.

Sure, obviously for niche tasks a general library may not perform as well as a container custom-made for the task at hand. That certainly is a legitimate reason to roll your own (though, if it were me, I would make my containers STL compatible, similarly to how Boost is STL compatible, that way you can mix and match between standard containers and custom ones and easily convert between them (eg, by using compatible iterators)).

Regarding applicants, I am just as surprised as you are. I guess I didn't notice how much C++ is diminishing in industry (outside of its niche areas, anyway).

PS: You're database does look interesting. May have to keep an eye on it.
Is Bluetooth the only way to get apps onto the watch?

Also, Python is the language to program apps in? They only language?
I find it a bit frustrating when people accuse scientists of being behind the game, because their own conception of the state of the science based on the state-of-the-art in 1960 mixed with popsci crap can't deal with a result.

Neuroscientists are being descriptive, not proscriptive, when they tell you what areas of the brain are for what. They aren't "deciding" what it means, they are telling you that across a wide range of people, when they see activity X, brain part Y lights up. That the brain might be significantly differently organized if bits of it are missing is hardly a groundbreaking idea, nor even remotely shocking to actual scientists. The brain reconfiguring itself, even in adults, has been repeatedly observed, with vision cortexes replaced by audio processing after becoming blind and so forth. This is interesting, but the "phrenologists" aren't going to be sent into a tizzy because of this one specific case. Your conception of the science might be sent into a tizzy, but that's not the scientist's problem. (Well, at least not directly.)
If publishers choose to pay Apple 30% for "being there" then I guess it's worth 30%. They don't have to rationalize their fee (even though they try). They're not deceiving or coercing you. They're offering a deal in good faith -- take it or leave it.
I saw that a few weeks ago (actually went looking for something good to use) and have been returning it to botnets ever since.

print "Status: 418 I'm a teapot

";
I don't suppose they had any original recipe Coca-Cola to test it against? It's hardly surprising that it would taste different since modern coke uses a different recipe.
"If everyone were perfectly courteous" = "If everyone lived by the same rules I live by" = "If everyone had the same notion of respect as I"

It is difficult for people to agree, not only across cultures but within the same culture, with what is considered socially correct. Don't get me wrong: I am a large believer in courtesy. I share your vision that there is a lack of efficiency, that a few people can affect a large number of people. I see it all the time in traffic jams. On the sidewalk, I try to let people pass; I feel it is not only nice but also more efficient.

However, getting angry over someone else not doing the same as I would do... That is just ego speaking. My way is not the only way or necessarily truly the best way, whatever my rationalization to suit my sense of self-righteousness.
I can't speak to the tax issues, except to say that I've seen so many tiny companies manage to do it that I can't see it's a huge problem.
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The only way I see this as being useful is to make your own cola that is less damn sweet. But for that there's open cola or whatever it is I guess.
Sure, but considering that's the only way to add to the block list I cannot imagine they didn't foresee exactly what we're doing. I'd wager "Let me go find all the sites I hate the most and block them!" is the natural reaction to being given a block list feature.
In earlier comments, I always cautioned people about IE9 and I just didn't trust them with actually creating a browser that works.

And while I agree with the article that IE9 is still very lacking, I also just went through making the application I'm working on IE9 compliant including rounded corners and shadows plus some CSS transformations. Here's the steps I had to do:

1) don't load IE specific CSS hacks

2) don't load IE specific JS hacks

3) ?

there was no step 3.

So if you are not using all the latest and greatest features in HTML5, but try using the essentials, you will get a very good experience while trying to make stuff work in IE9: The features it has seem to work correctly for a change and it has enough features to be useful in many webapps.

Of course it's still far away from being cutting-edge in feature support, but at least the usual crap of "try to open an existing website in a new IE version: see barely any page rendered until you add a ton of hacks" has gone.

Now, if IE9 would actually run on the (still) most-used operating system (Windows XP), I would be really happy as I could tell people to get a very good experience by just upgrading their browsers (as opposed to switching browser brand).
I would have a hard time going 2 days without a computer, let alone 2 months.
Controlling lights with TI ez430 chronos (uses arduino and processing)
more info on what this is here: http://www.blakejennelle.com/2011/02/disco-slideshow-crazy-m...
"The reality is that IE9 is 2 years late. Microsoft is glad to come out with the <video> tag, the <canvas> tag, SVG, and some CSS3. Like other vendors did years ago. Firefox 3.5 had the <video> tag, the <canvas> tag, Geolocation, SVG in 2009. Canvas and SVG existed 5 years ago."
Don't forget XHTML too.
Gas Tax?
Correct me if I am wrong. I think I have found a way to track sales of both the models on sale.

Depending on how many items you ask for in order screen, it lets you go ahead or displays "stock unavailable".

For the Mettalic Silver, It seems 57 items are available at the time of writing. and for Black Anodized, it is 108. I have to take a reasonable assumption now to get the sales numbers (may be 200 at beginning?).
Subscriptions are a money looser for most magazines. The end game with subscriptions (historically) has been to support ad rates that are calculated on a Cost Per Thousand readers basis. Ads are where they've made the bulk of their profit/revenue.

A better place to look for a comparison is the cost structure of selling magazines on the newsstand. In that situation, it's a 33/33/33 split between the publisher, a distributer middle-man, and the retailer selling the magazine.

In either situation, however, retaining 70% of the revenue is a HUGE advantage over the old way of doing it for ad-driven properties.
Seems like this would be about as informative as looking at the assembly code for Firefox.
Thanks for representing the NYT viewpoint in the thread, donohoe. My question to you is, why should the NYT be so afraid of this? Customers will (mostly) know about Apple's 30% cut. If NYT wants the entire pie, can't they just sell the user an iPad NYT subscription on the NYT website or elsewhere, thus getting 100%?

Apple has NOT chosen to not allow subscriptions from the outside. Doesn't what Jobs said explain that clearly? If NYT already sold the user, Apple gets zero. If NYT sells a new user from somewhere outside the iPad app, Apple gets zero.

If, on the other hand, Apple sells a new NYT subscriber, from inside the iPad app, Apple gets a cut.

Now, we can argue about whether the 30% cut is way too big, but this seems pretty close to fair, to me.
"Dishonest", "steal", "anti competitive" - these are some heavy accusations. In the context of Apple's relationship with developers, dishonest would mean deliberately lying, cheating, or signing a contract and then reneging on it (in which case the developer has legal recourse). "Steal" is quite irrelevant here - if Apple stole anything from anyone, it would have been sued. "Anti-competitive" - if your definition of non-anti-competitive is letting anyone (especially small players) do whatever they want with your product for free (just because you are big and they are small), you would be right, but that would be a wrong definition.
The reality is that Apple is offering a product, a service, and clear terms of how it wants these to be used as a precondition for doing business. Developers can take it or leave it. I don't think dishonesty, theft, or the super-vague term of anti-competition can be applied here.