skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you should be able to drive a car that has heavy tracks that chews up and destroys public roads, loudspeakers blaring 110db pink noise, emits a safe but heavily odourous powder that coats the buildings it passes by, and has random rotating high power searchlights guaranteed to throw blinding rays into other drivers' eyes, should you so feel like it? All so you can escape the 'burden of control'?

When you do drive, do you bother to follow traffic lights? I mean, they're just another form of the government telling you what you can and can't do. You should just be able to drive when you like, where you like, right? Similarly license plates should be discarded, as they're just another way for the government to track your activities, which we should be free from.

To be clear, what I'm trying to illustrate is the pointlessness of absolutist statements. Being human is an exercise in compromises, and libertarian talking points fail to take this into account.
It's an attractive way of laying images and vidoes out you've got there - much prettier than vanilla Facebook. My gut feeling is you need more flexibility over the way you can sort them (by number of likes, particular groups of friends etc.) to be truly useful.

Side note: I don't like apps requesting permission to post on my wall unless they have a very clear reason for doing so, and I suspect I'm not the only person here that thinks like that.
Visual Studio method history for SVN
La Tsotsis has clearly never read Variety. Hollywood folk are much nastier than Techcrunch about films/people they dislike.
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We are behind uswitch.com, getinvisiblehand.com, omio.com, justcages.co.uk, petvillas.co.uk, forward3d.co.uk etc.
You can take a look at who we are and what we do at http://www.forwardtechnology.co.uk.

We have been doubling our revenues every single year (up to £118m in 2010) and plan to continue to do it as long as possible. So, we need great people!

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Click on a method on Visual Studio and find how it has been modified through the SVN history.
oh thats great. Thanks a ton for the forwards
Each reactor core holds over 100 tons of uranium, of which about 3-5 tons is U-235. Critical mass under perfect conditions is 50 kilograms.

Critical masses don't work that way: the additional U-238 absorbs neutrons making more difficult to achieve criticality. In fact, even an infinite amount of unmoderated natural uranium cannot sustain a chain reaction. See the figure 3.1 in [1] for more information about unmoderated critical masses for enriched uranium.

[1] http://www.ornl.gov/sci/radiation_transport_criticality/Hopp...
congrats on your first dollar! i had exactly the same experience last week!

i bought a domain more than a year ago, been doing development ever since but progressing very slow (it's a solo project and i have a full time job). last month renewal notice showed up and made me think, "wow, it's been a year, and it's still in my laptop."

now it has been launched. and last week i got my first paying customer. i literally cried and jumping around in excitement, and immediately gtalked my girlfriend. very stupid considering it's less than $10, but it gave proof that "my idea works" (it's just an e-commerce for Indonesia market).

anyway, nice work and always positive minded :)
Fair point. The real question we should be asking is for what purpose and how is the money being spent.
I went back to the code repository (happens to be open source now) and found a few (real) examples:
- prgpttp: paragraph pointer to "TextProps"
- prgpvwvc: pointer to the root something something view controller
Will we see the NY Times paywall soon?
Makes sense except for one point: Why would a person purposefully subject themselves to a musical genre that sounds bad? You said yourself, to the virgin ear, jazz sounds bad. That means that everyone who likes jazz music at one point thought that it was terrible music yet listened to it anyway.
I like OpenFeint too, but there are some things to keep in mind. First, integrating OpenFeint adds a few MB to your app size if you support both landscape and portrait modes (I'm not sure what the exact size is - sorry). This can be an important consideration if you're close to the over-the-air limit. Second, Free Game of the Day is a great program, but it is something you need to apply to. Not every game gets accepted.
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Instead of committing Seppuku the responsible executives should form a bucket brigade ...
Redmond wasn't even on our mental map in those days; Windows was still at 3.11, and NT hadn't been released. The only thing we used PCs were good for was to hold our 5250-emulation cards...
And please give some information to the kind folks at Rockbox.
incoming users are likely to be using IE.

Why not redirect to / suggest installing http://code.google.com/chrome/chromeframe/ ?
not even close to fun.
True enough. In the 7th grade, I once divided some number by 100,000 by writing out the long division, and writing 03=0, 7-0=7, 07=0, etc. The teacher came by and was completely baffled where I had gone wrong in my education, but I was just bored :)
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It's not just that; the musical intervals we tend to favour are based around natural resonances and constructive / destructive interference. Hence why a perfect fifth sounds good and a diminished fifth jars; the waveforms don't compliment each other.

I'm willing to be persuaded and don't claim to have made a large study of this but I'm yet to hear a microtonal tuning that didn't just sound off. The sounds actively work against each other because the resonances just aren't there.

(I'm aware in this that modern keyboards are even tempered and so we don't actually _quite_ have perfect intervals any more, but the differences at that level are far smaller.)
>>>now it has been launched. and last week i got my first paying customer. i literally cried and jumping around in excitement, and immediately gtalked my girlfriend. very stupid considering it's less than $10, but it gave proof that "my idea works" (it's just an e-commerce for Indonesia market).

Thats how a felt. Please post the link
I'm designing a programming language and I totally embraced the PEG paradigm. I don't care about left recursion. My grammar is simple and clear without it.

A great benefit of PEGs is that I can easily reason about how the parsing will be done as I write the grammar, which will be the same if it's done by the compiler or by the programmer in his head!

Those who say that the ambiguities still exist when using PEGs say so because they still reason in terms of CFGs. There is no ambiguity in PEGs, period. If the language is defined in terms of PEGs, there's no worry about that, as long as the reader of the language spec understands about prioritized choices.
Why? Does this solve a perceived usability issue? It's just going to confuse its users.

When in a multiline text field, pressing Enter should add a new line. (If comment fields where single-line text fields, however, I'd understand the change.)
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It's `svn blame` integrated into Visual Studio?
Google’s approach optimizes a sub-optimal model. A poor performer is less bad after a year of coaching. Our data show that talent occurs in predictable combinations, each combo in predictable frequency. Some combos DO NOT exist at all. The talents of great leaders (envision future, inspire followers) does not exist in the same person as a great manager (sees unique talents in others, applies and develops the talent, fosters purposeful collaboration). Google should have asked: What talents do our best managers posses? How do we find and develop more, faster? See http://methodteaming.com/did-google-miss-the-forest-for-the-...
No, no, no... I see I'm bad with titles!! :(

No, it parses the code, finds your method across history and then diffs it. Nothing to do with blame.

If you heavily refactor a method, it is still able to find it, nothing to do with blame.
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What's wrong with creating new products -- ones that don't already exist?
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That is just one of it's modes, and while in theory I agree with the separation of concerns, the cognitive overhead of coordinating the control with the worker thread vs letting MBProgressHUD manage both is substantial.

It's a fairly small addition for how much poet it gives. I agree that it's not for everyone.
I respect your faith in good engineering, but I haven't seen alot of evidence of good engineering here.

There is no evidence to support your assertion that this is nothing like a "China syndrome" type issue. This facility is located a few miles from the eqicenter of the 4th largest earthquake in recorded history. None of the safety systems worked, and the power company and Japanese government has no clue about what to do.

So the future of (at a minimum) an entire region of Japan is dependent on a slab of concrete after a massive earthquake. It is a facility built in a known earthquake and flood hazard zone that requires continuous access to the utility grid.

Doesn't sound like good engineering by any standard to me.
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What does this story actually show? Did they have some a priori guarantee that one of the batches would sell out? If so, why not do a small amount of research to figure out which one?
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Oh, yes......

My previous employer, you could work out the function of a server and its platform from its name; it was embedded within the name. There were index numbers when we had more than one which wasn't ideal, but....

My current employer, it helps if you know your nature taxonomies in some detail. We may have more to keep track of and so more namespace clashing, but I can't help but feel it's a suboptimal solution.
Original content is a natural evolution for Netflix. Look at most of the pay-tv channels (HBO, Showtime, now Starz). All of them started as just ways to monetize existing content but realized that original content could make them more money and boost subscribes while reducing churn.

This is why Chris Albrecht (the new CEO at Starz) is pushing for original content. They've tried a couple shows so far (Spartacus, now a show about Camelot) and continue to be moving ever increasingly in that direction.

To those of you who are complaining about it only being one show or that it is going to be too narrow of an audience, sure. But to me this is Netflix just dipping their toes in the original content game.
Just to add to the public thrashing of your comment..

My Estonian father-in-law was given 5 minutes notice to pack his bags at 5am, and taken to Chernobyl along with many other Estonians. He had no choice. He was not told where they were going.

Thankfully, his task was to be a driver for the Russian officals (who wisely stayed some distance away from the reactor), rather than clearing up the power station.

4200 people who "volunteered" in a similar manner currently reside in Estonia. Many of those who were taken have since died.
The lowest seed to win the NCAA championship: 8th. Yes I do realize that it was pre shot clock era.
That's uncompetitive, everyone should just get the browser they like either it is IE9, Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Safari - they just need to get rid of IE8/7 and PLEASE ie6.
One of the comments on that article really hit home with me:

I personally think this just highlights everything that is wrong with the games industry at the moment.

Genius creator of an epic, brilliant, open-ended, proper clasic game is reduced to making cutesy, family-friendly gimicks that (here's the big sell) uses a motion controller. Woooooo - Big deal.

No games pubslisher nowdays would ever take a punt on what might end up being the next Populous, Civ or Elite games. Braben should be livid with the stagnation.

Sure, I understand the market mechanics behind the game industry these days, and do see he has little other choice. But it does make me feel a little sad inside. Things have changed so much in gaming, I don't think we can expect an Elite 4 ever.
Congratulations mate ! :D
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I'm right there with you on this. I live in Tokyo and I still hope they build more reactors in Japan after this (no more GE Mark 1s though, please). There is no question that nuclear power is cleaner and safer than any fossil fuel-derived power-generation technology.

Just correcting an error/omission.
I don't quite like the hitting Enter to post. Though, I can deal with that. I do, however, like how we can essentially edit our posts. That was something that always frustrated me with Facebook comments.
If you can, just call them. I have a story:

I'm involved with a rather large online community (I help with ad sales). As with any such community with lots of discussion forum activity, people sometimes say inappropriate things. A few years ago, someone on the site was being particularly annoying, and called the owner something like an "insufferable jackass" (I don't recall the exact phrase, but that's close enough). So, the owner looked him up, called him at work, and started the conversation with "Hi, I'm the person you called an insufferable jackass." The guy was immediately apologetic (and very embarrassed), and that was the end of the problem.

All that to say that for many people, there's a huge disconnect between real life and the internet. Just call them up, be human, and make the connection for them. I bet they'll be apologetic, and might even pay for your service.

If that doesn't work, you can always talk to their supervisor.
A few short days ago, we were told that everything was a-ok, no worries. Then the buildings started exploding -- still, everything is under control. On Monday we hear that fuel rods are fully exposed, but that is ok too.

Now we're talking about the staff evacuating the site to avoid acute radiation poisoning and dropping seawater from helicopters. At what point do you stop accepting the best-case scenario as the most likely one?
I would've asked: "Where's my Elite 4?" :(
why in the world would you redirect to chrome frame.
Pretty sophomoric, insignificant, and unworthy of HN readers' time.
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now you taught SEO professionals put feynman lectures online in pdf with ads injected in feynman content! :)
It's closed source. You can only download a linux binary for it. There seemed to be some Windows version, but it stopped working (deliberately sabotaged by Microsoft using Windows Update, according to the web site as a retaliation for comparing G-WAN to IIS).
People using IE6 are XP users considering the default browser on Vista and Windows 7 is either IE7 or IE8, and XP doesn't support IE9.
Really, https://gateway.purdue.edu/ once you graduate you go signup through the alumni website and then you can change your address or the forwarding address via the web at any time. It's not like some sys admin is sitting there creating accounts for each graduate that wants a forwarding address.

Sounds like you might need to advocate a healthy does of automation. In my 4 years of school I never had an IT problem and never interacted with anyone from the University IT department.
lol Thanks
Last year my browser extension ranked on the first page of bing and yahoo for the keyword 'google' : It resulted thousands of impressions, but it fade out the next days of course. It's not very useful trafic of course.
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The next Elite is stuck in development hell, delayed indefinitely.

However, I would think the next Elite should come in the form of a MMO.
The legacy system that I'm working on now has about 20-30 distinct classes/data types that it needs to manage and persist to the database. The previous developer chose to implement all of these different data structures in one uber-table named 'object' and in the application code with one uber-class named 'Thing'. Relationships between 'Things', regardless of meaning or type, are simply dumped into a 'relationship' table. It wouldn't be so bad except for the meaning and nature of relationships is often inferred based on the order or 'direction' of the relationships in the database.

So pretend that I have a 'Thing' representing a table, and another 'Thing' representing a column. If the relationship was from the table to the column then that might indicate that the column simply belongs to the table. However, if the relationship is from the column to the table, then that might indicate that the column is a primary key.

There are also other gems deep within the bowels of the system. Many functions named things like 'doItForRealThisTime' and 'reallyDoIt'.
When everything is a felony, nothing is.
Usability wise, it makes a lot more sense to have "enter" be a new line. That's how it works in any textarea and document. We're trained to naturally expect that. Enter to submit only makes sense on one line inputs. Anything that resembles a text area should have shift + enter to submit(or control + enter). This is most intuitive.
To be fair, the unworried proponents of this piece used equally fallacious rhetorical tricks, and did so with the intent to deceive.
I'm not sure I get the point about "hacking" around operator precedence. Isn't the normal way to get around this to define the grammar differently? For example:

expression -> factor | factor + expression
factor -> number | term * factor
term -> number | (expression)
number -> [0..9] | [1..9][0..9]+

Is this the hack the author is referring to? Why is it a hack?
A solution would be to use DirectX and request exclusive access to the screen. It's rather unlikely any of the other apps are doing this.

Using DirectShow it would not even be complex - could be done in just a few lines of code.
The plane falling happens a lot more often?
I have my email client set up to play a cash register sound every time an order goes through. It sounds dumb, but it never gets old.
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and why would people let banks gamble with their money unless it was guaranteed by FDIC? government being "the lender of last resort" really just means that eventually risk will be socialized.

Of course private industry seeks to avoid regulation when it can. This does not make one evil.
Visual Studio is very often confused at edit-time. The parser should not be more forgiving, it should just remember the parts that once were correct but are now invalidated by further edits. That way, updates that keep local correctness would continue to work even if some parts prevented the correct parsing of the whole file.
the video is about the ipad1 not the ipad2
People cannot change their password. Whatever the system has for your last name is your password. This is common in libraries because a) your barcode is assumed to be mildy private and b) online access to your account doesn't give you access to physical objects (even if you request something, we require barcodes and picture ID to circulate the item) thus mitigating any financial losses to the user.

This does raise concern regarding unauthorized access to licensed content. If you google for EZProxy logins you can find dozens of lists of accounts to Universities. My experience is that libraries rely on publishers to ulinately report abuse though at which point we suspend the barcode and issue a new one to the legitimate user.
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dumb? I think it is brilliant
I am really curious how popular this will be. PowerShell is crap compared to bash or ksh. It is actually kind of embarrassing how bad powershell is. I would love to hear from someone who likes powershell and is proficient with bash.
I've been in ecommerce off/on for about 5+ years now. The rush is awesome. One of my clients was NASA and they would put in $5K orders every quarter or so. Always got a thrill about that!

BTW, nice gun site too!
Hm, this was a perfect scenario where I wished the colour of the links would be as "grayed" out as the rest of the down-modded comment. I ended up clicking it and, well, it's what you'd expect.

I don't mind the odd guy sneaking in a shameless plug here and there, but this was just a bit too forced and you just made yourself look silly. :/
Do you have any doubts MS will close that site for any kind of IE trademark violation ?
I also agreed with gm's comment...
I tried it once in DC, and it was perfect. First or second property we contacted agreed, and the host was a very pleasant guy. Later we tried it for London, which was a train-wreck (contacted many properties, got shady, if any, responses, the one we picked and agreed with eventually just backed out with no warning). I'm going to Paris next week, and we've a studio flat booked through AirBnB - first one contacted. It's got good reviews, so I'm optimistic.

Gut-feeling says that AirBnB works once it has critical mass in an area - but until it has that, it's a mess. I'm not sure what they could do about it, it's really a chicken-and-egg problem. Perhaps it'll solve itself in time, as more areas develop critical mass.
I'm going to suggest that you're probably an outlier. I would think that a large majority of Facebook comments are one-liners. The typical Facebook commenter is writing multi-paragraph in-depth comments every day. So I think this change does a good job of optimizing for the general case.
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ha ha!

and check the initial post's comment thread: the same comment caught Mr Wilson's attention.

so not that silly...
Would you guys find it useful for Git?
Unfortunately that is not the case. Things like NetMeeting and other remote desktop control apps do the same.
>Usability wise, it makes a lot more sense to have "enter" be a new line.

I disagree. The paradigm they're using here isn't that of word processing a document, but rather quick text conversations. In pretty much every chat/IM program I've ever used, "enter" == "send", and shift+enter == newline.
This would beat the "enumerating all the windows in the system and calling ShowWindow(SW_HIDE)" program, but not:

"setting their program as the screen saver, disabling the mouse and keyboard devices, and then invoking the screen saver on the secure desktop."

or

"enumerating all the processes on the system, attaching to each one with debug privilege, and suspending all the threads."
>Does this solve a perceived usability issue?

Editing, yes. When I leave a comment and see that I made a typo, I have to delete it and repost it, by which time someone has often already replied.
Electical noise could be the way forward for semiconductor design.
That's probably because it's IBM's 100th anniversary this year so it's running through the old logos as a retrospective.
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post it as a separate thread and a show hn