skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why doesn't the url change as you browse? For one thing, means you can't go back in the browser.
In Japan and other Asian societies, individuals have stronger social ties to their families, neighbors, coworkers. In the US, economic ties are more important. The US was built by people who left their families, neighborhoods, and existing structures to seek their fortune in the US.

I apologize for a non-PC interjection. You can't totally separate race and culture in the US. When a group has differences in language, music, eating habits, values and other social interactions, it becomes useful to think about it as a subculture. At the risk of being non-PC, a 'black urban subculture' may license antisocial behavior that is considered more reprehensible in 'white suburban subculture'.

I hasten to add that people who are white may be strongly associate and be of high standing in 'black urban subculture' (ie Eminem), and people who are black may strongly associate and be of high standing in 'white suburban subculture,' (ie Obama) and that once you start making assumptions about people's values and cultural adherence based on the color of their skin you start crossing the line into racism, which I don't believe anyone of any race is entirely free of.
I would have to imagine it's an exception that makes their policies look asinine.

Think about it through the typical workflow: googling an article for research, and finding a link to NYTimes, and reading it, versus something similar to hitting a research paywall, where there's an abstract and big "pay" button that might as well say Eff You. Then, if the user leaves, there's no ill-will (they aren't coming back anyway); but if they browse around, they get the first one free then a message to sign up. The OP is thinking of the hack as the standard interaction.

Khoi Vinh ain't no fool.
This does seem to be a mantra on HN. I can't speak for anyone else, but where I live "junior developer" positions are looking for 3+ years experience, "Preferably" a masters degree in computer science, expert Linux, HTML and JavaScript, and so forth. While globally it is a hacker's job market, those of us who are not currently free to move to where the jobs are (I'm a single parent and don't want to uproot my kid again) sometimes have to try to get our foot in the door in this employer's market by begging for the chance to work even for free.

Not trying to be a Debbie Downer at all, by the way. I moved from the valley to the Midwest (I know, I know...) so I know that there are tons of jobs for people like me (and Vlad, probably). However in my opinion "Don't work for free for a for-profit company!" isn't advice everyone is in a position to follow. I wish I could.

(Disclaimer: I am a junior dev with Django/js experience in both personal and open-source projects, without a degree. So take my whining for what it's worth.)
I'm sorry,but let me point out one thing.

>>There are second-generation Koreans living in Japan who can't get citizenship or the vote.

It's not about discrimination why Koreans are not becoming Japanese citizen, but it is their choices.
Because Koreans in Japan have privileges and immunities which people with Japanese citizenship or other nationalities don't have.
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I was just copying from the post. It's not exactly how I would do it but I thought doing what I thought should be done would just distract the problem.

One way or another you need some sort of delimiter, in the sense of delimiting the grammar domains, be it a explicit delimiter like a character (pair) or an implicit one like trying to guess which subgrammar you're trying to use. In the case of smashing two grammars together I would tend to prefer an explicit delimiter, because it lowers the need to coordinate between the two grammars, a difficulty that you demonstrated there.
No, what's scary is that there are people who think radiation is measured in cubic millimeters (m^-3). I'm not about to claim it's a well-made chart, but nobody should be drawing any conclusions from any chart without knowing what it's measuring (a plume) or what the units are (m^-3).
To any nuclear experts, question I've got:
The Fukushima plant is a 1970's design I believe, what would the situation be if the plant was as modern a design as possible, would the situation there be different?
Some of us are a little more concerned about privacy to never clear our cookies or cache. If they were smart they would use the same technology HN uses to allow me to post with my Google account, circumventing login completely. I've been an active NYTimes reader my whole life, but I'm not going to make an account when I can read the same article mirrored somewhere else. Which is exactly what will happen when they attempt a pay wall.

They generate income from advertisements regardless if you have an account or not.
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That's the same as the forward/backward functionality.
The problem is the data model may change between versions so the URL hierarchy will change. Or instance you may have split customer and staff into separate concepts but later decide your service is better imagined as a network and thus only have users.
If users are going to that length to circumvent the login, that should tell you something about how much of a PITA the process is in their minds.

All they want to do is read the article and it shows that the NYTimes process is just not working. I actually have a login to NYTimes, but I can't remember it since I don't read them regularly ... so if I go to their site and get greeted with a login screen and whatever computer I'm on doesn't remember my login ... I tap out and go do something else.

Why they can't sit down and seriously think about ways to change that instead of going with tried and tired methods never ceases to amaze me.

I mean its 2011 and we're still talking about paywalls for goodness sake ... I thought those failed ten years ago?
Dave seems to want full file management on the device, which could make sense - there's no technical problem with it.

I think what he's keying on but not saying is that the Zune was ahead of it's time because they all came with Wifi built in. You could sync over Wifi - I have a friend who has one in the car and it just stays there, syncing with his computer when he gets home for music/podcasts/etc. You could easily see this extended to "Anywhere I can get WiFi, I can download podcasts" which is what I think Dave was getting at.

Also, the "pay a flat fee to access a huge library" was and still is an innovative pricing model.

The hardware was actually quite good, and I'm generally biased towards Apple.

Microsoft did quite a few things right with the Zune, but they were at price parity with the iPod which had a large ecosystem around it, and they had just burned all their previous PlaysForSure partners, so the "anything but iPod" crowd was somewhat annoyed at them. Android tablet makers should use this as an example of how not to do things...
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As a guitarist, this is going to get a hell of a lot more interesting when Apogee's Jam is released at the end of the month (As is seen in the iPad 2's GB video).
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Precisely the conclusion that I jumped to.
I got the _ from HLint, which suggested it in general when discarding values in do notation. Mostly I ignored it but in parsers in particular I found it helpful. Your applicative functor approach eliminates the need for it anyhow, which is also a, uh, what's the opposite of a code smell? Code disinfectant? I'll adopt that, thanks.
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dll inject all the other programs?

rootkit and write your own display driver?
A good rule of thumb here seems to be to put identity in the path and other things in the query string. For example, to search for items with property foo equal to 12 in the music collection known as bar, the url would be /music/bar?foo=12
I assert that Firefly without Fillion or Baldwin would be a travesty of entertainment and not worth the attempt.

I'd buy two subscriptions to Netflix if it carried a new season of Firefly. Now I'm sad that Wash and Book are gone. Crap.
While I don't completely disagree with you, I think his chances of success are better than spending x amount of time applying for jobs trying to get an interview.

I don't recall which company, but in the last two weeks, one of the big name startups put out a competition to solve a problem regarding log file parsing. It was an opportunity, basically, to get a job with them. Now, with this approach, the OP might be competing with thousands of others - and his chances of standing out are reduced. He's taken the inverse approach, and HE can pick the challenges he wishes to solve, with same end goal: income.

It's not unique - it's what a lot of driven people have done in the past to get in the door somewhere.
on win7 you can also use the win button + arrows to snap it to edges of the screen. That is if it is sizable
My god... I guess it shouldn't surprise me that an EduManga industry exists.
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This looks interesting. Some of those features seem to come directly from google wave.
This has to be some weird issue on your side, I don’t see any latency on my 1G iPad when playing the drums. (Otherwise there would be little point to the whole application, right?)
You can also do work for non-profits or charities. Sparked.com always has some Web-related work that you could easily do in a couple of hours at a whack and build up a portfolio. (Sparked.com being a site I learned about here, and I've done a couple of little tasks there.)
That is up to the individual.

Many people as they start playing instruments they start developing a more and more sophisticated sense of harmony.

It's not different than code looking like nonsense to the noob.

This is where culture comes in. Jazz used to be pop-music, people grew up with it.

Context history culture sophistication at any given subject.
I believe XCode (I may be confusing the interface with RunRev Cards thing from a while ago though) has a simple check mark to make window a top most window on Mac. But I'm not sure if they can be scaled. Some of the Logic Pro and Final Cut tools function like this, where they are abovee everything.
I respectfully disagree. This isn't to say that I don't fully appreciate the brilliance exhibited by both of those actors (especially seeing how mediocre Baldwin is in almost everything else I've seen) in those roles, but Joss Whedon does two things really well -- write compelling dialog, and make exceptionally good cast choices.

I do consider Firefly to be Whedon's magnum opus, but you can keep the concept without those two actors, or without any of the original cast really, but there's nobody you could cut that wouldn't be sorely missed. The real question is whether or not it's still 'Firefly' or a spinoff. And, my take on that is to accept whatever Joss Whedon says. If he calls it Firefly, so will I.
I'm not opposed to a paywall for any reason other than I won'r pay for content that I don't deem worth it. Not making a statement about the NYT. I just don't read the Times paper edition on a regular basis and therefore see no justification for paying for their online content. There's never been a story so amazing that I couldn't just move on without reading it.

I pay for content in some instances, and don't get the anger from people who grit their teeth and declare war on any newspaper who wants to charge for their online content. But it would be more likely for me to pay for my local paper's online content than the NYT.
We've seen this style of complaint many times since the announcement of the iPad. I think it's mostly an overreaction. My two points:

1. Hackers hack. People who have the hacker mentality figure out a way to be a hacker. Many people from my generation grew up using machines that were exclusively Windows. (Yes, I know many people did not, but many did.) DOS was hidden, and it came with no compilers. People still hacked. Yes, even that was more "open" than an iPad. But the notion people keep bringing up is that without the knowledge that hacking a system is possible, no one will do it. I don't think this is true.

2. The abstraction level that the majority of the next generation of hackers operate at may be higher than the last generation. This is almost a self-evident statement, but I haven't seen it mentioned much. The next generation of hackers may not even need compilers. Perhaps they will take advantage of the fact that all devices these days have a browser with a JavaScript runtime.

A part of me cries out, "But they'll completely take the operating system and hardware for granted! They'll never have to think about the machine itself!" And then I remind myself that this is progress. There are plenty of things that hackers before me spent all of their time on that I rarely think about.
I've had the same issue - couldn't get work done and couldn't relax. My solution was to cancel my home internet plan and go to the library. No more working at home for me. :)

Plus, it saves me ~$50/month, which helps when you're bootstrapping a business.
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What would be the risk of unhealthy radiation fallout in California? Could the radiation clouds move over the Pacific?

Also these geiger counters, is it something civilians could buy and use?
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Yeah, the last few episodes of Sarah Connor Chronicles were really exciting. The last episode is a twister, and you really want to know what happens next in the story.

Disclosure: I never saw Terminator 4, so my knowledge of the series is not complete. I'm told that I'm one of the lucky ones, though. :-)
My suspicion is that they will continue to make it relatively easy to get to the articles for free. Those who go through such elaborate means wouldn't pay for content anyway. It's a form of price discrimination.
I agree this is crazy. Windows really needs a central infrastructure for:

- program updates (polling for them, asking the user)

- user notifications (grouped, not with a zillion different icons)

- running tasks at certain times/conditions (yes, windows has this, but many apps nevertheless insist on running their own scheduler service)

- license server? (or at least, a way to launch these on demand, no need to run adobe/flex/matlab/bla license servers when the program is not running)

Right now, every program wants to install its own background process (some very bad ones want even more than one). This is very very annoying: programs that are not running at the moment shouldn't steal memory and CPU time by running something in the background.

It's too easy to turn your fresh windows installation into a ghetto. And it's not only fishy backwater programs that do this, the big commercial applications are just as guilty (yes, Adobe, I'm talking about you...).

Linux distributions and MacOSX have these things figured out for ages...
Doesn't load - it just sits there, like it's a blank HTML page with no content. It's the Ubuntu (Like that matters) Chrome 11.0.696.12 dev. - http://img.jamesg.tk/doesnt-work - (Screenshots of the page, and then of the source.) -

Also, works fine in Firefox 4 RC.
Did you ever read or wrote such an article?
Yes: You fail.
No: You maybe have a chance of actually getting some work done.
Hey Vladimir, what kind of salary range are you looking for when you get hired on full time? Or what hourly rate are you looking for if someone was to work with you for a little while and decide "hey, this guy is awesome, I need to start paying him enough that he'll stick around and keep helping us out"?
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Awesome! You are learning the lessons well... ;)
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Email coming. I've got a small project I need done, it's basically tweaks to an existing one. More than happy to pay, though.
In the 1970s, my school (in Liverpool) taught computing on 30 or so terminals connected to an Elliott. Possibly an Elliott 803[1] although I'm not precisely sure.

In 1982/83 the Elliott was scrapped and replaced by ZX Spectrums connected via the proprietary and strange Interface 1 network, and a couple of years later by BBC Model Bs connected via Econet.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Elliott_803
> a last-ditch effort by nuclear energy lobbyists to convince us that nuclear energy is really safe.

Well, let's see. In this case we've had a bunch of nuclear power stations very close to the site of a historically-large earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, large enough that even with Japan's outstanding disaster-preparedness thousands or tens of thousands of people have died. That would seem to be pretty much a worst-case scenario.

And, so far, all the troubles at the nuclear reactors have produced a grand total of zero deaths. Now, for sure, it's too early to know what the final outcome will be. Maybe there will be a Vast Nuclear Holocaust that obliterates Japan. (No, the laws of physics do not in fact permit this, but that objection applies equally to a number of other nightmare scenarios people have been proposing.) But so far as anyone can tell, the worst outcome that's at all likely is: a few people die, a few square km of land become unusable for a while, and they need to rebuild from scratch somewhere else. Well, that's pretty bad, for sure. But if that's the worst-case outcome from such a major natural disaster, it seems to me that -- so far as what we know right now goes -- nuclear energy is still looking pretty safe overall.

(Note: I am not a nuclear energy lobbyist.)
Actually, in my experience most of the time the clickable link is not provided by the person submitting the item in the first place. It's a cause of constant, low-level irritation to me that people submit things like this and then don't make a clickable link in the comments. I don't understand why they don't, but they don't. It's almost as if they don't care.

Curious, and annoying.
To ask the better question -- where would you look?
Nice post. But it's Hacker _News_.
Not "Hacker _OMG I've found a nice old article_". ;-)

February 3, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I never played Eve Online for fear that I might never emerge from my room again.. ever.

I had enough trouble stopping playing WoW.
I guess you've never tried Haskell then. :)

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.1.0.0/doc...
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I like the UI a lot. Curious though, so when i click on Android - it wont let me see the deals?

Does that mean i have to actually sign up and wait for the daily emails - or is there a platform that allows me to go on the site and see what the deal is?
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Could you explain the "privileges and immunities"?
Keeping listings up to date is one of the issues they need to fix but I don't think it's impossible. I think it's a teething problem rather than a problem with the system.

I had a similar experience myself - applying for places and finding them unavailable - so now that I'm on the other end putting my place up for lease I'm sure to respond quickly and keep my listing up to date.

I've had a couple of ideas on how they could fix this problem with changes to the UX and considering I'm no designer I'm sure they have even better ideas and will fix it soon. I hope so anyway.
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It is interesting that you chose the "He (Federer, Jordan, Ronaldo, Hank Aaron, etc.) makes it look so easy" analogy because you generally know if he's making it look easy during games/matches, it's only because he's practiced it a million times before. I would argue that he can make that shot or that swing so effortlessly when it matters most because he's practiced it so many times more so than because of natural talent or anything else. We tend to focus on how naturally talented he is because hard work is unglamorous, but talent really just gets you to that level of competition - from there, it's mostly just focus, hard work, determination, and of course some lucky bounces that separate the 10-time champions from the draft-day busts.

Sure, a startup can't quite practice shots the same way those guys can, but notice that it's usually the same startups that you hear pulling off these amazing hacks/hustles that are also crushing every feature/product launch, are always in the press, etc. Reminds me of that Nike ad campaign showing players making their amazing, signature plays not under bright lights but alone at dawn over and over: "There are no cinderellas."
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Yes agreed. I focus on FF/starter stock versus series F. I have not seen an early stage startup successfully negotiate series F stock given e.g. supervoting rights.

Later stage companies (see e.g. FB and Google) with strong founders in place can often get a dual class structure with super voting rights later in their life as they prepare to go public and their existing investors/board can get liquidity.
Is there something similar to phpmyadmin that will work with drizzle? It seems phpmyadmin is not 100%. http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2010/10/21/drizzle-phpmyadmin...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/radiation-fears-sweep-the-re...

Has an article on it. Basically you shouldn't worry, people were testing a whole bunch of atomic weapons during the cold war and everyone turned out alright.
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What is the advantage of dropping the smaller integer types? Does it reduce the per-record overhead for example? I have worked with a table that had about 200 million rows and 4 1-byte tinyint values. If those had to be full 4-byte ints it would require another 2GB to store and reduce the number of records that could fit in memory. Unless there is savings elsewhere?
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My point is that Mormons are unique among religious people. When it comes to sex they are in their own category.

You won't see a baptist joking about anal sex.

Anyway, joke is definitely ruined now :p
I, for one, would dearly love to see an Elite-style game but no one has made one (worth talking about), be it single-player or an MMO.

Have you taken a look at Egosoft's X3? It starts out like Elite, but eventually you can apparently end up buying the stations you used to trade in, building your own factories that make the stuff the stations sell, and using the ensuing wealth to build your own war fleet.
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Thanks! It's a one-deal-a-day platform, similar to Woot. The 'android' link on the left hand side is really just there to indicate that it is today's Android deal, and isn't clickable.

There's an android link at the top that takes you to the category, but it's perhaps superfluous at the moment.

The objective is that those categories will also allow for browsing the deals featured in the past, reverse date-sorted.
I concur, I dont think that something like that would be commonplace or it wouldnt even be allowed on the iPad 1.
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Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day.

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http://startupquote.com/post/3899081965
Thanks, those are good resources! I wish I had seen those earlier, but I'll comb through them and see if I can't find some more stuff to try for part 2 :)