skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flask-Enterprise
[hint: hmm I wonder what day is coming up?]

[another hint: find out how Flask got started or just watch this : http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878916 ]
no you misspelled it its Calacanis
There's nothing reasonable about blaming one agent instead of another when it's their partnership that's doing the damage.

Indeed, and in a very small way, advocacy for this kind of buck-passing you makes you part of the problem, not the solution.

The problems of trophy hunting, poaching, black-market animal parts, and wholesale extinction are all connected. They're all part of an outlook that reflexively sees wildlife as being worth more dead than alive. The thing supporting this view is a larger (and hugely problematic) outlook that views the Earth as an infinitely renewable resource, and only acknowledges financial limits when it comes to one's own consumption.

The good news is that a growing number of people look at this guy's 'adventure' and think "ick". Though you may not share that sense of moral revulsion, please be aware that it reflects an instinct that you and any kids you may have will ultimately benefit from.
A lot of the Perl 6 operators [1] have a Haskellish feel to them, especially the operators that modify operators.

[1]: http://glyphic.s3.amazonaws.com/ozone/mark/periodic/Periodic...
I like that attitude, I'll buy you a market price beer.
There's a new deal site in town - targeting the underserved hipster market
The full screen mode is written with jQuery mobile.. it actually works pretty well on iPhone and Android.
> GoDaddy is not afraid to kill to solve problems

Just don't forget to pay your GoDaddy bills...
Or UTC+12?
[hint: find out how Flask got started or just watch this : http://pycon.blip.tv/file/4878916 ]
Apple to launch Vatican City Apple Store

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/04/01/breaking-news-apple-t...
Andrew, congratulations on great launch! One of the things we are doing at allify.com is to allow you to 'bank' cross promotions credits. So if you plan to launch a new game, you can add an cross promotion unit and promote other apps. When you are then ready to launch your new app we will then give you back the impressions that you gave to the network pre-launch. Its a bit different from what you are doing - but same type of concept. All in all, great to hear tips like that - more power to independent app makers :) Best, henrik at allify
Where to start...

I guess we can start w/ the age of the last version that was used (clue: had no namespaces). That places it squarely pre-8.0 (8.05 was released early 1999). Rehashing a twelve year old language? (For reference, Tcl is shipping 8.5.9 now, and Tcl 8.6 is in beta, under active development).

Lots has gone on since, then; Glancing at the article, first thing that jumps out is complaining about Tk not looking nice. Tk has had "Themed Tk" for some time now (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl#Tile.2FTtk). The difference is remarkable.

Regarding quoting -- not much more to say than Perl or /bin/sh, for example.

{prints $a... literally}

"prints: $a <--- value of 'a'"

"prints: [glob *] <--- the result of the glob cmd (a list of files)"

Basically, substitution works for "double quotes", but not for {braces}. (But, dig into Tcl and there are more creative commands at your disposal, like:

[subst -nobackslashes -nocommands {this is content of variable "a": $a}]

And this: "...although everything is a string and it should be very easy to stick things together when that is what you want to do, in any scenario which is even slightly complex you have to start writing list operations in order to build your strings". What's wrong with:

set a "oh"; set b "hai"; puts "$a $b";# easy-peasy (I'm a comment)

"Tk’s layout procedure does a lot for you automatically, which in practice means that it’s a pain to do anything else."

Tk has 3 layout engines...pick one. If you're having a lot of trouble, you're doing it wrong.

The beauty of Tcl and Tk (which thankfully still exists today) was largely glossed-over, which is too bad.

* The Tk system...is a very clever way to easily write a GUI program.

* "Tk is cross-platform." (of course, so is Tcl). Win, Mac, BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc., etc.

* "...the actual Tcl implementation is great." Still true.

* "has a nice event loop" Still does... and threads, and co-routines (8.6), and lambdas, safe interpreters, utf-8 support, tcp sockets, "tdbc" database connectivity (8.6), built-in OO facilities (8.6)...

* "The core library provides system independent facilities which are well designed and well implemented." Still true... a joy to work with.

So there you have it, an ad-hoc response to a review gone wrong.
Typo in the link: http://omgubuntu.co.uk
Excellent question, fascinating answer:
http://www.orbitermars.co.uk/stdorbit.htm

Trivia: this was the first spot googling "energy cost change orbital plane". I almost didn't click the link "Standard Orbit, Mr Sulu!" but was very glad I did. Bing had Wikipedia as the first spot, not nearly as engaging.
I was a dedicated IR_Black user (in both VIM and Visual Studio), and didn't think highly of this at first. But after about an hour, it's grown on me. If I can scrape together some time, I'll throw together a VS2010 color scheme/theme.
Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed until Mid 2012.
The Canterbury Distribution: http://www.archlinux.org/ & http://www.debian.org/ & http://grml.org/ & Gentoo & openSUSE....

That's some team effort! Too bad it's a joke, I'd so get it right now...
I agree, I also don't see it as a partisan issue. Both parties have forward-looking people who understand the importance of transparency and the value it can bring to society -- and both parties have insiders who jealously guard information, pork experts whose main goal is to reward their campaign contributors, and some outright corrupt pols.
There is no bad publicity.
So I guess the counter is that there is limited liquidity, or lack of access, or frozen capital?

If the capital was unlimited, then why dont we have more open funds.

Further, if we really thought that capital was unlimited, would we think that ideas were worth nothing?

If there was unlimited capital then why not have kick-funds of say, $10,000, to simply see effectively any idea to MVP/POC?

Isnt this what YC was, a 15K seed injection to determine the validity of an idea? No, it was a 15K seed to determine the validity of FOUNDERS.

But I do think we need easier access to capital, I just dont think it is unlimited -- or maybe its access is governed by fear.
Hm, some basic AR eyewear + UnLogo software https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/816924031/unlogo-the-co... (still looks pretty rough, but it's a start) could actually do that.
I love their Apple website screenshot: http://thenextweb.com/apple/files/2011/04/Apple_Vatican2a.pn... XD
Hey Erik,

I'm very sorry that you had this experience on Airbnb. However, I'm very glad that it has come to our attention.

Airbnb operates as a trusted community marketplace that thrives on community engagement, not anonymity. Building trust is not an easy mission, but it is a mission to which we very are committed. We have very stringent quality and conduct control standards that we require both hosts and guests to abide by. We rely heavily on direct feedback from our users through our community support team and transaction based reviews in order to remain a trusted place for people from around the world to book, list and discover unique spaces. We find the behavior of this host to be unacceptable and have since followed up with them directly. We invite anyone who has similar experiences to reach out to us directly in these instances, which we take very seriously.

As mentioned by someone else, taking payments offline is not something we allow our hosts to do. Hosts, if they so require it, have the ability to charge cleaning fees and security deposits through our service, allowing the guest a seamless, safe and secure booking experience. Our payment process was designed to prevent fraud and scams which are rampant on other sites, where payments are often sent through the mail between strangers, with no recourse.

Instances like this remind us that we have a long way to go to making Airbnb the best place in the world for people to find the space they need. While we are disappointed that you had a bad experience, we truly appreciate your honest feedback, which challenges us to keep building to achieve our mission.

Christopher Lukezic, Airbnb employee
I really believe that Airbnb is far safer than VRBO. With VRBO you are exchanging personal information and money directly with an unknown 3rd party. In contrast, Airbnb has a trusted reputation system and handles all payments (i.e., both guest and host have verified financial accounts in order for money to be transfered). Airbnb even witholds payment to the host until 24 hours after you check-in, giving you time to contact customer service if you're not getting what you signed-up for.
At Pinterest we turned stuff upside down: http://pinterest.com/
My favorite vim color scheme is two2tango. Here's a preview http://cl.ly/2Y0v251z0A29203K3d3D
Yeah, I was so happy to see it because I've been thinking about this exact thing for quite a long while. I like the idea of replacing all ads with random images from my photo albums.

I would be so much happier. One day.
Four questions to ask the interviewer in a technical interview
Wombat: http://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wom...
You complain Android is not open when a lot of Android is (there are closed source apps - like Gmail and Google Maps - that run on Android) and a small part that's not yet (Honeycomb - Gingerbread) without any definitive announcement on whether it will be exclusive to their initial partners or not (with a strong impression this is temporary).

Everyone can download and build most of what goes into an Android phone or tablet. Most important on the software freedom (to programmers, that is) you can fork it, build your devices and sell them without ever asking Google for their blessing (much like they hadn't to ask Linus for his blessing when they used Linux for Android's core).

Unfortunately, for users (me included - I own an Android and a Palm Pre) I cannot demand source code from you with the exception of the parts that are GPL'ed and thus I am not effectively independent from the software provider.

I don't quite like this - I'd love to be able to build Gingerbread and burn it into my Android handset (I'd prefer to keep the Palm as it is), perhaps, even building the parts above Bionic and grafting it on top of iOS, just for the kicks (unfortunately, Apple doesn't like that and, in order to distribute this to other iOS users I'd have to ask for their blessing, which would never come).

You are right. Honeycomb is not free right now. And that's what I don't quite like about Apache-like licenses: the developer can withhold software from me. But I am convinced this is a temporary stance and soon enough not only other manufacturers will have full access but I will too.
someone might have broken the code:
http://i.imgur.com/UOgD2.jpg
http://www.zdnet.com.au/rim-debuts-screenless-blackberry-339...
Blackberry announces a screenless model
Love the quotes:

"Cease and Desist" - Rovio
I'm in .au, have it enabled via /experimental, and am using Chrome, but I don't see the +1 button anywhere.
For historical interest, an all-time classic from the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/new...
That's a good point. But do you think they knew that this was going to happen when they handed out the hats?
Very cool - I just tried it on my iPhone and it worked flawlessly. About how long did this project take?
It's very good. PyCon and Clojure have lots of videos there. I am right now listening to a PyCon 2011 presentation from it.

And they got the podcast thing right.
Who links to my Website: Free tool to check who is linking to your website
By "Hacker News Community", do you think they mean - those people who comment?
This is a form of blood sport (i.e. killing for personal entertainment). Animals that are destined for human consumption aren't generally killed for entertainment.
Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal planet.
What's your focus?
How to Print Car Magnets
Find a printing service that will allow you to design and decide on the size of your magnet at an affordable price.
Scammed and ruined*, and I'd add killed, by way of economic force. Not every death is by way of physical force.

SMH. Downvoted because I prioritize humans over elephants.
In a word, no. Microsoft could not change the protocol because it still had to support the hundreds of millions of Microsoft Windows clients out in the field. With Vista, Microsoft cleaned up the protocol a bit (SMB2), but it was the Samba team's paranoid fantasy that this somehow applied to them. Really, it was a long-overdue revision which helped performance tremendously.

While the Samba team had a huge task, this does not excuse the extremely crappy implementation over the years: corrupt TDBs, lack of change notify, no native ACL support, oplock crashes due to the non-asynchronous, single threaded nature of each smbd, horrible Winbind scalability problems, domain join bugs, no real named pipe abstraction layer, no alternate data stream support, etc. And the code is just horrible to look at.
Opt out of April Fools Day with the "DNF" HTTP header:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/do-not-fool/

If you are planning an April Fools joke on your web site, I urge you to support this important new web standard. :)
April Fools' Day On The Web - Collection of all online AFD Jokes from 2004-2011
have you ever missed something really important with that method? or do people know that you dont really read emails and get that information to you in other ways?
Sounds like you should be a founder. I found myself in a similar position a couple of years back, and yes becoming a founder did make me more happy and fulfilled.
People seeking knowledge, experience, and advice outbidding each other to sit down with people with knowledge, experience, and advice. For charity. Doesn't seem so backwards to me.
Super User - http://superuser.com/q/265114/4386
No cool off period (although that is a good idea). I just submitted a good read and it head already been posted 616 days ago, and thus no one will see it.
Another important point you make is that Clarkson is indeed notorious for being opinionated and biased. The viewer must accept that to watch Top Gear. I think Tesla is over-reacting. Clarkson is not a friend of the environmentalists; they should have known that going into it.
It likely is a different analyzing system but the web appears very much modeled after the audit tab.

I just found it funny that the web gave google.ca 100/100
If Congress were a typical family...
Income: $40k
Husband and wife arguing over whether to spend $80k or $79.9k.

These "cuts" are nothing more than talking points.
I don't know about the rest of you, but my eyes literally started to hurt when I read the text on that page, presumably because of the color of the text v. background. Doesn't bode well for using it in vim...

Maybe it looks better on a different monitor? (I have a Samsung LCD.)
Cydia adds a dickbar to help users discover popular packages: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=14540
Meta-comment:

At the top is an animated graphic, and the sides are a sketchpad with the pen always down. While this may be a good article, I have to wonder: do you want me to read it or not?

Sorry to be so negative, but really, consider just what your blog is for.
The game itself was a last minute addition that was hacked together in about 20 hours. The intention was to add more levels... but we ran out of time.
Settling the RSpec/Test::Unit debate once and for all
> The 55 miles is still at odds with Tesla though. On their website (http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/roadster-efficiency-and-rang...), at the bottom of the article they display a chart that claims a range of 75 miles even if the vehicle is topped out at 125mph for the entire charge.

You have to remember though, it would probably spend more energy braking and speeding up again than it would going top speed steadily.
Air New Zealand have introduced "pay what you weigh"

http://promos.airnz.co.nz/payweigh/
If one has to ask whether or not they got a good deal, is there really any possible chance that they got a good deal? Are you hoping the founders were simply charitable?
Everyone stop ruining April fools by expecting it
Perl 6 hasn't gone very far, either...
Yeah - this has convinced me to not use AirBNB until/unless this sort of thing gets straightened out
Staying on Airbnb is really quite different than crashing somewhere on Craigslist.

Airbnb:
- has a fair reputation system with real user reviews
- handles all payments
- withholds payment to the host until 24 hours after your stay begins
- has 24 hour customer service line to help

With Craigslist:
- there's no reputation system
- you have to coordinate payments directly with an unknown 3rd party
- there's no one you can call

I haven't even gone into the differences in how Airbnb facilitates your search for accommodations. Airbnb and Craigslist are fundamentally different services.
I did not and do not perceive you to have done anything terribly wrong or dishonorable.
Yes. Airbnb has a balanced and authentic review system that lets you read what previous guests had to say about a listing.
I didn't say it was a couch surfing site. There are plenty of people who you wouldn't want to meet, but I've also seen a phd running a high tech startup on it, who might be more interesting.

If you're going somewhere regularly you can try a place once and then decide whether you want to stay there more often. There are some nice apartments as you say.
reddit's in the making: http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/gftly/and_the_april_...
Yes but you would think that a reasonable default solution would be to use both. ie. mmap by default and then if the file is larger than MAX (based on memory use, file size) then use read.
❜❜Nice, but that doesn't work for large, successful companies. Your idea doesn't scale.❛❛
Try Node.js for 2¢ or less in ~2 minutes
test-align: centaur; http://testaligncentaur.com/

not to be confused with

text-align: centaur; http://textaligncentaur.com/
Freestanding bathtub- B2R-1515
then HN needs to implement URL normalization and equivalence from RFC3986. These are fresh in my mind because I extended urllib in Python to support them last week.

It isn't an easy problem to solve, working out if two URLs are equivalent, but the RFC goes some way to solving it which picks up easy things like adding a #.

see: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-6
Katy Perry ft. Kenye West: super producción del video E.T.
Nice! That fixed it. Now it's 3 seconds.

I'm still surprised why it's so much slower with UTF-8, though. I guess gnu grep is naively converting back and forth between representations? There's nothing in UTF-8 that should prevent it from doing this efficiently. Even with complex patterns, it possible to search through the file in about the same time as a simple pattern. E.g. aspell can build a FSA where each transition is O(1), making the search time more or less independent of the search pattern.
Snoopy: View-source bookmarklet for iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices
Arch, Debian, Gentoo, Grml and openSUSE merge into Canterbury
I really can't imagine anything that doesn't go in the page. There may be a more convenient form of getting it, but everything meaningful seems to be there.
Hmm, "indiscriminate SQL injection attack" seems like a paradoxical concept to me.
YouTube's "year 1911" mode ;)
The iPhone was popular before the existing Twitter client existed. There are also lots of good 3rd party Twitter clients for the iPhone.

People won't switch to some other short message sharing service, they'll switch to a non-Apple phone.

Nah, they'll probably use the web UI or some other native client that supports Twitter.
Flask-Enterprise!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394521
The dev manager
The most useless character in the game.
Nobody is quite sure what this character does.

Can't agree more, :P
Useful Bookmarklets for your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Browser
A fitting name for a fairy tale.
Radiation leaves 1,000 tsunami bodies near nuke plant off-limits -
One idea is to make the site deliberately slower.

As for myself, there is so much content on the internet that if a link is slow, I'll just close the window and move on to something else. When the work network is laggy, I close the browser alltogether. And get back to work in my IDE.

This implies two things. Since a slow site would making participation (viewing links, posting comments, reading comments) much more difficult, people would only have an incentive to do so when they really felt it was worthwhile.

The second is that those of us at work would be more productive. Either that or open a tab for Slashdot, but all you can control is the amount of time wasted specifically as a result of HN.

Of course, people will complain that the site is too slow, but you could be "smart" about performance degradation. At what rate has a user opened links?

Often if I'm cruising away clicking articles and then the network slows, I'll stop and think "Man, I have 6 tabs open. Maybe I should just close the browser and get back to work." Or "Posting this comment can wait. I'll just do it later" and never get back to it unless I really felt the need to contribute.

This is consistent with what you yourself have posted about with respect to internet-vs-non-internet computers. Rolling your chair across the room (45 seconds) is equivalent to a 45-second network delay - possibly enough to get your head back into the game.
> That will likely mean substantial Western subsidies for poorer nations, and a concerted boots-on-the-ground effort to administer the vaccine.

It will also mean knocking the people who are convinced the vaccines cause AIDS out of the political world, lest they destroy our ability to do that. This will require action in both the Western world and in Africa, and will make a number of people very unhappy.

I know most people here don't care about those morons. However, any accounting of the cost has to include the political cost.
Sorry if I actually subscribe to that belief. Neither did God give humans a free pass on torturing less valued species. Animals are given as a resource much like trees and oil. Animals also happen to have some capacity for emotion and intelligence. Since they are similar to us in some way we should respect them, lest we become callus with the taking of intelligent life.

As for pets, it's a cultural thing that we don't eat pets. The bible cautions against following culturally aberrant activities provided doing so doesn't infringe on your service to God.

I would hope you will have some respect for other peoples' beliefs in the future.

(Sorry if I am less than clear, I'm typing this on my iPad and I can't edit stuff in text boxes very easily.)
Can you build Honeycomb?
GOP works to cover up video they previously published on internet
MyStream app allows users to share music wirelessly
Problem is you can't rate a host unless you've stayed there, so in this case, the OP couldn't rate the host as bad because he didn't end up staying there.

This is an issue that needs to be addressed, but overall, I love Air BnB.
The iPad doesn't upscale images. It just uses the non-2x images natively.
The importance of the "Feel"
Hey guys, My goal since 2004 has been to keep a list of all AFD jokes on the web in one place. Check it out if you like. Have 66 there so far this year :) Feel free to submit any ones from THIS year to the site as well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394571
Number One search engine shows the happy side of China
Try entering the URL of the service itself[0] for a small easter-egg.

[0] http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/