skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm torn. On one hand, you do have a valid point, but on the other hand...it depends on the person.

That friend that let me crash in his hotel room was then at most an acquaintance I knew from IRC. I mentioned my problem on an IRC channel and he offered to help out for the entire 9 days I was planning on staying. I did not go to him and ask if he had a place. After we met up in person, our friendship really developed. You could say it was just a smaller version of the HN community, as that now-friend was pretty much someone I've never met before, just another person I said hello to on IRC on a semi-regular basis.

Some people wouldn't take offense to the idea of sharing a couch like this. Others may. But it's only due to the generosity and openness of certain people that an idea like couchsurfing is even possible. And well, if anyone did maybe feel like letting this guy crash on their couch, they can get to know him better beforehand, and in person. The HN community isn't totally strange..yes, you don't know everyone personally, but people here most likely share some interests. I know that if someone here asked, we had lots of interests in common, and they didn't mind sharing a couch at my house and I didn't mind them staying over that I would most likely not mind them crashing for a day or two. Especially if they did some chores around the house or something small...doing the dishes after dinner, taking out the trash. :)
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Yeah, but add in the personal liability part. The RIAA has demonstrated before that they have no problems suing individuals for exorbitant sums of money. At least Oullette had a corporation to protect him.
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doh, and its not even my site.
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This makes sense. I guess a programmer who does a string => bool type conversion desires different behavior than one who does string => int => bool, so the fact that they produce different results ("foo" => true vs. "foo" => 0 => false) is part of the design.
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Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was a submit button or an advertisement.
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Could you post your URL here? I'd be really interested to subscribe.
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I think I'm seeing a pattern here. The spammer creates an account and immediately posts three links. I wonder if that's a HN limit or an artifact of the spammer's behavior.
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This is weird, cause I have talked about this (ugh, over twitter) with some developers. I think reviews should be weighted, non-purchasers getting less weight than the purchasers. (Among other improvements, like sorting by date specifically, and by version reviewed, showing whether or not they purchased the app.)

Some comments are approaching inanity, but there are going to be excellent reviewers who didn't purchase it and there are going to be other reviewers pointing out something interesting about the application that other purchasers might want to know before buying.

For example, my boyfriend plays the game de Blob more often than I do, and can write a way better review than I can - personally I can't even be bothered to write a review or play the game for more than 30 minutes total...and it's on my iPhone paid for by me. In fact, he loves all the games on my phone more than I do, and so I basically never have a phone to use when he's over and not actively busy doing something else. That's already one example...I could also be beta testing an app and writing about how some version I tested was awesome. There's also the case where there might be an app that is significantly better than that that other people might compare to.

You might say that doesn't happen often, but the app store organization+search+review sorting and all need a lot of work since applications are different from music. Until Apple makes it easier for shoppers in that regard, reviews regardless of the origin can come in handy.

All that, and that if reviews are only from purchasers, the reviews are going to be extremely skewed. Honestly, have you seen some reviews by so-called purchasers, it's all different depending on what they expect and their familiarity with the application and more. I'll be unhappy at a purchaser-only review limitation, even more than at what's going on right now.
Are you running it yourself? :)

If everybody and their brother is running OpenTape, shutting down web-based mixtapes becomes prohibitively difficult.

That's what they said about P2P and RIAA is still suing hundreds and hundreds of people. Muxtape clones are gonna be even easier to shut down.
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I hate to pipe up with a me too, but it's uncanny how I related to what you said.

I use to have my own office and pretty much just worked alone. While it's hard to slip into the zone, it's great when it happens for those magical 2 or 3 hours, and you do lots of work.

Now, I'm in a room with other people, and having to pay attention to everything else makes the zone slipping hard to do. Anyone know if self-hypnosis works here?
I'm the co-Founder and CEO of Fluther; please don't spam our site. We have a dedicated group of volunteer moderators that remove spam, so it will be a waste of your time.

My honest advice on building a real community: it takes a lot of work, love, and time to incubate. There is no shortcut. Get your friends using it. Add good users one at a time. Make sure it works with for small group, and just keep building.
All its missing is the concept of a lurker mode. Orange County Choppers has it when they build motorcycles, and so do forums and chat sessions. So the rules just have to be tweaked a bit to make that possible, especially since getting enough like-minded people to coalesce in the first place is so difficult.
More than 15 total medals. Looking at GDP per Medal.

* Cuba ------- 1,879

* Belarus ------- 2,038

* Ukraine ------- 5,204

* Russia ------- 17,861

* Australia ------- 19,341

* South Korea ------- 31,674

* China ------- 32,990

* Netherlands ------- 47,181

* Great Britain ------- 59,000

* France ------- 62,875

* Italy ------- 73,857

* Canada ------- 78,111

* Spain ------- 78,611

* Germany ------- 79,488

* United States ------- 125,364

* Japan ------- 173,840

Who were expecting on top?
Interesting idea.. like the design, not sure about using pligg though, had some bad experience with it, but good luck with the 30 day mark, it sounds like a plan
Thanks for the suggestion -- it'll go out with the next push.
that's a great idea. One other person on hacker news suggested laser engraving on the frames, which I think is awesome!
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There's rate-limiting on new accounts. It kicks in after 3 submissions.
I'll try to get there, but it would suck if it were staggered. How about we agree on 9?
You don't personally know anyone who uses Fog Creek software, and that means what? Fog Creek is a failure?

Fog Creek looks to be doing quite well whether you know anyone who uses their products or not.
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if someone wants to be contacted they'll leave their email address in the profile.

Otherwise the reddit guys and other high profile guys who post on here would get constant emails from people with great ideas which they just know, will make them MILLIONS!
Exactly. The elephant in the room with the RIAA is the ubiquity of piracy. That's what makes DRM for the ipod so insane: only a small sliver of music is from a store.
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It's awesome. But, the shell is a little neutered, i.e. it breaks on (lambda (x) x)...hopefully that'll be fixed soon.
Tough to say. What this (perhaps) suggests is that there are more good athletes per capita in Cuba than in Japan.

But there are a lot of confounding factors, so I wouldn't read too much into it. For example, one needs to consider the amount of money invested into training and selection of athletes. The US is somewhat lackadaisical about selecting athletes at a young age, whereas the eastern bloc countries tend to be a bit more motivated....
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There is nothing special about web development that makes implicit typecasting or returning an arbitrary value when a cast fails instead of raising an exception a good idea. Another reasonable option is to return NaN (Javascript does this) or null.
Google did index it, but only with an extra URL parameter: http://www.webmasterworld.com/robots.txt?view=producecode
I thought I would be a smart-ass and re-create this data in Google Spreadsheet using GoogleLookup.. Should be great for this kind of thing.

2 minutes to get the medal tally, clean it up in excel and format out the country titles correct.

1 minute to Paste in Goog spreadsheet, setup GoogleLookup queries on each country for GDP / Pop.

2 minutes to fix up the 5 or so countries that it didn't recognise - Korea --> South Korea, Russian Federation --> Russia, Dominican Rep. --> Dominican Republic

And then I looked closely at the data Google pulled back...

China:
* GDP: - "$10 trillion (2006 est.) (purchasing power parity)",
* Population: - "1,313,973,713 (July 2006 est.)"

USA:
* GDP: - "2006 estimate"
* Population - "31/km² (172nd)"
(A few other countries had similar results)

(Sure, it probably just means that wikipedia is formatted differently for some countries, but it ruined my efforts.. Even so - I still got 95% of the data within about 5 minutes, and links to wikipedia pages that probably contained the rest..)

--- And with a bit more digging it seems that Google is just getting the figures wrong from wikipedia.. Lots of the countries came from the CIA World fact book - that had the correct numbers in GSpreadsheet; but if it goes to Wikipedia it seems to grab the Pop. Density and not the Pop.

Dear Google - please fix your scraper. :)
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From the fsync man page on OS X 10.5:

Fsync() causes all modified data and attributes of fildes to be moved to
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Note that while fsync() will flush all data from the host to the drive
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Specifically, if the drive loses power or the OS crashes, the application
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while earlier writes are not.

This is not a theoretical edge case. This scenario is easily reproduced
with real world workloads and drive power failures.

It's still Apple's fault on some level (after all, they control everything from the fsync implementation to the hard drives they choose to ship in Apple hardware) but from the perspective of the guy configuring sqlite, the full filesystem sync makes sense.
Headphones work in two ways: as a signal to others that you don't want to be disturbed and the audio signal should drown out environmental noise and prevent you from becoming distracted.

And practicing meditation can't hurt, it'll help with focusing.
To all those who share the personality traits of this "friend" of the blogger, how many of you believe your coding speed is slower than other hackers? From coding speed, I mean, say amount of time to finish a well defined programming project. Or to come up with an algorithm to solve a well defined problem and correctly implement it.

I obviously share many of these traits, and I know for a fact that I was slower than many of my peers in school, and later at work. I just had to spend more time doing the same amount of work. In the end though, I was able to produce similar results, albeit with more effort on my part.
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is MPI a language? I thought it was just c library for parallel processing.
I choose not to put my email address in my profile, but I would be happy to get reddit-style private messages here.
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Sweet...see everyone there!
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I agree, if you don't know what you are doing then you can screw things up pretty good by building things from source. Although harder, you can still also screw things up installing software from OS vendors. Both approaches require care. I've found build/deployment automation and documentation to be the things that address most of the problems highlighted here. There's a lot of cool software out there in this area that helps. Building task specific software from source is definitely worth it, you've just got to know what you are doing.
It seems more "Fight Club" and less "Model Train Club". :(
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If you like Lua, but want OO, try Io:

http://iolanguage.com/

It was inspired by Lua (among others).
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Just from looking at the way

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I have to second the headphones idea. And if you don't think you like techno or trance music, you might change your mind after you code while listening to it (which is about the only time I listen to it).

Stuff with a white-noisy background and a steady, brisk rhythm tends to block out the din of the workplace and helps me stay focused for longer periods of time. Was the only way I could cope with the loud, obnoxious sales staff sitting nearby. Oh, and avoid music with lyrics.
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some small fixes would help tremendously in their implementation
I think you should have two voting options: 'Break Up' and 'Stay Together'. With only the option to vote 'Break Up' can there ever really be another conclusion?

Perhaps you can also have 'color coded' comments to denote the position you are taking.
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>>That's what they said about P2P and RIAA is still suing hundreds and hundreds of people.

Sure. But I think that's ore out of frustration then strategy. P2P (among other things) is killing copyright. Well, at least in the way that guns kill people.
How about medals per incarcerated convict?
Very interesting blog I see! Don't think it's only hype because of the title, the content is really worth a read, and no doubt much more interesting than many blogs that get to the front page.
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The NYTimes has an interactive map on the website showing medal counts by country for each Olympic games.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympic...
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Whew...I was readying my signs to join the Googlers on the picket lines to show solidarity through this difficult time.
This is awesome.. it kinda reminds me of _why's hoodwink'd.
"... does this article say that an Update statement is blocking selects? Does SQL Server really work like this? ..."

I don't know.

One thing I do know is in the places I've seen SQLServer used this wasn't a problem. In StackOverflow #17~ http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3792.html Atwood mentions using LINQ a lot, instead of raw SQL or code they have written. I'm wary of generated code from MS tools. I wonder if this might be the problem. You can read the transcript here. The podcast is pretty good. Spolsky the Morcombe to Atwoods, Wise ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morecambe_and_Wise

"... I'm guessing that MySQL, which grew up on web apps, is much less pessimistic out of the box than SQL Server ..."

That one sums it all up. But does it summarise the problem? SQLServer works well enough out of the box.
After you get the machinery to pump out the mail, there is the issue of getting it through spam filters. I have had numerous problems when sending emails from my own domain. It is all too easy to get on various blacklists even if you are extremely well behaved.
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Don't blame C. This is usually the point that programmers realize why statically typed languages are such a good idea.
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Disqus doesn't provide any way for non-WP sites to import comments. That would make this sort of integration rather difficult.

Personally, I'd really like to add disqus to my blog, but I'm not going to do that until I can preserve my existing comments.
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But I have to wonder how RedHat is compiling the packages. A few years ago I was bit with this, when the system supplied regex library I was linking against (I was writing a C program) was actually slower than a shell script with 20 greps in a pipe (http://boston.conman.org/2003/01/12.1). This took quite a while to track down and even then I found it hard to understand what RedHat did when compiling the library in question.

Way to go, RedHat!
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What makes your service better than all the other startups offering anonymous conversations among college students? All of them have basically been proven to be fads, popular for a brief time among gay kids looking for hookups and people looking for vicodin, but then rapidly losing popularity after a few months. (I'm thinking specifically of boredat.net and juicycampus.com.) I'll admit I've never used the competing sites so I don't know much about them, but I also don't see much that differentiates your site either.
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Similar to the joke of the monastery where every year one monk is allowed to say a sentence.

The first year a monk stands up and says "The potatoes we get for dinner are too cold."

The second year another monk stands up and says "They taste fine to me."

The third year a monk stands up and says "I think we talk too much."

(Couldn't resist either)
Muxtape clones are gonna be even easier to shut down.

Depends where they're hosted, doesn't it?
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why would people want to talk to each other anonymously? instead of talking to my friends in person or on one of the other million social networks, I would want to speak to people I don't know anonymously?
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The Harvard Crimson had a decent editorial explaining the appeal:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515684
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www.juicycampus.com and www.boredat.com already have this down.
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Hmmm..."google is evil" has 49,400,000 results, while "microsoft is evil" has only 17,000,000 results. Interesting.
I have a hard enough time getting events up and started here in Hong Kong without putting every person thru a trial by fire.

While perhaps Zed and friends intend on a friendly merit-based club, it still comes across as egotistical and hostile. The focus shifts to who they want to keep out, not on who they want to invite. It's like a barcamp with a bouncer: "Show me your a/w/c or you can't get in." Not sure I'd even _want_ to get in.
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Google has it in its pages - http://www.google.com/search?q=brett+tabke+blog and with a nice meta description

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It dawns on me today - the web is made unnecessarily heavy.
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How about a version of this with an OLPC daylight-readable screen that doubles as an eBook reader? (How about a deluxe version in 8x10" format?) I could imagine one on the nightstand, the end table by the couch, or on the coffee table. It would be in a convenient place to pick up. You could make this touchscreen, but you wouldn't even have to do that. Just have simple D-pad navigation, perhaps behind the frame.

An add-on with some simple remote control facility would make it a 3-use device. (It should be possible to control a MythTV, Tivo or Front Row with this.) Again, it would be in a convenient place.
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