skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been there but found that having a debugging console (or generally, using any UI over and over to repro some steps while you're developing) ends up being a huge time sink. It's often much more sensible to invest time into building a unit test to guide your development instead. As a result, now I don't create much debugging UI but try to unit test, which gives me more time/inspiration to build actual UI.

(Borrowing words from the article) Warning sign: During the development, dozens of times, I have to go through step 1 in my UI, select a person, go to step 2, enter an address, select a state, go to step 3, and so on.
"Bilinguals /.../ actually think in that language while using it"

I don't. I usually don't think in language at all. Both speaking my native language and programming require translation from the abstract symbols and feelings that my actual thinking consists of.
If it forestalls Alzheimer's there should be significantly more of it in the exceptionally monolingual Anglophone world compared to the rest of us. Can't find any evidence in that direction, other factors such as longlivity and simple genetics probably interfere too much.
Type part of what you want, then hit tab twice.
Is this like a joke..? That there isn't a source, its just a good guess? The link is to this discussion
That's helpful, thanks. Still, it's only profitable to mine bitcoins at any computing cost if they can be exchanged for other items of value. If the value of bitcoins drop and people leave the bitcoin economy, making the last N bitcoins easier to compute won't make them more valuable.
China uses a lot of paper notes - paper 1 jiao (about 0.02 USD) are fairly common. They're also really annoying.
The major difference, of course, is that diamonds are not rare, can be industrially counterfeited, and are easily damaged.

Diamonds, in some way, are the "anti-gold." There is a great game-theoretic reason for why something as completely worthless as diamonds make great engagement rings though: They are something expensive to the male (so he can't repeat the process of proposing very often) - but worthless to the female (so she can't be accused of being a gold digger) - and at the same time sparkly and easy to show off.
If the operation was cheap enough, I'm betting the younger generation will use it as an alternative to condoms, then get it reversed when they're ready. I'd get it done as soon as it came to the US, and I'm only 22. One less thing to worry about.
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iBooks doesn't have a social profile, but it does have syncing of bookmarks, notes, and progress to other iOS devices. Not accessible from the Web or your Mac (since there's no iBooks for Mac), though... anyway, I definitely agree with you about iBooks' shortcomings.
it just raises their anxiety level, even to the point of near-panic.

If a child is this adverse to a simple competitive math challenge, (or any competitive challenge) the problem is much larger than hating math.

Not everyone takes to math, but not everyone takes to reading either. Both skills are essential to a certain level to function properly in our world. You wouldn't suggest that a child who finds reading difficult not be expected to read a novel, so I'm not sure why there is such aversion to multiplication tables.

Even if all the child does is mesmerize the patterns, they've still learned a useful construct that will serve them well for the rest of their lives.
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This is excellent. Would you be willing to check this text from my blog please?

"It's said that great military commanders, chess players and Go players feel physical pressure on their stomachs when their game pieces are threatened, and the pressure indicates the moves to make. This full-body thinking communicates much more rapidly than purely deductive mental reasoning. The intuition is the result of thousands of prior episodes where such reasoning was employed, acted on and the outcome experienced in all its pain or glory.

Other than hours of practicing the game, or whatever one does, the only other way to improve the chance of learning this physical intuition is to be sure one's body is not sending conflicting signals. Please eat well and exercise."
Does Mac's market share now support a sustainable malware ecosystem?
> This is just a ruse used by governments as a pretext for inflation. It isn't necessary for money supply to 'keep up' with growth. As demand increases, the value of money goes up, and people simply use smaller units for exchange.

The result is exactly the same, you're just making the whole process more painful by rebadging money.
My in-laws left Argentina 30 years ago and still have much of their family there. I showed this article to them and their reply was simply, "the US is heading this way. We've seen this movie, and we don't like the way it ends."
Where can I buy a lead iPhone case? Crap, lead is on the list too!
There's an Asimov story similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_%28short_story%29
Degree or no degree, I bet almost nobody earns £100K per year in Glasgow.
As a technical founder, this was super helpful. I had intuited a lot of this, but it's nice to see it all clearly spelled out and bulleted. Thanks for posting this.

Does anyone have other specific/tactical tips for blogger outreach? Specific sites/tools/processes? Examples of successful copy/assets used in emails? (gohat, thanks for already sharing some)
I'm not sure how you expect that to work. How would expiring bitcoins increase circulation?
At least part of the issue, from what I can tell from the article, is that the majority of the people cheat on their taxes, so the Argentine government has to raise taxes in order to get enough revenue to pay operating expenses, which leads people to cheat on their taxes more, which...
Martians may also use gold as a store of wealth.
>Forgive my insistence, but, what kind of problem does the ability to differentiate objects from one another solves? What kind of programs are made simpler by this ability?

Oh, I don't know. I am not an expert in OO* at all.

All I know is that for something to be true OO it has to have objects with identities. I was told so. ;)

All I know about OO is Liskov substitution principle. Where it is unnecessary I tend to use State monad and immutable objects.

>subtyping is the basis for polymorphism in OOP.

Which can be solved by several means, interfaces and inheritance being two of them.
I'm 34 and learned them, wouldn't surprise me if they're not taught now.
One of the founding principles of the United States government was the Leviathan from Thomas Hobbes' book. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Leviathan_%28... It's not just a book about government, it starts with a discussion of the nature of humanity, and then works out (using thought experiments) what a peaceful society would have to be like, given human nature.
Title should be "The Reason Your Lifestyle Business as a Blog Writer is Failing"

This article has absolutely no bearing on my "lifestyle business".
It's not mutual fear but recognition of a fact of life: citizens who might be armed should not be messed with.

I've lived in places where anyone could be assumed to be armed, that all householders had firearms. I've lived in places where no one had firearms, except criminals.

The former had zero mutual fear, the latter had fear, but only on the side of the unarmed citizens.

Nothing says 'fear' like bars on the windows and bullet-proof glass in front of the counter at KFC, food served by turnstile.
Self control however is much better maintained with a proper understanding of the problem.

This is why payday loan sharks target poor areas: lack of education.
Signal strength drops with the square of the distance so it matters quite a bit how far you're holding the device.
The problem is not that it's too hard and expensive to transfer money here. It is hard and expensive if you do it legitimately (like we do), but a huge fraction of the economy is underground. Like a third.

The problem, if I had to sum it up in a soundbite, is that you can't trust anybody. And so nobody trusts you. Unless you're family. You can imagine the effect that has on the competence of officials and executives.

The crazy laws are a big problem, but not as big as the endemic non-government corruption. Bank financing? We had to get a personal recommendation from our accountant to open a corporate bank account.

Bitcoin isn't going to help with that. If anything, it will make it worse.

The funny thing is, living here is pretty good, if you can afford the bare minimum needed to survive.
No, I don't think so. My experience, having filed patents for fairly large companies with very well-respected IP attorneys, is that the process takes 6+ years to complete. That's probably outside the window of execution for most startups, and certainly outside the window of planning.

Furthermore, patent litigation adds a 1-2 year delay to resolving IP issues, and, in the event you actually litigate, adds a 6-7 figure price tag to the event.

With a very few exceptions, most startups proceed as if patent licensing issues were approximately the same kind of risk as lightning strikes. You would have a hard time convincing most savvy founders that any package of patent licenses was going to protect them from lightning strikes. Just having to go to court is a game-ender for most.

Patents are a marketing asset for startups and little else. There is only marginal value in marketing the patents you've merely licensed.
I thought this part was pretty funny:

> "...I wasn't going to put all of my risk in Latin America again in my life." At the end of 2002, he left the company and moved his family to Miami.

I think Miami is a lot more Latin American than Buenos Aires.
And I'm just coming back to this thread because I learned something today. There are no flights from Singapore to JFK, but there is one to Newark. It's the longest scheduled air route in the world, at 18 hours and 40 minutes.

Oh, and it's in a 100-seat all-business-class A340-500. I'm guessing they couldn't do it with a fully-laden economy section. Then again I'd hate to fly 19 hours nonstop in economy.
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Any plans to compare against corpora from other social news sites?

BTW, I think what you're doing is brilliant, and I can think of about a dozen practical applications for your technology.. Ignore the naysayers.
It's meant to be sort of a joke.

I said, "Smart money ...", which implies speculation. The other person responded "Sources?". If I had sources it wouldn't be "smart money" (or I guess you could argue that it would be "really smart money"). Since my statement was purely speculative, I referenced a speculative source -- directly back to the echo chamber -- myself.
So don't do that?

Why would I include some other bad source if it's going to mess up my data?

Also a nice property of UTF-8 is that it can be recovered midstream. So if the client sends me bad encodings, he'll get back bad encodings, but it won't harm anything else.

For example a bad encoding followed by a double quote can't do anything to the double quote.
comparing modern italian to ancient latin.

Offtopic but interesting tangent: that's comparing declined languages ( with nominative, accusative, dative etc cases) to languages that use prepositions and other particles instead. Kind of like comparing static type languages vs. clojure and erlang.
Based on their site, it looks like Adgrok was an alternate front end to Adwords. If you want to learn PPC/Adwords, the best tool to use is Adwords. Adwords is complex and it is not something you can figure out how to use correctly in an afternoon. Dedicated a few days to learn the terminology and the intricacies of the system.
I don't think that the learning curve could really be said to be the problem when you're talking about a word processor that deliberately deletes three days worth of saves when it crashes.
It's time for someone to start a new company replicating what AdGrok did!!
Me too. I have had to lie down in the past from dizziness just from reading articles that described 'body cuts/surgeries' in that level of detail.

sudonts response below is also noted, and agreed with.
I know this stuff works. Some friends of mine from Cornell were able to train an SVM to predict people's moods on Livejournal.
A few acquittances have asked me about wanting to start a business that makes "2-3k" and doesn't take much time...I always laugh a little bit, because the 2-3k thing is possible, but no matter how you shake it, your probably going to need to spend a lot of time to get there.

If you like at the businesses Tim Ferris built: They were very low maintenance, which is what you want, but that doesn't say anything about the amount of time to build up and get to a point where you can live a low maintenance lifestyle.

I've seen a few people do some cool, cheeky things that skirted the above, but in general I wouldn't count on it.
I think in code. I used to think in C because it was the first language I truly immersed myself in.

Now aday with object oriented languages, I find myself thinking in Smalltalk first then translating the concepts to the given language.
Just after we sat down, they asked if anyone was a vegetarian, had any allergies, or other dietary restrictions. I think that's pretty standard practice for fixed menus.
This remains the standard mark for deletion in today's publishing industry. Yes, we still often edit books in three to five inch stacks of paper.
it was reported to be beneficial by its proponents. what a surprise. call me back when you have a control group.
There's that tiny reservoir at the tip of the rubber already just for that: you really have to work hard to pull it so tight that the reservoir itself gets stretched all over the tip of your penis.
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Yes US. I also went to a Catholic grade school so it was one of those things the nuns pounded into our knuckles.
Many people actually learn faster/better when the threat of ridicule is on the table, though.

Really? How many?
Yeah, well, you'd be amazed at the mistakes people will make without proper instruction.
Yah, scala uses "_" a lot:

http://www.slideshare.net/normation/scala-dreaded

The visual clue is the method/function signature which you get from the REPL or IDEA scala plugin. I think F#, O'Caml and haskell programmers rely on these heavily also

(There is talk of deprecating one "_" usage)

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-language/browse_frm/thr...
I thought you quit commenting on HN ;)
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sounds like this:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church–Turing_thesis
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I've seen the best results with Tribal Fusion and Casale Media. Unless you're in a high-premium field, don't expect more than $2 EPM for a 300x250 (or equivalent area) spot.
Are the number of votes for a posts available? It could be interesting to use the metrics given to compare posts with high vs low number of votes and could also help validate the use of given metrics.
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GoogleTV's first iteration sucks, but I think the Market alone will change that. There's a netflix app and the Al Jazeera Live app is pretty good. If you get a dozen big names (BBC news, CNN, etc) delivering their content directly to consumers via apps, then it will become a viable replacement for basic cable. Adding the full range of things Android can do, along with their rental service will only be icing on that cake.
Funny, because English is not my native language, but I would have no idea what the different meanings of 'that' would be.
True enough. I don't struggle with that stuff though. You can be a programmer and still laser-focus on usability. What we can't do (those who don't possess both skills) is make things easily pretty. I tell my designer friends this: when you picture a person in your head, you see a lot more detail than I do. I see a circle, eyes, a mouth, a nose, and a hairline that stops somewhere on the forehead. You see exactly where that hairline stops. And how it falls down the side of the head. And where the shading on the cheeks go. And the ridges on the lips. I don't see those things. I like the imagination. It's why I can never be a designer; it's not in my DNA. It's why I favor extremely simplistic designs, easier to make look relatively attractive.
The article is fairly old, so I think it may be worth pointing out that kqemu is no longer non-free.
Except you also get emails and whatnot regarding that repo and when certain actions occur.
This does not matter if an economy develops which values bitcoins for the goods and services they can be used to obtain. Currency is by its very definition "liquid"
That's not even the argument I'm trying to make. The crashing issue is just bad software. There's no argument against that. It's implicit in the points that I make that I'm referring to his frustration with bloat and his perception that some rather advanced features should be "easy" (chapter markers, for example). In order for a machine to parse text, it must be given some specific information. It cannot read the language and understand where a chapter begins or ends based on some arbitrary value that we have in our minds. We must use the machine's language, because the machines are not able to understand what we mean. Hell, many humans frequently fail at understanding what is being communicated to them.
I do the same. I sometimes try to use the correct ones, but it isn't made much easier by the fact that some keys are easier shift-pressed with one hand. I'd feel weird using the left shift key to get a "_" when the right shift key is directly next to the "-/_" one.
"We've scanned your iTunes library of 12,000 songs. The price to stream each song over iCloud will be $0.09/song. Click here to bill the $1,080 directly to your card."

If that's not the scenario, than what is? You can only stream songs newly purchased over iTunes and only iTunes?
So far, Twitter has been invading third-party developers who have built extensions of their system. From apps that hold users (TweetDeck) to those that facilitate extended service (URL shortening, image hosting), to date, Twitter has been carefully identifying what their users consider valuable and bringing those features, functions and complete applications under Twitter's privately owned umbrella.

AdGrok is a departure from this logic. Why did Twitter buy AdGrok (other then the stellar team)?

Google monetized their core product not by bowing to paid placement but rather in building a robust ad network to compliment it. Is this what Twitter is doing?
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Interesting point. I read that somewhere that the usage of the in English is also a sore point for learners, and that even native speakers take 7-8 years to master its correct usage. When I read papers from non-native but fluent speakers, this is generally what gives them away.
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I would guess the latter. Possibly they swallow the cost of letting you stream your existing collection for free, but that seems unlikely.
I don't like setlocale because usually I'm writing a general application, usable for any language.
LXC is one of several isolation layers used in the Heroku dyno manifold to ensure process security and resource guarantees. Here is a more in-depth discussion of Heroku dyno isolation: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-isolation.
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yes, you couldn't be more right with this.

I am from Argentina and I found this disturbing: "taxes on commercial profits in Argentina add up to an effective maximum rate of 108 percent"

But also very true.

I wonder what would happen if the Argentina government reduced the taxes (because for the past 10 years I feel they've only gone up)

Would that encourage businesses to pay taxes instead of doing everything 'en negro'? It would encourage me.

As an entrepreneur I want to pay taxes but they are extremely high, punishing me for the corruption that surrounds me
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Just reading your comment made me squeamish. Very squeamish.
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Until you realize that your bones were 'out of alignment' because you have weak core muscles that you should build up instead. In fact, 'pushing spinal column bones into alignment' without any x-rays or further inspection sounds pretty dangerous to me. What if the chiropractor pushes it too far and strains something, causing me to return for another adjustment? Everyone I know who has tried a chiropractor ends up going back over and over again, like an addiction.

Meanwhile, I had some back pain and started doing pilates and it evaporated, because now my core can actually hold my backbone up.

/plural of anecdote is not data
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1) Downloads - I love the download bar. And the downloads tab lets you view the progress there, too.

2) Title Bar - You can actually drag using any empty space up there, including all that space to the right of the new tab button and around the close/maximize/etc buttons.

3) Massive Preferences List - Sorry, that's a feature. As for being hard to find what you want, without those options, you couldn't find it anyhow... Because it wouldn't be available.

4) Favicons - Humans are visual people... It's much easier to determine location by an icon than text.

5) Search Field - The complaint is that it covers some of the UI and you have to close it to use the page? Sooo... How does a massive search dialog work better? I've actually found very few sites that are rendered useless by that search field, but almost all are rendered useless by the giant box that all other browsers use.

6) Lack of Attention-to-Detail throughout - Still trying to find the 'broken gradient'. Everything looks fine to me.

7) Network tab - I find this tab massively useful. It (wait for it) let's me see what was transferred over the network. Surprise! No guessing if something munged the HTML or if it was transfered that way. No guessing what parameters were posted. Etc, etc.

Some of the criticism make sense, but most of it is just preferences or misunderstandings.

Oh yeah, the thing missing from her list of good points:

1) Stretchable text boxes. I use this all the time now. Especially on HN.
Many programmers have also become blind to all the conceptual baggage needed for conventional OOP programming. What the heck does "public static void main" mean?
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But the problems being chunked up in bitcoins are the actual bitcoin transactions, thus churning them is not pointless. It strengthens the system.
For me it's the password manager. I still have Firefox installed to navigate to certain secure sites because Chrome just doesn't seem to remember the passwords. Oh, and Chrome needs a search field on their password form (I've heard they're good at that sort of thing).

The font rendering in Chrome must be a Mac compatibility issue because side by side, Chrome renders text much cleaner than FF or IE on Windows. HN on FF looks murky by comparison.