skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing, for me, about Google Reader is that I can use it from work or home without worrying about synching things back and forth. It knows what I've read, and what I haven't, and I don't need to keep track of anything myself.
> It would be a lot easier for Facebook to fix their holes with privacy(essentially copying Plus's Circles) than for Google to become more like Facebook.

Circles are friend lists, a feature Facebook has had for three years. Facebook's friend lists actually do a few things that circles currently don't: for instance, you can post to the union of a set of friend lists with specific people excluded.

They're de-emphasized in the UI because, despite many iterations on it, and a prompt to this day to add new friends to a list, the overwhelming majority of users have never created or used one. The functionality has been there for years, so it is surprising to me that Google is pushing an essentially failed Facebook feature as their big differentiator.
To my knowledge, you can't overwrite the existent confirm function because you can't pause the running of JS like the standard function does.
I wonder how the hell did they focus on Misaka and upskirts... cause anyone who read/watched the material would know, that the running gag is that her clothing makes any try at pantyshot futile... and thus doesn't really care about moving in a way that would normally expose her.

I guess my astonishment comes from the fact that to me, the name reminds me not of a minor gag, but rather of the mentally-broken, war-torn 13~14yo who could take over any computer system, and use coins (and other conducting materials) as hypervelocity projectiles (thus her nickname, "Railgun").

So... once again, media jumping to worst possible interpretation?
Its great to see so many employees on that list. No one can say the early-birds didn't get their share.
Works well enough that I got sucked into the show in the middle rather than finishing the article ;)
None. I can't be bothered to follow 100+ websites anymore - if there is something interesting on the Internet someone will submit it here, post it to twitter or I will find it while trying to solve a specific problem. I read a free daily newspaper at the coffee shop for all the local news I can stand in a sitting.

However if I did decide to start using an rss reader again I would look for a native desktop app that did the whole river of news thing well and had some kind of notification system.
Downvote accident on my mobile. Sorry, someone get him that point back, please. Thanks in advance.
The name Google+ is about as scary to non-mathmeticians as Facebook is to non-biologists.
What is this new thing? You're a nerd. Explain it immediately.
I've been keeping my eye on DjangoPackages for a while, and while I think it's a great community resource - I am not a Django-dev so I can't comment more than that - the UI seems haphazard at best.
I guess the reason is that for most people, almost none of their personal friends have signed up - only their techie circles are there.
Ha, just as I tough I had finally invented something :-)
Similar situation of insulting source code: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477454
Ditto, my android doesn't make a sound if the phone is in silent mode
Just sent you an email... We should talk. Even if there isn't a match, I love to help companies like yours.
The future of mobile games
good, obvious, common-sense tips. always worth remembering them.
That's fantastically impressive.

Using that to enable people to catch up with episodes of TV they've missed, but in less time that it would take to watch the episode would probably be very popular.
I'm going to flat disagree that windowing systems and window UI elements are separate fields of endeavor, in the same way that laundry detergent and computer Operating Systems are. I think most lawyers would too.
that's wrong, two of the first results are posts by Tom Anderson and Dave Besbris.
This is seriously cool stuff! I'd love to see this ported to work more broadly; Perhaps anime might be a good usage;

There's a lot of material out there with subtitles due to the language barrier.. Wow. This is just really nice.
I look at the choice of "Misaka" after "pantyshot" and think this is unambiguously an example for talking about the recent topic of not tolerating assholes in open source software.
It's possible that I am mistaking Pike for someone else on the Go team.
for instance, you can post to the union of a set of friend lists with specific people excluded.

Yup, I use this feature increasingly. I especially like the "Only Me" feature to share stuff I don't necessarily want to share with any of my friends but want to remember years down the line.
How did django-annoying (https://bitbucket.org/offline/django-annoying) not make the list? I find the stuff in django-annoying to be crucial on any Django project I do (the render_to() and @ajax_request decorators especially).
Windows binary packages for Minecraft-inspired   Perl game   Construder
Channels + select are a pretty good replacement for what one usually uses pattern matching in Erlang.

There are pros and cons for both models, but they are roughly equivalent and I never missed pattern matching in Go.
All The Names: Algorithmic Design and the 9/11 Memorial
When an Estimate is a Promise
Thats not really how people think about maps. A map is a bit like a dictionary or encyclopedia. It is supposed to be correct and complete. Where Mapping plays to google strenths (captial expenditure and algorithms) they do well. But thats not enough to make a great map. The current strategy is not yielding great maps and that is bad for users and google.
Orchive: revolutionizing how people access news
In my opinion, we'll have to wait for the definitive guide to Facebook wealth: Facebook S-1 when they eventually file for IPO.
Tcl and Lua have good C code. Perl 5's internals are messy and complex.
Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” Policy Doesn’t Apply to Adsense?
Ask HN: What do you use to organize your team knowledge?
Last year, me and three good old friends of mine founded a small web/mobile development team. Things are going pretty well. We're learning a lot, and new people are joining the group.

Keeping knowledge always updated and in-sync is vital for us. Long emails threads are simply not the way to go for us: too dispersing and confusing, and hard to retrieve after a while.

How your team manages and organizes common knowledge? How do you collect and share useful resources (articles, links, libraries, etc) inside your team?
This is interesting on multiple levels. There was the Python Software Foundation's decision to be reactive rather than proactive. Then why give it such a name? Esp. since the author was a woman. Who didnt speak English, and used a name suggested by a friend(?). There we arrive at what I consider to be reprehensible behavior: to expose someone to ridicule in the guise of giving help.
The author's company has at least $10m in revenues.
>Riche Productions, which has produced Starsky and Hutch, Family Man, Bride Wars

Can't say I have high hopes for this movie.
I agree with your points, but ironically they're not the case for me.

I do have a favourite colour, bright magenta (I do worry that it's stereotypical of me, being gay, but I certainly never made a concious choice, and I'm not someone who makes my sexuality obvious to people, so... hopeflly a coincidence).

As to the thing you love.. well actually there's quite a few, right now I really love my job. but the thing I always wanted to do was music, from a young age. From 9-13 I actually was a professional singer in a very good choir (professional meaning being paid well, a couple of recordings a year, many international concerts), and despite having been there and done that, it's still what I would really love to do for the rest of my life. Love doesn't always have an expiry date.
Well, I'd better go rename my Burger package before it offends vegetarians.
Plate tectonics affected by mantle hot spots
not really.

Zuckerberg, Moskovitz, Saverin, Hughes were all founders.

The rest were C-level executives, most of which were brought on later through connections.

The only real employee is Callahan, which owns .08% of the company...and it's very telling that there are no other rank and file employees on the list.

And .08% is peanuts, if you were a programmer in a company that got bought for 100 million, your stake would get you a grand total of $80,000.
Maybe it’s because humans are better at dealing with absolutes than matters of degree?

It’s true, tool use is a special property of humans. It’s not unique but it is special. Animals don’t commonly use tools, certainly not with the sophistication of humans. Tool use is one of those things that makes us different – combined with all the other things that make us different.

If you were to write a list of human properties you would definitely include tool use and it would even be pretty high up the list, as opposed to other properties that are much more common and boring (like, for example, live birth).

It’s easy to misinterpret what those properties actually mean, to turn them into unique properties. Sure, humans wouldn’t be humans without tool use, but that doesn’t mean that they must be the only ones using tools.
I'm the developer of an RSS reader for iOS/Mac which might satisfy your needs (some of my users told me they migrated from Reeder/Byline to my app). My email is in my profile, drop me a line and I'll send you a promo code.
Expecting an actual speech-to-text program also, my first thought was, "256 bytes of C, plus how much code in the speech recognition libraries?"
+1 for Apprise
Great list, we use a lot of these.

Does anyone know if there is a project that makes it easier to white label your app's services?
Google's "What do you love" site
If you want to ask the GCC folk for an estimate of how much of their development has been done while on the payroll of other companies, feel free to do so. I expect you will find that it is somewhere within a few orders of magnitude as what was spent on Java by Sun in the past 2 decades.

In short, my suggestion is that shittons of money has been spent on Java while relatively little money has been spent on Go. Yet somehow they are currently pretty evenhanded. You haven't been able to provide any sources that suggest other than this rather sensible claim.

Funny how that works.
Hate the keyboard clicking sounds on iPads and iPhones. It's like the first thing I turn off.
Some sort of ML/Bayesian filtering to determine which items are duplicates and know which site I prefer getting my news from (e.g. engadget over slashgear.)

I've been wanting to implement this into Vienna for years now, but time and OBJ-C knowledge has been the main barriers.

Reederapp guy, if you are listening, please add this to Reeder as it really is the perfect interface bar this one feature.
It's not the same thing. As the article discusses, it's not just that the name is sexual but that it refers to an act that victimizes its subject because they are unaware it is happening.
I use feed on feeds: http://feedonfeeds.com/

Open source and works wonderfully well. Also, easy to mod. I put in a Pinboard.in sharing link for all my articles, and you can do the same with just about any service in a few minutes with PHP.
Sexism and Racism: two cards people play all the time for ever-annoying reasons. They're the kind of arguments you "can't be against" because, how can you be against stopping racism/sexism? They're also the kind of arguments that keep sexism/racism happening. We should focus on the important parts:

Are you offended by it? - Deal with it or don't use it or politely make your opinion known to the author. Be an adult and don't "Quit Open Source" or "Ban the package" or "Rant about how Open Source developers are discriminating white males" because that just makes you look silly and chlidish.

Did you name it that way? - if you want widespread usage of your package, know that a polarizing name and one that will be hidden under the throves of porn in a search engine can impact the adoption of your piece of software. Also, it will make you look Silly and childish.

We are all educated and grown people, we should be able to make these decisions easily in our lives.

If I make a CoffeeScript to Assembly translator called "Beaner" I should at least know that Some people won't appreciate it and call me racist and probably some mexican will quit open source software forever. And I'm taking that risk by naming my package that way.

We shouldn't be afraid of being offended. I'm offended all the time and it doesn't stop me from living my life properly.
This really is quite a superb list. I just need to clone myself to find time to try some more - perhaps a collaborator will help... with Rails, PHP, Grails in use at the moment, one more language may just blow a socket. Thanks for posting.
>I disagree. To actually know if greenhouse gases have an impact on Earth's average temperature, do we need a control Earth? In both cases the evidence is pretty clear.

We have much better evidence for global warming than "the temperature has been rising and CO2 is also present in the atmosphere". You say that "the evidence is pretty clear" but at least in your piece there's only your anecdotal experience with an unspecified number of people.

>On the other hand, doing a controlled experiment wouldn't be a bad thing, either, so if we just shut down the business schools for the next 50-100 years, perhaps we can find the answer at the end of the study and decide whether or not to open them back up again. :)

I know you're joking but that experiment has already been ran in reverse (from no MBAs to the present state), so that data should already exist. It's not much of an experiment though as you have a bunch of other relevant factors evolving at the same time.
Pthreads is not part of any of the C standards. Your credibility is sorely hurting.
Wiki's work well for me. Not for everyone though. I've not found forum's too work at all. Email does actually work, but requires a lot of search when a topic becomes relevant again.

However, I think a clone of HN for internal stuff maybe of use.... a vote up, and a I'll check xyz out, and write it up for us, as well as rewarding those that find out new info/resources regularly.....
And your comment notably fails to address my concern.
Reminds me of "Microserfs", where the protagonists take to watching foreign movies on fast forward.
You're asking people not to have a knee-jerk reaction to offensive language, but you're having a knee-jerk reaction to people being offended. Some people might choke on their morning coffee when reviewing a pull request for "pantyshot", but the majority of us just want a bit of civility (not unlike the rules of HN).
If you like render_to, you might also like TemplateView http://django.me/TemplateView Class Based Views are awesome when you get the hang of them.
CentOS guarantees binary compatibility with RHEL. That's why it matters.
Ask HN: How to manage multiple email addresses with Google+
Pardon me if this is a dumb question. But I have friendsandfamily@gmail.com, onlinehackerpersona@gmail.com, and contractor@myfreelancecompany.com. I obviously have intentionally structured my email addresses by the circles I want to communicate with.

So Google+ has come out with Circles, which solves this problem in a different way: manage your circles with just one email address (identity). But I've got multiple gmail addresses. What do I do now? What are other people doing? Am I misunderstanding something?
Just open sourced the Apache QR module of lilqr.com and went with Python instead
Just switched the site over to a Python based version and decided to open source the Apache module that generated the QR-codes before.
Back now! Sorry about that.
I'm not sure I would say she doesn't speak English. Check out her blog post about this: http://fossil.instinctive.eu/libupskirt/wiki?name=about-the-...

Especially:

I did know the sexual and voyeurism connotations of the word “upskirt” and I was very hesitant to actually use it. For the record, my limited grasp of slang English means that I genuinely had no idea where it lied on the offensiveness scale, and whether it could be covered up as something more harmless (and have it be more of an innuendo than of a basic offensive word).

I'm not sure what to make of that, but I do think that naming software with any sort of sexual innuendo regardless of how offensive it is is a very poor choice. More than anything else, I feel embarrassed to be in tech when this sort of thing happens.
There are times where I envy the straight forward rationale of these beasts of burden we instruct in our daily routines.
The name of the package is irrelevant to them, its just an identifier that represents a thing that does stuff.

As software engineers you'd hope we were some of the most logical peoples of this planet but then we find ourselves tripping over our own societal taboos and inferences we are perceiving that didn't even exist in the first place.

I mean I can understand the odd chuckle over the BackendInspector class but to take something to this level just over the name? I'd be interested to hear the full coverage that this got cause the original author appears to be completely distraught over the reaction:

http://fossil.instinctive.eu/libupskirt/wiki?name=about-the-...

Makes me wonder what does more harm. A potentially offensive name or people's reaction to said name. I'm leaning towards the latter based on that link.
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In Japan, groping women and taking pictures up their skirts is a very very common practice among men. That's why they have women only passenger cars on trains[1]. The camera sounds are there to deter this behavior.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-only_passenger_car
Turning Facebook bald for cancer
I was surprised at how the article characterized the terms "pantyshot" and "upskirt" -- how extremely negative. My familiarity with the terms is not from porn but from celebrities who, whoops, get caught flashing their panties inadvertently in public. So to my mind this was relatively innocent activity and I would have never thought of it in the extremely negative way the article portrays it.

Also, people often have no idea how badly something like this will be viewed by others. I have seen several instances of that sort of thing here on HN and (IIRC) in every case where I have commented on it, simply informing them of how negatively their term was viewed caused them to change it (either the name of the product/site or some wording on it). They just didn't know.

Edit: Can anyone explain to me why this would be downvoted? Thanks in advance for any enlightenment.
I bet you never spent 5 minutes watching a 404 page. Well I have now. I am probably going to get even by passing it on, like a chain letter. You know, bad karma if you don watch it and pass it on.
That's a clever way to radically compress a video! It's like a final-video-back-to-storyboard converter.

One blemish on the in-page player is the 'loading' dialog that pops on each forward-frame.

The player could also benefit from an auto-advance feature... perhaps a fade from frame to frame? (How much faster than realtime could a show be watched this way? I've occasionally tried to watch a Tivo'd show at 2x with captions on, but captions get missed or excluded by the onscreen controls.)

Certainly could try doing a slideshow-plus-audio, too.

FYI, the PDF is about 23MB, 528 frames each 30-60KB each. IIRC, a standard-definition ~22 minute sitcom from ITunes runs 250-300MB in size.
How to parse postal addresses from documents
I have seen that google and yahoo do a neat job on parsing postal address information from free form text. What technique/api do they use? What can I use to parse all postal addresses from a pdf, word, text, html document.
Too late. Already replicated created Scientific Linux 6 cobbler repos and have started deploying.

SL seems to be much more on top of things than CentOS these days, and it was incredibly frustrating waiting for CentOS to release 6.
So does SL. They basically compile the same SRPMs and publish the result.
Reeder.

It lacks what all RSS feeds seem to lack - a "mark all up to here as read" feature.

If I have 1000 unread items in a stream and I leaf through 200 of them I want to right click and article and mark all chronologically preceding articles as read. Nothing seems to do that.
Nobel prize pretendent
Serious question: can we fork the library, s/pantyshot/somethingelse/g, submit it to PyPI, and then just nobody use the original?
>I can either honk at them (very rude)

// A car horn is there to allow you to warn other road users of your presence. Sounding the horn to make someone aware you are there makes things safer, they avoid being run over. If they scowl at you then smile broadly and wave.

Recently I've noticed where I am people have stopped saying "excuse me" (the pedestrian equivalent or beeping your horn) they just stand waiting. I find it annoying as that can mean you're delaying someone without knowing it.
Python Package Index is a product of many years of effort by many people. It is not only used in hobby projects but also within enterprises. If Frank's actions harm PPI's upstanding, then he should volutarily leave PPI and distribute his packages through alternative mechanisms. All you need is for some nutcase to make fun of a prophet and lodge it with PPI for all of us to be tarred with the same brush.
One reason you shouldn't name your software something like this is because it will be hard too google for. All the web results for this will be for the porn version of the name. You shouldn't name your software something that's hard for people to find
The lag is indeed not a feature, its due to the fact that Red Hat is an organisation with people whom are salaried, compared to the people who work on CentOS that do so for free.
There's another domain where predominantly white males give arbitrary names: Physics. While there are many examples of funny or quirky names there, none of them is offensive. For the extra reason that the innuendo loses its humor after the first time you use it, and these names are meant to stick indefinately.

P.S. Also Biology, but these people are not even comfortable with sonic the hedgehog.
I stand corrected. Wow. Best to avoid slang in a language you dont understand very well.
The way you present it, everyone has one thing they enjoy and it's a crap shoot whether it's marketable.

I do not agree with this viewpoint. I have so many things that I enjoy doing... I find it very difficult to believe people are born with the capacity to enjoy only one thing.

Those who find themselves out of work because they chose to pursue a tenuous line of work are in that position because they chose, for whatever reason, to pursue that particular work- not because it's the only thing in the world they can enjoy.

Lastly, on the subject of luck, I subscribe to an old adage; "Luck favors the prepared".
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I'm in the same boat. My solution has been to only use G+ for one of those purposes.
Perhaps you are unaware of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
How to Create a stylized Sun in Maya
So they mention this being used for kids' surgeries. Would a replacement trachea grow with the rest of the body though?
A failed feature? Does it have less space than a nomad and no wifi? I'm sure it'll never catch on.
Mostly, as other people in the thread pointed out, it eliminates any actual analysis, and just encourages you to basically DDOS your opponents with arguments.

Not that regular-speed CX is a bastion of logical thought, but at least it encourages more creativity and better rhetorical skill. How often are you going to be debating anyone outside the actual "sport" at 300 words a minute?
I have to admit to preferring the oxford comma. I just think it looks better.
I'm a coder, entrepreneur, and huge philosophy fan. I think many people similar to me (IE people here) also love philosophy as well all enjoy thinking, logic, and problem solving, the epitome of philosophy.