skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hckr news is pretty cool. I ran across it a few weeks ago, and saw that it embodied very similar goals to what I had in mind. However, since I had already collected snapshots for a long time, I thought, "Might as well give others access to them."

I somehow missed Hacker Slide when I looked through the Hacker News links on Resourcey. Very nifty!

How far back can you go on each site? I see that Hckr News has an endless-scrollbar-like interface, and Hacker Slide seems to cover two weeks. (Those time frames and navigational control might be plenty for most readers, but some of us are a little more obsessive...)
B-B-But I thought that Microsoft was only acquiring patents to protect itself from evil other companies that would have patented these things and then sued Microsoft! They were supposed to be defensive patents... </sarcasm>
A Horde of 4.5 Million Zombie Computers Is Marching Towards You
Interview with Furne One of Amato Haute Couture, Part 2 of 3
There have been other minimum wage increases, right? Wouldn't it be possible to see if those correspond to other drops in teen employment?
A Debian testing desktop and a laptop (both not Apple).
Maxed out MacBook Air 11" (1.6Ghz, 4G RAM). It works great for my development workflow. I do mostly Python, Plone, and Django apps and a lot of sysadmin work.

I use TextMate for my editor so I don't have the crazy RAM requirements of working with the java-based editing tools like Eclipse.

Looking forward to picking up the new MacBook Air version as soon as it's released.
Is there a scribed version of the video? (text)
What's your experience with the Atwood Failure Rate for SSDs?
How to look for Hacker news old post?

The last day I want to look for comments that a link I saw like one week ago.<p>Is there any way to look for a old post?
Does anyone still target AIR? They officially dropped desktop linux support.
Maybe Google+'s trickle of invites is a wise and calculated move
A great visual for the data above. Thanks! But it's clear that Mac is winning this not-very-close race.
I'd like to see a citation of Microsoft saying their patents were going to be used only defensively.

I think it's _completely_ in their nature to block and bleed competitors.
"We are pleased that Wistron is taking advantage of our industrywide licensing program, established to help companies address Android's IP issues," Microsoft general counsel Horacio Gutierrez said in a press release.

That is the most infuriatingly worded press release ever. Might as well just say that you're very pleased Wistron agreed to let you bend them over the counter to address Microsoft's inability to compete issue.
A very similar pattern bit me in the ass with the ObjC GC and libevent.
Kevin Rose interviews Chris Sacca for foundat.io/n [video]
'Radar for the human eye' (Video)
Cataracts scanning mechanism using mobile phones and snap-ons.
A senator can't be totally knowledgeable about everything. Just because he's not up to speed on tech doesn't mean he doesn't have his strengths.
"established to help companies address Android's IP issues" ... haha
Hipmunk looks similar to ITA Software's flight search tool, so it'll be interesting to see Google's take. If Google builds it, they will come.
The article says:

>If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011.

I'd assume this means you can make Gmail accounts not linked to your identity so long as you don't make a Google Profile.
Odd, if I log in with my Apps account as primary and try to go to G+, I still get the message about Profiles not being enabled. I guess they're just testing on a few domains, or maybe rolled something out by accident.
This is a circular argument.

"Assets used in the commission of a crime can be seized regardless of if you are charged or even found guilty of that crime."

If you don't have to prove there was a crime then how can you claim that the assets were used in the crime? This would mean the government/police could seize assets with nothing more than finger pointing. I'm ignorant of the law here, but I thought you were innocent until proven guilty. Not "innocent sans assets until proven otherwise."
An HTTP post to send a Wap Push message with an SMS API
Documentation on how to send a Wap push message with a simple HTTP post - Parameters and examples.
Name, ok... but why "gender"?
I have an undeveloped passion for latin (I usually just get excited when I figure out the latin roots for English words).
Quick question, what about all of the small words that aren't included in that? Like "qui" and "ab" on the first line of that link you gave? Are you imagining that your users will figure them out through context, or was there another good reason for not including them?
I must resist the temptation to say something untoward about Atwood. There is no question he is smart and hard working. I think i'll limit my commentary wrt coding horror to "The plural of anecdote is not data".

Further, does it matter? How much data will you lose if your HD dies now? Perhaps you should log off HN and revisit your backup strategy.
Internet of things...
Same as Nico.-
if you upvoted the link, it's under http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=your_id

if you posted a comment you can find under
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=your_id

Otherwise you have to try using the search box which is at the end of every page (which uses http://www.hnsearch.com/)
with the argument that the UN allows evil countries to vote

I won't vouch for their exact argument, but this was around the time Sudan was elected to the Commission on Human Rights.
This sounds scary at first, but it seems to only apply to a profile which I have apparently or apparently not created.

They have the default right too (unlike facebook): I don't get an automatic opt-in, I get an automatic opt-out.

The only thing left to clarify (as mostly_harmless writes) is the connection of a profile to other gmail services. If they get the balance wrong here, they're done. If they don't - and they seem to be doing a pretty good job so far.
Hmm. Personally this is how I always thought of the original generic TLDs (com/net/org). In my head I think I even applied the idea to .xxx, .aero and what-not as well. Pretty much how I expect Libya to do whatever they want with the .ly domain.

This seizing of domains has been kind of the de-facto behavior for at least some five years by now. In my head this new policy does not change anything (don't run gambling sites on a .com domain etc?). Hell, I might even go as far as to say that it might be a positive thing if there was no such thing as a generic TLD. Most corporations registers all their domains globally anyway (whether that is good or bad is another story).

Not the most relevant Google query, but it takes the idea home, I guess: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=us+seizes+domain+20... -- I didn't bother looking for older entries than that.
Agree, such an amazing country!
GrooveStomp is referring to the "most elegant language" part of the post -- not the part about the author of Ring.
Why is this comment deprecated? He's absolutely right, if a little late to the party. Shockingly bad document from Apple.
I said smallest amount of information. The diameter, circumference, and area are all functions of the radius.

Sure, you can write any in terms of any of the others, but the radius is the smallest: both in terms of absolute value as well as dimensionality.
I agree. Also they aren't using 1TBS for the code examples, and that will naturally lead to noob javascript programmers running into trouble when they inevitably type

return
{
hello:"world"
}

using 1TBS will naturally lead the programmer to type the correct javascript syntax

return {
hello:"world"
}

1TBS is naturally a better fit for javascript programming.
If you're referring to the "I made something people want," is it true? It sounds like they really want the engineers, which they didn't make (their parents did, I guess they deserve the shirt then?).

Yes, I'm joking. Congrats to the team! They should wear their shirts proudly!
This will be interesting ... lots of things (prisons, nuclear power plants, the White House) are built with the assumption that the average person can't just fly something over a 18-foot high razor wire fence. Wonder how people are going to deal with the fact that many security measures are now significantly reduced in effectiveness.
At work: Debian on a desktop stowed under my desk. I do all my work in Screen sessions accessed via Putty on a Windows XP Thinkpad. (Spinning hard disk + antivirus == often dog slow.)

Outside work: Debian on a Thinkpad (SSD, and none of the other specs matter by comparison.) Hardware support is great. It was a hassle to get it set up, but now it's great, zero friction.
That would be neat, too. I can't say when or if I'd get around to it :(

I imagine something similar must happen with Hacker News itself. We ask the owners for features, but not all of them are adopted (or implemented as soon as we wish). Eventually, some of us create companion products or services to scratch our respective itches.

I could possibly be convinced to adopt the feature you request if someone else were to implement it. First, though, there are some additional factors to consider beyond my time (factors such as resource usage on my webhosting service and whether Hacker News would be cool with this level of site scraping.)
Imagine if Facebook did this. again. the world might just end.
The only meaningful answer for me is "Linux server (via ssh)". I do primarily HPC-related work, and it's almost never useful for me to work on a machine that isn't at least connected to my compute cluster. I suppose I could compile and test code on my laptop, but only my trivial tests could really complete with any speed on just 8 cores. (I'm not bragging, btw: this is, in fact, tremendously annoying, and one of my ongoing side projects is building useful tests I don't need a 64-core cluster for.)

The physical keyboard I use most of the time is attached to a Dell laptop dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu, but 90% of the time the only thing I have up is a bunch of ssh sessions. All my development is done in vim, server-side.
Nope, wrapped values are interpreter level objects, they're the kind of things that exist at the Python level, in PyPy they're called things like W_IntObject, on CPython they're PyIntObject, I'm sure Ruby has the same. Then there are unwrapped ints which are machine level integers.
I smell fresh acquisitions in the air.
I've had good experience with 2GB heap dumps. Actually dumping it was, in my experience, pretty quick. It was essentially as fast as the machine could do that much sequential IO. You get a lot more detail, like what was in those Strings that took up the whole heap. That is usually invaluable for diagnosing what's really wrong.

Actually analyzing a multi-GB heap dump takes 2-3x as much heap for the analyzer. The jhat tool that ships with the JVM is perfectly capable of analyzing a 2 GB heap if it has 6 GB of its own heap to play with.
Yeah, Hipmunk is really great. The experience is so good I actually sort of wish I flew more often... or at least had to schedule flights more often.

It'd be cool if they could handle other itinerary and reservation tasks. Though I don't know how they'd necessarily make money like that.
Cheezburger Network Launches iPhone App; Risks Landing on Own Failblog
C is only opaque, scary, and evil if you consider computer hardware itself to be opaque, scary, and evil. For someone like an electrical engineer, C is perfectly lucid, safe, and friendly.
I think the OP's link is actually to the PDF. HN adds the automatic Scribd link whenever someone posts a link to a PDF.
Site search on Google?
it's 4 people: http://twitter.com/backtype/team/members
And this is why Facebook should fear +.
Migrate from Wordpress to Posterous?

I fancied a change..
Which explains its name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants
"they released the info so people could change their passwords"

They didn't need to release it for people to change their passwords. Wouldn't proving they compromised the database have be enough? Why does releasing innocent people's information constitute some kind of act of heroism? They did use it for nefarious purposes. They used it for their own personal gain (media/hype/pleasure/whatever). Don't be fooled into thinking they some how did this with your best interest at heart. Not having your info released was what was in your best interest.

They are no more transparent about their operations then Sony is. I find it hard to take people who preach about transparency well wearing the mask of anonymity seriously.

To hold these kids up as an example of "social justice" or some kind of "social movement" or even "security movement" is ludicrous. They are criminals. The only direct benefit of their actions was their own recognition, something the community seemed all too willing to give them.

You really think Sony is now going to be more open about their security practices? Dream on space cadet.
I suspect it's due to internationalization reasons. Even in English, we don't really have useful singular third-person gender-neutral pronouns (yes, I'm aware of "they", but it's actually a debated topic). In other languages where everything has genders, there might not be a reason to have gender neutral pronouns whatsoever.
According to Google[1]: "Deleting your profile won't delete your Google Account."

Keep that in mind before you get too outraged at this.

[1]http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
This is not Reddit. Kindly keep comments like this to a minimum.
Thank you for your feedback.

Is the timeline-toolbar you envision kind of like the one on Hacker Slide?
You have to create one! It picks profile pics etc which you have already shared.

You can search your name here https://profiles.google.com/
Indeed. That's part of the argument in Robert Epstein's book _The Case Against Adolescence_ (more here: http://jseliger.com/2011/04/11/the-case-against-adolescence-... ).
...build cages instead of fences.
> Oh come on.

Really I've just tired of it today, and also had to cook dinner. :)

> You appealed to elegance and failed to show any.

You trot out Euler and then don't find it inelegant that his proof uses not a unit circle but a circle with a diameter of 1? Even as you also trot out Euclid who defines circles with radii? Fixing even just that is elegant.

And if you do find a few cases where π is super convenient (probably because you only care about half the rotation of something), feel free to substitute half tau. :)

The forest really is there, in addition to the trees.

But I really am done. Feel free to leave your last (I'm sure to be exceptionally) clever rebuttal for posterity.
I think these brand examples aren't very apt. A better comparison is Craftsman from Sears. They make a crap load of tools from wrenches to weed whackers, but all of them benefit from the quality Craftsman brand aura. So when Sears developed/bought those new wacky auto-hammers they branded them under the Craftsman label.
I like that feature and use it. But it can be separated from the memory caching. Back button speed is nice too, but I could do without it.

There are a few options here ... keep the last one in memory, the last few in the disk cache, etc. Right now it appears to keep everything you've ever visited in RAM, which is clearly wrong.
Meh, I had a similar experience with geocities back in the day but it was pretty much already dead to me.

With regards to the big orange B, why do you think they aren't going to keep that around?
Historic 30 year debt bubble collapses are a bitch, and there isn't much useful either side, left or right, has to say about them. It's like arguing whether to turn the wheel left or right after the car has gone off the cliff: it'd be funny if I wasn't in the car. Decimated productive capacity plus easy credit and the associated malinvestment and over-consumption equals charlie foxtrot every time.

Sociologically speaking, what I find curious is that so far the young haven't really started shooting back in this generational war. It will get interesting if and when they do.
Polycarbonate is not used widely because is VERY expensive to fit and replace. My glider canopy is $5000 replaced: http://www.mikeash.com/my_glider.html (ask me how I know).

Note even the canopy for the ancient but popular ASK-13 is over $2000 on this site: http://www.wingsandwheels.com/glider_canopies.htm

Installing these babies is really tricky. Nothing ever fits quite right from the factory. Worth another $3000 easy in labor; after all it is an aircraft.
Here's a low quality video of the factory from back in the day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhfUKEu7sJ0 (The copy of the video is low quality that is, the original production values were excellent)
I strongly disagree that "working a minimum wage job has no connection or relevant to adult life." The self-sufficiency I gained when working for minimum wage at 15 helped put me on the path toward "lucrative professional employment" years later.

The experience of being paid according to your actual value, particularly when you're young and virtually worthless, is an important lesson you don't find in academics or extracurriculars.
Someone related to me recently that there are very few manufacturers and Atwood's were probably from a single (less reliable) one, because they used <insert other more reliable one here> and they had better luck. Wish I had written it down...
Yeah, good catch— I didn't mean to say any JS->CS conversion was bad, just that it shouldn't be a part of the core language or of a real workflow.
I don't really want to give away their pricing, but in live chat they gave me a general range that was very affordable.
Life expectancy might not be what you think it is. Life expectancy is average expected lifetime at a particular age. We usually talk about life expectancy at birth. If a population has a high infant mortality rate, then life expectancy at birth may be 40, but life expectancy at 10 years of age might be 70. I can't name a source off hand, but I believe I've read that infant mortality is a large factor in low life expectancies. In other words, we may not have significantly increased lifespans, and may have simply solved the major infant mortality problems.
in fact firefox trace and jaeger monkey are pretty nice themselves if not more than v8. theyre also faster often time
I have a NeXT cube from the 1990s. It is one of the best built products in terms of build quality, I have ever seen.
RTP Hackers & Founders Meetup - July 2011 - Durham, NC
I don't think that for Sears' target market, you want to own something as narrow as "wrenches" in people's minds. You want to own "tools", so having a fairly wide array of them probably isn't damaging.
"In Mr. Jobs's view, the factory testifies to the fact that the United States can still compete as both a low-cost and a world-class manufacturer when it sets its mind to the task."

I suppose he has changed his position?
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A collection of "intuitive" explanations.
I'm considering rewriting the uploader natively for each platform at some point. AIR is pretty nice for getting something up and running though.
So what? Gender isn't relevant to every online activity.

A century ago we didn't have any gender neutral clothing, either: if we need better pronouns, then let's make some up.
My guess is they'll make that a webapp instead.
While I agree with you, I don't believe that the current culture of college admissions agrees. In my (anecdotal) experience, most universities in the US value the kid who volunteered at all the politically correct places, took all the right AP classes and passed their corresponding exams, played varsity high-school sports, and knows how to write formulaic essays with minimal effort.

Also, any money that a teenager earns before college only raises the amount that the teen is expected to contribute to their college expenses, effectively lowering their financial aid.
So you're essentially making the case of "Real Names Considered Harmful"? But what about the advertisers who crave such tasty, tasty information?

Incidentally, if this means that "Picasa" (whatever name it winds up getting) now needs a privacy-leaking profile, that'll be the end of it for me.
hugely linkbait title (same as the article, not blaming submitter). And it looks like it may have been something more accurate originally, note the text of the link (to the same article) in the top 4 links:

>No private profiles on Google ...

Gotta wonder who pushed for this title.
JS.Class 3.0.1: an npm package and deployment tools
Manufacturing in the US has never been better. It's the number of people needed to manufacture stuff in the US that's been declining.
They're very explicit when you're creating it. If you read any text on your screen, you can't miss it.
The circumference of the traditional unit circle is τ, which has strong ties to the definition of every trigonometric function, and the reason that radians of common fractions of the unit circle are expressed in terms of τ is related to the periods of sine and cosine.

…it's a poor argument that supports your opponent after switching key nouns.
This is a good idea, but have you thought about a crowdsourcing system? You could fill a lot of holes pretty fast and get some community input on which book is the best.
Business and Regulation Models Can Bring Medicines to World's Poor
Math reading list
Well, the money's in hotel reservations, so I guess it's in the pipeline.
>then don't find it inelegant that his proof uses not a unit circle but a circle with a diameter of 1?

I don't know, do you find it elegant? It's like a goddamn footnote, that's the whole point!

For reference, you trotted out Euclid when you defined the circle. I only pointed out whom you referenced.

>And if you do find a few cases where π is super convenient (probably because you only care about half the rotation of something), feel free to substitute half tau. :)

yawn

It does go without saying that you won't read this post, doesn't it? You didn't read the previous one.
This is irresponsibly misleading. Here is the relevant text:

http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...

If you currently have a private profile but you do not wish to make your profile public, you can delete your profile. Or, you can simply do nothing. All private profiles will be deleted after July 31, 2011.

Private profiles will be deleted not become public, the author should be ashamed.
Interestingly, they do make toothpaste and deodorant, but under different brands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henkel
CoffeeMaker - CoffeeScript for the LAMP stack
They'll claim it's for customization of prompts ("His photos", "her updates"), but that's a cop-out. Think of the possibilities when you can sell such demographic details to your advertisers. Now it should start making sense.
Due to wage/cost inflation in China and the coming rise of the Yuan (along with the weakness of the dollar), the US is about to become the cheapest place for high end manufacturing in the world.
I tried Hipmunk for the first time last week. I really enjoyed searching flights by "agony". Unfortunately I learned the hard way that all Delta flights should be put at the very end of the list when sorted in such a way.
Exactly, and it just goes to show how over-valued companies are today. Isn't Groupon worth only $700 million now? It would've been stupid of Google to pay that much. LinkedIn is not worth 9 billion either.