skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am fine with repeats, but I think a mechanism that detects "related" articles and providing links to previous/later discussions would be useful. I certainly would like to hear more of what people say if a topic or a specific article interests me.

I am not necessarily advocating that this should be a built-in feature; on the contrary, I think it would be more elegant as external feature and I think in that form it would be more useful, since this sounds like one of those problems where the general solution is easier than a particular solution
Break Creative Paralysis
I wish I could tell whether the downvotes were for "that's not funny," "you are slandering RMS" (who is by the way far smarter than I am and has done far better things for the hacking community, I am a nobody), or "that is a cheap-shot comment that does not fit the tenor of the desired discussions on HN."
the user has an ipad. is used to an ipad.of course she isnt going to like android. of those smartphone users who started out with wm or palm who has went on most have went to android not iphone cause of its flexablity and IMHO look and feel. some has went the iphone route and love it. me i cant stand it. its just a feature phone to me. many android users wont buy an ipad they will buy an android tablet. reason being is the continuity. LOL
FTA: "[W]e’ve been told that 12,000 e-mails, 12,000 website views, 4 streaming movies and 5 hours of streaming music will start to put you close to that upper range of usage," wrote 9to5Mac.

Won't the email/web figures be mostly irrelevant in comparison to the movie/music data consumption? I wonder how much of the data capping is reaction to Netflix/Hulu consumption. I understand this is a big issue at college campuses and some businesses?
Of Fake Apple Stores, Lodsys Patent Games, and a Boy’s Dream | The Mac Observer
The Future of the Mac After Lion | The Mac Observer
I think I'm right in saying that it won't; as awesome as they are, they're not known for high workload per clock cycle.
Don't ignore the second post: She claims she hasn't been contacted by anyone since June 30th, until well, now, almost August, when the post went viral and this whole mess was brought to light.

reply-edit: It's follow-through that matters. Is this not one of our principles? Yet, she's still homeless, hurt, and scared, but who cares, right?

"For all we know!" is an excuse. Airbnb's, "we're on it, folks!, let us get past this round of funding first" is another excuse. "It's all Arrington's fault" is another excuse, and a stupid one at that ( Yes, I said it ), especially when this thread is about EJ's blog-post, not Arrington's.

It bugs me that this turned into a fight between camps, and getting uglier, sillier, and dumber as time goes on.
Actually, he's a pretty staunch conservative, not to mention an all around douche. Remember his 2008 redesign of USA.gov?

http://www.andyrutledge.com/usa-dot-gov-redux.php
Developping on top of Facebook Platform is very unsettling : always moving, inconsistent, under-documented, poor libraries outside of python and PHP, at least 3 types of access to the same data (deprecated REST API, FQL queries and Graph API), etc.
Yet you get their gigantic audience and unprecedented data at hand, which is thrilling.
Developping for Facebook is almost a separate kind of programing, with its own set of rules.
When I first heard about this a few months back I was somewhat skeptical, but it seemed like a great idea. It's nice to see a Gov't that doesn't have its head firmly lodged up its own ass and one that is trying different approaches to attracting business. From the other comments it seems as though it's working out pretty well- When I can no longer take anymore of the politics and RIDICULOUS politicians here in the States, Chile could be a good place for the next adventure...
You down voted my question but still did not provide a concrete example.
The C++ version could be greatly simplified by using boost::bind. It'd still be shorter and clearer than a Java equivalent that had to bung in anonymous classes and other crap to create a proper dispatch.

Your point, however, totally stands.
UnQL - SQL-like Query Language for NoSQL
You mean like what happens in the regular "mainstream" media? You didn't notice the endless stories on Casey Anthony or the Debt Crisis? This is the normal pattern with ALL new sources. Why should HN be any different?
That's only if you have a lot of investment pressure to take over the space and make a killing at it. If you're taking a much smaller long-term and slow growth approach with your own / angel coin then you're in a much better position to weather the storm, and yes you should take advantage of this situation imo.
That seems like a risky flow of rules - but mostly in that they look difficult to consistently adhere to. Someone who could consistently play by those rules would be interesting to work with.

The list also, though, makes an underlying claim of "I am good enough at what I do that I can play by these rules, which are atypical of American workplace culture." If that claim is not a valid one, this list would probably indicate someone deeply problematic to work with.
Even with this event, I don't think the mixing of these two things is going to stop.

The present "wave of disruption" sweeping the world is based on finding ways to use resources more efficiently by changing social divisions. Even if Airbnb in particular now crashes and burns, there's so much potential savings in the airbnb model that people will continue to sweep away the earlier divisions in some fashion.
Great link, thanks!

One of the more interesting questions (and the Rasberry Pi creator is investing in) is 'learning about computers.' Which I truly support. (Local high school computer class was about how to use Microsoft Office, bleh!) Its one of the reasons have felt that Arduino's and their spawn are doing a great service of getting people interested in understanding what the computer is doing at a more complex level, before they open up their first kernel file and gaze upon the complexity therein.
I'm surprised that scanning IDs is much of a deterrent. If would-be thieves are going to the trouble of booking rooms on AirBNB and the like, they are obviously more than casual criminals, and probably fairly technically adept ones at that. Taking the next logical step to Photoshop the image doesn't seem like much of an obstacle for someone so motivated.
Representatives of the victims' families have also rejected pilot error as the primary cause, suggesting the economic issues at stake may mean a playing down of mechanical failures.

I assume this translates as meaning "We're less likely to get a big payout if pilot error is to blame, therefore we refuse to believe it"?
How to be a good data journalist
And for those who have so generously suggested a donation fund be set up to help me recover, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and suggest that instead, you keep the money and use it to >> book yourself into a nice, safe hotel room the next time you travel <<. You’ll be glad you did.

Devil's advocate (not being inconsiderate): doesn't the hotel industry have an enormous interest in the demise of Airbnb? Interesting how the blog posts makes this suggestion after the heart strings have been tug.
This kind of news could kill peoples appetite for the product, despite the business model, effectively killing the whole industry segment.
That one is unavailable. I'd suggest this one.
http://www.amazon.com/External-Antenna-Wireless-802-11G-Netw...

Its only $8.40, it has an external antenna, and a ralink chipset that I've had much success using on all kinds of linux distros. (Its internal antenna cousin is less than $8)
Since you are hung up on "objective analysis," what objective evidence do you have that this claim is true?

In any case, here is an objective problem: Common Lisp does not include a standard for regular expressions.

That isn't anecdotal and it isn't misplaced blame and it isn't an unnamed idiosyncrasy. It's a failure within the CL standard to include one of the most powerful tools around for text processing--a tool that pretty much every dynamic language includes.

I've tried using lisp before for text processing and found it brutal--practically impossible--compared to other dynamic languages. That isn't due to popularity, it's because python and perl and awk have built-in facilities for manipulating the hell out of text that sit right on the surface, were easy to find, and work well. Despite having lots of functions for chars and strings, common lisp never felt anywhere as easy for those tasks.

If I'm wrong, then I will look forward to being educated, but I honestly believe that practical limits have everything to do with why people don't turn to CL for scripting.

Thoughts?
I didn't read it that way at all. He was asked what geographical areas are seeing a bunch of activity and he mentioned Estonia. I didn't see any comparisons between Boston and Estonia in there.
Obviously the only good thing is for developers who are not familiar with noSQL technologies. This is a nice try to unify the model language.
Unfortunately, the additional load generated by the query parsing is a no go for me.
You can always use applet to compile on the client, you don't have to compile on the server. It would be easy to create reply like this.
Are Internet Explorer users dumb?
What the author actually meant to title the post was, 'why my Mom bought a phone which was ruined by Verizon and returned it for a handset they couldn't pollute'.
Agreed.

The touch on my Nexus One (HTC Passion) is horrible the slightest smudge and that's it no touch. I bought my mother an iPod touch a couple of years ago and the touch is fantastic. Actually anyone I know with HTC seems to have problems but not those I know with Android but not HTC hardware.

I played around with a Samsung Galaxy II on display in a store and even after hundreds of people were poking at it and smudged it the touch was flawless.

I've had a few crash on Android OS (v2.3.4 GRJ22) but I prefer it over iOS I find the iPod Touch's GUI suffocating after using Android.
Learning RoR w the "Sweat Lodge" approach 
Take a week and work thru a Rails tutorial 12-14 hrs a day or for how ever long it takes to finish it. For a beginner, is this crazy? If it's a good tutorial, will I at least have some basic understanding of coding afterwards? I know you can't begin to be an expert in just a week, but I see that some have talked about starting out this way.
Indeed, if Nigerian 419 scammers have already picked up photoshopping IDs [1], you can imagine what a low barrier this will be. The real question is if you can verify the ID electronically from the image, and the answer will generally be no.

[1] http://www.419eater.com/html/hall_of_shame4.htm
My .vim folder would be a gigantic mess without Pathogen. I recommend using Tammer Saleh's update_bundles script ( http://tammersaleh.com/posts/the-modern-vim-config-with-path... ) to keep your vim plugins up to date.
Are narwhals real - Help convince a non-believer
Vodafones product page for it:
http://www.vodafone.com/content/index/about/what/devices/vod...
Just because you're paranoid it doesn't they're not after you.
I think the policy dilemma is that you are both right to some degree. If it wasn't such an ideologically charged issue, the solution would be quite simple. Tax repatriated profits but reduce the amount payable by the taxes paid overseas. Or enter into a double taxation agreement with the countries involved.
That'd be a bizarre scenario though, and you'd think at least one of the parties involved would've mentioned it publicly.

Instead, we have Chesky saying they've offered nebulous "help", commenting personally on TC. Not mentioning a single step they've taken to actively provide help, no specific offer. What he says in no way conflicts with anything EJ wrote, and the only contradictory information we've had from Airbnb is coming secondhand via pg, posted only on HN. Which is pretty damn weird when you have this kind of situation blowing up on the internet.

I like to think that Airbnb wants to do the right thing, but they've made an utterly disastrous mess of communication and PR.
It's a pretty interesting read. I'd found amusing the simple definition of the business model at first: "We are going to sell books. People will send us money, and we will put it in the bank. And then we will ship them a book. And we will do that a lot...".

The guy seems a little bitter with amazon's management for some decisions they had taken. However, as of lately Kaphan recognizes some successes of the company in unexpected fields like hardware and cloud computing.
Sept. 11 Revealed Psychology’s Limits
Software used by the Uruguayan National Football Team - Copa America Champions
Even though SQLite isn't designed to replace Oracle, I'm certain there's plenty of companies that have purchased expensive Oracle licenses for projects where SQLite would have worked perfectly well. I've often used it for web-based custom CMS's of one kind or another where many people would have used MySQL and the client would never know the difference. I'm sure many people have used Oracle for web-based internal tools like this with less than a million rows of data.
Good for the Poor, Good for Goldman Sachs
Has anyone elaborated on the meth-lab scenario? I'd like to hear the economics on that. Wouldn't it be a lot of effort, planning, and personal risk for the bad guys to book the room through airbnb and then just trash it seemingly maliciously like they did?

If this really was a case of some kind of mobile meth-lab operation, shouldn't we expect a number of other cases like this going on with airbnb rentals?

I suspect one of the reasons that airbnb was slow to reimburse EJ is that details are so bizarre on the surface. I think the hotel industry conspiracy theories are absurd. But I am curious to find out what was really go on in that apartment for a week whatever it was.
What exactly will Apple do with this cash other than buy billion-dollar patent portfolios? Are there potential big acquisition deals in the works that make sense?
Now that IPV4 addresses have run out, the conversion to IPV6 will represent a major technological opportunity.
In the U.S. the legislature really does hold the power of the purse. The substantial majority of spending is through entitlements, tax code distributions, and debt repayments, which are all on autopilot. The President can veto year-to-year discretionary spending, but the veto can be overridden, which damages the president's credibility and so that situation is avoided by capitulating.
Anything that makes Couch more powerful is great! I'm interested to see how they integrate this into the viewserver, it seems like it allows a bit more expressibility than the current JS system does.
This happens all the time in the Vegas casino industry. Heck, I think all casinos share a "perp" database with photos and everything. Illegal? Definitely not.
Obama has escalated the war in Afghanistan, and also the adventure in Libya.
grand-parent's point is presumably that bcrypt (or similar) is a better choice than md5.
They have an agreement with MediaNet yes, but it's definitely not some sort of blanket immunity to use copyrighted music.

As a simple example: turntable allows uploads. What happens when I upload an MP3 from a band that isn't part of the MediaNet catalog? And at what point does streaming radio become a "digital locker"?
Hacker artist takes over Internet cafe for speed show
Inside Pfizer's Palace Coup
In this response from Paul Graham we have an example of how this crisis could taint ALL Y Combinator companies. I say this as a fan of Mr Graham, Hacker News (which he created), and his essays. But this is 100 percent the wrong reaction by Paul to the sickening -- sickening! -- disclosure that Airbnb tried to get this guest to hush up the utter sacking of her apartment in order to close a funding round.

Paul, you should be condemning Airbnb's pathetically slow response (which you do not dispute), attempted cover up (which you do not dispute), long silence when they thought this was going to fizzle out and disappear (which you do not dispute), and mammoth hole in their security procedures (which you do not dispute).

Instead you are complaining about some detail of how TechCrunch covered this big story, and parroting a single, one-sided conversation you had with the people who have the most to lose from the situation.

If you want the lack of ethics on display at Airbnb to cast a PR taint over legit YC companies, this is exactly the way to do so.
I don't care how good you are, how good you think you are, or how lucky you think I am to be working with you, the tone of this "list of rules" comes across as rude, and being rude to your underlings just isn't a good way to get them to work effectively (at least not in most cases).

The actual suggestions are pretty reasonable, though. As a fun exercise, you could rewrite this list so it sounds helpful and polite rather than rude and egotistical.

I've been around academia for long enough to have met a lot of really first-rate minds who are polite and humble, and a lot of second-rate minds who are rude and arrogant. And maybe I've met some first-rate minds who are rude and arrogant as well, but I haven't noticed because I've mentally sorted them into the "overcompensating second-rater" category.

tl;dr: Don't be a cunt.
Just to throw in another $0.02...

I use bufexplorer[1]. There's something about minbufexpl's list that seems unappealing to me when it spans multiple lines. I also have CTRL-j/CTRL-k mapped to :bnext/:bprev. As for closing a buffer, my main window generally has a single vertical split, so I have the following kludge:

map <C-Q> :vert split<CR>:bnext<CR>:wincmd l<CR>:bdelete<CR>

This creates another vertical window temporarily, advances to the next buffer in that window, activates the window to the right (which still shows the buffer I'm trying to kill), and then deletes that buffer leaving me with two windows again. Amusingly, my older machines were slow enough to catch a glimpse of the third window, but it disappears too quickly to see on my new machine.

[1] http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=42

edit: described kludge a bit better
Study shows IE6 users have below average IQ (~80)
If AirBnB was smart, they would have made the offer in PUBLIC, so that we don't have this he-said / she-said thing going on. To be honest, it's hard to believe anyone in this story. Lesson learned: be quick, be open, be transparent, be thoughtful, be understanding. Basically, be human.
Human suffering. Dwindling biodiversity. Exhaustion of natural resources. The nature of the universe. The meaning of life. The sound of one hand clapping.

It's a good sort of question to ask, but it helps to narrow your domain.
"any inventive suggestions for how to troll him [the security auditor] a bit?"

Nothing productive could come of that. This situation is not for your entertainment. Just move along...
I'm just connecting fictitious dots here, but it seems a rather crafty move to launch a hotel search site in the midst of the Airbnb debacle. "Oh, I was going to use Airbnb, then I heard about so-and-so's experience with them and decided to book a hotel instead ... and oh look! A spiffy new hotel search service!"

Which reminds me--I think there was an article linked here on HN not long ago about Google's timing in releasing new products/features--can't find it now, but makes me wonder if Google doesn't keep a few projects in the wings, waiting for the opportune moment (i.e. best PR moment) to launch them.
How do you recruit the best talent
Yes. This is what I meant. Thanks. Sorry if it sounded offensive.
This is a usability problem: On an average day X number of new stories appear — but now that's a flood of information that only a few people can keep up with. So two solutions that can be tried are:

- Have a design mechanism that allows users to link stories together: So you sort of crowd source the process

- Have categories for stories like Digg: So for example if everyone is suddenly subbing the same breaking biz news story you'll see the dupes right away. This would have the added benefit of allowing users to really see the topics they want: For example as a designer as much as love you programmers I'm not sure that an article about Haskell, and to be fair a programmer may feel the same way about typography. And in a sense you're already doing this by having categories like "Ask HN"
“We hope to sell millions . . . Anything below millions will be disappointing.”

I think they will be disappointed. I can't name a smart phone where it takes more than about 2 keystrokes to do anything you want on Facebook.
The only time i would stop using turntable would be if there were commercials.
Particle Debris (wk. ending 7/29) The Future Arrived Yesterday
It was this line that got me:

> Based on that technology, MIT researchers have made a button-sized power generator fueled by butane that can run three times longer than a lithium-ion battery of the same weight; the device can then be recharged instantly, just by snapping in a tiny cartridge of fresh fuel.

There seems to be tons of awesome applications for such a technology. The first one that comes to mind is electronics for camping. You could have your mp3 player for your week long backpacking trip.
"The ketogenic diet also may function in a neuroprotective fashion in Alzheimer disease "

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898565/

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"Neuroprotective and disease-modifying effects of the ketogenic diet"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367001/

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Study of the ketogenic agent AC-1202 in mild to moderate
Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, double-blind,
placebo-controlled, multicenter trial"

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1743-7075-6-31.pdf

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http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=alzheimers+ketogenic+die...
Oh, I completely realize there are problems. Just pointing out what else could be done. Also, she doesn't have to bring a case against them, nor do you need to present yourself and leave yourself open. Not sure if just letting her know anonymously would do anything for her. Personally, I'd want to avoid working in such a place.
Infrastructure Gut-Check: Four Questions You Need To Ask
I don't understand: can't she pick up the phone and say, "Hey what happened? You promised to helped me. Now where's the help?"

Anyway for all we know they offered and she said, "Thanks. But no thanks." (What I'm saying is we don't know what the exchange was between them precisely, we only know that both sides of the story are saying the same thing: she was at least offered help from the outset.)
Surely borrowing 41 cents of every dollar you are spending, going on 4 years now, while at the same time completely failing to prepare for the baby boom generation's retirement, is a crisis.
The Centrist Cop-Out
Yup, this does indeed deserve the downvote.
The US version: http://www.htc.com/us/products/status-att
Were the Japanese Engineers Who Built Fukushima Incompetent?
I don't have an authoritative source, but I recently read that Chile assesses:
- Up to %40 income taxes
- A form of social security taxes
- taxes capital gains as income
- %17 corporate taxes
- %19 VAT Taxes (might have that and corporate reversed)
and, the piece de resistance:
- a %35 excise tax on taking money out of the country!
Seems like a pretty half-assed product. "Vodafone 555 Blue", really, that's what you're gonna call it?

Anyone remember the Motorola ROKR? Yeah, exactly...