skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be clear to all the posters here, yes this is a throw away. I made this throw away because that is how I use HN. I had a good account a few months back called rick_2047[1] (yes that guy!). After that one got hell banned (my second or third hell ban I think) I have observed that I digress from most of the HN community on the meaning of the term "trolling". No biggie HN people, thats just a different point of view. No hard feelings (but I still would like that account back or at least have it purged)[2]. I don't have a strong urge to post comments these days (that is a con) but I am less of a karma whore now (thats a pro). Most of the articles here were and still are very irrelevant to me. I am not doing any startups so don't need all that knowledge and am not into CS so don't read those articles as well. But every once in a while something interesting and generic (as generic as it gets on HN) comes up and I feel the urge to comment. PG made it really easy to make a new account. I chose a few words relevant the comment and then post it. I check the thread for a day or two (because they are not active after that, also I usually don't post very interesting stuff). I read the guidelines and all. I didn't find any clause stating that one cannot have multiple accounts. If I have missed something please do tell me. But even after that I know I will keep doing this, but at least I know I am doing something illegal.

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rick_2047 (I think I made kind of a record with this one, of the most unpopular comment of all time, still would like conformation on that)

[2] If PG is reading this, which he most probably isn't, if you can be so kind and purge my account that would be great. Thanks in advance.
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Code becomes unmaintable when it is not object oriented, ESP for front end applications. Nothing to do with using slick looking syntax, IMHO
I think that's quite subjective. It may not be a bad thing! I just think it indicates fragmentation of the readership in a way that didn't used to occur. Perhaps this is a natural part of a community growing beyond a certain size.

That said, there was once a time when any new front page link was something I was sure not to have seen before. Now? Unless it's up to date news, I've seen perhaps 1 in 5 links on Twitter, Reddit, or even my own newsletters already. People are getting 3 week old JRuby release notes on the front page nowadays fer chrissakes..
ask dropbox?
Of course "someone is in custody." There are many thousands of people in custody in the US. The question is, how many of them have demonstrated ties to EJ's case? AirBnB's comment implies (but does not state) that the number is 1. Unless AirBnB know something different that they are not sharing with EJ, it would appear the real number is 0. That's what she was correcting.
I lack the experience to secure any sort of internship Isn't that the point of internships, to give experience to those without any? As far as open source goes, if you don't think you have the ability to contribute read the source until you feel like you understand what is going on in the project. If you still feel like you can't contribute to a project then try to come up with an ancillary project, like a gui front end for a DB project or some sort of convenience tool.
Any developers here interested in applying? I've been thinking about it but I'm primarily on the business side. If anybody would like to discuss possibilities please check my profile for further background and contact info.
It'd be great for Nintendo if Apple's game market allowed for decently priced games, but hell even StreetFighter4 is like $7 now.

Not only is Apple disrupting Nintendo's hardware strategy, they're disrupting Nintendo's software pricing.

There is no livable future for Nintendo as an Apple software shop.
You've Got Fail: Microsoft Punks Google With 'Gmail Man' Video
Well I meant in addition to any non-school related projects I do. :P The tasks we are asked to perform here are a joke. I recall a problem set last year that went something like this: "You have a Door object that has a state which can be 'open' or 'closed'. Write a mutator method to change the state of the door." What the hell? That was about 2/3 of the way through the course too. I know its a first year course but come one ...
In all fairness, by the colony's fourth year (given enough animals), multi-GHz machines with GBs of memory start groaning.
sorry, i posted before there was a link to the solution page live (it's there now):

http://schmetrics.com/solution.html
So on May16 there were extraordinary measures to inject funds into the budget.

What extraordinary measures were taken to ensure that the budget would be closer to being balanced going forward?

It seems like there is a never ending solution of debt limit increases going back decades. I suppose things need to get broken very badly before the drastic changes that are needed can be made. Until the general public feels real consequences that are directly attributable to this spend more mentality, nothing is likely to change.
thanks for the feedback; we definitely agree it will be off-putting to certain kinds of clients

luckily for us, those are the kinds of clients we don't want to deal with right now :)
Breaking News On Twitter... while Google is left in the dust
thanks for the feedback; we definitely agree it will be off-putting to certain kinds of clients

luckily for us, those are the kinds of clients we don't want to deal with right now :)

EDIT: replaced 'retardedly' with 'ludicrously', thanks!
It seems my server is back alive, so if you check the article now, you can see the screenshot from Squeak and it's implemented like that.
Ninja Koans
can you elaborate?

This is all I used: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fschmetrics.co...
Actually, for truly dynamic content, it will still be faster to serve through the CDN. I do this for my own website, and saw nearly 2x latency improvements from seriously-offsite locations like Qatar.

The reason for this is that the CDN can keep "hot" TCP connections "open" to your backend origin servers.

Normally, when the user connects to your website, best case, he/she will have to send a SYN, receive a SYN/ACK, send their request in their final ACK (hopefully it fits), and then get their response. That's two round trips.

Then, if the file is "large", the TCP window will start out at some horrible default size, and will only get larger over the course of the connection being used, with successful packets being sent back over great distances and latency.

However, with a CDN, it likely already has a connection open, saving an entire round trip to your server. Meanwhile, if your response is somewhat heavy (multiple kilobytes), the old connection will already have a large window (as bandwidth between the CDN node and your origin server is likely high, even if the last mile to the user isn't), so you will get much higher performance and won't get stuck waiting for ACKs.

In fact, once you start thinking at the TCP level, you realize all sorts of things, like: even if you don't have existing reusable connections, the window will still warm up faster for the CDN (due to their connection being slightly lower latency and likely more stable), yielding greater total bandwidth; and, even more hilariously, even if there is no "last mile effect", having a server halfway between two servers will improve their performance due to these same windowing issues.
Y'know what it reminds me of? The "Virtual Reality" craze of the early 90s. Everybody went on about how awesome it was that in a few years time, once the graphics hardware caught up, we'd all be putting on virtual reality helmets, not just for games, but for everything. "Man", people said after playing Dactyl Nightmare for the first time, "when the graphics get better, and we figure out how to make small, light screens, this is going to be awesome!"

What happened? Well, the graphics caught up, and we figured out how to make small, light screens, but we also figured out that wearing a virtual reality helmet is annoying, gives you a headache, and really doesn't give you any more feeling of immersion than just watching a big flat screen.
No, when mass media picks it up, the hotel industry will be made to look like knights in shining armor... the hotel lobby is big and powerful and media is corrupt.

AirBnB's fiasco is not a long-term benefit for their direct competitors either.
First, "not help" is not a synonym for "hurt".

Second, if we assume that a dollar in one place does not always provide the same value to the economy as a dollar in another place (which everyone seems to agree on; they just don't agree on which places provide the most value), then we must conclude that over the long term sending as much money as possible to a sub-optimal place is worse for the economy than sending it somewhere more optimal.
A corporation holding cash means they're not investing as much as they could according to supply-side economic thinking.

This should make people reflect on the state of the economy. While it's true that some companies just like to hoard cash (e.g. Microsoft), this may just be the symptom of a bigger problem. With consumers low on cash due to the recession, it simply makes no sense to invest any more. This in turn guarantees that consumers will stay low on cash because a lot of slack remains in the job market.
It really did. Quora I don't really want to follow an influx of questions. If the Reddit community decides something is worth knowing, I can read about it. Genius
If one's nitpicky enough — there are no smartphones that work right — not a single one.

The only thing that varies (mostly between users, less frequently between devices) is what's considered "good enough".
I've always wanted a way to associate stories, even if there is just a list under the headline (when viewing comments) listing possibly related stories (based on user feedback).
Does anyone else use code folding plugins for vim? If you have something good for this, please share, since all the popular plugins are pretty buggy (they fold functions withing functions, and sometimes just white space).
So nothing is "weirdly irrational?" (As opposed to understandably irrational.)
point taken; replaced with "ludicrously"
That's great that you've discovered you're less productive in Java than Scala. Hopefully you can improve that deficiency in your programming at some point.
I think we need to repeat this poll, over and over.
One thing i miss in languages like python that don't enclose blocks in {} is the convenience of using % to find the matching beginning/end of the block.
There is a gear on the lower left that will give you the desktop version, but I must say this kind of behaviour by web publishers putting tablets into such a weird format is annoying.
Additionally, the veteran users scope out the source domain of each link as a quick indicator of the type of content, whereas the other users rely more heavily on the headline.
I believe the best solution for fraud is to require the user to take a webcam shot of yourself while holding the ID next to your head. I had to do that once to verify my identity.
It is apple's fault. Location permission is required to access your photo library.
You may have this one (if you can live with a throwaway). I have posted my original account in a comment above. It has my email ID in it. Email me and I will give you the password. Before that I will make a comment here stating that I have transfered the account and will wait till the delete option is gone. Seems fair?
I never have to ask.
Very few people in distress can coherently answer an open-ended question such as "what can we do for you?" It also puts her in a position of, basically, asking a favor, and this is not something that a hurt person would be inclined to do.

Give her a list of specific things you can do. Or rather just do them first, and then tell her. Rent and furnish an apartment for her and bring her the keys, for example. That will go a much further way than just writing a blank cheque.
(The reason that the sentence had a question mark at the end was because I was asking you a question.)

Why? Why can't iPhone developers make web apps instead?
You'll look back at these comments you're making in 10 years and be embarrassed. Hopefully by then you will have learnt a bit more about being a productive programmer.

The language doesn't matter. Repeat after me...

A good programmer can make good stuff in ANY language. A bad programmer can only make good stuff in their favorite language.

You should stand up, be confident, and realize that it is the programmer that creates awesome software. Not the language.
We do offer group pricing for companies with more than 5 users. All you have to do is email us at sales at baydin.
I'm commenting more on the story the media will run then the end result. I agree that the end result will likely benefit lobbyists and hurt any consumer-to-consumer services.

Is that bad though? If people don't trust this type of service, why do we act like thats a bad thing and hotels are evil for it?
You're using pg's (apparently) second-hand information to discredit EJ's account of her experience. What proof do you have that EJ is misrepresenting anything? At best, this is a case of he-said-she-said. But given pg and EJ's positions relative to the situation here, it seems more likely to me that pg has been misinformed than that EJ is egregiously lying.

(I admit the latter is possible, but you seem to be taking the less plausible explanation as a given and using that assumption to attack the victim here. Hence the downvotes.)
Apple forbid they'd bring those manufacturing jobs to the US and actually pay some Californians a decent wage and help their own country.

http://harryjerry.com/tech/how-apple-products-are-made-in-fo...

http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=usunemployment&#...
Agree with you on infrastructure and more importantly the dollar adjustment.

CPI is a nice handy tool for things that could damage the basket of goods in contained in the CPI but it's wildly inappropriate for weather disasters because the weather disasters primarily cause damage to capital infrastructure rather than consumer goods. Case-Schiller, M3, or DOW, S&P 500, would be much better numbers to use for adjusting damage to capital infrastructure. Even then it's kind of a crap shoot as none of those price indexes really accurately reflects the kinds of property damaged by weather.
It seems to me that what AirBnB should do is just this:

1. Announce they are instituting a (possibly optional) insurance policy. At most, there should be a checkbox when I rent my place out that says 'insure it' and if I check it they take the cost of insurance out of what I'd get paid otherwise. If insurance is cheap enough (I don't know what 'cheap enough' is) they can simply make it mandatory.

(The decision to self-insure or use an external insurance agency is not germane to this discussion... that's something they need to figure out internally.)

2. Offer this person some sum (say, 5x what insurance would have paid) for her silence.

Now, I'm sure they are working on 2. but I think #1 is actually more important, because many of us are not going to be willing to do this negotiation in public to get compensation... so insurance is better all around. The people renting out the houses know they can get paid with minimal hassle, and AirBnB knows exactly how much it is going to cost ahead of time. If you can find an insurance company that insures hotels, they might also be able to help with risk mitigation efforts.

I really think that instituting some sort of insurance policy is a good way for AirBnB to accept responsibility for the problem, and a realistic "and this is what we are doing to mitigate the problem going forward"
> As long as those money are flowing, it helps the economy. The only instance where it wouldn't is if it disappeared from the market.

This is naive. In what sense does it help the economy if I take $1000 from my account and give it to my friend who puts it into his account? There's no extra money in circulation, no projects funded, no growth, nothing. Money moved and it did nothing.

> This is even more obvious in Europe where a large chunk of all taxes payed comes from VAT; which are like sales taxes in the U.S. except everybody pays them.

I'm not clear how that proves that money flowing always helps the economy. What the VAT indicates is that the EU believes in taxing at all points along the chain of production.
Brian Chesky's profile in FT
I am a fairly frequent renter through these types of services (mostly use VRBO) because we have way too many kids and hotels are way too expensive.

Nobody has /ever/ asked me for ID. "Key is in the lockbox, here is the code! Have fun!" is the typical greeting.
I see. Interesting solution. Apologies for misunderstanding.
The term that describes what you are referring to is 'partial evaluation'
I guess that makes sense - pictures can have geolocation data. Still could improve the messaging for the permission to explain that. Maybe say "Dropbox wants to access your location and photo library".
Maybe it's time they paid their fucking taxes like the rest of us.
http://imgur.com/tuuxl
Apple's Profit Share Among Top Mobile Phone Vendors Rises to 66%
Indentured Piratude
It's a good idea, yes.

But in this case, and probably any that follow it, it's extremely unlikely they used/will use their own details or credit cards.
FYI: LinkedIn Is Using Your Photo And Your Actions In Social Advertising
This was discovered recently and you should be aware of it.
the political spectrum is wider than the usa, and people are more politically involved (both of which you would expect, i think, given the country's history). some of the most decent people i know here are still active communists; many of my friends were in the party during the dictatorship because that was the main coordinating movement in the resistance.

there's an active debate about how society should work. i suspect some americans will see "communists" and think they are going to have their work stolen from them. that's not the case. in practice the debate is more about where to position the country between what you might call "european" and "american" ideals. sure, some people i know advocate permanent revolution. but on the other side some people advocate eugenics of the poor (seriously - speaking from experience). there really is a wider range (and i think that's a good thing).
They also skip right over the sponsored link.
I for one expect AirBnB to come out winners after the dust settles. I don't see their competitors' names on the cover of FT, and the way human memory works, people will soon forget the negative reason why they originally heard of AirBnB.

This of course supposes that the AirBnB guys handle the rest of this right.
For all that has been said about gaming on the iPod/Android, the state of the art in games there is still pretty low-rent, low-budget.

I mean, what's the big hit? Angry Birds, which looks like it was written by one guy in two weeks. Sure, people enjoy playing it, but it strikes me that the market for big fancy games is still not served on these devices.

There's a market in between "casual" and "hardcore". I don't want a game I have to practice for five hundred hours before I stop being a "n00b"... but on the other hand I do want a game that can really hold my attention on a twelve-hour plane ride. Something with a real story, and an adventure, that progresses as I play through it, and where my reward for playing more is something other than "now do the same thing with a more complicated series of boxes".
To be fair, a large number of employers of interns are looking for some sort of significant experience (though limited to job experience).
I wonder why the concentration right at the bottom-right of the page (which contains site links and FAQ) is present for experienced users but absent for others.
Does part of corporate "efficiency" include billions of dollars in bonuses?

That doesn't seem very efficient to me. The effect of large bonuses on the cost of administration seems a bit high.
Scrivener 2 for OS X: A Writer’s Dream Come True
I kept looking for the Google Translate button while reading this.
Data harvest - a look at how Google sees users on Google+
Microsoft Download Manager for Windows
The quickest way to do nothing
You don't seem to understand something that I guess I feel is rather basic: I don't have a "favorite" language. I have tools that are expressive and thus more useful because I spend more time in the problem space than I do in the language space. I also have Java.

Objects are a powerful concept because they allow a programmer to more easily map a problem to the available solution space. This is good. Java, however, fails to take the next step to enable even better mapping of a problem by creating a more flexible solution space. The other languages cited in this thread do create that more flexible solution space, and thus make getting a job done more easily and more cleanly a viable possibility.

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A good programmer can make good stuff in any language. You are correct about this. Where you are wrong is in your inability to understand that a good programmer can make good stuff quicker and more easily in an environment that minimizes the distance between the problem and solution set.

But I rather get the impression that you don't know enough about what exists outside of your "box" to be as authoritative as you'd like to sound. You seem fundamentally uninterested in understanding the benefits that these constructs, and these simplified syntaxes (note: these are two separate points, but you seem to miss them both) provide to a developer. I don't think there's a lot of value in continuing this with you. Unless you bring forward salient points instead of petulant defenses based on fundamental ignorance, I won't reply to you again.
I'm still in my University program, and am writing this at my internship. I was COMS for a year and a half. After the first year, I was confident in Java (don't hate), but the only job I could get was contruction or an oil field job. I've been an IT now for 5 years. I recently switched to Management of Information Systems with a focus in security.
Anyways, after your first year of COMS, don't expect to have any jobs. Your more difficult programming will come next year, and then you will become a good asset for a company. If you REALLY want a job, reverse engineer a program that's already out there, or just program your ideas.
Is this a function overloading?
There is an interesting discussion about this on forrst: http://forrst.com/posts/Dont_Upgrade_to_Mac_OS_Lion_Not_yet-...
You talk to her. Yes this takes some skill.

You don't need to tell everyone the specifics, but you need to tell her... provide her with more than any rational person would consider reasonable and say publicly that you are doing what it takes to make the situation right.

Most rational thinkers won't continually bad mouth you if you genuinely show remorse, offer compensation (thereby providing something, in theory, she could lose) and approach the situation honestly. As any person that has ever done any customer service knows, the quickest way to placate an angry customer is to admit when you are wrong and look to find solutions that would make said customer happy. It's amazing how powerful a "Crap, I screwed up, I'm sorry, let me fix this" is.

She shouldn't be asked to do anything... she should be given enough reason to produce a positive blog post on her own. It's not as good as it would have been prior to her posts, but lesson learned.
The effort required to photoshop such an image (or paste your own picture on top of a stolen ID) is trivial compared to the effort required to forge or steal the ID in the first place. Thus, I don't understand how this would be anything other than an inconvenience to honest users.
Why are we a top contributor on Humble Bundle?
confirms a comment I was about to make on another AirBnB story 5 minutes ago. There is no such thing as bad press.