skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some background you may want to check following posts with comments:

http://faulty.posterous.com/0-plain-text-emails-ftw#comments

http://faulty.posterous.com/1-support-for-local-inline-image...

I thought it may be the right mail-driven blog platform since markdown introduction, but unfortunately I was wrong.
I wish my company had similar sentiments. I sit in a darkened corner with the lights turned off. The only thing I can see is an unilluminated beige wall. It's very depressing.

I brought in my own chair (a used Steelcase Leap) and my own keyboard. That helped a lot. Even so, I still have to get up frequently throughout the day so that I don't get back or shoulder pain. When I do, I get suspicious looks from folks who think I'm not working hard enough.

The irony is that I work at home on my own time because I'm more productive there.
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Work in office during day, and work on personal projects during evenings.

Do not have TV for like.... a lot of years.

Found discount movie theater nearby and go there over weekends sometimes with my wife (she also totally busy during week).

You know what? When you go to movie theater just a few times per month - you really enjoy the show! And nice restaurant after is a great culmination =) Treat yourself, not bloat!
I was actually looking just the other day to see what streaming options MLS had, and failed to find anything that would work purely online, without some sort of actual TV provider in America.

Are you wanting to know about MLS, or about foreign and international leagues/tournaments as well? (I don't have answers right now, but will look into the Fox subscription you mentioned and see how it is.)
I made the switch to Mac. It's not much of a hurdle. Most of what I do in the terminal remains pretty much the same. I still use vim predominantly. For the most part I'm happy with it.
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Oh, I see. I had guessed that stuff like that would be flagged to oblivion fast enough that it wouldn't be an issue. I guess that the speed at which flagging would have an affect relates to the number of people with flag permissions who are currently browsing the main page so the spam problem may vary with time of day etc.

Perhaps an alternative might be reducing the amount of upvotes that a 'review my startup' post requires to get on the main page in the first place. Or perhaps some combination of the two.
Works great! Until I overloaded it. Made my graphic driver crash.
There is a TON of opportunity in Detroit. A lot of smart money has already started pouring into the city.
(non native speaker)

In 20% of my HN comments I need correct "there"/"their", "buy"/"by" [...] which I write down correctly when re-reading my comments, but subconsciously write incorrect the first time when I do not think about the words but the thoughts.
It's a while since I was looking into how they work and my memory is a bit foggy, is there no way to configure them in such a way that they could work for your services and for my own, but without using the official central server?

For example, I use it for SSH authentication, if I had a server with you it would be nice if I didn't need one key to access the control system, and a different one for SSH.
There's a spreadsheet up on Google docs containing a large list of companies that got seeded, including a tab with YC companies.

You can find it here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3...
It's correct without "let", but a little archaic. You're unlikely to see that sort of usage outside slightly pretentious plays, but it's correct nonetheless.
"fair", or fare? Those damn homophones ;)
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This is unsympathetically referred to as "ruin porn" around Detroit. Yes, there are an exceptional amount of abandoned buildings (there are about 600,000 people in a city that could probably comfortably hold 3x that), but there are also world class universities, sports arenas, restaurants concert venues, houses and apartments, etc.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n8/htdocs/something-something...
You are not alone. I wrote that blog post while sitting on a Humanscale Freedom Saddle Seat stool ($300). I considered getting into it about Aerons, but thought better of it.

Plenty of folks here dislike them, too, and have the choice of any chair they want us to order.
Makes me sad the Museum of Flight in Seattle didn't get one of these.
So, you can code and love music?
I was mis-remembering the "faster" part. It is slower unless you have a version that supports the "-exec {} +" option. However, for security and robustness, see this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/896808/find-exec-cmd-vs-x...
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_...
I'd love to do that, but our offices are glass-doored, so not sound-proofed, though that's a good idea.
One would loose one's temper \on\ a discussion group, not \in\ it. I enjoy the perspectives of the ESL folks on HN, though, so I don't want to see any filtering by grammar nitpicking.
we've reached a point where people are going to need to let go and embrace what's next

I agree.

But what we'll see if it happens, in my opinion will be an amalgamation of the following when it comes to cable provider VOD ala Netflix:

* Poor/spotty service (I mean look at the VOD that's currently sent through your cable box..)
* It will come as a premium add on that requires you to have home cable service
* It is not going to be a cheap service for the consumer, but it will probably be a cheap expense for the provider (see: SMS)
* Your movie options will be greatly limited in favor of using your cable box

We'll see. These companies need to get with the picture, although that picture is probably going to cost extra just to sell you the frame and nail to hang it with.
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Thanks for mentioning that - Have to say, it's a work in progress. The query language for JSON (called SpahQL) is done, but I'm currently working on the document runner. See the readme for how it's meant to turn out.
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Startups usually don't "gratify one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Separating them into a startupnews tab (including YC startups, and VC gossip) would improve the quality of both.
Are we talking Africa poor or American poor? For Americans: beef, pork, chicken, fish, or anythig else. At the top of the list of problems poor Americans don't have: dang, poverty is greatly restricting my protein and calorie intake.

For everybody else, seaweed, legumes, or whatever. You really don't need Western levels of protein consumption, as evidenced by e.g. it being a minuscule portion of the traditional diets of Non-Western nations without peacetime food problems, like, say, Japan.

Plus after they're rich they can overconsume meat like we do. It practically defines being a rich country when your local poor people eat meat regularly.
I see an unfair prejudice against the vocal and valuable Indian and Eastern-European HN contingent.
I'd like to know more background on this. Why don't people move into the empty buildings? Housing in the UK is fairly scarce and empty buildings are likely to be colonised by squatters. After ten years or so squatters can actually claim the property. I thought artists would like the opportunity to get a big studio at a discount rate, and hackers who are bootstrapping would sure make their capital go a lot further in Detroit.
The Jonathan's Card story really demonstrates something that I've been increasingly aware of:

On the Internet, it's very easy to wear a tin-foil hat and persuade others to do so.

Why does every other thing have to be a conspiracy?
Right.

"We need someone to do real-time object-oriented programming."

"I do real time. I do object-oriented design and programming."

"But do you do real-time object-oriented programming?"

"Yes."

"I don't believe you."

Their loss, not mine. Employers, listen: Your recruiters come across as idiots when you do this.
I don't think it's a question of sound. (I'm french)
'they're', 'their' and 'there' sound the same (spoken or in my head), but their meaning has nothing in common so I never mistake one for another.
How you acquire a language plays here. I learned english fully conscious of what I was doing rather than my organic absorption of french.
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Detroit is crime-ridden and cold. Why not just move to another part of the US?
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I'm curious to see how many people turn out to be allergic to insects. Again drawing the analogy to shellfish which are among the most common food allergens.
This is not to say that eating insects is a bad idea in general, though.
I bought one 8 months ago, two pieces of advice:

- if you're going for the MBP13 do a feature for feature comparison with the Air13, you can get smaller size, SSD, and higher screen resolution if you sacrifice the processor speed and the 2nd RAM slot.

- I felt comfortable buying a Mac because I told myself if it ever crossed my threshold of annoyance I'd use rEFit to install Ubuntu (http://refit.sourceforge.net/), you may wish to research installing Ubuntu on a Mac laptop in order to reassure yourself.

EDIT: which never happened.
The startup listings here are the advertisements on HN I believe. Giving them an individual tab would be synonymous to another site making an "advertisements" page with all their ads.
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Oh, of course. I'm just saying that the most common reason for conflation (the fact that they're homophones) doesn't exist for me.
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Yes, the $76 billion includes $47.7 billion of long term investments, and possibly in there are the value of the supplier agreements that Apple is so famous for.

On the other hand... potato, po-tah-to?

While I'm acutely aware of the vast difference between $28 billion and $76 billion, can anyone name the largest acquisition Apple has ever completed?

More importantly, can anyone recall the amount?

Apple is one of the most acquisition-averse large companies I've ever seen. What they will do with $28 billion--let alone $76 billion--is beyond me.
As an interviewer, I didn't see the value in asking candidates to complete FizzBuzz until one of them was unable to do it. Since then, I've had a half dozen or so candidates make it through the resume and phone screen process and still not be able to complete FizzBuzz.

In regards to discussing existing code, I'd be more than happy to do so, but my experience has been that about one person per stack of resumes has quality existing code available to share.
So little time for yourself yet reading and commenting on hn...just saying...
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This is one of the coolest things I've seen all year, without exaggeration. The gradual rendering alone is new to me (and utterly fascinating), but the fact that diffuse lighting can be rendered in a browser... this completely redefines what I understand a browser to be capable of. Seriously amazing.
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To make a statement like "the right-wing IS actually equal with the extreme right-wing" is to invalidate your entire argument and show that you can't differentiate people that you disagree with.
A few thoughts on “ruin porn” from the site admin:

http://detroiturbex.com/updates/?p=47
Being from Detroit, it's great to see young tech companies springing up in the city but I think that video Knoxville did with Palladium Boots sugar coats things a bit too much. Hipsters starting underground bars/clubs and photographing urban decay is not going to revive the city.

A plan for a $500m railway was recently approved and I can't see any way it's going to be successful in its first phase. My main issue with the proposal as it is now is the fact that the line only extends to 8 mile.

For those of you unfamiliar with the city, the mile roads lie parallel to the Detroit River and span outwards all the way into rural areas. Driving into the city, things start to go downhill fast around 8 mile -- which is why everyone knows what it is now thanks to Eminem's movie. If I'm going to a sporting event or casino from my house in the burbs, I'm not going to drive 15 minutes to 8 mile, park my car in a shady parking lot, and get on a train when I could just drive another 15 minutes instead.

Anyway, for this new train venture to be even remotely successful I think the track would have to extend to at least 12 mile if the city is looking for an influx of wealthy suburbanites.
Perhaps even more geeky / street cred than Linux, I use OpenBSD. But I also have a trusty mbp, and it's pretty nice to have something mainstream enough that it's supported by pretty much everyone, yet still have a shell prompt (for both local and ssh to a real operating system). So to me it's basically a web + terminal appliance, and it's extremely convenient.
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Considering his statement did not address the key provably true/false questions: Is Starbucks a client of his company, and, why is his company's clients page down...it's hard to not closely scrutinize his word choice here:

> Starbucks had absolutely nothing to do with it

It's possible that Jonathan started this as a hobby project and as a bonus, he'd be helping out a client indirectly. PErhaps later on Starbucks did give some sort of buy-in. But even if it still has nothing official to do with the project, the question remains: how truthful was this statement on the project homepage:

>this site is totally not affiliated with Starbucks.

Frankly, if he had not written that and just not mentioned Starbucks corporate at all, I don't think there'd be any indignation. But that was the very first line of his project page.
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The only thing I work on that my job provided is the laptop, which they purchased for me after realizing my own was a bit too old. External monitor, mouse, keyboard, stand, etc. all came from home.
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From an entrepreneurial perspective this web site is a gold mind for film locations and location scouts.

Sad as it is that this is the state of such a city, but it could be turned on it's head for profit.
My main question is, given that Apple saw that Amazon was able to price everything really low, why didn't Apple do the same? Wouldn't they consider that lower pricing would mean more people buying, particularly at the magic $9.99 level?
I'd guess the definition of "right-wing" slides along with the definition of "moderate" or "center" (and also "left-wing") in any particular place.

If the US is in general more right-leaning than Germany, then "right-wing" should also be farther right in the US than in Germany, yes?

It seems careless to compress political opinions into a single dimension stretching from "communist" on the extreme left to "fascist" on the extreme right.

I'm guessing this simplification holds up as well as it does because of a tendency for people's beliefs to cluster according to the weights they put on a few basic ideas of morality (and perhaps more fundamentally, whether they consider those ideas to be moral issues or not).

Jonathan Haidt gave an interesting TED talk about this ( http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.ht... ). He named five 'types' of morality: Harm, Fairness, Ingroup, Authority, and Purity. His thesis was that people on the left tend to value Harm and Fairness far above the other three, while on the right people tend to value all five roughly equally.
If you were to buy mbp, you could always install virtualization software to run a linux development instance (virtualbox.org works well).

In general, I wouldn't do it. You are going to pay a $500/$1200 (13"/15") premium for the mbp compared with alternatives. The question for you is what value is apple providing in exchange for this premium? Is this value, if any, of value to you.

My advice, buy an alternative and invest the savings.
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I understand the meaning behind "as soon as you're born you start dying" but that phrase really irritates me because, well, you're not really. You're growing, new cells are being created, new memories being made... I'd say that's pretty much the opposite of dying.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't like private offices. It just seems like a separation between myself and the rest of the team. I actually like open seating arrangements.

When I need some serious concentration and can tolerate no distractions, a solid pair of noise-canceling headphones does the trick.
I would like to assume good faith but strange that Jonathan was so active on HN the day his card story was here but is nowhere to be seen on HN today/this thread.
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It doesn't have to be this way. Perhaps with some planning and leadership, Detroit could follow Pittsburgh's example:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/pittsburghs_renaissa...
Sure it's cold, but it's cheap and apparently still has decent facilities. I'm not sure on the crime -- how much is that story a media beat-up? Are there other parts of the US where you can be near a large urban centre and pay virtually nothing? (It's an honest question! And yes, I could probably look this up somewhere.)
I can understand Germany's aversion to anything "right-wing", but since they have even more recently dealt with the extreme left of Communism, I'm curious as to how you label your more centrist parties.

You are correct that right-wing generally means "conservative" in the U.S., but it can also just mean "fiscally conservative" since libertarians in the U.S. are often painted as "right-wing" even though they are socially-liberal/fiscally-conservative. For the most part, though, right-wing means fiscally and socially conservative.
David Byrne did an excellent article based on cycling through Detroit:

http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2010/09/092310-dont-forget-the...

Interesting to read about Glagow being used as a positive reference for post-industrial regeneration!
I think, This seems to weaken the captcha for bots, since a simple Google search for (for instance) 'do you know we are going' completes the sentence. No need to defeat the obsfucated OCR test.
I think being dismissive of this sort of thing ignores the bigger point. American Society has a group of people (I'm going to say age 35 and below) who had never lived through a significant downturn before this. So sites like this aren't necessarily saying "Detroit is a lost cause" they are marveling at the idea of abandon buildings which is a fairly new concept to a lot of us.

I, for example, grew up in Las Vegas and am endlessly fascinated by the Fontainebleu building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontainebleau_Resort_Las_Vegas). It's a 68 story resort that just ran out of money after they constructed the outer structure. So this 735ft tall neon blue building just sits there in the middle of the strip waiting to be dealt with (most believe it will never be finished at this point).

But my fascination with it isn't that I think the Vegas strip is dying its just that I'd never seen something like that fail to be completed before.
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That link didn't work for me, but this one did:

http://www.palladiumboots.com/video/detroit-lives#part1
I laughed - don't worry.
Agreed. I've been playing the hell out of Ticket To Ride. I love that they provide computer opponent play, play and pass multiplayer, and online multiplayer.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ticket-to-ride/id432504470?mt...
They aren't very up to date. Many of these have been replaced. The velodrome is maintained by people who simply like to ride. It doesn't look like that picture at all.

We get it. There are many urban wasteland piles of crap and thousands of houses that are abandoned. Downtown Detroit is represented here by about 5% of what is actually there as far as ruins go. Next to the skyscrapers are brand new buildings housing Quicken and CompuWare among many others. Dan Gilbert actually bought a couple of the buildings shown here to move the rest of his people into. "Skyscrapers are on sale!" -- Dan Gilbert at TedXDetroit.

It's not perfect but I wonder how many people actually think that this is what is "normal". I mean come on...Irish Hills? They aren't even in the same metro area, let alone Detroit. I would need a map to even find them. Next to the "CPA" Building is one of the hottest restaurants for hundreds of miles.
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Don't have time atm to read it too in-depth, but it seems like this is a bit different from what I was thinking of, in that I was thinking of a more complete rails-like MVC type thing. But it does seem to confirm that I am in fact not retarded, and that this type of thing is a good idea.
I heard that there was a hack that went on whereby someone was on the phone in the elevators at the Rio and their entire conversation was played over the speakers in the elevator bank. Friend of mine said he was in the elevator at the time and that it was hilarious. Could have been a bluetooth hack though.

Also plenty of people on Sprint's network had full bars but could make absolutely no calls and data was extremely slow, but about half a block from the Rio everything worked perfectly again, now it could well be that they were handed off to a different tower, but people on AT&T and T-Mobile weren't having the same issues.

DefCon this year was awesome. Plenty of fun to be had, and as more and more people start carrying around cell phones that are more powerful these attacks will continue to be developed and continue to be exploited.
This isn't just a Detroit problem. Residents of just about every mid-to-high pop. city could pick a few eerily similar buildings on this site left in the very same states.

Living in Ontario, Canada, I can say our situation isn't quiet as progressed as Detroit, but the cracks are definitely starting to show. I think Detroit shows signs of what is to come on a larger scale if we don't start putting people and civics as a front-and-center issue.

Detroit's pain should serve as a great education and not simply thought of as a worst case scenario.

Not all is lost for Detroit, as it is in a great position of pivot that would normally be masked by the bureaucracy of a "well run" city.
I started standing about 2 months ago, mostly for the supposed health benefits, and really like it. The anti-fatigue mat and adjustable desks really helped me get going. I started one week at 2 hours of standing a day, then 3 hours the next, etc., up until I was standing all day long.

I don't know that I necessarily code better when I'm standing, but overall I prefer it to sitting.
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