skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of those opportunities that seems blindingly obvious in hindsight - the amount of data being pushed out daily is way beyond what any of us can process, especially in the typical SEC language. Turning it into meaningful (or at least, understandable) info changes the dynamic entirely - I can skim a document now and know if it's worth finishing. And being able to pump high-value, legible, auto-generated financial news across to other networks is an opportunity that boggles the mind.

The mention of other sources (FDA, etc.) also makes a ton of sense I hadn't thought of. I wonder if we'll see the day of mostly-generated news with humans mainly being editors?

One question: the included screenshot has the sentence, "I've included a few more notes from..." - is that auto-generated, or is that an editor's note?
Browser Version Numbers Have Become Irrelevant
Here's Bryan Cantrill, one of the original creators of DTrace, on the status of the port:

https://plus.google.com/105843697186982227624/posts/5uk5SHrh...
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Digital Governance Struggles With Balancing User Rights
Groupon is waaay over valued. They have until recently been giving tons of stuff away. For example, everyone who signed up for emails telling them about new deals in their area would receive a $10 or $20 Groupon cash gift to use. This was widely exploited by people who frequent "cheating sites". These free codes were also able to be stacked on accounts. People have used this method to get everything from free dinners to free lasik eye surgery. All anyone had to do was keep creating Groupon accts...and repeat.
Im am 100% positive that Groupon has been exploited for tens of thousands...maybe millions.
If they are automatically generating all the articles on the site that is quite impressive.
So who is the target audience? Finance pros can already read SEC filings.

SEO is the only obvious source of traffic and money I can think of.
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It has the "uncanny valley" effect. I feel like any moment gumby is going to show up. Very creepy.
The Samsung Galaxy S was and is a highly sought after device too. To a lesser extent also the Nexus S.
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id isn't trying to create a hardware ecosystem.

Google created a hardware ecosystem with a variety of partners. If they start playing favorites with who gets new Android releases, they will undermine that ecosystem.

It's not so much that they're keeping the code closed, it's that they're only releasing the code to a handful of select partners. All the small players get left out in the cold.
My point was regarding profit margins. They are getting slimmer by the day as every device maker joins the downward spiral to get the phones out at a cheaper rate. Most these device makers outsource and do not have their own manufacturing. That's why sammy is is the one that is truly making money here.

and note: opinions that to not match yours can be independent. They don't have to be disillusioned or paid. Learn to respect them.
Making bomb components and missile guidance systems is not evil in itself. If only evil men made and used weapons, the world would be in very bad shape.

I'm not arguing that the specific weapons mentioned weren't used for evil, I'm just making a general point that all the peaceful people in the world can afford to be that way because there are guns protecting them, so it's not as simple as weapons == evil.
Sure - I'm not out to argue, just clarify how I arrived at my opinion after reading the piece. As you can see, I'm a pernickety fellow :-)
Good point. The less-than-outstanding will look less less-desirable mate material. But they still want the benefits of altruism. So a morality develops that says, "Do good things for others (that includes me), but keep it to yourself less the rest of us look bad in comparison and fail to find suitable mates."
Chocolat (http://chocolatapp.com) seems like a promising replacement for TextMate, since TextMate 2 is vaporware. Lots of bugs right now though.
Sure thing ottoid, I'll let you know as soon as we get a beta online which soon be really soon, thank you!
But this is a true bonus, since employees are compensated fully in their paychecks, unlike options that typically replace some amount of salary.
By applying the same logic of removing mention of Linux as a competitor, Microsoft could be admitting defeat to Linux in the server OS space. If their server product was their priority, I would believe they would mention Linux. I am not promoting this idea. I am just playing devil's advocate to this article.
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Another one to add: "I am as good as Steve Jobs." ;)
"Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, And the words to say it flow with ease."

And those words also flow with ease.
I really wish lion didn't make your second monitor useless in full screen.
the SEC already makes filing data available in machine readable format - it's called XBRL. I don't think all companies are on it now, but there's a mandate that will force all companies to eventually do it
It is considered evil to use play of words to twist meaning like that. At least in my books.
Perhaps Lion is sentient and unhappy with its creator?
I send small parcels through mail every day. They go all over the world and the error rate is less than 1one percent.

I am consistently amazed that I can put something in a slot in Woodstock NY and have it turn up in the correct slot on the other side of the world in just a few days. They even come to my house and pick up.

When I do go to my local post office the only surly people are the people behind me in line.

As to junk mail, I opt out where I can and recycle the rest. And quietly thank the spamming businesses for subsidizing mine.
I also was skeptical. A quick read of the contents of the shortened urls reveals nothing nefarious, however.
If there really were no magic, we'd have real AI by now.

That's not at all clear. It could well turn out that more processing power than is easily available is necessary to run the experiments that would give us the answers to how intelligence works.
Google is a linux user.
Pull requests do seem to accumulate changes if you push to your fork while there's one open.
I think what he is referring to by "industry wide effort" is the fact that microsoft works with a lot of partners early through the milestone and incorporates a lot of feedback. That way a lot of partner companies other than Microsoft have a say in what goes in the next release.
People have used this method to get everything from free dinners to free lasik eye surgery.

FX: disapproval with a tinge of jealousy 8-/
I'd be interested to know how Google feels about automatically generating content from other content like this - at first glance it looks like a regular article, but after you read a few it's clear that they have some sort of dynamic template for the content. More legit than a content farm I suppose, but it's not necessarily high quality either.
Ever tried negotiating with a major label? If you had, I suspect you might change your tune. Furthermore, musicians are far more likely to agree to reasonable terms, as their organizations are far smaller and less byzantine than a major label.

For the record, I think this is a great idea. The major labels have been operating with a plantation mentality; now they're getting their version of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Simple solution. BBEdit.
I think he's a president at Microsoft. Nothing but great respect for this guy.
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interesting, although there's plenty that seems obvious but upon deeper inspection one realizes he doesn't understand it at all. maybe that's true understanding?

quick example - you hold a ball and let it go. "obviously" it drops, but think about it - why did it drop and I'm pretty sure even the most advanced string theorists couldn't explain definitively why it went towards the ground.

"true knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing" - socrates
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Their pro package is cheap for an analyst data service.
Shows how behind I am; thanks!
They call this process B8 - bait
I run my tests from VIM.
There really isn’t any good reason why your average mainstream user should have to worry about which browser version is installed on a given machine.

Unless you have plugins that may break, or happen to like this or that UI feature that tend to come and go as browser developers see fit.

I like the idea of getting rapid updates for bug fixes and such, but don't like that an app I like can be replaced by a behaviorally different app that happens to have the same name.

I'm sure there are a number of users who do not want automatic updates, and since browser changes can break Web site or plug-in behavior developers of sites and plug-ins are going to want to know some details about browsers that are giving people trouble.
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Ok, this is the wrong place to ask, but when I'm using unix text editors I'm reasonably happy EXCEPT I don't understand how anyone could use a text editor without being able to click to move the insertion point where they want it to be. Furiously leaning on the arrow keys is way too slow.

How does one solve this? is there a way to make the terminal accept mouse input? I've mostly only used pico/nano which I understand is similar to vi, et al. but maybe don't have a way to do this where other editors do?
It was not my intent to criticize their overall compensation plan. Jason put this blog post up as their response to the employee request for equity participation. My analysis was to look at how his solution responded to that request. I works well in some ways, not as well in others.

As I mentioned the desire on his part and that of the other owners to respond to that request was admirable. And certainly for non S-Corp type businesses it can be very difficult to respond to this sort of request in any way.

My comment on compensation was targeted to exactly this:

"People aren't taking jobs there on the promise of hockey-stick upside. It's a pretty amazing work environment. You should see the offices. Place is nuts."

Compensation is such a rich confluence of things, from wages to benefits to corporate culture to 'lifestyle perks' to profit sharing. My mother-in-law ran a CPA practice for 30 years and did various things over those years as forms of compensation. So its a rich, complicated, highly nuanced, and rarely replicatable space where companies have to operate. I get that.
"Sorry, but when you state that CS should be a footnote in a math book, you are kinda making the point that everything in CS (even in those sub-domains that are eminently practical) should be math-based to do anything meaningful. This is demonstrably not true."

I'm exaggerating, but, still there is a reasonable point here. CS is about some 'science', and call that the mathematical part where we have some solid material worth being called 'science', For the rest, call that 'computer practice' or some such.

The upside of my view is that for some serious progress we're going to have to use some serious methodology. So, I'm proposing if not mathematical physics envy then applied math envy. Applied math didn't take on how to design the display lights in a scientific pocket calculator although without the lights the thing wouldn't work.

My view is not the most extreme: Last year I communicated with a CS prof whose position was that CS is looking for the 'fundamentals of computation'. Hmm .... It sounds like he believes that the P versus NP question should be right at the top of the list, and I don't. I'll settle for anything that is solid and a contribution, even if small, to the 'science' and not just to current practice.

LIkely many people here know the current state of programming language research much better than I do. If that field has gotten nicely mathematical with some solid material, great. The progress from Fortran, Cobol, Algol, Basic, PL/I, Pascal, C, C++, etc. was pragmatic and important and of enormous value to the economy but not much progress in a 'science' of programming languages, and that progress, with poor methodology, has slowed as we might have expected.

Maybe I'm saying that, in 1920, if we wanted a really good airplane, then maybe we should set aside the wood, linen, and glue and go do some aerodynamiocs calculations, discover Reynolds number, and discover that those really thin wings were a mistake. Or, observational astronomy was just a lot of curiosity until Newton came along and made progress in understanding the universe. The practical chemists had discovered a LOT, but by applying quantum mechanics they made HUGE progress.

If we are going to make the huge progress we want in computing, then history suggests that we can't be just pragmatic and that "theory is under-rated". We can't expect that chemistry will do much to help CS, but the obvious tool is math, to turn CS, the science, part into some applied math.
Looks like a great event. But I have a question. Why make a point that the site was made in San Francisco?
There will always be two sides of a story just like Paul Allen's biography didn't particularly describe Bill Gates in a very appealing light. But that does not undermine the status of these two figures(Jobs, Gates) as the heros of our era. Looking forward.
Thanks for checking out MarketBrief. We just launched our financial news service, but we're constantly iterating on the quality and analysis of our articles, and our sights are set much higher than simply churning content.
Does Lion's Terminal application have support full screen? If so, it might be interesting to use it with Emacs or Vim.
There's something else that's a bit rarer, but not as uncommon as often thought: depersonalization. (Mark my words: depersonalization disorder will be the next ADD/Asperger's/depression as fashionable illness du jour)

In fact, as acute (non-chronic) depersonalization can be a natural response to an anxiety attack, it may be at the core of why "fear of X" can lead to paralyzing procrastination. I've been debugging mine for years with a psychiatrist now, and it's still not clear that I have DPD itself and not depersonalization as a secondary symptom of one of the many things that are wrong with me, but clearly it plays a huge part.

I'm kind of oversharing here, but it's in hope that more people are aware that depersonalization is something that exists, like headaches or muscle cramps, and like ADD (and ED to an extent) is a continuum.
Yep, watch Feynman in "Fun to Imagine 4: Magnets (and 'Why?' questions...)" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM).
This looks interesting. Invite?
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I use MacVim. Keyboard navigation works great for me when moving around small areas, but I use the scrollwheel and clicking all the time for moving around larger areas of a file (and for navigating NERDtree).
First: what "capital assets" are you referring to?

Second: never mind, what's your point? If most of the value in the company comes from employees and not the execution of the owners, the company pays more salary. If they don't, the employees leave. So, in what way is this responsive?
Illiterate idiots can't raise responsible, intelligent children. Giving them free computers isn't the answer. What they need is to feel a constant sense of extreme shame for letting themselves and their situation degenerate to that degree. As it is, instead of shaming slothful, lazy, degenerate idiots, society shames itself into allowing them a free pass on the grounds that all else being equal, some people must be too stupid to figure anything out for themselves. Which turns out to be false when it comes to gaming the welfare system, cooking crystal meth or jacking peoples' shoes... but those kinds of smarts are what you get when you start coddling and nannying to the point where individuality and ambition are wiped out and the neediest and laziest survive. I hope none of my tax dollars went toward buying them a computer. In fact, I hope they eat each other.
Great post, though.
You are right that 32k buffers should be more than enough to read 5MB in a reasonable time, regardless of disk/VM architecture, but I don't think stat was the problem either. My guess would be readdir or possibly getdents is probably O(n^2) somewhere.

[just noticed it was 500M (oh wow), but same difference]
You'd perhaps have more luck if you had an email address on your profile ;)

Anyway, here's a few invite links for HN:

[Edit: Sorry, all gone!]

I should point out that it's a bit buggy, and still an alpha. So don't expect to be able to use it as your everyday editor just yet.
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Would be sweet to run SmartOS on Backblaze's storage hardware.
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One of the best anti-procrastination hacks I ever heard was right here on HN: When you absolutely cannot get motivated to finish something, make a detailed list of exactly the steps needed to finish the task/project. Once the list is complete you will automatically begin working on the first step.

Not my idea but it works for me 100% of the time.
As noted, you can run vim or emacs in a way where you can mouse where you want to go. In practice, there's usually a way to get to the place you want to be via some other command. For vi, you can usually use /search to get where you want. One of my most-used vi commands that I miss in other editors is f[char]. It moves you to the next instance of [char] on your current line. Things like f= or f( are great for bouncing through a line of source code. I wish textmate (chocolate, sublime, whatever) had a quick keyboard equivalent to that.
Anybody can shed some light on how Ace works?
Meanwhile on Muni: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQAy8PzgZ8

This has happened a few times this year. Although the video is dated April 1, I can vouch for the authenticity; this is my neighborhood line and I have gotten used to the recurring problems of particular rail carriages. If it were up to me I'd scrap the light rail on the west side of the city and put in buses instead.
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Chrome has real fullscreen and swipe gestures if you are using the dev build.
Hey - no problem. Not like I spent much time on the original site. No need to apologize either - everyone these days loves an apology it seems! (sickening) I thought about it before you responded and my goal isn't to get anyone in CS in trouble or anything or make a big deal of it. Just seeing the article reminded me.

If you really support transferring domains out that's all I was wondering. I was told I would be sent an EPP code to switch registrars and never was. Asked for it to be sent again, then again, did the whole, "Did you check your spam?" exchange of emails, etc. The people I spoke w/ through email seemed genuine. For whatever reason I was just never sent the code and eventually gave up. Probably just honest mistakes - it happens. Anyways, continued success.
Ask HN: Hacker in need of ideas?
I'm a hacker, currently employed at a start-up that has finally become break-even.

Now that I have some free-time I am itching to work on interesting things on the side, but alas I have no good ideas.

Where can I get some?

Is there a good place to get paired with people who have ideas or need help?
I completely agree with this statement, but the first thing you teach is that a gun IS a tool, it is NOT a toy. I have no problem with teaching kids to shoot, hunt and defend themselves, but I go ballistic when I see 5-year-olds running around with realistic plastic .45s and AK-47s. I think their pinhead parents should be strung up by the thumbs, the idiots. Because they're teaching their kids that guns are toys before the kids even handle a real weapon. Guns -- real, pellet, bb, plastic or otherwise -- should be off-limits until a kid's shown the basic understanding of what they do, what life and death are, and that they ain't toys.
If a player of a game says that the rules should be fixed, shouldn't the fact that he happens to be the _best_ player make him more credible rather than less so?
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> I remember that in 7th grade when I tried to teach myself programming for the first time, I didn’t realize that you were supposed to reuse variables. I would just create a new variable for every single value I needed to store. Boy does that seem stupid looking back.

What? Making new variables is better. The compiler will generally figure out the scope of variables and re-use the space taken by variables.

This tends to suggest that at least for him, the functional/immutable meaning of variables was more natural.
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Door stuck closed are also a safety hazard as they can hinder evacuation in case of fire or other emergency and make it more difficult for rescue teams to enter the train. Imagine a packed railroad car full of smoke, very bad visibility and panicking people inside. A stuck door can make the difference between life and death.
the moment you wander into the paid world, the globe perceives the cost/benefit and forever becomes obsessed with value. write back with really really great content and you'll stay on top.
GIT/HG/SVN or whatever other source control system for my own stuff. I usually branch/tag off a version from trunk and then in prod suck down all updates and update to the new branch. Allows me to rollback pretty quickly which is nice.
I know that I (and most, if not all of my startup friends back in the UK) would have definitely attended a YC event in London.
Isn't this fairly onerous to administer? At my previous company, a private consulting firm, there are some shareholders who are kept around largely because there is not liquidity available and if you've been around for 25 years, even if much of this was during a period of demographically-driven economic growth, it's hard to get rid of you as a partner (since you have to be bought out) no matter how little value you provide.
I'm interested to hear why 37signals didn't go with this model and if they'd ever consider going with an S or C-corp over the LLC.
Is this comment being downvoted for being sarcasm, for being poor sarcasm, or for having been misinterpreted as serious?

Just to sate my curiousity.
how is consistently publishing papers and pushing the boundaries of PL further "keeping ideas disruptive to their current streams of income under control"?

I mean the ideas are not hoarded, they are published, F# is open sourced and SPJ hacks on haskell. Where did you draw your conclusion from?

Oh wait, I forgot this is HN.
IOS devs pay $50,000 for collecting children's info in apps
I don't know; I've never administered one. But: the scheme I described also accounts for most small consultancies.
What's a good email to reach you at? Would love to do an interview.