skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just down the street from me is a house that has been abandoned for a few years. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.172165,-118.634398&ll=3...

If I wanted to take some photos it'd be nice ruin porn. Of course the properties to the right and left are million dollar homes.
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This is also commonly done when the law stipulates that a search must be done broadly and fairly.

They know they are going to promote the guy already at their company, but they are bound to do a full search anyway.
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I guess that you are raising another important point that "liberal" means different things in Europe and the U.S. "Liberal," in the classical meaning of the term, would most appropriately be applied to libertarians and to the social policies of American liberals. "Liberal" in the U.S. is generally "hands-off" with regard to social policy (many exceptions to that, of course) but tends to believe in having a strong government presence in the economy.

It's all a big muddled mess once you really start digging into it. A pretty large number of Americans actually self-identify as "Independent" in elections because they don't want to be associated with either major party (even if they usually vote with only one) and many Americans don't like to be seen as "going with the crowd."

My guess is that most Americans are actually pretty similar in their political beliefs, and that what you see from both of the more extreme sides in the news, is actually the exception. But I could be completely wrong on that.
The wider problem is that HN is no longer about startups. It might have been the case when we had 10,000 regular user, but now that we have 100k-200k regulars users people involved in startups form a much smaller part of the community.

You see this not only when it comes to new startup launches but also startup related articles, I see plenty of great articles about startups on the new page that a few years ago would have got to the front page without problem but now they disappear off /new in 30 minutes with next to no chance of getting to the front page.

Recently I've been starting to spend more time on http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/ and less time on HN.
> Ok so my basic question is, why can't OSX be a "hacker" os?

The basic problem is that development and hacking are different use cases for the machine than the general public needs. Apple considers the general public primarily, and the development and hacking public secondarily.
Then learn Haskell. It's the most academic functional language and there's constantly new papers written pushing the frontiers of computer science. It's also one of the most pure functional languages, so if you can grok Haskell you'll "get" the functional style.

Some notes for learning Haskell. Start with 'Learn You a Haskell for Great Good' (http://learnyouahaskell.com/chapters). Then move on to 'Real World Haskell'. Then 'Write Yourself a Scheme in 48 Hours'.

Eventually you'll learn about Monads. They aren't as hard as most people claim. They're very abstract, and require you to think differently about things. There are plenty of great monad tutorials out there. Read one every night before you go to sleep. One day you'll wake up and it will all make sense.

The key for learning your first functional language is to forget everything you know about programming, and embrace the fact that you're starting from scratch. Otherwise "Returns" and using recursion instead of loops might trip you up. It's not "Hard", it's just different. If you're prepared, it's not a difficult journey, and you'll be a better programmer for it.
Clams, oysters, and mussels aren't gutted.
I've been toying around with something similar in my spare time, though mine focuses only specifically on restaurants. I like the idea quite a bit, just haven't found the hours to dedicate to it just yet. Maybe after my product launch...
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NoSQL obeys the second law of thermodynamics. Expect MORE fragmentation in the future, not less.
I think you're asking for a lot. Not just free hosting, but free admin of git. But nothing is really free, so you're running the risk of your project repo either not being available as needed, or being rolled into some price change later on.

Setting up a git repo is pretty simple; I use gitosis off my own server with no problems for the various things I don't want public.

If you can figure out Ruby and Rails you can figure out git and git servers, and you'll be much better off for it.
Were that the case, it should be easy to make enough money off of them to restore the city.
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> teabaggers

Are you being intentionally insulting or merely ignorant?
>The only financial disaster in the last decade German bankers appear to have missed was investing with Bernie Madoff. (Perhaps the only advantage to the German financial system of having no Jews.)

Ouch.
The value is (potentially) that I get works-out-of-the-box UNIX that doubles as (what I imagine is) a pretty nifty desktop experience in general. Your advice, though, would seem to indicate that the value I see isn't really there or isn't really worth it? (but now that I think about it I might be able to milk a mac off of a relative as a graduation gift, since I never really got one #joysofstillbeingakidkinda)
I find that some of these limitations put me in a worse position than if I were to have full control. eg. you MUST use a symbol, or using both lower AND upper case characters.

This is a joke! We're in the 21st century, people should be able to have their own set of password standards. I know we, as programmers, are always looking out for the most noobish of the end-users. But is it really necessary to go as far as to FORCE EVERYONE into picking a blatantly obviously brute-force-safe password?

In the end, the bulk of these users are just going to forget their password, add it to their password manager, and become frustrated with this chosen system. This in turn is insecure for its own reasons.. I think what we need is to remove these silly limitations altogether (although a set standard minimum/maximum character limit is completely understandable imo), and allow people to pick their own standards. The newbies out there will eventually get their accounts hacked, its inevitable imo. And when that happens they will learn to set better passwords.
Dibble's First Law of Sociology: Some do; some don't.

Accentuating the positive is cold comfort. Tenth-century Rome hosted the development of Gregorian chant and papal charters for the first universities. Focusing on those positive developments doesn't change the fact that Rome was a step or two above a cow town compared to contemporary Constantinople or, better yet, first-century Rome.

Of course Detroit has nice places and nice people. I saw examples of that and my brothers have seen more. The reason why so many people focus on the ruin porn is that Detroit has so much more of it than most cities of its size. Speaking of size, Detroit has lost more than half of its population in forty years. Satellite photos reveal that the city is steadily returning to wilderness. This happened to the premier heavy industrial city of what was supposed to be the wealthiest and most powerful nation on Earth. This is a flipping travesty!

Similar decline happened to other American cities at the same time. Philadelphia. Saint Louis. Newark. The South Side of Chicago. Parts of San Francisco and Los Angeles. It nearly happened to the entirety of New York. Let's face it, these cities were more livable when they were run by ethnic machine politics staffed by people who squeaked through third-tier parochial colleges.

What makes this ruin porn all the more infuriating -- and disturbing -- is that it started when the cool people with the right ideas from the Ivy League schools stepped in. This is what makes us really uncomfortable. We know that it's "incorrect" to say it. The urban renewal and racial integration policies that were ostensibly supposed to improve these cities have utterly and ignominiously failed.
Thanks! Another question I have is why is it finally hitting the U.S. now? It seems like it's taken almost a decade for a big "unlimited music streaming" type service to reach critical mass (which Spotify seems to be on its way to achieving in the States).
I learned the basics of OpenGL from NeHe many years ago, and while things have gotten better, I can't recommend the site anymore. It's all written for old-school OpenGL (3 and below) and is generally a compendium of what you shouldn't do when writing OGL code. I still love it, but it's a bad resource for people new to OGL.
Check out my counter-argument:

Why are startups hot now? Not because the economy is good or because the startup ideas people are having are particularly good, but because risk seeking investors are trying to shove capital anywhere they can.

After the crash of 2008 lots of avenues (created by Wall Street post Financial Modernization Act) to invest this capital were closed, and the growth of the startup scene, particularly the NY startup scene, is a direct result of this. Couple this with a real negative interest rates and you have a nice long boom period where startups are the best thing going for investors who are getting free money (via negative interest rates) to gamble with.

Why will this continue? Exactly the same reason why Yahoo is still in business and why Microsoft is still profitable. There is tremendous room for innovation, growth, and all the improvements associated with those things.

Soon joe.sixpack@yahoo.com will wake up and start demanding more and more web innovation, and the void will be filled by startups doing clever, lucrative, disruptive things. I personally can't believe that anyone can tolerate using Yahoo for anything... and I'm stunned that people tolerate 2 hour battery life Android phones, Windows Vista, etc. The problems (areas for improvement) are far deeper than most tech-savvy people (such as on HN) can imagine, and the population (thanks mostly to Facebook) is slowly waking up to what it actually wants to do online.

To borrow the OP's metaphor, we're in the very early dawn of a beautiful, early spring day, etc. This will occur at least until the cost of borrowing increases substantially.

Also, anyone who thinks we have an information economy in 2011 will look back in a few decades and laugh.
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To my (non-native) ears, that sounds overly formal.
Ask HN: How do the London Riots reflect on CCTV Camera culture?
One would think that with so many cameras in and around London, that many would not take to rioting for fear of being caught.

I am generally against the idea of a CCTV network, although do events like these make a case for CCTV?

Likewise, could it be said that Londoners have grown too accustom to CCTV life that they have simply ignored its existence?
Envolve (YC S11) Launches An API For Real-Time Chat
The terms 'right-wing' and 'left-wing' are throwbacks to the French revolution where pro-revolutionary elements of the National Assembly sat on the left side and anti-revolutionary elements sat to the right. The terms have lost most of their meaning over the years and have come to be really just labels for one of two factions vying for control of a nation at any given moment. (There may be more than two factions, but multiple factions will generally coalesce into two coalitions. This is due to how politics generally works and is fairly predictable.)

If there is any meaning to the right-wing vs left-wing dichotomy, it's that 'right-wing' political philosophies use as their inspiration an idealized past, whereas 'left-wing' political philosophies use as their inspiration an imaginary future, but even this is a simplification. The truth is that political ideologies don't fall along an axis (or even two axises as the Libertarians claim) and trying to classify someone as either right-wing or left-wing is more often an exercise in politics than clarity.
As already requested in the following thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2868110

I would love to see a tab for people submitting their products, i.e. a show HN tab ...
From what I understand, signing up and creating a startup profile are different tasks. For example, i've already signed up for AL, but have yet to actually create my next startup profile or actively pursue funding. I figured it's a way to take a peek w/o any commitments.

Your point though is well taken though.
My real point is this: Detroiters are in denial. They all cry that the media and the world doesn't portray them properly while pretending that nothing is wrong with the city.

Celebrate the beauty that exists (Michigan Central was actually what I was thinking of with the Rome comment) and take advantage of the rest. Do you know how cheap it is to live in the city? Yes: there are acres of abandoned rotting land, but what's keeping Detroit from turning it's warehouses into startups? Imagine SOMA on a city scale.
A piece of advice I learned in the publishing industry: When a headline ends in a question mark, and the question can be answered either "yes" or "no", it's never yes.
At my last job I biked through North Philly everyday. There are some ok neighborhoods, but there are plenty of abandoned strips that look like they were bombed in WWII.

It's so sad because you can look at them and say "that used to be a department store and that was a grocery store" and you can almost imagine the people walking around in the 70s (the last time there was probably activity).

But these Detroit photos with theaters and libraries and rec centers closed....damn.
After Samsung's Galaxy Tab, Apple targets the Motorola Xoom. What's next?
Has anyone with the required background read the paper and would like to give a quick summary of the argument?
I love the way people on the Internet always find a way to misinterpret every post in the worst possible way, no matter how little sense they make.

After reading a detailed article about how we spend over $5000 to make sure our developers are comfortable at work, do you really think that we then CHAIN them to an Aeron chair and REQUIRE that they use 30" monitors even if they prefer sitting cross-legged on the floor with a 13" laptop?

OK, maybe you believe that. We have bought beanbags and those big bouncy balls for people. We have bought Embody chairs for the rare person who doesn't like a (properly fitted) Aeron chair. If anyone wanted a 13" laptop instead of a 30" monitor, you'd say the word and in 5 minutes you'd have a 13" laptop.

So, this impression you have of Fog Creek as a veal farm with identical programmers all being chained to their identical, Joel-Spolsky-Favored desks is entirely in your own imagination. It sort of reminds me of when I blogged about how we have free lunch and a bunch of people whined about how they don't like to eat with their co-workers. That's nice, some people don't, and that's fine. I never said that the free lunch was mandatory. It's almost bizarre to assume that a company that bends over backwards to make people happy and productive at work is actually some kind of evil plot that would "make you go absolutely bonkers."
I think there's a critical one missing in this list: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
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I sure hope they give you some time off at your child's birth... :)
"Do you know where we're going?" would be what most UK speakers would say, and "Do you know to where we are going?" would be an archaic variant which implies a location is requested rather than an action. The verb used is "to go"; the answer might be "[we are going] to London" or "[we are going] shopping".

There's some potential for confusion in that the verb "to go" can be used for the future imperfect (I think, I was only taught my tenses in French and German lessons) as well as the present tense: note the difference between "We are going to London" or "We are going shopping" and "We are going to go to London" or "We are going to go shopping", or even "We are going to shop". The former is talking about an action we are currently undertaking (to go: implying motion), the latter about a future intent (to go: expressing an intent to do something in the future) to carry out the action in the former case. Using a different verb: "We are riding a bicycle", compared to "we are going to ride a bicycle"
I have a laptop. I think I'd rather have a workstation, or at least: more RAM & CPU cores (for VMs), a faster hard drive, a taller monitor with a lot more pixels, a mouse with a scroll wheel, and a numpad. Also more USB ports would be nice.
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> If they are not taught anything at all, then it's illegal.

Oh really?

> "Now in the United Kingdom compulsory education begins between four and a half and five and a half; since 1972 it has ended at the age of 16. But from 2013 compulsory education, be it traditional classroom education or training is planned to be raised to the age of 17, and from 2015 to the age of 18."

That's an attendance mandate, not an education mandate. "Taught" implies that they learned something.

Is there an education mandate in the UK? If so, who goes to jail if a kid doesn't learn "enough" during those years of compulsory education?

Never confuse inputs with outputs.
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> If you want power, just get a desktop.

The thing is that I already have a desktop that I intend to fix up and run windows and linux on (which I'm kinda already doing/trying to do), so I'd feel silly getting a MacPro or something like that. Plus I feel like I can actually semi-comfortably customize a desktop I'd own, which gives me another reason not to make it a Mac (the desktop I currently have was actually self-built).

> home brew is a half decent apt get replacement

lol, I was following #zedshaw for a bit on twitter getting pissed off at homebrew for being retarded. but actually, is there a checkinstall type thing available for macs (or for homebrew I guess)? most of the time I actually prefer installing fresher versions of things from tars or git repos, but I want to have a way of managing the shit I throw into my filesystem (ie - removing it if I don't want it).

> If you feel frustrated, there is always virtual box.

But I'd kind of feel like an ass if I spent the money for a mbp only to end up running linux on it, and virtually at that. while there is the plus of getting (hopefully) more robust hardware, I want to try and figure out if macs are for me before I buy one

> check out the font rendering.

my bro has a mbp - I'll check it out
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Some corrections:

(1) it doesn't matter what I believe in. We now have telecommuters at both Stack Exchange and Fog Creek and for the right individual, it's fine.

(2) this doesn't follow. Do you really think we give people desktop computers simply to make it impossible for them to work from home? That's silly. Anyway, the telecommuters we do have almost exclusively use desktop computers. You know why? Because once you've programmed on a 30" monitor, you'll never go back to programming on a laptop.
There are actually two separate arguments here. What you are saying is one argument: that people resist nominal price decreases (e.g. workers resist nominal wage decreases). What I was saying is the other argument: people are right to resist nominal price decreases, because inflation is better for them than the alternative. Both arguments have been made (the second argument may be less known) and I would agree with both of them.

There really isn't a conflict between being supporting Keynesian-style anti-cyclical government behaviour (this is what most people mean when they say they support Keynesian economics) and resisting nominal wage decreases.
Tooting our horn again, but Kiva is another one that sees opportunity: http://www.kiva.org/detroit

The loans we put up for Detroit were funded in a matter of hours, so there was also plenty of folk who thought it worth funding.
I think the biggest reason for the lack of a password standard is that the risk profile / threat model is not the same across all websites.
A ridiculously unknown tool is "expect". Automates anything. Saved me hours of typing.

Wrote about it (use case + example) here: http://www.chocobrain.com/Advanced-terminal-automation-with-...
Nuance loses patent case against Vlingo, patent invalidated.
Mac passes Linux as development platform of choice
Harvard Smartphone Usability Study
The question isn't whether the earth is warming or not - it clearly is. The real question is what should humans do about it?

I think it's pretty reasonable to ask if trying to turn down the heat is the best use of our resources? That is, perhaps the incalculable trillions of dollars that it would cost to adjust the earth's climate would be better spent on helping humans adjust instead. Hell, there is significant evidence that a warmer climate would lead to an agricultural boom - which coincidentally is exactly what is going to be required to feed 7 billion humans.

Or look at it another way - what if it turned out tomorrow that the climate is warming because of solar activity? Would the environmentalist movement still be advocating that we try to prevent climate change?
I do not mean to single you out but this is a viewpoint that I have never really unsderstood. If you do not care about "my security" then why have a length requirement?
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There are no positions which are good enough to complete such a form.

Like a poster mentioned elsewhere: the interview process is also a strong indicator of the internal atmosphere, too. I don't want to work for any company which believes such a form is a good idea.
"What makes this ruin porn all the more infuriating -- and disturbing -- is that it started when the cool people with the right ideas from the Ivy League schools stepped in."

Post hoc, ergo proper hoc? I don't necessarily disagree with you, but don't you think that there might be more contributing factors? In particular, the decline of the American auto industry comes to mind in regards to Detroit.
There's a difference between trying to rent out something that the owner lives in and takes care of and squatting on something that has been abandoned by the owner.

The problem is that many of the properties are likely in legal limbo through foreclosure, bank ownership, and auctions. Once a new true owner finally takes over it might have been years since the last real owner. That's when squaters rights start to come into play.
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That's interesting. I didn't bother reading the T&C. I think if AngelList wants to invest, that's a really good thing for most startups. They see thousands of deals.

In my experience, Nivi and Naval have been amazingly helpful to our startup.
that's a well fitting comment for the startup ecosystem, 256 contender?
The exploit code targeted 4G users on Android, so yes, Android was (one of) the attack vectors. Or rather, certain carriers poor implementations of 4G on Android.
Ask PG: Less items on each page?
Just wondering when and why you changed it from 30 to 25 items per page - mostly the why. Cheers :)
"I think once you've learned enough languages, they become like lenses on a camera."

Very good reply and also a very good metaphor.