skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I should add, the syntax is also "spreadsheet-like." You can do an anonymous insert and it will assign the next free row ID (say 4) and column name (say G), if needed. You can refer to any data point, say Person column Age, row ID of 5 as: Person.Age5 or Person.C5 if that's the third column (it adds column names by default).
In a team of how many?
I agree on both points. Parse definitely has the potential to gain a lot of traction, but I'm not sure we'll see a Heroku-sized buyout.
I was actually thinking QML too when I started using Enyo. There is a huge difference though, QML is yet another language. "We should totally reinvent CSS and HTML!" If I had a nickel for every time that happened...

The difficulty of running QML on a webOS device, or Enyo apps on Android or iOS, is not technical. It's more about look and feel. One glance into Qt code (not QML, Qt proper) and you can see how painful it is to make a single app look native across platforms.

Here is where I think Enyo has potential. It should be possible to style Enyo for different platforms AND to easily include components that implement OS specific behaviors and paradigms.
To clarify -- those are tools we'd like to integrate with, but we need your help in prioritizing which to start with.
let's hope that the pressure put on facebook by google+ will not only lead to changes in the field of privacy control but also bring about positive changes for developers!
Although it's been a while since I read /. regularly I did find myself being impressed by all the low UIDs in that discussion.
WHATWG is certainly efficient at advancing the collective interests of the browser vendors. The problem arises when those interests conflict with the interests of the rest of humanity.
Not only were the comments threaded, they also had an elaborate moderation and karma system in-place that still works very well. (With meta-moderation, to boot.) I often browse Slashdot at +5 to get a quick overview of the discussion. If there something interesting going on, it's easy to drill down and see the less popular posts and counterpoints related to the +5 post.

I think it's a great compromise: Get karma, you get a slight, but not overpowering, visibility boost. Lose karma or post anonymous, and you get a slight, but not overpowering, visibility malus. Capping the range of post ratings at -1 and 5 ensures that nothing ever truly gets voted into oblivion. Oh yes, and you can post anonymous -- even when logged in! How cool is that.
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+1 this. remember doing this when i was 12 or 13 in late 90s/early 00s. /. made it exciting to be a geek.
Right now (8/25, 11:54 AM EDT) AAPL is down 1.1% from yesterday's close. That's a pretty mild punishment.
The purpose of a business is to make money, which I assure you Microsoft still does.
Here's the source of the comments, minus the CultOfMacSpamTabloid trash around it:

http://www.informationweek.com/byte/news/personal-tech/table...
Really? Working on Aryan Papers and A.I. is "taking a decade off"?
I love how www.livemocha.com handles this.
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Demo video found here: http://monetate.com/2011/08/say-hello-to-monetate-11-website...
Could you run Enyo apps on iPhone/Android as webapps? Because that would make it a very interesting proposition for something I'm working on right now.

Also- is it still accessible? Even googling 'WebOS Enyo', the first result is an Engadget article.
I was surprised when Woz said on Bloomberg TV that him and Steve aren't as close as they used to be. He said that he's been finding out this news by reading like everyone else has. That's kind of sad to me. I would of thought they'd still be close friends.
Don't you think it's kind of difficult to point out Apple's "Achilles' heel" at this point? They're killing it on all fronts. I can't think of a better performing leadership group at this point. You might perceive Apple's leadership as "arrogant", but their strategy is working wonders in the marketplace. What makes you think you know better?
I'm going to speak from the role of recent graduate in Software Engineering, a strong focus on math here...

1) Visualization of mathematical concepts is a skill that many students simply lack. When someone asks me to crunch out 1.5 * 3.67 mentally I don't see much of an issue because its a simple concept for me to break it down and go 3/2 * 11/3 and work from there. Many people don't make the connection and the root of that issue exists beyond the whole calculator discussion in my honest opinion.

2) The first reply on that page is a very important one, students with a strong mathematical foundation are found in the natural sciences. It is rare to find students practicing strong math skills outside of these faculties. Its the same argument we saw with Engineers lacking english language skills, the students who excel in that field are drawn that way so its only natural to have some deficiencies.

3) Profs from a different generation gap are part of the problem in the idea that they're slow to adopt a technology-centric system. My honest opinion is that formula sheets should be allowed in all exams with the criteria that: i) they're hand-written ii) they're of limited length (1 standard 8.5x11 sheet of paper, single sided) and iii) no photo-copies This forces students to look at the information they've been given and make rational decisions for what formula are important, which ones can be memorized, and enforces studying. My electrostatics course forced memorization on us and I spent more time shoving formulas into my noggin instead of applying concepts to solve actual problems. As soon as the final was complete those formuli leaked from my brain onto the floor and are now forgotten. I honestly wish I was allowed more time to solve problems then to attempt memorization.

Basically what I mean to say when I state that "profs are slow to adapt" is that we live in a technology centered world now. Information such as formula or constants are accessable almost instantly from google and the likes so instead of using valuable time to have students memorize these things time would be spent better if they allowed "cheat-sheets" and instead required a higher amount of work or knowledge per semester. I'd gladly trade the time spent memorizing different formula for magnetic flux in favor of another two or three chapters from the book giving more than the "ideal scenario" cases we were given.
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I have always used jQuery adn jQueryUI for all my javascripting work. I find it easy to understand, code and debug. There are loads of javascript libraries out there but i find jQuery the best to work with.
slashdot was the first digg/reddit, they missed the social boat and kept strict editorial control, or else they'd have grown rather than floundered
I honestly believe that Slashdot was one of the first sites to Get it Right with regards to content moderation, and continued to get it right even while sites like Digg were struggling to figure out how to handle users being dicks to each other.

Rob will be missed.
Wow, that's interesting.

One thing that confused me in the API documentation that it seems to use "concepts" and "words" to mean the same thing. "word" made me think it has some kind of linguistic proximity check, though I'm quite sure that's not what what your API is about. Later examples use phrases instead of words, so it seems that 'word' is the wrong word here - please ban it completely.

From a quick skimming I didn't find if the relationships for all API keys are stored separately, or if all the data is meshed together in one central place (I guess it's the latter, but I'm not sure).

I'm also a bit confused that the examples indicate client side Javascript, and still one needs an API key, but if one uses that API key, it'll be available for the user, and thus not a secret, which seems to defeat the whole purpose. What's the point?

I hope that gives you some ideas for clarifications.
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To this day, I log into nyt.com with:

user: cowboyneal
pass: cowboyneal

Anyone else?
Yes, I would try it if it supported Portuguese.
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This is a really cool idea that I can definitely see myself using. A few ideas that
would make it even more awesome (for me):

More languages would be great.

Let me specify the level I currently know a language at. For example: I'm not
a native speaker of ASL, but I can get through a conversation. I'd be a great
partner for an ASL beginner but not for someone advanced.
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There are a few missteps in this article. To begin with, the author claims that a variable of type Double is "a function with no arguments". This is not the case [1]; not everything in Haskell is a function. A Double is just that: an instance of the numeric type Double.

They also say that "[T]he Ord "typeclass" ... implements comparisons." But of course the typeclass itself doesn't implement comparisons. A typeclass defines an interface which its instances implement. Consider the Eq typeclass:

class Eq a where
(==) :: a -> a -> Bool
(/=) :: a -> a -> Bool

So to make a type an instances of Eq, we need to implement (==) and (/=) functions with the type signatures provided by the class. It's pretty obvious how this should go for the Bool type, so let's define that and make it an instance of Eq.

data Bool = True | False

instance Eq Bool where
True == True = True
False == False = True
_ == _ = False

a /= b = not (a == b)

This is all covered very well by Learn You a Haskell [2].

[1]: http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-hask...

[2]: http://learnyouahaskell.com/making-our-own-types-and-typecla...
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These are the things he would do in the beginning?! What about the part where you create something of value? I guess this is the explanation why lawyers don't launch startups.
I think it's more of a licensing issue. This is where they have to step up. Enyo needs an open license. I don't even know what it is right now, but I assume its not OK to use elsewhere, yet.

In it's current state it also wont run in Chome without --allow-file-access-from-files and --disable-web-security flags.

--allow-file-access-from-files to load local resources, I presume.
--disable-web-security to allow cross-domain requests for the service bridge.
ZOMG. Steve Jobs and Cmdr Taco are the same guy.
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I must sincerely and strongly disagree with you. Technology can help elucidate mathematics beyond plug and chug. Teaching is one of the best ways of learning. a rough paraphrase of something I read someone say is they write a new book every time they wish to learn something new.

Writing a computer program which embodies a mathematical concept is teaching the most retarded entity that is capable of more than just arithmetic. Certainly anything which is non-constructive falls outside of this, but in laying a motivation and providing a foundation that reduces the amount of problems you need to do by say an order of magnitude? Technology is unmatched. Although the requirement on constructive* maths seems restricted you would be surprised that both your [1] and [2] level of abstraction can be tackled with such tools. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mhe/papers/entcs87.pdf, http://haskellformaths.blogspot.com/, http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/algebraic-topology-in-haskell...

You do it this way, vary enough examples and try to anticipate results, you will develop a number sense that is required to be comfortable with maths. It worked for me.

* I am skeptical in the reality of arbitrarily real numbers because I am skeptical in the reality of hypercomputation.
Agreed, Slashdot's moderation/karma/meta-moderation remains state-of-the art -- nobody else I'm aware of comes close to it.
From TFA:

> I … have decided [webOS] does have [a future], maybe even a glorious one, provided the ɴᴇᴡ ᴏᴡɴᴇʀ ᴏʀ ʟɪᴄᴇɴsᴇᴇ reaches out to web developers…
Yes, but Steve's resignation did move a major security problem with OSX Lion off the front page yesterday. The cynic in me says that it is too much of a coincidence.
Yeah, it's hard to say what - if anything - to do about this. Like you say, if you post a reply to a comment that you downvoted, you are - arguably - just adding more noise. But, then again, people always complain about "ninja downvoting" and say "if you're going to downvote me, at least tell me why."

But the last time I left a reply to something I downvoted, my reply in turn got downvoted pretty quickly (although it eventually go voted back up to a neutral score of 1), which left me questioning the wisdom of doing that. And the sad thing is, the comment in question was one of those that centered around one of those possible "group think" scenarios... so I don't know if I just got downvoted by members of the "other camp" or by (more or less) neutral observers who don't support leaving replies explaining why you find a comment troublesome.

Uuugggh.... there's no way to win. Maybe we need /. style moderation so you can tag a comment as "off topic" or whatever when you downvote...

As to the bigger question of eliminating the "tribalism," hhhmmm... I wish I had an answer, but sadly I can't say I do. Maybe your post will at least raise awareness of the issue and will help a bit?
The most commented story was "Kerry Concedes Election To Bush" (with 5687 comments), followed by "Strike on Iraq".
I used to work part time as IT support for a public school system back in College(07), and it shocked me to see every single student in a 6th grade class pull out TI-89s or better! to handle logs and exponentials. I'm not talking about solving them to get the decimal number, no, this was to do things like solve for x in: e^3 * e^4 = e^x
Yes in the real world we all rely on calculators to some extent but if you can't piece together basic math you'll struggle to solve unfamiliar problems.
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I think the author has convinced me: Obama should throw this thing back to the courts. Having an administrative panel decide on issues of this importance is not in the national interest. The courts can decide what the law says. If the law is whacked (it is), then the legislative body can fix it. That's the way things are supposed to work. Using a part of the executive branch to impact huge areas of IP law was never intended by the folks who set up the system.
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The ITC is an interesting place for this to end up.

I once was in a class where an ITC commissioner (or something like that) came and talked about the ITC's role in international trade.

My limited understanding is that they typically are somewhat of a domestic alternative/pre-cursor to WTO type disputes. For example, the two cases I heard about were both antidumping cases: one about chicken products and one about bedroom furniture.

How's that for a random and mostly irrelevant contribution?
The answer that I've always wanted to hear Rob give would come from these questions:

What are the underlying linchpins of the SlashDot community? How would you rebuild it? What steps would you take, what processes would you put in place, what technology would you use?

I would never want to create a SlashDot clone, nor would I expect anyone could clone SlashDot. However, there are very important lessons in community building, management and infrastructure planning that Rob is an expert at.
I think when discussing startup infrastructure you have to assume the creation of something of value or the conversation stops before it starts.
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Mea culpa, and I'm truly sorry. I mistook your plea for a demand. Seppuku at dawn?
This was during a call I was on with their Marketing team when the company that I was working for planned to do a mini sub-site within slashdot to extol and display the features of their newest product line. I don't believe it is public record, otherwise I would cite it.
I am not just talking about the financials, the reputation in the developer community suffered a lot.

It is somewhat arrogant what they do, telling their customers what is better for them like the mousewheel in tiger. Steve Jobs always had this attitude to know whats best for the people.

Android is successful because it lets the user some choice, and if Apple did compromise some things they could be more successful. It is their "Achilles' heel" already.
It helps to know that the founders name was Rusty. :)
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One approach would be to separate content-based comments from meta comments, and create a culture where if you post a meta comment in the mainline, you're likely to get down voted.
Well, you can't say he was working at the same pace then as he was in earlier years. His attempt to make a film about Napoleon involved a lot more work, yet occupied a much smaller gap between successful film releases. My point is that if Kubrick were to die due to not taking retirement well, a decade long period of writing and exploring ideas seems closer to retirement than his typical hands-on approach to post-production and release.
>thinking no one can catch up with you.

Did he actually do that, or just told the only way he personally knew how to do it?
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Comment down/up votes have to go. People should be adult enough to be able read a post without someone telling them what's readworthy or not. Life is not a popularity contest where you tally how many points you've gotten for playing the game well.

Members should, however, be able to flag comments that violate the guidelines so that the mods can deal with spam and other transgressions.
> the author claims that a variable of type Double is "a function with no arguments".

I believe he was trying to make the very important point that in a functional language, there is no conceptual difference between a variable containing X of type T and a function with no arguments that returns X of type T.
Metafilter seems to have a fair amount of success with this strategy ("take it to meta"), but often it requires the moderators to intervene and remove a few comments. I suspect that having active moderators and a clear procedure for handling "off-topic" posts is key.
> I am not sure if I could trust you with touching my data

That's the part that kept me from signing up for a trial account, too. For example, I'm sure there's a good reason why the 37Signals login is required instead of the API key, but I couldn't find an explanation for it anywhere.
Cool, thanks for your comments

To answer your question about words and comments, you can input a word or a simple concept like a person's name ex: "George Bush".

As for the API keys every user currently has access to the same information via their API key. You are correct about the security flaw in the javascript API key model, however since nobody uses this but me, I figured it's OK to let it slide for now and once I need to start scaling I can figure out something else. Right now I just want to get people interested and start playing around with it.
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At 12 years old, how did you end up finding out about it so early?
>Like you say, if you post a reply to a comment that you downvoted, you are - arguably - just adding more noise. //

Personally I think HN has degraded vastly since we lost scores. I see far more downvotes for disagreement and apparently less interest in supporting good argument.

It's really hard now to read HN and get much from it unless the topic is one you want to read every single comment on.

I hope I'm not dragging things away from the OP main point but I feel this is not unrelated to it.
thanks, very good observation. I am definitely concerned about those too.
Do it algorithmically like a flag -- if enough people click "move to meta" it gets moved automatically.
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I agree with the sentiment but here's the thing...

The type of person to post an insult or an ad hominem is probably not the type of person who would read this post much less care what it has to say. Because for someone to read this they'd have to care about the impact they have on the community and there's no way an insult or ad hominem can have a positive impact on the community. They are, by definition, expressions of pure negativity so their intent is unquestionably negative.

(and don't even get me started on the people who upvote such posts)

So you can't just say "lets all get together and fix this" because the people who would answer your call aren't the people causing the problem. Then the question becomes "how do you deal with the people causing the problem".

The only answer I can see is banning. Because said group is made out of two types of people: Those who don't care about the community and those who care about the community but care about expressing their own anger more. So the first group just won't care and the second group can't help themselves.

But then the question is "Do you really want Hacker News to be a place where people get banned on a regular basis?". First I don't think pg even has the time for that and second I think most would find that off putting.

So (and pardon me for the long comment here) we end up where we started. Trying to be civil and interact with the civil members of the community while trying to ignore those who don't care about civility.
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I wonder what this would look like in a two-column view, with one column for discussion, and a smaller margin to the side for metadiscussion. Maybe some kind of mechanism to boot a single comment to one side or the other, and an option as a reader to ignore metacommentary.
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As communities grow they need to fragment. Without fragmenting, how a story does becomes sensitive to initial conditions and subject to information cascade (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade). We still don't know how to manage this gracefully.
Note that it is a statutory requirement in the US that a patent list as inventors exactly those who actually are inventors. You can neither leave off people who should be there, nor include people who should not.

If you add non-inventors or leave off inventors, that is grounds for invalidation of the patent. If you ever sue someone over the patent, they will vigorously and deeply probe that point.

There's a very good chance Jobs actually was an inventor on these patents, and not just listed for ego or show.
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