skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with some of the other people who posted in reply to this. I think it is an awesome concept because it is always a drag to have to dig through posts from people who put up twenty a day to find the people who put one every once in a while.

I wonder if there isn't another method of sorting you could do. I have few friends so don't know about the large scale application. But possibly sorting them into friends and having their pictures sized differently based on posts. And then click on the picture and you can scroll through their posts. Something along the lines of showing the post from that friend who rarely posts without scrolling down to find it.
I'll do it later
"A Fire Upon the Deep" is one of my favorite books of all time. Ranks up there with "Dune" and the Foundation trilogy.
Indeed. As part of my PhD duties, I've been the lab tutor for the first serious UNIX/systems programming course for the last three years, and I always teach vi:

ESC : q!

Because you never know when some commandline tool is going to drop you into vi (I teach them about the EDITOR variable, but sometimes you ssh somewhere and, you know...), and you need to know how to get out.

True story: the number one cause of issues with source code control systems is a vi session that the students accidentaly opened, managed to flee from with C-z, and didn't realize was still around with an open file holding the subversion lock and preventing them from committing their source code. I'd say I got 5-10 a quarter (~60 students in each quarter's session).
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One possible thought of why they use the Store Credit but not Credit Cards: If you hack my Visa, and I report it, Visa will put a stop on the payment (if caught in time); but it seems like Apple is simply refunding the Store Credit.

If the criminal/s (or the original instigator/s at least) are using the Store Credit to buy their own Apps, they wouldn't want the payment to be stopped. Seems like Apply is giving them that payment (less Applue's 30% of course) and refunding the victim - Apple is out of pocket, but the criminal is still paid.
Inversely I have had experiences with maintenance coders going like mercenaries into code i wrote and without respect for architecture or future extensions making changes because they didn't understand the code and we're not interested in the concepts behind it.
I'd like to see if they can get $45 billion this time around.
I'd count the unittest code too, it needs to be maintained too.
It sounds pretty interesting, but is JavaScript really the proper way to implement...
Is the implementation transferable to other problems?
I think selling time can definitely be considered as unethical. However what scares me most is people using this to do DDoS or other network-related attacks. Because of JS' performance, from a pure performance point of view, it is currently much more economical to spin off a couple EC2 instances, but that may indeed change in the future.
Not being a java developer, have to say I loved my experience using it last week. It was a core part of some demos I was giving and going from no app to a deployed "hello world" was as easy as I've experienced in any framework, possibly the easiest!
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Interesting. Well, I don't normally have to push any large files around, mostly python source code, so it's worked well for me. Will keep an eye out.
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Installing anything complicated. It usually Just Works on Debian/Ubuntu, but for OSX you have to tweak things.
A good read, looking forward to the rest.
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relevant link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20102379-93/revisiting-yaho...
My friend you mean well. But there is a quality problem in India. There is volume (i.e. high numbers of engineers). But quality is bad on an average and that's the honest truth.

To prove my point. Let's look at the topcoder country rankings [At HN, perhaps I don't need to explain what topcoder is. But if I need to then in one word. Its a place where you practice Dynamic programming :-) ]:

http://community.topcoder.com/stat?c=country_avg_rating

No. of red programmers in India are just 3: http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=AlgoRank&cc=356

Now just compare it to China:
http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=AlgoRank&cc=156

Or Russia:
http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=AlgoRank&cc=643

The volume of engineers thing caters to service industry very well. And the service industry mainly thrives for one reason alone. Don't listen to all the jargon all the titans of industry say. The reason is only one:

And that is:

1$ = 45 Rupees.

Service Industry is good in a way that it helps people have financial independence in a matter of 2 or 3 years. But some how, it has stayed there. Is there an Infosys like product company in India?

So there is clear lack of vision amongst the leaders in Indian IT industry. In other words very few high quality leaders. And all seem to be quite happy with the success they have achieved and now out to serve the nation. ... I hope I get proven wrong and in a decade we have Infosys quality product companies in India.

So although xyahoo is gracious enough to apologize. In practice it may be the case, that some exceptions apart, you will get low quality engineers over here.

I think, its the culture, which has been the issue.

It can be fixed but few things need to be done:

1) People have to stop using IITs and IIMs in the same sentence.

2) B Techs at IITs should want to continue with Masters at IITs, and not apply to US univs

3) More entrepreneurs have to stop cashing out midway (I often wonder, could bazee.com have been India's alibaba?)

4) The entrepreneurs have to move from a trader mindset to a creator mindset

5) More creators have to do their own startup than just feel pride in working for Google/Yahoo/Amazon

6) The VCs (in general) need to speak like tech-educated persons. Not act like fools who would rather invest in Real estate (one needs to control their urge to spill coffee on their suits)

PS: I noticed that I went on a tangential rant ... completely off topic. But I speak almost all of the above from experience.

EDIT: Added some spacing to make the points readable.
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Oh man, where is that 250 grand I had lying around... :)

Seems like this site is coming under a lot of harsh comments. I am not sure about the sustainability, or even the ability of something like this being created. But (to use their term) with the power of the internet you can reach those who do know how to do it. Someone who knows all the legality of something like this might never have an idea like this.

I think the point was 'Hey if realtors can do it, we can too and turn the profit into something useful'. If a realtor knew how to do something like this than it wouldn't take too much to assume that other people would know how to accomplish something like this. From the posts you prove this, you have more insight into this than the creators, but the idea has to start somewhere.

One would assume that if they are hoping to build a grand community then they would be willing to take suggestions from their community as to how to build this community. Just because it is idealistic, and secretly maybe you want to be a part of it, doesn't mean it is going to fail.
That seems risky. Apple presumably knows the identity of app developers, since it needs to send them payment. It shouldn't be too hard to detect a pattern, where certain apps are bought with stolen iTunes credit much more often than others.
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I wonder if startups accepted into GA will have a standing offer for funding like YC folks?

This seems to be about education, so perhaps the dealflow is implicit via goodwill from the funding.

As GA co-founder Brad Hargreaves wrote, " When we launched our first certification program—Front-end Web Development—a few weeks ago, we received over 100 applications for only fifteen available spots. Demand for this kind of education has clearly outstripped supply. And we want to answer the call."
Any speed ranking against alternatives?
I thought so too, but it turns out that I'm following a bunch of blabber mouths. I got ranked a 2!
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Ask HN: How Fast Should a Programmer Type?
http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/

I am getting a consistent 40wpm/200cps...
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I'm always shocked to see a developer not touch type. I just can't understand those 10% or so, that spend their life essentially editing text and yet can't touch type. It's one of those essential skills that you learn once and reap the benefits for the rest of your life.
That was the idea behind the Javascript Bitcoin Miner, though it turned out to be unfeasible in the end.

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0

comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566365
It is indeed unlikely. But if we can actually get to the point that 2^10 web clients (1024) are as strong as Houdini or Rybka on one high-end hardware, it won't be that hard to double the size of the web grid a couple more times.

As you pointed out, the main challenge is scaling efficiently, and not getting a poor speedup even with that many workers (I think we can aim for 60% speedup with YBWC). We hope to have an edge here with Node.js' I/O performance, but it's still a big challenge (and that's what keeps it interesting ;-)
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An excellent comment from the original article:

"Their store credit is being drained before PayPal because that's how iTunes works, uses your credit first. You don't have to choose credit vs. PayPal.

They aren't hacking those that use Credit Cards (VISA, MasterCard etc) because any purchase from a new device has to confirm the security number on the back of the credit card.

Thus the attack is only going after open (non credit card) accounts, possibly phishing, possibly dictionary attacks, or any other form of hacking."
I love macs for their unibody, excellent design.
I hate macs for their incredibly overpriced... price.
Hello, author here.

This is really a great overview of why I like this setup, I couldn't have put it more clearly.

An example of something I've been trying lately and didn't work well under OSX: ruby bindings for FUSE filesystems. I wanted to write a quick FUSE fs using ruby, so I installed gems and other dependencies. But since MacFUSE has been deprecated for a while, it's not easy to get everything working.

It could probably work under OSX, but given the current state of FUSE on Lion, I gave up (and did not try it under Linux yet).

While trying to setup my FUSE environment, I installed every FUSE version, many gems with a couple of ruby versions with rvm, rbenv, ruby-build, etc. When playing with new tools and environments, I always end up with lots of useless or broken stuff.

This setup allows me to keep my base system clean and simple.

I do not use it daily, but it's nice to have it ready to launch when needed.
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Does anyone miss the "Wild West" feel of the net (pre 2001)?
Write what you miss about it. I miss seeing articles on securityfocus that were actually interesting and following new additions to attrition.org
Yep, but there has been something very similar few days ago
The article mentioned in-game credits, I wonder if this could be a real money trading scam for in-game credits or item. Although I must admit I have no idea if the game mentioned allows in game trades which are crucial to allow RMT.

If so it's not so risky as the sucker will end up being the player who bought the items and I doubt anyone ever pursues their claims as they've invariably violated the TOS of the game.

Edit: The more I think about this, the more genius a way to monetize this hack it is.
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Interesting, are there any user limits on the purchased version?

Also, do you have any data on hardware requirements? The software requirements are only PHP and MySQL so I'm guessing it's not doing anything like in-memory caching and it'll need to hit MySQL quite a bit to generate the chat. How does it perform under 100 users? Or 1000? or more?
And buffer bloat is confusing the protocols in the process.
This article is kind of confused; it's talking about two separate things.

1) Report bugs.
Yes, do that... do that a lot. Everyone benefits, and it doesn't take you a lot of time.

2) Exhaustively test every bug report you submit.
I don't know about this one. When I submit a bug report, I'm usually in the middle of doing something (often, work), and if I followed their steps for every bug I reported, it would take between 15 minutes and and hour just for the report. Who has that kind of time? Asking users to do something like this will just put them off from submitting reports, which you don't want to do. On the other hand, submitting useless bug reports - which may not even be bugs - will waste the developer's time.

If the goal of this article is to maximize both bug report quality and number of reports submitted, I don't think this article does a good job of describing that maxima.
Interesting. I wonder why they didn't just choose to promote the events more aggressively, etc. -- surely Spolsky could have gotten more registrations if he had tried.

I think there is a market for a $499 conference, but perhaps it needs to have a better reputation among management first.
Thanks, I'm trying to keep to 2 updates per week, so another one should arrive around Friday at some point.

Pass it along to anyone you might know who'd be interested, my main goal right now is to get more feedback on it so I can improve my writing style.
Actually, it seems these are only the spelling stats for misspelling 'britney' - every single 'spears' is spelt correctly. I was expecting to at least see 'britney speares' listed.
Jeff Bezos is the most underrated CEO.
Ah, the comments section of just about any article on the internet, always a goldmine of inadvertent comedy. My personal favorite from this one, right at the top:

"What's wrong with wanting to be hot rather than smart? Not everyone can be intelligent, and both beauty and intelligence are natural, requiring no work."

Priceless!
blinks DVD ...vs... Blu Ray....looks around am i missing something?
No, they 'may' imitate each others' signature whistles as a way to get their attention. They aren't sure. About anything, apparently. They even say so.
Unless you're on an ancient laptop I don't see why you wouldn't run a Linux VM if you are developing web apps.

What is the advantage of trying to make OS X your development environment and then deploying to a Linux host?

Unless you have an older laptop with less than 4 gigs of ram why not? Even with 2gigs it's not that system intensive to run a Linux guest os.
not on-line but... http://www.gnu.org/s/gtypist/
What a strange use of the word "symmetric": "Two grid paths are symmetric if they share the same start and end point and one can be derived from the other by swapping the order of the constituent vectors."
Apropos (Unix)
The Likeable Constitution
Yeah! I agree I think its a bit bold to say that Google 'corrected' "brandi spears" to "britney spears" - there almost certainly are numerous "brandi spears"...
Submitted. BTW, when I click on "Description" the bottom row with email, name and submit button scroll down out of view in Chrome and Firefox, so I couldn't submit descriptions.
I just sent my first email with it, and even though it appears to check in realtime, it hung up on some process where I had to click again to get my email to go through, canceling your check.

I dunno if you're just overloaded, but it's not a bright first try.
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The twisting motion illustrated is more dangerous to hard drives than a simple up and down or side to side shake; the heads are being pushed into the gyroscopic platters. [citation needed]
Flowchart: Where should you post your social media status?
Let me start by saying that I love using Scala and consider it a net positive but stating that anyone who can't grok Scala is a poor developer just absolutely smacks of arrogance. Every tool has drawbacks.

1) Documentation for the standard Scala library is absolute crap. The JDK is much better at not only documenting methods in a reasonable way but also giving you common usage patterns for classes/packages. I really don't like having to piece together the method signatures of a class to figure out the intended usage pattern.

2) This might be a problem in IntelliJ but I can't figure out a good way of getting the debugger to work well. Sometimes it'll catch breakpoints other times it won't.

3)Lack of maturity in libraries. A perfect example is Scala's built in XML support. It works for 90% of what you want to do but finds good ways to waste your time, especially if you're dealing with namespaces.

4) Obscure syntax and abuse of the single argument method call syntax. What does :+ mean to anyone? What's the difference between +++ and ++ or :: and :::. Scala is a dyslexic's nightmare and I don't agree with such heavy use of symbolic shorthand.

Again I love Scala and have used it write some heavily parallel code with minimal effort thanks to the functional nature of Scala but I feel like the learning curve is a lot harder than it should be.
That's laughable because DuckDuckGo is built on the Yahoo BOSS API.
It's been a while since I last used VirtualBox, so I can't really compare.

What I like in QEMU, is its simplicity. The learning curve is a bit steeper, but when you're used to it there's no turning back.
I made a comment earlier about the Yahoo mail interface as well and I agree with you that the new interface is too much. I think they still let you use the old interface but eventually they will force everyone to switch permanently.
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It occurs to me that you can be thinking whilst it is the opponent's turn i.e. you can give some nodes the job of looking at likely next moves and others for determining counters to that and so on.

PS don't forget to ask your contributors to open a tab for each core they have if their browser is going to use a separate OS thread for each

PPS Google Chrome's NACL is, longer term, an interesting direction perhaps?
Obama preparing $300 billion jobs package
"When I started doing this stuff with Unix, I wasn't a very good programmer." -- Bill Joy about csh
The most important question is not about the technical etc. of the project per se, but rather about: How can a project like this gain enough traction to really get the first 20-30% funding. At this time (and by showing prominent investors etc.) it could take-off.
In it's core the marketing of visions are not different to webpages...

They should:
1. Reduce the core msg to 1-2 Sentences ON TOP
2. Give it a better layout and support it with pictures
3. Give examples of interested people etc. and how this project could benefit them ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS
4. Overall a better structure... it's too confusing atm
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I'll give you a point for that - my lunchtime project was beans on toast and a cup of tea.
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There is a problem with doing things this way. I want my development server to be always on, always available. It does things in the background and sometimes I use it when I'm away from the office.

Yes, you can keep your desktop machine on all the time, but that's a huge power suck. Shut down your desktop when you're not using it. Most development servers just don't need to be that beefy anyway.

A better approach, if you're absolutely committed to virtualization, is to just spin up an instance on Rackspace or Amazon. You'll pay about 10 bucks a month, which is less than you would for keeping your desktop running 24/7. On top of that, if your desktop dies, you won't lose your data.
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For those who don't want to wade through it, the key point is:

background-image:-webkit-linear-gradient
(and moz, o, ms and khtml equivalents)
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updated title to make it clearer :)
Another good book with historical perspective.
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What does "grabbing the banners of those websites" mean?

What would I type into wget or curl to download the "banner" of a site?
Hiring a designer is a premature optimization
There are no software limits on users. It all depends on what your hardware and connection can handle.

The Groupon dev team helped us beta-test it a bit, and it handles 100 users well with decent hardware on Apache (they were using an EC2 instance, though I am not sure what size). You could probably go up to around 300 or so without issues on Nginx and PHP-FPM, but I'm not sure you would be able to get to 1000 without adding memcache or load balancing.

We are looking into making a pure node.js version with websockets if there is enough interest, though the price point for something like that would likely be higher. We are happy to provide support and additional feature development (like memcache integration) as needed. Just send us an email if you require anything custom, and we can work out the details.
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surprised there is no comparative chart or analysis of their offering vs AWS, Rackspace and the others.. does it make sense to launch without showing/hinting as to how/why you are better than the established competition ('unless, of course, you aren't) ?
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http://www.gnu.org/s/gtypist/ has a win32 version
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I think I just gayed in my pants a little.
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