skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What it does:

- preview in context: the paragraph being edited is kept into view

- converter: converts HTML or rich text TO Markdown, to import legacy content

- document manager / library: stores documents and versions

Everything works locally, no login necessary, and no round trip to the server for save or download (documents are saved to the server as a backup, but it will be possible to turn this off).

Browser support:

- tested successfully in most recent versions of Firefox, Chrome and Safari

- actually works in IE8 too, but the UI is broken because of CSS misunderstandings (this will be fixed)

- Opera almost works but the download function (which uses Downlodify / Flash) doesn't work, and hangs the browser if used. Not sure how to fix this.

Immediate next steps:

- RTF export (in the works)

- offline operation (almost done)
I think this was referring only to physical DVDs.

That's where the recommendation system is most prominent due to the high opportunity cost in the movie-by-mail system.

The Netflix Prize, awarded just two years ago, is so irrelevant to Netflix today that they'll probably sell the license to the winning algorithm along with Qwikster.
Except these days enrollment/retaining rates have a lot to do with perceived difficulty.
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If you use a newer version of Vim (7.3+), there can be copy/paste integration; see: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Mac_OS_X_clipboard_sharing

I did the same and switched from MacVim to Vim because I'm often editing over ssh; also, I love control-z.

edit: and for fullscreen, iTerm2 works wonderfully.
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Couldn't agree more. I'm actually starting to become very skeptical of my own use of compass and sass.

SASS makes it extremely easy to generate loads of really complex selectors that are very tightly coupled to the HTML they are styling.

Mixins also makes it very easy to end up with badly bloated CSS. When a mixin defines a gradient and you apply it to different selectors, you'll get the whole bunch of browser prefixed gradient declarations repeated in lots of different places of your final css. A simple class with the gradient defined used in the HTML will make the final CSS much leaner.

Personally I've decided to limit my use of SASS/compass far more and follow a style much closer to what's described in this article.
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I was under the impression that the Fields Medal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal is what mathematicians would consider their equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Doesn't that break the back button, making it no longer "frictionless"?
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I'll go for a Dec 25th release :P
What do you use for ctags? https://github.com/SublimeText/CTags?
I generally accept the point made in the article, but what should I use in place of "Controller"? If using MVC I generally call it "ApplicationController" or "SimpleController". Should it be "Application", "ApplicationControl"...?
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This is the full article mentioned above.
I think it depends on if you're on "edge"/"nightly" builds. There was an update ~3 months ago, I don't remember what for.
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I run a small record label, one that I'd like to think acknowledges all the realities of trying to make and sell music in the post-Napster age.

My problem with something like this is, I suppose, my problem with Talent Shows, or "Vote For Your Favorite Artist!" contests on MTV, or American Idol: the wisdom of the crowds when applied to aesthetics produces inane garbage.

The purpose of art is to expand the human experience. Good bands shock and surprise you, give you new sensations in new ways. The best musicians produce intensely personal expressions of their own emotional reality, to which people with similar internal clockwork respond.

Bring everyone together to see which music they can agree on, and what they will end up picking is the average of all their emotional experiences, the music which relates only the most accessible and universal of concerns. Sorry, but even impeccably-crafted boring music is still boring.

To bring this down to Earth a bit: the future of music is disintegration, not centralization. It makes no sense for me to compete for eyeballs in a crowded marketplace when I can set up my own download site overnight and start getting in touch with blogs that directly address people who like the music I play.

Music will continue to niche down and atomize until there are taste-makers, distribution channels, and a healthy community of artists for every possible genre and sub-genre. My "conversion rate," so to speak, will be much higher on sites like these than it would be in giant competitive marketplaces like the one linked above.
I'm based in Sweden, so you'd only pay VAT if you're located within the EU and do not have a valid VAT number or if you're located in Sweden.

The syntax is different from Google Alerts (see the little grey text above the text field for the search terms). For your app I'd try "multi user browser" without commas.
Without questions, answering them is hard ?
And yet, last I tried the alpha/beta of ST2 I saw that it lacked a project view. That's super handy to me.
Yes but US companies built up that infrastructure by consistently contracting to China over the years instead of Mexico.

China could market to Europe, middle-east and Oceania - Mexico could have been China to the US.

China is most definitely ruled by the Communist Party - just because there is economic freedom doesn't mean there are other freedoms and we feed that power, just like we feed the oppression in the middle-east when we buy oil from there. We're 100% guilty considering there are other options.
I'm looking for an online store from United States(I'm from another country) to scrape the prices of fresh foods/produce: fruits, vegetables, grains, meat...

The stores I have found only publish packaged foods.

Could anyone point me the right way?
Having thought about this some more, I have taken Facebook off our site. As a business we may suffer some downside as a result, but I want to (a) protect the privacy of my site's users and (b) be able to hold my head up and say I'm not part of the problem when the revolution comes.
> In the longer term, however, I fail to see how Netflix can avoid having its product turn into a commodity.

One way is by targeting as many delivery platforms as possible and just being there first. My TV for example has a Netflix "app" so I would likely pick Netflix. Many BlueRay players have built-in access to Netflix. Maybe built native apps for all the major mobile devices.

> what's stopping Dreamworks from simply charging and delivering the movie to consumers directly?

Becaus then users would end up having a bunch of hardware/software specific to each studio. Not common way to organize & sort your media queue.

Yes, Netflix already fucked it up by splitting off Qwickster but imagine having a different service for each studio.
I think "High-Resolution" is a bit misleading when talking about a fractal :)
What device are you reading the blog on?
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No no no. My logic is this: Take tight, readable code with short names a replace them with long names, and you'll have worse code. The converse isn't true because complex (bad) codes are more readable with long variable names.

Complexity -> Code Size
Code Size -> Long Variable names (win for big codes)
Complexity is bad

Therefore long variable names are a symptom of a problem, but not the problem themselves. Long variable names aren't bad, but they are still a
good predictor of badness. Since size metrics are meant to predict badness, long identifiers should increase size metrics.
Also see the Mandelbrot set in SQL: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set
Not interested in signup forms. They're boring. Post when you actually have content.
8 “I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. 9 But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God. 10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.

11 “When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.”

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Yer going to hell.

Do you know what being full of the Holy SPirit meaNS? It means you get puppeted.

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24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.

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26And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?

27And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

28But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

29Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

30He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

31Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.

32And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

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You see that? They said Jesus had a demon and He said "Yer going to hell for blaspheming the Holy Spirit.

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http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

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Yeah, iterm2 with split windows .. REPL, shell and vim on half screen browser on other half
Another thing is that, generally, the more nesting you add, the more inefficient the compiled CSS will be. Getting carried away with SASS-like nesting could very well produce a splodge of inefficient, single-use CSS.
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Hey Chris,

I especially like the third idea.
Made some mockups for an app like this a few months ago and would love to have a PRM app :-)
It's a bit too little too late but I'm curious what they'll bring to the game now with so many people converting to Sublime Text 2.
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Feels very tailored to classic websites. I have the underbelly feeling that for web applications with non-standard interactions (i.e. not just forms and buttons), you'd need more categories, or maybe different practices and rules governing these categories.
Interesting, those stats are completely different from W3schools

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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This is probably way more efficient than just going out stalking but with something like 3 million feral pigs in the USA it is going to take a lot of effort to bring the problem under control. Perhaps something like the Judas Goat, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat with an infra-red strobe (so you don't end up shooting it) might be more (cost) effective.
Executing a C program with some non-trivial shared-object dependencies may also incur some significant overhead (dynamic linkage). But it is of course possible to statically link.
> So what's everyone's "bloodline"? I Can't be the only one who went Coda -> textmate -> macvim -> vim

Coda > TextMate > Coda > BBEdit > Coda > Sublime. I like Coda a lot, but it's not a great editor (just a good one). Sublime Text 2 seems to strike that perfect balance for me.
Defending against DDoS attacks with OpenBSD
Not particularly. You'd be surprised how many control systems are split from corporate LAN's via VLAN tags (only).
Mainly just got used to running it in iterm2 with split windows .. Saves a context change when using a REPL heavily
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vim → emacs
Mine started with a bunch of IDEs like MSVC, Anjuta, Eclipse, Winefish and Bluefish, interspersed with short bursts of Vim and Emacs every now and then, but that didn't stick. I used anything and everything, really. Those days were spent in a plethora of activities ranging from LaTeX to PHP to Matlab to C++. But again, nothing stuck, really.

Then Textmate. My first big text editor that I invested time in. Textmate proved to be immensely powerful for LaTeX. Matlab worked fine, too. C++ less so, but manageable.

Then XCode, which worked great for Obj-C and Cocoa. Then MSVC again, as required by my job. Then I added Visual Assist X to make C/C++ programming bearable, then added ViEmu to fight off boredom.

But ViEmu led me down a slippery slope. When I had to leave MSVC for ventures into Ruby, Python, Lua, XML, JSON and Qt I naturally started gravitating towards Vim. And during all those ventures, I continuously improved my cross language vimming skills way beyond anything MSVC had to offer.

When I finally came back to MSVC I found it lacking. My fingers now walked and breathed Vim, and every feature of Vim that ViEmu did not implement was crippling my ability to code. Thus I looked into extending Vim with the IDE features I missed.

This is certainly not the end of the journey, but Vim has proved to be an amazingly powerful tool. It is the first editor I actively look forward to using. Sometimes I get this exhilarating sensation of power when slicing and dicing the code with Vim, fingers flying on the keyboard and Vim moving and changing code as if by magic.

That is bliss. Thank you Textmate for getting me started. Thank you ViEmu for showing me the way. Thank you Vim for liberating me!
Check out http://www.sonicangel.com/ which is very similar and started last year. They are already quite successful.
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He states that the "engine management system" ran Solaris, and that was what he managed to access. I don't know what he means by "engine management system" but I am quite sure it was not critical ...
I have some relatives that have the same problem in central Alabama. It got so bad that the local officials have allowed the use of scoped night vision weapons to let farmers hunt the pigs.

Also, this same relative says he doesn't walk around at night without a 0.50 caliber pistol and a shotgun. Apparently these pigs can be pretty unfriendly
What do you think of the Computing Higher we have north of the border?

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I had a look at it when this topic last came up and I was quite impressed - Prolog in schools!
Know any good explanation and comparison of find-in-project features in emacs?
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Every time I read about the Scottish educational system I am impressed. Damn those Graham-Cummings who left Scotland for England :-)
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True. I got carried away with that one line magic :)
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Object oriented programming is the sweet spot solution to many problems. For example, if you have a UI with several text fields, it's natural to think of them as objects that have methods like setText(), setEnabled() and such. These methods often have side effects and that's their whole point.

Of course functional programming also has use cases for which it is the sweet spot solution, e.g. writing compilers.
Poll: Facebook usage (monday morning crowd)
I originally asked http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034871 but r00fus (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034988) pointed out issues with selection bias (since it was posted on a saturday night). Hence I am asking again on a monday morning. I am specifically asking in a separate poll because I want to see how the distribution changes in the monday morning crowd.

Watching the news or reading HN, I get the impression that FB has become an essential part of people's lives. However, no one in my immediate circle, myself included, used facebook since college. I'm wondering if I'm living in a bubble or if others are hyping the effect of facebook ...

Let me add one carveout: for those who work at startups that write facebook apps, that time is NOT counted.

One thing which came up in the last poll was that people felt they were spending "5 minutes per day". I would humbly request that you actually try timing how long you actually spend. I found that, with all services (from aim to slashdot to facebook to HN) that people who claim to spend 5 minutes really end up spending about an hour a day.
I never had facebook, I don't have facebook, or I haven't checked in over a year ...
Don't make objects that end with 'er'
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> badass fucking fractal

Ok, I haven't actually logged in for over 12 months and kept to pure occasional lurking, but you made me do it just to vote up your JoCo reference.

Look what you've done.
Somewhat related - Richard Feynman's experience on seeing how textbooks are chosen for the curriculum:

http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm

I for one welcome the day when all textbooks are open-source eBooks (preferably written by people who are deeply knowledgeable and passionate about the subject), or when the Khan Academy model is widely adopted, making textbooks largely obsolete.
My marketing sucks, maybe I needed to put FREE in the title :)
My parents' local supermarket already has a version of 'scan as you place in the cart.' This works ok for small trips, but two-cart food sprees are much better handled by the folks in the green smocks behind the cash registers.
Sure they do. The on-board FMC is meant to enhance the capabilities of the autopilot. If you can reprogram the FMC then you can change where the aircraft is pointed.
your mentioning 'autonomy' triggered off something in my buzzword laden head. Dan Pink came up with the autonomy/mastery/purpose triad in his book....
Cal Newport ( corrupted callings ( http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/04/09/corrupted-callings-the...) ) talks about how you need to GET that Autonomy for yourself through 'following your calling' and levaraging your 'career capital' rightly. hope this helps
good explanation of procedural vs OO programming, but I got kind of lost with the -er tip, is it all about naming conventions, should I go and rename all my ZzzXxxer classes to XxxxZzz?
I was using spotify this summer at my internship but I have recently switch to just turntable. I have been able to find much more music there then from any other place so far.
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I see, your bullet is apparently more silver than mine? :)
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"Malicious" is a term that you've just applied.

An alternative way of phrasing it might be "applying some skepticism to Facebook's approach to privacy.

I don't think that such skepticism has anything to do with being "cool", I think it's warranted - Facebook's valuation is largely based on the value of teh data it holds and its ability to to track and analyse user behaviour.

The original article merely points out that logging out doesn't actually effect Facebook's ability to track & analyse, so why should we assume that it voluntarily throws away an important data collection opportunity?
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Providing a localized title and description, without localizing the app, strikes me as misleading--unless the localized description explicitly says the app itself hasn't been translated.
Ignoring their response, and addressing your point about the Pi:

Why should we focus on that when kids have a much more powerful and easier to use bit of kit in their pocket?

Surely using something simple like LiveCode on an iOS/Android touch device will be much more interesting and engaging, whilst still giving a grounding in the fundamentals.
I hear you about that. I have a small garden. We live in the Sierra foothills in north/central California. Usually, things are OK with the dog and people coming and going. But when we go on vacation, they tear stuff up badly.

... And I like to fly small R/C foamies, as well :-) No plans to build any flying defenses, though.
I disagree with this advice and the reason I disagree with it because it completely disregards the human tendency to name objects (not OOP objects, but real-life objects) based on their functionality. Guess what a photocopier does? Or a scanner? An eraser? An elevator? I don't think these are particularly bad names; quite the contrary, their meaning is very clear.

Why would it be any different for OOP objects? If there's an object with an internal state that chiefly responds to messages about scanning things, what's wrong with calling it NSScanner?
Dubai is about the only place that can support such crazy mega-projects (and is now finding the hard way that mega-development requires mega-maintenance).

The Atlanta ski resort was planned to be 4 times bigger than the Dubai one, and it hits 100 in the summer here too.