skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its called "television programming" for a reason.

Do you want to program your kids mind, or are you going to let someone else do it .. ?
Google releases webOS 4.0, errr Ice Cream Sandwich
wtf? "fourth-quarter earnings increase of 54%" was disappointing?
I recently noticed that searching for dictionary words, using the old define:something trick or queries like "ubuntu release day", "evanscence genre" returns related information or 'best guess'. Nifty.
The one thing I would tell people implementing an HTTP API; create a non-trivial sample application using the API.

The benefits of this are many:

1) You will create a client library for your API in at least one language. You can release this along with the API which will make it easier for people to adopt the API. It will also serve as an example of best practices for interfacing with your API for other client library authors.

2) You will be forced to really think about what representations people using the API will want to consume. Too many people expose an API that is just a wrapper around their data models. Your data models are rarely structured in an appropriate way: i.e. a blog_post might have a user_id, but most API users would appreciate being passed some form of a user representation there, rather than make another API call.

3) The application serves as an end-to-end test of your API (though obviously isn't sufficient in terms of testing)
It's of course hard to read that without thinking about how it's published in the newspaper run by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Quoting Wikipedia:

There have also been periodic tensions with both mainstream
and fundamentalist Christians, who think the religion
is aligned with Gnosticism or is a cult, and fault it
for departing from traditional Christian doctrine. Of
particular issue is the deity of Jesus, which Christian
Science denies; and a view that Christian Science does
teach, that God is not the creator of finite (material)
existence and its concomitant suffering, sin and death.

The Christian Science Monitor is meant for a secular audience, and has good news coverage. But this is a commentary, and the people who think of the Latter Day Saints as being a cult likely also think that the Church of Christ, Scientist is a cult.
A friend of mine runs lipsum.org and has shown me the generator code - it uses similar tricks to avoid the repetitions that show up, albiet rarely, in most lipsum generators. You very rarely notice the difference, but when you do it's quite striking. A little bit of care goes a long way :)
Wow, like the IPv6 anf IPv4 breakdown along with ISP information. Wolfram would win, but as usual you can't scrape it with the SED tricks of earlier posts... or can you?
Concerning websites, when you compare rakuten Japan and say UK, you see a stark difference in how things are presented. This may just be due to the UK site being done outside Japan/by foreigners, but this would hint at a some preference toward clutter for Japanese customers ?
I do not know whether it is your sarcasm, your lack of sarcasm or, indeed, the lack of clarity with regards to any sarcasm that has offended people, but—I suspect that you would not have been down voted if you had used the word "Incredible".

I did not find this article hard to believe; nor was it so-extraordinary-as-to-seem-impossible. While both reactions might have been experienced first-hand had it been shown to a pre-iPhone self, I have experienced this gradual revolution first hand—over a period of four years.

These photographs were interesting and informative. The progression of camera quality and the extrapolation of future camera quality (that I found hard not to make) was Illuminating.

I could not have drawn these conclusions had the site and the photographs not been totally credible.
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Yes, this. Company gives full access to devices over the Internet on an hourly basis:

http://www.deviceanywhere.com/mobile-application-testing.htm...

Pretty cool service
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"it doesn’t matter how great a product you have and how revolutionary the product is… distribution and marketshare are the things that matter"

That's an interesting point of view.
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My cranky old age is going to show here, but... Python or Perl, all the way.

Both have a long history of "standard" modules for common cases and well-maintained (if not "standard") modules for alternative approaches to the common cases, or for the uncommon cases.

More importantly, both languages have a well-established culture of boringness. This is a quality I actively look for, because it tells me someone wrote code to solve a problem, not because it was the hip thing to do.
I find one of the disproportionately hardest things in fiction is coming up with names for things. Now I'm writing a thing where people cast magic spells and I find myself needing a boatload of original fictional words which read like they have a common syntax and origin. So this should be useful!
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Awesome tool! something we wanted to build internally. Do you guys allow access to my DB? (like chart.io)
They replaced several of mine for free, waiving all shipping and repair costs. I can't think of another experience I've had like that. They're also a US company, and they have the best online gaming experience... those are just a few of the reasons I can think of.
It's telling me regardless, It's not telling me the IPv4 address.
Let's hope it will gain more acceptance and usage than Python3. Do they intend major changes?
Your statement sounds like sour grapes to me.

When a language has multiple viable implementations, it means the language has a good specification. It also means that it doesn't depend too much on platform-specific characteristics. It means it is more portable. Python is both blessed and cursed with a couple of problems ... its behavior is sometimes related to the CPython implementation (e.g. reference counting, __del__), and also some libraries are too big and important to live without them.

One such library is NumPy. Currently you cannot talk about an alternative Python implementation if you don't have NumPy running on it, and that's a fact.

I'm a Python developer in my day job and I never used Pypy for anything. I only played with it and became frustrated that libraries I relied upon don't work on it.

Btw, if you're a fan of Pypy, checkout http://rubini.us/
IPhone 4S has GLONASS in addition to GPS
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A lot of medicines are "unnatural the same way sugar is". Are they obviously damaging children too?
Precisions:

* GPS: 2.00—8.76 m
* GLONASS: 4.46—7.38 m
* GPS+GLONASS: 2.37—4.65 m [citation needed]

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLONASS).
> The only line in that article that I take issue with is the following: Even so-called educational videos do not benefit children under 2 because they are too young to be able to understand the images on the screen, the doctors’ group said.

Yes, that line basically tells me that either these doctors don't have kids or they haven't been paying attention to them.
The classic case of this is Google vs Yahoo in Japan. Yahoo is more popular, and if you look at the layout, you'll see that it's much more cluttered (or at least, that there's loads more information). At one point Google caved in (in Japan) and added more buttons to their top page, but I see they've switched back to the basic logo + search bar.

Another thing to consider is that the cluttered thing is not only Japan: I've heard that other Asian countries also have a preference for clutter. I can't vouch for whether that's true, but it sounds pretty believable.
I personally have no trouble working with others, nor difficulty enrolling others in my vision. I am extremely emotionally stable—I don't take things personally and have little trouble riding the ups and downs

I'll leave the HAL 9000 jokes to someone who can afford the karma hit...
Do you know any more about how monkey came about? The about page is pretty sparse.. but it seems to be a pretty vibrant community.
Add CritSend to that list. I'm using it and am quite happy with it.
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We didn't teach our son signs on purpose, but he picked up some by himself before he could speak.

For example, we would point at a bottle of milk to see if he wanted some, and he would soon start copying our gesture by holding up one hand as if a bottle placed upright, and pointing at it with his other hand. Soon he would do that whenever he wanted milk, before he got thirsty enough to start crying.

A lot less guesswork for us, and a lot less crying for him.
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The problem with Wikipedia -- one that stems from, and compounds, all of the problems mentioned in this piece -- is that the wilderness has been cleared. The fun, groundbreaking contribution work is done. Much of -- if not most of -- the big, foundational, crystallized knowledge base on the site has been written. All that remains now are small(er) updates to limited subfields, rote listmaking, current events updates (never Wikipedia's strong suit in the first place), and editing. Plenty of editing.

None of those things is inherently fun for most people. Your average internet user -- someone who would have loved contributing a fresh article ten years ago -- probably has little desire to devote an appreciable amount of time to curating and categorizing other people's work. But yet, there's a vocal minority of users who do enjoy such things, and those are the "procedural whackjobs" of which you speak.

Call this the rise of the Editorial Class. Wikipedia is now dominated by a small percentage of editors, who revert new work by contributors, and whose arcane rules, lists, procedures, politics, and supercillious disdain make contributing fresh material more a labor than a labor of love. And, lest we think this is noble work put forth by self-sacrificing custodians of knowledge, let me say that my encounters with such people have rarely left an impression of maturity, or even competence. No, for a lot of them, it's a petty power trip. (To wit: one of my articles -- thoroughly researched and painstakingly written -- was eventually lobbied for deletion, successfully, by a little clique of editors calling itself the "Counter Vandalism Unit." As far as I could tell, this is a group of grown-ass adults playing "24" dress-up on Wikipedia, complete with their own badge-like logo, who sadly wield a decent amount of editorial control over the site).

On the flipside, as you point out, some of this works in Wikipedia's favor. More timely sources of knowledge, like Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, search engines, etc., can beat out Wikipedia's relatively antiquated categorization systems and contribution mechanics fairly handily. But, by and large, most people contributing "content" or "information" through such channels are not really cognizant that that's what they're doing (witness the big uproar over Facebook's data collection; people are inherently surprised that they've been contributing data to any sort of repository of such). Rarely does someone tweet, or post an FB status update, thinking he's contributing to the grand collection of all human knowledge. So the sum total of all the knowledge-data generated outside of Wikipedia, more current and possibly even more interesting though it may be, is still a lot more flab than muscle. That will change eventually, as data mining and contextualization technologies improve. For the time being, however, the lack of an organizing principle similar to Wikipedia's, outside of Wikipedia, will keep Wikipedia relevant. Not indefinitely, but for quite a few years to come.
What's worse is that they could drop these services in the future, all of a sudden there is nothing capable of performing the function.
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Sure, if you are in fact a non-profit.

Everybody is allowed to receive the occasional donation (pretty generous of Paypal, as they don't charge commission on that), but if you build a "business of receiving donations" you need to proof you are a non-profit.

It's that obvious.
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I wonder if that's causing the odd jumping about I'm seeing on the 4S compared with the stable tracking of the 4.
Anyone got any experience with this? I don't know anybody who knows anybody that uses this product.
Finally, SVG support for Android handsets!

See this long-standing issue: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1376 where their stated reason for leaving out SVG was to save 1MB of space in the WebKit image size.
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But the point is, they SHOULDN'T have to compromise. That's just Apple deciding what people will use, even if it's the wrong thing. It's taking a little bit of good advice to such an extreme that what appears on the surface "visionary" would upon closer inspection reveal itself as insanity. Hubris has a way of creeping up on you when your power remains unchecked for too long.

You always have to compromise. Unless you would argue that Apple has been busy introducing features to iOS that nobody wants. It's always easier to throw in a half implemented feature with a badly thought out interface than take the time and energy to think things through and do it properly. This doesn't just apply to interface design, it applies to everything.

Unfortunately, doing things properly takes time and sometimes you succumb to the pressure to just get something out there. But your customers will feel the lack of time, energy and thought you've put into it. And most of the time you'll end up having to go back and do it properly at a later date.
My two and a half year old has a number of favorite videos, and when watching them, he will frequently turn to us and tell us to watch and then go on to launch into lengthy verbal explanations of what has happened or what will happen up to about 5 minutes ahead in the video. He's done this for months.

Of course "under two's" versus 30 months is a big gap, but it's not like he just suddenly started telling us these things either - a lot of the words and phrases he's picked up over the last year comes straight from things he's seen on TV or DVD's.
> if you're willing to allow non-ASCII characters into your source code

Blasphemy.
How can I start cycling on the roads? I can't drive and I've only cycled in parks when I was a kid. I thought about starting to cycle to work/university but cycling in the midst of so many cars on roads when I'm so new seems dangerous. Yet, if I never start I'll never cycle. How did you do it?
Maybe it's my unenlightened European perspective coming out here, but why is this a big deal?

Facebook chose to do business in Europe, Facebook chose to be governed by European law.
It sucks, but if the small app someone wrote can be duplicated in 10 seconds of coding then its days were already numbered.
>Nobody is forcing you to use Facebook.

True, but that doesn't help the people who don't use Facebook but who still have data about them collected.
On 'the rules':

Again, just a fast look at VC finances shows that VC just MUST hit 'home runs' such as Dropbox or better.

Then just a fast look at the history of home runs shows that get only a few each decade. And just a fast look at those home runs shows that a significant pattern is super-tough to see. And, any such pattern has only a few examples because the larger 'circumstances' change so much from one decade to another. E.g., it used to be that a trillion bytes was a REALLY large chunk of hard disk space, but now it's not so large just as main memory.

So, since have to be looking for such home runs under such circumstances, what good 'rules' can be formulated? Remember, we're looking for home runs and not trying to find a description of a VCs average arriving e-mail pitch.
Or we're looking for some tiny number of golden needles in in a huge pile of hay so that statements about some average about the hay are just irrelevant.

Well, one could guess, 'the first rule of VC is that there are no rules', but, actually, that is too strong.

But not good is the rule against 'single founders'. Why? With the larger circumstances today, a single founder has some big advantages. I will let readers fill in some of the advantages based on current circumstances just as an exercise!

Next, for 'the rules', there still are some that can apply to some of the startup candidates, One collection of such candidates is based on startups where the core 'secret sauce' is especially powerful and can be evaluated just technically. For a biomedical analogy, consider a safe, effective, cheap single pill cure for any cancer: Then just evaluate the pill and f'get about the founder because if do have the pill and if he did invent it, then f'get everything else about him! He invented the pill, for god's sake! Or, we know you are plenty smart, but could you have invented that pill? So, if he's smarter than you, then you've just gotta think that he's plenty smart. I mean, given that he invented that pill, what are the chances he's a doofus? Or, to be quite specific, even worst case, just what issues of 'business acumen' couldn't be solved by hiring him a COO, CFO, SVP Operations, SVP HR? And there's no good reason to suspect such a worst case or even a bad case. Or, did I mention, the guy invented the pill?

For meaningful rules to apply to all IT startup candidates, that seems to be asking too much.

The simple answer that will fit on the back of the usual 3 x 5" card of VC rules that even a VC can understand is, in looking for the crucial home runs, the first rule is there are no rules.
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Understandable, but not acceptable ;)
For good or bad, the ruby community tends to embrace changes faster than the Python community. For example Rails is going to drop 1.8.7 support in the next release 3.2
Most of the money went to salaries for themselves and rent. Only about $8-16K (can't remember exact figure) went to infrastructure costs.
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That sounds nice but, what's the plan? The closest I could find was this: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby-20/roadmap
If you are interested about what directions ruby will take in the future you can read this thread in the ruby core mailing list.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/...
Decision aid app idea. Your input is welcome.
Fine for streaming .. but audio generation/synthesis? I think not.
Imagine if all those donations had gone to Appleseed instead. They had a working product before Diaspora even started and they're only asking for $10k to get to version 1.0
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I bought a copy. Very happy to support a fellow HN reader.

A couple of humble suggestion for you:

$$$: You may want to sell this as lifetime subscription to each mini-book/magazine. Have each buyer opt-in to receive a life-time update once every quarter. People lose digital assets all the time so it is nice to get an updated one regularly. Also every 4 months you get change to nudge people to read it or re-read it to see what is new. If someone forwards it along you will end up capturing a percentage of people that got the pirated version because people don’t want to read stale content. By a putting an issue/version number on it you make people feel left out and upgrade to the latest version. ( ☺ hehe. I have worked for Microsoft for too long.)

Every time I get a new email from you I would not thing it spam if you attach a updated version of the book to it. ☺

Then you can sell additional book chapters to your subscriber base over time. Or bundle in other services that people would find interesting.

Branding: Copy is a very specific term. To increase your audience I would suggest re-branding your content and call it text or something to that effect.

Domain name: You have a great domain name. You can rebrand your content as “copy from the best hackers” meaning copy ideas from the best hackers.

Looking forward to reading your book.
Yes - see Germany, Italy, Singapore and Japan for high life expectancy and low birth rate. Interestingly, children also become less affordable, as opposed to just less financially necessary.
My understanding is that there are around 2000 applications, and most of them aren't very good (pg has said in the past that most application are either a definite yes or a definite no).

So in a quick first pass it's probably not too hard to weed out the no's which would take the applications down to a managable number.
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I've seen too many dropped and broken screens on phones to desire a really thin smartphone, that is, until the standard warranty covers screen damage for a minimal (if any) charge.

I've been very pleased with my Nexus One. Haven't dropped it often, but dropped it often enough to be very pleased with how HTC designed and built it (with a metal chassis).

In a real sense, bragging that your phone is thin, without giving me coverage for breaking the screen is a disfeature. An unbenefit. A risk factor.
As a professional photographer, comparisons like this drive me absolutely insane, especially when they are called "incredible".

Look, the iPhone 4s processes images with in-camera software and does it aggressively so images look pretty to the average user. They are over-saturated and over-sharpened. And the lack of detail captured by the small sensor all but negates the possibility of any REAL post processing.

I get it. The consumer doesn't care. They just know the pictures look pretty. The practicing photographer knows better.

The video comparisons are even more futile. The depth of field, flexibility, and low light performance of the 5D Mark II is so far beyond the iPhone 4s it makes my head spin.

We are headed into exciting times when a device smaller than a deck of cards will replace a device the size of a toaster. I know. But we aren't there yet. Really, we aren't even close.
> As one of the other commenters said kids' language apparatus is fully functioning before they have the fine motor skills necessary to make all the speech sounds they need to say words

To add to this: My son is 30 months, and his speech is coming along well, but one really fascinating part is how he will construct sentences that are far more elaborate than what he can say, and substitute "missing" words for with a specific sound.

It is clear these aren't "just" sounds from how he'll repeat phrases with the right number of "words", just some of them are padded out because he doesn't know how to say them yet, and then gradually more words will get added to the various phrases as he figures out how to pronounce them.