skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell HN: In SF? Feeling social? I'll buy you a beer.
I've been working by myself for a few months now. Figured I'd change things up a bit.

I feel like hanging out, meeting some interesting people, and hearing about your product, job/startup, life, etc. I'm up for chatting on just about any subject whether its product related, marketing, engineering, or even the state of the tech scene in SF vs. the economy everywhere else in this country. I love SF and the scene here, but being heads down on a product for the last few months has made me want to meet new people. Meetups are fun, but I enjoy one-on-one conversation more.

My offer: I'll buy you a beer* and we can chat about whatever you feel like at the time.

Shoot me an email (in profile) or just comment here and we'll find a time to get together!

*(Of course not restricted to alcohol; coffee, tea, milk or smoothies also apply :)
If this were a game, what sport would it be? Last I checked, gambling, and lets be honest, that's what this is, isn't a sport.
LED home lighting
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I'm guessing it's not going to be 'plus' (or +).

For Samsung AMOLEDs the plus branding means standard RGB rather than pentile RGBG. At the supposed density I don't think I see much gain from not using pentile. The stated reason for not using pentile in the Galaxy S II was that the large size of the screen combined with the relatively low resolution put it outside of the sweet-spot for pentile RGBG.
What I would love is a fuzzy finder that also did a 'git grep' for the search string too, so I could open files defining a function for example.
Microtouch: A DIY, Open Source, touch sensitive Mobile Media Device
When CPC are going high I suggest to target other countries and languages
"Being limited to one carrier has been a huge disadvantage to Apple in terms of mass adoption"

I think this misses the boat on Apple's supply issues. Apple can't ship 50 million smartphones a quarter like android because they can't physically make 50 million iphones a quarter. Apple's integrated approach and component lockdowns can win on market share in smaller markets they create like ipad and ipod but in already established markets like smartphone and desktop they can't lock people out of making the stuff they were already making and they can't leverage the world's supply like a licensed OS does.
Slightly facetious with the HN == good parenting comment. But in general, if you are the type of person that likes to learn, problem solves and strives to improve, you'll do fine at parenting. "Approach parenting like a startup" isn't such bad advice. In general.

Dwelling type, of course, is immaterial. I was illustrating a group of people who have extremely poor judgement, children being only one of them (i.e. you shouldn't be renting a giant TV if you can't pay rent or provide for your children).
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Thank you!
I'm betting its a lollipop in his hand. The video doesn't make it clear but the ending title screen shows a lollipop taped to something so I feel like that was a hint.
#infra-talk and #devops on freenode are solid infrastructure/devops channels.
Crash course on web apps for people of all skill levels, partitioned into nice snack-size lectures. This is a great resource. Nice find.

EDIT: Correction. It seems some of the shorter lectures are simply incomplete. =/
Whatever symbols you're seeing in RWH that aren't on that wiki page are probably functions, not keywords. For functions, you should use Hoogle.

For better or worse, there will never be a complete list of infix functions for Haskell because new infix functions can be defined by the user.
Hair Inhibitors
So what it has over Dropbox is the lack of Mac OS X? I haven't used Ubuntu One since I tried it pretty early on, and it was nowhere near as easy to use and convenient as Dropbox.
I agree with your advice to younger aspiring programmers and I do think of myself that way. I have no trouble putting in the time to learn another stack. I'm really asking more about how to show a potential employer that it would be worthwhile to take my on as a programmer in a new stack at a pay not too far off from what I'm getting now.
One more step along the way of making google the all knowing entity and slamming the door shut on everybody else that would like to go the same way.

Now if they would please allow adsense ads on ssl served pages elsewhere it would actually make some sense.
Ugh, you really need some basic formatting. I can't even see where one job ends and another one starts. And the contextless highlight doesn't make that any better.
Great to see Facebook trying to solidify HTML5 resources on a page.

Typo though - HTML5 Showcase page, Google Body Browser - "Developed by Google, view the human anatomy in 3D. Uses HTML5's cenvas element and WebGL."
Android runtime for BlackBerry PlayBook beta released
Seems like a reasonable place to ask, so I'll do it here: anybody here found a really good integrated calendar/todo app?

All the ones I've found are very coarse-grained. Really meant for someone with a couple of appointments a day at specific times. I need to do that, but I also need something to manage tasks and assignments. I.e. I'm in a meeting and I get 3 tasks X, Y, and Z. X needs to be done monday at 3 pm, Y needs to be done this week, and Z needs to be done at some point. I want something where I can quickly and easily add all three tasks, then come back later and decide I'm going to work on Y on Wednesday and tentatively decide to work on Z on Friday.

For me allocating a big list of tasks to limited time, and being able to fluidly move them around as circumstances change is just as important as remembering that I have a lunch appointment 3 pm on Friday.

https://www.producteev.com/ does this decently well. I love that it has a box that just lets you type in "lunch meeting noon monday" instead of having to click around on a date picker. When you're getting an assignment while talking to someone it's crucial not to have to click around. iCal is infuriating in how many clicks it takes to add a task and schedule it. I also love that you can leave a task unassigned then drag & drop it when you decide to allocate it to a certain day. But it's a web app and it's not snappy enough. The UI can slow down at random moments which sucks when you're trying to jot down an appointment while talking to someone.
" ... Just upload lots of pictures of cats, then it's LOL funny." -Jason Zada
Sorry, submit form wouldn't let me use the printer version for some reason:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.13845,y.2011,no.6...
Motorola Droid Razr
Then breaking a little quiz like this will be the least of your worries.

Of course, that's the kind of logic that got us into this situation today. Fortunately we should to be able to live with CHAR_BIT == 8 for the forseeable future.
Really :) Lets see what they can do for a come back :)
Getting a user to buy advertising for them?

See now thats why Dropbox is the hottest thing right now!
C/C++ Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS released
Why Greeks Are Protesting Bailouts Designed To Help Them
The fact that you even have to argue this exemplifies my point.
Well, you are basically saying don't waste time referring people to Dropbox given their incentives. I did this trick a few weeks ago when Vladik initially posted. Cost me $13 in total (+ about 10min of my time) to go from 2.8GB to 10.8GB. Followed instructions to a 't'. Although the 2nd day I bumped my min up to $0.10 - got click-throughs a lot faster, but I would recommend staying at the $.05 max.

Pure ROI, say I could have billed $30 for my 10min + $13 on adwords - then amortize over 4 years (assuming thats how long I would have my free 8GB with dropbox). I get my 8GB for $.90/month. Its no steal, but that is a solid deal.

Of course, now that this technique hit HN, I would expect the adword prices to go up. Great hack Vladik! Thanks again for sharing.
Funny, I had to reread title 4 times after your post to spot the difference
Well, numbers don't lie :) It looks like you stumbled onto something pretty awesome.
Which you can see with a quick search. :)
Apple reports Q4 earnings EPS $7.05 vs $7.39 (EST)
Apple missed their earnings pretty significantly this quarter.

On rev of $29.6b vs $28.3b (EST)
Mine has expressed an interest of becoming a lawyer at the prestigious Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe law firm.
http://db.tt/mB6gJQb

Thanks!
Just to add to the over-thinking: I find myself marking things as read when I've gleaned their meaning from the subject, without instructing the app to display the entire message body.

"Mark as Read" should be "Mark as Understood".
Apple Q4 2011: $28.27 revenue, $7.05 EPS, 17.1M iPhones, 11.1M iPads
I have not tested/surveyed users about, but I personally like highlighting in this case and in ~4 years nobody complained about highlighting.
Big changes at Reddit as they put "reddit.com" section to rest
I'm actually interested in getting this based solely on the fact that it is a Razr. I've been dogging Android lately, but I've always had a soft spot for Razr's. The only other thing I would like to see is a detailed tear down of this new Razr. All in all, this may be a phone that can withstand repeated (accidental) abuse from me.
It seems that the real breakthough here is the cost of production? Seeing through walls is certainly nothing new and I thought that the latest and most promising technology for doing this was using Terahertz radiation:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/07/terahertz-detectio...
http://www.hightech-edge.com/terahertz-remote-sensors-detect...
PlayBook OS 2.0 developer beta now available
Yahoo Q3 Revenue Down 5 Percent To $1.07B; Net Income Down 26 Percent To $293M
vi and emacs are products that are still upgraded and distributed; obscure word processors by shuttered companies are a different thing.
RIM to Unify Phones, PlayBook Under BBX OS - Won't support Java ME
Log javascript errors on your live website
I've used LED lighting for the off the grid solar system, the LEDs I've used are optimized for 12V batteries, so it was quite easy, the only problem is that I linked them directly to batteries so there is no warning when batteries are low.
Occupy Wall Street and "Last Place Aversion" Psychology
So all in all a good thing :)
You used to be able to create new accounts using your own referral link and virtualized systems (via VirtualBox) + a trash email account. That's how I maxed my free account at any rate.
Ben Horowitz: Facebook is the best-run company in tech
Clients: The Best and the Worst part of being an Entrepreneur
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> a massed produced video game or application could replace them.

From my tired evening neurons idly percolating over that thought, some of the video game type things from my youth, and the business book/self help category...

"All I really needed to know, I learned in Oregon Trail"
Apple reports Q4 earnings; misses big on iPhone sales, steady on iPad, Mac sales
Ubuntu One cannot be compared to Dropbox, at least not yet: It does not support OSX and it does not support other Linux operating systems either, not even its daddy Debian.

I run Windows and Debian on my desktops and laptop and I recently decided to try Ubuntu One. I could find no mention of other Linux OSes on the Ubuntu One page, and a quick web search returned nothing encouraging.

I was surprised by this. The impression I got is that Ubuntu One is just for people whose main OS is Ubuntu and who may have to also use Windows from time to time.
Akasya Durağı 138. Bölüm izle, Akasya Durağı 138. Bölüm full izle
Apple’s Earnings Fall Below Street Expectations
RIM unveils its next-gen mobile OS: BBX
I object to the semantics of this discussion. The argument seems to be:

1. Automating things is lazy

2. Laziness is bad

3. Therefore, automating things is bad.

Both 1 & 2 are true in a sense but not in the same sense, so the result doesn't follow.
Montacargas Mexico
Encuentre los principales proveedores de Montacargas en la categoría de Manejo y almacenamiento de materiales
EU Has Plans to Improve Broadband Speeds
Glad to hear from someone in the same boat as me!

I realize this is the case for Java and .NET which is probably the main reason I'm thinking about switching. I've done quite a bit of work with OO Javascript professionally, but I've only done side projects in Python and Ruby. I've done some reading on Node.js and NoSQL, but that's about it.

I want to be part of the new wave in IT as well. I don't have a wife and kids so I definitely have more free time.

I'm interested in any more ideas you have on getting started down this path.
PSA Testing For Prostate Cancer Really Work?
There are lazy programmers and there are "lazy" programmers.
Apple Reports Q4 Results, $108B in annual revenue, $26B in earnings
RIM Ports Native Libraries to PlayBook NDK, Including Boost, Box2D and Erlang
With QNX being POSIX compatible, it makes sense that a number of C++ libraries would be easily ported to the PlayBook. But the breadth of libraries and runtimes showing up is pretty surprising. Lua and Erlang (presumably to make CouchDB possible) are interesting additions.
Was the universe born spinning?
Bitcoin has value in unique utility:

- no transaction fees you would normally pay to an intermediary

- works internationally, anywhere the Internet is, no exchange rates for cross-country transactions

- anonymizable

- cryptographically ensured trust (solved the Byzantine Generals problem)

All these things can create demand, not too dissimilar from the way gold's luster does, or the Dollar's reserve currency / oil currency / US tax currency status does.

Currencies fluctuate, BTC is no exception. But rumors of its death due to total lack of value are exaggerated.
I'm assuming the 500 error is a meta statement. Brilliantly played.
Drew's payout would have been substantial, enough to bankroll any project he could dream of

maybe dropbox is that project...
I am amazed people don't have friends to push it to. I upped my storage by just suggesting it to friends and family.
http://db.tt/Hc6Cqm1 , Thanks!
Mailgun API 2.0: forget MIME
It’s a common joke that a programmer would rather spend a week making a bash script than copy paste the same file twice and be done with it in two minutes.

isn't that the antithesis of laziness? spending more time to do something "right" than it would normally take to do?

efficiency is not laziness, it's efficiency.
Letters of Note: Charles Bukowski on Censorship
harmony across OS providers will never happen and isn't necessary here. The cross OS file sharing has been solved many years ago and most successfully by 3rd party independent tools like samba(intranet) or cvs/rsync(internet) and with HTTP based tools on the horizon (webdav is a good starting point). If my understanding correct, Dropbox is just extremely consumer friendly implementation of something like rsync. The main danger to them isn't OS providers, it is another Dropbox, more user friendly, agile, convenient, cheaper, faster ... while the original Dropbox grows and starts having cost structure and screwing up like a large company.
Actually if you read the whole post it's more like:

1. Programmers are lazy
2. So they automate stuff
3. Why are we even so lazy?
4. Does hard work even bring benefits?
http://db.tt/z7ZNDXX4 Thanks!
Fantasy Shopper turns window shopping into a social game where users can buy
Google used to redirect the clicks, not aggressively before. But now since it is going to be a default behavior, i think google is aggressively using user clicks as the variable for their ranking.
Video games allow the user to interact with the media and cause reactions to input. It allows us to explore causality at a very personal level, even though the systems and entities invovled are entirely virtual.

Live theater allows the user to control what to focus on during each scene. If there is a conversation, we can choose who the "camera" is pointing at. We are also looking at real human beings interacting with each other. The experience is mildly interactive.

Passive screen-based media gives us neither set of choices.
Should You Stay Late or Go Home?
Indeed. Great screencast to get you started with Backbone.js.
That doesn't make any sense to me. If you click a link on an HTTPS site, your browser doesn't send a referrer. So people coming from encyrpted Google to another site, that site would actually get NO referrer data at all.
A Quick Guide to Python's Counter Class
How Yahoo Spawned Hadoop, the Future of Big Data
Cloud Computing, Ubuntu-Style
As someone who first leant to program in Z80 asm, I would say just let them dig into some 'real' code, initially ignoring most (all) of the infrastructure. Just get a text editor, and a repl open, and quickly iterate real world code (actual problems). They should very quickly get a feel for the language, and then you can add infrastructural like git, TDD, package management.
How to Buy and Use Cheap Rope Lights
Thanks for the YT link since the site is down and I was curious. It seems to be very professionally done, I'm quite impressed.
http://db.tt/Vy6XRHC Thank you!
Hilarious Parody App: Rate Everything
Non-exhaustive patterns are one thing the compiler can't catch:

fn 0 = return ()
main = fn 1

Giving an empty list to head/tail is another:

main = head []
This only measures the speed, not the quality. Encodings may vary enormously in their complexity, you can't treat 2 encoders that produce the same "resolution" as being equal.
http://db.tt/QyY1YgD
"In fact, where there is a clear and sane hypothesis in play (e.g. "time spent watching TV is time not spent learning to talk") it almost always works out that further science shows the causation that you expect."

There can be more than one clear and sane hypothesis, even if it doesn't occur to you immediately. For example, Wilduck below suggests poor parenting as an underlying cause for both these effects.

Here's another example. It is well-known that there is a correlation between the global temperature and the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere (from looking at historical data). It is widely believed that higher CO2 levels lead to higher temperatures. On this basis governments have capped CO2 emissions, with real economic implications. This seems reasonable, doesn't it?

But some scientists who are working on this suggest an alternative explanation; here's the gist of it. There is a lot of CO2 trapped in ice, due to some historical reason that escapes me at the moment (it's not my field). As temperatures rise, ice melts and CO2 is released, leading to higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere. If this is the correct explanation, following your advice and putting caps on CO2 emissions certainly did not "improve all our lives".

"it almost always works out that further science shows the causation that you expect."

Evidence?

"Taking your point literally, it would never be useful to do demographics like this because you can't "prove" the causation. But of course that's ridiculous; these studies are immensely useful and improve all our lives."

Not at all. Sometimes correlation is enough. For example, if an insurance company finds a correlation between having red hair and being involved in more car accidents, they can use this information to their advantage.
What the iOS 5 update did to ISP traffic
Adwords customers still get the data: "If you choose to click on an ad appearing on our search results page, your browser will continue to send the relevant query over the network to enable advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and to improve the ads and offers they present to you."
Where's the shout out to ffmpeg? Don't tell me that almost all services involved aren't built on top of it.
We're doing this with our second child now. It removes a lot of frustration from the parents and the kids when the child can actually communicate about what they want, see, hear, think, etc. It seems to cut down on fits, and definitely helps us communicate. 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, so it's a nice hack :) Teach them sign language which they have enough fine motor skills to use until their mouth control gets to the point that they can speak.

Our first kid is now 5 and doesn't really remember any signs, but he said sentences and told stories even in sign language before he could speak well.
I tried to ditch Command-T in favor of FuzzyFinder, but it really can't replace Command-T.

I'm unable to recursively search for a file in my current project dir. Even when I do funny things like

:FufFind **/

it takes forever to scan the project dir and then doesn't come up with the file I want.

As much as I want this to be an alternative to Command-T, it isn't :(
Apple may be one of the only companies that can get away with this without being punished in stock price.
Apparently my caching somehow got disabled ...
> Most importantly, hard work makes you stupid.

I'll respond to that when the author has a real job.
Reviews Expert
> If you're taken from one https to another https location,
> doesn't referrer still get passed?

It depends. For Gecko, that's a configuration option (defaulting to "send cross-site" at the moment, but subject to change in general).

And as others have pointed out, sites using AdSense can't very well "implement SSL".
Son of Stuxnet Found in the Wild on Systems in Europe
I wonder. If hourly labor was more closely monitored and people who were paid hourly were compensated for the tike they put in... What would that look like in the market? People sent home, new people hired, or at least people fairly paid for their work?

Though I suppose you also have to consider the people who lie, those who don't put in a full day's work or leave early, but claim a full day.

Ahhh, working unappreciated overtime. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
Pushing flywheels hurts
Subreddit reddit.com is now just an archive
>HTTPS = more overhead than HTTP

Is that true? Most encryption schemes include compression (since compression removes redundancy, and redundancy is where cryptanalysts attack).
Here's what Occupy Wall st is about and the data behind the movement (Reddit)
I recommend being a Judge of the Election at least once. It requires generally a half-day of orientation and a day of work, and you get paid to do it. (Your mission, should you choose to accept it: work for a day as a temporary non-partisan governmental employee, making sure that a bunch of non-expert voters manage to successfully navigate democracy, without influencing their votes or allowing anyone to corrupt the process.)

After you see how the sausage is made you'll be amazed that the republic still endures.
For the quarter, Apple posted revenue of $28.27 billion and net quarterly profit of $6.62 billion, or $7.05 per diluted share, compared to revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion, or $4.64 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter.

Apple's yearly profit and revenue were company records with Apple reporting more than $100 billion in yearly revenue for the first time ever.

Typical BS. These are the same clueless analysts who predicted iPhone 4S sales were going to be a disaster.

This is a blockbuster quarter for Apple. They earned $8 Billion more than the year-ago quarter.
Apple iPhone 5 Review
Apple iPhone 5 was announced October 2011 and expected to release on October14, 2011. It has GSM/850/ 900 / 1800 / 1900; 850/1900 CDMA 2G coverage and HSDPA 850/ 900 / 1900/2100/and 3G networks.
"So why the miss? Well for one thing, Apple’s iPhone sales dipped over 3 million compared to last quarter. This is undoubtedly because the world was awaiting the next version, the iPhone 4S, which launched last week."

Exactly, indeed they sold 4M just in a weekend.
I wish you the best, but getting a school to pony up for this is going to be difficult. Their budgets are extremely tight (at least in Texas). My wife is a teacher and she frequently finds her spending her personal money on classroom supplies.
Java Applet Same-Origin Policy Bypass via HTTP Redirect