skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of text object related plugins also worth checking out:

Easymotion - https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-easymotion

Surround - https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround
Basing that entirely on the UI seems like a really superficial view of what goes into both Android and iOS. If it was just a matter of ripping off the UI, Microsoft, RIM and Palm would still be in the game.
I'm sure it's taken.
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I had the opposite thought about the domain name. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature, emphasis mine:

A signature (from Latin: signare, "to sign") is a handwritten (and sometimes stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent.

Not only is it short, but X has a connotation of identity.
Best question after the talk: "Why didn't you just use / modify an existing tool like jenkins?"
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seems like the right place to shamelessly plug VRS, which is something I really need to pick up again

http://vrs.tomelders.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

The hope is that one day, browsers could have a native VRS implementation, and until that day Javascript and serverside scripting could pick up the slack.
Sometimes I wonder whether e.g. schools are absolutely petty about buying replacement pencils in the hope that this reduces the only cost which matters for schools which, for political reasons, they have nearly no control over: employee salary and benefits.

Thirty seven weeks to get a $12 receipt reimbursed might eventually cause someone to quit, saving you millions.
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Are there really that many people working on LibreOffice/OpenOffice? Given the quality, I would say max a handful of parttime coders.
i use connectbot.
In Glasgow, here in Scotland, a "Swedger" is boiled sweet or candy.

As in "gonnae gee-us wan o'yer swedgers, wee man".
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This is a small document I put up on a domain, to have a place to redirect people when they submit vague bug reports. Many times I get reports from people that seem to be "onto something" but are so vague I can't figure out what the problem is. The idea is to provide a concise, friendly message to get people to learn how do better bug reporting.
Google Employee: We Has Lost Focus. Its All About Copying Apple.
I see they use Luxrender. Any one dares to take a guess at what algorithm they used? The animations seems noise free so I guess particle/photon mapping? IGI perhaps?
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Luckily it's not either/or!
For even more perspective, the BBC takes in $5.7 BILLION from this "tax" each year.

That's $5,700,000,000.

Source: http://nerdr.com/uk-bbc-tv-license-fee-us-perspective/

For a TV channel.

Surely there are better uses for that tax money than paying off some silver spoon TV Execs?
I have actually gone the other way. After almost a year and a half of using the Motorola Backflip (the first AT&T Android device, if I recall correctly), I am now using my sister's old iPhone 3G. My main reasons being that my Backflip was slow as hell and the battery barely lasted a day.

I like using Android more, I like developing for Android more, and when I can finally upgrade my phone I will be getting an Android phone. My 3G is pretty nifty, I love that it can go a few days between charges and its at least more responsive. But I also have a N1 I use for research and it is just as responsive and good with battery life, so my main complaints with my Android phone have little to do with the OS and more to do with I bought a crappy phone.

In particular, I like Android's notification system way more than what I have on the 3G. Having Google Talk work so well with the phone is an amazing convenience that I find I miss now that I haven't bothered to set it up on my 3G. I'll be really glad when I can upgrade to a phone running ICS, but until then, this 3G isn't bad either.
This is a small document I put up on a domain, to have a place to redirect people when they submit vague bug reports. Many times I get reports from people that seem to be "onto something" but are so vague I can't figure out what the problem is. The idea is to provide a concise, friendly message to get people to learn how do better bug reporting.
I wrote something similar in JS

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/zip.js/blob/master/WebCont...

The HttpRangeReader class is able to extract a file from the zip without downloading the whole zip. Thanks to new Blob APIs , extracting data from a zip without compression is quite fast. Then, you just have to use url.createObjectURL to convert the Blob object into a URL.
It will be a case of '3d killed the video star,' in many ways. We are already approaching a point where the acting and the appearance are two different things; actors like Andy Sirkis and Doug Jones are not very well known to the general public, but have played starring roles as larger-than-life monsters of the screen. Although it is not yet economical, it is already quite possible to take one person with excellent acting ability and map on the appearance of someone else who is more visually appropriate or attractive.
It isn't even "true". Android the project existed before the iPhone project even started, and contains many of the rudiments that exist in the project today.

The single and only "truth" is that Android grew to full-screen devices as device makers saw that as the predominate winning target. However the "blackberry like" devices still exist -- see the Droid Pro.

This article is trash. It is disturbing to see it near the top of the front page of HN.
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FB. Seems to have a better mix of space. AOL is too open. Seems more like a store than an office.
Poll: Ipad, 18 months later
Hey there HN

In April 2010 Apple launched the Ipad and they've been selling like hotcakes ever since. But sales and use are two different things and it seems to me that there is an interesting question here. If you bought an Ipad, are you still using it today?
bought an ipad
still use it daily
use it weekly
use it monthly
less than that
sold it
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Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I will.
He posted a link [1] to video comparing browsers on Nexus S and iPhone 3GS. The difference is even more striking if you consider that Nexus S is 1.5 years newer.

[1] http://vimeo.com/30050423
Some things are generally better and easier to do a bit before you really "need" them. Deployment, build, branching, and backup procedures almost certainly fall into that category. Performance as well, as long as it's done smartly.

Interestingly, scaling is probably the least valuable thing to "overbuild" early and yet that's by far the most common thing teams tend to do.
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I don't think this is anything new. Before the internet people sat around and watched TV instead of being productive.

You are procrastinating on your projects because you've hit a difficult, unpleasant part. It is easier and more enjoyable to read articles and daydream about finishing your projects than actually finishing your projects. I speak from experience: my deepest character flaw is starting projects and never finishing them. It's a common joke amongst my friends.

Pick a project and force yourself to work on it for at least an hour a day. You'll quickly find an hour really isn't enough time and before long you'll actually be putting serious time into your project. Just push through the unpleasant part (usually the last 10%) and finish it :)

As a college student (it sounds like you are in college based on your Stanford class) you have tons of time. It only gets harder once you get out and have to work 8-6pm every day. Enjoy your excess time and energy while you can, because doing the same later gets exponentially harder.
Another cool related list can be found here:
http://www.datawrangling.com/some-datasets-available-on-the-...
Two things keep me on Android:
- Great Gtalk IM
- Swype keyboard

If I cared about using lots of apps, it would be iOS all the way.
For sure; especially with web sockets. The built-in test support for the latest websocket spec (in code and on the command line) makes things really easy.
Cool! a nice collection of datasets if you need training data for your NLP or Information Retrieval algorithm. Kudos!
best app ever. keep it up marco. stoked.
There aren't many other products with that kind of fee-structure.

(In the UK) if Bob drives a car and doesn't pay for insurance he will get fined or go to prison. Yet Ann can ride her bike, crash into a pedestrian cross the street while uninsured.

There's an example of another "special fee" with its own legislation which also has loopholes/inconsistances. There are many others.
Totally agreed. Imagine a world in which Scheme is taught in elementary school as part of the standard curriculum.
See, I far prefer the browser on Android because of one thing - the single most important thing in a phone browser, IMO - text reflow on zoom.
They aren't basing it off of UI as much as form-factor... and that is hardly superficial.
in my opinion he cannot delegate and should actually learn to do that
I paid 0.20€ for my Motorola Atrix, one month ago. It comes with the same data plan as the iPhone.

It was high-end last january.
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I'm talking about very common things. How do you talk to a mysql database, i'll bet it's C code. how do you parse html, i'll bet it's C. python has a json lib as part of it's standard library, ruby does not so you install it as a gem. Both are C.

Actually, django is worse if this tutorial is correct.

http://programmingzen.com/2007/12/22/how-to-install-django-w...

They are telling you to install a binary precompiled library. I much prefer having my dependencies managed as they are in bundler than downloading libraries manually and installing them.
> marketers have an easier time finding a universally

> likeable female voice than a male one

This article could have shorter, the rest of it seems to spend half the time explaining why it's ok to discount conflicting evidence and the other half throwing out conjecture on why the premise of sexism might possibly be slightly accurate.

Is it really that weird that different cultures end up with different genders for a friendly, non-judgemental, disembodied and slightly inhuman mechanical voice? How weird would it be if there was no cultural preference? If the preference was always 50.0/50.0? Now that would be unlikely!

There are so many factors here, some of which are, no doubt, cultural stereotypes about gender. Doesn't it seem more likely that the "friendly" and "non-judgemental" part is the stereotype? Even if it's not, since the author makes it clear this is an open question why are all the options twisted into an anti-women stereotype?

> This dovetails with the way stereotypes

> work; our prejudices make us dislike hearing

> a man go about secretarial work

Are you fucking kidding me? That's a stretch for an explanation of why men and women find the women's voice more likeable. Why not the much more likely Loving Mother stereotype? Sure, it's all conjecture and that's fine, but the author has clearly made up her mind that this is sexist and is trying to figure out why. That seems backwards if you are interested in truth.
You clearly have no freaking idea what the BBC does if you think it is 'a TV channel'.
"David, with due respect. You're sounding a bit hypocritical here. You make reference to Detroit as an "Armpit" when, in the same sentence you make reference to only "reading about it". Congratulations on becoming a sucker to the media stereotype."

I lived 10 miles from Detroit for 20+ years. It's not a stereotype, it really is an armpit. Did you know that there are no grocery stores in the city? This is mostly because they got robbed so many times.

Downtown near the casino is probably the only place you can go safely. The problem is that if you venture even a few miles out of your way, it's dangerous. I know at least three people that got carjacked in the past year in Detroit..and all were just returning to their cars in a parking structure.

"Until then, we dont really care to pay a whole lot of credence to what the "Arm Chair Experts" have to say about Detroit and the surrounding area, because they couldn't be more wrong."

I know Detroit and the surrounding area. They aren't wrong. This isn't a recent thing either. Detroit has had rapidly increasing crime rates since the 70s. I wish it was a better city, like Chicago or New York, but it just isn't. It's sad.

Aside from the liberal government doing things like cutting 20% of the police force and investing in a $500,000 art installation, Ann Arbor isn't a bad city for your startup.
I submitted an article, two actually. Peter gave extensive feedback and went over it in person with me on his own time. He was looking at first for quite long (20k) pieces, which was beyond my ability and depth of knowledge. At the time I wondered if there were enough writers of that caliber available.
inner words were the turning point for me with vim. The first time I did ci" I knew I had found a lifelong partner :)
Was going to post the same thing. These are the comments that piss the hell out of you two months later when your live in production and need to fix a issue related to cs XXXX with description ("I finally f_cking got this working, what a hack") with out having any idea of what exactly was hack,and what exactly was fix and which of the changes can actually be safely updated.
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I recently went the other way around. After exchanging my Galaxy Tab 2 times for random hangs and unexplained slowness I thought I will check out the iPad. I still have an Android phone that I am perfectly happy with so throughout the day I go back and forth with iOS and Android.

The experience on the iPad is undeniably superior after iOS5. The UI is way smoother than Honeycombs, I haven't found any beta behavior yet.

BUT, usability wise I find iPad to be incredibly annoying and limited. I keep looking for the back button and I am yet to find the level of consistency that people claim is hallmark of iOS.

Few examples -

1) Music Player UI is inconsistent with other apps - no navigation button at top left, it doesnt cover the 'desktop' fully for reasons I don't understand. Search field is at bottom right - considering it is commonly used it should be easy to locate and access.

2) Notifications - while they are lot better with 5.0, it is still inconsistent. I still see the old modal notifications from built in apps like email - twice now I saw old interrupting notifications from exchange mail - one was on Sunday evening for a meeting request on Wednesday! Oh and the notification bar doesn't cover the full screen when pulled down on the iPad unlike iPhone.

3) Always having to hit the physical home button for app switching is annoying compared to Android

4) You cannot subscribe to a podcast using the iPad on its own! I spent 30 minutes trying to do just that. It's not PC free, yet!

5) Background apps and notifications are flaky - Vtok for example was inexplicably killed some times. And when it wasn't it did not notify me using the new notification system.

6) Google integration is poor but this part I was fully expecting.

7) Finally I found that I was still confronted with iPhone only apps that looked horrible when run on iPad. This sort of thing works way better in Google land.

But I am forced to keep it until Google and co get their act together on the tablet side. Right now the user experience on the best Android tablet is way shoddy compared to the iPad but if Google could get that fixed I am fairly certain there will be compelling reasons to switch back.
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I chose "use it weekly", but the answer is in between daily and weekly for me.

My iPad is used sporadically, when I travel, when my wife wants to add a move to our Netflix queue or look up something online quick, etc.

It might get used every day for a week, and then sit unused for 4 days.

But ultimately, it's utility and value has increased for me over the last 18 months, and I would buy it again.
"It's also likely they can't make a better new phone then the 3GS cheaper then the 3GS due to the scale they've built. So they're going to ride the 3GS to 30 and 40 million units a quarter."

Exactly. Why spend design resources and marketing resources on building a "low-end" phone when they already have proven (and popular) models that satisfy that demand? Presumably, they've also optimized the production lines, etc for those units to minimize costs and waste.

The $0 (w/ contract) iPhone 3GS is still a great phone for people who don't care about adding apps. (And if you're not already on an iPhone or Android at this point, you probably don't.

The $99 (w/ contract) iPhone 4 is a great phone if you want iOS 5 but you're on a budget - and nobody will even know you're not using the latest design (at least for a year.)
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Maybe we are disagreeing about different things. If someone invested money for 20% of a company they would still have some percentage of ownership after dilution. If someone invested time and skill then they should also retain some diluted equity in my opinion. The OP's 12.8m seems excessive though.
He's wondering why people might choose Android over iPhone but he also answers himself. To quote, bolded: "It’s all about the feel."

Maybe lots of people feel that Android is more "theirs" than an iPhone.
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It basically was the start. Yes, other devices existed before the iphone. Not a single device did what the iphone did as well as it did. He never claimed that apple invented new technology. He is just saying that apple actually made a smart phone that was better than every other smart phone, did a touch screen right, and changed smart phones.
TV, net, radio. Those are the core areas. But can't the free market channels and services work just as well? How about a donation system for the BBC like the US has? If it is as valuable as people claim, surely they will be willing to donate to the cause?

The comments on that article go to show there exist conflicting views on the BBC's usefulness, in which case, it is unethical to force the tax on practically everyone who lives there.
Competition for the top graduates is incredibly tough in many countries. In many countries the education system can't compete with the private sector (in terms of salaries and opportunities) in hiring the best, in Finland the competition is smaller due to fewer opportunities existing for top-tier graduates so they can afford to hire them.
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And the iPhone 3GS is now free on contract too... You really can't compare the two. The top-of-the-line Android phones are competing with the top-of-the-line iPhone, and they are roughly the same price.
They only did this because if they didn't include other areas, the list would be very small. It's misleading and dishonest.
http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2010/04/one-day-i...
Nor, as was pointed out, is it an Apple invention. You could just as easily claim that Apple and Google ripped off the LG Prada: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada_(KE850)
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I think it's pretty clear that the article is written from the perspective of a user, and the critiques are mainly about user experience. At that level of use, it doesn't matter if they have original kernels or innovative dev environments (except that they create greater availability of high-quality apps)
I'm going to bet that most answers will be either in "daily" or "sold it", which really doesn't help to answer the real question.

For example: I use mine semi-daily, mainly because Reeder is better than Google Reader web app and I can use where 3G sucks. I shouldn't be in the same category as someone who uses an iPad daily for all of their business email.
Because of this I don't think this poll would really give you truly useful data.

What if the categories were more like:

* It replaced my laptop.
* Use it daily for as much of my daily work as possible
* Use it daily for goofing off
* Use it as a gaming platform
* Use it for reading a book once in a while/on the bus
* Use it infrequently. (i.e. while on an airplane)
* Tried it, moved on.
The BBC costs more to run than the Royal Navy.

Further it's a myth that the BBC doesn't carry advertising. If you watch it, you will see lots of it - just for other BBC products and services. To me it makes no difference if the BBC is advertising itself or washing powder - it still shows repeats and reality TV like any other channel.
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Occam's razor here.

Schools have been getting crunched for cash every year for the last 10 or so, and every couple years a new local politician is elected with promises to "eliminate waste", after the last guy declined to run again in disgust at how little he could do (can't change the revenue level or union contract, all he can do is try to account for stupid pencils). New guy wants to do something, though, so the end result of that is penny-wise and pound-foolish policies. No need for a grand conspiracy.
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2) this is configurable, i.e. you can choose what apps should use modal alert, banners on top or nothing.

3) you can try 'four-fingers' gestures as a replacement. They are useless on an iPhone, bu on iPad they make Home button obsolete.
You don't need to "understand" why someone would use Android anymore than I need to understand why someone uses iOS.

But if it helps you sleep at night, I simply dislike iOS. I dislike the UI. I dislike the keyboard. I dislike the interface (non-UI stuff).

I enjoy using android much more.
That might say a little about Randall and maybe his readership, but I don't see how it's a real problem. Some women may feel pressured to raise their arms in the air, and act enthusiastic. It's not a repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment. It's not even 30 seconds of prime time TV. And Randall has done a lot of notionally feminist cartoons. I'm sure a hardline feminist can pick holes in his work, but I still think he's going to shift most of his readers towards a more feminist viewpoint; especially the sad cases who think that women can't do math.

Feminists seem to think that because sexism has caused a lot of bad things (women barred from universities, few female CEOs, etc); anything that can be accused of being remotely sexist is an objectively bad thing. That's just braindead. Once you put things in perspective, I think xkcd is OK.

Science does work. It doesn't work for everything. If you can point me in the direction of a philosophical framework that you think has a remote chance of getting me the right answer faster, please do. I'm curious, most skeptics are - it's just that we've been let down by some shady operators (i.e. pretty much anyone claiming that they can teach you how to think) and don't want to get taken in again.

I'm not saying the skeptics community doesn't have some sweaty, closed-minded geeks who like nothing better than sneering and intellectual mud-wrestling. I don't hang out on skeptic forums, so I wouldn't really know. I suppose he's just mentioning them as an ad hominem attack on logical positivism, to gives some weight to the rest of the post.