skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is a challenge. Maybe you could create a small buffer of articles. The size of the buffer would depend on how often you're going to post, but enough to last you a week or two. Everything in the buffer should be ready to publish so that you can always post something interesting at the intended rate. Even if you're dead-set on posting that thing on Friday, you'll be surprised to learn how hard it can be to find the time and motivation when your servers are melting, a critical bug has been exposed in your software and you're (non-blog-writing) friends come in, swinging two cold beers in each hand.
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I'm not upset about it or concerned with the financial arrangements, I'm just kind of amazed by the concept.

On top of the self-expression of never having license plates, he got one of the finest cars in the world delivered to his driveway, brand new, twice a year. I'm guessing not only did he never have car trouble, he never needed to take it in for maintenance either.

That's hard to beat as far as perks of being a really rich guy go. Not my personal taste, but I can't deny its appeal.
General Electric doesn't sell electricity...
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It shows off what a clever person can achieve by tinkering with a system

Also called hacking.
They don't explicitly mention this in the video, but perhaps the games cannot be exported? So they only work within the simulated environment.

Also it looks to be just for games.
So if I provide tea he likes, I don't have to provide milk and sugar. If I provide tea he doesn't like, I have to provide milk and sugar. Unless of course he chooses to drink his own tea, in which case my tea, my milk, and my sugar will all go to waste.

This is fine, as long as I know precisely what kind of tea he likes. But that's not specified, so I just gotta guess what he might like. And then buy some milk and sugar, just in case he likes my fancy tea just enough to drink it, but not enough to skip the milk and sugar.

Really I think he's just writing his opinions on tea off the top of his head.
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I /kind of/ understand how this works. Can someone rewrite this in python?
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"So great point, the best developers are never out of work. How would you recommend a recruiter network with said developers? How do we build mutually beneficial relationships? I tend not to cold call people, just because I think there are better ways to meet people but not all recruiters have that type of network."

As a recruiter myself, understanding the what it is like to be a developer and connecting on the "what makes them tick" level is important. Going to meetups and getting immersed in the startup scene is great, but going the extra mile will have long lasting impact. I am a non technical guy, but over the years, I have tried my best to learn code myself. HTML, CSS, Ruby. Just leveraging the vast amount of learning tools on the internet makes this possible. Although I might never be an employable programmer, I have had a lot of great chats with developers on my own experiences and that breaks the ice and creates trust immediately.
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I think if there's no way to grab the code off a website (or whatever) then it might be OK. I don't think that you'd be precluded from exporting the project and turning it into a standalone.

However, you don't appear to be able to do much (not even run full screen) so it's a neat program but probably more for introducing children to coding than doing anything serious.
Yes, he does read up on this stuff. He posts frequent updates here:

http://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html
Sharing games with others would be the problem, as acknowledged by the creator - http://twitter.com/#!/TwoLivesLeft/status/129304975623995395
Well, code to restore the database from a backup for one. It also seems to track form which server backups were created.

I haven't looked, but it might also, in the spirit of Django, be "database agnostic" and allow you to import data across DBMSs. You'd still need to keep some things like uploaded files in sync though.
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I can hear a Keyboard in the background... So I guess is not that easy to type code on iPad soft keyboard. It's very interesting though.
Five points for the OWS guys.

1. Transparency. We need to see where every dollar of the US federal gov't is spent. It needs to be on the internet, and it needs to be easily accessable. An exception can be made for classified spending in specific, but not so categorically (IE we spend X on classified stuff). Additionally, just like there is a Surgeon's General Warning on cigarette packages, there needs to be a link on every candidates webpage that lists their top 100 donors, and what industry they are in. This website URL needs to be easily visible and placed in every television and radio advert as well.

2. Investment banks cannot also be commercial (depository banks). Investment banks become partnerships where c-level owners are financially responsible for the actions of their banks. The banking system survived before things changed from this, and it will survive afterward.

3. There should be a small federal tax on the sale of any type of derivative, bond, stock, or other financial instrument every time it is sold. Say $.10 per share, every time. The financial markets are for raising capitol for companies, not for financial hackers to make money. HFT is a waste of time and energy, adds unnecessary volatility, and has yet to be shown to be anything more than tangentially related to the goals of a financial security market, established for the purpose of raising capitol.

4. The tax code needs to be simplified. There are a number of ways to do this, but the end goal should be to end loopholes that allow companies like exxon to pay no federal taxes. Or any company for that matter to realize losses in the US and gains in a foreign country.

5. Finally, there should be a 4 term limit on US Senators, and an 8 Term limit on US Representatives. Self-explanatory.
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A bit OT, but what about the concept of "movies" in general going away? This is something that we've only had for around 100 years - as part of mainstream society's expectations, it's only a few generations old.

Might we see a major transformation of what we consider 'movies' (both in form and in content) due to delivery constraints, IP issues and such?
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Ask HN: Save Facebook discussions board
As you may know Facebook will close its discussion boards on the 31st of October ( https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=254646391237470 ).

We wrote a simple tool to save content from your discussion board. At the output you get structured xml file. Then you can programmatically integrate it into your website, forum, facebook wall(manually) or anywhere you want.

Our application home page: http://apps.facebook.com/discussions_parser/

What will be your thoughts on this? Could it be really helpful? What will you suggest to change in the service?
It's well known within a certain rather narrow community of people. The folks who booked him may just have read his name on a list of "vaguely important people who are willing to give speeches".
The planned obsolescence part of the argument makes sense but is applicable to pretty much every aspect of the economy. The market segmentation doesn't at all. GM with its enormous array of options looks a lot more like modern Dell than like Apple.
If your university hired someone who only spoke Mongolian but spit in people's faces when they extended their hand for a handshake, would you be upset at the speaker or the idiot who hired him?

RMS lacks basic social graces. He preaches to the choir but somehow still manages to piss them off with pedantic shit like GNU/Linux. Why doesn't he just copyright it so he can plaster the GNU logo all over everything and be done with it.
Looks like a solid app, and fast as well. It's clear that the developers care about quality. But I'm sticking with GitX because GitBox is still missing a few key features:

- It doesn't have a good representation of the branch tree (like GitX). It's a must for anyone who deals with multiple branches.

- I can't stage parts of a file. GitX makes that really easy.

- I can't see the contents of a stash (again, easy in GitX). But GitBox makes it easy to see my list of stashes, which GitX doesn't.

- GitX also wins in that I can see the changes made in a commit by simply clicking the file name. GitX opens a third party app.

- It's not clear to me why there is a big vertical space on the left dedicated to listing my repositories, while my branches are hidden behind a small drop-down box. I'm more likely to deal with multiple branches than multiple repositories at any one time so it makes more sense to keep my branches visible and hide my other repositories behind a drop-down menu.

On the other hand, I really like that GitBox refreshes it's state automatically. This is one of the issues with GitX that I need to hit Cmd-R every time I switch to it. Overall, great start.
Also, automatically add the #import statement when I allocated one of my classes, please.

The ideal, for me, would be the same as ReSharper: a plugin that adds functionality, but that won't happen with Xcode any time soon.
Simplistically, lets say that pensions and putting money in the Bank are the same thing. So, you put $100 in the Bank. The Bank then uses the $100 to buy a golden chicken; now the Bank has a golden chicken, the farmer has the $100, and the Bank owes you $100. The Bank expects the golden chicken to lay golden eggs, which it can sell. But instead the golden chicken dies, and no-one wants to buy a dead chicken.

Now the Bank has $0, and owes you $100. You can no longer withdraw your money from the bank, it has "disappeared". The farmer has the $100, it still exists, but the Bank has lost it. Saying that it has "disappeared" is a way to shift the blame away from the Bank.

The joke is when you realise that the farmer isn't a farmer, he is an investment banker. And he got a $100 bonus. And he actually works for the Bank.
Because the target audience of the display markup is not "front-end developers", it's our website viewers. And they could care less how we structure our display markup.

That's not really true, though. The viewer is the target audience of the display output, not the markup. The target of your markup is either someone technically minded (who would do a 'view source') or some sort of crawler that is trying to derive semantic sense from your document.

In that context, semantic markup makes total sense. Part of me is still disappointed that using XML+XSL for web pages never took off- implementation nightmares aside, separating page data and page presentation is an awesome concept.
I started a company a few years ago to capitalize on being able do shoot high quality, 360 interiors. Started out shooting exteriors and then Google Street view popped up, so we needed to figure out how to do something different. We developed technology to mass produce high quality 360 panoramas and integrate a social tagging component (click on the shoe in the store to get information about it and buy it or click on a bench downtown and post about the special moment that occurred on it).

Here is the site if anyone is interested:
http://walkspots.com/beta/

Long time HN reader, but this is my first post.
I'm a student at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program where Tom Igoe (from the article) teaches. One of our intro courses is physical computing, which is all Arduino. It really is fun to play and build and learn circuitry for a master's program. :) Especially after mind-numbing analyst work before coming here... So yes, I'd say a lot of people are getting that giddy playful experience through Arduino!
Same here - the utterly tone-deaf nature of the name literally made me think it was a link to the Onion.

It is just freaking weird that the biggest, most blatantly rent-seeking organizations in the world call their own legislation the E-PARASITE bill.
We got written up in TheNextWeb! Thanks to Drew there for the article :)

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/10/26/thotly-asks-us-to-answ...
rebase explanation is fantastic! very cool to see how you can break down the steps performed by rebase with cherry-pick. thanks
I remember myself looking at secondhand iMacs, and Apple has definitely taken care to change its looks in a minor non-functional manners to differentiate one series from another, just as a modern car manufacturer would.

It also makes total sense how humans emotions can be "played" with whether it is cars or phones.
> So why do we need multiple assembly language syntaxes?

There are here for historical reasons, I suppose. Nobody wants to have two assembly syntaxes, but now that we have them, everyone wants his syntax of choice to be the only one.

I learned assembly 10 years ago with the Intel syntax (actually, I wasn't even aware that there was another syntax until recently), and I really dislike the AT&T syntax. So what do I do now? Learn another syntax, or just fight against it?

So, there's no way to get rid of one syntax in favor of the other... The perfect solution would be to have a tool to translate automatically from one to the other.

Should be possible, what do you think?
Ew. I must say that the whole "please let me sleep on your couch instead of making me stay in a hotel room" bit was the most bothersome part of this whole rider.

I respect RMS for his work, but I wouldn't want to let him in my house.
What amazes me is that we are seeing this happen around us so rapidly; near-total automation is on the visible horizon.

"At some point there is not a lot left to do" reminds me of the story "With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson. http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9780312852535-0
Did he use them everywhere or just at apple?

He's rich enough to pay the fine once in a while when it happened if it was outside of apple too.
in chicago the meter maids are strict about no front license plate, so when i moved here i quickly got a ticket for it (which was $50, i think). i had gone 6 years with no front plate and didn't want to put one on.

i had a personalized license plate on the back that i no longer cared about and i discovered that when i told the dmv that i lost the front plate (which was true, since the car had no front plate for 6 years outside of chicago) they gave me a temporary plate while the replacements were being made, which cost me all of about $10.

the temporary plate expired in 6 months, so for 6 months i was able to avoid having a front plate. if i had kept the car for longer, i would have just told them the plates never came in the mail or something, paid the small replacement fee again, and gotten another 6 month temporary plate.
I agree that this makes business sense for JetBrains.

AppCode is clearly never going to be iterated in to a good Mac app without a rewrite.
Ozone is a well known cancerigen. Maybe they shouldn't do that anymore ?
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It states:

The permit the dealer provides for display on the passenger side of the front window is valid until the plates and stickers are received by the customer, or for six months from the sale date, whichever comes first.

Assuming he received them a month after purchase, since another clause states that one would no more than 45 days after purchase, how is that a loophole?
Oh come on. Every time Obama says the word 'regulate' someone in the Republican party says it's a 'jobs killer.' [EDIT: 8 out of 10 #is wrong; ooops] 6 out of 8 of the GOP presidential candidates claim they'd slash funding for the courts, with Newt Gingrich saying he'd just ignore Supreme Court rulings completely if he disagreed with them. Sure, that's just big talk designed to get cheap news coverage, but surely you've noticed there's a bit of a political stalemate in DC right now.

Edit to add reference: http://www.justiceatstake.org/newsroom/press_releases.cfm/ca...

No, I don't make this stuff up.
Lua is pretty popular in graphics. When Apple tightened restrictions on APIs and programming languages that developers were allowed to use in the app store, one that got a pass was Lua. It's used in most games, so companies like EA would have immediately been pushed out of the app store and forced to refactor all their code sans Lua.
This app is just allowing users to write Lua that interfaces with a rendering engine they've written, that's included with the app. So I doubt that projects are very portable. That's not to say that they couldn't be made more portable, but as of right now this isn't a publishing platform, just a neat tool.
the folks who think that they ought to be allowed to freely live on the Crown's lands without owing the duty and/or paying taxes to the Crown.
His decision to go with the lettering on the car (“SL 55 AMG”) seems much stranger to me. At least if you buy the (much cheaper) C-Class you can actually decide whether you want lettering or not. (I don’t have a car and don’t want one but my dad recently asked me whether he should go with or without the lettering. I told him to go without, that seems much classier and better looking to me.)
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Well, BlockBoard looks more like a message board of commerce or friendly happenings. They want you to be identified as a person, which means you won't necessarily want to connect with everyone nearby.

For example, you don't really want to post in something like that that you think the Raiders are a terrible football team...at the raiders game...with your name on what you post along with a photo. You can get decked for it :P

What they appeal to more is those tightly knit communities of neighbors talking with each other and doing things, much different then we are.

Thotly is about ideas and what means something to you. Right now, what is happening or what you think. Soon, photos then sounds, music, questions, answers, whatever. We want to give people a way to say what they think and to be rewarded for that expression.

Think more like an idea forum than a bulletin board of stuff. BlockBoard has something good I think, but we aimed for something really different.

In the end though, it comes down to how people want to use it - that is our number one focus.
or in some cases: data uris.
For a rider so detailed, I'm shocked that there are no details on performing "Free the Software". How will I know which key it is supposed to be?
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Mr King of the Hill, get down from your eloquent throne and stop suggesting something untoward.
You are twisting words around, no more no less. Your personal beef with Mr. O'Connor wasn't really worth mentioning and there is no dark humor at play, Edward's opinion is utterly irrelevant here, as I only asked to look at the statements made by RMS. In my humble opinion Richard Matthew Stallman is a prime example of antisocial personality disorder.
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I would assume compile is very quick, as the only thing happening is the Lua the user writes is being added to the game logic and interpreted. Everything else, the rendering engine and such, comes already done with the app. Lua has very fast execution.
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Parking Tickets. Steve had a habit of parking basically wherever he felt like it.
I don't know about the internal structure of Apple vs. Android handset manifacturers, but from the outside, they seem to treat their respective OSes very differently. Apple treats iOS the same as Mac OS: It will run on any compatible device that meets the minimum requirements.

For Android handset makers, they treat Android as the firmware for the device they are making. When they start on the firmware, they take the version of Android that they want, write the HAL, and then add their special stuff plus any carrier related crap they've agreed to. Once you're not selling that device any more, why would you bother to update the firmware? Users (and maybe Google) want to Android to be like iOS, but the handset makers are treating it the same way they treated their old internal phone OSes.
Thanks for posting this. The laugh in here for me was watching the person to the right of the podium try to hold in their giggles.
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Of course, they'll still need to find a way to make money off of their content, and that's an understandably tricky situation.

No it isn't. I don't pirate anything that I can find on Netflix. Bittorrent is like simply like a Netflix cache-miss.
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Two type tools of interest when designing in Illustrator include the Area Type Tool and Masks (clipping or opacity). This article walks you through each of the options that make conforming type to your every desire possible.
http://alestic.com/2011/08/ec2-max-instances

Somewhat out-of-date (Aug, 2011) but a useful estimate.
As you make content easier to create and distribute, you will inevitably make it easier to break copyright law.

You also make copyright law itself less necessary. Its primary purpose is not to protect authors and creators, but rather to incentivize distributors. That's where all the cost and risk was when copyright originated. Now that distribution costs have dropped to nearly nothing, there is little necessity for copyright.
Is that 30% based on anything at all?

When people are building 30,000 core compute clusters [1] on EC2 - presumably with zero publicly available web servers, I'd be very interested in any methodology that provides reasonable estimates of revenue based on public web servers.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/09/30000-core-clus...
>>Perl is on every linux

>Linux yes. Not every Unix, not every Windows.

Wait, you'll only consider languages that come pre-installed on all Unices and Windows? That's a pretty short list!

Or are you complaining that Perl isn't available for some Unices or some versions of Windows? I'm curious to know what version of Unix or Windows has Python and/or Ruby interpreters available, but doesn't have Perl.
I've been trying to figure out what makes this interview so good. Most Charlie Rose interviews are good, but this one has something different. I think it's that both of them are really trying to figure out what made Jobs work, because they're both ambitious guys themselves and they want to learn from his example. Usually when Charlie's asking someone questions it's because he wants to know what's going on in the world. But here he wants to know for his own sake, because he wants to do great work, and so does Isaacson. So this is like watching two athletes talking about Michael Jordan.
Kinda. In order to get HBO Go you need to be a subscriber, through your cable company. And not ever cable network is providing access to HBO Go, though I hear Time Warner Cable, is close to doing so.
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is zero-friction undo even a good idea? rewinding in git is something that should be done with care, I'm not sure I would be comfortable with non-experts making "undo commit" part of their everyday toolset.
> I generally think it can be dangerous to build a reliance on tools like these, especially when one doesn't yet understand the command line equivalents

Good point. I agree.

That's interesting that you use it exclusively for merge conflicts. I will give it a look.