skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks pretty straightforward. But why use this over, for example, crate? Also, how are you going to make revenue out of it? S3 does cost money.

#edit:
Almost forgot. Well done on the UI front. Minor gripe: an actual button to select the file to upload would be nice. Having to launch Finder and browsing to the file I'm looking for, then dragging it back to the browser, can take much longer than just clicking a button, browsing and clicking "open".
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> Referring to people as "tokens" implies that their presence is just for show. I'm sure those mentors don't appreciate that sort of attack on their professional accomplishments, and to assume that they're there just for show is—dare I say it—racist. Consider replacing "token" with "single" in that sentence if that's not what you mean.

He was in this case seemingly implying that if someone writes about how one should take action against racism, but yet hires only a single black man and black woman amongst hundreds, then 1) it does not seem like they're taking action, and 2) the absence of more black people makes it look like other competent black people have likely been excluded from consideration due to race and the two that are there were not excluded because of a perceived need for a token.

Note the difference between implying they were included for their race - which would have been a slight on them - and implying they were not excluded despite their race.

I don't think this is a slight against the persons in question at all. If I disliked blondes (I'm being cowardly and using that as an example since I am one myself), and wanted to exclude blondes but was worried about public perceptions, I might leave a token blonde or two on my list, but that does not imply I'd pick my token blond at random - I'd pick the best of the bunch. I'd just exclude a bunch of other eligible blondes.

Of course it's possible that some racist would just pick their "token black person" at random, to compound their stupidity, but calling someone a "token" does not imply anything about how you think the selection was done.

The only thing that claim says is that Mike believes that it rings hollow to claim to take action yet not have found more black people that were at least as skilled as some of the other white people on the list.

My (black) wife regularly complains about the "token black people" in various settings, and when she does, it is certainly not to slight them, but to complain about why other competent black people aren't included as well.

(I know Mike, though I've never discussed race with him)
I don't know..
I think allot of people here underestimate the average user.
I see allot of comments on this site of people basically saying "everyone else just uses the computer for facebook".

That's not really true, although there are users like that. I know allot of people who are not technical or CS people in the HN sense but who use their computers for allot of stuff including some pretty sophisticated creative or business tasks and are actually quite capable of doing technical stuff assuming it is explained properly to them.

Also people on HN have probably spent more time using computers and seeing lots of different users use computers that we probably have more of a long term feel of what would work well and what wouldn't, and if we are all developing the next generation of apps etc for the masses then our opinions and requirements are actually pretty important.

If you have an over restrictive platform that does not allow developers to innovate in ways that they want then whilst end users may appreciate the simplicity, they will become frustrated if this platform fails to deliver the flexible applications that they really want. For example I know many non tech users who use literally hundreds of firefox plugins.

Of course there are a few people I know who are of the opinion that all hardware & software for everything should just be developed by Apple end of story.
Your boss has heard of Larry Ellison and figures if he's so rich he must be doing something right. (Or your boss's boss, or whatever, depending on the size of your company.)
>"For pro apps with dedicated audiences (see: Adobe, Ableton, Avid, Nuance) which is just about anything with a plugin architecture, the App Store's distribution is unnecessary."

It is true that inn terms of dedicated (aka existing) audiences or customers, access to is probably still unnecessary, however it is clearly a disadvantage when it comes to generating new users or providing upgrades to existing users.
Remember that most of the time, people don't know what they want until they see it.
Really? How do you know this is not what Arrington was suggesting?

That is exactly how I read and understood that comment given the context of the rest he's written on the subject.
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Isn't the latency of vim on a remote server distracting? Or is your ping low enough to not be noticeable?

I've thought about this kind of setup, but I think I'd need vim to be running locally (but working on files from a remote filesystem - vim can do this).
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Safari and MobileSafari support HTML5 local storage:

http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#codinghowtos/Desk...

There's nothing you have to do to enable it. Except use it.
That's about what it seems to come down to. I have yet to hear a compelling technical argument for Oracle aside from vague mentions like, "It's what an enterprise uses" or "It's so strong it could run X"

But then I find that companies with huge datasets like Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, etc... don't use it. And I go back to scratching my head.
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infinitely
This is what happens when the legal department operates without adult supervision. Lawyers gone wild.
Apple may eventually disable loading of executables which are not cryptographically signed.

At this point, you'll have to resort to kernel patches to bypass that mechanism and load non-authorized applications.

Hopefully, Apple will leave a way to disable code verification. At least for advanced users.
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People engaging in tax avoidance in Italy and Greece are one of the reasons why these countries are balls deep in financial problems at the moment.

I saw a stat the other day that stated there were more Porsches in Greece than people declaring they earn enough to actually afford to buy them (by a significant amount)
It may be that his heritage is even more white than black because he was raised by his white mother without his black father.
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Xcode, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, VLC Player, Dropbox, BBEdit, TextMate, StuffIt, UnRarX. These are all well-known OS X applications, all of them having important features that require being able to open an arbitrary file without user interaction.
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I'm pretty excited about this! What are your current favourite UK/EU tech blogs?
The Chinese vehicles in the article were robotic. The electronics did the docking, not a pilot. That seems like a reasonable accomplishment, even if somebody in "The West" has done it before.
This is a great suggestion because this is how I first became involved in programming. We had these books with code for BASIC in school, and I typed the code. After drawing random circles and stuff, I kept modifying the code to make it do different things. From that point, I started writing little games, and I would work on those while we had our computer lab time. (Most of the kids would simply play games during that time.) I would work on code within notebooks at home and was anxious to bring it to school so I can type in my code and see the results.
We shouldn't have to have a degree in CS and our own testing platform just to see if an application is safe, relatively bug free and isn't going to jack all of our data.
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Historically, in the USA, it was. The McCarthy years were like this. Today, it isn't, but that isn't really the point of the analogy.
Agreed. Iteration shouldn't be frowned upon. I applaud any efforts to make what was once a drudgery, now semi-interesting.

op. Thanks for sharing this.
Interesting: EMI ends up being the publisher if you use their licensed music.

See http://developer.echonest.com/sandbox/emi/emi_classics.html, end of section "Approval Process for Application Development".
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The purpose of putting people on stage is not always to showcase just the best, but often to showcase different viewpoints and different ideas.

Promoting just the "best" from the viewpoint of a single background - now that is arrogant and harmful because it assumes you actually know best. If Mike always knew who was best to promote, he'd be a billionaire and every company he invested on would have people everywhere throwing money at them.

As such, especially for something like Techcrunch Disrupt, it is valuable to promote a diverse group - whether based on race, socioeconomics, geography, gender - especially if a group is severely underrepresented - to get a wider view and perhaps learn something from it.

If anything, a great deal of hidden racism is a direct result of people insisting on picking what they think is "best" without taking into account the hidden biases brought by their upbringing, school background etc. and never being exposed to a more diverse set of views.
This is probably not something I should talk too much about on a venue filled with potential employers or coworkers. But I think self-awareness is important, so I'll say a few things.

You're right on with the confidence (and persistence?) issues. That's one reason for doing the SC thing. It's helping me build up some confidence. I've been programming for quite a number of years. My day jobs for the last several years have destroyed the confidence I used to have. I'm getting it back, and quickly. And that makes me very, very happy.

OSS is something I want to be a core part of my job, because I use and appreciate it so much. I've tried getting involved with several projects before. Invariably my confidence falters enough that I give up before I really get going.

I'll go over to the two jobs threads from the other day and apply to some places. There were at least 3 or 4 that I would LOVE to work at.
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You mean trademark. Copyright doesn't work that way and is not relevant to this issue.
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I'm terribly sorry, but you're making a huge leap here. The fact that "massive numbers" of blacks are incarcerated does not automatically imply pervasive racism. The one does not necessarily imply the other.
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Yeah, I think I'm going to pass on this one.
Yeah, I have tested this hypothesis on myself. I have tried lots of fonts touted as the best for programming and found exactly zero difference. Time wasted, chalked up to experience.

I think that anyone considering a donation should at least try the freely available fonts to see whether they make any difference.
It's seems many people don't understand how a market works. Companies are not evil for evil's sake, not even a company like Apple. Sending a cease and desist letter to a small restaurant is a cost that would be eliminated if it was possible without risking a much greater cost. Apple is not ignorant about the PR pitfalls either. They are forced to weigh risk vs risk and act accordingly.

Instead of coming to premature conclusions that border on delusion, we should ask ourselves what mechanisms exist in the market that forces a multi-billion dollar global conglomerate to go after a small restaurant.

Forget the notion that Apple or any company is doing stuff like this out of spite. That is a red herring. The system within which Apple and AppleADay are actors needs to be changed and situations like these are data on what is wrong with it.
This idea that you're either "racist" or "not racist" is ridiculous. We all have bias and prejudice, very rarely are people making n-word jokes or saying things like "Tim is great but he's black/latino so I think he's not as smart as Sally because she's white."

To have any sort of useful and truthful discussion about race in this country we must look at it from a holistic perspective and be honest with ourselves about the ideas and bias we have, it's less about shouting racist at somebody and more about understanding how our society socializes us to believe certain things (e.g. Asians are good at math, black people are good at sports and entertainment, Jews are good with money and law). If we own up to the fact that we all carry around bias and prejudice (often times without any malice or cognizance of its' existence) we can start really getting at the issue of racism and institutionalized racism.

All that being said, I think Mike is just a white guy who doesn't like to be called racist even if some of the things he's said are offensive to people of color and considered racist by them. He's a whiner to me and I've never liked his attitude, I was done with him when he went after Warren Buffet for saying rich people should pay taxes using tech crunch as his platform. He thinks he's above any and all rules (journalistic integrity [even though he's not a journalist], being racial sensitive, etc) and it is disturbing that he continues to be so insensitive and offensive despite being told by several people to be quiet.
Yeah, they also use it to sell OS X now...
As to your second post, I think you are on the right track. I think -- in the U.S. -- when race is brought up in discussions, white people are immediately on guard for a couple things: 1) Being perceived as a racist for something they say, regardless of whether it was meant in that way, 2) being in a conversation where someone else says something that could be perceived as racist and that they are going to be inadvertently associated with someone that is racist. For these reasons, I think most white people, when in mixed company, will generally try to avoid any discussions of race.

I'm assuming that you aren't from the U.S., so I will add that race is probably the most sensitive subject that you can discuss in this country. A label of "racist" has been known to ruin many prominent careers (whether it was deserved or not). When presented with opportunity to discuss this subject, most people will avoid it, not because they are racist, or because they don't think it is a problem, but because they are honestly afraid -- and rightly so -- of being called a racist.

Until we can have a discussion where white people are not immediately assumed to be racist because they said one thing that isn't in the accepted canon of "valid statements about race," we won't be able to have honest and open discussions about race.

Full disclosure, I'm a white, male, American.
Actually, Windows 8 apps are sandboxed too. Take a look at the Microsoft requirements to distribute a new Metro-Style app through their own app store. Same sandboxed requirements. Microsoft must approve and developers must justify any access to resources outside the standard sandbox set.
In the '50s, here in the US, being called a socialist was more damning than being called a racist. In that era, being a racist (in certain areas of the country, at least) could even be construed as an advantage.

Being a socialist (or even being accused of such) led to severe consequences, like being blackballed in your industry, hauled before a Congressional committee, or even jail time.
From my experience, Most of these legal attack were initialed by small - mid size law firms, they actually didn't received direct orders from Apple, but doing this to get paid by bill Apple legal department for their works. This is a ego system for those small firm even individuals to live with
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I think the part that bothers me is that this is going into place after many people, including myself, have started buying most apps in the App Store. It is insanely convenient to have all my apps and licenses in one place. New computer? Open the App Store and you're done.

If I had known that Apple would move towards a sandbox model that breaks tools I use everyday, like Transmit and Coda (Viewing file tree etc.), I would have kept my license with Panic. What happens when a Transmit bug fix comes out and it no longer appears in the App Store? A whole new purchase most likely.

Steve himself had called Macs our "trucks", with iOS device being cars. Not everyone needs a truck, but for those of us who do I am getting a little worried about the direction they're moving.
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That's less than $ 25,000 / year, or around $ 120 / day. I don't think you can find a decent designer for $ 120 / day.
"If A calls B a socialist or communist, however, then the burden of proof is on A to prove the charge, and the standard for guilt is so high that this is usually impossible. In this case it is A's reputation that is usually besmirched."

Do we live in the same America? Usually you can call just about any well known figure a socialist, and a huge cadre of conservative, fox news loving mouth breathers will assume it is so without a moment's thought.
The company address is in California, but the phone number given is “+77071120122”. Do they actually have a landline in Kazakhstan, or is that a typo?
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If he got $ 200,000, he should create a company that would receive the money, that would make much more sense.
What about the fact that Black men were disproportionately executed for rape, so much so that they stopped making the death penalty an option for rape cases? Is that institutionalized racism or just bad luck?
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I have an older Samsung phone with a 4 way directional pad, but I sure am going to miss that. Most new phones don't have one (HTC Legend had an optical one) Having to navigate everything by touch isn't perfect either...
If I was actively seeking a new job, I can say with 99% certainty that I would have left with one. However I'm in a place where the startup movement has inspired me to try something on my own. If things don't work out I've got some great companies to contact.
The lack of understanding on the part of reporters goes far beyond treating business as a monolithic entity. Just look at what passes for "science" reporting these days. Sadly, journalism is becoming it's own specialized profession, with the implied lack of study of fields outside one's own - which, ironically, undermines the very substance of what journalism is supposed to be all about.
I'm curious of that too. What's the differentiator? If it's just that it's 'simple' then why not just create a simple facade over sites like LinkedIn (full disclosure I work there)? What incentive do users have in the long run to maintain yet another site with information about them. At some point after undergrad I went around tracking down all those about-me sites that accumulated around the net and had outdated or completely erroneous information. I get the feeling this would stale in the same way.
The original is actually this one http://www.technologywithpassion.com/about-us/team/

When others copy you it must be a good thing.
I downloaded the screenshots of this font and have to admit I wish I could use it right now. Looks pretty good to me. That said, the monetary goal seems a bit lofty considering how many people this would really solve a need for.

Still, if the fundraising were arranged on something like kickstarter where I'd get my donation back if it fails to reach the goal I'd kick in a bit. Not terribly interested in a discount on the other license.
so i cannot add a comment as long as i don't have anything useful and accurate to say..? hmm can you honestly say that you agree with the notion that 'write constructive and accurate comments or don't write anything at all'?

My first ever comment in this thread was a legit question only that it's answer was already hidden in the parent article. I guess that didn't "add to discussion" then.

In short newbies cannot learn about the 'ways' of HN without being looked down upon (which is always so great for the morale). interesting. I hope my comment 'adds to the discussion' of the condition of 'ways' of HN :)

PS thanks for replying! i was kind of confused :D
I'm not a registered dev, and opening the link works fine.
True. There are a lot good monospaced font but it's impossible for me working at screen with these cool fonts for this I designed PragmataPro. Tastes are tastes.

All the glyphs of PragmataPro are designed under suggestions of programmers. In the set there are many glyphs ignored by other monospaced font designers, because I designed this font with programmers for programmers.

PragmataPro are designed to work with and without antilaliasing. And it works
"The Chinese vehicles in the article were robotic. The electronics did the docking, not a pilot."

The Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 docking, achieved by the USSR in 1967, was unmanned and completely automated.
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"Witness the disaster of Final Cut Pro X"

But they responded to that by putting Final Cut Pro 7 back on the market. Sounds like they care a lot...

Hanlon Razor makes sense here.
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"It is hard not to notice that the usual top commenters avoid ths topic like a plague."

I've also noticed that.
"Statements like that, by the way, scare the hell out of me. They can be used to justify almost anything. Like how we’re all racists. I wonder if Kapor could argue that he himself is rational and objective, even though no one else is."

Yes, we are. That study Kapor refers to is actually really good, groundbreaking science. You should probably read it.

Just because you're a racist doesn't make you a Bad Person (since we're all racists and we can't ALL be Bad), it means you need to come to terms with it and look more critically as your decisions that might have been influenced by our society to discriminate unfairly.

I'm sorry to be rude, but this article was written by someone who not only won't take responsibility for making potentially racist comments, but won't even reconsider whether the comments are racist or not.

Also, from the way he writes about it, I highly doubt Arrington has been exposed to the great colonial (racist) history of "Entrepreneurship".
Thanks for the reminder! This is something I've had at the back of my mind for the 10+ years I've been using vim, so high time.
Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't understand the compulsion to post potentially embarassing information about yourself on the Internet.

I can't believe people are arguing about the right way to do this.

Twenty years ago, it was rare for someone to call everyone they ever knew and scream into the phone how drunk they were. I might have done that only once or twice in my life. (If I called you by mistake and woke you up at 2AM, I apologize.)

But today, if you can't provide a web-based service that not only allows you to do that very thing but protects you from the consequences of it, people will complain.