skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I'm a little jealous of your situation to be honest. I have tried to do both at once, but it's like I'm cheating on the girl with work! Thinking about it at all times, leaving to go back to work, etc.

When I had a "normal job" dating was easier.
Bookeen seems to have fixed the slow response time of eInk with the Cybook Odyssey (supposed to be released this month). http://bookeen.com/blog/web-page-scrolling-on-eink/
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"LISP has been around some 50-odd years without taking off despite several attempts at its revival... I suspect something is wrong with it"

I laughed out loud at that.
This isn't so much a problem if there's a way to break out of the sandbox. If you can give permission to just mess with anything, you can still do all these things.

Of course, in Apple-world, you can't do this. I can definitely imagine a fully-sandboxed OS that lets you allow a particular app to inject code into other apps.
Why Parents Lie to Let Kids Join Facebook
Aaron! Font size! Bigger!
There have been people on space station missions who've been up for more than a year:

http://www.astronautix.com/articles/aststics.htm

However, I believe crew rotations and resupplies were taking place during these missions, and there was no communications lag.
Google’s New Algorithm Update Impacts 35% Of Searches
Is there a link to "tell google that this autocorrect was wrong" somewhere under the search box?

Because that might be helpful.
Amazon Lights the Fire With Free Books
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I'm not sure how salaries are agreed upon.

For the size of San Franciso (population) for the mayor to be making $250k next year doesn't sound too bad to me.

I live on the Central Coast in the city of Santa Maria, CA. We have a population of about 90-100k. Our biggest business around here is agriculture.

The 2009 annual salary for Santa Maria City Manager was $223,943. I was blown away when I read this.

Again, I have no idea how salaries are agreed upon just thought I'd share.

http://santamariatimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/arti...
I map H and L to custom functions that navigate to the next or previous tab or buffer, depending on what's open.

https://github.com/mcantor/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/.vimrc#L...
Can we at least agree that your point is contrived? I've never heard anyone claim that black people in the Valley are more talented than everyone else, so this is a silly argument.
I'm assuming this is being noticed because of the recent ANA plane aerobatics : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aunUFwyxsF0 (spoiler : plane landed safely).
If you're genuinely interested, I'd suggest you check out the movie Helvetica.

Fonts often take thousands of man-hours to complete, and faces with extended characters are much more involved.

What this designer might lack in business chops he makes up in generousity. How many competent designers are willing to do something for $25k a year?
> The Olympics has also sued and won against places that were around before them (the modern olympics) that use Olympic in any part of their name.

A large part of that is because various govts give "Olympics" special treatment via explicit legislation.

Govts do this because failure to do so makes the IOC angry. Since Olympic venues lose money, IOC anger should be seen as a good thing but politicians benefit from pissing away money on hosting an Olympics so ...
>How do you propose to ship a product without implementing any ideas or changing any code?

Well, that's an absurd oversimplification of my point, but it's really irrelevant; the entire topic isn't really worth the effort of the conversation. It was just a suggestion.

If you can't sleep at night without version control, then clearly, implement from day 1.

Version control works really well once you have something (anything) that is actually worth rolling back to. For me, this moment is a version that is "usable". That's when I create my first repository and commit. Prior to that, it just doesn't really make much sense to me.

I've seen so many instances where the problem was more "Shit I forgot to commit that" in early stage development that something like Dropbox can be so beneficial that it pretty much replaces any benefit at this particular point. If you commit on every save, then I suppose you wouldn't have this issue, really.
Does a person exist to fit this engineering position?
You can use :ls to view all buffers, and if you do :b and start typing the filename of a buffer, you can get completion suggestions with tab, or just hit enter to jump to the first file that matches what you've typed so far.

Use Ctrl-6 (also referred to as Ctrl-^, C-6 or C-^) to swap between your current buffer and the "alternate" buffer, which is usually the last buffer you were looking at.

Use Ctrl-o and Ctrl-i to track up and down the "jump list". C-o is another good way to get back to the buffer you were just looking at, like C-6.
I also thought that was what he meant.
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Yeah but presumably 'do a barrel roll' is intended as a kind of easter egg that only a select few will discover to their intense joy.
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They don't... yet. iCloud just launched last month. I expect support will be added as the service grows.
If you haven't returned the Kindle yet, pay the difference to remove the ads:

Amazon Charged me $30 to get the Adverts Off my K4
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2011/10/05/amazon-charged-...
Does anyone else think the guy looks a little like Hitler? Perhaps a different nose...

Just saying. It's hard to tell what exactly I see with 8bit sprites! :-)
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the headline was a lede to draw you in...which it did. The reality is that he has created really interesting technology which is automating content, which is really freaking cool. As far as him becoming like calvin and developing something that won't "work as planned" - seems like from the article the plan wasn't and isn't to replace himself, but rather to replace some of the lower value pieces of content. the human/machine interplay is an important part of the whole concept.
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A world war is occuring (Naomi Wolf on "occupy")
>Once you actually need version control (as opposed to glorified backup) then you can switch for little to no cost.

>Then I started working on a change

I would say here that once you are working on changes, you need version control.
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I think I'm getting confused IR35, which made contracting less attractive.
Fun page. Even has a little easter egg when you point to the cheese. I think this spawns an adage: It's not whether you're first, it's whether you're first to hit HN front page.
Whatever UI ugliness exists in the Kindle and its apps don't matter much to most Kindle owners. They just want to read. [typo edit]
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Ah, this is one of those situations where you'd love to remember an example or more, but everything you try actually works - then sometime a few days later it happens!
Are you claiming that there's an objective definition of "good art"? If so, let's see it.

In any event, "subjective" doesn't imply wrong.

Are you claiming that a majority of art is not crap? Does your argument avoid the "no true Scotsman" fallacy?
"This is all so well-played by Apple: evolve ever more locked down systems in seemingly consumer-friendly ways. Once consumers forget they can even install their own applications (except through the app store), OS X distribution will be just as heavily moderated by Apple as iOS distribution."

The "seemingly" part confuses me. Why seemingly? Either consumers will like the experience (as they seem to do in iOS and could care less about a few apps non allowed to the iOS App Store) or they won't and they will leave the platform.

Apple cannot "foul" the consumers into liking a more locked down system. Either they will, or they wont. And I guess they will. The average consumer is not the average HN reader.
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Strongly agree. I like the simplicity with which George explained this!
The Kindle Owners' Lending Library
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I guess this is the reason why they have started the tests with Bangalore Blind school.
Google 'Do A Barrel Roll' Is One Of The Coolest Things Google Has Ever Done
I didn't know about Kindles being already logged in. That's clever--"out-Apple-ing Apple". I'd worry a bit about package thieves but that's probably mostly irrational.
Make any website do a barrel roll / see how Google did it with CSS3
"""But the Mac's becoming more of an appliance, and while it's safer, easier, and more convenient for most users, it makes it a substantially less desirable machine for me to hack on."""

You do understand that in Lion, say, nothing, absolutely nothing has been taken away from you that you could do back in 10.1 or even NeXT.

So, this "the Mac's becoming more of an appliance" is just bullshit, just blindly following the latest trend in "hacker" circles (and probably a hacker's desire to buy a new, different system to tinker with).
He looks like a lumberjack
Just wondering, do you also block AdSense and Google Analytics? If not, a large portion of URLs you visit are already reaching Google through those inserts.
the installer says it can access all your website data, because extensions can, by definition, access the DOM. that's just the way extensions work.
Design concepts that didn't make it into Firefox
isn't stream programming what storm is supposed to be?
What's the Easter Egg?
The nice thing about Linux is that you are never tied to the whims of a single company like Canonical--if you don't like Ubuntu, you could always use Fedora with KDE or Gnome, for example.
Google recently corrected "ruby dreampie" (I wanted a Ruby equivalent of the excellent Python REPL) to "ruby creampie", with extremely NSFW results. It should avoid correcting a search term if the corrected version is potentially offensive.
Apps Growing in Popularity and Importance
Ach, this is turning into a nasty he said, she said with everyone coming off looking worse than they did.
Siri Experiencing Its First Extended Outage
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That's a total waste of time. 520 days gone for an experiment.
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This is a blog post summing up a research paper. The paper concludes:

"Instead of providing more tools to help parents and their children make informed choices, industry responses to COPPA have neglected parental preferences and have altogether restricted what is available for children to access. As a result, many parents now knowingly allow or assist their children in circumventing age restrictions on general–purpose sites through lying. By creating this environment, COPPA inadvertently hampers the very population it seeks to assist and forces parents and children to forgo COPPA’s protection and take greater risks in order to get access to the educational and communication sites they want to be part of their online experiences."
Good point, considering the capabilities. If you do everything with EC2, you should stick with it. Otherwise, if your developer box is Linux, you are probably able to admin a dedicated Linux server (for the build environment) as well, no?

On the other hand, it makes sense to develop Cloud skills at some stage as well, and you might want to screw it up with the test&build server first, before setting up the production server ;) Probably depends as well then on how much time you have?
I live in San Luis Obispo county (pop 250k), next county up from 404error. The city manager of SLO city makes $253k with a base salary of $157, the county administrator $211k, the sheriff $212k. Three quarters of the highest paid are police and firefighters who turn $70k base salaries into $50-175k total compensation. Combine that with generous retirement benefits and it is huge.
When I imagine telling my Mom, "Good news; the Finder is an iCloud app!" I very clearly understand why Apple has not published this as a feature.

Nice that it works, though.
Evoking punch cards?

As a programmer, you must know about diminishing returns, right?
Social pressure. A friend of mine just got both of her parents iPhones. Why did they want them? Because a lot of people they knew had one.
> Political stories have such a wide range of views, this approach would produce gibberish until you sort out all the articles on a left-right scale.

I'd hope we need more scales than that.
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Just like you use a VCR to watch your favourite TV shows for you.
They still can, and should, probably, at least for the patents.

I imagine that Microsoft, Google, Apple, et. al are busy aiming their patent lawyers at Amazon.
Navigating links shouldn't be an issue assuming that the app hosting the web view is allowed to connect to the network.

But how about plugins loaded by the web view? I assume that's what's happening in my case. The web view is loading the Flash plugin, which in turn tries to access the file system.

That's not allowed, because the plugin inherits the entitlements of the parent app. The Flash plugin really can't believe that access to it's Library folder doesn't work so it tries and tries and tries sending the main thread into an endless loop blocking the complete app.
In the case of Andrew Mason shutting out Google's 6 billion offer, is that what defines him as an entrepreneur or is that just blind vision?
You can make this happen on any arbitrary page, just for fun.

https://gist.github.com/1337458
This is one example he gives of his automated writing:
"Second-seeded North Carolina was defeated in the Elite Eight with a 76-69 loss to fourth-seeded Kentucky in the Regional Finals in Newark."

That's perfectly serviceable. But it makes me wonder...what is the point of this? Not his automated-writing tool, but why are we putting what was meant for a statistical/symbolic graphic into sentence form?

This kind of writing is only possible with the collection of discrete datapoints: the date, the score, the participants, and the location. From there, you can do any kind of variation of subject-verb etc., even adding adjectives if the point spread is high.

So we're taking data and turning it into a less efficiently readable form. It's no fault of the auto-writer of course, that's just how we are taught to read and write. Someday, we move towards a society in which other forms of communication, particularly visual, are as commonplace. [insert your own Tufte-inspired rant here)
Of course, what I am saying is that as a side-effect the easter egg is triggered even if just "do a " is entered, rather than the full key-query.

That's why it doesn't make sense as an easter egg: "do a " is a frequent prefix, people looking for something else could be annoyed by the effect.
It's actually quite fun to play. I think this is the first time I have said this about a HTML5 game/tech demo :)
I know this is off topic, but how is the Hacker Community up in SLO? Down here it's pretty much non-existing.
An article with a pic: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20111103-38649.html
Slightly off-topic: Suppose they do go bankrupt, but somehow get some money to fight on (or sell the premises to get enough money to fight on) and win. Can they get compensation for the interruption of business?
Hasta la Vista, Google App Engine
I have a wife, kid , family and friends and things to do and places to go to and goals to accomplish.

I would never spend 520 days of my life stuck in a make-believe space ship. rofl.
I think you meant to write Naomi Wolf (the author of the article), and not Klein.
Do we really care for 9pt and 24pt either?
VPC is definitely more like real hardware than EC2 but I take that as evidence VPC is premature optimization rather than support for undertaking this sort of migration.
This is cool! Reminds me of VVVVVV (http://thelettervsixtim.es/), which had a similar section where you controlled two characters at once. It's a little strange that the secondary character moves even if the primary one is running into a wall, but it looks like the puzzles require that.
Insert a few compiler hints, and accelerate your code on the GPU.
Telling the Story of the Brain
What is /opt historic for? I usually install 3rd party software there.
> (function () { internalvariablewithnovardelcaration = "string"; })();
> internalvariablewithnovardeclaration
ReferenceError: internalvariablewithnovardeclaration is not defined
at [object Context]:1:1
at Interface.<anonymous> (repl.js:179:22)
at Interface.emit (events.js:64:17)
at Interface._onLine (readline.js:153:10)
at Interface._line (readline.js:408:8)
at Interface._ttyWrite (readline.js:585:14)
at ReadStream.<anonymous> (readline.js:73:12)
at ReadStream.emit (events.js:81:20)
at ReadStream._emitKey (tty_posix.js:307:10)
at ReadStream.onData (tty_posix.js:70:12)
> externalwithnovar = 1;
1
> (function () { externalwithnovar = "string"; })();
> externalwithnovar
'string'

You're all wrong. There is no 'global by default for javascript. This guy clobbered a variable called initial outside of the scope of the callback.
What is a good credit score?
So, there are a few problems I see in your diet.

1.) Low fat salad dressing is generally a bad thing. You should add olive oil, butter, or some natural fat source any time you eat vegetables because you can't absorb many of the vitamins in greens without some type of fat in the meal.

2.) Regardless of what many people believe, "Whole grains" are really not that great. The bran of many grains adds nutrients, but when you look at the actual bioavailability of those nutrients it's very low due to things like phytic acid. It adds fiber, but it's mostly insoluble fiber which doesn't have all of the benefits of soluble fiber.

This effectively makes whole grains "empty calories". They aren't completely empty, but there is a low nutrient to calorie ratio, and that's what you need to improve. Meat and vegetables have much higher nutrients compared to calories.

Eliminate grains and sugary items (especially fructose) and eat 'real' foods (veggies, meats, and natural coconut, olive, or animal fats), and you will lose weight without starving yourself or counting calories.
Except of course, the App Store gets dropped into the dock of every Mac bought.

I wonder (and just thinking out loud here) if there might end up being an 'app store' anti-trust suite, with Apple and Microsoft being forced to give things like Steam prominence?
> "SQL-like-declarative-query-language + Hadoop"

It already exists, is free, and is widely deployed. It's also actively maintained, mainly by a lot of Facebook folks, and I've heard that they know a thing or two about scale:

http://hive.apache.org/
Not working for me; I thought it might be https everwhere or the google https search option, but turning those off didn't produce the effect. Firefox 3.6.23 on Fedora 14.
If you get past the (awful) stereotypes of programmers as "geeks", you're left with a small data set and no analysis. I'd guess that a significant portion of the entrepreneurs moved to Seattle to participate. Moving to a new city probably cuts down on almost all social metrics (less coffee or drinks with friends, less sex, etc).
The guy is a genuinely funny writer, incredibly rare in tech. If you find anything else written by him, let me know.
I agree, I have exactly the same complaints as the author of the article. Some of the issues, like the "full definition" one, are so frustrating I can't believe that Amazon let them through.

The Kindle hardware is great and all but I'm still wishing Apple would get in on the game. Apart from better software they'd address the issue of an elegant screen protecter (as with iPad 2), and the iCloud already synchs highlights to books between devices (even if you didn't buy the books direct from Apple).
I saw it as a list of big pictures and left quickly...
Is this a neat side project or a potential business? I've run into 50 simple, drag / drop file uploading websites, some (somehow) with funding, like Min.us
> I believe I've been fair in evaluating your decision to sell on IndieGogo instead of Kickstarter.

Kickstarter is not an option for us Italians. It's US only. See http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creating%20a%20project#S...
The showstopper for us when it came down to whether we will use VPC or not ended up being a no due to lack of support on elastic load balancing:

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/faqs/#E13

I will certainly revisit this topic when ELB is inevitably available for VPC based customers.
Would be a good keyword to advertise on, startups!
> I thought the advantage of having the +1 button in the browser is that you can then block all of those damn sharing widgets on websites so that these social networks don't know every website you visit because of the beacons.

The advantage of of having the +1 button in the browser is so you can +1/share sites that don't include the +1 button themselves.

> But the +1 button extension will send every page you visit back to Google, with your unique user id as part of the information sent back

There is now way to know if you have +1'd a page without sending your unique id with. A button that doesn't tell you if you have +1'd something isn't very useful and you will continually be +1'ing pages over and over again.

> This is just insane. There is absolutely no reason for this information to be sent back, and it is completely identifiable and all in plain text. The installer says that it can access all your website data, not that it does access it and sends it back to Google.

If an extension has permissions to access "your data on all websites" there is no way to prevent it from also sending your data to all websites. HTTP is request and response and not very useful with only one or the other.

The Chrome Web Store says

"THIS ISN’T THE USUAL YADA YADA!

In addition to the practices described in the Google +1 Button Privacy Policy, by installing this extension, all of the pages and URLs you visit will be sent to Google in order to retrieve +1 information."

The install page linked to from the blog post should be more clear about what the +1 button sends to Google.

None of your data is sent in plain text however. It is all over SSL to https://clients6.google.com/rpc.

> I removed the extension immediately.

Good for you. No one is forcing you to use it.
There is also a wealth of plugins for buffer switching; I like FuzzyFinder's :FufBuffer command. Invoke it and the most recent buffer will be at the top, so you can hit enter immediately.
It's not a meaningful scientific basis for such a comparison. Choice of OS isn't a major factor in hardware quality. Nokia proves this; the N8 (Symbian), N9 (MeeGo), and Lumia 800 (WinPhone) are all of fairly similar quality (quite high, I might say); yet each runs a totally different operating system. Likewise, you can have two Android phones from different manufacturers (or even the same, in some cases) that are at very different extremes of hardware quality. A study such as [1] is far more meaningful, it's comparing manufacturer to manufacturer (the people responsible for putting the phones together) instead of OS to OS (as one phone could theoretically be sold with a different OS with no change in quality).

[1] http://www.squaretrade.com/pages/cell-phone-comparison-study...