skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every time I go in to a B&N physical store, it's packed. They're one of the few stores I'll go to just for the experience of going in there.

And there's the problem - it's packed because people are in there just for the experience of going in there. That doesn't pay the bills.
Either

set foldmethod=marker

Or put this modeline at the top of your .vimrc:

" vim: foldmethod=marker foldlevel=0
the Teams offering is even worse.

I'd love to set it up here for about 50 users, but we've got a bit more than the 2GB you get for free... so that means I'm shelling out something like $6,000/year. That's a tough sell for a problem that can be solved with existing infrastructure not nearly as well but for a tiny fraction the cost.
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Yeah, you're completely right. But I don't understand why so many are against his comments. He's making a good point that there are a lot of people defending torrent and file sharing sites like they're bastions of freedom and the good guys. The reality is that theyre known to be used for sharing copyrighted files illegally. Some even advertise it. There's really not much of a defense for them, we all know what they do. Hell, even I use them at times which I know is wrong (I'm sorry, I'm only human).

The GP's intent wasn't to support SOPA. Read his comments again, please, as he makes a good point. These sites are fighting SOPA because they know they'll be easily shut down if it passes and they know they're providing copyrighted content.

The difference between people like us here on HN and those that run the sites in question is that our aim would most likely be to disrupt content delivery legitimately through a startup and they're just trying to keep getting that CPC ad revenue. Our reasons for being against SOPA are very different and he sees no defense for the sites in question.
Yah thanks.. got my adwords account suspended
This doesn't make any sense. We can upvote a story 1,000s of times but eventually gravity will win and it will fall to the bottom of the front page.

And when it does, it will skew the hell out of that graph.
What we have heard with every release of Android is that this one is more usable than it's own predecessor. Not iPhone or iOS. And that is factually true - 2.1 was way too laggy, 2.2 was better, 2.3 was even smoother and ICS now is, for the first time comparable / exceeding iOS in overall usability. That's what the Verge review claims and as far as I know, before ICS, they have always complained about Android from usability standpoint, preferring iOS as the gold standard.
Contact them and get it unsuspended.
Great article!

Does anyone have a link to a document that would detail the ways that you could get screwed over by a startup? Or by VCs? I know there are tricks that can be made via dilution, or something, but all I've heard are horror stories, but no actual mechanics of how it was done, and what you should look out for when looking at joining a startup.
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`foldmethod` and friends.

There are a bunch of different methods for folding (indentation, manual markers, custom syntax-based folding, etc), and which one you want usually depends on the file type.

I have a bunch of autocommands for different files that set the foldmethod appropriately. For example:

augroup ft_vim
au!

au FileType vim setlocal foldmethod=marker foldmarker={{{,}}}
augroup END

augroup ft_js
au!

au FileType javascript setlocal foldmethod=marker foldmarker={,}
augroup END

This makes Vim fold using markers for Vim and Javascript files. The Vim markers are the usual {{{ and }}}, but Javascript has it's own "built-in" markers we can take advantage of, so it uses { and }.
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Not a catch-22, it's a game, in the game-theoretic sense.

You're choosing a best-response to everyone else's selected post time. Publishing this post data should make the system approach equilibrium more quickly, where in equilibrium the best post time should be fairly evenly distributed.
I see date/time is not correct: http://cl.ly/261y0b3R1Z2i2h0C1c3l

It should be 18/11/11 or 18/11/2011 or so, but anyway not 18/10/111. That's.
In many cases your toddler will let you know, too, in the form of jealousy.
Watches I agree are basically jewelry, but shoes and belt?

Belts still serve real functions for 99% of their users (I wear a belt because I don't want to wear suspenders and an elastic waist-bands on my pants don't dry well)

Improperly fit and ill-maintained shoes are often a source of back pain and numerous alignment issues.
I wonder whether your huge[1] runtime had any effect on the benchmarks. Wouldn't using pure Javascript have been a better idea?

I also notice your "C++" version used Direct3D. Shouldn't you have used OpenGL with the exact same calls as the JS to get a fair comparison with the WebGL versions?

[1] http://www.scirra.com/labs/perftest-2d/c2runtime.js
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Then¹:

I actually think secure boot makes a lot of sense. I think we should sign our modules. I think we should use the technology to do cryptographic signatures to add security; and at the same time inside the open source community this is so unpopular that people haven't really worked on it.

Now:

I’m an optimist: openness is successful in the long run, secure boot is another one of these passing fads.

Not implying that he is being incoherent or, even worse, that he cannot change his mind. The passing fad of secure boot meant by Linus is probably using it to lock down a device.

¹. http://www.muktware.com/news/2865 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3196098
Care to share what you did exactly to make that happen?
I like PulseCursorLine, but I wonder why only on N and n? (e.g. not on *)
How Do You Code a Movement?
Here is the code in a more readable gist without fixed width:

https://gist.github.com/1377245
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It is common practice for engineering to be explicitly forbidden from looking at any patent whatsoever.

A peculiarity of the U.S. patent system is that the size of the penalty is larger if the party accused of infringement is shown to have "knowingly" infringed. This is intended to punish deliberate malign behavior more severely than accidental infringement, because there is a lower penalty if you didn't realize there was a patent to violate.

However, the second order effect is that accurate knowledge of patents is a legal liability. When considering whether a party "knows" about a patent, any engineer in the company would count. If Bob reads Patent A and Sally writes code that infringes Patent A, it's difficult for their company to prove that Bob never said anything to Sally. And why even take on the burden of that proof? As a practical matter, the potential legal cost of the larger infringement penalty outweighs the potential benefit of searching beforehand to ensure you aren't infringing.

When I joined Microsoft, part of the instructions given to all new employees was that you should never view any patent, anywhere, ever, no matter what. Even if there is some reason why knowledge of patents is necessary, you should not try to search for or view those patents yourself, because if you look at a page of 50 patent search results to find the one you want, someone could argue you "know" about the other 49. This is arguably ridiculous, but when your goal is reducing legal costs, you must avoid even the possibility of ridiculous arguments, because arguing back requires time from lawyers.

Standard operating procedure is for engineers to know nothing about patents and the legal department to make all patent-related decisions. Naturally, the legal department makes those decisions with the goal of maximizing profit from lawsuits against other companies and minimizing loss from lawsuits by other companies. The process deliberately and explicitly eliminates the possibility that accurate knowledge of software and hardware will be applied to patent decisions, because the only people with that knowledge are engineers, and letting engineers know about patents increases your legal risk.

Since the Patent Office also does not have the manpower or technical resources to make accurate decisions about engineering patents, and in any event is not incentivized to reject patent claims, patents on average bear no relation to reality. They're determined entirely by what you can get away with in court.
Here is the original Scribd doc: http://www.scribd.com/doc/55945011/An-Introduction-to-Stock-...
This should probably go without saying, but if you start the file browser don't open Anal-Cam.html.
No Professorship for you
Cool idea. Theres a possible significant blindspot.

The best time to submit a story appears to be 8:30 pm, but that may be because a higher number of stories that were popular during the workday (which is probably when HN gets the most traffic) have been pulled down by gravity enough that newer stories have a better chance of getting in.

But don't those new stories peak during a time that presumably, HN's traffic is at a low? And can peaking at 10PM be enough to carry a story through to the top of the next day's new popular stories?

TLDR: Does being popular in the off-hours offset by the presumably lower traffic to HN?
Some might say this is the "more" link but there is probably room for a "news you missed" feed/service that looks at articles that got some links or comments but either never made it to the front page or fell off too quickly.
The eyeOS web desktop
If you want an interesting perspective on this idea, check The Master Switch, written by Tim Wu.

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Information-Empires-Vint...

Amazon Book Description:
It is easy to forget that every development in the history of the American information industry–from the telephone to radio to film–once existed in an open and chaotic marketplace inhabited by entrepreneurs and utopians, just as the Internet does today. Each of these, however, grew to be dominated by a monopolist or cartel. In this pathbreaking book, Tim Wu asks: will the Internet follow the same fate? Could the Web–the entire flow of American information–come to be ruled by a corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"?

Analyzing the strategic maneuvers of today’s great information powers–Apple, Google, and an eerily resurgent AT&T–Wu uncovers a time-honored pattern in which invention begets industry and industry begets empire. He shows how a battle royale for Internet’s future is brewing, and this is one war we dare not tune out.
The only question here is what "in the end" means.

I can make a bet that, say, OSX won't exist in its current form in twenty years. But that doesn't inform any particular action I should take today. "The end" can be a long time away, and in technology empires rise and fall in a span of three to five years.
Try this: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/stop-e-para...
The Detexify backend is a great example of a non-trivial program written in Haskell.
I'd call it some sort of desktop environment, like de.js or so.
Here's the major thing that got me, when you plug it into a computer via usb, you can run the OS in it's own window. That's the big get for me. But rather than be this USB device, it should exist as a feature on all our android smart phones.

Someone come up with an APP, that lets me plug my phone into my computer via it's USB cable and then let me have access to the device with my mouse and keyboard as input devices and the screen output directed at a window on my screen.
That might be an argument for premium job sites like TheLadders advertised as ($100k+ jobs). It seems like they've backed off on that branding, though. So maybe that doesn't work out well in practice?
Is true that the energy put into the system (in the form of the dynamic mirror) must be the same or greater than the energy of the photons taken out? I don't think this is the "zero-point energy" or "reactionless engine" breakthrough that people on that page are hoping it is.
I'm going to check this book out. But I've always had one nagging question about vesting I haven't found a good answer for.

Say you have a bunch of shares vesting over 2-4 years.

Is it possible (or realistic) to make an arrangement that in the event of an acquisition or liquidity event that your stock becomes full vested? Even if its been less than the full vesting period?
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Just imagine the margins a book seller has to have in order to operate a large store with 20+ employees. If you can walk-through the store and compare their prices with Amazon's it puts pressure on B&N not to charge as much, even if they may be more convenient. Plus a ton of people do browse.

Isn't B&N one of the few places to still carry a large selection of Music?
Screen and battery tech advances at a slower rate than silicon (CPU, GPU, RAM).

By physically separating those aspects into different devices, users could upgrade just the part that needs upgrading. i.e. this 21g device, and a "dumb" smartphone shell.
What is (or will be) the license on this once the code is available on github?
I don't agree with this law, but there seems to be this underlying sentiment on HN and other communities that copyright holders don't have rights and that there should be a free-for-all with their content.
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Anyone who knows who sjl is could have easily found his vimrc through his website. According to the bitbucket history, the file has been hosted there since at least 2009.
I think it should increase on each story viewed.
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Don't you think the manufacturers are choosing Android?
Sounds like a good hack. How much did you spend and how much additional storage did you get?
I'm not sure we're at quite the level of modularity that would allow that yet. For example in a smart phone, RF design is a big issue (antennae efficiency / avoiding interference), which may preclude making the baseband component swappable (which is one component we still seem to be iterating).

There's also the issue of designing a compact form factor that wouldn't result in huge space inefficiencies within the phone. Maybe in another 10 years
They sue you. And then you have a long lengthy lawsuit ahead of you!
Yes. This is dependent on the terms of the exit but is fairly common.
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Sure. But often they don't have the programming background to do it cleanly.
Some similar projects are eyeOS (http://www.eyeos.org/) and CorneliOS http://www.cornelios.org/
specs http://www.fxitech.com/products/
Lawsuit claims  Wal-Mart and Netflix reached an unlawful agreement
In my life I have never had a computer that primarily booted into a Windows OS.
I wonder how many times he saw Jimmy Wales' face at the top of an article.
>Also, the GPL doesn't say you have to allow redistribution of the compiled application, just the code IIRC.

Incorrect:

3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
I think a lot of readers are missing that names are changed (as is mentioned at the top of the blog post... you aren't actually named "Jon", right?); this is not a "public shaming" but a peek into this particular and one-time-only motivational strategy.

My personal thought is that with some relatively minor modifications, this could work as a pretty powerful motivator.

The points of "I'm trusting you completely; you don't have to run your decisions by me; I recognize that I do and will owe you enormously if we all manage to pull off what we said we would" is not bad at all, and would motivate me.

It's not the kind of thing you can pull out every two months -- that would be horrible -- but it sounds like he's asking for a complete commitment for a short burst of time, and also recognizing that this is costly in many ways.
a little thin. google "how to draw an owl" for the visual-arts version of this flowchart.
Very interesting analysis. Still, when comparing to C++, we have to consider that with a game that actually does something (game logic, interaction etc.) C++ advantage would be much bigger.
IAmA guy who got caught torrenting about 2 years ago
I've been searching these for past one month or so but I failed to find anything that can be used without modification.

1. Hacker News Clone in PHP that can be easily integrated with wordpress/buddypress through a plugin.

2. Good event management plugin for wordpress/buddypress

Apart from that I have some other ideas too:

1. Draw&Share Mobile App - let users draw freehand drawing using touch screen and share it with friends(on facebook, mms, etc)

2. Collaborative Whiteboard Web App - A simple whiteboard(freehand drawing + image/text/video/audio embedd) + Chat(text/audio/video)

3. UI Library that uses HTML 5 canvas instead of normal html/css/js controls.
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First, AIUI the government doesn't get to appeal in criminal cases. If a trial goes against them, that's the end of it.

Second, the right to a trial is enumerated in the US constitution. Anything that discourages people from exercising that right, such as a fine that increases as a result of choosing to have a fair trial rather than just paying after being accused, is an affront to that right.
I've done this a few times in my career. I'm smart enough now to always backup before I make any potential mistakes and test everything on a staging server.

The worst was executing "DELETE FROM <table>" instead of "DELETE FROM <table> where userid='X' on a production server.
What's the best case scenario, based on prior petitions?
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I want a 7" tablet that has a better screen; more pixels than my iPhone at least. The 10" tablets have this; I'd love to see that in 7" form.
From the email I received: The lawsuit claims that Wal-Mart and Netflix reached an unlawful agreement under which Wal-Mart would withdraw from the online DVD rental market and Netflix would not sell new DVDs. Wal-Mart and Netflix deny that they entered into such an agreement or that they have done anything wrong, that the Plaintiffs have been harmed in any way, or that the price of online DVD rentals was raised or inflated by any agreement between Wal-Mart and Netflix. The Court has not decided who is right.
The hundreds of millions of visitors from Google isn't enough? : )

Just joking, that's a nice donation. My wife was totally freaked out this week though...she had never seen the donation banner before.
My favorite part about this hack is the fact that the initial attack vector was PHPMyAdmin. Really?

I know SCADA systems used by the electric utilities are required to adhere to security guidelines defined by NERC-CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection), and I'd be shocked if there weren't massive violations of whatever the water utility equivalent is.
I once updated every user's password to "prettyflowers" or something dumb like that while trying to reset one customer's password.

I realized what I did the instant I hit enter, and all the blood drained from my face.

Thank god for backups.
That's what I try to do, but it often doesn't work. I walk in to Chapters thinking that I'll just order the books I want from the library. Then I start reading something and end up buying it because I need to finish it now, rather than waiting the day or two it would take to get it from the library...
Highcharts, the js charting library used by this Django app, is a very elegant charting library, but users should be aware that it is dual commercial/Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-licensed, with developer licensing for commercial projects starting at $360 for a single dev (although a simple 'non-app' webpage license is also available for $80).
For an extraordinarily powerful js data visualization library that can do charts and much, much more, check out d3.js. If you are good at javascript, spend a few days learning this library and you'll have a tool almost as powerful as Tableau, but that can be run on any modern browser that supports svg (Firefox 2+, Chrome 5+, IE 9+, plus any recent version of Safari, which means it runs on iPhone and iPad).
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Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.
vimscript really is an abomination. vim users of the world unite! and create a proper macro language for your editor. and no: running an external python/ruby/brainfuck process does not count.
You could send back touch events over the HDMI audio return or Ethernet channels.
If you want to learn how to do this yourself, let Steve know here: http://leanpub.com/learnvimscriptthehardway
Ha, this is actually pretty funny in retrospect. There I was, giving a talk on all of this great stuff we do with our data, having no idea that a good portion of that data had just vanished. The universe has many potent mechanisms for keeping us humble.
Yes, this is called acceleration.
I think Wikipedia should get into printing & selling beautiful books from some of their content.

Maybe that will be my weekend project!
I'm sure there is an interesting story here,but this article does not convey it. I would be very interested to read about the Iceland situation with the veiled ideological barbs at bankers, international finance, neo-liberalism, etc.

There's an implicit comparison to Greece here, but Greece's public sector is burdened by nepotism and sinecures. I doubt Iceland faced the same hurdle.

An unbiased assessment would be interesting. This is not.
I actually had the same idea once. I am glad you got around to implement it, so I don't have to ;).

I also thought about making other stats, to answer questions like "How much does it matter which user submitted the post?", "Which words in the title influence if a story gets upvoted?", "Which sites have the most high quality (upvoted) content?"