skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just another angle to approach the problem:

I suppose one way to fight this is to develop some sort of "multiple personalities" behaviour and habits.

There's "normal A" me, who goes to work every day, using the same route, checking the same webpages on route, doing the same web searches while at work, sending the same type of messages on IM during the day, etc, etc.

Then there's another me, "normal B", with his own habits and hobbies. But normal A and normal B should not overlap in terms of devices, friends, maybe even (online) behaviour. Location is bit more difficult, especially when you're at home. Home should be associated with only one "persona".

Once you make a conscious effort it might become easier with time, and thus hiding your real "identity".

Drawbacks?... Well, sounds bit like DID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder), so don't get caught accidentally :)
Hmm... Europe leads.. would be surprised if US did not come out on top by tommorrow this time..

- provided poll stays on top of course...
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Asia/Pacific should be split up more.

One vote category that covers 60% of the world's population and 30% of Earth's land area is not very specific.

Australia has 22 million people and Canada has 35 million, while Asia (Oceania not included) has 3,900 million, yet the former two get their own country-specific categories.
This would be not just cool, but really useful in terms of usability. I'm surprised there are so few upvotes...
>In the case of human genomes, they might store even less — only the difference between a particular genome and some reference genome.

The results from comparative genomics would suggest, at least superficially,
that a combination of compression and data de-duplication in the style of S3 and
Dropbox would go a long way towards resolving the issue.
LuaJIT could do this a long time ago already
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1187901
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I've looked at the lua/nginx integration a while ago, an all the examples struck me as somewhat confusing. A lot of work was done using lua as inline nginx configuration (or just normal nginx config). Mongrel2's Tir[1] looked a lot cleaner and better documented.

[1]: http://tir.mongrel2.org/
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Same problem here. I ordered one "UNO kit" for my little girl :) .

If I understand correctly this is only a software update. Is it true? The new software will work with all the models? Or it is a new (incompatible) board?
For me personally PostgreSQL makes up for the lack of good free graphical tools by providing an excellent command line client, psql, and good utility views and functions. I much prefer it to the CLIs of MySQL, Oracle and SQLite.
An understanding of finite-state machines is useful, because that way you'll understand the limitations you have when using regular expressions, which have been grossly misused.

It also helps you write optimal regular expressions - for instance if your regular expression clearly describes a DFA, then it will probably perform well. Otherwise in many cases you can optimize it - just as you can turn any NFA into a DFA.

It isn't so clear and cut these days however, as the regexp capabilities provided by modern libraries exceed the capabilities of finite state machines - for instance the engine in Perl 5.10 has support for recursion, which means a regular expression in Perl 5.10 can describe a Pushdown Automaton (PDA) instead, so things get way more complicated.

Either way, I suggest you do some reading on Automata Theory, because it's fun and not that hard.
Even as someone who lives in the UK, it would be interesting to split NYC and SF.
Seems like the modularity would help on the marketing side: people will be much more receptive to BERG Cloud product #2 if it connects to a device already in their living room. I think this is probably true whether or not there's a technological reason why it needs to.
People are working on it

Oh? What's the state of the art about this now? What are some good projects?
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Actually the contrary is true. Each of those successful technical founders you just named did not "do the job themselves". In fact, you just named 3 pairs of co-founders(Google, Apple, Adobe) but for some reason excluded other key co-founders such as Allen(Microsoft) and the FB guys(https://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?founderbios).

Three variables that determine a start-up's success are its 1)product 2)market and 3)the team. Of these, the team is the most important. With a talented team, you can build, get feedback, and reiterate faster on your product. A team that can reiterate every week has a competitive advantage over the team can only reiterate every month because it can push a product out 52 times/year as opposed to only 12 times/year. A team with multiple A-players is always better than a team with just 1 A-player, and their products will be too.
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Turkmenistan, suppose it goes into Asia/Pacific, though distinction such as South East Asia, Central Asia, and Middle East would have been nice.
Agreed. As a New Zealander I guess I would technically fall into 'Asia/Pacific', but I can't bring myself to choose that because NZ has next to nothing in common with any Asian nation. Consider providing the regional option of 'Australasia' or, better yet, 'Oceania' instead of just the single-country 'Australia'.
I will give webpagemaker licennce for $ 10
From Spain, (Rest of) Europe
Just got back from holiday there. How do you get any work done in that heat!?
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In Prague, Czech Republic, after abandoning the UK last year.
Lua Rocks is quite interesting. A lot of the ground work that was done for server-side JavaScript after Node became popular already exists, as do many modules. So you "just" need to add more, not invent something spanking new.

Never mind that I don't think this will make huge inroads. The big thing about NodeJS is that it's JavaScript, so that some frontend coder could use his already existing knowledge to quickly make a high-performing web service. And it came out with just enough hype to make it popular and create a community.

Lua doesn't really have those advantages. I do like the language a lot better than the mess that's JavaScript, but if a bunch of young coders are looking at a tool to fill a gap in their tech stack, it's not that likely that they'll look for Lua, unless they're all WoW extension programmers…

[1]: http://luarocks.org/
Why his friends are searching match in US? Did they try his ancestral place?
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I think it's a bit unfair to pick a band that was created in that golden age of music where the record companies didn't suck up all the money.

How about comparing a non-multimillionaire artist instead?
Brazil, one of the few I think.
uh? Asia could have been split up. 36 percent of the world lives in India and China
I voted Africa, being from South Africa. When I clicked on the up-arrow, the number of points did not increment immediately. I had to refresh the page to see the new number of points. Poor user experience.
We are missing the option to chose 'Europe but somehow not really Europe'!
Indonesia...
Do you own your own voice?
I was thinking, when voice synthesizers is getting ever more advanced it will eventually reach a point when you can artificially generate voices including your own, but is there some law that protect other people from using it? is it covered by copyright?
PR bs summary: "I said scala sucks, but I only said it to that one person, I didn't mean everyone to know that I think scala sucks, so yes, we love scala (but in private we think it sucks)".
Air Conditioners ?
What were your reasons if I may ask?
It's likely that of the reported install base, only a small percentage of devices are actually in active use today.
Consider haml to erector:

%ul#foo
%li "Hello"
%li.bar "World"

ul :id => 'foo'
li 'hello'
li :class => 'bar' 'world'
end

I personally don't like haml's use of seemingly arbitrary keywords. Coming back to a project and having to reread documentation due to cryptic syntax wastes time.
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Hey, I'm from Ukraine and I thought that should be my option! :)
You mean not EU I guess... but how is Switzerland not really Europe?? :P
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Given the timing of this poll (and it's European-bias as of 10:30 UTC) I would have been interested in a breakout between the European subregions (Eastern/Western/etc.).

(Although I guess limiting this as much as possible is desirable, otherwise there will be too many options available and the poll will not be very user-friendly.)
Please make the list easier to process by rearranging the options in the poll so that related regions are adjacent, e.g. I have regrouped the relevant options:

United States - NYC and SF Area

(Rest of) United States

China

India

(Rest of) Asia/Pacific

Another option would be to arrange the options alphabetically. In that case, "(Rest of) United States" would become "United States - Excl. NYS and SF Area" and "(Rest of) Asia/Pacific" would become "Asia/Pacific - Excl. China and India".
Africa, Nairobi Kenya.
I'm in the (Rest of the) United States. I would like to move to (someplace else in) the (Rest of the) United States.

All I want for Xmas and all that. (Sigh.)
One thing that also always bugs me on blogs is that the big logo links to blog.zerocater.com instead of www.zerocater.com. Why people do this I do not know, but it's very irritating.

I've just read your latest blog post, do you think it's likely I'm looking for more blog posts or your product?

So many product blogs get this wrong.
We're not that few.
The article is quite wrong, and it's another example of the myth of "those wacky Japanese" - this is clearly a coding competition.
But in this case, we are storing your files in a simple git repo defined by you. A git repo you could store on say github or bitbucket of which both are git hosts that are not going away anytime soon. In a way, this is just replacing a hosted dropbox with a hosted git repo should you choose to use it that way.
That NYT article is from 2007.
In the Solomon Islands on a 2G connection - to me HN is one of the most responsive sites around.
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I just got back to the UK from a 2 week holiday in SA. We went North of Pretoria where it was 38 degrees, but didn't feel too bad since it was a welcome break to the miserable cold in the UK and it was reasonably dry heat. I'm from SA originally, you get by with aircon in the office and in the car. Try having to wear a suit when the car's aircon is broken, it sucks.
Armenia - it's on the crossing of Europe and Asia, so I checked both :)
Thanks for review and suggestions!

I have fixed the issues you reported.
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unfortunately this is not possible once a poll is submitted (with additional choices being appended at the end)!
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Submiting a patch, Linux kernel example.
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I believe that Pilgrim took that "High as a kite" quote from Gruber himself.
http://web.archive.org/web/20110131103908/http://daringfireb...
Although many Europeans are at work and may not be on HN, I'd expect to see the most votes from Asia.
The BBC have and good article about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15968878
They both have the same root business case: make Scheme palatable to mere mortals, by adding a familiar syntax and abandonning some features: no more macros, and most data structures made mutable.

Where Lua diverges from Javascript:

* time has been taken to design it properly;

* backward compatibility has been broken more than once, to allow cleaning up design mistakes.

Also, it's not accurate to describe Lua as "designed by academinc": early developments have been driven by Petrobras' needs, more recent ones by the gaming industry and some prominent users such as Adobe's Photoshop Ligthroom. If you look at Lightroom team's rants about Lua 5.0 (http://www.lua.org/wshop05/Hamburg.pdf), then at the Lua 5.0 -> Lua 5.1 diff, you'll see that the latter is closely inspired by the former.
Sweden here. Anyone else? :)
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I'm not sure the majority are from the US. Maybe it'll be the largest item but the others together may outweigh it.
That's great to hear... I said that because I tried to pull a Brazilian Hacker News meeting in Campinas or São Paulo and go 0 answers... :(
Europe / Austria
I needed a change of pace and wanted to do something new and interesting, then I met a lady here on a trip, so I took the opportunity :)
It's a running joke in Switzerland since we are in the middle of Europe but not part of the EU. At least it is very easy to find Switzerland on the Euro coin! ;)
"Although many Europeans are at work and may not be on HN"

Uhm, that's exactly why I'm on HN.
I originally linked this without context. But, now I see they've given up on the UI aspect. :-(

http://www.syncany.org/
It is a proper comparison but not complete. Your server addition completes it.

I would direct my anger at the hotel who I have a contract and relationship with.
They do the same with Google App Engine. They pretend their cloud platform scale but, because of quotas, a GAE app can't scale much. Technically it can, but not without Google's permission. And they have no contractual obligation to let their customers' apps grow, it's legally just a favor they might offer to whichever customer they fancy.

So this Google+ quota isn't surprising, coming from Google.
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Nobody said Yammer said publicly announces that scala doesn't suit them.

Actually, someone did. The original post that `leaked` this email says something to that effect http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/real-life-scala-feedback-from-y...
I really love how this project copies how the node require resolution works. That is by far my favorite thing about node and it lets programmers do version management and reusability really well.
Sup buddy? Lagos Nigeria here.

Are you in Capetown? I heard that is the SF of these parts.
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo :)
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Are you in the iHub? what do you do. your profile is empty.
Hey, and I thought that was the Helvetic sea :)
yeah it gets damn warm here! cape town (where I live) has a sea breeze so is a bit more moderate, though.
UK and "Rest of Europe", got to love this point of view :-) You might as well go ahead and say "UK" and "Europe", wouldn't be too far off the mark.
About Fisking, Robert Fisk himself wrote:

"I have to be honest: I don't use the Internet. I've never seen a blog in my life. I don't even use email, I don't waste my time with this. I am not interested. I couldn't care less. I think the Internet has become a hate machine for a lot of people and I want nothing to do with it." [1]

Robert Fisk seems to equate the Web with the Internet. You can't really blame him.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisking
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Cologne, Germany. I'm running a 3d printing workshop on the weekend here. If you're interested, have a look at http://dingfabrik.de/2011/11/24/3d-drucker-an-einem-wochenen... (same info in English at http://blog.reprap.org/2011/11/reprap-prusa-iteration-2-buil... ). There's only a couple spots left though.
Maybe I am biased coming from another gaming community (Facepunch / Garry's Mod) but speaking for myself (as a young coder/developer) I like Lua.
Sorry to disappoint. ;) The remuneration system is well-known for its antagonism. While (if you're fortunate) some individual negotiations may not seem aggressive on their face, if you step back and consider the forest, there's intense pressure to bargain down costs.

Like take "labor" costs (most of us here get called "labor", even if we're a privileged class of it). Lots happens behind the scenes to beat down things like collective bargaining, because they increase labor's bargaining power.
Is it me or have there been at least three relatively fact-free, anecdote-based articles recently (2 WSJ, 1 NYT IIRC) talking about the angel/startup bubble and generally trying to spread FUD about silicon valley? Where is this coming from?
I would say the same thing.
I would say "UK" and "Continental Europe".
The timing isn't really the issue. As danmaz74 said, it needs to be on 24h.

If you would start it during the day in an US-timezone, other time zones would be underrepresented.
The big news is that the carriers forced it onto almost all smartphones (Android, Blackberry, iPhone). The blame needs to be pinned on them.
Wales, UK.
Where does that leave Ireland and the Nordic countries?
A picture's worth a thousand words... Screenshots?
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The oomlout kit mentioned is the best place to start for you. You probably won't need one of those for every kid though, the guides that come with it are on their website and once you know what activities you want to teach you can just buy the components required.
The Arduino to start with is the Arduino Uno (£22, $30)

Have a look at the (well illustrated!) examples provided with the Arduino software too: http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
Ah, right you are. The rabbit hole goes deeper than my memory does these days.
Alternatively you can just use this sort of mechanism to screw with them.

How many people can we get to take out some sort of loyalty card which tracks your behaviour and then use it to buy only root vegetables and lube?
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I've noticed that a few times myself. Most noteably badly grounded proaudio gear made the mics feel "rough" when plugged in. Its a well known warning sign that something's amiss and could become dangerous.(1)

I went so far as to make a little medium voltage amplifier and hook it up to my signal generator so I could try various frequencies and powers. Lots of strange and wonderful textures emerged but it always felt a bit tingly, like I was getting a mild shock. Hopefully they've figured out how to keep this from happening while still keeping the good part.

(1) Every once in a great while someone is hurt or killed touching a microphone connected to a malfunctioning mixer/amplifier.
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As far as I am aware, the decision making process started with a desire to invade Iraq and then once it was decided to do this any evidence that could justify this decision was collected and circulated (even if it came from someone who was known to be delusional).

Even worse, the UK government knew that there weren't good reasons to invade Iraq, but went along with it simply to keep in with the United States.
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Right, though I would think it checks recipient status right away
One of these days I need to run a survey on my Hacker Newsletter (http://www.hackernewsletter.com) project, but here is the top 15 locations based on known locations via MailChimp:

USA 41.6%,
United Kingdom 8.0%,
Canada 5.1%,
India 4.3%,
Germany 3.7%,
Australia 2.9%,
France 2.0%,
Netherlands 1.6%,
Sweden 1.5%,
Brazil 1.4%,
Italy 1.2%,
Poland 1.2%,
Spain 1.1%,
Portugal 1.0%,
China 1.0%
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It didn't take me long to find papers which are under the copyright of fee-charging journals, which should not be shared outside the institution they are licensed to - how do you plan to tackle this?
I can think of two rationales for restricting the President's access to information.

One is plausible deniability: there's no need to expose the president personally to every misdeed everyone working for the government may have committed. Yes, that's a cynical, realpolitik type of answer that really pisses off people on HN, but it's true.

The other is simply that the President makes decisions at such a high level that low level information simply isn't helpful to him. The federal government is huge. The President can't function without hundreds of people who spend all day aggregating and summarizing information. This invests a lot of power in the aggregators and summarizers.
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Nope but I do go there sometimes. I am an engineer at a local ISP although I have several side projects (mobile apps)that I am currently working on.
is there a reason why the uk is different from "the rest" of europe?
The "military secrets" to "source code" isn't an apt analogy. Lots of Linux OSs have secrets, such as SSL private keys, ssh private keys, passwords that sort of thing. Those are like military/government secrets. A (windows or linux) server that told everyone what the ssl private key and root passwords were, would, obviously, not be secure/
It would be interesting to see a split of 'London, UK' and 'Rest of UK' as I reckon there will be a big percentage of UK HN readers in London. Coming from Bristol myself, it would be good to see what the split is outside of London. There is a focus right now on TechCity in London, but I believe there are lots of great things going on elsewhere in the UK. Specifically, Bristol and Bath (OK I might be a little biased there...)
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I would use this for my company if I were able to install something as an OS X app. I'm not comfortable on the command line, and I want contractors and new employees to come on board just as easy (I don't want to have to admin their machines.)

This is very interesting indeed. I wouldn't mind paying for an OS X app that would take care of this problem (the setting up on each machine).
That's pretty cool. Do you know of a similar place like DingFabrik in southern Germany (BaWü)?
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The point I was trying to make is that it's not important whether it was a public announcement or not. It is quite clear from the posted email what their thoughts are on scala. The email talks about developers at Yammer and gives specficic reasons and examples. The point is made clear and loud.

Now they realise it might not be good for PR and try to "fix" the situation appealing to the fact that the email was not meant to be public which is both ineffective and unelegant.
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Karachi, Pakistan here.
http://mhquake.blogspot.com/2011/11/comparison-shots.html

(I'm not the author.)
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