skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the West Coast nearly all residential buildings have a wood frame with plywood on the outside and drywall (gypsum sandwiched between two layers of paper) on the inside.

The decorative/weatherproof finish outside of the plywood is increasingly made with concrete products, which can be made to look like stucco, brick, or even wooden planks or shingles.

The advantages of this sort of construction are that it's inexpensive (wood, after all, grows on trees, which we have plenty of around here), fast (particularly when using nail guns), and doesn't require a great deal of experience or training at the laborer level. It also has good seismic performance and is easy to remodel.

The downsides are that the structure is vulnerable to fire, water, insects, and stray cannonballs.

But in most cases the short lifespan is a good fit for the rapidly changing geography and demographics we have in North America.
Thanks! I do use the amazon API (all products right now are on amazon) to backfill a lot of the info. I don't want to just 'dump' tons of items though because there are a lot of dupes. I looked at grabbing best sellers from each category as a means of seeding, but there is a ton of dupes (like all the different kindle versions). Tagging also became somewhat of an issue and most items have few-no tags. Also the description quality/length varies greatly.

Thanks for the UI suggestion, I will play with that idea and see if I can come up with a better top oriented/organized search/nav. I definitely would like more screen real estate for gifts.
Honestly, HN? I clicked "comments" expecting to see a bunch of insight and analysis on the physics involved, and instead it's just a bunch of rage against local news stations because the station committed the unforgivable sin of making the beloved Mythbusters look bad.
Wow. That's a lot of frustration when you could just run

/bin/rm -f /etc/motd
touch /etc/motd
chattr +i /etc/motd
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Yes, the Philips Curve is pretty much the poster child example of the Lucas Critique. That is, observed invariants often cease to be invariant when policy changes. When we well and truly went off the gold standard the Philips Curve ceased to have predictive power for the US economy.

More details:
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=9677
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Python 3 has been available and usable for quite some time. Not so Perl 6.

However, CPAN compatibility would be hugely important to a usable Perl 6, by simple fact that no other language has the breadth and quality and availability of libraries to rival the CPAN.
In California, earthquakes are the issue. Brick buildings use to be common, but they don't hold up very well in earthquakes. I ma guessing the cost of supplies also play a role.
Yup. Wish I could see past my own tech-ego and play the game to that end.
> Would you prefer to pay for your online content?

Yes. A thousand times, yes.

As it turns out, we're already inefficiently paying for our online content. Where do you think the dollars for ad budgets come from?

I like to think of it as the country's largest privatized hidden tax system, funding socialized content.
I find the typo in "DRILL" interesting because "E" is typed with the left middle finger and "I" is typed with the right middle finger.
Verizon has every right to block Google Wallet
1) The industry is finally realizing that a massive amount of people got pissed by flashing display ads. Up to 14% of the online population uses an ad blocker (much more on HN :).
Last month, the IAB published their new guidelines, including max CPU usage for Flash banners: http://www.iab.net/iab_products_and_industry_services/508676...
I'm working on a product that helps publishers verify that CPU usage from ads served on their site does not exceed their specs, http://www.clarityad.com
Adobe is also investing in this, with their project Adthenticate http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/adthenticate/
There are only two websites which I endorse enough to whitelist them in my adblockers.

It's a case of having a finer control over the behavior of your web browser. Once upon a time, you had only rudimentary control, and had to use your eyes to ignore extraneous information. Adblocking gives us a little more automation. It's my hope that in the near future browsers will be able to parse the "real" content out of web pages in order to present it and only it to the user. Wouldn't that be nice? No more sidebars, no more banners or popups or buttons or other garbage, just paragraphs of text you want to read, pictures you want to see, and videos you want to watch, undiluted.
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This post just stems from the fact the user did not know how to do something. This has very little to do with an updated motd or the very unrelated bzr branch he had to get. Don't like it? use something else. The time you wasted writing this post was probly greater than the time wasted finding the solution.
Not sure what "under administration" means exactly, but the company was folding, and the CEO was selling the remains (the software, a few of the people, the name if they wanted it) to an investor who owned another company, to do with what he wanted.

So it was priced at the "market" value, which he estimated to be quite low (and he was probably right, we weren't all that successful at the time).
Go is also moving very fast and they often make backwards-incompatible changes to the libraries (and sometimes the core language) but upgrading code can be done automatically 95% of the time using gofix, which programmatically rewrites code to conform to the latest language and library updates.

http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/introducing-gofix.html
http://golang.org/cmd/gofix/
"At run time" is the key. Consider Java.

If Dog and Cat are subclasses of Animal (or implement an Animal interface), for example, I might want to use a "breed" method to attempt to breed a hybrid animal with the loyalty of a cat and the stealth of a dog.

public Animal breed(Animal a, Animal b)
{
// return generic Animal
}

public Animal breed(Dog a, Cat b)
{
//return Cog
}

But at compile time, if all I know is that I have two animals to breed, Java will ALWAYS pick the breed() method with the Animal arguments, even if the run-time types will be Dog and Cat.

To solve this problem in Java you have to delve into the hideous Java reflection object and litter your code with junk that you'd wish the language would figure out for you.

When you've used a language that is aware of types at run time and supports multi-method dispatch, anything else seems like it's half-baked OO.
You're going to want to get a grasp on JavaScript basics. I can't think of a day in my professional career that I wasn't glad I learned JavaScript and continued pursuing it. Other than that, Google and Stack Overflow will be your best friends in the world of web development. Just stay hungry for knowledge, know how to search the internet thoroughly, and you'll be fine.
This the more polite "I work at Zynga" option?

More seriously... probably more along the lines of company fails, maybe left before vested, etc. Curious to see a list of ways though... or peoples experiences.
I appreciate the feedback and I also agree with you on several points. Tropo's logging today IS incredibly verbose and I've been working with our product dev team to filter it to make it more developer-friendly.

You are correct that Tropo does not have built-in queueing today and I also agree that it should at least let you know if it can't deliver a message.

Better reporting is also at the top of our list for the next rev.

Again, thanks for taking the time to give me your feedback. I think you'll be pleased to see these suggestions baked into the next version of Tropo. +) Diggz
Gruber "Statement against interest" heuristic: If he says something an Apple competitor is doing is smart/good/right/better, it should be given extra credence.
I lay no claim that all minorities will be offended, only that a minority population exists that will be offended. My personal preference is to just use the language you want. I'm of the generation that rejected the PC cultural influences developed by our aging parents.

My words are merely a caution against blindly following the numbers. The impact of "Merry Christmas" vs "Happy Holidays" may be innocuous, but you will inevitably face more impactful decisions where the best conversion may come at the price of marginalizing a minority unfairly.
I'm fairly sure they had a very good idea of the potential range of the cannon. I'm sure they were aware of the advantages of a larger facility. They chose to use a more convenient facility that they thought would be safe enough.

I guess we probably don't need to keep going back and forth on it though.
I downvoted you purely because of your edit.
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Last time I saw this display it was a bit small, a bit dim and a bit underwhelming, But it was in color and it was better than the other e-reader displays i have seen.
Trademarks and copyrights aren't equivalent. I'm not licensed to practice in China, but from everything I've ever read, Chinese law [1] isn't so different (at this level) from that of other countries.

TRADEMARKS: Generally speaking, a trademark is something that signifies or evokes a product provided, sponsored, or endorsed by a particular source. TRADEMARK EXAMPLES:
* Word marks such as Apple and iPad;
* Logos such as the apple logo;
* Sounds such as the "Intel inside" sequence of notes;
* Colors, even (sometimes) such as pink for Owens-Corning-brand attic insulation.

(Trademarks are for products; service marks serve the same function for services.)

In a sense, the "owner" of a trademark is really just its government-appointed custodian or guardian. (It's sort of like the old joke: Dogs have masters, cats have staff.) When a trademark owner enforces its rights against an infringer, what the owner is really doing is performing a public service, namely keeping the market free of marks that would be likely to confuse the public.

COPYRIGHT: In contrast, copyright applies to original works of "authorship," regardless whether associated with a product or service.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_in_the_Pe...
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This is reasonable. I always like being given a choice. Though, I'm sure this could be overachieved with an extension (assuming people properly setup their 404's).
You'd have to be pretty dumb to be an employee at a startup because of the money: bad hours, lots of risk, bad pay and lots of personal confrontation.
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But then there are consequences to the consequences. Surgeons will refuse to operate in marginal cases and people will die unnecessarily. Food will no longer be mass produced and people will go hungry. Parents will stop taking their kids outside to swim.

Shit happens. If you punish people for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, they'll never be in that place at all.
Imagine if your bank would only let you cash checks written by it.
http://www.quora.com/Why-hasn-t-Facebook-migrated-away-from-... has some insider insight.
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we need a multi-level poll
The parent post was about journalists, not about journalistic entities, unless I did miss something.

I think the Internet revealed that the common denominator is not where you work (a newsroom, your bedroom) but that you're good at your job. That's all.

The dwindling great news organizations are like a good university -- you have amazing resources at your disposal, you are surrounded by peers who hold you to a very high standard -- so by that measure traditional journalists lucky enough to work at a place which still provides that infrastructure have a leg up. Internet journalism at its best has proven that that what those institutions offer at their height are merely great tools to get the job done, but they don't at all define what the job is. The medium, and even the resources available, don't make a good journalist. They can help, sure, but what makes a good journalist is being a good journalist.

Its a lame and simple point to be making, but it was a direct reply to the parent post.

---

To really get dicey... The parent post argued that the Internet has shown that everybody can be a journalist. I really strongly disagree, but I guess that's because it boils down to an argument about "what is a journalist." If "journalism" to you is "telling someone what you saw," then yes we are all journalists, Tweeting about our sandwiches! Imparting information concisely to your audience, fact checking, treating the information you're handed not as the end of the job --as information to be straight-up regurgitated-- but instead as the beginning --facts to confirm, stories to investigate, quotes to react to-- is the stuff that matters to me when the word "journalist" is applied to someone. That is a real, complicated thing that few want to do, and even fewer are good at, let alone "everybody."

Anybody can copy and paste a press release, anybody can provide a tip on what's happening around them spatially, but not everybody can be bothered to follow it up and make sense of it. Journalism is taking a ton of information, coupling it with original research, and synthesizing it down to something people can understand. You don't need a newsroom for that, nor does being on the Internet magically make you better at it. That's all I'm saying!
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I think that's tenable - I actually have an NY Times subscription for this reason. I think it's important to pay for good journalism, and I'm putting my money where my mouth is. But I ask because it's possible there are people who don't want to pay for content, yet want it to be free. I want to understand their thinking. (Assuming, of course, they exist.)
Yep, since 1998.
This one is awesome too - http://playcez.com/error
Are you moving from Bellevue?
"The ads usually intend to add value."

Maybe in the advertiers' and their bosses' deluded minds.

I'd estimate that 90% of ads I saw were lying either directly or by omission. They don't add value, they try to trick you in to buying crap you don't need, that's often no better (or even worse) than the competition, products that can even be harmful (like various prescription drugs that you'd often be better off not taking in the first place).

The people that peddle this crap are slime. But I'm not at all surprised that a large contingent of HN members would defend them and try to justify their miserable, lying, parasitic existence. After all, many of them own companies which depend on advertising. So they try to apply some moral balm and pretend that they're "adding value".
I think you've hit the nail on the head, that having a centralized package manager tool/host, a la the haskell hackage / cabal-install or the like, would substantially simplify the problem, but because of desired JVM library compatibility this path isn't explored as much as might be ideal
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Completely agree about ExtJS. It is quite valuable in that once you learn it there are a lot of things you can easily throw together that would have been a lot more difficult with something else, but the learning curve is so high that its tough getting new developers to the point where they can add to the code base.
I suspect though that an explosion blowing a few windows is lot less interesting than a cannonball bouncing through a house. I at least would be interested in seeing the damage a cannonball can cause.
We've posted some follow-up comments on how we're trying to improve the quality of Date.fm here: http://blog.date.fm/post/13881727508/how-quality-and-simplic...

Would love to hear your thoughts.
I'm disappointed. Hyneman especially should have recognized the danger of combining energy levels like those with the elastic properties of a cast iron ball. If the firing range was within five miles of inhabited area, stone canonballs should be used. They've obeyed this rule in the past.
When we bring users in for user testing and ask them when they are most likely to take their next video - the number 1 response is during a special event (birthday, christmas, graduation, etc). The holiday season is very very kind to Socialcam.
Did your little hissy fit feel good? I hope so, because other than "software should never ever change, doubly so if the documentation isn't updated" I got absolutely nothing from that post.

An update changed something, the documentation didn't have the answer so you checked with the source. Welcome to linux. Actually, welcome to the world of software.

Did you at least submit a bug report?
Re: the apologetics in Mythbuster's favor, keep in mind, these guys are pretty damned rigorous when it comes to safety. Fire and EMS on site, clearing their experiments with local authorities, etc. Having them take the piss with something of this magnitude seems highly unlikely.
I usually side with the scientists when they go up against philosophy; but in this case Daniel Dennett's compatibilist position has already taken the scientific evidence into account and come up with a coherent definition and prescriptive advice.

For the free-will-related question of blame, I think this essay is a far more sophisticated and useful examination of it: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
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I'm not patio11, but my guess (completely speculating here, of course) would be that "Merry Christmas" sounds more like something someone you know in a casual context (friends, family, etc.) would say to you, whereas "Happy Holidays" is used more by companies, which tend to try harder to be politically correct. When users see "Merry Christmas" rather than "Happy Holidays", they might be more likely to just read the subject line and open the message without checking the sender, assuming it's from a friend. "MC" also sounds (to me) more like an email that is being sent with a specific purpose (as opposed to just a reminder that the company exists), e.g., maybe the company is offering you free bingo cards as a gift.
I encourage you to try Tropo, we have thousands of very happy developers in our community and we're constantly absorbing feedback and baking it into our platform. Plus it's completely free for developers :)
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That seems a bit ad hominem. The author, despite the excited tone, points out numerous legitimate failings of documentation and convention in Ubuntu.
Out of curiosity, did you have a control? That is, was it "Merry Christmas from BCC!" vs. "Happy Holidays from BCC!" vs. "[Normal email subject] from BCC!"?

I'm curious to know how much "Merry Christmas" improves results vs. a baseline compared to how much "Happy Holidays" may hurt results, as has been suggested by others. The linked article only compares "Merry Christmas" vs. "Happy Holidays", which makes it hard to know if "Merry Christmas" is really helping, or if "Happy Holidays" is only hurting.
This could possibly be the dumbest reply ever on HN.

The motd file, by convention, is displayed whenever you log in to a Unix box. It has been this way for longer than you have been alive.

There is no question of 'use something else'. There is no app store for alternatives to /etc/motd. There is no dialog box that pops up that asks you what alternative to motd you would like to see.

The standard unified method for determining what a system file is composed of is called 'man'. This has also been around since long before you were alive. The author demonstrated correctly through the use of this tool that the ubuntu system for displaying the motd is (a) needlessly overcomplicated, (b) totally broken, and maybe most importantly (c) at odds with its documentation.

Please log out of the internet.
Seriously? A subject line with such a trivial change makes that much of a difference? It's the same email. A "please remember to buy from us while we cash in on the commercialization of the holiday" email from a retailer. I'm surprised to find out that people are actually influenced by that slight change in subject header.
Ever been approached to be bought out before your app is launched?
We submitted our App to iTunes Connect on Monday and put up a promo-how-to video. We blogged about it on Tuesday and we got some HN buzz.

We got an email today saying that someone is interested in buying out our product as they've got a similar product in the works.

What do you think that means?

We're curious to hear any opinions on it, bearing in mind our App is waiting for review and that the only thing we've shown is a video.
I believe that the exact amount was $112 (net). Unbeknownst to most, our executives screwed everyone over and issued preferred stock to a major investment bank. I, and many others, had thousands of options, but the share price for common shares was too low for most grants to be worth anything. The executives all received bonuses for the sale from the investment bank.
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I'm getting sick of people complaining that Ubuntu keeps changing things. That's what Ubuntu does! They've done that since the beginning! Oh, they've changed the software manager, oh they've changed desktop environments, oh they changed the theme color... stop complaining and switch to something else.

If you're looking for stability and steadfastness, you probably shouldn't be using a distro with a 6 month major release cycle. Things change, things get broken, and if you don't know that about Ubuntu by now, you're doing it wrong.
>I hope so, because other than "software should never ever change, doubly so if the documentation isn't updated" I got absolutely nothing from that post.

Seeing as how I share, almost verbatim, the author's rage, allow me to break it down into a sentence or two:

What possible benefit was there from overcomplicating the bloody MOTD file? I don't see anything but complexity for complexity's sake.
Max, are you trolling here? This kinda smells like trolling, because I don't think you'd be the type to generalize across all startups like this.
Privoxy is pretty good. I run it (usually a single centralised instance) on any LAN I am allowed to. Any network installs for people (e.g. family/friends) I set up a Linux server and Privoxy is in there (with judicious bypassing because it IS too aggressive for some sites out of the box).

See, this is what happens when your ads are just that wrong side of obnoxious and you piss off the 1% - they might just have the power to make sure ANOTHER 10% don't see your crappy ad, either. And that 10% thank me for it. Every so often they get to see what a festering cesspool the internet is without a filtering proxy between them and it, and by God they thank me.
> I still don't understand how anyone can seriously claim that they could keep the AI in the box.

I'm glad you can't, but never the less, this was a commonly suggested strategy; I was on SL4 when the boxing was being done, and it was a live concern for some people. (At least these days boxers tend to focus more on the 'oracle AI' proposal, which has a lot of issues but is not quite so Hollywood-stupid as boxing.)