skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like ROBOdoc [1]. It's not well known enough IMO, but it has the huge advantage to work with about any language you can think of, which is a real boon for mixed codebases (for instance C + Python + HTML + Javascript or any other combination you can think of). Of course it can be used to generate HTML, PDF, man pages, POD or about anything else.

[1] http://www.xs4all.nl/~rfsber/Robo/
Stopped reading the instant I saw it was white on black with font size larger than normal.
Oh, I noticed. And I wonder how a company which caters to the growing obese population manages to fail!

This isn't the first time they've filed for bankruptcy so it's not too much of a surprise, they will undoubtedly sell their brands off and come out fine.
I'm English and would be annoyed if a site I used vanished for a reason that is nothing to do with me. You don't like what your govt is doing, vote it out.
Why did they not sue the individual responsible (Heiko Schoenekess) rather than godaddy that simply enabled him to set up the redirects?
Oh I agree that the previous govt were dreadful. But I can understand /Labour/ being bereft of clue. I expect better from the Tories. Then again, I suppose they've been a bit busy dealing with economic and european issues.
For those interested in how Perl does dynamic scoping here is dynamic2.clj in perl5:

use 5.014;
use warnings;

our ($x, $y) = (2, 2);

sub sum_of_squares {
my ($a, $b) = @_;
($a * $a) + ($b * $b);
}

sub sum_of_squares_for_x_and_y { sum_of_squares $x, $y }

say sum_of_squares_for_x_and_y; # => 8

{
local ($x, $y) = (10, 5);
no warnings 'redefine';
local *sum_of_squares = sub {
my ($a, $b) = @_;
$a / $b;
};

say sum_of_squares_for_x_and_y; # => 2
}

say sum_of_squares_for_x_and_y; # => 8

PS. I seem to be making a lot of HN comments on dynamic scoping lately :)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3446384 | http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3423631
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> Adjective:	Less advanced, esp. mentally, than is usual for one's age. Synonyms:	backward - delayed

The OP doesn't use it to mean "backwards" , "delayed" or "less advanced". He means "stupid" and should just say so.

> it's no longer socially acceptable to use the word to describe the mentally disabled

Looking on Wordnik [1], four dictionaries out of five list "retard" as having to do with mental retardation (Wordnet 3.0 actually doesn't mention it according to Wordnik, but a quick search reveals that it actually does [2]).

Wikipedia [3], in fact, argues that "mental retardation" is on a "euphemistic treadmill" [4]. I'll allow Wikipedia to take it away:

The terms mental retardation and mentally retarded were invented in the middle of the 20th century to replace the previous set of terms, which were deemed to have become offensive. By the end of the 20th century, these terms themselves have come to be widely seen as disparaging and politically incorrect and in need of replacement.

The term "mentally retarded" is no longer "socially acceptable", precisely because it perceived to be "disparaging".

> Using gay however, is a completely different scenario. Retarded reflects on mental performance, while gay reflects on sexuality.

People who are mentally disabled are unable to change it. As far as I know, the same applies to one's sexual orientation.

The OP uses the word "retarded" by saying "let's not be retarded". My state of retardation doesn't change from second to second; it's fixed at birth. Insulting what one can't change is the most powerful type of insult. If you call me "stupid", I can always work to be less ignorant. If you call me a "chink" because I'm Chinese, I can't change that, and I feel more insulted.

> English already has so few words - we might as well use the ones we have.

That's a horrible reason. Simply using the word "idiotic", "dense", or any other works just fine in the OP's sentence. None of those refer to immutable characteristics such as "gay", "retard", or "chink".

When communicating, there isn't any reason to use a potentially offensive word, especially when there are a plethora of less insulting ones available.

Edit: Changed "sexual preferences" to "sexual orientation". Thanks emmapersky!

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1. http://www.wordnik.com/words/retard

2. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=retarded&su...

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_retardation#cite_note-is...

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism_treadmill#Euphemism_t...
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Intel is beating ARM because Intel are a process ahead. If an Intel fab made ARM chips on the same process they use for i7s, that ARM chip would beat the pants off the Intel chip made on the same process.

Intel does waste lots of chip real estate on caching big instructions (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3922/intels-sandy-bridge-archi...) and on wide decoders that fault and go to microcode when they encounter some instructions. Think of how inefficient the SSE and AVX encodings are, because the need to escape 8086 code. Or the extra byte needed to access the extra 64bit registers. New CPUs are seldom limited by decoder width on regular code but it does cost watts and it costs space that could have been used for cache or for making the chip cheaper.

I'm not even sure ARM is the best ISA. It doesn't matter which alternative is the best: I just predict that the best won't win because Intel will use their superiority in manufacturing to artificially boost the success of their lackluster CPU design guys.
As a developer, I cannot easily ignore one of the most widely used platforms. Their policies are not upfront at all. They are not even published for everyone to see. They are vague and open ended.

Apple is known for kicking people out simply for competing with Apple itself or its selected partners. They also throw out apps simply because someone makes a copyright infringement claim, regardless of merit. You cannot know if these things will happen to you. It's outside of your control, even if you stick slavishly to the rules.

I do appreciate the positives, otherwise I wouldn't bother to argue about this in the first place. But these positives are not predicated on mandating the App Store as the exclusive distribution channel.

As a consumer, it's not that big a deal for me, but it is regrettable that I cannot use Apple's mobile devices as I am a Mac and iPod user. I just can't have some device maker censor the content I put on _my_ device.
Yes, but only to encourage a pile-on effect leading to Facebook and Google doing it.
What was it like working for a pr0n site? Do a mini-AMA plz :)
Why not ask PG to change it?
I walked past one of their factories today in Seattle and saluted.
The short answer is yes, ClojureScript has similar interop features for vanilla JS as Clojure for the JVM has for Java.

However, given that ClojureScript uses the Google Closure compiler to optimize production code, there are a few gotchas to be aware of. This article does a great job at explaining the details:

• http://lukevanderhart.com/2011/09/30/using-javascript-and-cl...
Go to G+ chat -> privacy settings and uncheck the HN circle.

Had the same problem, took me a while to figure how to fix it.
Looks very promising. I think there is still no good tool to manage all your links correctly. However, I have some ideas for you:
- Sharing lists (so that they show up under your list) with teams
- Mobile integration if this is possible

Good work!
Are you using the dev version? If so, then yes you've had that for a while now. It just made it into the beta now ...
Microsoft: ‘we're giving away the software and selling the hardware.'
Ask PG: could you add the subdomain next to the article title?
It would be nice for some domains like wordpress.com and google.com
Wouldn't you want to watch Hulu on your job? (Provided that you're bored on your job...)
What would it take to get it to be as smart as, say, Intellisense?
They have the largest share in not providing decent graphics.
I agree. I want to support fellow HNers, so I hesitated a moment before closing the tab. But in the end I'm not going to give away my email address just to find out what this thing does.
I'm English too but totally support US sites blacking out in opposition to SOPA. It will affect the entire internet if the bill passes and may be used as a template for other countries (Note: I don't think HN blacking out will have much impact so I don't support this particular question)
I would pay more than 25 GBP were it made in the UK. And this isn't a movement -- it's not "occupy".
I'm curious what other randomness estimators you'll be using... (or maybe I'll just have to wait for another blog post).
The MacBook Air Samsung SSD is about to get twice as fast
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Google Plus showed me a random video at the top
"What's hot on Google"

Am I missing something? Isn't this a service struggling to get off the ground? What would convince Google that I would want a video of babies roller-skating from 'funny or die' (tacky, boring, low brow, more precisely just not in my interests so get off my screen)?
All it's missing now is a better icon; preferably not another blue one. Normally end up with this one (blue I know). http://www.designkode.com/blog/sublime-text-icon
if you have an ounce of patriotism as the inventor, yes.
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For HTML/CSS, PrinceXML produces beautiful results, but it is not free.

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> I wonder how a company which caters to the growing obese population manages to fail!

Over-generous pension plans.
Then, please explain, why is it so bad? What is the weak link in the chain? I just decided against joining the HN circle because the list of instructions to do it was too much like the instructions for editing linux config files, which I only follow out of necessity.
I think the idea is great, but I'm not sure Google has fully figured out what to do with it's social search.

I may like to know in search what all the Hacker News users like and dislike, but I'm not sure I'm really intereseted in everything they write on their google wall (even if mostly are probably great posts :) ).
I'm not sure what "Animated sub-line scrolling" is but "smooth scrolling" returned a lot of hits:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/4160949

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmoothScrolling

http://zwell.net/content/emacs.html

https://emacs.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/smooth-scrolling/

Yes, trying to do fancy things in Elisp can be a bit kludgy.
It's an orders of magnitude different problem.

Taking photos is just recording light that exists. You can change the position, lighting, a few options on the camera, but it's easy enough to say that for a given location, probably a few thousand photos would cover most of the possibles.

Writing involves thought. After you've typed even a few characters you're past a few thousand possible combinations. Brute forcing writing isn't feasible.
Yes, in solidarity, but with the understanding that it will have no other purpose. Everyone who comes on HN knows about SOPA.
I cannot wait for their next earnings report.
Announcing a hacker news blackout could sway the big guys to do the same.
It's not even a case of politics for these companies. They need to avoid regulation to survive.

The most important asset these companies have are highly skilled and sought after researchers. How appealing will Google be to work for if the projects they work on are designed to:

* prevent access to information that researchers require for their studies

* stall or prevent innovation

* favour established and inflexible industries over startups

* increase the amount of bureaucracy everyone has to deal with

* force problems into hiding rather than providing real solutions
Please don't use link shorteners in HN. Full link:

http://books.google.fi/books?id=7papZR4oVssC&pg=PA289...
But not from ICE.

Honestly, I'm surprised they haven't taken it yet. I never go there, so I didn't realize that TPB still had any US-based domains left.
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you will get excellent results for low effort with the Microsoft tools when doing anything "normal"

If you have basic LaTeX skills, you get excellent results for low effort with LaTeX when doing anything normal.

For example, I tried really hard to use TeX for my resume. It was a tremendous pain for weeks, and the most popular template hadn't been updated since 1970.

As far as my resume is concerned, I can't share your complaint: using an up-to-date template generated by somebody else, it was very easy to adjust it to my needs to get a decent looking resume in no time.

(La)TeX can be quite a hassle for some (mostly complex) issues. But especially for easy tasks, it beats Word and alike easily IMO.
Well, if you don't want your laptop to suspend while it is open, use Caffeine. Awesome App!

I was really asking why you would ever want your laptop to not suspend when you do close your lid. Watching a video or game is not possible with a closed lid anyway. Downloading something would be, but then I just leave the lid open if I want to do something like that…
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I've always wondered why you can't get Twinkies in places like Europe and Australia. Those things are mentioned in so many TV shows and films that the brand awareness is already there, and I know for a fact that lots of non-American's to whom I've spoken are intrigued to know what they're like.
exactly... any other surprises and mysteries in store for us? Did you create the logo?

"Your personal library for the web."

That tells me a lot. Are there 'virtual' bookshelves provided?

"A better way of bookmarking."

Are you sure about that? My way is pretty fast and works when I'm offline. Does yours do that too?
Or just throw a few bucks towards setting up a wholly owned subsidiary that leases out the api.
The joke is, David Wheeler demonstrated years ago that you don't need most of the parens:

http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html

It wouldn't be too hard to develop an indentation-based dialect of Clojure.
For the lazy:

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A form that lets me enter my email address? Aren't there are zillion of those already?
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Maybe you should take a look at the Rails sourcecode.
A rather nice introduction to Python generators
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This guy has to be on caffeine, modafinil, and love for his product.
Incredible velocity here.
Yes, do it! The people downvoting you obviously didn't!
Sure I could have hosted it one of my servers, but that isn't the same any more than posting a couple of links in an Apache directory is the same as sharing it on Reddit or Facebook. And am I supposed to be maintaining a fulltime blog on film criticism in order to share a single video with an audience of people who might care?

There's no sane reason we should lose the visibility, distribution and community relevance of social platforms simply in exchange for exercising fair use of something. That said, the point was less about Youtube being unfair and more about how these platforms are already heavily biased against the assumption of fair use.
> People who are mentally disabled are unable to change it. As far as I know, the same applies to one's sexual preferences.

Sorry, but I just had to point out the "Sexual Preference" implies choice, which, as you correctly point out is not something people choose. I think the phrase you were searching for was "Sexual Orientation"
They taste terrible. Try them once, never again.

To make it work they'd need to produce a segmented version.
AFAIK Komodo IDE (7.0 at least) has this feature and it is definitely faster than Eclipse, but it is infinitely more expensive.
"Your personal library for the web. A better way of bookmarking" - this isn't a value proposition. Give me a reason to take action (in this case, give you my email address) instead of clicking back.

Requesting a username and password immediately after the email address? Another obstacle to adoption. Get rid of this as quickly as you can.

Before you lose too much potential front page traffic, consider:

1. Showing what Saaave does better than a browser's bookmark list or Safari's reading list - emphasis on show and not tell.

2. Whether capturing the email address is really necessary as the first interaction with the site. You'll get much better retention if you let people start using Saaave with no obstacles, and then prompt for an email address as the last step.
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I find it amazing that something once seen as boring as a piece of glass now has so much brand recognition.
From the stackexchange thread: """Probably not before you are hired but you can impress with your good looking reports, presentations etc. after you're hired."""

I don't think so. The stock standard LaTeX templates are not that good looking compared to the kind of reports presentations etc a competent guy versatile in graphic design (not necessarily a graphic designer) can achieve -- perhaps even using some ready made presentation/report template bundled with his office suite or third-party.

Slightly better typography is the main advantage, but people would fell asleep reading a LaTeX template report or presentation. Lack of color, imagery, drab looking charts and diagrams etc --unless you really dive full in and peruse all of LaTeX. And it's not like anyone sweats over typography details when reading a bloody report.
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ICE is illegally taking down those websites. They have no authority to take them down. This is why they are only doing it to random no-name websites that people haven't heard of, thinking the vast majority of them will not even respond. If what they are doing was legal, they would've taken down TPB by now.

It's just one more case of doing something illegally, and then using the excuse that "we were doing it before anyway" to convince politicians and pass it into law later on. I just hope that if SOPA and PIPA are rejected, someone will try to go after ICE for their abuses.
> so would math and chemistry

Anecdotal evidence here: I'm pretty good at math, but failed several chemistry exams in high scool. I just didn't "get" it. Maybe I would be able now, because I'm better at thinking abstractly and systematically than when I was 16, but that would be because I'm a programmer today. For me the correlation definitely doesn't hold. Same goes (to a lesser extent) for biology for me.
Interesting that even after these good results, Apple can still only claim an 11% market share in the US.
True, but: 1. There are a ton of long-running/cron-style tasks where JVM startup overhead just isn't relevant (and Scala's type safety, access to Java libraries and logging tools rinse Bash), and: 2. If you are using Scala scripting in "live operator" mode, here's a good SO answer on how to speed that up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4237863/improving-scala-s...
Setting your max clients to 220 on that setup is a terrible idea. You will probably cause the machine to start swapping as there is insufficient memory for each PHP process. It will grind to a slow halt. You should calculate your MaxClients based on the amount of load the machine can actually handle, not the amount you wish it could handle :-)

A conservative estimate of 20MB per PHP process would already put the requirements for 220 of them at over 4GB (twice what you have) and that's not allowing anything for the OS and anything else running on the machine. Its not an exact science figuring out the appropriate MaxClients, but you should find out how much the rest of the machine needs, look up the average Apache process size (ps), divide the available memory by that and then reduce it a little. Use this as you starting point for figuring out the MaxClients. Keep an eye on the available free memory for a while (vmstat) and gradually up that limit until you reach a comfortable working level for the setting.
Sweet things seem to be quite different between cultures, probably because of what people get used to as kids. Chocolate varies a lot between countries for example. I dont think twinkies would be popular.
I find that much more elegant; four lines of bash script which would run on nearly any Unix-like system, versus 49 (or a bit less if you drop the whitespace) of Scala, which won't. Even the shebang is three lines instead of one!

I guess this example is nice as an introduction to Scala, but it doesn't seem like Scala is a particularly appropriate replacement for any of the things one would normally use a shell script for.
He's not talking about rejections from recruiters... he's talking about getting too many crappy recruitment mails.

I get about 5 mails per week pimping some junior job to me that would probably pay 40% less than my current job. I don't reply to these emails because these people haven't done their homework.

The poster above you is saying that maybe that's how attractive women fail...
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"""his is where I find your point to fall apart. The internet is NOT under the laws of any given nation and I doubt very much if some nations even have a sense of Public Domain or copyright. And even the ones that do can hardly agree on common terms."""

Actually, almost all nations have standard international agreements on this matters. Also, tons of common abuses are from the US and EU themselves, that very much agree on common terms.

I'm sure some people are complaining because a web outlet in Kazakstan used their pictures, but those are not many...
Not directly related to the article, but I find it weird that all advertisements always quantify their measurements with "up to" - In this case "up to 20% thickness reduction". If it is 20% in a majority of designs/uses, say so, or give it as an average of 15% or some such. I always feel "up to" means "best case, carefully controlled laboratory tests which has no application in the real world"