skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting.

I recently was evaluating JS and Python for handling time in my app. The goal was not to localize to a specific timezone for the client, but rather to inform the client of where in the world a current time is.

I ended up picking the Python backend solution because it was easier to reason about with the more abstract `datetime` primitives.
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there was a similiar plugin for eclipse around, called eclim.
Only Windows version of Chrome has some color correction and render problems. On Apple devices there is no difference.

So if you use a macbook or imac don't try to find any difference.
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Quite funny seeing as Reddit was YC-incubated and was clearly inspired by HN
It's always a good idea to pick up a short memorable, maybe hybrid word, if there are no available domain names what you came up with. I posted some of short, memorable, free .com domain names here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3422233
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This seems to be a part of a nascent trend in IDEs. There's vrapper and eclim for eclipse, Vintage for Sublime Text, and now this as well.

I've seen a lot of arguments about how people don't use IDEs because vim/emacs are better, and I always felt they were misguided. I see the feature sets of vim/emacs and your common IDE as nearly disjoint sets, and I couldn't be happier to see the good parts of the two editors being joined with the power of the IDE.
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It's annoying having to click a button to adjust the bloxes. Would be better if you could just adjust them by dragging the sides.
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I'm sorry to be negative, but I really can't see the use of linking to a Google Translate version of a very general German article about someone that anyone here already knows plenty about.

Well, except for a bit of a laugh, I guess... ("Earth is alien to him". Right...)
Wikipedia says HN was created in 2007 and Reddit in 2005.
I can't believe how many people are defending this because "those are the rules".

FYI: If a visitor from a friendly first world nation tries to enter your country carrying a valid passport, the appropriate response at the border should be: "welcome".

The one in a million who wants to enter the country with the intention of outstaying their welcome can do this so easily by booking a hotel and having a return ticket that is is really not worth harassing all the other visitors for.
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While Reddit was part of YC, it launched in 2005. HN didn't launch till 2007.
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Easy solution, create a human intelligence task distribution system, have every university that has access participate, assign lab students to perform the HIT of downloading the document. Voila problem solved.

After it's all been mined stop submitting to Elsvier.
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I just checked the wayback machine and Reddit appears first in mid 2005, HN in Feb 2007 (though the article with id 1 here seems to have been posted in October 2006). It's fair to say that Reddit wasn't inspired by HN.
This 'rip off' was much more evident before Reddit got big (the first time) and redesigned the voting buttons. Before that the designs were almost identical.
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Great overview, thanks! I added some new stuff to my reading list. :-)

Just some notes from a Scala user:

Regarding Units: I bundled some work done before by other people into a nicer package/syntax, apart from a few missing bits working with Units looks quite nicely in Scala, even without any special support for it:

val mass: Mass[Double] = 4.0 kg
val longMass: Mass[Long] = mass asLong
val length: Length[Int] = (5 m) * 3
val time: Time[Int] = 1 s
val doubleTime: Time[Int] = time + time
val temp: Temperature[BigDecimal] = BigDecimal("22.22") k
val speed: Speed[Int] = length / time
val area: Area[Int] = length * length
val volume: Volume[Int] = (23 m) * (1 m) * (1 m)
val smallVolume: Volume[Double] = (volume asDouble) / 12.0
val area2: Area[Int] = volume / (23 m)
val accel: Acceleration[Double] = (10.0 m) / ((2.0 s) * (1.0 s))
val accelNum: Double = accel toDouble

The type annotations are not needed, but helps undestanding the design.

Scala will very likely get macros in the next version, together with pluggable types/type providers. Macros not in a Lisp or "extend syntax" sense, but more in a Nemerle sense. Scala macros are written in fully statically typed Scala and are checked at compile time before and after expansion.
I've been a visa requiring foreigner for about a third of my life, and I have found that apart from being nice, humble and unassuming the best is to dress conservatively, be clean and just basically look like you are too conservative to break any rules. Also make sure you carry the right papers, know all the questions and have answers to them, and have enough sleep beforehand.
Complete series: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/02/get-your-database-u... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3544372).
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I can only read so many comments, so if this has been covered, apologies.

I don't think any one begrudges countries their border paranoia. But what is utterly un-necessary is the rude, psychotic, OTT behaviour of the border people. Fine that they want to check people out, but to scream, shot, and abuse people visiting is frankly outrageous.

I've rarely left my country, and every time it was no pain what so ever. But after reading that, which confirms all the negative press, has confirmed that I will never ever travel to the USA. Why would any one want to risk that?
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What a weird coincidence. This morning I was feeling inspired and wrote a blog on the exact same topic. Would it be spammy to put a link here?

Anyway i love this kind of thinking, it really has helped my marriage a lot.
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Putting the standard key bindings for vi is one thing, but without being able to customize it like vim, it's almost worthless to me. The custom bindings I have set are there to do common operations, and they become an integral part of my vim.
That's largely my thought. I love Vim, and it's occasionally frustrating when VsVim doesn't cover a corner case; but the functionality of VS with ReSharper means that for .net code I'll put up with it.
Maybe someone should tell mashable about slashdot?
It does actually support a limited .vimrc - depends a bit what types of custom bindings you want.
You can get the one with ECC (EX 6) it's just 10euro extra / per month... which is still away cheeper than AWS.
Its not so hard: get a Visa before you go to the US. Don't just assume you can cross the border like its some sort of drive-through situation. If you know you need to visit the US, go to the US Embassy in your country and file your paperwork.
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Well... it does, doesn't it?

But reddit obviously aren't bothered (and give you all the tools to build your own reddit), so why should anyone else be?

https://github.com/reddit/
But of course there is a "them" and their "evil" can be quantified by counting the numbers of dead bodies, people incarcerated for not conforming and the number of laws made to simply deny certain people the same rights as everyone else.

Relativism won't help you when "they" believe you shouldn't exist.
Ask HN: time for an extra-secure browser?
A report on the BBC website about a new attack on internet banking (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16812064) made me wonder if it is time for an enhanced security browser that could be used just for online banking? So for example, it would not run any Javascript, have a very strict same-origin policy, and could perhaps include some kind of built-in anti-virus. Any thoughts?
Your original claim was that one bad anecdote at reddit was enough evidence to consider "that posting public problem to hire people isn't a good idea."

Do you think that all public interviewing options are unilaterally unable to defend against people divulging public problems?

A public problem is essentially just a contest. Lots of contests are considered good figures of merit. If you win a nobel prize or a fields medal, that's a sort
of public problem solving exercise. Would you hire someone who won a nobel prize over someone else, all other things being equal? I certainly would.

Maybe the real issue here is that these interview problems aren't sufficiently challenging or interesting such that the barrier to entry is keeping answer-copiers out.

Unless you're Gregori Perelman, for example, you're likely not going to be taken seriously or given much credit for solving the Poincaré conjecture.

PS. I don't think it was fair to downvote me just because I disagree with the pov. Is that why I was downvoted?
It all comes down to whether or not schools should manage the racial make-up of their students. The administrations of the schools obviously want them to do so. The Obama administration has made it clear that they want the schools to do so. I'm not sure how there can even be an investigation.

Trying to discuss the merits of any race is completely missing the point. The only question that matters is, "Should schools be able to enforce diversity in their selection process?"
Also, having the buttons on each Blox causes some noise, maybe show them on hover?
Yes, but the Irish-British common travel area has been in existence since the instant there was a Republic. Our (Ireland's) visa policy on EU citizens is to all intents and purposes formulated in London because we're not going to have more than minimal border checks with the North and the UK isn't going to have internal border controls between the North and Britain.

Not as weird as the fact that Irish people without UK citizenship, resident there can vote in all elections, and that UK citizens resident in Ireland can vote in all elections bar for President (seeing as Irish people in the UK don't get to vote on the Head of State.)
Hm. Now I wonder where I got the idea that of course it's supposed to be upright. Though I have been reading the Princeton Companion book mentioned in sibling.

I guess the problem is that the system drops the space between the expression and the dx, outputting the "xdx". Math text does have space before dx even if the letter is italic.
Anamax, you are missing the point. He doesn't care about any of the ancilliary effects that come as a consequence of the down voting... but the person who is clicking on the links clearly does see some worth in the "sniping behaviour". That behaviour points towards the reverse of the cultural norm that most people think of when they think of HN.

That's his point.
I live in Holland (US Citizen) and get a long series of questions about 50% of the time when crossing the US border.

"Do you live in Holland? What do you do there? What are you doing on your visit back home?"

I usually (happily, respectfully) humor them for a few questions, and then switch to "am I free to go?" (with a smile).

Only once has this resulted in a small temper-tantrum by the agent (after which he just let me go). They cannot deny you entry, they can only delay it for a while and conduct extra searches.
The News (Social bookmarking) pages on our web site are pretty similar as well. Clean minimalist layouts with similar functionality are going to look similar whatever the style influences - well apart from the CSS.
It looks like a non-trivial portion of this is F#, so if you're interested in that, it might be worth poking around the github repo.
just a very very focused version of reddit.

suffice it to say HN does not have a NSFW section, or a very popular WTF section....
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Use of the word 'nerd' from a tech blog?
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It's not that they've deliberately redefined the word, but they've misunderstood its context because they didn't research widely enough -- and this is because hacking is not generally sensational.

So, if I may offer a pseudo-history:

A bunch of people break into a bunch of sites. Real Journalists discover it, and investigate. And I think they're sincere enough in their investigation.

Some of the Real Journalists discover that there is a distinction in the culture between the "script-kiddies" and the "hackers". This is the familiar distinction: the hackers make the tools. "Hacker" versus "Software Engineer" is I suppose like "amateur" versus "professional"; hackers are doing it for the love of programming -- but this distinction is lost in this context where the professionals are agents and spies. Still, the distinction of "hacker" is important because the "script-kiddies" have no idea how to develop the tools, but merely use them to break into systems. And in observing the distinction, the journalists discover that the hackers are much more important, in the sense that people pay them some sort of homage and respect.

When the Real Journalists bring this description back to the Media, of course they bring back this sense of respect for the Hackers. But the Media has a problem: we don't really have a word for people who penetrate security measures. "Crackers" are things you eat; "penetration testers" are probably machines at a dildo factory.

What we'd really like is to use Dutch grammar. In Dutch, someone who "finds out" things becomes an "outfinder." These people "break in" to things; they should be "inbreakers". We have it in some words like "withhold" -- to hold with -- but it's not a general part of our language.

Alas, English is not Dutch and the inbreakers weren't called inbreakers. Instead, just as the Christians are named around the title of their savior, "Christ", so the inbreakers are named around the title of their most-respected "Hacker".

Was it a deliberate choice? In one sense yes, in another sense no. There are impersonal forces at work which conspired to fix "hacker" in the mind of the Media as a synonym for "inbreaker" -- but it is a deliberate choice for the Real Journalists to not run stories about the other hackers out there, and to not coin a new word that could be useful for the discussion.
I don't think that "Google Maps Competitor" is a very attractive pitch to VCs. At least, I certainly wouldn't invest.
I have considered that but I would like as much of the UI as visible as possible, nothing hidden. I would like to make a decision as to show controls on hover (or not) based on some measurable usability testing.
Excuse me for asking, but when we speak of revenue - we aren't speaking of profits are we? (I'm from the UK.)

We have no idea of the net income for those divisions, as the expenses are missing.

I'd have thought, the cost of advertising would be far less than producing say a hardware unit like an iPhone.

I'd expect the wedges to be different if we saw the charts listing profits, and that would be more interesting. Or am I missing something?
Not entirely true - there was a lot of scaremongering in the UK when Eastern European countries (like Poland) joined the EU because of fears about an influx of immigrants working for cheap wages.
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KDE's Kate editor, and by extension its KDevelop IDE (as it embeds Kate's editor tech), also have fairly capable vim modes.
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Isn't Eclim the other way around? I thought it would include features from Eclipse in Vim rather than bringing key Vim keybindings to Eclipse. There are several plugins for the latter though, like Vrapper[0] or ViPlugin[1]. There were also attempts to integrate a whole native Vim instance into eclipse[2].

[0] http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/

[1] http://www.viplugin.com/viplugin/

[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/vimplugin/
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Reddit is open source and was a Y combinator startup.I don't see the problem here.
My girlfriend has traveled to 60+ countries around the world, and she said that the US border experience was worse than any other country she has been to by a long margin.

It's a pity that the first welcome people get amounts to "we don't want you here".
So what we learn is that it doesn't really matter if you're trying to be honest down to details or enter with illegal plans to stay in the US: what matters is not appearing different, and hopefully be equipped with a rehearsed canned explanation that comes with paperwork to back it up.

The border officers ask generic questions and try to see how you respond to them. This is good because the response will reveal more than your words.

However, the caveat is that if you honestly enter with a reason that is somewhat out of ordinary then you just make it more complex the more honest details you spit out. On the other hand, if you manage to appear like the thousand other people who went across the border the same day, you can have lots of things that you never need to or want to explain.

So, it comes down to playing a role. Rehearsing answers to likely questions helps not because you'd want to learn to lie to the border officials but to keep the process smooth by sticking to its rules. Unfortunately, the same rehearsal will allow you to cover a purpose of the trip you don't want to reveal.
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This has not been my experience, but both are much stricter to those who are not their citizens, since they're pretty much charged to be. If you're an American entering Canada, expect to get asked why, and vice versa. It seemed like the OP was trying to enter on a non-work-authorized visa waiver, and that's just not kosher to USCBP. I say this as a US immigrant from Canada.

Always make sure you have your ducks in a row at the border. I still find it hard to believe that someone approved to YC would not know that. If you're doing anything more than just visiting, you probably need to apply for a visa in advance. Lying to CBP (they call it "misrepresentation") is grounds for a lifetime ban from the US.
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Sure buddy. A $25m payday means you have an 8% stake in a startup worth more than $300m. And as we all know, $300m+ acquisitions happen every day, right?

But hey, who needs to understand business or technology when you're a writer.
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They clearly get some value out of the service, which they get for free, so 'nothing' is not accurate. Economics fail.
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I am British and live in the UK, I remember this happening, and I had it in mind when I wrote the comment above.

If you take Europe as a whole, it's not scared of immigration between member countries. The UK is simply more racist and narcissistic than the rest of Europe.