skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN is (roughly) open source: https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc although it doesn't necessarily correspond to the currently running version. You can do the facelift yourself via any number of Stylish userscripts.

Reddit's source code is going to be relatively specialized for their architecture (Cassandra and EC2 and whatever else), and piggybacking on a subreddit is going to encourage bleed, lower control (e.g. pg restricting signups at times), and change the value of karma to represent a cross-culture value instead of what's valued locally.

What advantages are there for merging? You save one password?
Just to nitpick: if you were really giving away $26K in cash, that would be something. It's $10K in cash, and $16K in services, and we all know how those services were priced. Still, $10K is pretty good.
MIT graduate I met 30 years ago told me he had a professor tell him that there are 3 things in life:

1. things divisible by 3
2. things not divisible by 3
3. other things
Do some quick tests on your app to figure out what part of your app is the bottleneck. Rememeber the 80/20 rule applies here as well. You might get a lot of performance improvement by focussing only on few key areas. DO NOT, EVER, OVER OPTIMIZE YOUR APP. If you need to spend lot of time to rework then do it in phases rather than taking a big bang approach
Their new CEO said they need new marketing to combat their troubles.
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Love Tesla and the Model S is short of amazing, just wish more manufactures would adopt apple's product line mantra, simplicity.

Way to many options to choose from, make it easy guys.
Fluentd is an event log collector from multiple servers
My understanding is that any amount above costs is pretty limited - it's also far less than commercial licensing of the code would have cost.

The companies who habitually violate the GPL contribute approximately nothing back to the wider ecosystem. The best you can say is that they gain brand awareness for Linux, but that's it. People release code under copyleft licenses because they want people to provide source to their downstream recipients. If they were more interested in brand awareness than source, they'd have used a liberal BSD-style license instead. Having vendors refuse to use GPLed code because they don't want to ship source is arguably a perfectly reasonable outcome.
"Even with insurance, the co-pay on wisdom tooth extraction is typically 50%, because such procedures are typically (not always) preventable by proper dental care."

Wait, what? It's true that under most dental coverage you pay a percentage (and not a flat co-pay) on oral surgery, but for the life of me, I don't understand the idea that the need for wisdom tooth extraction is ever preventable by proper dental care. No amount of brushing and flossing is going to prevent your body from throwing extra teeth in your mouth in your late 20s.

If anything, proper dental care means none of your teeth will have fallen out, so when your wisdom teeth come in they have nowhere to go and get impacted and then decayed and then infected.
Here is the breakdown: http://superconf.co/blastoff.php

The service credits are priced at face value (Except for GitHub which is a package) - maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement?
Seriously, if you're considering, stop considering and do this. It's my first time seeing what the Miami area has to offer and I want to be blown away.
Obama wants small business tax, investment breaks
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Wow I am surprised by Dana he tends to tow the common guy line but he clearly cannot see past his own profits in supporting a bill that absolutely decimates peoples rights. As well he throws that terrorist word around a little too liberally. It's like an eery prelude to how the government could use it to pin any charge on an unsavory. I have watched the UFC for a long time, I think I will opt out as a customer after this.
Proposing a DNS record for Maven repositories
That's exactly what happens to me with my personal idonethis,
at least I'm using Team idonethis: http://idonethis.com/habits/ the right way.
Ludwig's angina is life-threatening (not that one can reliably diagnose it from a scant blog post). Whether or not it had progressed that far, tooth abscesses are serious business because their sequelae are nasty.

The connection between the illness and the post's overall message is perhaps strained, and I could see not wanting to see the message on HN.
I hope not.

Edit: I don't know of too many prominent JavaScript programmers who prefer not to use semicolons. http://dailyjs.com/2012/01/12/style/
Can we fix the typos? "HTML comments wrap the context [sic] starting with <-- [sic] . . ." and "doctype deceleration [sic]".
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Tully Towing is a towing company that offers reliable roadside assistance and vehicle repair services. We serve Croydon, Bristol and Langhorne, PA.

24 hour roadside in Bensalem, Bensalem junk cars, Bensalem tow truck, Bensalem towing, fuel delivery in Bensalem, Bensalem lock out
Huh, in that case, you're probably right. Scary/disconcerting.
What is your point, exactly?

Do you think testing (likely on a different machine than the target) will catch a 1 in a million hardware error either?
I also went to a school nobody has heard of, but haven't really had issues getting job offers straight out of school (or for that matter, an internship while a high school student). Of course, as you've said, once you have some industry experience under your belt, it ceases to matter altogether.

By the way, awesome handle! I'd refer you for an interview based on that alone.
ASK HN: Best way to calculate sales tax for ecommerce
What are the best tools out there for an ecommerce site/cart (fully custom, not magento or anything like that) to estimate and report sales tax for its customers? We've been looking at things like zip2tax which would give us tables to download and store internally, but curious what others have done that worked well? I imagine with these tables we'll just check the city/zip code and then based on some rules lookup the percent tax that should be charged. Seems straightforward enough, but I'm not sure it helps us report all the right stuff to the IRS at the end of each quarter. Any tips?
Ah, I want one. 50k for the cheapest model doesn't seem that crazy either. I would want to hear some reviews of the 17" touch screen and what kinds of applications you can run on it.
Nestless.js: Worse is Better for JS callback sugar
What does "my partner is a tech nerd" mean?

Does he know what he's talking about, when it comes to code?

Do you know what you're talking about, when it comes to code?

Who knows more?

Why do you not trust his suggestion to throw more hardware at the problem?

Why does he think more hardware will matter?
i agree with you. they're much better resources out there. honestly, nothing compares to current books about subject, as i feel they give more depth to the why, when, how, etc. i think they better prepare for mastering the topic. have someone read these pages and then head over to an html spec and see if they understand what is being discussed or proposed :)

edit: site is nice though.
Ask HN: Why my colleague cannot vote or start a new thread in HN
One of my colleague is a huge fan of HN. But recently he found out that if he add a thread it only visible to him and others cannot see it. Also he cannot vote to any tread. Can anyone explain why?
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Like any Google apologizing your post was upvoted reflexively. You efficiently summarized the talking points you were given.
I'd be interested to know if the OP has a significant other. I know that there are challenges to being an entrepreneur with a SO, but I think one of the big benefits of having an SO is that they look after your health. I know if I were in this situation my fiancee would have kicked my butt and dragged me to the dentist's office.

Have there been any essays out there comparing being an entrepreneur with and without a SO? I'd love to read them.
Ask HN: JS based mechanism to upload big files
I have seen flash and SL upload plugins, are there any JS/HTML based libs available to upload big files say 2GB to servers from web browser?
Or, you go to the hospital. That's not "freaking out", that's common sense.

Self-administration is dangerous.
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Is the only substantive difference between the Performance and Signature Performance option that you get white leather and red paint!? It doesn't look the extra options add up to the price difference. What am I missing?

Disclaimer: I only skimmed the price list, I didn't add up all the numbers.
This is a great find - perhaps it will save the earth for my children. I only have two concerns: will it eat other plastic that I have not thrown out? Also what about patents on this? I am glad some students found this and no BigPharma
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/30/apple_puts_som...
So C, C++, and Java don't have good support for arithmetic. What else is new?
I saw and sat in the Model S on its tour stop in my city and quite frankly, this is the car of the future. In 10 years, all sedans will have the same design features you see on the Tesla right now. Two of the most notable ones:

1. The moving part of the car is essentially one large skateboard (battery, motor and control systems all in there), leaving room for an incredibly spacious interior with two trunks.

2. Touch screen replaces all buttons, regular screen replaces dash.
1. You will discover noprocrast
2. It won't make a difference.
> I could be wrong, but the links I've found so far all have 8 characters.

And all US phone numbers have 7 digits. (It's easy enough to figure out the relevant area code.)

Are you claiming that there are no private phone numbers in the US?
Mountain View is threatening to shut down Hacker Dojo
Clearly not.

If this situation were anything like DHH stepping down there would be a lot more swearing involved.
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Pentadactyl -> Vimperator <=> XEmacs -> GNU Emacs. Its a political fork and PD maintainers claim its more actively maintained and developed.
> If they cannot get it right for 7 million then they won't for the rest.

That's a pretty bullshit example. Native American services are an entirely different planet within the government.* The lost billions of dollars in indian trust funds, etc. Pretty much every service for native Americans is monumentally dysfunctional, yet the equivalent services for non-Indians often work quite adequately.

*) This state of affairs is the product of a lack of political will to do better (who cares about the poorest constituency in the country?) and certain Constitutional insulation from the rest of the government.
same here. a lot less birds :\
SFC enforces copyrights on others behalf's?? Isn't that where Righthaven failed because it isn't actually allowed?
Having tactile feedback would be preferable, I think, to a touchscreen with soft buttons. Normally, I'm reaching and not really looking at the screen when I mess with the nav/climate control/audio in my Audi; it's not a great UI, but better than reaching down to a big touchscreen.

What I think would be best is a gesture-based display. Touch anywhere on the screen, make a squiggle in some kind of pattern -- it's all relative vs. absolute.

Good voice recognition would also work, but I haven't seen this yet in a car.
Oddly enough, here in Denmark, which otherwise has very strong social services, dentists for adults aren't covered, though their cost is partly subsidized (dental care for children is covered).
Hey Amazon! Do you want to see AWS grow even bigger? Charge a reasonable price! All these recent articles on HN always talk about how great your service is, but show how they work on other stacks because you charge too much.
I said "not always". Although it seems possible that scheduled wisdom tooth extraction may have been possible with proper care, regular x-rays, etc, that's not really the point.

In my recollection, scheduled wisdom tooth extraction has usually been on the same 50% co-pay as emergency wisdom tooth extraction. And I don't think the "emergency" part has the cost implications in dental that it does in other medical realms.

Neither is pleasant, but the cost would probably be the same either way. I don't try to justify the tiering of the co-pay, but recognize that moving it down to the 20% co-pay range just means the actuaries factor that change into everyone's premium.
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This sort of hyper-simplistic modeling of real world problems is a pretty common trait among real academics, not just HN posters. In my own field of interest (spectrum management) the papers written by ostensibly reputable people are shockingly bad in their reductionist thinking and plain glossing-over of important caveats and assumptions in the applied theories.
that's possibly because he has too low karma like me :)
understand how it works better here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196509
> You can open a file with O_EXCL if you pass in the open flags as a number. (You can find them on require("constants"), and they need to be binary-OR'ed together.) This isn't documented. It should be. It should probably also be exposed in a cleaner way.

That's great to know. Obviously I'm just following the docs.

> Most of the rest of what you describe is APIs that need to be polished and refined a bit

My concern is merely that there have been a number of statements put out saying "we won't be adding anything more to the API", and that we are basically almost at 1.0, at which point there won't ever be anything added to the core API. Lack of flock() is huge (you can't write to an existing file safely without it - and Node developers are doing that all the time, including your own NPM). Lack of an ability to create temporary files safely seems a fundamental weakness - especially when so many Node apps are dealing with file uploads - that's a disaster waiting to happen. We are going to be dealing with Node.js security bugs because of these issues for a VERY long time.
>If you upload it to MU, then cry to someone else when that same criminal enterprise gets shut down and you lose the one copy you had.

> Your right weren’t violated. Mine were.

Actually, mine were. I bought a copy and you destroyed it.

You keep claiming that I deserve to lose the copy that I bought because Megaload may have paid someone else to upload copyrighted content. Exactly how was I supposed to know this? (Hint - at a mininum, you need to point to a public announcement by Megaupload to this effect.)
I agree. Not only is it lacking the last time each individual repo was updated, but it seems to be ordered by how many people are watching it rather than what language it's in or when it was last updated. It looks like the only things it adds are the nice, at-a-glance repo language colors, the three last-updated repositories, and— in the case of bootstrap and hogan.js— links to the project's github site under twitter.github.com rather than its github repo page.

Nonetheless, it looks fantastic.
The mark of a great leader is in training new leaders to replace him. That is height of unselfishness.
This looks incredibly useful in light of the current moves to censor Twitter in other countries. My first thought is, shouldn't we write this for iOS as well? Unfortunately I doubt this app would be possible to create for iOS. There is no way to detect unpaired bluetooth devices while running in the background.[1]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4204080/can-i-discover-ot...
The point is that people (core developers) are suggesting it is finished. Follow them on twitter, and subscribe to the mailing list and you'll see.
it is hard not to root for tesla here. they are breaking new ground. i love performance cars, and would love to keep a gas powered sports car in the garage, but for popping around town this seems more practical. the bar of expectations is very high, i hope they break past it.
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Health also has significant variance in outcomes, much more than the variance in dental costs, so it makes sense to pool risk. However, the fact that events aren't uncorrelated like a lightning strike makes it hard to deal with as an "insurance", the usual risk-pooling strategy, because in many cases the event has already happened, so no sane insurer would insure against it (how is it insurance if it has an 100% chance of occurring?).

For example, an American friend of mine has a congenital heart defect which will over his lifetime cost probably $1m or so; I had better luck and was not born with one. It seems sort of problematic imo that this sort of thing isn't risk-pooled across the population. It's already bad enough that he has to have surgeries/etc. for it, but due to our health system it also impacts areas of his life that shouldn't be affected, like choice of career. For example, he can never start a startup or do freelance/consulting work, because he wouldn't be able to buy individual health insurance; so he has to work at a large company with a good group-health plan, and can never be unemployed for longer than the 18-month COBRA limit.
Sounds like he got himself banned. The thought is if you let people who have been banned still post but auto kill them, then spammers will not try to work around their ban. Your co worker can try to contact PG and crew to get himself unbanned or just create a new account. Note you can turn on show dead to see what has been killed in this manner.
In the fantasy world in which labor laws are obeyed for the good of employees, an unpaid internship should inherently mean you don't do any real work. Otherwise it would ostensibly be illegal.
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Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) gives some great finacial advice - pay off your debts first and save the rest for an emergency so you do not go into debt. There is nowhere else that you will get the guaranteed return of what some credit card companies are charging - especially considering you do not have to pay tax on money you save.
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"If the Square rollout is successful, and others follow, campaigns could send out armies of volunteers brandishing the Square credit card reader and collecting millions of dollars in micro-payments from political supporters."

Seems like a no-brainer for someone with ill intent to go around doing this having the Square connected to their own bank account instead of Obama's.
Similarly, I had a cracked tooth in Jan 2011 (or maybe a bit earlier) that started to hurt in jan/feb. i put off dealing with - just taking aspirin and such. it got worse. i finally got to a dentist and they said I needed a root canal procedure and a cap. The nerve was exposed and that's what was hurting so much. Cost? $2400. I paid for their x-rays, said 'thanks', then got a second price from someone down the road. That was ~$1400 (plus the $100+ for the initial x-rays) so that was about $1500. Not pocket change for me, but still saved $1k with a couple phone calls.

I wanted to be knocked out for the whole thing, but I had no one to drive me home at the time, so they wouldn't let me be knocked out - I had to be awake. In lieu of being sedated, I amused myself with some pics and videos:

https://picasaweb.google.com/mgkimsal/RootCanalVisit1?authus...
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I'd love to see an answer to this question too.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a secure way of uploading large (>100 MB) files directly to S3 from the browser. I couldn't figure out a good way to use a javascript solution because of the issue of needing access to the AWS secret key.

I ended up using a java applet called jumploader to get the job done, but I always wondered if I gave up too soon and there really is a good way to do this from the browser.
Oh, no I did not think much of the article. I had already encountered these concepts earlier. My examples are not based on the article but on research I have consumed. I pasted some links in my first post. Yes, this has been long studied for motor tasks. Actually much of the research on the matter is based on motor learning.
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What's tragic is that there are some folks who can't afford to have badly needed dental work done. Hard to believe, because the pain of my recent toothache hit these incredible high notes that literally buckled my knees.

Great post. Thanks for reminding me of such a serious(ly overlooked) issue.
I wonder why they've chosen to increase their costs and mfg complexity by offering all those options; does anyone one really want (for example) a car at this price range with the "base" seats? Is it really worthwhile to have (and support) 3 battery options? 5 charging options? It is worth the complexity, testing, etc. to support both the lesser and better tires, on a car in this price range? Worth building it with two kinds of headlights? Two stereos?

I wish they were taking more cues from Apple and fewer from GM. Make the car is just a few price points, and no "not so awesome" variations at all. Spend that time/complexity/cost budget on building more cars and signing up more dealers.
"obvious step of making individually purchased health insurance tax-deductible long ago."

I deduct my health insurance premiums as tax-deductible.

I'd like disability insurance to be deductible too. Seems that's kind of a no-brainer, as I'd be able to rely on disability insurance rather than hitting up social security if I didn't need it.
That is not a very good scam, as you would have disclose your bank account and personal information for it to work. Criminals that leave a paper trail aren't criminals for long.

You would be much better off faking one of those salvation army buckets.
Close the office door and disable the NIC.
This is provided by MySQL, as an example:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-real-escape-str...

I'm sure what you meant was a server-side escaping function which is obviously pointless, but I did want to point out that MySQL's client driver does ship with one that you can use so you don't have to write your own.
If that's true, that's a bug in the platform, not the program. The whole point of size_t is to be however many bits you need to represent the size of things in your address space.
When I went to Mexico almost a decade ago to do some missionary work, my doctor gave my dad and I each a full round of antibiotics with instructions to start taking them immediately if we started feeling sick.
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Very interesting - which companies/school, if I may ask?

I think if you've done extraordinary things outside classes (great internships, awesome research, major open source contributions or own projects), you don't need a great GPA to stand out. But for most students graduating today, that's not the case.
I like the instructions in git status. I usually follow them when I'm not sure of what to do.
I said "not always".

You said "typically (not always)" and I say pretty close to never.

I don't try to justify the tiering of the co-pay

You said the co-pay was tiered "because such procedures are typically (not always) preventable" (emphasis mine).

(i'm note 100% sure that by 'tiered' you mean that you pay 50% for this instead of the flat or 0 co-pay most dental coverage has for checkups and the like)
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You also get it a lot sooner.