skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a huge waste of labor. Suppose making a shirt (of whatever sort of cloth) takes 5 hours of labor.

If you hand wash and line dry, suppose that's 5 minutes of labor per wearing. If you wear the shirt every week for 10 years, that's 43 hours of labor on washing for 10 years worth of shirt. It would only take 25 hours of labor (compare to 48) to buy a new shirt every 2 years.

And this also assumes your time is equally valuable to the time of the guy making the shirt - I consider my time to be worth far more than $5-15/day.
Many ad-supported apps check that they can access their ad servers and won't start otherwise. I flashed a new ROM that had adblocking without me knowing and SSHDroid (which I'm happy to have ads for) didn't work.
There have been quite a few of these "price debunking" articles in the past year, as if we all finally figured out that we're getting screwed. Software's markup is similarly ludicrous, since there's very little variable cost to serving up extra copies--even with cloud-based systems.

Another one on $550 chinos:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/fashion/29ROW.html

Also, anyone else find this "killer app" notion in clothing to be funny? It's like Bonobos claiming they've solved the "saggy butt problem" with a "curved waistband." Genius!
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Ask HN: As a Co-founder, whats the best way to drop out of a startup?
I am a co-founder in a start-up. We have worked on it for over a year, launched the product, seen ups and downs. It seems to me that the business is not going anywhere. The other co-founder is still really into it, granted it was his idea and he fronted some money to get started. I have other projects, one of which is really good idea, I think. I will be moving forward with the new project without my co-founder, since his skillset and experience dont really apply to this new business. We are still on good terms but it will probably be lethal for his business should I leave at this point. How do people handle situations like this?
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Can't you run XMonad on a mac? I'm pretty sure a couple people I know do just that. (There might be some wrangling and virtual machines, but I doubt it.)
For a free MySQL client ... maybe, but if you're willing to pay a little money, I think Querious is better designed http://www.araelium.com/querious/
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Gitbox is a simpler, faster, cheaper ( and better IMO) git client for OS X http://gitboxapp.com/
Sure, amongst other things I've written software for use by commercial pilots and nurses. I don't think I'll end up being either of those.
That's a great article. The same situation has developed here in San Francisco, where the magnet public high school that admits based solely on test scores is Asian by a large majority.

The problem is, in the drive to get perfect grades and test scores, the drive for knowledge and life skills is lost somewhere along the way. And in the end, many asian students simply never get the skills needed to actually create things or execute at a job that doesn't have very rigid guidelines.

I think the larger picture issue is optimizing for grades and tests does not optimize for achieving in the real world. And elite colleges in the US have acknowleged that, and brought in the use of subjective factors. And while that may be an imperfect system, it is less imperfect than choosing solely on scores and grades.
CyanogenMod lets you change permissions of apps: http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,4055

They drew the line at letting you spoof unique IDs for privacy purposes though http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,5677
Clojure is awesome, but does struggle on the "Good error messages" requirement, which is a problem when you're starting out.
Now it looks like all of NYC HN is going to be there. Anyone wants to coordinate?
People are presumed innocent. To get around this, legal action is taken against the assets.

Edit: This document contains some information about asset forfeiture http://www.justice.gov/usao/ri/projects/esguidelines.pdf
Cannot edit my comment but it works pretty well actually.

see:

http://imgur.com/6HQ13

quick lookup and a quick find as you type function. I like that if you press delete it will lookup the scope prior. so like if you type "addobj" and then delete a few times to "add" it will show you all the add commands again. Probably standard fare but not all implementations get this right.

Install was painless and I was able to map the invocation to ctrl-space, probably a better way to do it but I did it in a few seconds without looking anything up:

inoremap <c-space> <c-x><c-u>
I mostly agree with what you're saying, but I also mostly agree with what the post is saying.

The point is that you can learn to control your reactions to things, and it's a good thing. I used to be extremely stressed out by any social situation. I eventually stopped being so through lots of practice at controlling myself and telling myself "who cares what other people think of me?". And I'm all the better for it. I also have learned to ignore insults and failure (well, ignore them emotionally, though I still try to analyze them rationally), because they give negative emotions that I don't enjoy. However, I still feel nostalgia when I realize "oh shit, that happened seven years ago?!!", and I still feel a rush of excitement when I succeed at getting everything done in a limited amount of time.

Also, the fact that I'm a tiny speck in the universe is the reason I focus on myself. If nothing really matters, you get to choose what does. And I choose myself.
You can run XMonad on a Mac, but it will only tile X11 apps, not standard OS X apps, which unfortunately makes it fairly useless for me.

And of course, working in a VM with it is always an option (and I have a VM setup with it for when I want to drop back into linux).
No problem, just add the same {{Dynamic list}} disclaimer that appears at the top of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers:

"This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries."

That'll also add it to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Incomplete_lists
Also if you can only produce n where n < d (d, is the demand) you might just as well raise the price of those n pieces produced until n = d.

You can use the profit to create an umbrella brand and increase production. The extra items from the increased production (from the extra profit) can be sold at a different price under a different brand so to let people who can afford to pay more, pay more, and get to feel special.

Note: I think the OP was just trying to say if it costed less, he would shop more. He might not have meant he'll buy exactly double.
The deciding factor for me is that I can use the same basic Emacs keybindings in any other text entry widget, so my most central muscle memory translates to the shell, XCode, Firefox etc.

Vi/Vim is off in its own weird universe.
Hopefully the internet can be the cure for Washington's addiction to lobbyists/ special interests. Money in politics is tantamount to bribery. This bribery is a force for economic inequality because with increased money comes increased power to keep said money. In a democracy people are what are in power, not special interests view's amplified with money. The internet is the great democratizer that will come along and raise the voice of the common people. I am a whole-harted believe in the theory of democracy, not the perverted idea of democracy, which is the current state of the United States. If everyone had an equal voice through the internet I'm sure more intelligent policy would be made that would benefit more people, not just the people at the top.
Good point Mike. I'll likely add the ability to login without facebook/twitter in the future. Thanks again for your feedback.
> I guess I would like to believe that things can improve significantly so as to make that type of pragmatic attitude adjustment towards misery less important.

Something is always going to go relatively wrong, so being able to deal with it seems like a good idea.
Spot on.

>So, for smart people, the internet was like the jump from hand copied manuscripts to the printing press. It really boosted the efficiency of something we were already doing. For stupid, the internet was like the discovery of fire.

I might add, for stupid, it was discovering the ladder to the pulpit.

The ability of the internet (with the help of supporting sites/apps/forums/boards of course) to bring together like-minded people has been amazingly transformative and I'd conjecture, has allowed remarkable and exponential progress in thousands of different fields, both productive and stupid.

What I don't think I've seen yet is for a real political movement that started and proliferated on the internet gain enough traction to see a bill created then become law. Maybe it's just a matter of time?
Do iOS apps crash more than Android?
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Whenever I read articles about the American university admission system, and the ensuing discussions about them, I feel like Gulliver visiting a weird country.

It is so arcane and bizarre. If you want to major in CS or mathematics or engineering, who cares if you do ice skating or can play the tuba? And if you're a tuba player who wants to major in music, what can be possibly be more important than your musical skills?

Entrance examinations are like the democracy. They suck but they suck far less than the existing alternatives.

Of course, a lot of the top universities in the world are American; but I think that's despite the admission system, not thanks to it.
Ronald Reagan made similar remarks in the hospital after he was shot. It's always impressed me how he could retain control of his emotions at such a horrible time:

"...when his wife arrived in the emergency room, Reagan remarked to her, 'Honey, I forgot to duck'... While intubated, he scribbled to a nurse, "All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt
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Right, the bar should be much, much higher for a programming job. Since there's no challenge in it, no weeding of applicants is performed.

To me, though, it's self-defeating to simultaneously accept resumes via email -- it shows there's nothing actually at stake. Don't they want only the smartest, most persistent candidates? It doesn't seem so to me.
> X-Core-Value: 8. Do More With Less

That's 1.3K of overhead per request. I call that doing Less with More. Recruiting in HTTP headers may seem like a clever gimmick to some, but I doubt it could possibly warrant the aggregate degradation of performance. If that's what they call doing "More with Less", my reaction is hardly an urge to work with them.
Huh? curl -I is a HEAD request, isn't it?
Self-righteous indignation ahoy! We must have entered yet another ideal-free-markets vs. everything else discussion on Hacker News.

Frustrated as you may be that others don't share your ideals here, your entire comment is huge, deep red, herring.

And there is much more to monopolies than just 'success', you silly. Ever heard of the Microsoft tax? Every OEM was in a losing position if they dared to offer a non-Microsoft OS among their product lines, as they would be sold their licenses at a higher cost (i.e., not at a monetary discount resulting of a virtuous association between entrepreneurs) than every other player in the game.

Thus, even if there was demand for alternatives, if it didn't overtake the loss incurred by higher cost-licenses then it wouldn't be viable to offer say, Linux machines.
I agree on the Steve Jobs quote."Live everyday as if it was your last".. ok.. but what if I'm stuck with debt, have to work a dead end job to support my family? What if I can't? I'm doing it wrong? I have to be disgruntled about it? It's easy as heck to live everyday as if it was your last once you have the freedom.
The purpose of the author of the post was to introduce meta-programming to those ignorant of it.

I see your point of insulting the audiences intelligence, but don't you think to throw in a tail-call optimized recursive function - or (reduce min list) for that matter - would be a moot comparison and distract the reader from the point?

When you try to make a point by comparison, say the weather in Hong Kong versus Toronto, you wouldn't go gauge the weather in HK on a hot summer day at 4pm in the Central District, while in Toronto you go out in the burbs in the middle of a deserted, snowy night?
I hope so, just bought a label and sent it to them.
There is a mature aspect to this sentiment, even if it is not expressed in this particular post.

For a counter to your argument see Viktor Frankl:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
Mostly handbaked into the app. As for payments, were processing in Canada using BeanStream. We open sourced our implementation here: https://github.com/upverter/beanstream
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Has anyone ever been accepted for Y Combinator funding, done it, and been unhappy about it? Other than business failures?
The math-oriented types thing is known to schemers as the "numerical tower" and is seen as non-negotiable.
i would be up front with him on what i think about the business.. however, if he still persists, try to help him out in the way of suggesting potential replacements for myself
Ask HN - Best tool for creating mockups
Hi,

I'm looking for a tool to quickly create mock-ups. The mock-ups don't need to "spectacular", but rather effective and quick. Must work on Linux.

Extra points for:
* Open source
* Web based
* Open standards (HTML5 Canvas / SVG etc.)

Thanks,
If I was in his shoes, I would want to know right away how you feel. I think the best thing you can do is help him find someone to replace you as best you can. Obviously, not an easy task, but that's a show of friendship and mutual respect. Also, while the start-up could die without you, it could also be successful with a new person who takes your place. Even if doom is looming, you should express optimism that he can be successful and as a show of good faith, offer a signed agreement that you will not go after a cut of his future success. And most importantly, mean it.
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He also took a good shot at describing Algol-68.
I take your point and I may be underrating the impact of verbosity. However, I think you're not quite addressing my point, which is that violating DRY (by not using high level abstractions) is worse than verbosity.

Is it verbosity that is the best measure of complexity, or is it code size? Yes verbosity leads to more code, but it's not the only thing that does. Operating at the wrong level of abstraction also will, and in a way that makes maintenance extremely difficult.

Unfortunately I've not seen any evidence compares the impact of boilerplate vs duplication.
Which is how you get stuff like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_v._$124,700
Ask HN: Rate my startup, The Coupon Doc
We just launched today - www.thecoupondoc.com

If we did our job this should be self-explanatory, but we are a site that helps users find and retrieve discounts for their medications. Any and all feedback is much appreciated, as I'm sure there are many ways to improve the user experience.

Thanks in advance HN!
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Thats a really cool idea. Similarily, we have been toying with the idea of auto-complete. Ie: You add a couple parts that we've seen connected before, you start to connect them in the same way, we recommend a way to hook them all up.

Also were working on the really simple things like just suggesting parts or implementations based other users designs.

Thanks for the ideas, I'd love to chat sometime!
I think this is a case of not being able to have your cake and eat it too; you can make something easier to use, but it usually comes as a compromise to more expert users because you have to simplify the interface, remove functionality, reduce configuration options, etc. Conversely, adding more power will usually mean increasing the difficulty for beginners; if you require that users are comfortable with using a semi-programming language to write configuration files, you get more options and more power than you could via a simple and straightforward gui.

In the end I don't think either approach is better, just different. To address your first statement, I think editors can either choose to become better for experts in a particular domain, or they can choose to be easier to learn for beginners, or some compromise between the two. I have yet to see an application that manages to do both.

I agree that someone's subjective opinion of editors other than the one(s) they use is not very useful, but i don't think that was the point of the post you replied to. He was simply stating what I stated above; an app that is good for a beginner is not necessarily the best for an expert, and in the end you have to find some compromise between the two.

EDIT:
For the record, I think vim has a pretty good learning curve; vimtutor is great, and you only really need to know the most basic parts of modal switching for gvim to be used like any other text editor. Once you gain some mastery of things like movement command, macros, markers, etc. you can really start to accelerate your workflow. I'm not one of those people that started using hjkl from day one.
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Try creating a betalist profile: http://betali.st/.

Before you do that, scrap your current marketing video.
I'm distinguishing between a "monopoly" as is used commonly (and loosely) like in this case to describe Google and a true monopoly, which by definition no one is able to compete with equally, like the US federal government. I think that "monopolies" (Google, any entity that doesn't use the government backed by force to protect it from having to compete equally) are okay, but a monopoly is not, and is prone to corruption, thus our founding fathers' belief in limited government.

This isn't my disagreeing with the judge, this is my disagreeing with their right to try Google in the first place, a power which _no_ government should have: the right to try and punish someone for a future intention of exercising one's property rights. It is France's violation of these human rights which I find reprehensible.

Regarding "monopolies" having no restrictions placed on them, this is true in the extent that the government is concerned. The government should neither help nor restrain individual businesses, and should instead create an equal environment where property and contract rights are enforced, and companies are not found guilty of success by the greed of others with a government that sanctions such greed.

I highlighted the definition of a monopoly, because everyone is throwing that word around without any regard for its meaning. Google does not have exclusive ownership of maps through any legal sanction; It does not have command of supply as a Google map is a combination of bits and knowledge of information that is freely available to _anyone_ that would take the time and had the incentive to assemble them; There is no concerted action as there's no 2nd party with which Google has been acting with.

Finally, I never said a monopoly is beholden to _a_ customer, but instead to _its_ costomer_s_. A company in a free market cannot exist in perpetuity without providing some value for which someone will trade their money for. So long as both parties are free to trade value for value, no monopoly exists.

I enjoyed your response by the way.
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hahaha.. great targeting for this post.. u know ure target market well
Although they still haven't migrated from the X-Job-Offer header to the preferred Job-Offer header. ;)
The more I get to try before having to give up anything the better. If you would let me see a demo/sandbox version that would be nice. I would settle for some good screenshots/video.
> That being said, if it was truly happening and became widespread, I would consider leaving HN, which is why I am so concerned about it.

Why? Karma points are meaningless.

Suppose that you thought that a lot of BMW drivers were jerks. Would that affect your decision to buy a BMW?
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Except (AFAIK) the API calls fail when a permission has been revoked. A non-defensively coded application will most likely crash when it tries to use a revoked permission. A developer has little motivation to support a user taking app permissions into their own hands. What really needs to happen is for the call to return a sensible value for what the application is allowed to access. It would even be handy to return a subset of the contacts list, say if a user is willing to take a risk of spamming friends but not professional contacts. A user would set the base permission for all newly installed apps, and would increase an app's permission after they used it long enough to trust it. The only thing the current system does is fake consent for misbehaving apps.

I am aware of that rejected patch, and I can only hope that the CM people will overcome their fear in the future (or maybe a security-conscious friendly fork).
Link to the actual pricing page:
https://appharbor.com/pricing

There's a considerable lack of documentation around exactly what it is you are getting. The pricing page has no info, the blog post has just a tiny bit more.

Heroku does a great job of really detailing their infrastructure and having that map to a dyno. PHPFog uses a different approach and details specs. Both are more transparent.

I assume a worker is a single thread (much like a dyno), but "Improve the reliability and responsiveness of your website." isn't nearly enough detail.
That seems very interesting, and shows the "GitHub" approach to collaboration can work on other realms other than code. I wonder if it could work for product design, too?
I found it funny that the in-text "also read this" spam was about Megaupload. Might be something in my adblock, but it didn't show up any different than the article text and wasn't a link.
I don't know if I could apply to a place that doesn't at least wait until that proposal moves from Internet-Draft to a full RFC.
Seems like a promising idea, although I suspect it can only be U.S. based due to various medical governing bodies in various countries?
I'll add one that people don't seem to think about much: the ability to encapsulate an ongoing computation and grab new values from it at leisure.

Examples: Haskell has lazy lists; Python has generators; Unix shells have pipes; in Go you can whip this up pretty easily with a goroutine and a channel; etc. Does his ideal language allow for this?
Vim is great but learning requires a good investment of time. If somebody tells you, you can be as productive as with your current editor in a few weeks, don't believe it. If all you need is notepad or gEdit, Vim is not worth the debt. Spend your time learning another language or create an open source project.

I live in a terminal so Vim is my weapon of choice. I tried and bought a license for Sublime 2, which is awesome n vintage mode, but Sublime is not Vim.
Interesting; This comment has been voted up and down since I posted it, but nobody's yet answered with something that makes vim more annoying than emacs (or vice versa).
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