skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just hold down the middle key and push the trackpoint. Since its right by your thumb anyways, it really isn't cumbersome at all. And I find it much easier and more precise for scrolling long distances than either trackpad or screen scrolling since I only have to hold something down, and releasing it stops the scrolling instantly.
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Oceanlab - Sirens Of The Sea Remixed is my goto.

Its like a ticket to the zone.

http://www.aboveandbeyond.nu/oceanlab-sirens-of-the-sea-remi...
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu
This is a very usefull website with great potential. And nice and clean interface.
Good work.
>The FBI is using a 40 year old technology that can be hacked by whistling 2600 hz into a phone and get all bent out of shape when someone records it?

Systems haven't been susceptible to that attack for years, and it doesn't matter anyways! They could have been using a fucking private satellite protected with three layers of the best ciphers known to man, it still would have been broken by them getting the conference number and password, like they did here.
Open sourcing "Where's my bus"
Sugar is sugar is sugar is sugar.

And it is absolutely essential ... regardless of its origin.

But yes, too much ain't a good idea.
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I think largely non-blocking I/O is a means to an end. Non-blocking I/O allows one to implement a single-threaded event loop, which allows one to skip all the overhead associated with multithreaded systems. It's not the non-blocking I/O which necessarily makes it more scalable, it's the fact that you avoid the heavy cost of context-switching and the memory and CPU complexity of thread creation.
Here is what I do not get:

1. Recruiters expect me to spend my free-time at their disposal to use my dev contacts for them? My dev contacts remain my dev contacts because they know that if I ever turn over a contact to a 3rd party I do some review of the opportunity to see if its a scam or recruiter bs first and only turn over contacts to that 3rd party if they are a founder, cop-founder, or the actual ,manager the person will work under.

2. To me relationships are formed over a good meal and a good drink, no offense to you HN'ers but that is what it comes down to. If someone wants to recruit me than consider taking me out for a meal. Its not necessarily the cost of the meal, its the fact that you took sometime to spend on forming a relationship with me.
Alcohol should be regulated for the same reasons other harder drugs should be regulated.

- Proper regulation(not prohibition) takes money away from organized crime.

- Government based health regulations are still of great social impact.

- The money generated helps pay for the societal impacts of its use.
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The NYTimes and the WashPost are probably gearing up to get Congress to raise the guest worker quotas again, after the election. They need a lot of "supply and demand and capital mobility don't work anymore" stories. Just raise wages and labor adjust to the incentives. Most of this new stuff is not a labor supply problem, it's a vision and management problem. "If I could just hire the best engineers for real cheap , then ...". yeah yeah right.
PS: Want to attack the FBI, just set them as your homepage. It costs them real money

First of all it's pennies, and second of all it's the taxpayer's money, it doesn't cost FBI a thing.
Wow, this is a surprisingly non-terrible way to generate revenue. Good job, Tumblr. Ad placements and premium membership would have pissed off a good chunk of their users, but this is kind of a nice compromise.
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Node was the best choice for our service, I'm willing to go to court with this. We need a fast fire and forget server to talk with Redis continuously, what's a better option? Erlang? I think there are ~3.6 developers in Israel that know Erlang.
It's a simple basic hydrolysis of sucrose. If that scares you, I suggest you don't take vitamins either because that process would really freak you out.
OK, the site seems down. I managed to download half a mix until i got timeouts. If anyone managed to download those track, a mirror somewhere else, or a torrent would be really nice.
Anyone care to provide us with a mirror?
Even better, there are vim keybinding plugins for just about everything - Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Opera (if it's updated now, not sure). Even Emacs (vimpulse). Combined with IDE plugins like eclim you can set up a single unified key interface to almost everything you do on a computer.
...and if there are no sides to take, it hardly matters whether or not the startup news on HN happens to be mostly in the geographic bounds of an upstart colony of the British Empire, now does it?

And if that is the case, if we are indeed this sisterhood/brotherhood without nation or creed other than the desire to do work, surely it makes more sense that we address underrepresentation in our community here instead of balkanizing across the net?
Sure, but that's not really relevant to my point. That's just a minor optimization, but my workflow is still exactly the same: start up sftp, re-navigate back to the same directory, and do the transfer.
Yeah F# is a bit of a hurdle for contributors. In retrospect if I'd known I'd stick with the project this long I probably would've chosen C#.

https://github.com/jaredpar/VsVim/wiki/FAQ#wiki-language
Are you guys planning to open source the code so other communities can use it? Or a hosted (even if paid) service?
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Isn't the obvious 80% solution a separate cookie that just says "this browser last logged in using service X" that the server can use to give UI cues?
I think the awesome book Predictably Irrational does a better job of explaining it:

> What’s going on here? Why does an offer for direct payment put such a damper on the party? As Margaret Clark, Judson Mills, and Alan Fiske suggested a long time ago, the answer is that we live simultaneously in two different worlds- one where social norms prevail, and the other where market norms make the rules. The social norms include the friendly requests that people make of one another. Could you help me move this couch? Could you help me change this tire? Social norms are wrapped up in our social nature and our need for community. They are usually warm and fuzzy. Instant paybacks are not required: you may help move your neighbor’s couch, but this doesn’t mean he has to come right over and move yours. It’s like opening a door for someone: it provides pleasure for both of you, and reciprocity is not immediately required.

> The second world, the one governed by market norms, is very different. There’s nothing warm and fuzzy about it. The exchanges are sharp- edged: wages, prices, rents, interest, and costs- and- benefits. Such market relationships are not necessarily evil or mean-in fact, they also include self- reliance, inventiveness, and individualism-but they do imply comparable benefits and prompt payments. When you are in the domain of market norms, you get what you pay for-that’s just the way it is.
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How can I make my startup virtual law office more appealing?
What on earth are you talking about? How does isolating the enzyme hurt the environment (more than the creature itself would) or endanger the species?
i used to use the emacs emulation and i agree with you, it only felt halfway. Also, Jared seems way more responsive than the emacs people. i filed a few bug reports and saw few status updates or general updates. After feeling frustrated with that and the half-baked feel i switched to Vim and found VsVim. i've been really happy and havent looked back.
I don't disagree that the usual implementation of wrapped code is pretty terrible (because it goes back to the start of the line, thus spectacularly breaking the indentation-based formatting - UltraEdit is the only implementation I've seen that gets it right), but it's still the right thing to do because the alternatives are even more terrible.
I remember when paulstretch was making the rounds a year or two ago and I still find it fascinating- just want to say thanks!
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Do you know why we have oil and coal?

When all those carbon-based life forms died all those years ago, there was nothing to break them down. So they persisted, and the result is oil and coal.

I've often wondered whether a similar thing would happen to all this plastic lying around. I suppose it's still sort of a toss-up, but now I'm at least sort of convinced that it's vaguely possible.
I have no idea about the numbers but by MS's "bread and butter" I was referring to business software sales of offline office suite. MS's response to google's entry into that market was to ramp up their own online versions of their more familiar office products.
>It costs them real money,

Actually, it costs us real money. They're financed from taxpayers just like every other federal agency :(
This is so true. The sad part though is that during the 3 hrs Ed was stuck reading HN not doing something productive.
This is what happens when there's no tech support people to interface with the users and translate the problem into engineering tickets. You either train the business users to be able to articulate the problem clearly and document the reproduction steps in the ticket, or the boss should have served as the interface to the business users to do the translation. Otherwise the engineers will be doing all the supports. As corporations continue to downsize, the remaining ones will take on more and more responsibility.
Any one know what the by-products of the fungus' metabolism are?
What's a better way to implement to-do entry?
One of the elements of our solution is the ability to enter tasks that are associated with a lesson in a workbook. The tasks have three elements - Title, Description and file attachments. We use TinyMCE for the editor to allow "rich" descriptions. Looking for advice on how to make the process of entering tasks faster. Suggestions or example would be helpful. Our app is located at www.zoomstra.com Thanks!
The difference is people who's goal is to follow some pure, academic definition of REST and people who want to make elegant web services. So,

Pedantic wanks "no worse".

People working in reality "wtf would you ever do that?"
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I think this could be a good thing even if it did occur. We will be forced to significantly curtail our dependence on petroleum as a result.
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Or more to the point, browsers should always wrap text that would otherwise be cut off, regardless of what erroneous instructions they get from the website. As one writer put it, "anyone who puts up with horizontal scrolling probably has other vices as well."
If you've spent any appreciable amount of time on Hacker News, you'd know that there has been pretty big hype behind Node.js. If you don't see it, you're not paying attention. Anecdotally, I work with a lot of fairly inexperienced developers with my clients, and I honestly can't tell you how many times they've suggested we "rewrite (x) in Node.js because it's faster" or "let's switch this to Redis" with no real reason behind it. When one digs down, we eventually arrive at "I read a blog post that said it was real fast and stuff."

I like Node a lot. I think it solves some hard problems, but just like NoSQL, TDD, and a bevy of other things, they're not silver bullets even if they're painted like one.
What the hell kind of title is this?
I agree but I don't think event-based approach is poor as you're stating. Twisted or EventMachine use that approach and are pretty well known for that. It looks like it works wonderfully well in a couple of particular cases but Node as every new language got its couple of pioneers running to create the new "Rails/Django" in that language asap. This is in my humble opinion the issue there.

Another issue is that Node is actually using Javascript, meaning it get a broader community than any new general language. But this community isn't by definition well familiarized with threading or async situations. These developers can easily slide into the "silver bullet thing".

Explaining the core notions behind event-based solutions and threading ones to a "nodejs hipster" usually allow him to understand the right uses cases for it, at least from my experience.
Well, some of that is happening already. As people become educated about healthy eating, they investigate the ingredients lists more for what they're buying (becoming more health-conscious), and rejecting bad foods - letting their money do the talking. But I agree that health education in the US is the pits, and is the key to turning it around.
I don't disagree on that IP, but some of that intellectual stuff is still in people's brains. I do think 'talent acquisition' does play to the egos in some cases, but there's also the 'keep the talent' away from competition. Just because people know how it's done doesn't mean you should make it easy for them. Over time almost all this tech stuff gets commoditized (virtualization, search, big data, etc) but in the early stages, having some talent on staff that developed 'big search tech X', and keeping them away from competition, gives you a short term advantage.
I remember using Paulstretch a long time ago, with amusing, awesome, though sometimes spooky results. Nice work!
I'd rather just go the hacker news model.

I use Hacker News with OpenID ;)
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If anyone is interested, i have a solarized color set fork for VsVim: https://github.com/jugglingnutcase/visualstudio-colors-solar...

i recently screwed up the breakpoints though... now they're pink.
So did Visa/MC ban it or not?
Motorola Photon 4G is a Powerful Smartphone
Micron CEO Steve Appleton killed in Idaho plane crash
It's a play on Stephen Colbert's book title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_America_(And_So_Can_You!)
This is word-for-word what Notifo was built to accomplish. Maybe with the weight of Mozilla behind the effort (and a large pre-existing install base) they will have more success.
Comments and stories with high scores will stay higher on the page than equally-old stories with fewer points. Also there are some other lists like "best stories" and "most active" https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
So what brand laptops do you like?
Charles Murray on the New American Divide
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This is a super netlabel for the trance listener: http://www.ektoplazm.com

All of their music is released under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial purposes. They offer a wide variety of trance genres, including Goa, Progressive, Psychedelic, Uplifting, etc. Plus, all music can be downloaded in FLAC, WAV and MP3 formats.
Landfills are not the problem.

The plastic waste that isn't on landfills is.
The reason people pick Facebook only is because they think that losing users that don't use Facebook is better than having to implement your own account system.

Authorization and account management is really easy to screw up. If you leave it to Facebook, you'll save a lot of time. The only question is whether or not it's worth it.
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If you've spent any appreciable amount of time on Hacker News, you'd know that there has been pretty big hype behind Node.js

A considerable percentage of HN's visitors deal in exactly the realm that node.js serves: that gooey layer between browser and back-end systems. This is like complaining that coffee enthusiasts are interested in burr grinders when it's entirely unsuitable for chipping tree branches. There is no surprise that many HNers find node.js interesting and exciting.
"I came to John with an idea of what I wanted to make–so I was personally motivated to complete the project."

I think this is a key point of learning. When someone feels ownership, it makes them have more motivation to complete a project.
The expected value of turning down the current offer is almost always positive. It's very rare for founders to reject an acquisition offer and then later wish they'd taken it.

The difference between founders and investors is that founders care about more than just expected value. A founder with no assets other than his stock in the company will often prefer to sell now and lock in the current price rather than keep rolling the dice. So to the extent there is a difference between the motivations of founders and investors, it's exactly the opposite of the situation this writer describes.
I guess you could look at some unions as an example. They ask for things to the point where in some places people can't use a broom to sweep up their workspace because that's a 'union job' and it would take away a job from a union member.
Oh I agree. If the Dash is lagging then I can understand how that can be annoying. My laptop is actually running a couple of generations old Centrino processor (SU9400) but I haven't noticed any slowdowns. I also run Oneiric on my home-built HTPC with an AMD A6-3500 Llano processor and it's also just as responsive.

If there are problems on Atom or other processors then there definitely need to be some optimization done there.
>>Perl has spent years working towards something that is starting to look a good deal like Lisp in Perl 6.

Good example of your point, this is one of the things frustrating me in life.

Most of the scripting languages have long been working on becoming larger subsets of Lisp. They still mostly haven't gotten close in e.g. efficient compilation.

But sure, it would be cool if the Perl 6 e.g. really implemented a good macro system without sexpr functionality. Something to look forward to.

I really don't understand how the Lisp people failed taking over the world. (Sigh, I should have helped instead of being sidetracked after univ. :-( Maybe I should start looking into Perl 6 development.)
The best part of being in a field that changes so often is that years of experience don't count. You max out after a year.

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And... quit reading.
3 hours and late lunch!
Don't get overly excited. It eats polyurethane which is rarely found in garbage compared to other plastics.
It depends on where the link is. If it's in a web page and the user's browser supported any valid method in forms, you could use a form with method="DELETE" and action="uri for user's subscription", with a submit button styled to look like a link. For browsers that don't support the DELETE method in forms, you can add a hidden input _method=DELETE which is the semi-standard workaround for incomplete browser support. (Your service has to look for _method when it gets a POST and react accordingly.)

If the link is in an email, a form probably won't work. Email clients are still worse than browsers when it comes to styling buttons to look like links. In that case, you can use a real link, but add the _method=DELETE to the url parameters. You service can then look for _method on GET requests too. But it's bad and hacky to change a GET into a DELETE, so you really should just use the link to display a web page, then delete with a DELETE or POST from there. That's what most unsubscribe links in emails do anyway.
The problem with Node.js is that it's very good at it's original purpose and terrible at everything else. Node.js is excellent for building network services. It is terrible at general server-side computing. If you need a server that consumes websocket connections, it's great. If you need to build a CLI script that installs and upgrades various software packages, not so much. If you need a chat server, it's great. If you need to build a CMS, not so much.

Node is great for building services. Not so much for software that consumes those services.
I would say go with the Air, build quality is top notch and even if you don't use it everyday having a rock stable UNIX core can come in handy at times.

You might want to wait a bit though the new "Air" Macbook Pros are coming out soon and it's rumored they will have "Retina Displays" - God I hate that term
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Getting Started with an Idea
There is a mass of things to get started once you have an idea for an app/business/etc. I want to know what people recommend to get started once you have an idea.

Disclaimer: I am not naive or ignorant to the amount of work it takes to implement any sort of idea. I understand that it takes a great deal of work, I don't anticipate doing it all alone, etc. I have read all about it and been part of some startups for a short period.

My issue is sort of the 'analysis paralysis' deal, where there are many paths to take (mockups, customer validation, just code, design, etc) that I don't know which is the most important.

Any suggestions on first steps?
"I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"
> - Proper regulation(not prohibition) takes money away from organized crime.

So does legalization/lack of regulation.
> When all those carbon-based life forms died all those years ago, there was nothing to break them down.

There was nothing to break them down not because such a thing did not exist but because they were protected from those organisms: they were buried under anoxic conditions (complete lack of oxygen) or beneath acidic waters, shielding the organic matter from that which would normally degrade it by feeding on it.
I wish you had any clue what an entrepreneur actually is. A money making scheme? That's laughable. Spoken like someone that is definitely not an entrepreneur and will never be.

Actually I've started my first company while in university, back in 1999. I sold my share in 2003. The company is still going strong today, and has around 30 employees nowadays (which might not sound much, but I'm from an entirely different country/IT environment). I also work for a startup the last two years, although not as a founder. I'm in my early 30s too, thanks for asking.

The whole "entrepreneur" thing, from the very word "entrepreneur", I find pretentious and silly, sort of like the "hipsterism" of the programming world. Oh, I did this and that, ramen, bla, MVP, bla, Rails, bla, exit, bla, VC round, bla, etc. Just build the thing, and STFU.

I admire people building things, from Steve Jobs to Bill Joy, who didn't run around selling the entrepreneur vibe.

Which, as I see it, is a rather recent fad, maybe a decade old at least in this particular form.
Also for corrupting the youth.

Again, much like Mongo, Rails, and Node. :)
Polyurethane, like virtually all plastics is made of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. So the byproducts are things like water, carbon dioxide, ammonia, alcohol.

Plastics burn really well, they are not actually that hard to destroy safely - their decomposition products are very clean if the fire is hot enough.
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> can we stop working on business projects for two weeks so we can fix problems with our infrastructure that will make us more efficient later on

this attitude is contributing to the problem; it takes continuous and disciplined investment in quality. the idea is that slowing everything down (forever) by a linear factor of two or three will cause exponential returns in productivity later.
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