skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2894708

Personally, I'm happy for the repost - I was looking for this, but couldn't find it, just yesterday.
> and basketball was created in the US

by a Canadian :)
The problem with this is that the devil is in the details. The w3c should move faster and adopt the webkit prefix right away? Now suddenly anyone who isn't supporting it is non-compliant. It's not a decision to be taken lightly.
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This is great content, but it is so hard to read. The light blue against the light gray is rough on the eyes, and the font size/style isn't helping either.
I think the main difference is Java interop. Kotlin is fully compatible with Java and Java libraries, while Ceylon is not quite (the Ceylon FAQ says: "since Ceylon will be based on its own modular SDK, making a clean break from the legacy Java SDK, Ceylon will require new frameworks designed especially for Ceylon").
I recently stayed at a US hotel that had a couple of USB ports for charging devices. Since I don't like having to buy even more adapters just for travelling abroad, being able to charge all my devices at the same time was pretty handy. Are USB ports in hotels common in the US?
I think it would be really inefficient to use 5V to transfer energy over cables longer than a few meters. There is a reason we use 100+ V in homes and 100000+ V over longer distances ...

And as an afterthought: who would garantee that an USB port is really only 5V? Could be 10000V and nothing would protect my precious iGadget ... with a power adapter I have at least some protection.
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Is the world seriously this disgusting and I just haven't realized it yet?

To some extent, yeah, it is. I don't just mean in tech, thats the nature of the world. Without some cognitive dissidence and rationalization, we'd all be neurotic messes. Or psychopaths.
It's not that bad. 70% of views are from the Dashboard, they don't see disqus, and I suspect that "most blogs" is an artifact of the circles you run in. Anti-cdotely none of the blogs I follow have disqus.
How about this:

1. Use the current GMT date/time to generate an encrypted api point like adfa923asdf.yourdomain.com.
2. Make it change every day.
3. For all other hostnames besides the correct one for the day, dump random data so the fake app cannot tell whether or not the api is giving out the right results for sure. All your apps will be pining the right api end point where as the fake ones will have a hard time catching up.

Also, use authentication on top of all of this.
There is already a bug report for your second issue:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46021
Futbol has continuous scrolling advertising along the boards in the stadium and often advertising next to the score when broadcasting. And of course there is advertising on the player's jerseys and other apparel - something which is anathema to American football.

For NFL games, there are exactly three commercial breaks per quarter by broadcast contract - college is similar. After the contractual number of breaks, the broadcasters simply do not cut away.
For web apps, maybe. I often find it surprising to learn how unfamiliar web programmers are with the vast amount of non-web programming out there. And even in the web world, almost all heavy-duty middleware is JVM (or, sometimes, C++) based (see twitter, tumblr, Google, Facebook etc.)
Stop talking, start doing!

Denis, you DidThis!
No, he didn't say don't think about it. He said don't be certain about it. The subtle difference there really matters.
You're right, typo. It's supposed to be -ax.
1. The major flaw with USB is that half the time you have to try again to get the connector the right way round*

2. A 5V television? Not likely. This will lead to more types of sockets. Which is the opposite of what we want.

(* yes I know that the usb symbol should always face up, but that's often misused)
The quoting, spacing and casing behaviour is defined here: "newline-separated list of shell-compatible variable assignments"

Unix shells have very well defined specifications.
This looks like a marvelous way to get user data. How much do you trust every USB plug you use? If you plug your phone/music player/tablet into a USB "charger" could it pretend to be a host computer, and get access to all your files without you knowing?

There's no way a USB plug will replace existing power outlets. A 15A line in the US can handle over 1400 W, which is more than the 100W mentioned here or the hypothetical 300W in the future. An induction cooktop draws around 2000W and an electric oven around 7500W.

Plus, a number of devices depend on AC power to drive a induction motor, so there's a huge installed base that can't cheaply be replaced with DC power even there's enough raw power available.
Many people feel a blend of slight obscurity with succinctness are the core ingredients for an elegant solution. As a math major at university, I find this extremely prevalent in the textbooks of proof courses. I generally find it irritating, and to an extent, patronizing.
Please proofread the copy of your website. The titles on the site make zero sense to me unless I take a moment to parse them again and again. I mean, "Sparse Rss Pro Best Android Full Text New Reader Application" just screams spam to me. :)
I'm trying to understand the use-case for Parse. Am I correct that it's not intended to be used for apps that requires server-side logic ... that any app requiring server-side logic would still need another server in the mix?
I saw that when it was posted before, turns out you can't. There are problems with having low-power and high-power ports in the same socket, I seem to recall electricians saying it was unsafe, so you might be risking a fire with that.
Don't worry about it, I understand it's a beta, I was just a bit confused when trying to figure out what was going on.

If it helps in tracking down the errors, the app force closed when I first opened it from the market. Good luck with DidThis!
Especially when the connectors are on the back of the computer, oriented sideways.
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That's not a free form discussion. That's team status updates which you can do as an agenda item. In the event that they're of interest to people there those people can get together separately and discuss them.

But if they're not an agenda item they shouldn't be discussed because it's not that meeting.

The point is to allow people to make their own decision on whether they attend by giving them useful information on what will be discussed.

Just because that's what you want to do, doesn't mean that's what some particular meeting you happen to be in should be about.
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And also to "make use of [Python's] extensive, 'batteries included' libraries"

That's what seems the real benefit of it to me. Maybe Python will become not just a language, but a platform, like JVM or CLR, supporting multiple languages.
Try rugby. It's actually quite entertaining.
Great one... thanks for showing!
Funny to see that much praise for Lyons, which is far away from being a good writer. Many things coming from him are link bait articles and insulting for a reader trying to make up his mind.
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There's also the possibility that the most value to the people of the county comes from subsidizing the beneficial activities that need the data by collecting licensing fees from businesses that can use the data for monetary gain.
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You just got Marxism mixed up with the dictatorial regimes of the 20th century, such as the Soviet Union.

Please read the Communist Manifesto before you lambast it with an uninformed critique.
Thanks, the concept wasn't based on it. Though we did become aware of that experiment when we began developing it so we had a look at how the globe was rendered. It's pretty different now but the globe looks similar :)
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This is the most depressing title I've ever read.
Without reading the book I assume what he's getting at is that the sciences are often the barers of bad news. Cancer this, climate that, death this, unsafety that. Eventually people get fed up with having their worldview turned around and actively choose to ignore the incoming evidence.

My best example would be cellphones in cars. We did just fine without them 10 years ago but now whenever an area talks about legistlation the people get all up in arms. Numerous studies have shown that they're equal or worse to drunk driving but the inconvenience of not being able to text and drive prevents people from accepting that.

Disclaimer: I obviously could be very far off base of what the posted author speaks about because, as stated, I've not read the book.
I don't want to get into an argument over Scala, but let's just say that Scala has some really cool features from a language design perspective, but many of them come at a HUGE cost to ease of learning or reading code, or to IDE support. Scala's power, which is without a doubt very impressive for a statically-typed language, comes at a price which many organizations are unwilling to pay.
"Why do Americans elect lawyers?"

Because they're good at making a case. Any case. Including the case for electing them.

I seriously doubt if many people think "He's a lawyer. He'll be a good steward of the country."

Instead it's more like "He talks about exactly the things that I'm afraid of. I'm voting for him."
This article and the 37S "meetings are toxic" (http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch07_Meetings_Are_Toxic.php) argument really speaks to designers/developers who have worked at an agency. In my experience, many agency meetings attempt to get work done. Most of the thinking happens during the meeting resulting in poorly thought out, off the cuff suggestions. Sure preparation is important, but more specifically most of the thinking should happen before the meeting. The meeting itself should only be about sharing and reacting to that sharing.

Every time I need to communicate something, I stop and ask myself, what level of interruption does my message warrant? An email? IM? A meeting? It's very rare that it will save time to bypass email and IM for a meeting. Meetings because project managers want to spend less time in email and IM is unacceptable.
readable http://readable.tastefulwords.com/ makes a reasonable job of it, but it's clearly not built to be read.
this is completely off topic here. I don't mind if you down vote, but every time I read "codinghorror.com" I remember Woody Allen's "Whatever Works" main character who wakes up in the middle of the night screaming at the top of his lungs: "the horror!! the horror!!"
IANAL, but be careful with the answer around employees sharing their salary info. Labor laws in many locations prohibit management from interfering in that sort of employee discussion.
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Scott Berkun rails against Jonah Lehrer here.

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2012/in-defense-of-brainstor...
Most of the devices I have enable you to decide how to use the USB connection. For example, on most Nokia phones you can choose between "charging only", "PC suite mode", and "USB mass storage".

I think my ICS Transformer Prime only provides "media device" and "digital camera" as modes, though.
It's a bit of a stretch to describe Google, Facebook and Twitter's engineers as "blue collar". Sophisticated middleware is hardly a blue collar domain, definitely more "white collar".
Which is a clear display of one of the major flaws of capitalism: duplicity just for the sake of having a competitive advantage.

It just makes me sad to think about how much effort, materials, knowledge and time has humankind wasted in working against each other.

And, just to avoid trolling, I have to say that I am not criticizing capitalism per se, but just this one side of it.

There must be a better way!
I'm going to give it a go with the purpose of utilizing it like Jerry Seinfeld's productivity secret calendar (chaining). I started off with the daily activities like working out and taking my multi-vitamin :)

As an aside, your iphone app looks great, but the android version leaves me a little disappointed in the UI department.
300 watt sockets? So now I need a high power DC power supply with a fan in every outlet?

Someone is not thinking this through all the way. Even at 90% efficiency you are wasting 33 watts of energy at max, and that is a LOT of heat to generate behind a wall with no ventilation.

Not to mention the power supply is not going to fit in a standard box. Or that good (read: Efficient) DC power supplies are quite expensive.

And you won't be making central power supplies in the basement either. 300 watts at 12 volts is 25 amps! You would need pretty thick cables to do that. At 5 volts it's 60 amps - that would be a wire as thick as what an electrical dryer uses.

He can have as many dreamy smiles as he wants, but this is not going to happen.
I'm not an electrical expert, but:

If you have many USB ports, could you wire something up to run a television from multiple USB 5V ports or is there a voltage/amp issue of some kind in the way?
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Yes, that's true. It's quite illegal to mix them. You are not risking a fire, but rather a shock.

The problem is if there is a failure the high voltage might be applied to the low voltage wires which are not insulated to handle that. And neither is the user who might be touching the wire that he thinks is low voltage.
REST API coming?
While at it, lets eliminate "online business" cause what does that mean anyway? Having no offline store? And how can you "be a website" anyway?

There are just "businesses with websites". Which is most businesses these days. Like Gap. Gap is a business with a website (their online store). So is Amazon. Should we call them different things cause Amazon has warehouses but no commercial premises? No they are both "retailers with a website". So startup should be replaced by:

"[ type of ] business with a website".

Some are software businesses, like Facebook or Google or Microsoft. Some are B2C, others are B2B. Just cause some of them choose to make digital products (software) and deliver them via a website doesn't make them a "startup" cause there are startups that make physical stuff.
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Flying drones (and thus window-level delivery) would be much easier and more effective to implement for a few reasons:

1) Pathfinding is easier as it doesn't have to concern itself with roads or obstacles for most of it's route. Just fly up to a reasonable altitude (just enough to clear buildings in the way) and all the drone has to worry about is adjusting for wind and "last-mile" (your window) navigation. Once they start hitting critical mass we'd start seeing infrastructure to keep the drones moving; homing beacons and landing pads on your window, and drone towers (either standalone or grafted onto existing skyscrapers) to refuel(/charge) drones and hoist them up to a high altitude, allowing them to rely more on gliding vs. their own power.

2) Less of a chance to run someone over. Again; since it's not in conflict with existing infrastructure, it's less likely to suddenly find a 6-year-old in front of it. The flip side is that it's going to hurt if the drone fails and drops out of the sky; this can be remedied by a fail-safe (such as a parachute that physically breaks open at a certain velocity; independent of the nav systems)

3) Commercial advantages: besides the general advantages of a drone-based delivery; a flying drone doesn't get stuck in traffic as it's skipping roads entirely. Thus, using a flying drone will give you a significant advantage over your ground-based (be they human or drone) competition re: delivery times. If they aren't faster; they're at least going to be far more predictable.
While many of the changes that Wayland is making seem like improvements, I would really miss server side window decoration if it were to go away. Perhaps a nice way forward would be to have, instead of X on Wayland, another lighter weight server between Wayland and the applications? I suppose this would be very analogous to current window managers.
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When adding text on a support, I can't seem to move it after I place it (Chrome - 19.0.1036.7 dev-m).

When adding a symbol, can you remove the text that it adds with it?

I add a tag but it doesn't seem to stay

(Parent of 5 yr old on Autism Spectrum)
+1, those maps look fantastic!
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Design looks pretty good. Is there any reason to require signup to submit a book? Maybe you can just add a captcha for non-logged in users?
Physical and team activities are important. Sports and sport stars are less so. It's nice to have the "team" to look up to in school, since we are social creatures and demand to belong to something greater than ourselves (and alpha males demand attention from the lessers), but there aren't many people who participate in the high school football team. It'd be nice to transition those funds into a more well-rounded physical/team activities department.
>Why do Americans elect lawyers?

I think you're overthinking it. Lawyers make good politicians because they're good debaters. A good debater and charismatic individual garners votes. So long as you're not 110% bat-shit insane you'll win votes and the better you are at making the opponent look bad the better on you.

Too much of American politics isn't so much about making realistic promises and outlooks on the future that are obtainable as it is about extremism and making the others look bad. To me it seems like that style of politics wins because "it makes good TV".
http://xkcd.com/927
I think the numbers were a bit high... but out of 5, two are actually making money, have repeatable processes, and have small profit at the end of each month. Whether these will turn in to large scale concerns, I can't say (in at least one case, probably not).

And on top of that, I'm discounting probably another 8-10 "startups" I'd talked to during the last couple of years that - at that stage - weren't much more than a guy hacking on code, or people with an idea. Not to disparage that - follow your dreams - that's fine - but... only one of those struck me as ever being able to get to a point where they could actually make sustainable money.
Surely there is some middle ground between your straw-man and taking 13 years to finalize a spec.
Why would I pay to advertise their product?
You can, it's already for sale: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/30/a-power-outle...
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I was surprised to see that you are using the native Zendesk chat and feedback. I think you mentioned you are on the $24/mos plan? I'm pretty sure this feature is included.

In my experience, the simpler the deployment, the easier it is to focus on what really matters - in this case, providing great customer service. You could easily do away with the third party chat tool and save a few bucks and eliminate any costs associated with supporting the integration.

just a thought... :)
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I found the title a little misleading. You're not automating customer service - which is almost always a terrible idea, particularly for small companies - but looking for ways to make yourself available to customers. The answers and service still come from humans, and that's exactly as it should be.
It's not clear that we'll get P2P websockets (see WebRTC) or whether websockets are going to be plumbed to <video>.
Do you have data to back up that claim? The only example I've come across is Yammer. Real world adoption data paints a different picture, one of rapid adoption of Scala by both start-ups and more traditional organizations like banks:
see: http://thecodegeneral.wordpress.com/2011/11/27/scala-adoptio... and http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/2/13/tumblr-architectur...
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Of course, this is a wonderful example of how a literate style works. Despite the small variables names, the code is easy to understand because of the accompanying text. My (admittedly biased) leaning is that it is easier to understand than a similar snippet with "good variable names" without the accompanying explanation.

That is, if you aren't willing to read this article, then I have my doubts that you would have worked through any free standing code.
Gruber wonders "Lyons has always been an ass, but when did he get so bitter? " and says "Siegler is one of the top writers on the Apple beat, period. Good sources, smart analysis, and he’s been right way way way more often than he’s been wrong."

http://daringfireball.net/2011/08/balls

Gruber and Siegler are symbiotes and it is entirely appropriate to drag Siegler in.
>I've never seen a language in which the compiler output was 2 orders of magnitude larger than the source code.

Ever used SWIG, or qt designer, or anything else that compiles to a source code format? (heck, I can only assume most of those languages-that-compile-to-javascript must be similar)

(not that that makes your project any less bad)
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Quality isn't just a single thing. If Thunderbolt for instance adds $50 to the price, and I don't plan to use Thunderbolt, that $50 is a fair premium but not something I wish to pay for.
Has anybody looked through the code of the rsync program itself? Looks pretty intimidating. Would be nice to see a comment from somebody better versed in this style of programming.

http://ftp.samba.org/pub/rsync/
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I've gotten some of my coworkers involved in fantasy NASCAR. Ridiculous, right? But you pick your drivers, you get points based directly on NASCAR scoring (so you know exactly what you'll get), and during the Chase, you pick just one driver for the whole "playoff" season. It's turned some people from a "they just make left turns..." to a "that was a wicked maneuver when they were racing three wide and he got loose through the corner!"
I feel the same way except that I changed my ways in college.

How old are you, because you probably have time to make sports a part of your life.

My mother, never having run more than five kilometers at once, ran her first marathon at 66 -- http://joshuaspodek.com/redefining_possibility -- and she talks about running more. Plenty of other sports are available to people of every age.

I'm proud to have inspired her. I'd love to inspire others!
I would be extremely interested to see if you make any money out of this. What are you including in the pack? Is it just the buttons.css, which you can easily download from your site already? I'd be a bit more impressed if it was more tightly linked in with the kuler api - so that you could enter any theme name and get a set of buttons.
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