skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can imagine this back in the day. "Though almost every scholar agrees that the earth (though flat) is the center of the universe, some people do persist in saying that the earth is not only in orbit around the sun, but is also round. Most of these minority claims rely on "mathematics" and other potentially incorrect "proofs" of their theorems."

I am reminded of the "paradigm shift" approach to the history of science, as flawed as it may be to some (look it up, sigh, on wikipedia). It implies that the dominant point of view is held as fact until a preponderance of evidence shifts the minority view from "flawed" to "edge cases" to "the new paradigm". Then it cycles again. What was the sworn truth with history behind it is now the "old paradigm" and disregarded.

For wikipedia, I've never felt there to be a requirement for "article completeness", just an eye to be "well rounded", and so it often feels that whatever the dominant paradigm is currently will be the primary driver of inclusion and presence in an article.

Wikipedia is in that interesting tension between sticking to it's original mission, which was pretty wonderful, and potentially becoming more, but at the risk of becoming useless. For all it's flaws, I still think the world is better with it than without it, and at some point, I suspect a way to let folks contribute more original research and have it coexist on wikipedia will evolve.
1 out of 4 men in this population have been attacked by a python
The github auto-deploy is an awesome feature, so nice.
...but then it would be just like an iOS todo list tutorial app
The millions of Apple customers today have little in common with the tiny hardcore group of Mac users who were hanging on for dear life back in the late 1990s. For those people, Jobs was the savior.

The "Shitinabox" thing dates back to the Mac Cube, which actually did sell well for a couple months after release. (Presumably mostly because it was Steve Jobs Approved.) I think it was popularized by John Dvorak.
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Notes from 'Steve Jobs'
I'd rather you just go ahead and let us look at it :) Sounds like a very neat product, and something I was just wishing for last week. That's the reason I went ahead and tried to sign up.

The point I was trying to make (rather poorly as usual), is that the reward for the email address is misleading. I was expecting access to a beta product, not an automated email from MailChimp that told me I was now subscribed to a newsletter.

You response here is classy, and I have no problem -- but I think you ought to change the wording to be "sign up for our newsletter and be alerted when you can participate in the beta".

Good luck and I'll try to remember to check back.
Brilliant coder. Really glad this talk is available! Thank you CUSEC!
> For refactoring, that's just an advanced text across many files manipulation feature, and emacs certainly can do it, but you might have to work on your .emacs file.

Re-factoring is text editing, if you consider parsing to be advanced text editing(which it is not). Consider a class Foo implementing method foo, and a class Bar implementing a method of the same name foo. When I am renaming Foo.foo to Foo.bar, a refactoring tool will rename based on the semantics.

Renaming manually will always require looking through all occurrences, compared to clicking a couple of buttons in Eclipse and being assured it renamed all occurrences without any false positives or negatives.

Also, the nature of dynamic languages make it harder to refactor:

class Foo:
def foo():
pass

class Bar:
def foo():
pass

def a_func(arg):
arg.foo()

Now, in arg.foo, arg can be an instance of Foo, or Bar, or Baz...In a large codebase, manually doing it will be a night mare.

I mostly use vim, linux and dynamic languages. But that doesn't change the fact that Eclipse/Java is leaps and bounds ahead when we are talking re-factoring.

Also, I use rope for Python. Though it mitigates most of the warts, it can't mitigate the issue in the snippet above. There is an `unsure` mode which renames when unsure, but that's not a smart thing to do on a large codebase.
Well, for me most of the disadventages you listed are adventages :)

Pedestrian streets in the center, industry forced out of the city, services concentrating in the center, cars not viable for in-city transport, well developed public transport.

Also, I don't think medieval and older cities were not planed. They were just designed without cars and milions of people in mind. With cars I think it's actualy good - cars and cities don't mix well.

BTW: I know whole city designed by one architect as "ideal town" in 1580, and built according to these plans. It's quite nice to live - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamo%C5%9B%C4%87
Ask HN: Going from Prototype to Production?
tl;dr - wood prototype, submitting to Kickstarter, clueless about production

I was inspired to create an iPad accessory - a twist on a stand.

The stand serves a specific niche and works well when using the iPad for a few popular games. I'm not an experienced entrepreneur, but I think it is the kind of product that could make a splash.

I have a prototype, with most of the rough edges fixed, built out of wood. The labor involved probably wouldn't be worth duplicating just for the feel of wood versus plastic or metal.

Researching similar projects, most of the teams are much further along than I am in terms of factory relationships and design. I'm not a team, just a guy with a weekend project.

Where do In start if I want something produced? Would I need someone to make 3D drawings of the stand? Are there factories a person can just contact and to get something molded and duplicated?

I'd like to show something besides my wooden model but have hit a few walls. Googling turned up a lot of resources aimed at real mass production and large scale sourcing from China. All for budgets well over what I have.

Any ideas or suggestions would be great. I'm excited but totally out of my element.
Wasn't this the model for WinZip all those years? Even they found it didn't work in the end and had to change to try-before-you-buy.
This particular instance was:

* Charge for your game

* Build up a loyal fanbase

* Continue to provide actual new content for players, for free.

* Start selling hats

* Stop charging for the game (nearly four years later).

I wouldn't necessarily mark up TF2 as a freemium success as it only went to the model fairly late in it's life (after it had already more than made back it's budget, likely).
If you want to get insta-front-paged, you should look into some kind of hooks into adobe kuler themes...
Meteors rise and fall fast. Usually the excitement of great UIs wanes (that's why some people buy new clothes every year).
I've been a full blown PHPStorm evangelist for quite some time now, really nice IDE with great text editing capabilities.
A 2001 Quote From Sergey Brin Explains Duckduckgo's Popularity
Is there something I'm missing? They discontinued a service. They're not asking for back compensation from when it was discontinued, only from this point on. So "please stop using our service or start paying" seems like a reasonable request.

I typically expect an "its their buisness, their prerogative" type of response here on HN, how is this situation any different?

Because the notice came by email? I'm sure if the first suportbee heard from them was a cease-and-deist letter in certified mail everyone would (rightfully so) point out that it could have much more easily been solved with a few email explaining the change.

Because the notice didn't come by enough (or good enough) email? I'll give you that it might be worded a bit strong for a second notice, but this is buisness, not a cuddle factory. Is it really worth getting your panties in this big of a bunch?
If you just want to preview your Github Markdown files (e.g. your README.md) locally before committing them into Github, check out my Node.js-based Github Flavored Markdown Server: https://github.com/ypocat/gfms (it uses Github's CSS and properly parses the "```" code sections).
I wouldn't touch MtGox with a ten foot pole after their breach last year. I had created an account there but never funded it, and my account was one of the ones in the breach. I had stupidly used the same login info for my Twitter and FB accouts, and both were stolen and the password changed by the hackers (I assume they ran a script against the entire MtGox database). Fortunately they didn't bother to change the reset email address, so I got them back immediately with a password reset.

Security flaws are like roaches - where there's one big fat obvious one (plaintext or weakly hashed pwd database in this case), there at least ten more behind the walls. MtGox is clearly being run by a bunch of amateurs when it comes to security.
I've personally been very surprised at the lack of restraint some people have with regard to gestures. Gestures are nice and all but as you said, they're hardly discoverable. People make the claim that gestures are intuitive, but aside from he native pinch, pull and swipes, gestures are hardly that.
That was a quote from Steve Jobs himself.
This is exactly how Wikipedia is supposed to work.

If you come up with a new theory that disagrees with scholarly/scientific consensus, an encyclopedia is not the place to publish it. You publish it in a journal; if it becomes a consensus, or at least generates significant serious response in that community, then it will be documented in an encyclopedia.

If every single crank theory was accepted into Wikipedia, you'd have a wiki consisting entirely of holocaust denialism, homeopathy, Electric Universe, and woo-peddling. Wikipedia is not in the business of deciding what's true and what isn't; that's what the academic community is for.
If you predominantly code in Java, you are better off working in Eclipse, and using some plugin for whatever happens to be your favorite editor.

I used to do a lot of Java in the past, and I have used eclipse and vim. Java in plain Vim is a huge PITA - auto complete, generating dummy getter setter, refactoring, fixing imports, checking errors without leaving the ide etc etc. I haphazardly fixed a couple of them using vim plugins and custom keybindings; and then I found eclim, which uses eclipse as a server and provides the functionality in Vim.
That might be useful for toy programs. But if I really want the app, what's the point in reading the permissions list? If the Netflix app asked for access to my contacts list, I would probably still install it because the alternative is no Netflix.
There are X-ray backscatter scanners in use in the U.S. For example, they are used in San Jose airport, which is probably the airport most used by HN readers.
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McDonalds received 700 complaints out of 10 billion cups of coffee served. There will always be some number of people complaining regardless of the temperature, just like there will always be people foolish enough to put said coffee between their legs and fiddle with the lid. How many people do you suppose complained that their coffee is served too cool? If you say none I'm tempted to call you naive.

McDonalds coffee was not "40 degrees hotter" than other establishments. This came from her attorney during the trial and it's laughably false. Out of thin air it seems, he invented the axiom that coffee should never be served hotter than 60 deg C. McDonalds' corporate policy was, and still is, to serve coffee at around 80 C.

My coffee maker brews at 95-100 C. Your's does too. At all other times, your coffee maker maintains a temp of at least 85 C. Guess who else does this? Fucking everybody. The National Coffee Association recommends coffee be served at around 80 C. Starbucks, Daz Bog, Peaberry all serve coffee at or around... you guessed it: 80 C. Tell you what, go to a Starbucks and see what kind of reaction you get when you tell them they should lower the temperature of their coffee to help keep you safe. Remind them that you just might be stupid enough to squeeze the cup between your legs.

Stella Liebeck put a cup of hot coffee between her legs, and acted surprised that 1.) it spilled, and 2.) it burned. The arguments at trial were a textbook example of farce. Her lawyer monkeyed around about exactly how many seconds it takes for coffee at various temperatures to cause a burn. All the while dancing around the unspoken notion that Stella Liebeck did some kind of mental calculation based on some assumption of the temperature of McDonalds coffee, and rationally concluded that putting it between her legs was unlikely to cause pain or injury if it spilled.

Trying to argue your point using a picture of her legs is nothing more than an appeal to emotion. Yes, that burn looks bad. Yes, it's too bad she chose to put a cup of hot coffee between her legs in order to fiddle with the top.

How about this: I'll show you a picture of my daughter's friend after she accidentally stabbed herself in the eye with a paring knife, and then you can politely agree that the knife maker should be sued for negligence.
FBI might shutdown DNS server
This is such a facile meme, and now you've stretched it to a new level of absurdity. Lawyers doing pro bono work don't have clients? Somebody for whom you are doing work for trade isn't a client?
The Encarta and (I believe) World Book entries on "Fractal" were written by Benoit Mandelbrot. It's actually quite common for experts to write entries for an encyclopedia.
Fred is wrong, they already have that power through the DOJ and ICE..the SOPA/ACTA etc push was to 'LEGALIZE' DOJ tactics..thing ABOUT IT...

The internet has spoken ..SECRET DEALS only get one response out-RIGHT WAR
each "fiber" still consumes a relatively large stack, so in effect you're right
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X-rays have enough energy to break molecular bonds in your body (ionizing radiation), millimeter waves do not.
The problem is the Wikipedia editors defaulting the view of the majority without giving concern to the minority; they weren't saying most experts say the sky is green and one says blue, they just said the sky is green.

Thus, if 100 articles said X (the 100 articles being correlated by citing each other), and new, better research said Y, Wikipedia would wait until it's 101 v 100 before making an edit.

After the book was published, the editors should have allowed a dissenting opinion to at least gain a sentence, especially when backed with official records.
I always opt-out, and it's never been a civil affair.

The _least_ obnoxious was when the TSA agent heard my "I'd like to opt out" message, shouted "REFUSAL", made me stand _next_ to the scanner for approximately 15 minutes before finding someone who could pat me down, occasionally glaring at me for effect.

The pat-down was respectful, though it was done inches away from my 9 year old daughter, but the core of the issue, to me anyway, is that I object to both the new scanners AND the pat-down.

I've adopted an "only fly when I have to" policy, which meant 6 hour drives replaced flights to New York, but there is regrettably no way of avoiding all my business travel in lieu of driving.
Start with a public dataset - Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, etc. Or request Amazon's product DB (you have to convince them that they will benefit). Do something interesting with it and people will notice.
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Why you might not want to move to MA/Boston if you're an employee: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2011/09/no...

Their non-compete laws are some of the most repressive in the nation.
After the expert creates a new primary or credible secondary resource, it shouldn't matter if it's the experts themselves or others who add it to Wikipedia.
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The internet is getting in the way of our financial industry! Quick, kill it with regulation!

Edit: Anyone care to speculate which corporate interest will kill the internet first: copyright holders or financial services?
Well, now you are going to make me get out my BAP albums. ;-)
i think he means to say the last paragraph contradicts the first:

"If not for a virus, none of us would ever be born."

if horses and pigs are a-ok without it, then the assertion that in its absence we would have no chance of existence seems a bit odd
is this solving copycat game problems?
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"... application stores are fast becoming the prime delivery mechanism for infected applications..."

I completely disagree with that statement. People downloading pirated or fake APKs from the web is the prime delivery mechanism for infected applications.
UPS.com Down/Issues?
Anyone else getting the below?

An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #102.
Or when one does get through, all the Languages are English or Spanish, regardless of country.
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There are a list of users here, they are running MySQL Cluster in production:
http://mysql.com/customers/cluster/
Security requires more than "does not frequently output duplicate primes". It requires "primes have a large amount of entropy".
If people think there are technological solutions, they should go ahead and propose them.

But I have difficulty seeing a legitimate proposal that prevents the copying of certain sequences of bits according to the terms of their copyright license, while allowing free copying of other sequences of bits. Doesn't sound ideologically or technically feasible to me, because you're fighting an uphill battle against the nature of information.

Personal ethics has nothing to do with it.
Shame on the elitist Fred Wilson.
Title seems misleading - the FBI isn't pulling the plug on someone else's DNS servers as much as observing a pre-announced court-mandated deadline for taking their own servers, which were put in place in lieu of others' infected servers (which weren't, presumably, blown up), back offline.
If the CPU usage isn't a problem then that seems pretty easily solvable. I can certainly see how it could work.

But I take it's the processing part that's the problem?
If that's what you're expecting you will be disappointed: it's simply a Git client, a (very nice) GUI alternative to the command line.
And sending passwords, even temp ones, through plaintext email is just bad practice, a solved problem, and totally unnecessary.
I receive an error:

Reference #102.xxxxx.xxxx.xxxxxx

Or, if it does load, all of the countries have English as their language, and one cannot get past there.
Nothing to do with PowerPC .. fooled me! It's "pay per click".
I always welcome another news site bringing a new touch to the scene.

Using colors for categories is nice and I enjoy the visuals but white on yellow is IMHO not the best choice. (partnerships)

Beside that I can only second what others said.
- RSS feed or chances that I visit the site more often is nearly non existing
- Showing who is writing those stories is IMO essential

I wish you luck and success.
Can you provide any details of browser usage between the 2 sites? My guess is HN has more Firefox (as it's open source and hacker-friendly) and proggit has more mobile.
I hate the TSA and everything, but can't you just look at someone and imagine what they look like naked in much higher resolution than the body scanners provide? People are afraid of being naked, but we all pretty much look the same.
I absolutely agree. This is especially noticeable with more technical documents like research papers or textbooks. On the kindle, to flip to a particular page, you have to go into the menu, pop up a symbols list, navigate with arrows to each digit, then click go. And each of these keypresses takes a long time -- probably half a second -- for the screen to refresh. Then, you repeat log(n) times until you've found (via binary search) the section you were looking for. Poorly thought out.
Is there a particular type of startup that would be appropriate for Boston versus other locations? My instinct is that outside of Biotech and Enterprise software, it is still a huge disadvantage to start a startup in Boston, but I would love to be proven wrong (ideally by some sensible statistics).

Is Boston the kind of place where you can locally raise a seed round with ten or twenty angels for your consumer web startup with great traction but no revenue? Is Boston the kind of place where you can find engineers whose former job was to scale a database or web server or cache to hundreds of millions of active users? Are there deep pocketed companies locally who can afford to and regularly do acquisitions? Are MIT/Harvard (or BC, BU, NE, Tufts, WPI, Olin) grads going to Boston startups, or are they going to banking, Dropbox, or Facebook? Are there enough senior people around?

Vertica, ITA, and Basho are all great companies for example, but are they succeeding because they are in Boston, or in spite of it? How often are these companies flying out to the SF Bay Area to handle core parts of their business (customers, investment, business development)?
Got through and their site does say they are experiencing technical issues with UPS Online customer systems.
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WebOS web browser open sourced
I flew through Kiev airport last week, and the metal detector was in front of the scanner... so if the detector beeps when you step through, you get told to halt in the scanner. If it doesn't beep, you walk through.

No idea what would have happened if I'd tried to opt out, and the relative levels of their English and my Russian meant I didn't really feel like finding out.
Wow, this is a real eye opener. Only having heard of Napster, I didn't realize there were other services similar to Google Music back in the late 90s. Here's solid proof that in claiming to promote innovation they are quite literally stifling it and delaying it by decades. I'm also continually amazed at how long copyright terms are in the US and how much lobbying goes into it to extend terms right when they're about to expire. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act)
I was raised by lawyers, and I think from that I learned how to present myself in a way that is both courteous and has a subtext of "the paperwork involved in fucking with me will crush you." The easy to articulate bits of this include good posture, eye-contact and precise diction. There's probably more to it than that which I'm unaware of. This also seems to work when I get pulled over.
I really wanted to like RubyMine 3, but the UI on OS X barely tried to be native. Has this gotten any better in the new release?
I think to a large extent "the desktop OS itself isn't particularly relevant to the state of computing right now"
is because of Linux (and OSS in general).

We now have a commodity OS and toolset that can be adapted to a huge number of devices from smartphones to servers and thus used for a huge variety of purposes.

Imagine if we had a world where MS (or some other proprietary vendor) was the only game in town on desktop and server, would we have the same number of startups creating MVP webapps?
In fact would the web even exist as it does today?
"IF you go back and watch these, can you find a single lie?"

I'm sure it will be rationalized as bad information or somesuch; but - open sourcing Facetime. The RDF is more of an exaggeration of the truth to the limit of the suspension of disbelief. If you call a product "Magical", is it not silly? What if the people that built the product actually believe it?