skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but feel this policy only serves lip service to "Stopping exploitation of kids". Personally, I think Reddit has the right to have whatever policies it wishes -- but this 'think of the children' argument is the same one that will be used to pass SOPA like regulation.

I don't think a sane person would suggest that exploiting children is acceptable, but the answer then becomes -- to what degree to we sacrifice our autonomy to satisfy the regulator's thirst for a censored communications.
Pinterest Perplexed as to Why Anyone is Using Pinterest
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2324634
Formula for optimum landingpageness. or is it?
OK, so I love Python.

But you are going to find people in the Python world telling you to abide by PEP8. And saying that you should be using virtualenv. And saying that you should not use (module-level) globals. And saying that you should be using various checking tools. And the checking tools may say annoying things (some of which will be good points about your code).

And I'm kind of one of those people, as well; not saying that there aren't reasons to break a rule, or that it instantly makes your code crap if you do, but I understand these arguments.

And a vocal number of those on Python IRC channels tend to be dicks to newbies or people with unusual ideas.

So I guess I would question whether Python is going to give you what you want. I can't speak much to Ruby's culture.

Use the tools you like which make your life better, and if it makes your life better then ignore other people's unsolicited opinions on the internet and just do your thing.
Just want to point out that your perception of what is offensive is going to be strongly skewed from the perspective of everyone else. That's just human psychology and relative experience; because you're the originator of all the humor and jokes, you know exactly where the wit stems from. Anyone who is not you (or a close friend of yours) does not, and no matter how much you say "It wasn't meant to be offensive, people who know me know it's my sense of humor," that's not a sentiment that strangers can judge. So they're likely to go with their gut and have a negative first impression. Simple as that.

People on HN are most likely more tolerant/forgiving of this as long as the hacking is good. I doubt that suits at Microsoft or any other corpopration will be. There's just not much point in risking offending someone who has the ability to ax a deal when the humor in question -- from the average outsider's perspective -- adds absolutely nothing to the enjoyment of the explanation.
I am evaluating my startup idea and the first question work well for me. There is a huge system around us constantly praising cool things, and its easy to get in to a trap of building something that is cool.

Personally, I stick with Color and AirBNB. Color (the original app) was the epitome of cool. They were building something different, were innovative but I found little value in their product. AirBNB (if you take away their immense success) is a generic idea which has done well thanks to fantastic execution. Color and AirBNB are on two extreme ends. I stick with Tim O' Reilly's work on stuff that matters call.

The second question is 'the question'. Whether there is market or not, I will only know after my product is out in open.

Your third question doesn't apply to someone who is in the evaluating idea stage. At this stage, you are leaving everything to jump in to your startup, so you obviously love it.
There are definitely plenty of examples of exceptions, so you're right on with the sizable minority. People who meet friends of friends, find dates, and talk to people they never would without a social network like facebook. But I have to agree, as much as it's not necessarily designed to obstruct communication with strangers. Its just not how it is used. At least not what I've observed personally.

I love this line, "..For the most part, it's a collection of people whom you used to know, but whom you know less and less as the time goes." Because it's so true, for me. Other than the small subset of people of which I am close to. Everyone else fits this bill for me. People that at one were acquaintances or slightly more, but over time I want less and less to do with these people. I know less and less about them, despite their personal life flooding into my feed. Interesting to me, without facebook, I actually might have more interest in at least a few of their lives. "I wonder what so and so is doing, I should give them a call." With it, I know what they are up to, every day, and I'm not interested at all.

Every so often I find myself jumping into discussion, ranting, or arguing with people I have never met personally. But there is absolutely no incentive for me to go out of my way and randomly message, comment, or talk to anyone I'm not close with via facebook. I will admit that I think facebook has tried in the past to encourage some of this behavior. It's just something that I don't think they've ever been able to pull off.
That's true; I was objecting to the claim that it was "grandfathered in when child porn laws were written". The reason a law couldn't ban it is because of the First Amendment.
The Great Question Deletion Audit of 2012
You can write this without any problem:

var x = function() {
// something
}

// avoid polluting global scope:
!function() {
// Some initialization.
}()
Show HN: A simple project i made to learn node.js
http://binb.nodejitsu.com

Alredy posted, but giving it another try.
What do you think?
Glad you mention this, it reminded me a time I went to the movie theater with a friend. I was in college around 22 and he was about 32 and was one of the smartest people I had known. He talked to the lady selling the tickets, I don't remember the subject. When we left, he said, "I always like to talk with people in these type of jobs, they have a lot of time to think".
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Apple's users are not people that dive into the command line. Apple's users are people that open the App Store and have their "package management" solution.
yeah, well, neither are their paychecks.
It's sad if it takes the death of a friend for you to realize that.
I think I'm in that "more tolerant" crowd, but the pictures made me stop reading pretty quickly. Just doesn't look like something I'll be interested in even if the content is good.
Here is a direct link: https://github.com/symkat/GFM-Service
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You add the individual RSS of every process, but processes share physical pages, so that doesn't make any sense. You're counting physical pages more than once. For example on my 4GB laptop you're command yields 5.6GB, and I don't even have a swap partition.
"Exchanging information about marijuana is not."

Except for that now the Obama administration is trying to charge anyone who speaks out in favor of drug reform under the RICO laws, which carry a possible death penalty. Some Montana legislator was just charged a couple weeks ago.
So the result of the discussion was to keep all the other questionable content available until a PR shitstorm starts to brew?

If they already made a decision why would they not act on it at the same time /r/jailbait was banned?

This whole thing smells like they got their hands forced, which is what worries me.
Sorry -- it's very difficult to tell what exactly this is from the linked page. Anybody have a quick idea?
How to master learn TDD/BDD?
I see a lot of presentations on the web that is just a "presentation" about cucumber and rspec.

But I want to use it, so, give me resorces do learn it(I'm kinda tired of books and I know the existence of one), so, something that I can watch and interact looks better.

Also, if possible, resources to master ruby would be greatly appreciated.
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Not that I disagree, but there's also the practical angle: if you spend 2 hours commuting every day, that's cutting into the hours you can show that you devote to work.
I'd assume that they are not researched, and developed by Romanians, Poles, or Hungarians. Can't access the links at the moment though, so the links might say something else.
Dang. Finish weekend is on the start of spring break for students. I would love to go but I am leaving town, at least for a few days.
>Well then you are incredibly naive.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

please.

>Do you understand what "exploit" means? They're exploiting either the naivety of the children taking these photos, or the naivety of the people who posted them to the internet.

I'm not sure what kind of pictures are we talking about here. Child pornography or teenagers in underwear posing to a mirror? If the first, then it is the act of taking the photos that is exploitative. Whatever happens afterward is only immoral because it incentivises more production.

>The damage isn't finished being done after the photo has been taken. The damage happens in the way that these photos are then used. Imagine doing something foolish in school and then being teased for it.

I don't find anything wrong with a teenage girl being teased about a photo she posted to the internet. Teased, not bullied - but bullying is wrong whatever the cause, so we do not need new rules for this. No real damage done, and the embarrassment might teach her to be more careful on the internet (same with boys, of course - but there is less social pressure on them, so not as much teasing I would guess).

>The fact that there are people who think that this should be protected ("this" being: the exploitation and sexualization of children) is a embarrassing to anybody [read: most people] who believes in free speech.

If sexualization of children is so wrong, why are all the 'miss 6 year old' shows legal?
It is, but sometimes we get so overwhelmed by what we're doing that we lose track of what's important. (My hunch is that you probably do the same from time to time.)
> Bastion subreddits like /r/AskScience and /r/Truereddit are reduced to junk and fads.

Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/depthhub where they take a different approach: it's a meta-reddit where they link high-quality discussions from the various niche subject-specific reddits. A random example that's on there right now: /r/ludology discusses the tension between plot and choice in games.
/ot rant

Sorry, breaking point with this particular UX anti-pattern reached.

What is with this new fad of useless and distracting menus appearing at some random interval when you scroll down? It's bloody annoying. I'm no longer bothering to finish articles it's so distracting.

I will never and 99% of your readers will never, ever search your site. So why shove the search box in my face at some random point when I'm scrolling down?

Pointless animations distract you when you're trying to read.

Stop doing it people, stop installing themes that do it and even sticky menus are bloody annoying a-la bootcamp. Remember frames? Ever stopped to wonder why no-one ever uses them any more? Cause it sucks. UX for blogs should be for reading. The only good reason for using a sticky menu is for an application where the menu is actually pretty important.

Sticky stuff on the side, absolutely fine, even useful. Sticky stuff getting in the way of the article? Bloody annoying!

/rant
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WHY CAN'T WOMEN SERVE AT THE FRONT?
Show HN: Solitr, a CoffeeScript HTML5 game structured around MVC
Game: http://www.solitr.com/

About the MVC design: http://www.solitr.com/blog/2012/02/mvc-design/
It's just me or it's really strange that he's "moved" from Perl to Python because he doesn't like the fact that there's a preferred (by some people) way of doing things. Which, again, for some people, it's the "advantage" of Python, where there should be "one true/simple way" of doing things which, AFAIK, is summarized at PEP8.

Edit: grammar correction.
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It is the second event of Finish Weekend. http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2011/10/22/starting-... and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3136784
If you don't like reddit's policy, it's pretty easy to take their open source code and set up your own clone. You'll likely run into the same issues at some point, though. There are always people out there that will want to do things that are incredibly detrimental to your business. Now that reddit is mainstream and one of the largest communities on the web, they're set up to be a huge target. You don't get popularity or legitimate money without policies regarding unsavory content.

In reddit's case, "think of the children" is a perfectly legitimate cry when the policy specifically is designed to stop exploitation of children.
The script is wrong, it simply adds the RSS of processes together, but physical pages are shared between many processes.

Active is not like RSS, what Activity Monitor calls real memory is RSS.
Here's the main site: https://www.finishweekend.com/

and a blog post about a previous weekend: http://theprogrammingbutler.com/blog/archives/2011/11/12/fin...
> The Firefox update process will be moved to the background and Windows admin passwords and/or UAC prompts will be removed.

Oh, God, no. If Chrome does it this way, it is not a reason to blindly copy the idea. Why the hell would I want another privileged process running on my machine?
* And I think we can all say the result is a lot more pleasant than a less tended place such as Reddit or 4chan.*

I am honestly not sure we can say that at all. I thoroughly enjoy both hn and reddit, for completely different reasons. Sure, from a strictly legal standpoint, it isn't censorship or a constitutional issue, but at the same time, the "anything goes" attitude in places like 4chan and reddit allow for a lot of creative gems and interesting discussion. People instinctively recognize that while you may have to schlep thought he muck to find those gems, it is still important to have an "anything goes place". People will feel betrayed when they put time and effort into making the community what it is, and suddenly the rules are changed on them -- all their effort has been co-opted or may be co-opted, for something they don't want. It feels slimy.

(yes we are all aware there is no contract or law or whatever, blah blah legalistic point missing, but the decency of it is still in question).

All that being said, I also like the curated, well organized topical community of HN, because sometimes I just don't want to wade through the crap, but that occasional preference switch doesn't diminish either form of community building.
I've never had this happen, and I run Mac OS X on a MacBook Pro 5,5 with 4 GB's of RAM (core2duo at 2.33 Ghz). This laptop is from the mid-2009's.

My default set of apps that I run:

1. Safari
2. Mail.app
3. Terminal.app
4. Adium
5. Twitter
6. iCal
7. X11
8. MacVim
9. GitX
10. Activity Monitor

I have no slow-downs and I regularly compile the entire companies code-base on this little machine. Sure it isn't fast compared to some of the newer monsters out there, but I have had no issues with slow downs what so ever.

That being said, I don't use Chrome, and I don't have DropBox on my work laptop.

I keep hearing about people having really bad slow downs and I just don't understand it. Mac OS X has never been anything but "Just Works" for me.

11:29 up 69 days, 17:34, 11 users, load averages: 1.38 1.24 1.18
I am actually working on that as we speak. Here is my (very) alpha prototype. I plan on expanding the supported languages as I roll out each iteration.

Link: http://codetique.com
I don't disagree with any of the rest of your comment, but:

> Isn't that just a nice way of saying that Facebook isn't useful?

No it's not—along two axes. First, I should have said "it doesn't solve an obvious problem", it solves many small problems of varying degrees of obviousness to different people. Second, it is not a unique solver of these problems.

Facebook is definitely useful, but it's not a home run in the way the telephone was because communication is no longer a technical problem.
Hundreds of organizations donate mirror space to linux distributions (e.g. http://www.debian.org/mirror/list). I'm sure some of them would provide space to homebrew.
I can't stress how happy I am with rescuetime.com since I added it last week.

It is a ycombinator project. You should give it a try.
So now you've gone from a semicolon, which has the sole purpose of separating statements; to a bang, which doesn't make any sense in this context unless you know that it's replacing a semicolon.

Better or worse?
The behaviour you're describing wasn't my creation- it's part of the Tumblr theme I use. It doesn't bother me as much as it does you so I never looked into the options to see what I can do- now that I have, I see there is a checkbox that allows me to disable that behaviour.

So I have. Ta-da!
Because it's the best solution to deal with the problem at hand (updating another process's .exe without requiring an UAC prompt). Google and Mozilla aren't idiots, you know. Internet Explorer can circumvent this due to being able to use Windows Update. Safari and Opera (AFAIK) don't do rapid release.
Same here. Not sure what all the hype about RVM is; rbenv (https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv#readme) is much less intrusive and It Just Works with none of the drama.
There's one thing I don't understand of Firefox's current evolution: developer tools.

Firefox already has an absolutely excellent (third-party driven) devtool, at the root of basically all modern (browser) devtools, in Firebug. Firebug is pretty much the source of Webkit's Developer Tools (Safari and Chrome), of Drosera (Opera) and even of the utter dreck that are MSIE8+'s builtin developer tools, and one of Firefox's greatest gifts to web development (along with taking down MSIE and the idea that following standards might be a good idea from time to time)

It's not perfect by a long shot and it does have issues (which get addressed over time), but it's there and more importantly its good.

Yet they are reimplementing it bit by bit, in a less-integrated, less practical, and overall shittier way.

Why?

Why is mozilla wasting time on that?

Why couldn't they instead focus on making Firebug better and providing a better, deeper integration between Firefox and Firebug? Or by developing new API and panes trailblazed by the Webkit devtools (e.g. rendering timeline)? In fact, why not look into merging Firebug into Firefox pretty directly (disabled by default of course)?

Does anybody know? Because it boggles my mind, Firebug has had a complete console for ages and Firefox 9 added a shitty one (which mostly spends its time being spammed by irrelevant garbage due to not having a network tab) as a "quake console" (opens from the top), and Firebug has had an (excellent) DOM inspector for ages (again) and Firefox 10 adds a completely shitty one[0]... but at the bottom of the window so using both the inspector and the console takes twice as much visual space, and if you open the "styles" pane your visual space shrinks down to a postcard.

Please help, because they've lost me completely with that strategy.

[0] seriously, can't create new attributes, can't add content to an empty one (can only change existing non-empty content), pointlessly huge breadcrumb trail, blue-on-black theming which looks completely out of place, no autocompletion of CSS properties, no hyperlinking of CSS files or elements, no layout display, no object inspection, no DOM changes breakpoints, no HTML edition, no separate window, what's there is barely useful, we're talking IE8-level of functionality (of the inspector tab, IE8's devtools at least have a debugger) if even that (thought hopefully not as terminally buggy) and I'm probably forgetting half of it
Gaining Traction with Federated Data Governance
You can layer a probability on almost any property, and that has nothing to do with whether it is a yes-or-no proposition.

A coin being heads-up is a binary property, yet it could be associated with a probability.
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One week after the weddingDeck launch, the stats
It's a nice sentiment, but sometimes I wonder what is the point as well. I've often thought of deleting facebook for similar reasons. Not necessarily because a flood of emails regarding people of whom I'm not invested in decided to jump on a birthday band wagon. But I think a piece of what he's saying, is why bother. It's just a reminder that the majority of people you've told yourself you're there for(facebook that is), you know to keep up with these peoples lives, aren't really all that important to you. If it takes a flood of copy and pasted "happy bday!" messages from people who don't talk to you on days facebook doesn't tell them exactly what to say..To open peoples eyes to that... so be it.
The fact that the admins are painting their policy with a broader brush doesn't mean that the policy is any less about child pornography than it was before. If "creepy" was the new standard, /r/creepy and /r/wtf should be on the chopping block, too. If "no nudity or sex" was the rule, /r/nsfw wouldn't have survived.

What a subreddit's policy says is less important than what actually gets posted there and/or what people expect to find there. Would you go to /r/truejailbait, /r/lolicon, or /r/preteen_girls expecting to find pictures of adults in non-revealing outfits? No, the expectation is that those subreddits will contain child porn or something similar.
I'm pretty sure we can all agree that this is rapidly becoming out of date.
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You sell yourself short. The app and typography look amazing and it's pretty responsive, pity I'm not in NY, I would've enjoyed using it. You're selling your app for free, hope you find a way to make some money out of that; it's evident you worked a lot on this.

Question: Do you send the driver feedback to taxi company or is it just locally stored.
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I had a very slow deploy earlier this week; if it had gotten canceled in the middle of it that would have been pretty bad. Maybe the deployment script should copy the repo head to one of my own servers and continue from there? What do people do?
I can't imagine that one couldn't build a shipping-container sized building with wood for a lot less than $2000. Fir 2x4 and 2x6 timbers are literally dirt cheap right now. Throw in some siding, drywall, some insulation, and some roofing materials and you'd have a pretty nice shell of a house for about the same price. Best part about using wood is that you wouldn't be stuck with the long, skinny configuration; you could alter the dimensions quite a bit without too much extra cost.
Is That Online Dating Profile Real?