skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relying on RSS feeds is tricky, as many of them are partial extracts, summaries, or just plain wrong (eg archival standalone pages linking to the current front page, stale feeds, links to now-defunct feed services).

If you want to help people writing these things, using hAtom in your HTML is a really good idea.

http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
"Portability" doesn't necessarily mean "runs on every system ever made". As pointed out by your parent, it runs on pretty much all UNIX flavors, even the ancient and obscure ones. If you want to blame anything for the abysmal git functionality on Windows, it should be Windows, not git.
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I have seen it several times. And it's not stupid/reckless - it's incredibly helpful to have someone who sees the value in a tool willing to purchase it for their employees.
>> due to the fact that the employers have contract lawyers and the employees don't.

I think this is the core point in this issue. The employer-employee relationship is an inherently asymetric one (in the vast majority of cases). Anything labeled as freedom of contract or any such thing is only there to favor employers to execute their will without being held accountable for the consequences to the employee/candidate.

The only freedom the employee really has is the freedom to suck up the abuse or leave empty-handed.
Sure, I wasn't arguing against C++.
It's not parody. It's satire.
clickable > http://www.solidifyapp.com/p/113
Right there, as more and more iMagazines pop up, the need to design full-page ads increases, creating a new market on its own, giving birth to a new ad network.

There is plenty of money to be made, all we need is imagination and dedication.
If you didn't get consent to analyze this man in public, you should take it down IMHO. We should respect this man's personal life.
Probably not, and I personally avoided doing so.

But on the other hand this personal information was publicly published by the author - no one invaded his privacy to get this information - it's right on his website. (Not to mention whois which is archived by 3rd parties.)
You just tell them to evacuate, and watch until enough get trampled so that you can evacuate.

No, seriously, there is _no_ way to get 36M people out of a city in an orderly fashion, people, even Japanese people, cannot do such a thing without causing much more damage than anything you want to evacuate from.

And this is before the whole 'where-to' issue.
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The very first leaked Stratfor email I looked at just now (see below) seems to have the same level of detail and passionate debate that we Hackernews types get into when we're discussing crypto policy or the design of network protocols.

I've never before read anything from Stratfor, and I was willing to accept the OP's assertion that they slap together public data, but seeing this one email makes me already doubt the OP. Do editors at The Atlantic and The Economist have intricate discussions about Medvedev vs Timoshenko to figure out Putin's actions?

From: "Marc Lanthemann"
To: "Alpha List"
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 1:48:33 PM
Subject: [alpha] INSIGHT - UKRAINE - Moscow-Kiev Spat - UA111

CODE: UA111
PUBLICATION: yes
ATTRIBUTION: STRATFOR sources in Kiev
SOURCE DESCRIPTION: A senior pro-western diplomat in Kiev
SOURCE RELIABILITY: B
ITEM CREDIBILITY: B
DISTRIBUTION: Alpha
HANDLER: Lauren

Yes, yes, the spat between Kiev and Moscow has been really fun to watch.
But Yanukovich may be overstepping his bounds with the Kremlin if he keeps
this up. He has already really ticked off Putina**who didna**t like him to
begin with.

You already pretty much know this storya**Putin never wanted Yanukovich in
power without a counter-balance to keep him in check. Putin knew
Yanukovich could win on his own, but wanted a super-majority in order to
solidify the Kremlina**s meddling in Kiev. He wanted that to be
Timoshenko, not because she is pro-Russian, but that she was the most
easily bought out of all the top politicians. Of course, this is what got
her in trouble and arrested.

But Medvedev has never liked Timoshenko, mainly because she gave him no
respect in any meeting and would only deal with Putin personally. Medvedev
made the decision that Timoshenko cana**t be put into power, so he made a
deal with Putin. Medvedev swore that he would keep Yanukovich in line if
Putin dropped his support of Timoshenko. Putin agreed in return for being
the one to draw up the list of new Ukrainians going into power in the SBU,
military, ministries, etc. Also that Russia would get the base extension
it had been pushing for.

So when Timoshenko and Yanukovich showed up in Moscow at the end of 2009,
the tandem broke the news to Yanukovich privately that they were willing
to drop support for Timoshenko if he would agree to Putina**s list of
demands. Yanukovich jumped all over it, naturally.

Now that Yanukovich is acting out, Putin has snapped the leash on Medvedev
to fix this. It is kind of a test for Medvedev. This is why the railing
against Ukraine has come from Medvedev, not Putin. Question is which lever
will Medvedev pull to get Yanukovich back in line.

--

Lauren Goodrich
Senior Eurasia Analyst
STRATFOR
T: 512.744.4311
F: 512.744.4334
lauren.goodrich@stratfor.com
www.stratfor.com
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I don't know anyone that actually does 9 to 5... The standard in the midwest is 8 to 5, 1 hour lunch break.

So you're really only putting in an extra 30 minutes per day... Minus the dinner you eat...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're probably not the target audience the poster had in mind.
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Obviously, you can use Firemonkey to produce UI designs, which appear similar to native Win32/VCL but are drawn completely differently so they look fresh and new compared to the VCL, this is designed to be a business application framework, after all. http://codersky.com/what-is-ios-and-how-to-develop-unique-iphone-apps-212
Also HTML5 incorporates the article element/tag to help extract article contents: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-article-eleme...
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In our society, my take on this is that one shouldn't try to understand everything. We get smarter as a whole if different individuals focus on different areas. I'm not saying no one should collaborate, but 6 billion jack-of-all-trades, master-of-nothing simply is not smart enough to care for the next billion.

Read "The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, it discuss this very topic. Humanity had the the same discussion when the printing press became normal. People could start to look up things in books instead of remembering everything (analogy: you're searching the interwebs).
A lot of people did a lot of real work on DOS (or CP/M, or whatever) systems. And they knew a lot more than today's Ruby On Rail For Dummies crowd.
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I think there is space globally for more than one BCC like site/app though. So whilst it would be a mistake, perhaps, if the goal was to be the top site it wouldn't necessarily be if the goal was to make a good product that raised some revenue.

Indeed all it takes is for patio11 to get hit with a new Google update that 'thinks' he's doing something nefarious and you could well find yourself in top slot ...
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3477488
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He probably means he uses a C++ compiler, but the only C++ feature used that isn't also in plain C is the namespace syntax.

This makes it easier to package up code into modules, since you can have namespace foo { bar } and namespace baz { bar }, without worrying that the two bar symbols will collide.
Ignoring the absolutely horrible name, this will be dead on arrival because of the price alone. Even for a new or small company that doesn't have the industry clout or initial unit production numbers necessary for minimal component pricing, there's just no way to justify a $200 price tag for what appears to be less than $15 worth of actual hardware. Especially when the only significant difference from competing hardware (priced nearly an order of magnitude lower) is wi-fi and what will amount to an unnoticeable performance increase.

Yes, controlling via wi-fi is a nice potential feature, but they would really need to have the appropriate third party software interfaces (Android, iOS, and browser) ready by the ship date. And even then, it is unfortunately not a $165 feature.
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Let's see some data:

My comment average is 3.42.

I have 3 (three) comments below 0 points, all in that thread. If you look closely you'll see that I've backed up my statements, in a way I believe to be coherent and well-put, for every single case I've been downvoted. Those replies have been heavily upvoted.

In that same thread, there are many users that have been also downvoted to hell, much more than I've been. I don't see them banned.

Just to add, I've submitted a blog post of mine (What's so special about Apple products?, http://usingimho.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/whats-so-special-a... ) that reached 14 points in a little more than one hour and subsequently removed. Why was that? Did people find it interesting? The votes said so. Why was it removed?

Again, if the way this community is run is "I don't like it, I remove it", then I'm happy to take my bags and leave for better places. But please don't tell me that I've been removed because what I post is offensive or not interesting, because that's blatantly false.
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Bastards, we did when I was at school. Squat-thrust, press-up, star jump, shout "bastard!" and do it again.
Check out contactually.com, it just connects to your gmail account and tracks who you contact.
P2P exchange startup chips away $670k from the bank market
The main issue with posting to only one person is that the person doesn't know it is actually private, at least it didn't have any marking the last time I tried. The feature would be perfect if there was a message saying "this post have been shared with you exclusively, your replies will only be seen by the original poster".
I bought a SheevaPlug. It's a piece of junk. The actual plug is terrible, I would be afraid that it might slip out of the socket, so a floor surge protector is the only reasonable place to put it.

This at least looks well made.
Stochastic computing is not used by current digital technologies. About the processing in the brain is complex to know exactly what's happens there. Probably there is a synergy between chaotic and ordered behaviors. In Nature Procedings you can find a pre-print paper of the same authors talking about this point.
http://precedings.nature.com/documents/6935/version/1
Any exercise will make a difference to a sedentary lifestyle. But is anyone training for Marathons with Tabata? Of course not!
Dude you have affiliate links all over your site. How is this not commercial ?
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Very cool. I still have the old Osborne 1 on which I learned to program.

Interesting historical point - the BBC Micro was designed by Acorn Computers, who are the parent of the ARM processors that are so ubiquitous today.
And even though the STEPS project above is about software, The Elements of Computing Systems [ http://amzn.to/xMTkWX ] proves that hardware can be understandable as well. Of course that architecture is far too simple to be useful today, but there are still a lot of opportunities that we are missing today: http://bit.ly/ySQf25
Ruby and Python both benefited enormously in their constant ragging on Perl.

I can't even count the number of times I've heard the "Perl sucks!" mantra (often from people who have little if any experience with the language).

That sort of attitude reminds me of this diagram:

http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9872/programmerheirarachy...
As a point of comparison, Tesco, one of the UK's largest companies, also has a 3% profit margin. They do take £1 in every 7 spent in the UK high street, so it obviously works quite nicely for them. So at volume, it is very sustainable.
OK, fine, consider my opinions and impressions wrong. <shrug>

I make this final observation. A company recently asked me for my impression and opinion of their services. I gave a fairly detailed reply of what I found frustrating and annoying. Interestingly, they took the time to address my points. Equally interestingly, when it was all boiled down to its essence they said: you're wrong.

So if you want to argue with my impressions and opinions, if you want to insist that you've done nothing wrong (against the incontrovertible evidence of the hellban) then that's fine, just don't expect me to take any more time trying to help you see someone else's viewpoint.

Added in edit:

Average karma doean't really mean much. Trolls often say several things that are popular, and mix in their trollish behavior. I'm not saying you are a troll, I'm saying that your behavior has some characteristics in common, and you may easily have been caught in a false positive. The anti-troll code here seems to be pretty well-developed and complex. It's also not documented for obvious reasons, so we can only speculate.

Also, your article "What's so special about Apple products?" just feels like a troll. Again, that's how it feels. getting 14 upvotes is no surprise. If it didn't get dozens of flags from people feeling that it's a troll, then I'd be surprised.

So there you are, my personal opinion. Take it or leave it, stay or leave. Your choice.
Also, amazon offers you free return-shipping and no worries. Typically the 3rd party merchants here in Euroland are literally only a few bucks cheaper on a 3-digit purchase but they take (much) longer to ship, you have to pay for return-shipping and often you need to pay for shipping and handling as well. On top of that, they often go with the absolutely cheapest possible shipping option to squeeze out a few more bucks and that often fails delivering to a DHL Packstation (a popular fully automated self-service post box here), which is a major annoyance. I specifically order to my Packstation so I do _NOT_ have to deal with the horror and pathetic sight that is a German post office in the evening.

On top of that I am starting to really, really hate the amazon market place because their product offerings are horribly unorganized, they list in lots of wrong but popular categories and they put something up as a different product despite the same product already being there at least twice.

Also I absolutely love ordering online and getting stuff in the mail so I decided to pay the I-dont-know 20 bucks a year for the Amazon Prime subscription and get free next-day(!) delivery on each and every order. Why would I give that up and pay for the slower and worse alternative?
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Nicholas Feltron creates an annual report of his entire life
To me, Linus lost all credibility after I've seen what mess Linux kernel code is, and how well-written BSDs are.
Ask HN: Founders can you recount the initial days after launching your startup
I just launched my startup a few days back, http://giftsbuffer.com. Though it has been only few days, we have been struggling to get any kind of traction for the site or even a decent review of the service.

Startup founders on HN can you write about the inital days of your startup, what were your thoughts during that period, the problems that you were facing and steps you took that solved your problems, etc.

Answer to this question will help me find the right direction for my startup and I am sure it will help out a lot of new startup guys as well.
Right. And maybe a startup is needed in the iMagazine advertisement niche? Matching up magazines and advertisers, doing analytics, running campaigns, that sort of thing.

This actually sounds quite interesting to me...
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The generally accepted wisdom in the running community (backed up by a couple of studies, but what isn't these days) is that HIIT is great for making big gains in the short term, but that the gains will peak before a program with proper high volume base training would.

In fact, the way most people are encouraged to train is to build up to some decent mileage (at least 20 miles per week) and then mix in speed work, which varies from simply faster runs, to Fartlek (speed play), to intervals.

Knowing this, it becomes obvious why runners fall in love with speed work: they might do a "traditional" training plan and run slow, high volume for 3 months, and see minimal but steady gains. Then they do 3 weeks of sprints and make huge gains! Awesome! But those gains were a reflection of the base work. Think of it like sharpening an old, abused, rusty knife: you don't go right for the fine grit. First, you grind it down, then successively apply finer grits. The knife won't cut a tomato without the fine grits, but if you skipped straight to them, you'd be at it forever.

The other reason one should be wary of HIIT is the increased risk of injury. Especially in running, if you go from couch to sprinting, you're highly likely to be injured. It is important to run slow and often, so that your tendons, ligaments, and joints (not just your muscles and heart!) are ready for the strenuous demands of running.

Similar concepts are often spoken of in weightlifting, where you are encouraged to start with just the bar and work up.
We will remember this day as we tell over to our children about innovation in this peirod. The latest and greatest technology becomes obsolete the same day it is announced.

To further prove my point. Yesterday, HTC announced a phone running the latest and greatest Tegra 3. Later that afternoon S4 was announced.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3642570 is a relevant thread. It discusses "Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill". Once Feynman was diagnosed as mentally ill... Great care is needed before labeling people as "needing fixing.". It is probably not a good idea to make everybody act and behave like everybody else.
I'm not sure if too many people nowadays take Psychiatry and Psychology seriously. Most problems they label as illnesses are legitimate issues people have that need resolution not pills.

I had severe allergic reaction to shrimp. Ended up at the ER where I was treated with Epinephrine, Prednisone and Diphenhydramine (Benadryl administered directly to bloodstream though).

Guess what, I had serious panick attacks for another2 days. When the following day I showed up at the ER, I was told by a Doctor who originally treated me day before that I clearly have mental issues because this reaction shouldn't last so long. Psychiatrist didn't even ask questions and prescribed me anti-depressants. Obciously, anxiety diminished on its own next day. FDA.GOV confirms that all 3 medications I was given may cause anxiety (severe) and panick attacks. Including benadryl that does cause anxiety in me. This was widely studied and is believed to be caused by liver enzymes. So, all in all I had never had mentall issues before, never had issues after. But had 3 days of panick attacks and severe anxeity causeb clearly by medication. Hey, but I'm considered depressive, anxious now. It is in my medical records. Just amazing how fast they are to label you and how difficult it is to clear the record. All result of ignorance, but what can I do? Recently I went through cholestycomy procedure outside my insurance, just because I didn't want to be treated by medical stuff with suspicion.

I don't believe psychiatrists now at all. I mean this is some type of witchcraft, not science for sure.
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If you want to try HIIT I suggest you do it properly, timing your exercises and really giving your all. I haven't stuck to them (have a more comfortable alternative), but when I tried Tabata I was stunned by how much it can take out of you. I actually couldn't finish a full round of exercises - which if you read the description sounds laughable - a mere 4 minutes. And I am reasonably fit btw. It's completely different from other exercises you may consider "high intensity".
In all fairness, if a few unfairly returned shoes are already almost figuratively putting you in the red, then you just might be in the wrong business or doing it wrong because online retail has clearly become this pond of a few HUGE fish who can easily afford to not care at all about returns - and customers love that and will keep coming back.
Actual shipping costs (not shipping and handling which is what you often get charged by merchants) are pretty inexpensive when operating at the scale Amazon does. My family had a small factory so I got a good sense of what the shipping cost was vs. the handling. It was very inexpensive years ago befor oil prices went up, but I suspect there is still generous slop in the shipping charges for most merchants.
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This is something I have been working on http://gaiustech.github.com/ociml/
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What exactly is it about losethos's cognitive patterns that you find "insane"? (honest question)

I have spent quite some time reading miscellaneous forum threads by him and have found nothing that shocks me as profoundly "mentally ill". Sure, the guy sees some strange patterns in the noise, but don't we all? Most of us just have enough sense not to share them publicly, or enough existential fear to censor our own thinking.

If we take the lack of cognitive self-censorhip to be a criterion for establishing "insanity", then are we not guilty of the same intellectual laziness we point out when we discuss "thinking inside box"?

That is, if someone professes to one "insane" (== not generally accepted as "true", to the point of ridicule) idea, does that invalidate the rest of ideas they originated? What about two? How many "insane" ideas must one express to have the rest of one's ideas invalidated? Or must the ideas be considered independently of the source?

I found what could be losethos's pastebin: http://pastebin.com/68Rif0mv
A few things there made me think.

"Or, perhaps, we are all missing something and he is just always speaking in code." (OP)

^I think you might be onto something there. Regardless of whether what's encoded "makes sense", the use of doublespeak is evident.
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