skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned in the other reply, "For reference works, or almost any type of nonfiction these days, nonlinear consumption makes a lot of sense." So for your engagement with Hortan's C++, it makes sense that you would take what you needed and not what you didn't.

But yes, I would argue that different rules apply to fiction. Completion is an essential part of the process. If you don't like the book, or don't want to finish, by all means don't finish! I've quit books for a number of reasons. If the book isn't holding your interest, that's - well, to say it's the author's fault is perhaps assigning blame where blame doesn't apply, but rather say that the fault is not yours. It's the job of the book to entertain, and while it may entertain some, it doesn't for you. You can put a book down in good conscience, certainly. But I disagree with the author's idea that finishing a book is purely optional.
There are many uses of "friggen" or the word that it is being substituted for, and in this case, it has nothing to do with denigrating the object.

By putting "friggen" into the middle of a word, you're verbally underlining / emphasizing it. Really emphasizing it, as is underlining it multiple times.

For instance, in the movie Pretty Woman, when one of the two friends is trying to figure out someone for whom a relationship worked out, she responds with "Cinder-friggen-rella". ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/quotes?qt0466870 )

I know this is an overly-long response to a minor issue, but I just didn't want you thinking that someone was making fun of your country. Instead, I believe the person who originally said it was essentially trying to say "a really, really, really communist country" had a more appealing entry system than today's America.
+1 for bitbucket.

I've used dropbox+git for sometime [1]. It throws "conflicted copy" error [2] when two people push to origin at the same time. Bitbucket much better than dropbox, but not as awesome as github.

[1] Shorter version - http://stackoverflow.com/a/1961515/45582

[2] http://shikii.net/blog/ignoring-funny-ref-error-on-git-dropb...
I honestly can say I have no clue what Oink is but this seems like something pretty serious.
I hate to tell you this, but doing all the right things up through college doesn't entitle you to a guaranteed job upon graduation. You still have to pull yourself up from your bootstraps, pound the pavement (figuratively), and get your first job or internship, start at the bottom of the corporate ladder, live in a 1 bedroom apartment on ramen noodles or beans and rice, and work your way up based on the merits of your work.

To be honest, every generation has had to do this, including the baby boomers. Getting a high paid manufacturing job with a pension and benefits right out of high school is a myth as far as I'm concerned, because it only happened for a few years in a few towns that happened to have factories in them.
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Adium is great and I use it every day, but I wish libpurple could be modernized. Last I checked, it doesn't support a lot of the modern XMPP features. A colleague and I are always wishing we could use our libpurple clients to transfer files, but it never works because the ancient XMPP implementation doesn't have the newer NAT traversal techniques.
The distinction is that drawing a pistol and waving it around is actively threatening; doing so implies intent to use the gun. Carrying a long gun on a sling implies the ability to do a lot of damage, but not the intent; it's similar to having a pistol in a holster.
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Even if you hacked up the makefile to move the object files, there's still a hell of a lot of junk generated when compiling a typical large C project. Dropbox needs something like git ignore files:

http://help.github.com/ignore-files/
This work sounds interesting. Who was the talk by? It sounds like a student of Jon Kleinberg but I quick glance over his publications didn't reveal work on that kind of mechanism design problem.
The interesting thing is that Google itself has an internal hedge fund (or something close) that trades its cash hoard. I'm not sure if they do it algorithmically or whether they just buy-and-hold various indices, but my suspicion is that (given their engineering background) they probably do some algorithmic trading.
That was different. When I bought Minecraft, I was able to say to myself, "For this price, if I never get an update, it was worth it."

That's not the case with these kickstarters.
Was Oink 100% public or were there private conversation/shares? If everything on Oink was public (like a public blog or Twitter before direct messages), then it doesn't seem like a big deal. It's just making it easier to snoop. Otherwise, wow.
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Steve Jobs trashed my last iPad app, so I created this
HN Post Update - From Concept to MVP, but the interface and UX is terrible.
Yes but we rarely even know ourselves. We don't know our limits until we try to reach it. We don't know how far we'll get until we take the journey. We don't know if our ideas will work until we try it. You can only theorize about an idea so much, at some point the time for theorizing is over and the time for doing it begins. The trick is figuring out when that is. I think it happens very early....
I never used Oink, but was there an option when creating an account to make it a private account, limiting access to certain types of data to certain users? If not, isn't everyone's uploads, reviews, pictures, etc. already available for anyone to see? Even if this is true, this still shouldn't be happening.
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The world does not exist only in stark black and white.
Edge detection in images using OpenCL
45+10=1 hour (Getting Things Done)
So are health care, labor laws, education, taxes and many other things that cause interminable debates on the internet that generally add nothing new.
Joel I take it you mean the 1% that apply to you? Small companies (dont take this persoanly) are neaver going to be the first point of call for the true top 1%.
I agree, if everything was public then it doesn't seem like a big deal but they still should of made measures to assure that only the user gets their data in exported format.
During the depression, I had a grand-uncle who went from farm to farm offering to squeeze the farmers' dogs' anal glands for a nickel (or some other tiny amount). It wasn't glamorous but it paid for food.

There's always some kind of work to be done for those willing and able to identify a market.
Therein lies roughly the same problem though.
It's not really practical for anybody to start a new social network unless you think you can compete with the likes of facebook / google+ etc.

It's a go big or go home type game and requires a fair amount of risk. It's not really a career choice in the same way as doing a trade would be.
In secondary school, I had a chance to visit a supercomputer center with a Cray Y-MP (like this one: http://planetromero.com/2010/01/gametales-cray-ymp). Turns out it's just a big cabinet. Hooked up to other big cabinets. Oh, and when you sat down at a login terminal, it was just a Unix box. Coolest thing about it was the attached bench (Cool! I sat on a supercomputer! Hmm. Not very comfy.)

sigh

From the outside, the datacenter is an inaccessible realm of high technology, carefully engineered to maximize various important features. From the inside, it's cabinets and wiring and plumbing.
The interesting part is not that Google is looking to augment their search algorithms with human curation, see fb, twitter, bit.ly et al., but rather that their principal metric, links, is losing value as a principal metric.
As someone who was recently in Ireland for an accelerator, and asked to stay by Enterprise Ireland, here are some of my thoughts:

1. Start-up Incubators - There are more in the US, that are on average, of higher quality. The incubator we went to was good, but still doesn't compare to YCombinator, TechStars or DreamIt in terms of mentorship and networks.

2. Talent - It's harder to find GOOD python and ruby developers in Dublin than say New York or Boston. Scores of average developers exist, but if you're hunting for extremely good coders, you will have a hard time.

3. Access to successful entrepreneurs - This is the one that annoys me most. Yes - Ireland is a small place. Networking can be done in a matter of weeks and you'll have hit the entire country's tech guys. However, the truth is there were only about 10 founders that really made money during the last tech bubble - the rest largely lost more than they made in the housing crash. That being said, older entrepreneurs may be helpful, but both the successful and now-bankrupt are often starting businesses of their own again. The article is misleading on this point.

4. State run organizations that help - This is true and they are largely referring to Enterprise Ireland. However, what they won't say is that the state money is contingent on the seed funds/angels investing first - they simply match. Raising money in Ireland takes 3x the effort, and 4x as long as it would in London, New York, Toronto, and especially compared with Boston and the valley. The major problem is that these investors are extremely risk-averse. I feel they want to get in on companies series B kind of stability, but at seed level prices. That being said, they are also more interested in better mousetraps than potentially disruptive ideas, in my opinion.

5. Community of like-minded individuals - The people are fine.
Ask HN:Launch your product without being incorporated?
What are the pro's or con's of not incorporating before you launch your web/phone app to consumers?

Would you recommend against not being incorporated before launching?
I guess I focused too much on the comic. You're right, the post does a good job of stressing the importance of implementation.

But it also dismisses the value of ideas too glibly. Bill Gates may have been "some dude who liked writing interpreters and funny games," but that is miles ahead of some dude who liked making marijuana sculptures. The ideas were what made the difference.

It doesn't seem odd to anyone that we're reading a post describing the author's epiphany that epiphanies are useless?
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So, if not showing a price stops you from calling/inquiring about their product then, assuming the market they are attempting to pursue are companies with a very high need and lots of money, not showing a price appears to have worked.

If they showed a price that seemed astronomical they would probably get hagglers and feedback of "I'd go with you if you drop your price" and they don't want to deal with those customers/inquiries and noise...

Edit: I didn't see the comment you replied to prior to responding with the above.

To add, if the company's sales people got lots of and lots of these potential customers calling/emailing/etc saying "you're overpriced" the sales team could begin to believe it and being probably commission based push internally to lower the price to increase their sales which, in the long wrong, hurts their company's goals, strategy, and long term objectives.
> “Those DVCS kids, they got just what they deserved, won’t it be great when we can get back to a real VCS like Perforce”.

This entire article is based on the false dichotomy that either we use get along with github as it is or go back to svn.

Given the number of projects which directly pull code from github and execute it on production machines, it is not unreasonable to expect basic security from a hosting provider. I don't see why github should be given a second chance.
This American Life retracts their Apple/China story
Privacy should always be the number one concern with apps and websites. This is simply just sloppy.
>I'm rather offended that your immediate assumption is that someone is making something up

Well you could have included the entire story in the first place, but it sounds like sarcasm on the part of the agent.

And there are much bigger problems like poverty and healthcare, so if you need to feel righteous indignance maybe start there.
I can't find any options in the oink app to make stuff private. So yeah, everything is/was public.
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Play 2 is probably slower than Play 1 in development mode at present. This may change in the future, but you only need it to be fast enough to reload the page without waiting, so there's no reason to run ab against it. If you run it in production mode, then I believe Play 2 is astoundingly fast.
I think there is something wrong with a society where you need above average intelligence, responsibility, and impulse control to avoid that pit-trap.
For a brief period after the Sept 11 attacks, the National Guard was posted in airports, presumably to make skittish American passengers feel safer. This was discontinued a long time ago. I remember travelling to a very small, remote airport (SGU) that had 3-4 flights per day during that time and feeling quite sorry for what were apparently the most bored National Guard soldiers of all time standing guard in an empty waiting room.
The Nexus One and the Galaxy Nexus are two different devices.
WebID provider using Node.js
Do you use new features in moderns browsers, but blocked by IE, in production?
A couple of days ago there was post here on the use of web components in the next version of chrome.

Fact: Web components are not supported by IE.

Fact: IE doesn't have a streaming update support, its version only bumps when a new Windows comes out (if it does).

Likely fact: The current alive versions of IE will have a total share of least 20% of the market for the next 2 years.

Likely conclusion: In practice, you cannot use a 2 year old technology in production, because IE blocks it by hijacking a noticeable chunk of your visitors.

You can generalize this by replacing 'web component' with another technology, and even replacing 'IE' by another browser (firefox recently has been showing some IE symptoms).

Do you use these blocked features in production? By production I mean a real world project with real users, not one of those 'Show HN: My weekend pet project see how pretty it is' kind of projects.

Why the 90s style of 'you browser doesn\'t support my web app' is not okay?
Another thought experiment.

Imagine a short tunnel. You're in the tunnel. The cheer leader is also in the tunnel.

Give the cheerleader a live, loaded, bazooka. Cheerleader doesn't know where or what the trigger is, or what any of those flaps, buttons, and triggers are, or how to hold the device.

Where do you want to stand? Within arms length of the cheerleader? Within 10 metres of the cheerleader, in front of the bazooka?

Most people are saying that the cheerleader might have no intention of killing you (and would be horrified if they did) but that there is a strong chance that they would, by accident.
At first I thought "why JavaScript" (and not any of the other web programming languages) but I realized this does make some sense as nearly all web apps nowadays use JavaScript whereas the other backend languages are more fractured. Of course, its better to learn some other languages too, but some of the new JS frameworks are awesome and it looks like demand is only going to increase for dev's with this skill
Well before 9/11, I recall going through security at Frankfurt with a large German guy, his mean looking dog, and an automatic weapon of some kind. He was also the only person in the place that didn't seem to have a very thorough grasp of English.
You might be holding down a part time job while in college, and using that money to pay for your apartment. In that case, of course, you may be able to wait for your lease to be over - hopefully you timed it to close to your graduation date.
Cool! So an open front end to search. This is why I love HN.
Then how come NYTimes is mum on Dr. Pham's spill the beans press release to zerohedge.com of yesterday? (Google: Pham CGO, and see if NYTimes.com shows up ..)
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> This sort of stuff happens to every hosted service you
> use, 95% of the time you don’t hear about it because it
> is a real hostile and the company just pays some ransom
> demand in exchange for not being screwed.

Or you don't hear about it because the hostile is quietly making hay from the vulnerability in some other way. Like spying on private github repositories. The fact that github was hacked "by a friendly" doesn't mean it was only hacked by him.
Thank You. That's a fantastic idea. I always found that it was kind of a hassle to take pictures then upload to my pc.

Thank You. :)
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What are you talking about? I'm very involved in politics. Last fall I got to talk for a few minutes in the press room of the Italian equivalent of the White House about this:

http://srlfacile.org/ (lowering the costs of creating a company in Italy).

I'm also passionate about bicycle racing (Milano San Remo tomorrow!) but that doesn't mean I feel a need to talk about it here.
My hunch: Google's basically paying Kevin Rose millions to be a spokesman for Google+ in the Valley.

Probably not a bad idea at the end of the day. It at least somewhat neutralizes the increasingly bad PR surrounding G+.
As a 22 year old, I have never printed out code with the exception of handing in an assignment in university.

I've never even though about printing it out to help me work/understand it. It's not a bad idea. I might try it the next time I am having code block.
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Getting a lot of green I believe makes things look sharper. I got this from reading about Foveon image sensors.
Gonna have to disgree with #1. I think it's a giant myth that adverbs and adjectives are somehow bad. By all means be judicious in your use of them, but it's absolutely ridiculous to say they're categorically taboo or something. Same with So, Now, But - they can stink up the joint if they're every other sentence, but they can also help segue from one thought to the next, or (in the case of In my opinion) allow for some disagreement to your point.

Totally agree with #2: "Actually I will go even further and tell you that-" can be eliminated. "I will share a personal example with you." Well, just go ahead, I'll be able to follow along.

#6 is great, and I'd go one further and have someone you trust (or pay somebody to) proofread as well, especially if it's not your native language.
I think the rub is that creative things (maybe almost everything, actually) really only grow out of intrinsic motivation. For most people, money is the exact opposite of that.
This American Life Retracting "Mr. Daisey & The Apple Factory"
"Our lives teach us who we are" Salman Rushdie.

On a more cynical tone: "Anything can happen in life, especially nothing." Michel Houellebecq
I got interested in photography some years ago while taking pictures for a web project. I guess I developed a degree of aptitude, and a friend asked me to photograph her wedding. She was totally kind and courteous about it, but I put so much pressure on myself to produce high-quality work that I decided I never wanted to do another wedding, and I probably didn't want to work for anyone as a photographer in any capacity.

It's just not the same delightful experience doing it for someone else as it is doing it for my own enjoyment.
You could experiment with an internet-enabled Blu-ray player which is about the same thing. LG among other manufacturers make them. If it's not enough, you can still use the player.
I've crossed every border in Central America at least twice. While hardly a model of efficiency, there was a general lack of formality that I found enjoyable. It seems to extend to latin american cultures generally... and can be nice or frustrating, depending whether or not you are in a hurry.

The one exception is Honduras. Total trainwreck of a country.
I'm a Chicago Public Radio member and just got this in my email. Wow:

I’m writing to tell you that tonight, This American Life and Marketplace will reveal that a story that we broadcast on This American Life this past January contained significant fabrications.

We’re retracting that story because we can’t vouch for its truth, and this weekend's episode of our show will detail the errors in the story, which was an excerpt of Mike Daisey's acclaimed one-man show, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs." In it, Daisey tells how he visited a factory owned by Foxconn that manufactures iPhones and iPads in Shenzhen, China. He's performed the monologue in theaters around the country; it's currently at the Public Theater in New York.

When the original 39-minute excerpt was broadcast on This American Life, Marketplace China Correspondent Rob Schmitz wondered about its truth. He located and interviewed Daisey's Chinese interpreter Li Guifen (who goes by the name Cathy Lee professionally with westerners). She disputed much of what Daisey has been telling theater audiences since 2010 and much of what he said on the radio.

During fact checking before the broadcast of Daisey's story, I and This American Life producer Brian Reed asked Daisey for this interpreter's contact information, so we could confirm with her that Daisey actually witnessed what he claims. Daisey told us her real name was Anna, not Cathy as he says in his monologue, and he said that the cell phone number he had for her didn't work any more. He said he had no way to reach her.

At that point, we should've killed the story. But other things Daisey told us about Apple's operations in China checked out, and we saw no reason to doubt him. We didn't think that he was lying to us. That was a mistake.

Schmitz does a 20-minute story on our show this weekend about his findings, and we'll also broadcast an interview I did with Daisey. Marketplace will feature a shorter version of Schmitz's report earlier in the evening. You can read more details on our website, and listen to our show on WBEZ at 7 p.m. tonight, and noon tomorrow.

We've been planning a live presentation of Daisey's monologue on stage at the Chicago Theatre on April 7th, with me leading a Q&A afterwards. Maybe you've heard me advertising it on the air. That show will be cancelled and all tickets will be refunded.

I've never had to write an email like this. Like all our friends and colleagues in public radio, I and my co-workers at This American Life work hard every day to make sure that what you hear on WBEZ is factually correct. We will continue to do that, and hope you can forgive this.
This article fails to mention the licensing problems that caused issues with MySQL, only that it was "a change in ownership". PostgreSQL has they kind of license you want to go with ... a large part of it's historical and future strength(s).

To summarize: Don't use non-permissively-licensed database software, otherwise you're screwing yourself down the road.
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