skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think their attitude is, "Now that you're making money, we want more of it, and if you say no then we ruin your business completely."
I liked David Waltz's example of disambiguating the sentence "The astronomer married the star" in one of the papers he wrote (a long time ago!). His writing in the 1980s helped push me in some interesting technical directions.
The logo alone freaks me out.
Seriously, REsubmit is a great feature!
> It's time to declare war on middlemen, period.

Got a "B Ark" handy?
But isn't intranet the right word if those global multiple networks are internal to IBM and use TCP/IP?

Or have I misunderstood and they're not a proper intranet, but a mish-mash of intranets and the Internet?
It doesn't happen directly, it's more like with Facebook and its targeted advertising, where it allows advertisers to target you and others like you very specifically.
Same here, I have added/tweaked a bunch of times since I first submitted back in February. I had a lot I needed to fit into a small amount of space so they don't have to read a mountain of text. I hope PG and the gang understand that I'm normally very good at english however I cut out all of the words that make english sound "nice" ;)
It's Wired. They purport to be a magazine that knows something about technology and the people that make it. The quality of the mag has gone up and down over the years, but I think it's fair to say they shouldn't be relying on Boston.com to do the legwork on a story like this.

And even so, reporting the claims of the police without qualification is something even a rookie reporter isn't supposed to do. The fact that the judge gave her a path to dismiss the charges, after sentencing her to a trivial amount of community service, is also pretty relevant. If you mention one fact the other ought to follow.
Also, don't send me emails unless I explicitly opted in or there is a fire I should know about.
"getting tired at how many actions it takes to enter directions in Maps on iPhone."

I've never thought this was a pain point. Were you using map bookmarks? It's 5-10 seconds of clicks that I'm regularly comfortable doing while driving.
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You're correct. Type hinting was introduced with PHP 5, which makes it about eight years old.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php
YC application video requirement is stupid
What do you think about the video requirement for all startup incubators, accelerators..etc?I believe (and others)that its stupid and a waste of time to submit videos for your projects.Why can't they just select the best ideas and then take care of the other part?I worked for a couple of months for some european startups and they all said the same thing.Besides, the video can screw you up if your not from US or you're not a good speaker.
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Voted for Visual Basic but remembering the time I had to work with ISBL I can say it got the 1st place even comparing to Visual Basic.

Its structure and syntax have nothing from good design.
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The BBC had a 45 minute radio panel with Marcus du Sautoy and some other mathematicians going through Godel's theorems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dshx3 (I believe people outside of the UK can listen to it.. if not, sorry! For some reason the 'listen' image does not appear for me, but is to the left of '(45 minutes)').

(And if you like it, the whole set of math and science episode of In Our Time are similarly excellent.)
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a better question: Why don't companies want customer feedback via email?

Once you figure out the right question, you can probably figure the answer out on your own.
Agreed. From a similar comment on HN a few months ago we changed our email address to concierge@ (we're a restaurant reservations startup). Very few people reply (automated emails still look automated), so it is very easy to manage.
I like this quote "But reasonable people still respond better to writing that values their time, and doesn’t waste it to gratify the writer’s pretensions".

Sadly the author doesn't take his own advice and regales the reader with about 6 paragraphs of text before getting to the point. Once we're at the point, it's all interesting. The lead up, not so much.

You see, I'm an asshole too. I don't really know who you are yet and don't give a flip about why you did or didn't go to GDC. So get to the point first and then add the details about yourself once you have interested me.

Excellent write up otherwise.
HP is a good alternative.
and often it transparently takes some mixture of routes.

Whoa. I always thought it was pretty much separate. Might have to go and hunt down a documentary or something about this, seems an interesting topic.
Hey i use highlight i never message people on it i think cool to see who near by it pretty fun app..
LOL :)

I had bad experience with editing anything online in the past (hello Blogger, GMail and others). So, I first prepared everything in a .txt file before filling it out. It took us two days to write down and check it all.

Still, we already used re-submit twice after that ;)
The figure of "8 people" was for the BitC team and was given by the grandparent post. Go's team was smaller than that.
I think there is too much automation in business-customer interaction in email sphere. Sad but true.
Maybe they were focusing more on scalability than individual page load speeds?
Yes, sorry, I love Clay, but this field has gotten large enough that I don't always remember every contender when I list them out. For example, there's also Habit and Tart.
You can expect the unexpected not to happen all you want, reality won't care a bit.

In fact, this makes me think of the Douglas Adams quote sitting right above my main display:

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair"
For myself: I always use capital I just because there is only one Internet. That doesn't make it more legitimate, or more like a nation state, or anything else. It just highlights the uniqueness of it.
Another way I like to describe the difference between introverts and extroverts is that introverts are energised by solitude, while extroverts are energised by company. Introverts certainly want to socialise as much as extroverts, but they then need to retreat to recharge, while an extrovert will find alone time draining, and need to retreat to a social setting to recharge.
Ah I think that's it yeah. Thanks for the correction.
This article mentions nothing about pinterest (or how it changed your homepage). I see the design similarities, but the link title here has little relevance to the content.
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So, if you meet ten John Schmidts at a conference and 7 of them email you, you remember all their names? Or you just hit delete?
> The video should be on Youtube next week,

Youtube or...?
For those people that don't know - XBMC started off as a hack for the original XBox that made it into a media centre.

It's since become a stand-alone media app, installable on everything from the Apple TV to Linux. It plays everything you throw at it, keeps track of where you were up to when you last hit pause, and happily interconnects with all sorts of sources.
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its unclear how we could profit by replacing the middleman without seeing similar incentives to become a middleman ourself.
Here in Ukraine people are forgetting "TV" as more and more people use computers. So the TV situation could differ among countries.

But I totally agree with you that the strongest way to defeat Hollywood would be some "Anti-Hollywood" producing great media content appreciated by people watching it.
Yes. Or require someone to verify a github account with original work or something.
I always do

$ sudo su - # root
$ sudo su - username # user

$ man su
-, -l, --login
make the shell a login shell
Right on. This is why I try to be a speaker or help with organizing/running events I go to, because a) I get a perfect excuse to be busy, b) I get a perfect excuse to run off for a nap after speaking/chairing, c) people will generally want to talk to me about my talk in depth, d) if it gets too heavy, I can hang out in the speakers' room/similar instead.

d is quite a handy one. If possible, I try to find a way to tag on to people in the speakers' room, because the atmosphere there is way better for introverts, IMHO. Smaller groups, not noisy, people actually doing work, etc. Luckily I'm usually speaking or organizing so can do this, but it could get a bit crazy if everyone tried this ;-)
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Unlikely. It will properly be gold or silver -- not because they are without their own problems, but because this has been the case historically and humans have an easier time trusting things that aren't new, that they can physically get their heads around and that they can hold in the palm of their hands. Too may people have far too big a distrust in computers to be able to trust bitcoin.
If I was one of those John Schmidts, I would mention the conference. I think this is just a question of providing context in a world of email inundation.
Hey mom, here's a credit card. Swipe it on that machine, sign your name, and at the end of every month you'll get a bill of all the money you have to pay back. Pay it off every month and you won't pay interest. Keep the balance and you'll pay an interest on the balance. Easy.

Mom: "What's bitcoin Chris?"

Geek shit. Download the bitcoin desktop or mobile app. Make sure your wallet file is backed up otherwise you can lose all of your money. Using Dwolla transfer money (takes 5-7 days) from your bank account into MtGox and buy bitcoins. The time you buy them determines their value (just like exchanging currency). Then when you want to pay for something put in the person's bitcoin address 1HULMwZEPkjEPeCh43BeKJL1ybLCWrfDpN and send them some bitcoins. The seller might want to wait until the network confirms a transaction. And in the event of a rollback? What then? Oh and you have to keep transferring money from your bank account to dwolla to mtgox to your bitcoin wallet every month if you want to seriously use it like a credit card or check.

All of this to avoid transaction fees and give yourself the feeling of "freedom". Wow.

Many of the bitcoin enthusiasts are what I call "repeaters". They simply repeat how great bitcoin is/can be without ever having actually tried to use it as a real currency. They saw the phrases "transaction free", "p2p", and "no government control" and assumed it was the best thing ever. I was one of those people. I have learned and moved on and hope others do too.
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So you are surprised that a system in which there is relatively little government oversight and few people who initiates the use of force resembles a system which is defined by relatively little government oversight and no initiation of force?
Pycharm is as powerful as Visual Studio IMHO. I love both of these IDE's.
>I also happen like the language on its merits. I also believe that most of those who disagree don't share the design goals of the language designers and wanted mostly just another derivative functional language or some fads-of-the-day-in-academia thing like Scala.

Oh, goody, jumping for joy, another Industry Versus Academia holy war!

Look here. I think Go has some very, very nice ideas in it. I also think it's fundamentally broken by a couple of stupid decisions the designers made: no exceptions, no parametric polymorphism. I also think it's fundamentally pointed at the wrong problem domain: systems languages don't have runtime libraries, don't have garbage collection and don't require operating systems beneath them so that they can write free-standing systems code.

Go is a brilliant, but also broken, competitor against C++, Python, Java, and Erlang (especially Erlang) for the applications-language space, especially highly-concurrent applications (as sometimes handled by Erlang, which I will be happy to see Go murder and replace). Go is not remotely a replacement for C.

And the exact reason for these things is that Go ignored parametric polymorphism (aka generics) and left out exceptions (which are messed-up in Java by quite widely useful in real programming!).

Now, as to "derivative functional languages", there mostly aren't that many. Most derivative work in functional languages gets fed back into Haskell, and nobody expects you to use Haskell for doing Real Work. Haskell does, after all, have the motto, "Avoid success at all costs."

And as to "fads-of-the-day-in-academia", Scala is the single best language I've ever used. And I don't even use all of it. I just use the subset of Scala that is Everything Java Should Have Been.

It has lambdas and closures. It has just enough type inference. It has mutability control for slots. It has object orientation and case-classes/pattern-matching and type-classes via implicit parameters. Scala lets me figure out what language paradigm I need to Get Stuff Done. It's the Python of statically-typed languages, and it interoperates with a vast outside ecosystem to boot.

I can't say as much for every fad-of-the-decade-in-industry thing like Java or Go.
Great way to sum it up, by that measure I'm a clear introvert. That doesn't mean shy, quiet in gatherings or even unhappy in company of others, but group time is exhausting and alone time is, as you say, recharge time.
I'll give this a shot, but I'm not optimistic. I have an Nvidia Ion graphics card in my HTPC, and h.264 acceleration doesn't work with anything other than MPC-HC (I tried XBMC 10). It's really too bad, because the Ion chipsets are wonderful for HTPCs, and XBMC has a great UI. A combination of the two has the potential to be a great HTPC that actually plays everything (instead of the half-assedness of Apple TV or Roku).
How does this help "end DRM"? The book was already in the public domain, so the only thing you did was to take a non-DRM'd copy and convert it into a proprietary format. Just because you can take a text file and convert it into .doc doesn't mean that you've "liberated" MS Word.

If you could take an e-book purchased at B&N and freely transfer it to your Kindle or vice versa, that would be the real end of DRM.

Here's an interesting question. Suppose you bought a book by a long-dead author in an e-book store, just for the sake of convenience, or maybe because Project Gutenberg doesn't have it yet. Then you decide that you want to read it on a different vendor's e-book reader, and it happens that some software can break your e-book's DRM. If you use this software, are you violating the DMCA even though the DRM is not protecting any copyrighted material?
Just one more example of why you shouldn't use private communication without end-to-end encryption.
You are right with your first sentence. Don't know why you needed to invoke holocaust emotive in your last.
This proves that python is the best language.
By junking the entire system we have now.

The poorly written standardized tests are just a symptom of a system in which many people, with various interests, have a say in what and how children are to be educated. The result is education by committee -- exactly what the OP is complaining about.

A voucher system would render the educational bureaucracy superfluous. Parents who thought their kids were being poorly served could move them to a different school, or start their own school if nothing else were available.

This isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Some parents home-school now. There already exists a small industry providing them with educational materials.

I know, this is a radical idea. It hasn't caught on in the 20 or so years since it was first seriously floated -- why would it now? But meanwhile the quality of our kids' education continues to spiral downward. I think the only possible solutions will be radical ones.
During my studying at the University I wrote the most of homework in Python including pseudo-random numbers generators etc.

Then I found an interesting job at financial startup where people liked Django/Python combination so I used it there too. Business logic was far clearer to read than Java code from other system parts I saw (I had to describe writing documentation and diagrams describing some details of "how it works").
Because in 60 seconds you can provide 60 reasons why you might be totally un-investable.

Remember that your video is in addition to your application. Your application is where it all happens, and your video is giving you a chance to shine. But that's not to say just because you aren't a native English speaker that you won't get funded.

And if you think that you aren't a good speaker, then you might have missed the point on the video, you aren't suposed to speak like it's a talk, it should be a really informal introduction of what it is you are working on. You cannot stress the informality enough.

Just relax and talk into the camera like your chatting with your best friend. Being relaxed and being able to explain your idea shows that you understand your product really well, because people who have to work really hard come off as being unnatural and appear to have slower recall times as if they don't know what they are talking about. Robotics in talks is just bad.
Next: please make an app that tells me what direction I should be walking to find 7th ave if I'm on 8th ave? You'd think the gps should help but it doesn't. You often end up walking more than half way before the gps will sluggishly tell you you're headed in the wrong direction.

Any tourist in NYC would buy it. It's less painful than asking someone like me(happens few times a week).
I think the video is a good way to get the personality of the applicant prior to an interview, maybe even an indication of co founder chemistry.

Of course it can be gamed pretty easily so it isn't that much of an indicator. I wouldn't imagine PG has ever denied at least an interview on the basis of a bad video but he will have to clarify that.

I'm sure he mentioned that the video is only watched after the rest of the application has been read.
Be careful, you might end up dying from an infection contracted through an un-sanitized telephone.
I'm using an Android phone, so I've only tried Glancee, but if Highlight is anything like it the stories of massive battery drain don't surprise me. I uninstalled Glancee when I never saw anyone show up.
Disintermediation may at first seem to be the destiny of a network whose connectivity trends toward a full mesh... But this superficial impression is later proved wrong by the rise of intermediaries made necessary by the wealth of possible connections. The trick is that those new intermediaries offer value by helping to achieve more connections, not by restricting connectivity. The old intermediaries die but the new world has a niche for new ones.
Hey, I'm one of the other devs. I just emailed farhadabas a fix to the diagonal selection issue, so as soon as he wakes up, he'll update it. Thanks for the feedback!
In theory Highlight is cool, but I have to agree with the article. I find it generally useless. Worst of all, the battery drain is ridiculous.

I was just out earlier today and it told me someone was nearby and the only reason they notified me was because we "shared" 3 interests: Lost, Gattaca and Hot Dogs. Srsly?
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You know, I've heard this Hollywood/The RIAA is dead meme repeated for at least 10 years now and I just don't see it happening anytime soon.

Is there even any evidence that they are dying? Are their revenues falling year upon year, piracy advocates insist that they aren't.

I still see trailers every year for the latest $BIG_MEDIA_MOVIE with no sign of slowing down, how many movies you can fit on a 4TB drive is pretty irrelevant. Since the original iPod came out people have been able to store more music than they actually listen to anyway.

Anyway, what would replace it?
Youtube? Half of their content is either scenes from TV/Movies or people talking about TV/Movies.
Kickstarter? Yes for folks who are passionate enough to think about what they want and go out actively looking for stuff they might like.
Many people just want to see a trailer for latest big blockbuster so that they know what to buy for their kids when they want some peace and quiet or what to talk about at the watercooler on monday.

What about piracy?
Everyone seems to be firmly of the opinion that the cat can not be put back in the back with this one.
Me, I'm not so sure. The feds are going after pirate websites with the big guns. Not to mention that on the whole the people who make your software and hardware are on the side of the content producers.

Since we are all going "Post PC" and many computers will become more like appliances, what's to say that your future Apple TV will even play any content that has not been directly licensed from iTunes and the like?

Look at the MSN Messenger/Pirate bay issue.
You don't really need the government to do anything, the big tech companies can do it all by themselves.

What would happen if Windows 8 and the next OSX just flat out refused to let you navigate to a torrent website, or even install a torrent client?

Sure , you will have an underground scene of jailbreakers and people who still run open hardware etc but they won't be getting the subsidies on buying that new family entertainment system that everyone else is getting.

People are lazy and don't want to make their cultural choices themselves.
I was just going to say that until Bitcoin are safe and easy to use for the average consumer it will never gain mainstream use.
My first thought is to use this on vacation. Let's say I go to San Diego... I enter in the hotel, the zoo, ocean beach, little italy, la jolla, etc. Then, as I randomly explore the area, I click from current location to any spot I've already entered. I LOVE this.

My most common words on vacation are "How in the hell do I get back to the hotel".
Its actually not that surprising upon closer inspection. The articles that were focused more general topics (The Cost of Cracking, How to Make it on Craigslist) were generally correlated, while the post that were more hacker specific (Minimum Viable SEO, Headphones for Hackers) did well on HN, but did not receive a lot of general traffic.
Fair enough, which is why I'm working on trying to actually launch myself.
Yes, because you're circumventing a copyright protection mechanism. Even though the mechanism isn't, in that case, being used to protect copyrights.

IANAL and welcome corrections.
I was working at a place that sold these tickets. If you could keep track of each pack that was sold, you could get to the point where you knew your purchase would be a winner.

Obviously not something a person who didn't have the ability to monitor the purchases could do.
Optimistic? You're in for a surprise. It works perfectly on my Asrock ION 330 with the Ion graphics card. Can play 1080p flawlessly without hardly affecting the CPU thanks for the VDPAU acceleration http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=HOW-TO:Install_XBMC_on_...
that did finally happen though. there's an instapaper for android now. http://papermill.me/

edit: or not. my bad.
I think you might be right about that one. That does look rather elegant. I was initially skeptical about creating a totally new language construct to create inline tuples, as (num, success) looks like it needs a new in front of it, which ruins the pattern of assignment for destructuring.

But once you get over that mental hump of seeing a new in front, it really starts to make a lot of sense. A tuple could be considered a value type and treated similarly to int or string literals. Very cool.
If they are workers being paid to do a job, why is their gender even mentioned in the flyer?
I like the iPhone TomTom app which incorporates Google Local Search. The IQ route planning and traffic avoidance are excellent also, I've found them taking 10% off of city based journeys where I previously thought I knew the roads well.