skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend and I started playing around with twitter data back in early 2010. We currently have something close to over 587 million tweets collected (We stopped collecting earlier this year). We only pulled English tweets and those that described what someone was feeling (Im, I am, I feel, I am feeling, etc. along with the negatives I don't feel, I do not feel, etc).

We were able to see some interesting events happen during the time though. This is a graph of the anxiety levels of twitter on March 11th, the bottom axis is the hour of the day EST. The earthquake hit Japan @ 1:46 EST.

http://i.imgur.com/BeBwa.jpg

There is a strange dip around noon that we are unsure of how to account for as our servers did not report any failures.

It was a fun project to play around with.
Perhaps off topic but I really wish Apache would update the look and feel of their websites. Most, including this one look like a mailing list reader from 1999. It probably doesn't matter as much for technical projects but for something like OpenOffice with theoretically larger market appeal it could turn a lot of perspective users away.
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Everything from heroku console, logs, run and there website seems to be down https://status.heroku.com/
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I very much appreciate this, my friend. I'll leave the interpretations up to the readers. :)
This made me laugh, haha
Search for [clipboard shelf] apps. There are loads of these.
Recruiters love to recruit PASSIVE candidates. They DO NOT want active candidates. All this is going to do is waste people's time.

If you're not interested in some recruiter, just don't reply.
Cool!

I could see this same gestural/persistent-floaty trick being useful on iOS (and similar full-screen foreground or touch environments) as well.

(Though, reserving a side of the screen as a clip-dock would be an obvious touch-OS alternative, and might work better on touch screens than it would on a desktop. On the desktop, the corners and edge are already heavily colonized with meaning.)
I'd be curious to see the stats. They do cater to different kinds of businesses, but it would still be interesting.
Could you add an audible alert when it's the current player's turn to respond, and a countdown timer for the last 5 or so seconds? Several games I've joined thus far have been canceled due to player negligence :/

That said, this is awesome - fantastic concept and well implemented.

Edit: also, when recreating a game, the question field should be auto-populated with the previous game's question.
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I'm confused, is this just an alternative to copy & paste? Or even cut/paste?

The demo for example talks about putting a picture in an email. I would currently right click -> copy. Go to email -> paste. Is this really easier?

The clipboard utility I find most useful is ditto [1], which has a nice history and shortcuts for pasting from your history.

Disclaimer: I'm a windows user, so maybe I missed something.

[1] - http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/
> Frankly, especially with what Oracle's been up to lately, I tire of this style of .NET fear-mongering.

Isn't what Oracle is doing more reason to be concerned about .Net? What if Microsoft failed, and the company that bought their assets rescinded the agreement they've made not to sue?
reality is a facade. My reality is pointless. I get download numbers that mean nothing.

If, in fact, I am in an understandablde facade or if it is an ununderastandable facade, doesn't matter.

They torment monkeys by one person hiding a grape. Another person comes in the room and surprises the monkey because he knows where the grape is. After a while of causality abuse, shit behind reality is pointless to worry about. I have a joke about the first stage -- "tin foil hat" stage when you look for cameras. I was in a stage of perhaps duality -- material and ideal realms. I am now transitioning into a idealist (no real world) the don't give a fuck worrying about anything beyond ...

God says...
C:\Text\EMILY.TXT

ayed the dell,
Many will doubtless ask me,
But I shall never tell!

XX.

TWO WORLDS.

It makes no difference abroad,
The seasons fit the same,
The mornings blossom into noons,
And split their pods of flame.

Wild-flowers kindle in the woods,
The brooks brag all the day;
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For passing Calvary.

Auto-da-fe and judgment
Are nothing to the bee;
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To him seems misery.

XXI.

THE MOUNTAIN.

The mountain sat upon

----

I know the presidents personally. That begs for a false reality explanation.
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Do you really want to believe this story? Which is written by someone who is extremely bitter that they didn't get to be editor of TechCrunch and whose property really isn't living up to expectations?
option-cmd-v instead of cmd-v will move a file instead of just copying it
Hrm -- oddly enough, I can picture that working really well. I may try that next time. :)
The "software is eating the world" meme when put into perspective is like saying "accounting practices are eating the world" or "sales strategies are eating the world" in 99% of real world cases. In most businesses, software has become another staple support of a competitive business but it is not an end in itself. In other words, software is a means of trying to achieve maximum efficiency of existing processes and this has been the case for a long time.

We probably don't like to acknowledge it but software is predominantly a support role in most of the companies it is so called "eating." It is utilized to streamline the business process once it has been defined and proven to have an impact on the bottom line.
It's not really a secret. Certainly not on the Canadian version of the show. That's a good thing though. It means that both the investors and the entrepreneurs have a chance to take a breather and make a more informed decision later.
At work (Stack Exchange) we use LESS. LESS is pretty good, especially compared to plain-jane CSS.

This is a fun personal project, I think it has some neat ideas and may be solid enough for actual use; so I wrote it up and open sourced it.

Sort of meta-discussion, but lots of the fancy stuff we used today started with someone creating a new tool to solve an already "solved" problem. I love the O'Reilly chart for demonstrating that http://oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf [pdf].
Please reference, "Grow the fuck up, crybaby". It seems you missed that in the post you replied to.
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Out of curiosity, why are you using FF3? I've seen lots of people use IEold for corporate policy reasons, but it's much less common to see users of FFold.
And if you look at any of the udacity office-hours videos, when you see laptops, they're almost always Macs :-)
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I completely agree with this. Nothing is more frustrating as a beginner than getting confused and not even knowing what questions to ask.

When you introduce concepts such as addressing/pointers(which are typically in hexadecimal) and memory management you add many more moving parts to the mix. In my opinion, abstracting a lot of this stuff away helps lower the number of opportunities on which a beginner can get caught up.
That's exactly what parent said, from the other end of the tunnel.
Nope. This is not about copy/paste at all.

Windows and Mac lets you drag objects and drop them on target. This works in normal scenario where the object you are trying to drag and the target are easy to identify. It gets very difficult if your target is hard to reach. This app has a brilliant new UI which makes those drag-n-drop operations super easy.

Please see the demo video to understand the app:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M0PAiiJLlo
I almost forgot that AOL was still going and running some things. I still have loads of their awful CDs somewhere.
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This show is so ri-goddamned-diculous that it is entertaining. Maybe two of the "sharks" have any experience running actual businesses day-to-day and as such, the questions they ask (or at least the one's shown) are completely idiotic. I know, they are all insanely wealthy, but there is a big difference between being a real estate broker or selling a billion trinkets on QVC and running business operations for a company on an ongoing basis.

Not to mention the fact that half the time people go on the show with massive sales in major outlets but desperately need $60k from Damon John to get over the hump. The other half they have no sales but turn down an offer from Mark Cuban because it is 15% more of their crappy company than they want to give away. Is there any struggling entrepreneur in the real world who would actually turn down ANY offer from Mark Cuban?

I've also heard that a lot of the deals don't close because the contestants lie about sales or something of the like.

All that said I do watch the show. After all it is entertaining and Kevin O'Leary's quotes are hilarious.
It is incredibly difficult for me to express how much I hate this kind of smug startup boosterism. There are hundreds, thousands, millions of reasons not to start a startup that don't have a goddamned thing to do with pessimism. It's like you've never met, talked to, or considered the possibility of the existence of anyone who isn't caught up in the silicon valley echo-chamber.

Your dreams do not make you morally superior. Your ambition does not make you a better person. It does not make you smarter than everyone else. It doesn't make you immoral, a bad person, or stupid either. Having the maturity and humility to recognize that everyone chooses their own path for their own reasons, many of which are beyond their control, is the only way we can possibly relate to other human beings and live a humane existence.
very nice, but where's the demo? :)
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Ha, it would be cool if there was a password prompt that was actually an essay prompt that did linguistic analysis to see if you were the correct person.
I've also been collecting twitter data for a bit. I developed a heatmapping application that runs on the GPU to produce time-animated heatmaps in real-time for any user-generated query over a Solr database of hundreds of millions of geotagged tweets. You can see a rough demo at http://youtu.be/4_v2EZGiA7w . Hopefully I'll release it as a web app when I get time this summer.
Some people are, no doubt. And those are Amazon-only solutions that produce lock-in. But the vast majority of AWS users are just on vanilla EC2 and S3, and could fairly easily port to any "virtual linux box" solution, or even to physical hardware, if the need arose.

They're on AWS because they like it, not because they're locked in.
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Paydirt is within it's full rights not to support IE9 when it's customer base doesn't really use it.

The problem is that the author notices most things work (border radius) but doesn't realize that IE9 is missing stuff we expect modern browsers to be able to support. Placeholder text and simple gradients are both not supported very well and that takes time and effort to build into your product. It's not about 90%, it's about getting that last 10% to work just right so the experience is clean and smooth for everyone involved.

IE10 might be another story, but last time I checked IE10 isn't out yet. But it seems to me that Microsoft is always one step behind.
As someone who traded large volumes of commodities, currencies, and their derivatives, this is false. Most trading of these assets happens OTC, between private parties, and never touches an exchange. This is far more de-centralized and efficient than having it happen on exchanges.

The retail money changing business is not so great if you're dealing in change (<$10k), but as someone who negotiated the rate at which he changed his Swiss francs into US Dollars at a JP Morgan Chase branch in New York, it isn't a regulatorily locked market. Having a private banking relationship will lower the threshold for negotiated rates, too.
Twitter will be more valuable than Facebook
They're back up.
This comment reminds me of what Arrington wrote regarding yahoo (http://uncrunched.com/2012/05/07/someone-better-than-that/)
Wow this is awesome. I created this thing[1] a little while back that's just an Automator service (hence can't be sold in the mac app store according to their install guidelines) that solves a similar issue I was having - basically I wanted to browse through my file system picking a bunch of files and then drop them in one place (like cumulative copy/paste for files).

I love how this solution fits perfectly into an existing workflow, though. Now if only it were cumulative ... ;)

[1]http://www.pickdropapp.com/

EDIT: I should also note this grew out of a little command line utility for unix: https://github.com/iaindooley/pickdrop/
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Do we really need this type of comment every time AOL gets mentioned?

It seems that someone always finds the needs to say something along the lines of "AOL exists?", and/or something about their beverage coasters.
Hahaha, I really enjoyed this game. I totally got tricked by the description of liar, but yeah, I now see how the liar fooled me.
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Sorry, what I meant to say isn't this simply equivalent to copy and paste?

In windows at least: http://superuser.com/a/252104

I can think of only a few scenarios where dropping is the only option and pasting isn't available - but clearly those scenarios were real pain points for people!
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If you think what a PhD gets you is "training", you've tragically misunderstood the point.
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Probably. But I don't care what the OO academics say: look how they designed JUnit.

I find class-based inheritance most useful for reusing base implementations, and interfaces (explicit or implicit) for conceptual encapsulation. I wish Liskov the best of luck in her software writing.
Epic disruption going on.
http://topsy.com/ yeah. we do that.
Because banks no exactly how antiquated their current systems are.
My favorite subreddits are http://www.reddit.com/r/reverseengineering and http://www.reddit.com/r/types .
Perhaps this can be modified to have multiple pedestrian-only zones per city, judicially spaced and consolidated.
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Am I the only one thinking "who cares?" in response to this? I mean, seriously, tech-blog drama is pretty boring and none of this seems to have a whole lot of bearing on anything that's going on that's actually going to change the world.
Considering that one is more likely to win the lottery than strike it rich at any startup, I wouldn't have any regrets either.
I have a startup idea, show plaintext username and password on my website for every website i registered, and if somebody logged in using them sue them for money. I will give lawyer 50%. profit and vacation. :D
It takes five seconds with Google to discover why centering doesn't work. Hint: you're probably missing a doctype declaration.

If you're thinking of blocking multiple versions of a browser because of your own lack of knowledge then perhaps you're in the wrong industry. We went through this ten years ago. It was a bad idea then and it's bad idea now.
No, you're not. Clicked the link, went "Holy shit, couldn't make it past the headline without seeing Arrington". Needless to say I'll have to find a way to fall asleep tonight without knowing the latest in the saga of the mess that is TechCrunch.
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If you come up with a new definition of "tech company" and it doesn't include Google you're probably not on to something. Google lives and dies by their technology. They are the technology company.

Reductio ad absurdum and all that.
My comment four months ago...

> I choked on my coffee when I saw the headline. Not the Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall. Though that would be an inspired choice as well, and just as likely to save Yahoo.

Sketch comedy might have been preferable to this train wreck.
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Couple of things:

If a furniture company is unable to function without having an in-house fleet of trucks (as opposed to outsourcing it to a transportation company and/or contracted drivers), then they are really a logistics and transportation company (which could readily start selling or transporting other goods, if they so wished).

If whether or not they did this in house didn't make a visible impact on their growth rate, they would still be a purely furniture company.

Pre-AWS Amazon.com, on the other hand, was an entirely different beast: they built a highly scalable, relevant (they built out a whole division in Palo Alto devoted to machine learning and search relevance), web application. This would be akin to a furniture company building their own trucks (even if on somebody else's chassis).

Likewise, Google doesn't just display advertising they build their own advertising technology. If they merely used banner advertising, they would be (at _most_ a) $100 million company, and not a $200 billion one.
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Maybe an asteroid strikes their headquarters. Maybe this is a pretty good argument^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H justification for why every decision someone makes is the right^H^H^H^H^H wrong one.
Everywhere you wrote "monad" you should have "functor". A monad is a functor with extra structure relating to how elements are inserted into the "collection" in the first place. Functors only discuss how functions are applied to elements already collected.
Looking on it as more than entertainment seems to be a bad idea though, as it seems to have about as much to do with good investment practices as 'The Apprentice' has to do with good hiring practices.

I wonder if you could use something like this as a platform to promote an open source project. Might be worth doing just to annoy them when asked what sort of IP protection you have on the idea you are telling them about.
What kind of site needs gradient support to be usable? Placeholders are bad for usability too; your shouldn't be relying on them.
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I have always loved full-screen mode on Mac OS, but dragging and dropping things between screens was a royal pain in the arse. You fixed it.

Thank you.
> My argument here is simply that the people who make it are the ones who go through those struggles and keep fighting.

Or the ones who get lucky.

> <personal anecdote>

I'm really glad things worked out for you. But it's still a personal anecdote. (On the gripping hand, I fully admit that I do not have your drive, and I would have failed where you succeeded; so maybe there's something to it after all. How much did luck play in your success?)
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I don't know where she's getting 20M, comscore says 16. And a huge chunk of that is huffpost-tech and huffpost-science, which basically can't be spun off (both the 'brands' and the tech are tied to the huffpo cms platform).
I agree with almost everything you have said, with the exception of one principle.

The drive/desire/ambition to do 'better' DOES make you a better person. The people with that quality are the ones who've provided every major improvement in quality of life around the world.
So I loved Space Quest, loved these guys stuff. But does it feel like this trend of Kickstarting adventure games has jumped the shark a bit? Their video was high quality, but also painfully unwatchable. I could feel them wanting to hit the kickstarter lottery more than wanting to actually be doing this.
Kinda, you can tell what kind of a company is by where it makes it's profit.

IBM is a services company that develops technology so it can service that technology.

Microsoft is a desktop operating system and office suite company that develops software to sell desktop operating system and office suites.

Apple is a consumer electronics company that develops technology to sell gizmos.

Facebook is an ad platform company that develops software to sell ads.

ARM is a licensing company that develops technology so it can sell licenses.

Wal-Mart is a retail company that develops technology to deliver lower prices.

Technology means far more than just ICs and software.
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Right, but it will break my ability to "| more" on the command line in my interactive shell.
This can't really be true because there has never been anything "clear" about enumerators and iteratees. Maybe a dozen people understand what's going on there.

Also, most of what's special about enumerators is the gymnastics needed for Haskell's type system, which isn't relevant to Clojure at all...
I wonder: is safety-critical the same as fault tolerant. Or are those two mostly independent concepts.

I can see safety critical software, software that has been verified to a very high degree to not contain faults. I see fault tolerant software software that does have internal faults but can recover quickly and often transparently to the user.
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