skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or maybe we would just go massive kickstarter style (with some kind of contract guarantees unlike the current system) where the funds people have pay people to make the stuff they want, which is then free for everyone to consume since it is free to reproduce.

The Kickstarter model works fantastically well for creative people that already have a following/track record.For someone trying to connect with an audience the first time, not so much.

At that, why don't they fail? Of all the industries, film has been subject to upheaval approximately never. For the last century the big 5 have been established and held their power base with an iron grip. Independent film is nothing compared to them, indie games vs publishers is not even close to as bad as that situation. The major movie studios have no competition to theaters besides outside media forces but never to competitive "startups" because they control the market.

Not so: the biggest jolt to the industry was antitrust regulation in the 1940s, as discussed here - though paradoxically, in a way that's vaguely supportive of censorship: http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=178
What a Programmer Wants in a Manager
I think remove results with my search term in the domain name and this would be perfect!

For example I searched for how to start a garden and I can guarantee that startagarden.com is junk. But indie see some useful advice from small blogs etc
Tillbrook - might of known his team would win. Anyone else remember tips and arlo?
That should be a fairly trivial fix in both of them.

Simply abort the scanning after a configurable threshold (either seconds or files).

Needless to say that, yes, this must be implemented.

I've choked my vim more than once by accidentally running Command-T or FuzzyFinder in the "wrong" directory. That should not happen.
Yeah, I was a bit harsh. Still, even when rescuing a pet from a shelter, you are gaining ownership, which is somewhat different from adopting a human. I think that’s an important distinction, even though I also don’t see it as inherently degrading to be considered property.

A dog’s notion of property is basically the same as every other animal’s: you can keep what you can defend. We defend our pets in the same way we defend our friends and family. In some sense, our debts of gratitude make us all property to someone.
The point is to get better results for the same effort.

Instead of having to spend time styling the top bar and tab bar to look native, and battling with fixed positions and mobile browser inconsistencies, you just drop a line into your config.

Many people seem to think fixed position elements and dealing with scrolling in mobile web views is a pain:
http://bradfrostweb.com/blog/mobile/fixed-position/
http://www.kylejlarson.com/blog/2011/fixed-elements-and-scro...
http://blog.millermedeiros.com/ipad-is-the-new-ie6/
> Not everything has to be 'for the greater good' or for the 'long term benefit of the new age economy' or whatever in order for people to support it.

Are you saying people who defend copyright. Conciously are only being fair to a small subset of the population. But unfair to the majority. And a net loss to humanity. And still they defend copyright?

I don't think so. It seems to me, those who defend copyright have the opinion that copyright is a net benefit to humanity. After all pros and cons are summed. Which I strongly disagree.
Well they all MIGHT. My understanding is that most pills these days have some kind of protection for your stomach. But it doesn't work 100%, and it doesn't work perfectly on everybody.
You've got a pretty negative view of people/life overall.

I think your perception may be a self fulfilling prophecy.

Going to go out on a limb and recommend reading Learned Optimism, by Martin Seligman.

I have a predisposition to seeing the negative side of things myself, but I actively work on trying to minimise that.

Life really is too short.
"And what's going on in the Android world is there's kind of no adult in charge.
And all these handset manufacturers are doing whatever they damn well please.
Which means that it's just going to be randomness. It could be let a
thousand flowers bloom, but it also could be a dog's breakfast."

Isn't that like many startups all competing in the same market; may the best variant win (and that's good?)? Of course, there's bias from the iPhone's success.
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Damn! Bliss.
Apple’s Q1 Victory: iPhones outsell Hotcakes for the first time
It would be ambiguous, since you need to know what timezone the timestamp is from. This is why most applications use ISO8601.
If it is mild, it might. I don't know if everybody is willing to take that trade-off. It seems like fixing one problem with another problem.
He's a graduate of the Jerry Yang School of Management.
Philadelphia Sets Sights On Becoming America's Next Big Tech Town
That's pretty cool. The stateFn pattern seems a lot like recursive descent on a trampoline (iterative descent?).
Thanks for posting this!

I've been a longtime FuzzyFinder and Command-T user but both have pretty nasty warts. Crossing my fingers that this will finally be the one to do it right.
The internet is pretty distinct. It changes how we think and perceive the world.

Electricity is very impactful. But most things that it provides had analogues, at least for the middle to upper classes. Servants fulfilled the role that appliances now play. Horses provided fast enough transport, because the scale of cities were smaller, etc.

All analogies will break down somewhere, but most modern electrical conveniences have fairly close analogues in the past. But nothing seems like the internet.
One thing that upsets me when such topics arise is the non-mention of how Health Insurance plays a huge part in all this.

This might be something that UK/EU folks might not be able to empathise with, but for US workers, the need for health insurance is a crucial factor in how they choose to stay/leave/accept any job.

To say folks should just "up and leave" if they feel they're under appreciated is not so clear-cut when your medications, nay your family/spouse/child's health is on-the-line while you try to run off in search of "greener pastures".

In my mind, one very real reason healthcare reform has failed in the US is that companies[1] are very aware that being the main/sole provider of their workforce's healthcare provides very strong leverage over them.

Now having said that, it is true that healthcare costs companies alot of money, and it may be something that a large percentage of them would like to avoid -- a possible factor in their preferrence for a younger workforce perhaps -- but to ignore healthcare and its effects psycologically on our society and workforce as a whole is doing us a disservice.

[1] I guess I'm really thinking of "big" companies with a need for a large dependable workforce, not your mum & pop/start-up/entrepreneurial kind...
Because not everyone knows how to code and compile an application that runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux? Neither people tend to download desktop applications nowadays... or is it just me?

Hopefully WebCL will get some traction and the simulation could be moved to the GPU in... a year? That way JavaScript will just have to do a bit of wiring.
Show HN: MemeKit, meme your Facebook friends
A great example of "how to get 10000 hits in 10 mins". I loved Forbes btw.
Mobile Threats Are Increasing But Are Still Nothing Compared To PC Crime
Thoughts before reading the article: "Hah! Notta chance."

Thoughts after reading the article: "Hah! Notta chance."

Perhaps a bit of "Hmm, that's pretty interesting coming from a dead tree magazine.." /s
no shipping to Uruguay :S
Can somebody please point out the differences with a customized FuzzyFinder?

As I have it I get fuzzy completion from the root folder, opening splits with <c-j> and <c-k>, opening tabs with the file with <c-l>, deleting buffers from the list with <c-]>, and such.

Is there any difference or improvement one should try? Genuine question, I am really curious. It would be great to see a comparative between FuzzyFinder, Command-T and Ctrl-P...

ps: fuzz config is like this in vimrc:

" Fuzzy Finder
nnoremap <leader>fr :FufRenewCache<CR>
nnoremap <leader>ff :FufFile **/<CR>
nnoremap <leader>ff :FufFile **/<CR>
nnoremap <leader>fg ye :FufFile **/<C-r>"<CR>
vnoremap <leader>fg y :FufFile **/<C-r>"<CR>
nnoremap <leader>fb :FufBuffer<CR>
nnoremap <leader>fd :FufDirWithCurrentBufferDir<CR>
nnoremap <leader>fl :FufLine<CR>

(Ignore the maps, thats how I like it)

Edit: I would like to point out that I have skimmed several times through the docs of Fuzzy Finder and there are several options I dont even use/grasp, so more knowledge and tips on Fuzzy Finder would be appreciated also
In case anybody is nervous about this, the JSON RFC declares UTF-8 to be the default encoding, and points out a simple rule for reliably detecting the Unicode encoding (and endianness) of any JSON text encoded with UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32. You can stick any Unicode characters in a JSON document, unescaped, with confidence that any halfway decent parser will decode it properly.
Vert.x 1.0.beta10 released. Webapps in JS/Ruby/Groovy with no server side code
It's been done before:

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/offline/features/2010/lif...
Steve Blank on Customer Discovery
I wouldn't call it serious or mocking, rather I'd call it whimsical speculation designed to generate conversation. I find your attempt to suppress my whimsical speculation designed to generate conversation to be pretty uncalled for.
Best way to say "I love you"
This funny picture shows a very interesting way to say I love you.
JQuery plugin which lets your users easily define keyboard shortcuts
Stop Telling Students to Study for Exams
Yes, there are plenty of ways to circumvent the block, but some of them take more technical know-how (or social links to people with that knowledge) than others. A block will definitely cut down the traffic to TPB.
Sheesh, what a pain in the ass this will be. Not paying bills online, not making plans over email, etc., etc. The idea of not letting "the Internet" into unknown corners of your life is fine but I do the same thing by _paying attention_. This reminds of the regular Information Overload articles that get written about how the writer has too much stuff to pay attention to. When I read those I always think "you're doing it wrong". Control your technology, don't let your technology control you.
warning, tl;dr inside,

the only reason why people are wearing headphones are open office plans. thats it.
title of next recoomended article :
Employers, Eliminate Open Space Office Layouts
It was this feature which made me switch full-time to Sublime Text in the end - Command-T was just too slow in comparison so I decided the Vim emulation in Sublime was good enough for the commands I used, which are just the basics really - arguable how much of a speed difference it makes almost but it's too ingrained in muscle memory now! :wq
Unix time is always UTC, isn't it?
Can't it be both? Paul should seriously abandon these other technological changes. It'll make his year much more of an experience!

Meanwhile, we'll be laughing about it.
Hundreds of clones will appear, just a bunch of static HTML versions that only get updated once a day or so.

Also, a lot of developers will come out with solutions for the average person: Browser extensions, free/paid proxies among others.
Top iPhone stories being actively shared on Facebook
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http://video.qlbak.com/11470.html
The world map of chocolate (made out of chocolate)
See my numbers cited above. 1 incident of GI bleeding per year out of 833 people taking a once daily, low-dose aspirin. I find those numbers acceptable and will continue to take aspirin. If there are any other medications involved, this further complicates the risk numbers and must be considered. You may not find them acceptable.
The following services are best done via internet and will be full of friction to substitute an alternative:
1. Remote desktop sharing and web conference calls
2. Remote learning / webinars
3. Bank transactions (web banking) for bill pay, instant wires and archived bank statements, etc. Yes, a phone call to the 1-800 could work, except for payments and immediately available bank statements.
4. Music video of the latest Rebecca Black hit exclusively available on Youtube only (lol right?)
4.
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The 501 Productivity: Bolting Out The Door At 5:01 PM
Well, it was our fault (not Urban Airship's). We didn't notice step #3 on https://support.urbanairship.com/customer/portal/articles/16...
That's a bit like saying your historical pirate ship (the kind with sails, cannons and so on) has a cook on board to feed the crew, so it should really be considered as a floating restaurant and the plundering and sinking of other vessels is incidental to that.
ABC's of a Day in the Life of a DJ
For some companies, the "lean philosophy" is a post hoc justification for stripping the workforce to the bare functional minimum, or even below. I think it's due to a combination of various pathological factors: the popular dogma that the responsibility to shareholders is to maximize profit to the greatest degree in the shortest possible time; the concomitant public company quarterly earnings treadmill and conflation of stock price with marketplace success; misaligned interests and perverse incentives among management and worker tiers; the "austerity yields prosperity" meme; lack of compensation-driven stakeholder mentality in top management; and the oversimplification fallacy that, especially with large entities, no matter how many pieces comprise the whole, one more can always be removed.
FYI This talk will be video taped and streamed - we'll have links for both up later.
It doesn't appear to work. I did a search for aspirin and the top match returned by this is #5 doing the same search with Google.
I was really hoping after seeing the first (INTerests) that the rest would somehow work in STR, CON, CHA, WIS, and DEX.
C Conf - A conference about using the C programming language
Lego Mindstorms.
No there won't. Workers are not an infinite resource. Each worker that turns down a crappy job is one less worker qualified for that job.

If worker preferences meant nothing, programming would be mostly abused minimum wage workers, which is obviously not the case.
"The same can be said for any merchant: selling the work of others without creating anything yourself. If this makes you scream, you should be very angry at supermarkets."

No. Do you know how a supermarket works? They have deals with various vendors and the vendors willingly put their products in the store. The vendors also get a cut when their product sells.

The pirate bay, on the other hand, makes money by giving free access against the wishes of the original authors. Those authors get absolutely noting out of it and the "non profit" funds a very nice lifestyle.
I think he already does this http://www.stkfoundation.org/
Well-defined goals are key to actually getting quality work done for the day.
Treatment of Staphylococcal Infections
It doesn't need to be 100% error-free, it just needs to be on average way better than human drivers. Even if there are occasional major catastrophes (e.g., 1000 cars drive off a collapsed bridge) it will still be better than what we have now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
Here's my newest creation. A fun little app that's really my first attempt to make something viral.

I'd love to hear feedback from anyone who knows how to drive FB app traffic. For example one thing I learned is that I probably should have made it a Facebook canvas app. True?

Any other feedback is much appreciated as well.
At least journalism 1.0 (telling something noteworthy and meaningful) will be extinct.
I've used this plugin since I discovered it. It replaced fuzzy finder for me.

It is MUCH better.

My killer feature: it will automatically avoid opening files in special buffers. I.e. if you ru. It inside the NERDtree window, it won't load there but rather will load the file in the middle buffer.

Other than this it has loads of other things that make it much better.
Katz is on the Rails core team, not the ruby one.
And based on the recent decision to start selling advertising, it sounds like it's related to his inability to produce a top-line, or perhaps his aversion to the prevailing winds at the board about the timeline and methods to produce revenue.
Plugin author here. There seems to be many solutions out there which let a developer specify keyboard shortcuts code-side, but nothing which lets their users easily enter/change keyboard shortcuts in a text box, with good usability. Here's my attempt at the problem.

Hopefully if this is easier, productivity sites like github will start to allow users to define their own keyboard shortcuts rather than forcing down a predefined set on you.
We're simply removing the top million (or what you select) sites. The results can be the same - it just means that that site isn't in the list of top one million sites on the web.
Generating Files with jQuery
A clickable link: http://hungry.am
This article suggests that the problem of worker dissatisfaction is a whole lot of hand holding and head patting from managers; which begs the question, why have managers at all?

The growing popularity of entrepreneurship in the US is evidence that people want more autonomy. Phil Libin (Evernote) is right: you shouldn't start a startup for money or more spare time, but he's wrong that the only reason to do it is to "change the world." The most compelling reason to found a startup for those of us who've worked for a big-co is autonomy.

There is a middle ground though - Valve is a perfect example of a growing organization giving workers the autonomy they desire. It requires a rabid dedication to hiring the right people, but if you can pull it off this may just be the winning model of our age.
>is it ok then to create a CP linking website? //

Strictly speaking I don't think it would be illegal as long as no content on the site itself contravened the law. If you can differentiate it from a search engine that gives the links in SERPs then I'd back it being made illegal though - if you can't then Google/Bing/etc. are illegal if you can make the SERPs return a link to illegal content. Indeed a link site would be useful for the police as they'd have their job done for them to some extent. A site owner with only links would on the balance of probabilities have visited child pornography sites and so, in the UK at least, have broken the law.

This could lead to some verification being required for registering domains. Maybe then only domains verified by a domain registry as traceable to a person would be allowed to be routed. That could be automated.

I'm not saying that's how things should go but it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to think that things could go that way?

What I'd like to see in general is some balance. There needs to be a quid pro quo to tightening copyright restrictions. Giving us fair use privileges in the UK, like being able to make backups, format shifting and such would be a start. A reasonable copyright term, equable to patent terms would be better. If no such effort is made then it's all just business buying laws to suppress the masses AFAICT.
> http://fineartamerica.com/featured/towards-pi-3141552779-han...

Uhhmm... 3.14155...?

Better than the apocryphal story of pi === 3, I guess, but still.

That said, it IS entitled "TOWARDS Pi", I guess. I fail to see how the picture represents the decimal shown - can someone explain?
The Joneses are a remote concern if you're working harder and longer hours just to keep up with your year-ago self.

(or, given the length of this recession, perhaps "several-years-ago self")
Yes they do, though I don't think that was what he was referring to.
Custom Event/Messaging system for JavaScript
How to apply lean principles
using what was considered Sun's open, but in some ways restricted, code in a way that would offer little benefit to struggling company that had invested tens of millions of dollars developing Java and its community over more than a decade.

Only speaking for myself, but I wouldn't touch java if it wasn't the language for android development. I'm hard pressed to believe the attention and new developer interest android is bringing to java will hurt the language.
Imagine a culture that was pre-electricity. Bring someone from that culture to 1990. Show them cell phones, televisions, space travel, etc. Imagine the cultural shock... the "advanced technology == magic" effect.

Now imagine showing someone from 1990 what things are like in 2012 with the internet we have today. While they would think it's "neat" and even "amazing", the magic effect would not be there.

The internet is cool, no doubt, but it's not the leap that electricity has been.
You are a Wikipedia paragraph away from knowing how irrelevant that objection is. Finding it (I'm staring at it now) is left as an exercise for the reader.

Another fun quirk of message board legal arguments, besides the propensity for participants to sincerely believe that only computer programmers possess the ability to reason about rule-based systems, is the belief that laws they don't like (or, more likely, that are inconvenient to their arguments) must be some terrible quirk of the fucked up US legal system. Sorry, no!
Yeah, sorry about that, realized my mistake after I submitted and seems like I can't edit the title (information in the link is correct). Upvoting your comment so people are aware.
I'm yet to read the article but before that, let me award this the best link bait headline award -- off to scratch the itch
On HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1859007

I also found a solution on stackoverflow: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/3503/hard-code-g...
Anyway to get Twitter account that has been suspended?
So, not sure if I should be happy or not about this. On the one hand, no one is actually using my startup's Twitter handle. However, it is suspended... which makes contacting the person who owns it very difficult it would seem (I can't go trying to get them to follow me / direct message with me).

Does Twitter happen to have any customer service? I looked around and it seems like many complain that they really have no email / phone # to contact with this type of help.

Let me know how I should approach this. Or if I'm just outta luck and the Twitter handle is gone forever. Until the suspension or handle is released I suppose.
Change songs while driving safely using an Android app
You're Hired. Now Figure Things Out
That has to be the least forward thinking stance on this technology I've heard.

Why hook a bunch of computers together? I can just put my files on a floppy and give them to a friend.

Why do we need wireless internet? I can just run a cat5 cable without sacrificing bandwidth.

To take any emerging technology at face value in it's infancy is doing a disservice to not only the technology but yourself. The quality of graphics and performance you're seeing here is comparable to late 90's early 00's 3d performance. If you put in a little more thought you'll see that in the relatively near future you'll be running full blown games via WebGL with WebSockets and such directly in your browser. No need to install, no need to compile, etc.

It's coming, I'm willing to bet we'll see it become common place within the next decade.
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/3503/hard-code-g...
Three key principles of designing home-run products
People have speculated that is what MS will do, but MS has never said that.
Top million sites, not top million results.