skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's nice to get the appropriate response when it's needed.

I once had a flat on my bike, and tried for about 20 minutes to flag down cyclists (on a busy route) that I could see had a pump (I didn't have one, but I had a new tube). Eventually someone that passed turned back rather reluctantly - then stated they'd go home and fetch me a pump as they'd experienced a good deed the night before. They left and then returned to assist when others just tried their best to ignore me. Kindness has a habit of spreading.
Good thoughts! The 4-5 digit code would be a good way of differentiating between sessions/lecture. When adding class polls etc, it my be advantageous to give each student their own account. That could conflict with the current anonymous aspect of understoodit.com though.
Reminds me of grain/food aid given to the USSR during hard times. Even the Cold War US was afraid of what could happen with weapons of mass destruction during desperate times.
Nice advice! One finds 2 paths I guess- to focus on the medium (code, framework, etc) or on the results for a MVP.. once the MVP gets enough traction, then even rewriting the whole app is not bad as long as we know the idea has potential.
Making A Easy-To-Setup $50 Linux Multi-Seat Computer
There's more information on this feature of Fedora 17 at http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/multi-seat
If you work in the game programming or systems programming fields, then definitely.

Look at some of the presentations that developers made at GDCONF this past year or other years where they talk about the importance of using structures of arrays instead of arrays of structures.

In brief (and greatly simplified) you may be able to fit an entire array into the processor cache and iterate over it quickly, since accessing each element of the array would only potentially bring in a pointer address. Whereas accessing an array of structures would cause the cache to be blown as each large structure attempted to be brought into cache and didn't quite fit.

Here's one of the presentations:

http://www.research.scea.com/research/pdfs/gdc2006_kokkevis_vangelis_physics.pdf
Meh. Only something like 5% of the population is sociopathic. As long as you take reasonable precautions, it's okay to treat most people you meet as if they're one of the other 95%.
I know - but having developed an OT library and read the ShareJS code thoroughly, I think there MAY be 2 edge cases where conflict resolution is not symmetrical for some data types. Or I could be totally wrong.

As I mentioned, I hope to contribute tests to show that everything's peachy. Not trying to talk trash about this great library.
Lead Singer of Iron Maiden Opens Business in Wales
I have to say that it sounds like an excellent reason to drop gmail and move away from google products. I don't _want_ advertisers to know more about me.
In order to get a Google+ account, you have to give them a lot more information than you do to just get a normal Google account. And you have to use your real name or they'll disable you entire account - including email etc.
Incidentally the book Modern Compiler Design in C has sample code in a mostly functional style and talks about these same issues.
It used to be that it was all decentralized... you managed all of this stuff with bookmarks/bookmarklets. If you liked something, you'd bookmark it. If you wanted to share your bookmarks, you'd use a site like del.icio.us and their bookmarklet. Nice and neat.

And then sites began adding the bookmarklet code directly to their pages. Which seemed like a good idea - until they had to add a button for everyone's favorite service. And then they had 10-20 buttons on each page, each using javascript to call a remote service on the backend. And then it wasn't such a good idea... so we started to see consolidation.

I miss my old bookmarklets.

(and get off my lawn).
The dark side of in-app purchases: EA shuts down Rock Band for iPhone
Technology, Politics, Money, Data - Travelling Salesman [Movie]
I don't disagree. Trouble is, no one cares. And if you have have your cake (SUV) and eat it, too (cheap fuel) I don't know how or where these changes will occur.
I didn't remember until I read the article. Even then... well, I suppose "celebrity intern" is something Silicon Valley is going to have to get used to?
PressNomics 2012 : The Economics of WordPress Conference
Does YouTube share playlist popularity for videos? I've been using YouTube since the early days and have several thousand videos in my "Favorites" folder yet have almost never used the thumbs up/down (I don't see a direct benefit). If I've dumped a video in my favorites for watching again later, that should carry more weight for what WW wants likes for.
Just imagining what will happen when all the Youtube commenters start posting to G+ boggles the mind.
I'm not going to lie, I teared up half way through the article. Rather than contemplate the fact of it being real or not, I'll spend some time drawing more meaningful conclusions.
ISPs Improve Their DNS Hijacking And How To Stop It
I believe it's referring to this: http://bit.ly/IHTk05.
Have you encountered any legal issues with this? I've only briefly looked into property management/rental issues but I have seen some states that require a person to be a licensed real estate broker in order to negotiate a lease.

Do you process applications but leave the actual lease agreement to the property manager or owner?
Forbes with quotes about Reddit from CEO Yishan, NDTyson, Ken Jennings
From MITNews-

"Will there be an admissions process?

EdX will be available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection, and in general, there will not be an admissions process. For a modest fee — and as determined by the edX board, MIT and Harvard — credentials will be granted only to students who earn them by demonstrating mastery of the material of a subject."

Although your credentials won't say Harvard or MIT.
Improve Accessibility of Forms with User Input in ASP.NET
While doing data entry in large web form(or even in forms having small number of fields) people normally not prefer to use a mouse. Some user even found difficult of using such pointing devices whle entering data into web form.
Is everyone expected to have a smartphone now a days? I really don't want a class to require a smartphone to participate. This would be much better as a web app.
Ahh, the "What every programmer should know about X" articles.

So, Ulrich Drepper thinks everyone should know about the intricacies of DRAM refreshing. Zed Shaw thinks we should all know statistics. Some other schmoe thinks we should know about SEO. Et cetera.

Posts like these should be titled "I worked hard and feel good about myself for knowing X, therefore everyone should know it."

It is blisteringly stupid. Every programmer needs to know WHAT THEY NEED TO KNOW.

Nobody can know everything. Why don't we all just learn what we need, build the things which interest us, and stop telling others what THEY need?

Having said that... interesting stuff. Just needs a title change.
Stop Sharing Session State between Multiple Tabs of Browser 
Scenario: By default all browsers share session state between multiple tabs. So if you logged into one tab with particular site and open internal link of the same site in new tab, you need not to worry to login again.
Easy tricks for improving performance of a site (ASP.Net MVC)
Damnit. There's not supposed to be crying at Hacker News.
Travis CI - Announcing Pull Request Support
Right, no objections if that makes things better for you. I would like to mention that in Plasma Netbook (the netbook-optimized edition of our workspace) we've tried a sort of alternative approach where if windows maximize, we disable the borders and merge the window controls into the top panel, to achieve the space saving. You can also set that up in Plasma Desktop of course.

As for app menu in a panel: That's actually something we had back in KDE 3.x but are still lacking in the KDE 4 mainline at present, mainly because it's taken a while to coordinate the standard with folks like Canonical and because we really wanted the core patches to be integrated at the Qt level. Things look to be coming together now for the upcoming 4.9 release, though I believe (K)Ubuntu has actually been shipping the patches for a while already, for the benefit of KDE apps running in Unity, but also to support the same sort of arrangement in KDE workspaces.

As for CSDs, there's bunch of other things they break that I didn't list in the original post. For example, with WM-provided decos, the window manager can detect when you're trying to interact with a frozen app and offer to kill it, which is in fact something we're doing. If you move the deco into the app process, though, well, then it hangs together with the app, and things get a little more complicated. And there's performance issues in some remote desktop cases, and so on.
Rule #2: Don’t give your customers what they ask for
Don’t give your customers what they ask for… give them what they need.
The desktop app allows you to manage a few settings or buy more space; it doesn't allow you to store files without going to the cloud drive website. You also can't simply put things in a local folder, like dropbox.

It feels like amazon is both late to the party and underdressed at this point. The only place it competes is price -- its about half the price of dropbox unless you count the referral space @ dropbox then its not quite half.

In my opinion, the lack of features isn't worth dealing with to save a few dollars. I'm interested to see how fast they make it more dropbox-like, and if they go that direction at all.
A little disappointed that he didn't get to fuck her.
wasn't that the point? if you havent read "fine print", it is not their fault. but i know i may be crossing the line here...

anyways, i love the idea!
Even if the article was entirely positive, I personally wouldn't want anyone to know when and where I was applying. What if I were happily employed elsewhere when that interview occurred? I don't want somebody that didn't hire me to have any sway on my current employment unless it's where I'm working at the time.

In this case, Dan personally reviewed and approved the article, but that wasn't known at the time (nor was it disclosed), so the caution was certainly warranted.
It does look like you are right, though some companies do hire drivers to a more typical wage, that is not the norm. So I retract my assertion that his boss would be angry.
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Spotify iPad app
Oh really? You mean like when everyone over age 12 threatened to leave Myspace as soon as there was something better, and then they did?
MIT/Stanford VLAB: Office Hours for Startup Founders
I would be happy to use something else but every time I start to look at ZeroMQ or celery, I lose interest and just go back to the DB which surprisingly, seems a lot easier to use. Is there a delayed_job for Python?
..poor people would stay poor forever..

This is even more true in corrupt countries. The corrupts have an incentive to keep people away from knowing their rights. A large part of knowing your rights comes from education.
Yet another advertisement disguised as an article.
Did anyone else notice that the link to the product web site was on the text "online apartment applications" rather than the product name "Rocket Lease"? I know it's good SEO to backlink on the keyword, but it still seems grey-hat to me.
Just some random thoughts:

I think it would be awesome if you can generalize the idea for online lectures also (coursera, khan academy, udacity, etc). Since videos are not real time, letting students hit "confused" for certain segment of an online video will let the developers splice in a better explanation for bad parts of a video or even let them a/b test two different versions of a segment of the same video.

And also, instead of a confused button, maybe allow them to optionally elaborate on the source of their confusion? A potential solution for online videos is via timed comments (similar to how soundcloud does it, except maybe with interval of confusions instead http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1143-soundcloud-expands-the-a...)
Also, who is to say that $4bn/year isn't "fair" when video is an essential part of Microsofts products?

All the other H.264 patents have been voluntarily licensed for ~$5M/year, so to reach $4B Moto would have to argue that its patents are worth one thousand times as much as all the others combined.

Another way to look at it: There are thousands of patents that read on Windows. If each one cost $4B/year, patent license fees would exceed total Windows revenue.
I suspect you can spin the demographics in lots of directions. But I'd hope that a far higher percentage of startup technical founders (the audience to which the comment was directed) would need to do non-trivial performance estimation in the course of building their products.
You might have heard of Shamus Young (of Activeworlds fame). He became religious (though admittedly not 'devout' in the traditional sense) as a teenager in an atheist household and eventually brought his family along for the ride, and even goes so far as to make the claim that it was a net positive for his life.

His 'autoblography' is fairly enlightening as to his reasons and experience with it (it's about more than just that, though). You can read about it here if you wish: http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=13918
Uh... masklinn was self-admittedly "pissed off", Will Wheaton "made a rageface" and posted "go fuck yourself, Google"., I paraphrased those both to "bone to pick" because I thought it sounded better.

What is "astounding" about that? They sound like synonyms to me. Do you have an argument with the substance of what I wrote (regarding average users' reacions to youtube merging accounts with G+)?
PG has declared all copyright null and void.
In which case, you'd probably want to move away from any advertising based services.

I think it's important to realise that the advertisers don't necessarily know about you. Google/Facebook do and they're the ones who provide the 'filtering' service for folks who want to place ads in front of certain groups.
Even with those safeguards, it is still possible to create a phony/spam G+ account. Asking for more information doesn't solve the problem, it simply forces the user to fabricate more information in the beginning during the sign up process.
Dan here. Just want to back up what Quinten's saying. He went about it the right way and cleared the whole article with me before publishing it.
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Breakthrough Science Says Gas Fields Make Lousy Habitats.
The unlikely commercial success of Sword & Sworcery
you're making some pretty big assumptions that: 1) you can actually tell who is worth helping 2) even if the golden rule does enable sociopaths, that the overall benefits don't outweigh that downside
Ah yes, I had mis-understood the purpose of your question, sorry.
They're free, but will potentially offer a for cost certificate. This is a non-profit institute, so the content will always be free for anyone wanting to use it.

The goal with that is simply to make the edX self-supporting not to make a profit.
I was poor growing up. Rarely did we take a cab. We were lucky to have a decent bus system that was $0.50 and would take you all around the small town we lived. The fact is that we were so poor there is no way we could have paid the taxi fare & taxis don't take food stamps.

I do understand that public transit is not available for everyone, but for people who are impoverished, often the $10 - $20 for a cab ride isn't available either.

Honestly the inclusion of him helping the impoverished and old ladies just seems to be him buttering up his image for the story.
Seems to be an impressive app.
So, when you say a weekend, you got that MVP from inception to live app? Normally, ideas are spontaneous and it will take some time to get the right feel of it.
So how did that happen with your boxcar?

Yes, you are right for the basic tools like Eclipse and XCode. But to integrate different product apis, like Parse/Nodejs it would already need a groundup knowledge to use them in your app. This is where I am lagging behind. I want to know how do you manage these kind of situations.

I belive this process is more of a progressive manner than a complete solution at one go.

Sincerely, it would really inspire me to read such kind of posts here and believe I am way too far from the fellow hn'ers.
But in a review between myself and the company cofounders, one sticking point kept coming up: Not enough relevant development experience. We were trying to build a core front end team that had an existing passion for mobile/tablet, and Dan was a square peg in that round hole.

It's hard to comment accurately without knowing much more about both sides involved here, but generally speaking, rejecting a (skilled+proven) developer who's willing to learn a new technology because he doesn't have experience in it is just...a mistake.
I also use it, and confirm it uses Qt and QtWebkit. Other than some finicky setup to get it to play local MP3s on Arch, it works wonderfully.

Also, for Gnome-using friends, I created a python wrapper for Spotify to map Gnome's media key events to the type that Spotify is expecting, so that I can use my keyboard to control the music. https://github.com/jreese/spotify-gnome
well there are two other places in the blog that has "Rocket Lease" linked to the site. It seems like he used a good linking style for the context in that first sentence. It allowed him to highlight the startup name with bold first (rather than having it be just another link on the page) followed by a brief description of the product as the link. It flows.

I found it more odd that the logo on the right just links to the image rather than the site. But that might be for a reason I'm not privy to.
Chrome on Linux seams to have some issues rendering the text. It overlaps in some parts.
After 2 Years Of Pivots, ShowMe Has 500,000 Lessons Being Added Every Month
Any page with a +1 button on it reports your visit back to Google. Even if you don't push the button! So now Google can mine your browsing history for advertisers.
I disagree. If you can't link from your blog to your startup however you want, we're all in trouble.

That he prefers it to rank for the type of thing that it does vs. its name is absolutely the choice of the author. I don't see anything 'grey hat' about having an understanding of SEO.

That you admit that "it's good SEO" then question it is puzzling to me. Is there a reason I the author should prefer to use bad SEO on his personal blog?
Finally, spotify should transition marvellously to the bigger form factor - AirPlay enabled would be great to
Well, I prefer Video Lectures (Like the MIT Python one) to Udacity and Coursera, feels more real and I understand it better. Also I prefer long videos (About 1 hour) to that 5 minutes videos from Udacity.

I gave up in both Udacity and Coursera (Though, I liked Coursera more), and still love those MIT Video Lectures.

I think it's a matter of preference.
Metaphysical beliefs notwithstanding, there is a decent amount of convergence on interpersonal interaction between the world's major religions (i.e. mutual respect, Golden Rule). From a non-religious standpoint, this could be because these teachings promote healthier societies compared to an alternative where similar teachings aren't promoted.
I don't care if advertisers know more about until they can actually identify who I am (name and contact info) and start calling me, sending me emails, and mailing me directly.

Since it's not in Google's or Facebook's best interest to allow a direct connection between their advertiser's and users (if they no longer act as the proxy, where's the money?) I'm not terribly worried about it.

I would like there to be more than just a vested interest in not revealing my identity though. Something legal ensuring they take it seriously would be nice. Like being able to sue them should they mistakenly expose my identity via some third party's clever fingerprinting etc. As long as I stay anonymous and protected (from big brother etc.) though I really don't care. I just think we need more assurances that we are indeed anonymous, gov included, which currently isn't the case.
A Cartography of the Anthropocene
> There's no requirement to "use" G+ to have a youtube account.

There is no way to have a youtube account anymore, Google required creating a Google account years ago.

> They just click "OK" and continue using youtube as before.

Not really, since with this new change it won't be possible to "dislike" videos (at all) and won't be possible to "like" them without splattering your watching of lolcats onto your G+ by default.

> You have a bone to pick with Google

I "have a bone to pick with Google" because I don't like the way they go about their business and scummily attempt to force me into a service I have no interest whatsoever in?
you should probably disable user-facing raw php-errors in a production environment (just my opinion)

http://themefurnace.com/wp-content/plugins/hello.php
Hi, that was definitely an SEO motivated decision.

I'm not quite sure about white/grey/black hat, but I felt it would be acceptable to link to my own startup with a keyword of my choosing.

It honestly never even crossed my mind that it might be considered anything less than above board. I'd be interested in feedback from other people if that is considered a taboo move.
Google likes aren't anonymous. You needed to have an account before you could thumb-up a video already. But to get a Google+ account, you have to give them your real name, or risk having your account banned.
I like the idea of the app. Your website looks horrific on ie. I know, no one uses ie any more, but I am forced to use it at work and there are probably several million other people in the same boat. You should fix it if possible.
Oh Dear God, Don't Sit On the Pineapple
Yes, and reverse engineering to create specifications is done... how ? It requires examination of the only currently working implementation that we have.
Taverna: an open source and domain-independent workflow management system
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There are transcripts for all the videos.
Non-Typekit links to the fonts that are available for free elsewhere would be appreciated.
Google doesn't care what info you put in when you sign up for a "normal" account, they just use it to correlate interests for ads and recommendations on the site. But to sign up for Google+ you have to use your real name or risk being banned.
I think the whole thing is kinda ridiculous, making a blog post to hire somebody.. Maybe I'm just outgrowing HN or it's because I'm from Europe that I don't get the fuzz.

More on topic, I quite liked this blog post & think it was much more informant than the one from 42F
You seem like a nice human being, truly wishing death upon someone because they find your precious sob story hokey is the hallmark of someone who is empathic and mature.

EDIT: Oh wait, I see now! It was not your intention to actually emulate the hilariously 2D caricatures in the story and be sympathetic and nice to all comers, no that something you reserve for the safe idealized realm of fiction where there is no chance for disappointment by the messy and contradictory things we call humans. I've got your ticket man and you seem to be in good company with the majority of HN, I mean who would have guessed that the money hungry posers on this site would be into empty sentimentality?
Airbnb Commits To SF By Signing A 10-Year, 169,000 Square Foot Lease
Airbnb signed a 10-year lease for the historic 888 Brannan building. The lease is for over 169,000 square feet, and Airbnb plans to move in by February of next year to accommodate the company's anticipated growth to more than 1,000 employees.