skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the attempted compliment. It's nice to consider myself interesting and clever.

Unfortunately, it's not so nice when I'm unmedicated to lose my train of thought constantly, be totally distracted by small noises (think Doug the dog: "SQUIRREL!"), be totally manic and creative for two to four hours only to be beset by a terrible fog of malaise for the next few days or even week. But with a boost extra norepinephrine and dopamine, however, I can actually function as a human being and feel like I have control over my life.

Whatever peculiar chemical mixture I have, whether you'd like to call it ADD (or ADHD-PI) or some sort of minor bipolar disorder or depression or hypomania, has very real consequences on my life. Without medication, I am miserable. With it, I feel some semblance of what I would presume "normal" feels like. It doesn't fix all of my problems - my memory recording and recall skills are still very poor and my ability to manage my time is a challenge, which has taken years of practice to compensate for - but it stabilizes me emotionally and mentally so that I can actually focus on living my life vs. using all my faculties up struggling to do basic things like dishes or laundry.

Now I'd like to turn the discussion back to you: what's with your hostility to people who aren't like you?
I had a co-worker with Asperger's Syndrome. It was actually quite fascinating to me, since I'm a big science/medicine geek.

The amazing thing was that you could pull a list of symptoms from wikipedia or the Merck Manual and put a check mark next to each one with this guy.

Smart guy and very pleasant, but it was apparent his lack of social awareness was very challenging to him. I would get frustrated sometimes and other coworkers would be very aware of my frustration but this guy was completely unaware.

Like I said, pretty interesting...
I think a lot of people dissatisfied with D3 are forgetting they were 12 years younger when Diablo 2 was released. That's a long time for your tastes to change. Everyone who played Diablo 2 as a child is now an adult.
Thanks for the link. Reading now ...
Likewise agree. Too much freaking noise. Annoying interface and horrible ads. Im in the process of moving over to twitter.
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Regardless of how Facebook.com does going forward, they have an incredible amount of talent working there. I think that's where the value is, so long as they can retain it and actually pump out some cool products.
People said it was overpriced at the IPO:

http://www.businessinsider.com/barrons-skip-the-facebook-ipo...

Whether it's a buy now is whether you think Facebook will be the thing kids are using in ten years. (My nieces don't know what email is, only Facebook.)
Missed that. Thanks. I'll tuck that little tidbit away for later use.
Publish your book and let the market decide. Certainly don't let a pre-announcement of a book that's not fully written yet (yet alone reviewed) discourage you!
The list of countries isn't linkable (it's a div on https://www.braintreepayments.com/tour/international#countri...)

So here is the list: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom
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Strongly reminiscent of Lisp. Wishful ideas brought to reality.
another link if the original doesn't work for you: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.94.4...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what Content-type is for?
Sounds awesome; using my favorite php stack too :)

Would be nice to see a preview of different bits of the book when written as well.
But... but... it has graphs!

The "scientific" part was pretty tongue-in-cheek given all the handwaving I do, I obviously didn't hook up electrodes to anyone's brain while they're playing (although that would be fascinating). I'll edit the blog title to put it in quotes, can't edit the submission title though.
Looks like Airtime is experiencing some downtime. Here's a CNET article talking about what this service is:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57447417-93/sean-parkers-ai...
I don't know how to respond to this :). It is so widely off the mark that I can only shake my head in surprise. A huge number of MNC's dominate certain sectors of the economy. India is one of the top destinations for FDI in the world. See - http://unctad.org/en/docs/diaeia20104_en.pdf. Equating India to Nigeria .. Sheesh.. I don't know whether you were trolling or serious!
"Our society tries to build a support structure around folks to enable them to reach their potential."

I would argue most of the success is due to coping mechanisms developed by people than societal support structure. In fact, the free markets probably have more to do with their success than society.
It's more an ethical question than anything else. Do you want to build your fortunes on the invasion of other people's privacies? Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you.
I agree with you that the extra noise of the "downvote prophylactic" is annoying, however, I went ahead and downvoted your comment because the meta-complaining adds even more noise. I realize that my comment is meta-meta so feel free to downvote it also.
FB's golden goose is that is has the web's largest social audience and therby specific demographic data about everyone. FB shareholders would run screaming for the exits if ever a paid subscription were forced on its users.

FB's achilles heal is exactly this: it's getting boring.
They giving 90 every day (Intel Core i3 2130 2x2(HT)x3.4+ GHz - 16 GB RAM, 2x1 TB HDD - 100Mbps).

Servers will be active till August for free to use.

1. You need to follow their twitter account.
2. Every day, different time, they say then.

Today it took 10 sec to take all 90 servers. So start trying 1-2 minutes before time they announce and you will get one.
Fair enough!

The main thing I'd worry about is people mis-hearing the name and trying to go to either gettip.com or gifttip.com, but it's very likely that I'm giving people too little credit. That wouldn't be a problem if 'git' enters the non-technical zeitgeist, but that's admittedly a pretty big 'if'.
Definitely publish. What if your book covered all the stuff he doesn't.
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IMHO privacy alone IS enough to negate the utility of Facebook. Privacy is not about just your name, gender and address. Nor even about what movies, music and books you enjoy. It's down to how you express yourself in words and what can be inferred by them. Your pics might seen harmless, but there's plenty you can infer from them too.

Sure, there's controls on which groups of facebook friends can see things, but in the end, this all goes into a FB database somewhere, which who knows has access to it, or backups to it. Enjoy being harvested voluntarily. Might not matter to you in particular.

On the flip side perhaps, humans might not be easily categorized and predicated like bits of data. That we become ok with reading about things that weren't intended for our demographic profile. But if I were to bet money on it, I'd bet against that.

IMHO privacy alone IS enough to negate the utility of Facebook. Privacy is not about just your name, gender and address. Nor even about what movies, music and books you enjoy. It's down to how you express yourself in words and what can be inferred by them. Your pics might seen harmless, but there's plenty you can infer from them too.

Sure, there's controls on which groups of facebook friends can see things, but in the end, this all goes into a FB database somewhere, which who knows has access to it, or backups to it. Enjoy being harvested voluntarily. Might not matter to you in particular.

On the flip side, maybe from a philosophical point of view humans might not be easily categorized and predicated like bits of data. That we become ok with reading about things that weren't intended for our demographic profile. But if I were to bet money on it, I'd bet against that.

I guess, I can say this since I've never been a heavy FB user and I see little of the benefits from it. Maybe I need to upgrade my friends. They say that to many, FB is the internet to them -- we'll see how this lasts in the long run.
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> What about rapid prototyping?

Refactoring really, truly and absolutely has nothing to do with rapid prototyping, nor does rapid prototyping has any use for refactoring.

> you’re either going to waste effort rewriting it

Throwing one away isn't "wasted effort", it good practices: you created a turd the first time around and learned a lot, polishing that turd would be wasting time.
Thanks, jerf, done: https://github.com/dogada/RJSON/commit/0a7fc5dd9e142477ebda9...
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A (moleskine) notebook is great for this. And so is a folder on google docs (or an encrypted true-crypt vault if you're paranoid).
Yeah I wrestled back and forth with those example goal boxes. When I made them less faint, I felt that the content of the page became overwhelming since those boxes are more ornamentation than actual information. I haven't fully decided yet though.

You're right about the need to convey what the app actually does. Do you feel the annotated screenshots suffice? Or is it that they take too long to begin cycling?

Lastly, you're absolutely right about browser compatibility. I just have to put in more time on graceful degradation.

Thanks for the feedback!
I wonder if it was more of a tongue-in-cheek joke about the FB for 13 year olds story that came out yesterday.
Nope. After spending the morning digging (turns out no other web fonts would show up either) I discovered it was a corrupted OS X font cache.
> Steam is a great delivery platform which handles most but not all DRM issues [...] Thanks Ubisoft!

aka it handles all DRM issues as long as you leave Ubisoft rotting.
It would be trivial and boring to rebuke because the arguments are so flimsy. Perhaps my allusion to schizophrenia was uncalled for, I was trying to say that either the author is trying to be amusing (satire) or is a disorganized, paranoid thinker.

I guess I felt that using a clinical term would be less insulting but in retrospect I think calling out the argument as stupid and paranoid would have made it clearer why no point-by-point rebuttal is necessary. My other posts do get into the problem I have with the way he constructs his moral argument.
Exactly. And to design and prototype something, you need engineers who understand the tools and materials. You can't design a stamped metal part for a Chinese factory if you never learned about stamping metal.
Keep in mind, Quickoffice (I was there) did that before the spec was released:)
Aren't Chrome users almost always using the latest version because of the auto-update by default?
Whilst I'm not qualified to comment on the science, I can certainly agree with the conclusion. In Diablo 2, the hunt for loot was part of feeling the "hero" - keep digging for treasure, keep dismembering those skeletons; somewhere, there's that Epic Item with which you can win the day!

I've played Diablo 3 through to "Hell" difficulty, and I've not been using my own looted gear since the middle of the "Normal" mode - there's just no competition between drops, and what you can buy on the AH for very little money. The "sensible" play style is just to farm gold, and buy AH kit. Found an item? Sell it for gold (or, very occasionally, AH) - don't use it!

It's hard to feel like a hero when you're popping off to Macy's every few hours to grab a new +1 Sword of Wounding. Your quest to save the world - sponsored by Nike?
Brilliant... excellent buy for Google. I have used QuickOffice across several mobile devices and it always impresses. Tie this to Google Docs, scrap that Android "Docs" thing Google launched last year, and we have a winner. Not to mention a cross platform win.
I wish someone would make a Gnome 2+, that would be cool again. Good performance, very configurable, doesn't slow my games down.
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Do you really think the tips should be recurring to the same person every week, rather than also having a one off option? Also, once you've started tipping someone, it's possible to stop?
Chrome has had SPDY enabled for at least a year now -- since around Chrome 10, I think? And according to Statcounter measurements for this month to date [1], 28.75% of all page views currently come from Chrome 19.

From the same Statcounter numbers, 17.27% of all page views are from Firefox 12. So that's over 46% of page views this month using the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox. And another few percent are just one or two versions behind. So a couple of months from now, 50% of page views measured by Statcounter should come from SPDY-enabled browsers, especially if IE marketshare keeps shrinking rapidly.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201206...
Dont get discouraged by this.
For example, Dropbox didnt get discouraged by the rumors of GDrive in 2007 and look where they are :) Of course totally different ball game, just saying: Try all you can before giving up especially since you are almost there!

Good Luck!
This is hardly high tech to college kids. The reality of this is that if you put things like this online of course people are going to cheat because there's no way to lock it down. If universities that offer online classes want to cut down on cheating, they need to find a way to lock down the internet during the time of the tests. Instead of a website or video stream from the browser, maybe you need to stream things through a desktop application as the only solution.

It's either that or education needs a reboot. My professor in one of my summer classes gives open note and open book exams because "I've[He's] never been in a situation where someone told me I[he] couldn't look something up"
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> But yes, you're right that maps require a join table.

Not in postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/hstore.html
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There's already QuickOffice Connect, which works great with Google Docs. I used to use it a lot.
Too bad desktop is only a minor part of Linus needs, if he was a graphic designer he would have invented dit long ago.
For me, fb is useful only to keep an eye on what is going on with my family/friends specially for things such as cute pictures of their kids, marriage/birthday events etc. My wife uses her fb time to update me on those. So personally, I hardly login to fb anymore.
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It's not built into Android, but I think some Manufacturers (HTC?) ship with QuickOffice (or QuickOffice Viewer) pre-installed.
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Which is fine, except I still play through D2 every year or so.
"...those funds know that internet companies are still valuable, there is no tech bubble and by building a long-lasting company that creates value well-timing its IPO, you can make incredible returns"

It occurs to me that part of the issue surrounding the controversy of bubble vs. no bubble may boil down to semantics. A "bubble", after all, is a fairly arbitrary construct. Whether or not we are approaching the peak of a J or S-curve may be subject to debate - but there is no doubt we are approaching a temporary peak.

Funding will begin to dry up as general perception sours vis a vis tech in general and Internet startups specifically. A fair amount of publicity surrounding the Facebook IPO was directed at monetization (or lack thereof). Frankly, this criticism is legitimate. The widespread lack of sustainable business models among Internet ventures should be a source of concern to investors. Expecting "value" to simply materialize serendipitously is wishful thinking at best - and at worst, the telltale sign of a bubble.
That's what Mate is supposed to be.
Only if these tweaks work on every Gnome release.

And I can virtually guarantee they won't... extensions.gnome.org is full of obsolete, incompatible extensions.
That's a very good point. I was looking for some kind of notice period for changes but this was all I found from the privacy policy: "If we ever make changes to our policy, you can easily see exactly what's changed on our Github page."

Tomorrow the policy might look very different.
I was calling the comment above me catty, which it was. I'm not trolling, but trying to convey that sharp sarcasam doesn't really ad much to a conversation. If people want to downvote me instead of the sarcasm, that's cool (I just don't necessarily understand it).
I played D2 with 7 others at Purdue's LAN last year. It was such a big hit we made space for it at every monthly gaming event.
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It's an app available in the Android Market that lets you open word documents.
The definition of "keep in touch" varies for people. If you only use email, you are probably not sharing bulk pictures of family/friends events etc. Why would you use email for that ? I understand that you could get a picasa etc. link in emails but it is easier to use fb. Not to mention the funny comments on pictures.
How great would it be if Stumble Upon was pre-seeded with a ton of content automatically mined from your online behavior.
Manually curating a relevant stream of content requires alot of energy and effort. Right now, Facebook is the easiest, lowest effort source of content.
I imagine most Hacker News readers are pretty advanced when it comes to content discovery. But the average user is not as savy. By giving them a few tools, and a clear rules about how their behavior on facebook, (liking, sharing, reading, viewing, etc) contributes to the ads they are served, it could actually become a great resource that they pay attention to
Wow that's a depressing thought.
It varies depending on whether or not I know the source (Hacker News displays the domain from which the link comes) and the subject of the article. Sometimes I read the article first, if I know the source is reliable or if I know I am interested in the subject, and sometimes I read the comments first to figure out if other HN participants, more knowledgeable than I am about the subject, think the article's treatment of the subject is worthwhile or not.
It's nice on netbooks - the side bar and reduced top/bottom bars and menus is great on 1024x600 screens
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I'm very interested what differences microptimizations (like using while(list() = each()) instead of foreach) make when scaling.

Also, I noticed that when I clicked the return to website after clicking on the subscribe button your website, it went to google.com instead, and when I clicked continue to our website button after clicking the email confirmation link, it went to http://www.phpscalingbook.com/ (404 error).

And if you need any proofreaders, I'd be more than happy to help!
Neat! I'll definitely be making use of this, thanks.
>I'd hardly call that enterprise software.

Agreed.

>When you can make any of the following somewhat more painless, and marginally prettier, you'll make $$$

Painless to who? The person who uses enterprise software isn't the person who is buying it.

If I can give any startup (without a large sales team) any advice, it's stay far away from enterprise software. The only who might be able to pull it off is Workday or SalesForce.
Interesting that they decided to launch in New York instead of San Francisco given they are based in SF.

Also, I'm not sure how to feel about all the celebrities. I mean, I expect Sarah Jessica Parker to hock hair care products on TV for some giant multinational, not launch a chat system for Facebook.

Still I wish them the best of luck!
I agree that identification is important issue, but IMO it's protocol level issue. RJSON is not protocol, it's algorithm. Someone will prefer to wrap all in {"rjson": ...}, someone like {"format": "rjson", "data": ...} and so on.
I belive, algorithm itself should create as less limitations as possible.
With no description and just an email harvesting box that looks like it should be dismissable, but isn't, why should I do anything but close the tab? You've given me absolutely nothing.

Who is your target audience - idle people with plenty of time and no concerns over spam?
Why new Firefox 13 'load tabs on demand' is bad UX.
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/hstore.html

A clearer version would probably be:

for student in Student.objects.only('gpa'):
print student.gpa
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I just want to admit that I clicked on this link because I am short (5' 5").
I recently wanted to impulse buy Diablo 3.
After seeing a price of 60 USD and clicking order I needed to login to my battle.net account. Which set my country to Germany and the price to 60 EUR.

Updating my residence? I just need to send in a government issued id and, if that doesn't include an address, a recent utility bill..

Want to delete a battle.net account? It seems the only way is calling a hotline of some sorts. I'd bet they ask for similar bullshit.

Yes, I enjoy Diablo 2 more. The braindead way Blizzard treats me excludes any new version as mere option. Ignoring all the always online idiocy.
How long do you think the situation is sustainable?

I'd prefer my kids be proficient with power tools, computers and pen & paper, all of them are necessary.
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huh? what about Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, etc?
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Sounds interesting. Do you have any method of "keeping in touch", so I can check it out when it's ready?
Honestly, I hope that GNOME fork (based on 2) panned out. I didn't follow it closely, but after having Linux Mint for over 3 months now running "GNOME Classic", I don't think I can go back to GNOME 3 proper, every now and then I'd switch to Cinnamon, but the Compiz effects (or maybe just GNOME 3 in general) screw with my ATI video drivers.
On algorithmic level compression is mainly identical to JSONH. I didn't do performance tests yet, I still have ideas how to improve RJSON.
Discussion on "Why new firefox 13 'load tabs on demand' is bad UX.", some solutions to the problem, plus comments from a chrome developer on why they moved away from this behaviour can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4069535
For what it's worth, Ruby has always been more about "want" than "need" for me. When I really need to get something done, fast, I'll choose Python; Python always seems to have an esoteric-but-very-necessary lib for every situation. But Ruby is where I want to spend my fun time.

Opinions will differ, of course. Both languages are tops.
What if you could pledge a tip to someone but your card wouldn't actually be charged until they accepted?
What do you have to say for the other numerous Office apps in the Android market and AppStore?
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