skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely noticed this in Switzerland with service staff (not so much with strangers in other situations though). It seemed rude first to not have a waiter/cashier/whoever strike up small talk while serving you, or for a waiter to not check on you part-way through a meal, or speak very formally with you. But once you realize it's their way of being polite, valuing your time and not being intrusive into your private life, it grows on you. I find the North American way annoying now!
It's way back on page 8. Edit: That's way further back than most stories less than 24 hours old with 100+ upvotes usually are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4055256

215.
A VC-funded startup called WhosHere is trying to steal my social network (brianhama.com)
755 points by pclark 19 hours ago | 215 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4056649

222.
WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me (zendesk.com)
210 points by nphase 13 hours ago | 131 comments
Girl in napalm photograph
Girl in napalm photograph
Kim Phuc getting some sort of address located at Oundle Competition connected with Reading within Cambridgeshire truly
(http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)

> Essentially there are two rules here: don't post or upvote crap links, and don't be rude or dumb in comment threads.

> A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

> What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.

> The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.

(http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

> Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.
For what is worth, we also have a Rails gem for GmapsJS at github.com/xenda/gmapsjs.

Issues and ideas are always welcome for both the JS and Gem versions!
Explainable action? I'm lost for words. Also I'm Russian.
That lacks one of the key elements of a joke: humor. I'd need to see the rest of the conversation to understand if somehow the context makes it funny, but out of context it looks quite serious.
Looking at the source, this also requires jQuery in that unique 'jQuery as a crutch for not understanding the DOM at all' way.
That's certainly a nice project. No idea why it went pass our radar. We'll look into that!
No, this applies to client-side libraries. OpenLayers required a specific letter from Google saying the terms didn't apply to them (but will apply to others).
Whoever you are...thank you!

Now, start working on the real estate site that will allow me to find homes based on price, location, school ratings, jobs, days of sunshine and crime rating.
This site should allow a national search and also allow the user to assign weights to the various criteria. Presenting the result of a search as a heat map would also be helpful.
Most likely a few people got fed up with the ranting and flagged them. It only takes a few flags to drop an item back at least one page, possibly several pages. The other responses you're getting here are consistent with that hypothesis.
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Is Learn C the Hard Way a useful re-introduction? Like the article, I need to re-learn C.

Last time I wrote anything in C was on Netware NLMs, and it has been long enough that I have mostly forgotten what I knew.
Nope, not trolling. Just making a point.

All of your comments aside, your actions, not your words, indicate that you're completely happy making the fruits of other people's labor available for free.

You're not willing to do the same for your labor.

It's not at all "obvious" that what you want to do is make a Steam for movies, because that's not what you're doing.

If you want to enter into agreements to license the content easily and cheaply, then do so. That's not what you've done.
I does not. You have access to a, albeit limited, number of requests to to Geolocating, Geo-referencing and others. Should be no problem for a personal or small project.
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Just a FYI; you don't need the mouse to get to the login screen. The lock screen can be dismissed by pressing a key.
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Being a resident of Tallinn, I found this an interesting read.
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I've used and supported Windows PC's and Macintosh's since DOS 3.1 and Apple DOS so I do have some experience.

I tried W8 Consumer and W8 Pre-release and I still don't get it. Microsoft's fanatical effort to hide things from users borders on the psychotic. It's why OS X is superior - everything is right in front of you - apps and files.

Using W8 is like being schizophrenic - every switch from W7 to Metro is like being hit on the head with a hammer. Just trying to find the secret hidden spot on the desktop to pop-up W8 options is an effort I don't want to expend.

Just look at the example of OS X and the Dashboard. Initially it was hyped and promoted by Apple as the next amazing innovation where widgets would be the way people would interact with services. Although it's still there in Lion and even upcoming Mountain Lion, it's slowing dying on the vine, hardly mentioned any longer and widget development is just a whisper. Why is this - well IMHO it's because Dashboard isn't visible to the user - it's a mode that has to be toggled to be used. The lesson I take here is that the features of a UI have to be visible, exposed and easily accessed in order to be used.

To me, W8 flies in the face of decades of experience showing that a consistent and visible UI model is best for users.
I have a friend that would probably do a short site video for that price range. He does some amazing stuff that's worth much more than that.

You can reach him at matt@wind-up-toy.com

Here's his video resume: http://www.lookintothebeam.com/projects/matt-reyer-resume-20...
There's a ready market for eternal life. What's the point of being really really rich if you die like everyone else?
Flagged. Every country has its own laws. News at Eleven.

This guy always had provocative speeches just for the sake of being provocative and the center of attention. More debatable and provocative stuff is circulated by columnists in everyday papers. It's just this guy is a little bit more prolific and annoying. Probably some district prosecutor just took a jab.
After reading the original, it's obvious that this response is complete bullshit.

"and offered a revenue share deal for $100,000, plus fees, for ongoing development (that is where the license agreement that Mr. Hamacheck references comes into play, but he left this upside out of his blog post). We truly expected a counter offer. But, when he rejected the offer outright, we asked him what he thought was fair. We never received a response."

Meaning:

We offered him a "deal" worth $100,000. It was only after he refused that we put the hit out.
I also think this is a very important story.

Edit: I just sent info AT ycombinator.com the email below with the subject 'news item'. Hope it gets seen and considered.

Hi team

I think the news item about who's here / who's near me is extremely important. If you don't include the ability of a small close-nit group to moderate itself somewhat, then things like idea-stealing and legal threats become such a burden that a lot of startups won't even bother, the burden will be too high.

I think it's an amazing time where someone with just a server can start a big project. I think silent threats should not shut people down.

I also think the reply is important, and upvoted that as well, though I find it unconvincing.

As for the original story:
Even if it's not true in this case, just the idea that a page can be missing from what you're served is important enough for me to check page numbers if I'm ever served in the future. On this point alone the story is worth an upvote, which I gave it.

I think both what happened and the response are appropriate for the front page.

It's also a very important subject of discussion; for example, how far can Zynga go in a category before going too far? (in literally copying a game).

Thanks for giving this another consideration.

Best,

(my name) = its_so_on https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=its_so_on
>>a result like that borders on the performance of Java. That seems unlikely...<<

What Java program and timings are you looking at?
It might be because the things that you find obvious, simply aren't so obvious all around the world.
> If you threaten a US senator

Absolutely agreed.

If some nut case puts up a website with the home address of someone, rants about a bounty on their head, etc., by all means, have an investigation and perhaps charges.

...but there's a difference between saying "This SOPA bill is insane. Rope. Lampposts." and driving to a person's house with a noose in the back seat.
It was born as a jQuery plugin for a couple of projects we had to use Google Maps and that incidentally used jQuery as well, so it made sense.

We aren't totally sure it will move forward as an independent Javascript library but it's certainly a turn it could have. We are rewriting it with Coffeescript now, so maybe is something to consider more closely.
This is true for Sweden as well.
Hmm... although I agree with many of the points I think it starts with a bad premise. First you have to prove that free software has poor usability, then you can try to understand it. Most of the free software I use has great usability in my opinion (except for GIMP), although some of them only have good usability for their target markets (e.g. zsh or bash).
What's the URI for the other site? Google turns up a lot of sites for "Rickshaw Canvas".
Hacker News Rankings - interactive graphs of an item's fate
It is. It will be using the NT kernel instead of Win CE 6/7. It will be sharing the same networking stacks, security subsystems as Windows 8.
ugh, I was hoping we were moving past the "smells like Java" kneejerk objection. It doesn't apply here. Maybe you don't use the Maps API very much? It (v3, at least) actually strongly embraced being a Javascript API in a time when most APIs were not. Almost all objects are created with options specified almost exactly the same way as here. The main thing this seems to add is being able to specify event handlers in the same way (that really does appear to be the majority of the code).

It does look lighter to use, but that's just the age-old difficulty of writing an API that's both lightweight when it needs to be and completely flexible when it needs to be. You'll run into the same problem with this library, but in the other direction, if you need more than one click handler on something, or you need to use the underlying MVC structure directly, etc.

edit: it's a minor thing, but not having to create a LatLng object every time you need one is nice on the code verbosity scale. That's one of the first things I alias when making a project with the maps api, actually. Lots of "new"s in your code isn't unidiomatic Javascript, though, even if some wish it were :)
Naw, your parent is right. When you have a legit business running, there's lots of expenses that come along with it. State, local, county taxes, accountant to keep the rest out of trouble. If you have an employee, there's yet more taxes, business insurance, liability insurance the expenses really go on and on. That 300K is more like 200k, and if he wants to have help (mediocre help), it's more like 130K (50K+employment taxes, benefits?) that is unless he wants 2 helpers then it's more like 85k and that's if he doesn't pay himself... It really isn't much money. Heaven forbid he needs to buy licensing for some IP along the way.
In the interest of saving visitors to the US some trouble, be assured that the police here take it quite seriously.

Whatever you see on TV or even however you see people behave, if the police pull you over, you will definitely suffer serious consequences. There will not be any tolerance.

People do it, yes, because they think they'll get away with it. But if they don't there's hefty fines and/or jail time awaiting them.

That's aside from the risk of crashing, which should be enough for anyone.
There is something terribly wrong with this country!
Fazil Say is not the first:

http://www.cartoonistsrights.org/recent_developments_article...
Reading DJB's code can be both awesome in that his code is written clearly and neatly, yet at the same time it can be an excercise in frustration because he has foregone most of the standard library and written his own (especially string management, which is superior, in my humble opinion), so it can look foreign or weird to people looking at it.

The source to qmail/daemontools is a pleasure to read though and having read it I feel like I have learned a lot from what it has to offer.
Dude, mentioning privacy options is funny. These options get set and unset whenever Facebook feels like it; I've made a throwaway account a couple of times, and after deleting it (Facebook at that time had no delete functionality whatsoever) not only did Facebook beg for reinstatement for months and years, they actually went ahead and revived the account lately and are spamming me with whatever people I once friended say there.

I won't log back in to really delete it, since the last time I deleted it it told me that if I ever log in again - which I totally, totally can, no hard feelings at all! - it will just reinstate it for me.

So the idea of "privacy settings" is pretty silly of you to mention.
I'm an engineer and I'm fascinated by the advertising space. In fact, one of the things on my side project list that's been there for the past four years is creating a mobile advertising network. I know its a big job and the technical challenges are one of the reasons I haven't done it.

If I were looking to work for other people, the primary reason I would likely not work for any of the advertising companies or startups I've looked at is not the engineering challenges they face, nor any irrational hatred of advertising, but the fact that ad companies are run by ad men.

Maybe a better word would be "MBA Types". There is a culture/group/whatever of people who are different from me, who in many ways I have trouble relating to and who seem to make decisions, in my experience, that are bad for engineering and bad for the product, but good for short term business wins.

I'm not saying they are wrong or bad or that I irrationally hate them, just that I long ago added to the list of things I look for in an employer a very senior person (CTO for instance) who is an engineer. And then I look to make sure that engineer is the one who has final say on engineering decisions.

Looking at most add startups "Team" pages, there are no engineers there at all.

Certainly there is a cultural segment of people who really seem to hate the idea of marketing, advertising, SEO, etc.

There's overlap with engineers, but I don't think this perspective is intrinsic to engineers.
How mobile apps are helping people eat healthier
Of course, I just found it funny and as I said patronizing.

They gave the guide to me as part of an interculturality course.
Then again, I'm not exactly finished yet.

But I understand your point of view. Reading my other comments here would give a more complete overview of how I feel but I don't think many people have the patience to do that.
Started as a Facebook group

Edit: addition

# if you look at the album, pics are from us

# The tagline "We offer you the best Bangladeshi ..." is exactly the same...

# and the worst, they managed to catch clients (maybe i'm just jealous?

edit2
# their content as well :/
No, Cowen says the best ethnic food is in strip malls, and they're in strip malls ringing large cities. It by no means follows that the best food overall resides in strip malls. The comparison is to other ethnic restaurants, particularly Asian, and not to restaurants in general.

And of course, Cowen includes a section on exactly how hard it is, and how creative he had to be, to get decent Chinese food in rural Virginia.

It is obviously not true that the best food overall can be found in exurban and rural strip malls.
From a EE's point of view, what the OP said is that there's too much noise involved in multi-armed bandit algorithm. If that's the case, a low pass loop filter is needed. It's kind of like locking a PLL to a reference clock right?
The "silenced opposition" in Turkey is barely different from a terrorist organization. And most of that opposition is somehow soldiers. High Officers with great clout in the army and we're talking about an army with a habit of coup d'etats every 10 year.
Someone recently posted a similar observation, except it was not at all congratulatory: the best minds of today are all busy not curing cancer. The author of this post is right, none of the companies named are doing much that's interesting (except Google; search is incredible.) But I don't see that as a point in advertising's favor.
Or, even better, "Things aren't working. Why not? Oh, snap, these queues have like 20k items in them. Maybe something's wrong with their consumer."

handy, that one.
I understand Couchsurfing in the process of monetizing, wish them well.
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Oh yes, I get all warm and fuzzy every time I think of how friendly Apple is to developers... ummm, are you crazy?

How friendly is a company that uses secret APIs to compete with you? How friendly is a company that rips off your software and then kicks you out of their app store? Gimme a break...
Your company is called Riot(http://www.riotgames.com/)?
The one thing that I have trouble with in Python projects is that it can be very difficult to figure out where the actual object is from that is being imported.

from somedir.somefile import objectX

Then when you go to somedir.somefile you find out objectX is nowhere to be found only to figure out later that it is dynamically created and added to that namespace and it can be imported in the file you've been reading because some init function was already called by the module "foo".

There are quite a few codebases where I have been hunting for the superclass for example so that I could see if it offered functionality I wanted or how it was structured so I could find out where some function was defined and what EXACTLY it did due to no documentation and it took me a while.

I love Python, don't get me wrong. It is by far one of my favourite programming languages, but sometimes it can be very non-obvious where something is coming from and how it is getting there. This may be more of an issue on a project to project basis, but it is an extra complexity that I have found can be rather annoying.
What are you going to do with that? Diagnose problems when things start flipping out, obviously.

Sprinkle the stat-recording somewhere common to all the calls (metaprogrammy-inheritance-whatever) and it's not even like it's a ton of work.
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"you can even see thi in action in US television / films."

So Ireland is just like "Darby O'Gill and the Little People", then? :-)

In virtually all U.S. states, driving while intoxicated will result in a stiff fine, the loss of driving privileges for a very long time, and quite likely some jail time to boot.

This has changed dramatically over the last 20-30 years.
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I have the same feeling working with C# and Visual Studio with ReSharper. It's impressive how easily I can navigate the code base, refactor with confidence and learn APIs as I go.
This is a deceptive and manipulative title that preys on a sensitive issue during hard economic times. You should be ashamed.
The dislike of advertising isn't so much that ads pay for free content on the internet. It has to do more with the slippery slope of qualities and techniques that advertisers have and use to be successful.

To be a really good advertiser, you normally need to do some of the following loathsome things (and others not listed):

1. Outright spam.
2. Force opt-out over opt-in notions of content distribution.
3. Collect information on people that normally violates user notions of privacy.
4. Abuse otherwise useful UI features like pop-up windows in order to force ads into user view.
5. Be obnoxious to get your message heard, ie make the ad big, make the colors outlandish, add sound.

Engineers dislike advertising because we know details of how our privacy is being violated. We don't have the bliss of ignorance.
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could convert that trie into a DAWG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_word_graph
Dota2 has a co-operative play against AI players, and I assume you can play this mode on your own if you wish; however this entire genre typically focuses on multiplayer values to get the most out of the game. For example, there is no storyline, and the gameplay depends entirely on working together with your team-mates to overcome a huge range of situations that develop from different hero line-ups.
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OMG someone is wrong on the interwebs. In this instance Jetman I'm biting. Full disclamer - Nav is my close friend and co-founder - so I'm honorbound in Aussie culture to say the following. If this were a pub and you were in Oz, we'd be stepping outside right about now. Since this is hacker news - I'll simply say the following:

Who knew, the world is indeed bigger than the US of A. I'm guessing you knew that before you posted such nasty stuff when you clicked on Nav's Linkedin page and saw that his degree was from Manukau Institue of Technology MIT NZ.

Costic & Willfully Dumb in one post - Jetman, please fly far, far away.

Nav earn't his degree, is working a full time job + doing about 35 hours a week on Collusion. We're busting our asses to build some very cool tech, and do care about our rep.

Frankly we're kind of stunned at the generally negative attitude on Y Combinator hacker news. We're in the same boat (startup), starved for our art for the last year, we built it, and were going to market. Give us a break. More so - give us your support.
I think this is a great way to use technology. I think that there is a great opportunity for using game dynamics to get kids excited about nutrition in a way that abstracts out the concepts and just makes it fun.

I think if someone can distill that formula, it could be a life changer - esp. if you can appeal to kids now in their formative years.

In the same vein, here is an iPhone app that extrapolates on the concept (ie: making nutrition fun):

http://www.lalalunchbox.com/

*full disclosure: I know the developer but it's an amazing product nevertheless
Firstly, I wasn't only talking about Wiki definitions, I had a more basic argument that is being ignored.

Secondly, the Cold War has two possible referents among political scientists (see the link I posted), and the one in question is not the Soviet one.

Now, these are basic facts that you are clearly wrong about. But I will get downvoted anyway. There is something very wrong with you people.