skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could potentially use a hosted postgres solution, i just tried to go to heroku's site to look at what they've got. their homepage is currently an error message saying "no application is configured for this hostname". That certainly inspires confidence.
It's just with the default browser and yes, it's a main source of funding. This is what they say about it:

Search engines help fund Linux Mint: Search engines share with Linux Mint the revenue generated for them by Linux Mint users. The following search engines share revenue with us: Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo and Amazon. By using these engines for search or to make purchases, you help fund the Linux Mint project.

Easy installation of other engines: Clear explanations and easy instructions are there in Linux Mint for users to understand why some engines aren't installed by default and how to easily install them.

from: http://linuxmint.com/rel_maya_whatsnew.php

e: Clarification
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In the worst case, the OS widgets will take up more space than you'd like. But for development most of your display is text, and you'll be able to significantly reduce the font size and maintain readability.
Given that there were about four or five posts on the front page about the changes to the express version changes it would that a lot of people care.

I'm glad Microsoft listened to people on this one.
https://www.google.com/search?q=google+bot+is+chrome

edit: when I click on an external link and then click the back button, I get the JSON too even with chrome. This is bad.
Do yourself a favor and don't investigate the actual cost of things you buy on a regular basis, because you will be absolutely livid when you find out some of the margins being made off of you.
Ask HN: How do you not get influenced by others except when you have to?
Obama is evil and planning to destroy the world. I live in an area where the vast majority of people believe that. One day, I found myself (to my horror) thinking that as well before I stopped myself. Everyone is saying it so it must be true, right?

Back to startups. There's a bunch of common knowledge floating around that is complete junk. It's awful and if you follow it you'll destroy any value in the startup you wanted to create. Yet at the same time, these are the people who may become future customers and users for your product.

These people may also become your future employees. They have deep technical knowledge about things and you want them to do that and only that thing. You want to learn from them except you don't want to learn from them at the same time.

So, how do you not get influenced by others except when you have to?
Although with USB3, you can get external storage that's both cheap and fast. Often not convenient for portable use, but great for a desktop replacement.
At < $300 we're in serious business, but at these prices it's not interesting (to me).
Aren't you as the person providing the application ultimately responsible for knowledge of what library calls work well and, thus, which you should use? I think Zed's cautionary statements are merely summarizing a bunch of his experiences, ultimately that this library call isn't worth using.

Permutations of input is not "wrong", its a valid mechanism for exposing unexpected/undefined behavior. "Massively outweighed by the convenience" is subjective and, in many circumstances, very suspect.
"Decades".

Stagnating for decades?

Two decades ago (1992), where was your high-resolution LCD monitor?

The link shows a high-res flat panel monitor that was announced for production at $18,000 about a decade ago. Technology improves, price comes down. Call it about a 20% year-over-year cost reduction for the decade.

It may be more accurate to say that technology mainstream technology improves in leaps and surges, rather than "continuously". Sometimes the same technology gets cheaper, sometimes new technology replaces older technology, but next year's is almost always better and/or cheaper than last year's.

That said, I am delighted that the improvement in laptop displays is shifting back to "better" instead of just "cheaper".
Team Anna’s Kiran Bedi Speaks on PM, Congress Party hits back 
Kiran Bedi is the one of the member of team Anna. She was compared our prime minister Mr. Manmohan Singh to the blind king Dhritarashtra of the Mahabharata epic and said that the prime minister is making corruption in the government as well as politics.
Not really - most other desktop cases are much flimsier and don't come with as well designed packaging. I've had computers not POST after shipping because something was dislodged in transit, but that never happens with the Mac Pro.
I bet this is because of the App Store SEO. The way search works is that if a user types in "Camera" in the search field, the first apps that come up on top are the ones that are called simply "Camera[+non-letter-chars]".
Even if Facebook's Camera had a gazillion downloads, it would end up below apps called "Camera+++", just because of the name.

By changing the name from "Facebook Camera" to "Camera•" the company is guaranteed to position on top of the search for the phrase "Camera", and get even more downloads. And once they changed it to "Camera•" in the App Store it only made sense to change the name to "Camera•" on the device, to maintain consistency in the naming.

(disclaimer: I'm the founder of AppCod.es, and we've analysed the details of Apple's search engine in detail :) )
This has been driving me crazy a little. Is it Camera Dot? Camera Interpunct? Camera Bullet? Camera Middle Dot? Camera Diacritical Character?

But I think, maybe, just "Facebook Camera" is the name they'd choose.

Glad they changed the name, though...am assuming Apple made them change it (which makes "interpunct" kind of hilarious); was totally surprised that it made it through to begin with--an identical icon with a different background color & the same name, many users wouldn't know the difference...and "Camera Interpunct? Dot?" is way better than "Camera - I don't know what happened, but my camera is broken and it always goes to Facebook!"
I never said ESR criticized RMS because of the reasons, I mentioned.

ESR is long know to write blog posts advocating US military campaigns on Middle east(Remember so far no proof found about WMD's in Iraq). He also used to write extreme hate blogs against Muslims and Islam in General, I used to follow some of his posts then. But later gave up on reading it was full of too much hate for nothing. I find it difficult to offer such people audience. Hate is a dangerous thing to encourage, no matter whom its diverted towards.

He would advocate all out wars to 'defend his way of life', So you now want several millions of people bombed, killed and a generation of people with a broken national infrastructure and hope. All of this just because you like hearing to Micheal Jackson and they don't?

ESR to me is nothing more than a guy who use to write articles on controversial issues during pre blogging days. And seems to have made some name encouraging/bashing/thrashing/bad mouthing people. Such bloggers are worth dime a dozen today.

RMS on other hand has proven credentials as a hacker. Both in the MIT Lab and later writing software like Emacs and other GNU utils. His political views are more non violent and more left leaning, yet far better than that of ESR's.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
It's not about profit, it's about executive focus. That's the limiting factor. Mobile is changing so fast, and they don't want to take their eye off that ball.
Consider the offsetting financial incentives here.

Sites like FunnyJunk can be created by a small team, allow the upload of a ton of copyrighted content by users, and then run ads next to copyrighted content. Boom, instant money, and if they do well, maybe an acquisition (see: YouTube). All they have to do is keep up with DMCA takedowns, which are few and far between from small content producers like The Oatmeal.

Meanwhile, if you want to build a company to automate content protection, you have to go find deep-pocketed content creators from day one. I don't know of any way to run ads against the creation of DMCA takedowns.

So the financial incentives are totally asymmetric. It's way easier and more lucrative to create a platform for infringing content, than for protecting it. Until that changes, small creators like The Oatmeal will get victimized.
you should also remember that most 15" laptops are 1280x800 or 1440x900.

Today, most are the appalling 1366x768. I have to give Apple major points for sticking with decent resolutions and 16:10.
Ask HN: Web logging tools?
Does anyone know of a startup / company that offers logging via an api?
If it bothers you so much, you are free to not use Amazon. It's not like they have a monopoly in the eReader market. What exactly am I missing here?
The knowledge is esoteric to what is being done. I know its convenient to believe so, but there are smart people that make mistakes. Misusing one of these methods isn't discouraged because its obvious, its discouraged because it fails in non-obvious ways. Ways that have probably cost humanity many man years of development time.
How to deal with lazy people in a startup?
I'm working for a startup with no equity. I'm very skilled and in my country there aren't many good startups to work to.

Our team is composed of a CEO, a designer, 2 back-end developer(me and another), front-end developer, a social media girl and a secretary.

Here's the deal, the designer is really close to the CEO(friendshit) and gets a day off every fucking week, the front-end guy don't like to take orders(or isn't much interested in the startup success), the other backend guy is dating the secretary, the social media girl don't do shit and send wrong e-mails. I try really hard to find people that I can work with and are passionate about work, but I find none. How can I learn how to lead? How do I fix them without any powers?

I've been working here for a month and since I started the traffic DOUBLED and our main page load decreased by over 10x(shit n+1 queries noob previous developers, lazy load and cache properly configured -- did it all alone).

I don't mind getting fired, I'm going to get a better job anyways. And I don't want to start my own startup: all my projects fail and I don't have high social skills.

I want success way more than money or being right but this is fucking hard when everybody is so unmotivated(or lazy).
Uuhm... Not to be overly flippant but me, my wife and my two daughters as well as my bootstrapped startup are supported by my work for a multinational financial organization. The technologies you mention essentially run this organization from an information delivery aspect.
Apple doesn't want normal customers to even consider the Mac Pro. It exists to milk high-end pro users who are locked into Mac-based ecosystems, and possibly to make the rest of the lineup look less expensive.
"Godwin's Law" is nothing but another stupid Internet meme. It's about as useful as Natalie Portman covered in hot grits in Soviet Russia while welcoming our new Overlords by emailing South Korean people using Plan Nine From Outer Space. With Frickin' lasers.
I bet camera+ just /loves/ this.

note: sarcasm applied.
agreed. I thought this article was a joke or something in response to the new apple products. Looking at their website design, never mind product design just hurts my eyes now.
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I don't particularly approve of their pricing, but to be fair the book could be downloaded many times over 3G in the future included in that initial delivery cost.
Distribution platforms are not free, and Amazon is thought to sell the kindle at a loss.
I'm tired of nicheification and SEO. The internet is turning into a playground for investment bankers seeking to cut us all into marketable stereotypes. Corporations, jostling for control over basic language and its use. The fact that this "App" is going to be put into a "marketplace" that is guided by corporate concern bothers me too.
I can't help but feel that Pinterest was on your mind when you wrote your comment as a hyper-modern day poster child. If not, then it sure sprang right into mine.
Bill Gates said that he would always hire a lazy person over a motivated person because they will find the easy way to do things ;)
I believe Mozilla is releasing a beta to Brazil soon, and will do a large release around September 2012.
Why are you working with them in the first place?
Uh, super. Are you missing the fact that if these are flying over your city they are paid for by your taxes and the police will just buy another one, probably a bigger and more expensive one, justifying it by saying that "criminals are shooting them down because they're scared of them" or something?

Also, if you think that a trip to a hackerspace qualifies you to build a UAV, I really don't want your armed UAV flying over my head. Maybe start with a $1M+ budget and a team of qualified aerospace, mechanical, and electrical engineers. Ones currently with well-paying, legal jobs willing to leave those to work on your angsty teenage temper tantrum that would ultimately be counterproductive anyway. I have experience with model airplanes and robotics and I'm against this as much as the next guy but if you asked me to join your team I would report you to the FBI before a model airplane with a shotgun duct taped to it crashes into my roof.

If you really want to take criminal action to stop this, you should... no, I'm not going to tell you, lest you're dumb enough to try.
That's quite interesting. Are there particular sorting rules for those non-letter characters? Why is + before •?
Slower per-core, certainly. But for some workloads more cores is worth it.
You can install StayOpened from Cydia to get the same functionality on iOS 5.
And two Thunderbolts? Does anyone here actually have a thunderbolt device?

The most common use is probably external monitors, via mini-DisplayPort adapters.
VMS is different from UNIX.

VMS is like a mini-mainframe. You aren't supposed to play with it, you get given specific permissions by some operator, you do as you are told, you don't mess around. And you do things the VMS way. If you want to know the VMS way there are 100ft of grey manuals on the shelf telling you.

Unix has a play with and enjoy the jokes philosophy.

In my experience VMS people hate Unix more than Unix people hate VMS
Wrong - most deserts of Australia don't have any 3G access. But anywhere in Australia with 3G access (i.e. populated areas) all have the same data tariff, which is comparable to the US price.
Because I live in fucking third world country and good opportunities here(where I can work close to a product) are rather scarce.
Have you ever seen RMS speak? I have, several times. He's fat, hairy, ugly, but he definitely has a great deal of a certain kind of charisma.
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You are ktizo both have the same misconception. Perhaps this explains your belief in the value of models.

Those formulas are not models! They are exact mathematical representations of a phenomena!

A model by it's nature can not include everything, they include everything possible of course, but the world is too complex for them to include everything, so they must estimate. If you have a feedback loop with the real world you can tune your model to make it useful, but you can never get out of it anything you did not put in, since it's impossible to include everything.

If a model did include everything then of course it would work perfectly. But it's not possible to do that in the real world.
Telefonica press release for those who missed it:

http://saladeprensa.telefonica.com/jsp/base.jsp?contenido=/j...
That isn't what has happened with Windows machines, though, or Windows itself. It's also the opposite of what has happened with Android: you've ended up with a fractured market full of underpowered phones running obsolete and incompatible versions of the OS.

All this Adam Smith idealism is great until we look at the real world, where the barriers to entry, integration costs, barriers to accurate consumer knowledge and platform compatibility hurdles are too high for competition to actually produce ideal outcomes.

If people wanted a competitive platform with a propitiatory OS they'd all be developing on Windows. There is no reason for Apple to try to compete in the same space, especially not when they are winning everywhere that matters for consumer electronics.
I am confused as to why the author of the book paying for the download of the end user in the first place? If the end user decides to download it via 3G it should either come out of their existing data allowance or be billed to their phone bill...

... or alternatively they can download it over Wifi and neither the end user, Amazon or the author should pay for it?
where are you based? you can mail me (see my profile) and we can then decide if something works out between us
I don't know the answer to the question, but ask on Quora - www.quora.com. You'll probably get a great answer.
I'm aware of gorilla arm, and sure, that's an issue with an upright display... but I see no reason why you couldn't have the display on a swivel – like a drafting table. Swivel down, and the display becomes a table-top. Swivel up for traditional computer interaction.

As far as Apple licensing OS X, that seems highly unlikely given how things went during the 1990s with Apple clones.
Google Offers on Android IIRC already has this capability. When you enter a region where a deal or offer is applicable, you get notified.
The pricing scheme may explain why so many Kindle books have crappy lo-res images. Text is small (the whole bible is 5 MB == $0.75 delivery charge) but quality images, like in the travel book in the article, bulk it up.
Apple thrives on hype and unpredictability. Good for going after the impulse buys; lousy for people who bother trying to plan things.
I'm not knowledgeable on Python and Redis, but very likely you're doing something wrong with either of them.

Parsing fixed-length fields should take no time at all, so the bulk of the time should be taken by reading the file and inserting the parsed data into the data store. Reading and writing a 150MB file from disk should take only a couple of seconds. So before bothering with another language, you should try to pinpoint where the problem is. Python has a profiler, use it. Also, you appear to be using multiple threads. That probably won't help you much since your task is IO-bound, so try making it single-threaded.

If you cannot find the problem then I suggest asking for advice on StackOverflow (or CodeReview).
"kindle direct publishing calculator" and it was the first hit for me.
The author's web site (http://rigoneri.com/) is cited as an example "Syte", but when I view that page on my iPad the right-hand side of the page is chopped off. Doesn't seem to be all that responsive (despite the author's claims).
I don't think your SEO theory is right, the screenshot shows it being sorted after Camera+, and the actual ascii value of • is in the extended (>127) portion so its likely to be sorted after almost any other permissible character.
There is a site out there that does this but I will be damned it I can remember the name of it. They interview companies like github etc and talk about the technology stacks and how they do things at the companies etc.

As well as the video interview there is a summary of the points listed for easy reading / linking.

The site is on a .tv domain and I am pretty sure it began with an m. When / if I find it i will edit / reply to this comment. In the meantime if anyone can remind me what the name is...

EDIT: Found it, http://webpulp.tv/
Brazil and I can't see your e-mail, use it as your profile description/about.
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According to David Pogue, "Many Apple observers also wonder if Apple thinks that desktop computers are dead, since not a word was said about the iMac and Mac Pro. An executive did assure me, however, that new models and new designs are under way, probably for release in 2013."

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-explanation-of-...
For whatever it’s worth, all of these are copied directly from TextMate. :-)
And that fee would be more reasonable if Amazon allowed authors to provide optimised versions of their book suitable for e-readers that don't have high resolution colour screens.
Is Quora better for this kind of questions?
I went to their boot2geco meetup, and their goal is to make sure that apple, google and microsoft implements browser friendly apis like dialer, phonebook, etc. Nokia and Samsung already pushing webkit and MS to implement device apis based on Mozilla's implementation.

Mozilla is betting on Javascipt and open web. They think that is the future and I agree with them.

Google is already restricting how much manufacture can customize with latest android versions, and this opens a new door for them.

Mozilla is already working with manufacture to make sure they can build boot2geko devices on existing product line without adding additional cost.
I agree. Ohio has a whole fleet of police planes that they've been using to catch speeders on the highway for a long time.

Also if you look at the FAA drone authorization list on the EFF's website most of the organizations getting authorization are either US DOD or Universities (Probably being used for research not surveillance). Not many police organizations.
Better safe than sorry? I agree with you, but maybe Transamerica Corporation's legal department would think it's too close to their ads and such (huge stretch though).
So it's okay for you have a drone, even a armed one, but it's not okay for the police to have one? This would be the equivalent to demanding the police not use cars and instead case suspects on foot. As a result of the high tech age we live in rapid changes in what is possible are happing one of them is unmanned arial vehicles, in another decade they will be cheap enough that you could get your own, and a decade after that high schoolers will use them for their school science fair.
Good point. The reason was so I can swap from Django to Node easily if I wanted to without to much work and so the page can load faster on first request... I can probably change that eventually or just wait for a pull request :)
"And then it suddenly stops. The creative outpouring and concrete contributions to the material world suddenly end"

Here's a more prosaic possibility: he got old and/or moved into management.
True, and I more meant things like

* db table named x no longer exists, new name is y
* email setup didn't work anymore...I did x, y and z and it worked

That sort of thing. The overarching process, you are correct, and I didn't mean to impart that responsibility onto the new employee...more specific details they might find in the process of going over documentation etc.
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Did you consider Lulu.com when you were deciding where to publish?
Spotted a bug on this. If you go back or forward in your browser to a blog post, it just shows a bunch of JSON code. You have to reload to get the site to properly show.
To hack or not to hack
How does JSFiddle monetize?
JSFiddle.net is extremely popular (with probably high loads of traffic) and I was wondering about how do they make money to pay for servers, etc. ?
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Each character has a numerical value that is fairly standardized as ASCII or Unicode. Typically + maps to 43, a to 97 (b to 98, c to 99, ...) and • to 149 and will be sorted in that order.

That's a bit of a simplification; often times more sophisticated orderings are used, especially with consideration to internationalization.