skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Checkout sub directories in git (sparse checkouts)
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1.6 is still currently like this.
I really, really hope I can register for .CASHBACKBONUS URLs in the future. Sure, my homepage is... tmcw.CASHBACKBONUS
Ah, that's good. I haven't done any reddit moderation in quite a while.
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Nathan from Olark here - make sure you give us the full URL (e.g., "http://clientname.app.com/settings). That should fix your issue.

The second rule you wanted to use probably can't happen just yet, but we'll look into adding it!

The third rule you can do if you use our Javascript API: www.olark.com/developer

Thanks for the feedback, and you can always email us at support@olark.com if you have any other questions!
In the media world, that's warp 10.
> Server-side view rendering is on its way out. So this is not a real advantage.

No it isn't, client side view rendering is just experiencing a faddish phase; it'll fade. It'll never overtake server side rendering on the web.
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The problem with the standard "the truthful opinion of people that matter" is that if you don't like what you hear, you might just reclassify the speaker into the "people that don't matter" group. Even the statement of your enthusiasm for the unvarnished truth is a veiled threat...

For this comment, all down-votes will be considered up-votes :-)
There might be something workable if RSS aggregation functionality were built into reddit and subreddit moderators/owners could add approved feeds to their subreddits as a sort of "tickler" stream. So when you browse to new you would see something like "new | rising | unsubmitted". That could actually be useful for some of the low-volume, off-the-beaten-path specialist subreddits.
Many browsers support an async/defer attribute on script tags now, which will cause them to load without blocking.
But if you already know PHP and Javascript, why not try branching out a bit instead of learning Python, which is very similar overall? How about a lispy language like Racket, or a statically typed functional language like OCaml, or a 'big' mainstream applications language like Java?
On that note, a physical metaphor for PHP which that post inspired:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raindrift/7095238893/in/set-721...
Not one that's good enough, apparently.
There used to be a pretty decent Linux driver for PowerVR Kyro and Kyro 2 GPUs back in the day†. I wonder if it could be updated to the current breed of chips.

† I recall playing Quake 3 Arena on it on Linux, with framerate matching or exceeding Windows'.
Thanks, the client name is dynamic, if a wildcard could be used it would help.

btw anyone not using this to get feedback from their app users is missing out!
I'm looking forward to testing this out. Currently there's not enough players in my country for it to be useful.
so meta - the homie Zack launches a site with great links everyday, with a link to the site on a site with great links every day.

Hahahah, but seriously bro good luck and keep hustling!!
SWAT (special weapons and tactics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWAT is specifically a group of police officers trained to use military weapons and tactics. They do use APC's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_personnel_carrier) but don't use 'tanks' because they don't fight people in armored vehicles.

PS: What separates tanks from APC's tank's are designed to be artillery pieces (aka Cannon) which can move while protecting their gun crew. Where an APC's goal is to transport infantry. It may have some built in armaments but it's more effective for people to get out when the fighting starts. This compares to a howitzer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRF1 which is designed to be far enough from enemy lines that while it may be mobile it does not need to protect it's crew.
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I would posit that nearly everything on ForeignPolicy.com is off-topic for Hacker News, since it's about politics and things of that ilk.

That does not mean it's "bad" or unimportant (quite the contrary, it's probably more important than 'hacker news') or anything like that.
I think you're right about a lot of things. Things like Backbone (which I wrote about at http://blog.appfog.com/putting-some-mvc-meat-into-your-app-b...) will make recourse to the back end more and more selective as time goes by. JavaScript is indeed quite a force, and as far as I can tell that will stop only when browsers start reading other languages directly (which is not completely unthinkable, but also not really on the horizon).

My point was not directed so much against JavaScript as against the notion that PHP is simply an anachronism.

There's also nothing stopping you from using lots and lots of front-end JavaScript in a PHP-driven context...
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How a hacked payday loan site got to #1 on Google
Seriously, I'm using the site for the first time. While I was impressed, it could use a lot of improvement:

Switching from List to Map based search was not intuitive at first. The buttons are way over to the right.

There is some script that brings the site to a crawl whenever I look at listings on a map (Firefox and IE).

When I hit 'back' (not the browser's back button) after I look at a listing, my view of the map is gone. I've to zoom in on the area of interest again.

I was entering my credit card info. The auto fill came up with my name. I selected it (down arrow, then enter). Boom it just submitted my information and came back with nasty error messages about me not filling up fields. I think it should've just selected my name and maybe moved on to the next field.

I made my reservation and had a few e-mail exchanges with the landlord all very pleasant around 10:00PM MST. About 14 hours later, I get a barrage of text messages when I am in a meeting at work. They were the same emails sent to me as text messages 14 hours later! Why?

I've to plan the rest of my trip. Your website is down :). Go fix it!
It's not a fad. It's driven by the increasing growth of mobile devices ( see http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/2011-mobile-statistics-stats-... )

The Internet is becoming more ubiquitous. Being "on the Internet" will mean less and less being in front of your computer. The proliferation of devices you can access a web app from is increasing (smartphones, tablets, more coming in the future) so it is becoming more useful for web apps to be like a "smart database in the cloud" and for the view logic and code to be on the client.
"Scalable, reliable and robust." Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks.
But I don't have anything to sell at this point, is it dishonest to say 'buy for 10$' then when they click say sorry we have nothing to sell.
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CS servers running third party anti-cheat software are non-VAC-secured.
there is a place for both. There are certain things that make sense for server side rendering. If I have a blog, why render it on client side, its evergreen content... makes sense for the server to deliver the static content. For web apps, there is a lot of value to client side rendering.
I don't understand this sentiment. I would kill to be able to talk to prospective customers.
The realities of roundtrip time won't go away. Serverside rendering will always delivers worse responsiveness. Blame physics.
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The thing is that, according to the DailyDot article that's been posted around here, the account that lead to The Atlantic being banned was posting hundreds of links to The Atlantic and their subsidiaries. What's non-trivial about detecting that?
I've been exposed to the PVR driver stack professionally, so I really can't say anything specific other than that it's really large. I wouldn't suggest looking at the proprietary code at all (unless you're on a 32 bit Linux that matches MeeGo's libraries well enough, in which case you can just go ahead and use it).

I think I remember being told about a project to reverse engineer the SGX, but doubt it's made much progress. Even Nouveau is just barely usable for 3D now, and that's for much more accessible (and desirable) hardware.
That's my thoughts exactly. Many of the bugs come from layer upon layer of changes with insufficient understanding of what has gone before. I generated a XRef of the source code and it's a bit of a mess in there. Also OpenX PLC claim copyright on code that existed before they did which is against the spirit of the GPL. I have a copy of the code on GitHub (Open Ad Server) and will be using some automated tools to tackle the more obvious re-factoring.

Feel free to fork it.
Coming from mostly back end Python/Shell/Go hacking, I have an in-house project that requires a single page web interface and of all the frameworks I reviewed Angular.js and Knockout.js are definitely my top 2 choices, mainly because their declarative syntax just makes more sense to my non Javascript expert brain.
You're like me...and a lot of guys here. We fucking hate it when idiots in stupid yellow visors pretend they can judge our character. When they take time and appreciate the things we create, and admit they don't have the wherewithal to judge us from where they're sitting -- whether or not they send investment our way -- that's at least acknowledging that our 10,000 hours registered somewhere and they don't think they're smarter or better than us just because they control the purse-strings of some VCist.

For a lot of us, and I can't speak for you, recognition of our effort is much more important than money. What totally aggravates me about this guy is that he thinks he's qualified to attack people who have done much more than he ever has, based solely on what he perceives as their ability to drive a business. And he has this luxury because he sucked someone's dick or was born to a rich old doctor somewhere, or both. And people who've worked hard to make things are supposed to listen to this bullshit. That's what pisses me off.
>I'd like to see something like Reddit that was more like a network. As you "downvote" something or someone you push yourself away from that network. As you upvote something/someone you push yourself closer to that network.

If I understand you correctly, you could still game that; it would just take more effort. Instead of selling accounts with high karma, people would sell accounts centered in large clusters of users.

Also, I'm not positive, but I think the system you're describing is computationally prohibitive.
I count 1930 applications, which is $357M in revenue, given the stated application fee of $185,000. This is three times the projected revenue of $92M [1]. It'll be interesting to see how ICANN ends up spending this money.

[1] http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/explanatory-mem...
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What's with Apple and people lying about their products/services? Clearly you must know that your statement above is not only false, but easily disproven by visiting the apple support website?

The truth is that you can take your apple product into any apple store, or apple certified reseller worldwide and get the same level of replace or repair. The only difference is timing, Apple stores keep a limited stock of parts, while resellers must order them in. The difference in repair time works out to be a few days.
You just did to Perl exactly what your article complains about re: PHP.
I'm not convinced that it will fade, especially given the rise of mobile devices (as the gentlemen has already pointed out) and what I expect will be a marked improvement in browsers in the coming years (Google Chrome/V8 is a good example). The rise of JS libraries that enable you to use models and persistence in the front end make a lot of people really question why going to the server side and asking for a view is always necessary. Still necessary sometimes, absolutely. But better to go to the server side only when necessary.
For some reason, Olark tabs really bug me as a user. They seem extremely intrusive and distracting sliding in on every page and invariably blocking content.
I believe you are mistaken in both sentences.
Such is the paradox of "social". As a group gains more members from the general pool of people, the group by definition trends closer and closer to average. If you read a site because its content is exceptional and the readership decides what content is displayed, you almost necessarily get inferior content as more people join (unless you control the pool from which you are recruiting users).
The seductive advantage of server side rendering is centralized control of what all clients see. Whenever you push too much business logic down to the clients you have to contend with how to ensure all of those clients are using the same logic at all times.
I second that request. Do you think what you have built so far could be made to work for e-books and publications as well?
Yes - we need to be tough on crime and protect our children. We need to constantly improve technology used to fight crime and protect our children - otherwise our civilization will perish.

I know we Eastern Europeans are very cynical but I can tell you communism survived for so long because of reasoning like this.
This worries me. I'd love to hear an official statement on this from Reddit.
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Generally true to be sure, but every once in a while we'll write something about internet or entrepreneurship that does well here.

Like I said we make it a point not to post our own articles to social media sites ourselves, but we do make the HN front page one a month or so, and it would be nice to have the option to control over the titles and submission timing when the content is relevant (assuming, of course, that we submitted the link first =P).
I'm working on an open source platform for restful api app development, running on node.js and mongo. The idea is to handle the backend stuff so you can focus on the frontend of your choice. But on open source, so something like wordpress for apps.
I'd love input on the idea. https://github.com/comster/house
I don't understand the remark about the history. You can merge and "squash" your history into a single commit. I don't understand what rebase brings.
This is interesting to me as someone who works for a subsidiary of a parent company, suffice to say we are very, very much in competition with a number of the other subsidiaries. This in turn is how the parent company benefits, by getting a slice from all of us. Not saying that's necessarily happening here, but figured worth pointing out.
That would be a cool kickstarter project.
The rant is against light-gray, not dark-gray. Its about the contrast and the article has a valid point - definitely worth a rant.
While each full charge cycle reduces the overall life, Apple recommend going through at least one charge cycle a month: http://www.apple.com/batteries/

This isn't the same as 'run it down to 0% and then fully charge', though, it could be 'run it down to 75% and then fully charge, four times'.
Working on it, can you email support@trigger.io and we'll email the draft when it's ready.
Well, I hope the NYT articles (even the non datavis ones) provide a benefit other than normalizing relations between hackers and the general public. If the world needs to be better informed about the affairs of hackers, the hackers also benefit from knowing more about the world.
I've lived Ruby land and Python world for quite some time and I must say it's good to be back in home in PHP where getting things done doesn't involve clever semantics and tying yourself up in layers of abstraction. Oh yeah, and it's nice to read code that has comments explaining what the hell is going on too (seems Rubyists and Pythonistas don't believe in comments, you know, because that'd make the code too obvious)
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You do have a point about crowding, and I actually like the system as it is.

That said, as a bigger content provider, I think the system of "Someone almost certainly will submit your content anyway, but with a title and timing that that they choose, and you don't get a fair shot at preempting them" is a bit frustrating.

That's of course the nature of the internet, and I don't want an HN/Reddit where publishers have _exclusive_ control or spamability.
Yeah timing is a big one, if someone submits one of your stories at the wrong time it could quickly fall off the map, despite being a potential top story at the right time.
Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103344
Maybe. I actually like Perl a lot, and there are lots of things you can do with it that you'd never want to use PHP for. The difference is that in the world of web development (and this is the crucial distinction here), Perl has neither the use cases nor the easy uptake nor the development frameworks (Drupal, Joomla, Zend, CodeIgniter, etc.) that PHP has. And so my comment wasn't against Perl tout court.
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My wife made a bet with me that she could make a better business than I could. The result was LoveTea.co

The idea is to ship a world tea each month as part of a subscription package - if anybody knows KOPI.co.uk, it's a similar model.

The website took two days to create and she's already taking orders.

I'd love to get HN feedback or comments from all tea lovers on the site and business.

Thanks.
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I don't think MediaWiki or Wordpress are good examples of how PHP scales. Those are the two examples of extremely bloated pieces of software that require a lot of hackage to get to scale. I've done deployments of those on mid sized VPS'es and it's always a pain getting it responsive while still able to hold a good number of concurrent connections.

The only way anyone gets Wordpress to scale is to put caching in front of it. But now the heavy lifting is being done by memcache or varnish, not by anything engineered into Wordpress or PHP.
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That is typically how "shadow banning" on reddit works. You have no idea you've been banned, and everything appears to work as normal.
Danielle from Olark here. I'm one of the engineers on this project.

We have a "contains" selector that works like a wildcard. So in order to do what you want, your rule conditions would look like: "Current Url" "contains" "settings".
Making money with a product: a myth?
People realize that most professional news publications now have social media editors or social media teams whose job it is to make that publications content popular on social media sites and in online communities right?

Seems like Jared Keller was doing exactly his job description and got the whole domain banned.
I can think of a much longer list of ways we could detect and combat crime if policemen had a key and legal protection to enter any citizen's dwelling any time day or night for any reason whatsoever. The list gets even longer if they can leave always-on surveillance equipment in each citizen's home.

They could:
* Find meth labs without waiting for evidence that the meth was being brewed in the residence, which could cost lives.
* FIND children taken without authorization by a non-custodial parent.
* Collect tax cheat information from users' computers before waiting for them to slip up and break specific IRS auditing rules.
* Detect spousal abuse without waiting for the spouse to show up in an emergency room.

I mean, the list of ways that we could improve law enforcement is infinite if we would just give the State infinite power.

Don't you see anything wrong with that argument?

Liberties won against government are so unbelievably hard fought. Most of the time those gains involve bloodshed. Why would we be so quick to give away any liberties whatsoever without tarring and feathering the politician/bureaucrat proposing the idea?
There's a TF2 mod that is kinda like that.

You start the game, and have 2 minutes to create defenses. After that, it's a normal game of CTF.

I forget what it's called though.
Thanks for the feedback ;)
Facebook Exchange: real-time bidding for Facebook ads
When it's a chunk of code, link against it as a static library. When it's a resource, run it as a service and talk to it via some suitable rpc protocol.
>computationally prohibitive

yup it'd be a nightmare :)

I'm not sure if you could even sell users with large clusters... as the only way to generate a large cluster would be to generate more fake users around that cluster. So you'd have a large cluster of fake users. That or make good content that people cluster around... but then again that isn't gaming the system, just putting content next to people that want it.
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Facebook to launch giant bt/rtb ad network
I typed in "Who is on Obama's kill list?" but it just took me to the What's New? page. Meh.
I think the most interesting effect of this is the two distinct type of targeting advertisers will be able to do: you can either taget based on typical Facebook interests, or you can target based on behavior seen off Facebook, but you can't do both.
That said, I am indeed among the people keeping my fingers crossed for a Perl renaissance in web development.
+1 for pragmatism.

Despite the stigma attached to PHP, it's my go to language for web stuff because it gets shit done very very quickly.

You can't beat drop file, edit, refresh and entire deployments which can be done with cp/scp and no process restarts.
This explanation operates on the assumption that all of these people lack the capacity to ask why, or ask for an elaboration or clearer explanation. It assumes that every member here that avoids these conversations Must! At all times! Assert! Their! Knowledge! on the issue and speak out as if they’re experts.

There really is no discomfort in asking someone to elaborate on a complicated subject, except a self-imposed reputation you think you might need to uphold.

My experience from seeing HN threads discuss this topic shows anything but a fear that people have to discuss it; I'm sure the fearful ones are the ones not speaking out either way, which makes the size of that group really hard to determine, but the ones that do speak up seem anything but fearful.

There are two ways of learning: investigate resources for yourself, and asking "why". Maybe it's time for HN to try either of the two more often?
I'm really excited about the possibilities of this. The exact implementation might have it's various flaws but it's an exciting move in the right direction.
In order to believe that "we need to see more traction" is a lie, you have to believe that you are able to identify "good teams" with certainty.

That is what ticks people off about VC's.
One of many instances of companies registering their names, trademarks, and slogans. There's also .AFAMILYCOMPANY, for instance, proposed by Johnson & Johnson.

I seriously hope that ICANN blanket-rejects all proposals which include trademarks, on the grounds that they would be of no use to anyone other than the trademark holder.
And now I'm doing some research and finding Catalyst and others. Looks like there's more going on in Perl web dev than I realized. Foot.in.mouth.
As far as I can tell, the olark js block we are asked to copy into the page doesn't set this on the script element that is pushed into the dom.
I really worry about the future of CSS. It already is the most difficult of all web techniques to use. Once they introduce the css scripting thing all bets are off...