skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually frustrates me that Siri doesn't give a hoot whether you thank her.

I want to thank her a) because it feels natural and b) to tell her that she's actually got something right. She's usually less use than an ice kettle so I want us both to get a kick out of it when she's not.
Or been on the thruway when you're really, really low on gas.
Take this: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Symbola702.zip
Apple has a way of validating receipts for in app purchases, see: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networ...

If you are using IAP in your app and want to keep this hack from working you should be validating receipts. It isn't hard to do, check out https://github.com/carsonmcdonald/iap-validator for an example.
Based on the tweet below from the conversation I think it's Pneumatic Tube Transportation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube

https://twitter.com/PandoDaily/status/223611501255213057
I am certain the users do not get confused about the arrows. However, if you can wrap your head around it, it might actually look like it is pointing at the message itself, but that would have no actual meaning to a person.

It might be mistaken for a collapse/expand option, but people have been conditioned that + and - or the down arrow and right arrows are for that.

If it had a stick indicating the bottom protruding from it, it would appear to be a direction rather than an action link.
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He talked about it a little bit in the video mentioned in the post. He thinks about "open sourcing"(his words) or patenting the idea and giving the patent to someone who has the financial resources to build it. I guess because of that he hasn't gone into much detail but here is a list of things about the Hyperloop I remembered:

-from downtown LA to downtown SF in 30 Minutes

-cheaper than airplane ticket

-solar panels on the top to make it self sustaining

-energy would be saved without batteries to run at night

-under no influence of the weather

-safe

(-Sarah Lacy made a reference to a TV show/movie with a tube as transportation system, and Elon said it was kind of like that [can't remember the title])

-Sarah Lacy: "Is it possible?" Elon Musk: "Yes!"
Some of the text is very confusing. What does this mean?

> The method is not allowing users to install content from 100 percent of apps, as some users of the method report it failing for certain in-app purchases in specific regions.
So upvote every submission except for the one you don't like.
Here's the ticket for implementing automatic payouts:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/22

Balanced Payments is contributing code for integrating with their service. I'm hoping to have this rolled out in the next week or two. Balanced can only underwrite payees in the US. Hopefully we'll start seeing support for Canada, UK, and Europe in 2013.

Gittip itself has no a priori restrictions. You can withdraw your full balance less processing fees at any time. If we can't find a way to get you your money automatically then I'll write you a check and put it in the mail. Or PayPal it. Or whatever.
I think they're both using Nitro (depending on who you ask: http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2012/06/nitro-javascriptcore-and-ji...), but UIWebViews don't have JIT compilation turned on (no executable memory pages allowed in iOS apps), so they're slower.
Chrome mobile does this too now, although not sure it is perfect in deciding when to yet.
You've proved my point. In your words Vi-style editing is "natural", "easy" and "fast". Vi-style is better than Emacs-style because the latter "do hurt my wrists", thus discarding the only worthy contender.

The only reason you are using another editing model is because you've found the tools offering Vi-style editing to be lacking in important areas.

Sublime may be better than Vim as an overall editor in your particular case even when the editing model of Sublime is less efficient than the one of Vim. We agree on this: we don't live in a perfect world. Indeed, even Vi-style editing is not perfect, as it was designed for a different keyboard than those which are commonplace nowadays.
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Cool! pinteresting has huge growth potential!
Using Trello to manage a podcast…
While, his vim skills are impressive, I question the value of "refactoring" your code to use magic numbers. Isn't this a big no-no in most code bases?
For the non-UK readers, a sarnie is a sandwich.
No, Introsort is (Quicksort + Heapsort) designed to prevent algorithm to degenerate O(n^2) for particular input sets.

Afaik v8 (and Java's pre Java 7 versions) quicksort algorithms are based on Jon Bentley's work.
Most asian parents speak to their children in their native tongue, most likely the same for all immigrants, including hispanic.

Here in Poland, I've often overheard Vietnamese parents speaking Polish to their child when walking down the road, whether it's a single parent on their own, or both together. I really like it, but do wonder if I'll be looked down on for speaking English to our child when the time comes.
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The process? It consisted of a whiteboard mounted in the engineering area,

Up to this point, I thought you were going to tell us the new process turned out to be a genuine improvement.

IME, there are few ways to improve productivity in a small development team with a better ROI than providing vast amounts of whiteboard space right next to where people work.

A bonus point is awarded for each different colour of pen.

Ten bonus points are awarded for any technology that can immediately capture the current state of the board and save it in a standard graphics file format for future reference or wider circulation.
Why? It shows imaginative use of alteration, something the UK tabloid press delights in.
There has been discussion about this already - Kevin Hammond makes his case here: http://icfpcontest2012.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/judging-envi...
I certainly agree with you that this is a long term trend but in my lifetime (I am 60) it seems to have become much worse in the last couple of decades.
The Register takes pride in such things. Their headlines style is a pastiche of British tabloid style. Hopefully the rest of the writing doesn't follow this lead.
The good thing about patents is that they motivate the discovery of alternate approaches. The bad thing is that they stagnate inter-connective progress.

Patents have become a hideously bureaucratic market unto themselves, creating a kink in the hose leading to the fountain of progress, but the fountain attained its magisterial beauty partially as a result of the motivation to circumvent roadblocks.
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It is confusing, I agree. It means "The method doesn't always work because some people have reported it doesn't."
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the example is here http://fhtr.org/html-book/
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I liked much of your message but your "cure" is worse than the disease. A "free for all" world only benefits the big players. With the current system, as bad as it is, at least the little players can file patents and possibly get bought out to acquire them.

This is a remarkable assertion. The point of patents is to allow for a monopoly for a limited time while a product ormideamis being invented. It was never a mechanism to be bought out by a larger company!

This entire argument is rife with problems. For example, you think that a million dollar lawsuit from a "megacorp" is no big thing - yet we just saw lawsuits between Oracle and Google, where Google won and yet still spent tens of millions in court. And for what? They gained nothing except the assurance that they can't be sued for damages... Talk about putting the cart before the horse!

No, the patent system is broken. Poster gives a variety of solutions, but the two solutions that would probably be most equitable are to reduce the term of software patents (no more than 10 years), force licensing terms when infringements are found (the license terms should be determined along with the patent), and a way of ensuring that any patent filed must have a commercial product of some form in the market within 5 years, else you lose the patent.

Administration of patents should be resolved too - there are too many patentsm being granted that should not be.
I love how they look down on the developer

>despite warnings from the developer himself to please “not pirate AppStore apps”, he continues to assist users of the hack that report it not working with certain apps.

But they're doing the exact same thing by saying: Don't do this...but if you want to do this here's all the relevant information and if you have trouble the dev is responsive to support requests. They even note that he accepts donations on his site.
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Running two Androids on Galaxy Nexus
Define the future of live music.
Most people think of language as a dictionary of words -- but it's really the codification of a culture. So when you speak it (fluently), you change yourself to express yourself through that culture. The same expression (perfectly translated) can mean different things in different cultures, for example.

I speak two other languages fluently, and I'm a slightly different person in each language. It's really fascinating.
It seems like some apps have regional restrictions on in-app purchases, which makes no sense unless you factor in that some of the apps have probably been pirated to begin with because they weren't available in certain regions.
"Can't select anything, can't hash-link through to a paragraph, have to wait for the transition"

so... flash! I always wonder why newer versions of html, css become more and more similar with what flash is. A new vision is needed.
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Yes, but the set of brilliant people is larger than the set of brilliant people using the best tool in each area. We don't live in a perfect world, and brilliant people make trade-offs. Unless you know what kind of trade-offs they made, you can't generalize their choices. For instance, when Peter Norvig switched from Lisp to Python for his classes, many people argued that Python was an "acceptable Lisp". When asked about his decision, Norvig answered that Python was a better choice for his teaching goals, and nothing else.

Also, let's not confuse techniques with tools. It is unfortunate that, other than modal editing which is too generic, we don't have a name for Vi-style editing which does not involve Vi, so people confuse Vi-style editing (e.g. the technique), with Vi (e.g. the tool). The tool may have its own shortcomings which render it unsuitable.
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Another blog that doesn't allow comments...

Although it isn't a bad read.
Why do you keep mentioning jail time? Especially when I specifically said that no-one is claiming jail time is warranted.
I'm sure the developers intentions are genuine and that using his DNS records will have no negative effects for users whatsoever.
Samsung's TecTiles take advantage of this passive NFC potential
And yet, if you're interested in studying these "moral effects" rigorously, you'll attempt to model them mathematically. Not necessarily with from-first-principles equations -- sometimes the big data / machine learning approach is best. Plenty of (most? all?) economists understand the need to model human irrationality in order to properly predict economic behavior, but if you ask me the solution is not to somehow adopt a less rigorous humanities approach to economics, like you seem to be implying.
Also notice how they talk about "stealing" in-app content. And i thought this term did not apply when only copying stuff without depriving the original owner of it...

I don't know the site but I wonder if they'd say the same if it was for downloading music or movies and not apps.

Note that i'm NOT a tenant of the american strong copyright.
I use Intellij (and the derivative editors RubyMine and AppCode) as well.

IMO the main advantage of vim is it's instant. No waiting for the IDE to load. IJ takes quite a while to load and you have to have your project set up.

Another major advantage of vim is it's available everywhere. SSH to your production server and edit just like you do your code.

But I have to say: I much prefer coding in the Jetbrains editors. They offer a UX that can't be matched by vim. They are just smarter, esp for statically typed language. But even dynamic - they are damn good. And you can use VIM key bindings if you like.
Given the info he's collecting from each device, if he's raided and server(s) confiscated, and that info given to Apple, I wonder if Apple will suspend the App Store accounts of those involved in in-app purchasing theft?
I've noticed similar as I become more and more conversant in Polish - adapting to new grammatical forms definitely makes me think in a different manner.

That, and a new, huge, appreciation for anyone that learns the easy-to-start, nightmare-to-master, English as a second language.
You're telling me Apple doesn't have their own Safari patches to compete in the speed war? Are they all contributed back to jscore?
do people still download cursors? I'm genuinely curious..
It's hard to stand out within the Play app store, but the lack of competitors is actually an opportunity. And while I really hate using Java for web applications, Android is quite nice to develop for, once you get the rules and learn to navigate the boilerplate. I also find the wide selection of devices comforting when compared to the one size fits all idea (even if the one size is the one dictated by Saint Steven of Cupertino himself)
Anyone ever think of the negative impact. I've seen small local schools flooded with children who haven't learnt English.The extra attention they require slows down learning for the other kids in the class that actually speak English.

Is that fair?
Non-transferable/alienable rights is a valid possible adjustment. But it is or would be so solely on the basis of its actual economic effect. This simple clear economic approach -- Posner's broadly -- is the only sensible way to understand actual law and activity here.

All that stuff about 'personhood' and 'intellectual domination' and 'possession' is otiose. Any attempt to make an a priori case for intellectual monopoly seems certainly doomed to failure -- for a very simple reason: they do not fit the basic physical facts.

Informational goods are nonrival: they are copyable and usable with no loss to the original. The relation between copies of information is abstract. A copy adds its value, and subtracts nothing.

Two notable ethical points follow from that. Copying is consistent with the principle of universalisation: a general rule that all should copy is not self-contradictory -- the opposite: if we all do it, we all gain. Second, restriction of copying fails a basic rights-justification or liberty principle: we are restricted only so far as we would harm someone else, yet for the notion of unauthorised copying any claim of loss has no grounds in any physical fact.

Ultimately, we want to be governed by the basic physical facts and how their constraints and ramifications allow us best advantage. 'Personhood' justifications for intellectual monopoly seem about as reasonable a basis for regulating behaviour as believing that taking a photo takes someone's soul.
But doesn't Facebook's "like" predate digg?
Imagine you have a placeholder in a date field that tells you the format in which you should enter the date ("mm/dd/yyyy"). You enter the date and that information is no longer visible. You finish the form and think "Wait a second, was that supposed to be mm/dd/yyyy or mm/dd/yy?". That's the general idea.
The sentiment has always been as bad, the problem is we have a complicit, apathetic populace and a much more organized and empowered aristocracy.

I can't help but feel that this situation has been engineered.
People go there to vent because no one in the larger community understands them. SRS is of course a place where they are understood.

It’s like a tumblr making fun of fundamentalist christian screeds. It’s not intended to convince any fundamentalists that they are wrong, but it’s a place to vent and laugh together with like-minded people.
It's definitely a new spin on the whole 'punish the developer that broke the build' addons like retaliation.py:

http://www.papercut.com/blog/chris/2011/08/19/who-broke-the-...
Arguably they are, but they are delegating all the management. When you invest your money or even put it in a bank, you are pooling your resources with others to accomplish things. If you pay taxes, you're doing the same thing.

Your question is better phrased as: why aren't we forming more organizations to which we directly contribute our time and talents, where we have an intrinsic stake in the outcome?

And I think that's pretty easy to answer, it's all the same reasons startups are hard plus a few more. It's hard to convince others, negotiate internal politics, and set up all the logistics. You also have another problem - if people are not rewarded with money, they tend to do only the things they find intrinsically satisfying.

The kinds of people who are willing to solve the above problems are called entrepreneurs, or politicians, or community organizers, or sometimes artists. However, there may be some technical hacks that would help. Kickstarter helps solve some of the questions above, particularly about where to put one's resources.

I think some of the other answers to your question are unnecessarily pessimistic. If I can take some of them one by one:

"People are lazy": not actually true. People are willing to work crazy stupid hours for the status items mentioned, like smartphones. Often they are doing this for social status. This suggests that people aren't lazy; they're irrational, and bad at managing their resources in a way that benefits them optimally. That is actually a useful characteristic if you want people to commit to something with a small rational chance of success.

"Everyone wants to be a chief": We want lots of things. The ideal is to be personally recognized within the solidarity of a group. A clever leader can rewire your motivations so that to obtain personal fulfillment, you start doing group-beneficial things.
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Hi Ryan, this sounds interesting. It sounds like something that could use some TLC and maintenance.

If you haven't committed to a decision with it, give me an email (it's in my HN profile).

regards,
Paul
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Don't worry, they'll already be fully bilingual by about seven. After that, it's a question of it they want to speak it or not, but they will already be bilingual.

If you live in Britain, make sure to back up the exposure to the Polish with films, books, trips to Poland, etc. (If you live in Poland, the opposite, obviously.) Your child needs to get the whole cultural experience, not just your wife speaking.
Good to see the node.js community following the traditional pattern of technologies:

1) Discover some previously known idea

2) Create new implementation with glaring deficiencies when compared to the original implementations (which are totally ignored for the most part)

3) Hype

4) Create "Visual Programming" environments so "Anyone can write code in X!" <-- you are here

One step closer to:

5) There is nothing new under the sun.
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Great screencast, and thanks for including it - but man, that guy really should get a quieter keyboard.
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10 years ago I wrote a sales system in Perl with a couple of friends. We charged something like US$750 (it was really simple: uses a hash instead of a database). It is still going strong (no bugs reported) and about US$500.000 has been sold with it. That's what I call ROI and stability!
If an app developer structures their app to be free with an in-app purchase for the full content, you don't think they're being deprived of anything if someone bypasses the full-content-payment?
I think it's great to recognize when someone is inappropriate -- but I can only imagine pervy young boys seeing these as another collectable item from DefCon.

My concern is that the cards put a humour or reduced weight to something that is extremely serious.
If we can tell the difference, a judge can.

Also, as noted elsewhere in the thread, trademarks do behave like this: use 'em or lose 'em. They could be similarly gamed, yet it works in practice.
Can you imagine if they loaded 1000lbs of lead onto an airplane before they took off, just to see if the plane takes off with the headroom filled? "Oh crap, the plane is falling, let's dump the lead."

OP's "extra reads" is dumb because he could have had normal metrics for memcached load and planned to only support like 70% capacity or somesuch, and when load hit that number, he would immediately increase capacity. Instead he's running with a handicap. It's just useless.
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English Wikipedia has surpassed 4 million articles
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One thing I learned when optimizing code is to never trust my intuition.

That piece of code you think must be slow and must be impacting the application speed? It might not be consequential at all. Spending 4 hours optimizing it might get you exactly 0% improvement.

And that one line you think is benign and would take 5 minutes to opt might end up being the key to speeding up your entire algorithm tenfold.

It's important to understand speed and complexity when architecting software, but it's just as important to know how it really performs in the real world, on the CPU, with real memory constraints and real data.

I'm not saying this is true at all for this particular algorithm, but it's been uncannily true for me in the past and I still fool myself to this day trying to optimise prematurely based on my primitive human computer.
Hacker News' design has a lot of personality and I would never recommend redesigning it (for the same reason I enjoy Craigslist's "design") but making it resolution independent and maybe even responsive sounds like a great idea.

Personally I prefer a slightly larger serif font when reading comments on here which is why I wrote a quick dotjs [1] script that now also replaces the upvote arrow GIF:

Preview: http://cl.ly/I3o0
Script: https://github.com/max/.js/blob/master/news.ycombinator.com....

[1] http://defunkt.io/dotjs/
Your story immediately conjured up an image of Steve Martin in The Jerk.
So we can party like it's the 90s again?
Thanks, that's really encouraging :)

Great point about culture; we're in Poland right now (that might change in a couple of years), and aim to continue visiting both countries for a long time yet. We'll be trying to mix and match as much as possible, so hopefully some from both cultures will rub off :)
It happened at about 10:10 AM EST on Friday July 13th...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Four-million_pool

The 5 million pool is supposed to be closed at the 4 million mark but you may be able to get in in time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five-million_pool_%28...
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Of course stealing means exactly the same thing as copyright infringement.

You know. Like how I copyright infringed this car the other day.