skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope a little bit of self-promotion isn't frowned upon - I have a similar app [1] on the Mac App Store. One nice thing it does is allow you to save a request in a a file, to be re-used later. A lot of folks I've talked to have used this to share test cases in a QA organization, and I think it can be kind of handy (although, the free browser-based ones are quite good, too).

I'm working on adding conversion to/from cURL and wget commands, which could be helpful when working with APIs that are documented with cURL examples.

It costs $2, but I'll give anyone who asks (well, up to 50 people at least) a free copy - my contact info is in my profile.

1. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/graphicalhttpclient/id4330958...
I think the important thing to realize here is that it's just someone's opinion. It's not a scientific fact that you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.

The theory breaks down when you don't spend time with anyone, because you can't divide by zero!

A live human being is no more influential to me than a good book. If you really want to get a good "5" and you can't find enough talented people, consider replacing your unwanted friends with dead trees.
Odd coincidence? Apple got its hands on Apple.co.uk just a week a go, after it had been owned by an illustration agency for years:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/18/apple-takes-control-of-a...
It seems there's a linear relationship between how much Samsung increases its lead over Apple and how aggressively Apple targets Android, Samsung, and other Android OEMs with patents.
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"App.net has the potential to be something more fundamental, like the web (HTTP) or email (SMTP)."

Unfortunately, I have my reservations about this ... both of those protocols are, by definition, decentralized. They don't depend on a specific 3rd party provider as is the case with app.net (unless I'm misunderstanding their proposal). That definitely seems like the biggest weakness with app.net, especially for people who want it to become a ubiquitous piece of infrastructure.

Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for app.net, and I hope they really deliver ... I've had several ideas where a generic 'feed' would be quite useful.
"App.net has the potential to be something more fundamental, like the web (HTTP) or email (SMTP)"

To do this, wouldn't you need to abandon the centralized server? Neither of these services are paid products (the hosting is paid).

A big reason that services like twitter, Facebook, and linkedin work at all is that they are centralized. Value is derived from all the accounts and data being in one place. Arguably THE reason that HTTP and SMTP work is that they are decentralized. Anyone can implement the protocol on any server.

I don't really see how app.net can straddle this divide. From what I can tell, the current aim is to be a centralized service that has an api. That still sounds to me like a paid twitter with a less restrictive api. Seems to me the focus needs to actually be on an open protocol. One that any server can implement to display a feed[1].

[1] RSS? Maybe with some more bells and whistle.
I second the wow. I love how quickly you've made it for someone to get started using the tool. Bravo!
Not all carbs are created equal. Whole grains, while IMO not great for you, are probably a lot better than a 40oz Mountain Dew.
I think OP has a point but his theory neglects that dead people are still in our 5 through their works that live longer than they do.

It's possible to be a complete loner and still have a "5". Also count people you don't personally know who influence you through their current works...
In Tokyo I've seen people cycling while:

- texting
- holding up an umbrella. Very common.
- smoking (exercising is good for you, I guess it cancels out the health hazards of smoking...)
- "walking" (cycling?) a dog with a leash.

I've seen each of the above multiple times. It's all the more dangerous because the vast majority ride on the sidewalk.

And once I saw a guy leisurely riding on the road while reading a manga. God, I wish I had taken a pic.
I would be interested in the autopsy results to see if a blood clot really did him off, or if it was exhaustion from 40 hours of playing a video game.
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Doesn't support socks 4/5 proxies. :)

Requests and urllib3 have a long way to go to be complete competitors with cURL.

P.S. Good job nonetheless. Seems like a good idea to make a specialized HTTP CLI client for JSON/RESTful services.
Another thought:

Seems like what App.net should be doing is designing and promoting an open protocol for feeds and then become global indexer of those feeds. Of course, Google might give them some trouble. I am sure Google is chomping at the bit to index the next evolution of the web.
Browser not supported is a bullshit cop-out that puts you in a lower league than "Best viewed in Netscape".
We could use a bit more elitism. If the best criticism of Warren's work one can find comes from an innumerate like McArdle [1], it's probably pretty sound.

[1] http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/12/23/gastritis-broke-my-c...
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It's a case of: "Well, the operation was a success, even if the patient died."

A turnaround isn't a success until the company is in the black. If the new CEO just ends up producing a smaller crater (no such thing as a "soft landing" in bankruptcy court), he still failed.
Packaging eggs by the dozen is largely a consumer retail thing. Restaurants and commercial packing is more typically on a 5x5 square. Maybe he was getting his eggs from a wholesale supplier... at that rate of consumption it might make sense.
At first I was skeptical, but look at how successful Facebook's Open Graph is for a range of "social" platforms. Facebook is a pain to develop for, so if app.net is significantly easier it would make me think twice about integrating into Facebook first.
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It would hardly be an improvement. Wireshark would be a first step for most reverse engineers when there's network authentication involved.
And the fireball created by the X-rays is, for a moment, hidden behind the shock wave. This makes a "double flash" which can be detected from orbit without even the need for a camera, just point a photodetector at the Earth's surface.
Stopped using a bt headset when I found that too, so yeah I have :(
Whether or not something is good has nothing to do with what it's labeled. Sure by definition it might not be racist but certainly that's how it would play out. A better equation might be:

exclusion != racism ≡ you're a minority
Obviously, yes. You just need to find a way to get the density of the evacuated hairball to 0.1 mg/cm3. Duh! ;)
I immediately thought of node with this post. Makes uploading and streaming a breeze!
I can't believe that demo can't support firefox, it doesn't make anything that special :s
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Heh. Yeah. Microsoft makes hardware and starts to compete with you. Doesn't seem insane to start backpaddling a little bit.
Am I correct that App.net is to Twitter what Vimeo is to Youtube? That is, a paid service with no ads. If so, why not just launch the service like any other web company? They can bootstrap with paying first customers. As a web developer myself I know how expensive a project like this can be, but I don't see why I should pledge before the service is even launched. How do I know I'll even like what they build?
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Mr Ledin goes one better. “We do not mind being compared to McDonald's,” he says. “If we're religious about anything, it's standardisation. We tell our teachers it is more important to do things the same way than to do them well.”
After watching the video, from a consumer's perspective I have literally no idea what the service is going to do. Is it sharing things with my friends? Is it a clone of twitter that is more developer friendly but that costs money to use? Is it a new HTTP? Apologies if I'm being dense but I really don't understand.
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Yes. I was so excited to use this but my heart broke when I realized the search box wasn't auto-focused. That's a dealbreaker for me.
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Investments just require an expectation that they will rise in cost. Think baseball cards - they don't "do" anything or really have any value, but there's a pattern that rare commodities rise in cost over time. Bitcoin was engineered to stay a relatively rare commodity.

Stocks are the same. The value of a stock is really only it's dividend, and many stocks don't (or can't) pay much. The cost has little to do with the value.
Does fast tracking change the "first to file" order?
Tough decision, nonsense. This is a total cop-out!

Edit: Toned it down a bit, but I hate this kind of thing.
With the fervor the government makes everything a matter of national security and then refuses to disclose on what grounds it does so (because, duh, thats a matter of national security), surely systemic banks reach to the level of importance of "national security".
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As plenty of file transfer protocols, clients, and servers support resumable transfers (FTP, SFTP, rsync, proprietary browser-based tools, etc., or even basic HTTP if you arrange for the file to be pulled rather than pushed and your "client's server" has byte-range support), perhaps this should be titled "why you shouldn't use a single HTTP POST request from a browser to upload a large file". The general reason seems to be "because this is not a use case this feature is commonly designed for and tested against."
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I watched the video 5 times yesterday and 2 times today, I still have no idea what the product is, only thing I know is that it is a paid service with no ads, I feel like idiot.
Reply to 'gcb' who's account is hellbanned, so I can't reply to him directly.

No: Ground bursts cause way more fallout. Air pretty much can not become radioactive no matter how powerful the bomb. But soil can, so it becomes radioactive, then is scattered by the wind.

The fallout from the bomb itself is different and is the same for both - but it's a smaller component, since there isn't that much of it.
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"Every moment you spent with your family and friends has made you happier. Only some of the moments you spent at work did. So re-focus, why don't you?"
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As I understand it, actual submarine patents come from organizations who haven't been doing publicly visible work in the area of the patent.

A patent like this was pretty foreseeable, given that Apple's had the described technology on the market for five years. Nobody's going to be taken by surprise here.
It's always hard to find a market for your product. This is one way to make sure there is a market before building a product.
That quote was in reference to the on-screen keyboard, specifically, iirc.
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I looked at the blurb from the article and checked their site. I'm not really sure what they do. My best guess is that it is Groupon for hipsters.
We know Germany was working on the Bomb before the Allies, so I think it's safe to say that, had the war followed a different path, it could have easily resulted in an existential threat to North America. Regardless, I'm not so much interested in the definition of war, as I am in the question of what kind of war justifies limits on civil liberties. WWII did; Afghanistan does not. Regardless of whether military action is undertaken against a nation-state or non-state actor, it is the threat to society that I feel should dictate the degree to which civil liberties are sacrificed for military advantage.
And then think about our historically crazy high life expectancies.
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Yeah, I'm an idiot. Somehow the last line when in one ear and out the other. Thanks for checking me on that.
That meant they disappeared when there was nothing to scroll (correct?)... not disappear when not scrolling.
But... why?

Is WikiLeaks really doing enough to need such a large budget?
Serious question: Where do you find companies that pay $29k a month? I'm trying to start a mobile dev shop with a YC alum and we haven't seen budgets anywhere near this.
So founders don't know if there is a market for this app, and users suppose to know that they are part of the market without even knowing what the product is?
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While I don't agree with the idea of "losing friends", I do agree with the quote. I recently experienced a huge change of environment (different country, different people I'm spending time with) and I can clearly see the impact it had on me.

Interesting thing, the effect is somewhat "laggy". I spent few months with a very hardworking person but I didn't really start following in his footsteps until after 3 months. When I stopped interacting with him, I kept my new-found diligence for 6 months before starting taking things easier again (though I can say I do work harder now than a year ago).

During my first few months here I also started paying more attention to punctuality. But when I started spending more time with my constantly-late friend I lost it somewhere along the way.

So yeah, people around you do affect you in many little ways. It's possible you don't see it, because the change is usually small and happens over time. Would I select my friends basing on their success? Hell no.
>Please keep this cancer on reddit. Thank you.

To the troll:aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

What is your point? Did you just sign up another account to leave this useless comment?

Your message doesn't clarify whether you prefer wiretapping of all civilians or just Muslims. Or perhaps you love bombing civilians around the world with your tax dollars? I am not sure what your objection was, I thought I gave plenty of references to prove my point; that it is all linked together and we cannot fight one little battle for privacy separate from the so-called war on terror (or war on communism or war on whatever minority group or whatever "outside" group you would like to hate).

You can't just demand liberty and justice for some, not only because it's hypocritical but because it won't work that way.

I might be wrong but you have to enlighten me with your ideas.
See chart 1.

http://www.ispub.com/journal/the-internet-journal-of-infecti...

The case for the major vaccines is open and shut. In the past fifteen years the roster has been populated with some stuff that's less clear, but targetting diseases that are much less dangerous. If you are going to make arguments against vaccines like measles, polio, diphtheria, tetanus you _really_ must do more homework. These are very serious diseases and we really don't want casual free-riders avoiding vaccination.
How did we come to believe saturated fat and cholesterol are bad for us?
Direct link to video here: https://vimeo.com/45485034
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It takes 10 seconds do add a little message saying:

"We currently do not support Firefox but are working on it; for the moment proceed at your own risk, it may not work 100%".

Wasn't there an article recently about not treating early adopters like idiots. At least give us the benefit of the doubt.

Blocking outright just frustrates those of us who know better.
I have to agree with msutherl (all subjective).

For me your font-size is a notch too large, which amplifies the weaknesses of the typeface.
Personally I'd stick with Palatino[1] or Georgia for readability.

Mind you, this is perfectionist quibbles. Your font isn't bad. Just myself I'd probably hit the readability bookmarklet if I wanted to read a longer text on your site.

[1] http://ksjoberg.com/vim-esckeys.html
I don't know... given the proximity to Halloween I'd be more than a little worried at the week one stories likely to come out - particularly if there are ANY bugs.

Some reason that an earlier date in October wouldn't have worked as well given that the master is going out in about a month anyway?
Presumably the "surprise me" would mean a random selection of the offerings rather than something not on the visible list? Americans are very fussy with their food so not knowing what it is until it arrives at your door may be going too far. But from a UX perspective I think that is shirking your responsibility to make the meals interesting.

You can certainly gamify things, and also take inspiration from the humour of Woot. For example bingo cards where you try to have meals covering the whole alphabet, or colours. Or "World Tours" where there are sequences of recipes that trace a path geographically around the world. Or voting certain ingredients off the "island". Or pick a film/TV show and make what the characters eat (or inspired by what they eat, or their locations). The Once Upon A Time In Mexico DVD has a 10 minute short on it showing how to make puerco pebil that I've done several times.

Here for example are the Indiana Jones locations: http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/Travel_with_Indy:_Locatio...

Out of that you'd get South America, France, Egypt, UK, India, Spain, Venice, Jordan and the US Southwest. My mouth is already watering :-)
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Seriously, this gets downvoted?
This is quite good.

One thing this is lacking for me is a way to display page hierarchy or flow through the application. Just being able to connect pages with lines or arrows would be great. Or as a bonus it would be nice to be able to connect page elements to pages or elements on other pages.
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It's like a patent for "a light bulb, but now with a thicker filament and a coating to make it more durable".

Compared to inventing the light bulb, it's a paltry invention. But it may well have been a big deal at the time, to customers who maybe couldn't use regular bulbs and had to resort to, I dunno, more durable acetylene lamps or something.

And of course it might have been tricky, figuring out just how to make an economical thicker filament, or finding an appropriate coating that didn't block too much light, and finding a way of applying it to lightbulbs in a mass-production context.
Indeed, I do exactly that: http://requests.ryanmccue.info/

I completely agree on cURL's design though. It's painfully obvious when working with the cURL bindings in PHP that it didn't have much thought put in to adapting it to PHP's constraints and is essentially just the command line client in a "nice" wrapper. It ends up being a huge pain to work with.
I have an 5 year old T60 and love it. What I like about it:

- Durable. I carried it with me on trips and it still works. Its build quality is much better than other laptops.

- Good keyboard. Very important for me as it is my main machine for coding. I like the keyboard better than many full sized ones.

- 4:3 aspect ratio, 1400x1050 non-glare screen (can fit more vertical code).

- Trackpoint device (the "nipple" as some call it). I never liked trackpads (but it has that too, I just disabled it).

Recently my kid tore out some keys off of the keyboard, I started to ran out of disk space on its old 60GB hard drive, and my fan got kind of loud. I considered buying another machine. Looked around. But the more I looked, the more I realized that I just wanted this machine. So I got a 500GB hybrid Seagate Momentus drive, a new fan and a new keyboard. Spent an evening upgrading it and now I am hoping to get more years out of it.

Opening it, it just confirmed the build quality. The components inside, the materials used just seems better than in equivalent HP and Dell laptops I had to take apart.
When I was in school, there was a girl in one of my classes who highlighted every line of every page in the textbook. I told her that highlighting every page was the same as highlighting no pages. You end up with undifferentiated information. You're no further ahead than when you started.

In the same way, the NSA having a dossier on everyone is the same as them having a dossier on no one.
True, but it's not a competitive advantage in this age of countless social networks to ask for $50 before launch. And to overcome the bias towards non-paid services there will have to be some serious advantages. If it's just Twitter with a better API I can only conceive paying $5 a year for personal use.
Less of the low quality sites, but I would expect one of these URLs to be on the first page:

1) http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2806-Mists-of-Pandaria-B...

2) http://www.wowhead.com/news=204099/mists-of-pandarias-first-...

3) http://wow.joystiq.com/2012/05/25/mists-of-pandaria-new-wrat...

It does better (at least as far as the first result or two go) when you don't have to guess the acronym though:

1) https://blekko.com/ws/tier+14+sets+%2B%2Fwow

2) https://blekko.com/ws/challenge+mode+sets+%2B%2Fwow

For more standard searches it is okay, but DDG/Bing and Google are better. In these results I especially like potstuck and fabien potencier posts.

1) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=php+dependency+injection+container...

2) https://blekko.com/ws/php+dependency+injection+container+exa...

3) https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&sclient=psy-a...

It is nice to see alternatives developing though, should the day ever come that I want to leave Google behind!
In the 2nd vid, there are vertical smoke lines next to the mushroom cloud, are those from the bomb itself or something else?
You need to take into account that your interaction with a book is usually short while the effects of your interactions with people accumulate over time.

It might be different for people with very strong personality but I think it is generally true that we are strongly affected by the people we surround ourselves with.
I hope they really do an awesome job on implementing this. Nobody wants another OpenID or Diaspora (not that they were bad projects, but it just shows how disconnected hackers can be from masses). I would hate this thing to end up as a hacker's toy.
What is a gist, really? Is it a versioned, modifiable and referencable publication? Can I store it in my github repo? Should we be using gist as a model for info packet? is there an "API"? If someone could explain their understanding of a gist, I would appreciate it.
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Wow, yes. I rewatched that scene at least 20 times.
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