skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often manage to get it where I care about it, but not always. I got it on github, for instance, and, back in the day, sourceforge. Didn't get it on twitter or gmail (that irked me). Got it on reddit, but don't care about that site any more.
Interesting in that I've had the same experience in delaying signing up for services when my name was taken. It's silly I guess but I didn't sign up for twitter for about a year because of this. Maybe that's the only argument a company would care about enough to make a change - the idea that they won't have as many users if squatters take so many names. Of course, if your service is at the point where there are name squatters maybe you're doing well enough already and don't care.
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Godwin, I know, but someone probably said that to Europe's Jews in the early 1930s.
Thanks for the reference to dbpedia. I had been playing around with extracting infobox data from Wikipedia -- damn, I thought that was an original idea, but I guess that was too much to hope for.
Yeah, no. Get over your false self of entitlement. It's not even slightly difficult to follow.
Getting Android running is just one step along the way to getting ChromeOS running (and that effort has already started).
Bending light stronger than ever before by accelerating electrons
I guess a lot of people (me included) would sleep better in a world that had less guns.

Suggestion. It is not 'less guns' that should bother you, but the intent of the people who use them.

Good guys with guns are not the problem - bad men are. And no matter what happens to the civilian fire-arms market in the US, they'll find a way to get what they want.

Most civilized country in world in some ways, most uncivilized in others..

Most of what you are calling uncivilized may just be weird and foreign.
This is interesting, but there'll still be situations where 500 characters isn't enough.
All CSS solutions, including yours, require vertical margins on all page elements to be 0px, which is clearly an obscure and senseless restriction.
NSHipster: a journal of the overlooked bits in Objective-C
1. Scrape all of Digg before they flush their history
2. Buy old domains and put the content there
3. Put ads all over.
4. ???
5. Profit.
Interestingly enough we were split on this decision. We had a few people who thought we should go a straight scripting/API route and our own intuition saying we should add structure through our interface.

In the end we've tried to support the best of both world. You can add your endpoints using our interface and drop down to a scripting API (Javascript) to have fine-grained control over how we prepare requests/responses to and from your server. This gives you a lot of flexibility if you want it but it's not required.
Yes. Lying perpetuates this "save yourself" culture.

Without citing white lies (presumably made to save the person being lied to), please share an example when it is right to lie?
This is interesting enough to criticize :)

OK: you can get file.txt; gzip file.txt; rename file.txt file.txt.gz; drop file.txt.gz. However, it requires a get and a drop to fiddle the inventory, which doesn't seem to do anything (you are still specifying all the filenames each time).

And I don't see a reason to generate a gzipped file of 'the same name' and then do a rename, it seems better for the new name to be an argument to the gzip operation.

All you really want is to send information from file.txt through gzip to file.txt.gz. As in "gzip < file.txt > file.txt.gz" or "cat file.txt | gzip > file.txt.gz".

But it feels like there should be cases where the clipboard/temporary holding area is much more useful than it is here, I just can't think of them?
Get a helmet.
Also true in the most oppressive regimes.
This phenomenon hits me all the time because I'm an early adopter. There are many dgabriels in the world, and all of them think my gmail adress is theirs. I have gotten emails meant for theater directors, therapists (with very confidential info), been signed up for a million services (including adultfriendfinder and some Australian hook-up site). I get chain mail with puppy pictures from other people's grandparents, and yoga lesson confirmations, and invitations to participate in physician studies.

On one hand, it's a fascinating window into the diversity of dgabriels and their lives, but it gets irritating when I repeatedly get stuff after telling the sender I am not the droid they are looking for.

And, yes, I totally grabbed my outlook.com username, even though I don't currently have plans for switching...
Amazon Instant Video app for iPad hits the App Store
There are fixes in the works for Opera (and non-push state enabled browers)
I would love to see data that excludes apps that don't monetize within the app ecosystem. That is, ones that have no price, no IAP, and no ads.

These are things like your bank's app, a Salesforce app, etc. I wonder how many those would subtract from the "bottom".

Regardless, I agree with your overall assessment of her data.
Wow. Let's see how the readers of posts like http://www.quora.com/Does-a-human-male-corpse-have-an-erect-... or http://www.quora.com/Coming-Out-Outing/How-should-I-know-if-... feel when their identities are listed for all to see. (Don't click them unless, you know, you're ok with your name being on that list.)
As far as I know, Snowflake is used to generate tweet IDs. Do you have any reason to believe that it's being used to generate user IDs?

As evidence against this, note that the ID density currently being produced for tweets is very, very low: when I collect from the sprinkler, I rarely get a tweet ID where the sequence number portion is much higher than 2 or 3. That is, almost all of the 12 bits of sequence number are 0, almost all the time. So the ID density for tweets is well under 1%. (And the sampling method Twitter is using to produce the sprinkler doesn't have an effect here, as far as I can work out.)

If Snowflake were being used to generate user IDs, I'd expect even lower ID densities. This doesn't jibe at all with 86% (or 82%) or anywhere close to it.
I have almost no tweets, but I use it for other things.
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So this article is claiming that 80% of people clicking on Facebook ads have chosen to use https? Seems way too high to me.
I was Director of Animated GIFs at a recent conference, and part of my responsibilities involved harassing presenters for their slides.

I would like to mention that quite possibly the most important audience for your slides is the conference videographer. These people often have a hard time transferring fancy html presentation decks into slides they can easily slice in with your talk video.

With that in mind, I bid thee: use Keynote. It's like $20. Or at the very least, make sure whatever framework you use exports to pdf cleanly.
Wow, that's unforgivable. Sorry. Have edited - thank you.
This is truth and is pretty much exactly the reasoning behind the shared core/kernel/graphics stack/etc.
I dunno, it seems like it might be useful.
That's completely insane. A new design is one thing, but there needs to be a clear and concise reason to break away from URLs that have been indexed, and are likely huge in page rankings.
That's a particularly bad example, since the idea that cigarettes will make you unpopular will be a transparent falsehood to the target audience, and might cause them to doubt you when you say that cigarettes will kill them.
Windows keeps forcing me to use metro

How? I've been using Windows 8 for weeks and only see Metro when I'm launching an app I don't have pinned. And even then only for a very brief moment while I'm typing, a moment which is hardly disruptive.

How do you feel forced to use Metro when everything you do is on the desktop?
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map and filter feel quite natural to me, and superior. I like FP but I don't consider myself an "FP person," if only because I don't spend most of my time in it, nor am I particularly well versed in any FP language.

Python occupies an interesting middle ground which might help you see what I mean. I vastly prefer

filtered_xs = [x for x in xs if x.foo(bar)]

to

filtered_xs = []
for x in xs:
if x.foo(bar):
filtered_xs.append(x)

If you think of filtering and mapping as trivial operations, it seems like a waste to spend so many words on it as in the latter case. It feels tedious, like filler, since I have to explain how to iterate over a list every time I write a loop. When you can express it crisply and just as precisely in a single line as in the former, the reader is free to occupy their mind with the real work. When you can deal with a higher level of abstraction without introducing a lot of complexity, verbosity, or confusion, I think that's a win.

FTR, the two mainstream languages that frequently emulate this include Ruby (see Array) and, depending on what you're using, JavaScript. If you've played with jQuery, f'rex, you can see this pattern there. (And even monad-like behavior!)
I'm the person who made PadMapper, I think this is great. I'm worried that CL doesn't distinguish, though. (I'm a bit confused as to why you think I'd have a problem with it, did you mean to type Craigslist there?)
I really hate, unless I am missing something that they got rid of categories.
I've been using Windows 8 for months, and while I've initially had the same reaction about that bloody schizophrenic UI, it's not hard to configure everything to look and feel almost exactly like Windows 7.

So are you saying there are two horrible things, and only one is even usable?
I disagree. If there's a reactionary element here, it's the Windows 8 design. It's Microsoft trying to shoehorn mobile elements into their desktop OS because they're not competitive in the mobile market.

Having used W8 for a few months now, the problem is that the end product is half-baked, inconsistent, and confusing.

I suppose you can call that reactionary hate of new UIs, but I'm a guy that used OS X when it was still running on PowerPC, was an early proponent of the UI changes in Vista, always thought the nerd hate for GNOME2 when it first came out was silly and thinks that the current hate for Unity is equally so, still thinks that WebOS was the most usable mobile OS to be released, etc.

I've spent the past decade going out of my way to expose myself to as many new interfaces as I can get my hands on, and I'm generally quite receptive to change. Outside of the improved Explorer, I haven't been able to find very much at all to like about Windows 8.
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Have they skipped the categories? Is there no sorting whatsoever?

Without categories I'm doomed to read sportsrelated articles...
Sometimes, the fun of a pseudonym is the necessity under which it had to be created.

I still am undecided on how to go about account names - do I want people to infer my online handles from my name or other account names and e-mail addresses?

I still don't know if it's in my interest to have a unified account name across GitHub, Outlook.com, Gmail, Twitter, etc.

Convenience and privacy are often mutually exclusive, unfortunately. With GitHub, it's like a digital resumé, so I don't mind using my full name there.

Then again, if you manage to secure your last or first name, it could just as well be any of your namesakes.
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> Now everybody who develops for desktop windows also kinda develops for mobile windows

Not quite. I am sure not everyone will port their apps to Metro. There is also the format thing - a keyboard/mouse desktop app will require a lot of adaptation before it works as expected on a small mobile device.
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I had the idea that browser clients could scrape content as they browse then send that anonymously to a central system that could be used by all, but with the copyright issue now in play it seems that it would give CL due process to shut down such a service.
Chocolat Text Editor for Mac 1.2 is out
I was hoping the article would be a little more informative and definitive according to the title. It is based on assumptions itself with a little theory behind it.

As for the statement - "The first is that the traffic coming in had JavaScript disabled. If this was the case then the JavaScript analytics software would not detect the incoming traffic and therefore would not be able to log the result at all." You can track incoming requests outside of javascript through the server. That is possibly what they had wrote.
Usually no. Check with your state's department of labor. Most have a guide about when the employer needs to issue you your last paycheck. If they are withholding some or all of the paycheck against the law, you can file a claim.

[EDIT] Here's the one from the state of Illinois. It's pretty helpful: http://www.state.il.us/agency/idol/faq/qawage.htm
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Keeps crashing all the time.

That is not a tool that "works".
Generally I agree about this, but I think for something like an e-mail address I don't actually care. If I ever move off Gmail its going to be to something that I manage.

If it is a service that I think I may want to use, or at least try out, I'd definitely squat my name. But I also think there should be an "inactivity" period for most services where user accounts merely get purged.

When I ran an online video game we did this by the number of "game hours" that your character had. At a certain point, if the character had enough "glory," we would make the character permanent for story purposes.
bug - the information form at the bottom of the page is missing validation.
Ask HN: Any Javascript based tool that helps combine videos and slideshows?
I have built one myself using Mozilla's DZSlides here but I would prefer something ready made with lot more features.

http://www.e-yantra.org/preview
Desire HD won't get Android 4.0 after all
Here, "Money left on the table" doesn't mean "short-term money that would have long term negative consequences for the business". I means free money, that is money after you take into account the effects of various price changes. You may disagree and claim that CL's strategy of charging for nothing besides a few NY/LA business listings is for-profit optimal--and therefore that there's really no free money--but you'd be in a minority.
Facebook has been strongly recommending people switch this on (a one-step process, prompted in your news feed) for over a year now. http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/02/https-secure-browsi...

I'd be surprised if the number was as low as 80%.
Sony looks good but isn't quality. The standard for Windows high-end designer laptops is the HP Envy line (minus the Spectre).
All the Facebook campaigns I have run use url parameter tagging to track clicks (i.e. for Google Analytics append &utm_source=facebook...) to the url.

I think this is fairly standard practice so it seems unlikely to me that they'd have to use the referrer exclusively
I've been using SourceTree as my main Git gui for a while and was ecstatic when they added this. It works really well.
Twitter Launches Political Index
> He has very odd priorities. Craig spends his days manually removing flagged spam in a terminal view. You and me, we can’t understand someone like this.

Is this true?
"The Difference Between the Janitor and the Vice President."

Jobs tells the VP that if the garbage in his office is not being emptied regularly for some reason, he would ask the janitor what the problem is. The janitor could reasonably respond by saying, "Well, the lock on the door was changed, and I couldn't get a key."

It's an irritation for Jobs, but it's an understandable excuse for why the janitor couldn't do his job. As a janitor, he's allowed to have excuses.

"When you're the janitor, reasons matter," Jobs tells newly minted VPs, according to Lashinsky.

"Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering," says Jobs, adding, that Rubicon is "crossed when you become a VP."

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Ruby, especially the standard Array library. Look at stuff like select, each, and whatnot, methods that take a block. Try and write (or rewrite) a toy program you have lying around and make sure you try to use those.

jQuery is another option if you want web-related stuff, esp. http://api.jquery.com/category/traversing/.

Don't thank us for exposing this to you just yet, though. :) You can use this pattern in some mainstream programming languages, but not all of them--- typically it's not idiomatic in Java or C++.
I have a Nexus Q from I/O and was never able to try it because they wouldn't let me download the app in my country.

... time to see if I can hack it, I guess.
Yeah ideally we all work for understanding, cool tech companies, but unfortunately that's not the truth. I recommend you buy another similar, safer domain and have this one forward to it.
I always wondered about this.

I feel like Digg should be charging to "turn this off" for blogs, or even on a per article basis. I don't mind sponsored stories making it into the mix, but this is another form of revenue that could be explored with more sites that have a metric ass-ton of traffic.
True. There is no better word than "schizophrenic" for how it feels to operate a Windows 8 machine. I can see their reason for it. Pushing desktop paradigm into mobiles didn't work (Older Windows Mobile editions with start menu and all that wasn't easy to use) but now they are trying to tabletize the pc and tablet interface is not as same as a desktop. I felt my mouse was inadequate. The interface expects a sliding gesture, not a mouse click.

Oh maybe with the release of Microsoft Surface it would be more useful. But with the run of the mill pc's it won't be so easy to convince the users to buy W8.