skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..
I joined Hacker News around 5 years ago. I used to wake up and do the grim commute each morning to London from my home and the only thing that made it vaguely ok was Hacker News. It was a great place to go and find interesting articles from genuinely passionate people. It also used to be a really safe place to launch a startup that you'd spent days, weeks, years on - your project. It was a place where you could launch your startup and know you'd get great constructive feedback. People may not necessarily like your site but they'd admire you for having the balls to launch it, for spending time developing something that you hoped could benefit people in some way. They'd want you to succeed and they'd try and help you succeed with feedback that would ultimately help you. Unfortunately, today's Hacker News audience is no longer the same.
Today's Hacker News is a place where users want to snipe at other users and find negative aspects to anything thing submitted. No longer does someone say 'This and this I like but this needs work'. Oh no, now the response is 'Hate this, hate that, this is pointless.'. Hacker News now is about correcting grammar and points scoring. It is pointing out anything negative at all that anyone has done, has said. It is no longer a safe place. It has fast become an acidic forum.

I've launched 2 projects (11kclub and Favilous) on here over the last year - both got a similar response. There was nothing constructive, it was just sniping - they saw someone had put themselves up there and they just shot them down. It's a real shame. I hope one day the site returns with the kind of audience it once had. Until that happens, I won't be going on my favourite site anymore - the commute just got a whole lot longer.

For now I wish you all the best...

Thanks

Steve
Hi

You stated on March 27, 2012 on your blog [1] having 6K merchants. Have you lost that many of merchants ??? Without proof it's hard to believe in your words... Please provide proof and facts and I am sure you will win this battle. Or at least get some compensation for the 4K merchant losses you have lost...

[1] - http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/square-should-have-its-own-c...
first sentence I agree.. Walking on the streets these days, it seems the amount of people I see bending their neck over some electronic device is growing everyday. A sad evolution if you ask me. Second sentence: I doubt that is the reason, however I have not yet figured out what the reason is. Firstly because I hardly ever use my cellphone, nor feel the need to, secondly because when I ask people that do, they have no clear idea themselves why they cannot keep it in their pocket. Which is even more sad.
Enjoy it while you can. The day will come when high speed trading is as illegal as heroin in your cough syrup.
Driverless Cars (Part 1/6): Google’s Cars Will Change Everything
http://www.sofreakinannoying.com - a place to vent
Maybe 10 years ago but not now when the social aspect of your phone is only a tiny bit (as opposed to back in the days when the only reason to check it was texting). I use my phone in social situations all the time reading news etc. Yes, I am addicted to my phone but it has nothing to do with friends or being popular.
That box doesn't exactly look safe to me. Not just vulnerable to theft, but also to mistakingly taking someone else's phone. And for phones with NFC, it's a great way to have your mobile wallet emptied.
Well, only England & Wales (not Scotland), but yeah. Private prosecution used to be the norm, and was never abolished, just supplemented by Crown prosecution. The Crown can take over any private prosecution, either to prosecute it themselves, or to drop the charges, and now handles most cases. But sometimes the Crown doesn't care to intervene either way, and the case can go forward on the private party's dime. I can't seem to find any statistics on how common convictions are in those cases, e.g. if it's mostly private parties wasting their time on no-hope prosecutions, or if there are actually a substantial number of people convicted in cases that the Crown doesn't consider worth prosecuting.
The company is called Redeconv (www.redeconv.com.br). I didn't want to attract attention to the company itself, we are just regional. I can provide the xerox of contracts we had and the forms I'll post that to the blog post later today.
Is there any possible situation where Zuck gets pushed out? Or have his controlling shares insulated him from any kind of ouster?
The idea seems reasonable but putting the hokey sticker on your window is probably the last thing you would want to do.

A simple google search brings up the product. Not that the thief is going to whip out his smartphone on the spot but they very well might do that after deciding not to break in or even before while casing the joint. (For that matter I would imagine they might see the device while casing the joint.)
Spain is not set up for growth
It's troll copypasta from /g/. It's meant to derail discussion and kill threads. It is actually filtered (meaning you can't post it) on 4chan in order to reduce the number of shitposts. If you see it posted, it's a troll.
You are right, if they had not over excitedly hyped themselves as a £100 billion company, this expectations won't be there. I believe they will do well to downgrade those expectations to that of a $5 - 20 billion company in the short term. In the near future (10 years), we never can tell as they could end up a $100 billion company. For now they won't be able to live keep up with the earning expectations of a $100 billion company.
I'm far more distracted/upset by large groups of people laughing or yelling - teens/adults/whatever - than I am by someone talking on their phone. Even multiple people on their phone is much quieter than a group of coworkers from an office out to let off some steam before the weekend. But... large groups of people tend to order more and have 20% gratuities tacked on, so I doubt they'll be asked to leave.
You can configure this with g:netrw_browse_split.
Setting it to 4 will open the file in the previous window.

See :help netrw_browse_split for other options.
The last time I was in the SF apple store, the "geniuses" we're too busy chatting to one another to help me. I had to loudly exclaim "is anyone here actually working" to get them to stop talking and give me service. I have had to chase them down in the past as well.

I have only had one good experience at the apple store which was in the valley fair mall in San jose. The SF store has always been fairly bad.
MIT students invent solar-powered air conditioner
I don't know... I think Mr. Whalen knows a thing or two about websites: http://www.rcwhalen.com/

To be less flippant: I can't help but consider that although there are significant clouds over Facebook's future ("How to make money on mobile?" being the biggest question) some of the negativity surrounding Facebook is due to Mark being a young CEO and being product-focused. Like many others I don't know what the best path to revenue for Facebook but there is a very intelligent team in place and I think they are well suited to figure out mobile.
We have 2k employee-benefits merchants and more than 10k in general now.
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$50? That's like, what, 12.5 cups of $4 coffee? Just skip Starbucks for 3 work weeks and bam! no-risk social network.
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Well from my perspective, you are either doing a better job or they are idiots when it comes to marketing.

My first thought is putting a page on your site about how the competition is scared, address the false claims they make and maybe note that it is a sign of desperation on their part to employ such tactics. Have fun with it - never sink to their level, and then ignore them and get back to doing what it is that makes them nervous.
It's going to be a great day when our society can finally move past imaginary class systems based on the nonsensical belief that a cut of cloth can be a sign of disrespect or weakness or, frankly, holds any relevance at all. That's the same kind of backward, old world thinking that turns a NASA systems engineer's mohawk into major national news; because apparently it's shocking to find out that a person with uncommonly styled hair can be intelligent and successful.
Some people do! Textastic for example seems like a nice editor and you can always plug in a keyboard in an iPad.
While this is preposterous behavior, I am very surprised it's even possible to operate your own payment card network. Visa/MasterCard is the one monopoly I thought was practically unbreakable. Even PayPal, who is supposed to be a Visa competitor, issues Visa cards.
I love this idea, especially for short city-style commutes. The price ($10k) is good enough that it's under my impulse buying threshold for cars.

My only worry (confusion?) is if I brought this car into a small town and the car runs out of air, where can I fill it up? Can I just go to any car-repair shop that has a compressed air line (e.g. for hydraulics) and use their equipment?
I agree. My point is that as hard as it is to get me to buy an app for $1, getting me to buy software for $1 elsewhere is just impossible. I won't likely subscribe to a service for $1/mo, either (though I might subscribe for $12/year). Really low prices in an app store make me think "this might be crappy". Really low prices elsewhere make me think "this is probably malware".
Plenty of multinationals play "dirty" in Latin America, I've heard similar stories about several other companies here from people that work for smaller, local competitors.

That said, I highly doubt that it's a policy of the home office, it's really just the end result of hiring people who get results in the region, in a situation where oversight is difficult to impossible.
It's not just articles. App.net pops up in almost every comment thread about anything even remotely related to social networks.
This is such crap.

I don't decide where to spend my advertising dollars based on the company's stock price. I do a trial run and see if the CTR and conversions come under my customer lifetime value. If it does, then I pump more money into the ads. No where does stock value come into the equation.

I couldn't care less if the company is dieing - as long as I'm gaining more money (in terms of LTV of new customers) for less money than I'm spending on ads, it's a win to my business.

If the company goes belly up...well I just move my advertising budget somewhere else.
IOS SMS Spoofing
can foreign key chasing handle composite primary/foreign key joins?

You can build something to do this in PostgreSQL using stored procedures and a (a.b).c syntax but that's kind of advanced stuff. To do this you have to create a b function such that b(a) returns tuple of type b which has column or function c.

Example:

create table address (...)

create table employee (...., address_id);

create function address(employee) returns address as $$...$$;

select (employee.address).country from employee; will then return the country field from the address returned by address(employee).

So yeah, kinda, if you build your own.

edit: I would be willing to bet you could make an implicit join operator of this sort also but I haven't done so. I don't know what the performance ramifications would be of throwing this into the column list.
I've been using underscore for a few months and had no idea that you could call _ as a function until today. Pretty amazed that I missed this all along. Thanks for this!
Asking is free, but what you ask frames the debate, and the truth is that Twitter would have had no hope of satisfying you if you'd scrutinized it like this. It's convenient that App.net is so clearly positioned as for-pay Twitter because trying to explain what Twitter is or why you'd pay for it is impossible if people don't already see the value in what Twitter does. What actual problems does it solve? Now that we have App.net in the debate, everyone can point to "network effects" as if that's the whole story but that's certainly not why Twitter was created or what got the early adopters interested.

World-changing apps solving actual problems? It's been two months, man! For how long was the web nothing but "Welcome to my home page! It's under construction!" with blinking text and animated GIFs?
I agree with you, to a point. I wonder about the mechanical simplicity of having air drive pistons in the engine. It's yet another point of failure and, while similar to combustion engines, is there no other way to have compressed air drive a car other than with a piston engine?

I'm probably being naive here...I have no knowledge on this subject.
I just bought it using the button "Buy it with 1-Click" and I found it a bit scary. I mean, no confirmation and all. It's like just click and, BOOM, a confirmation email saying that you've already bought it. It's quite jarring as compared to buying stuff from other websites.
I think the staffing levels makes a lot of sense. Apple sells above-market items with large ASPs, and service is important. Why go to the trouble of building a great retail experience, located in the most desirable real-estate in each city, if you diminish the buying experience by forcing customers to wait a long time to buy?

Every Apple store I've ever been to (Silicon Valley, Toronto, Ottawa) has been crowded, new product release or not. Yet, I've never had to wait more than 5 minutes to talk to someone (not including waiting in line for a new iPhone model).

Not having to wait long at an Apple store is part of a good retail experience - it's another way to strengthen our association of the Apple brand with quality (in line with their use of materials in their products, as well as their attention to packaging).
What would be interesting is if it could carry a small electrically powered compressor that you could plug in for emergencies.
Overloaded and shut down. Description please?
Indeed. Bezos is famous for destroying short term profits because he likes to reinvest in Amazon (growing logistics, distribution, etc) which has so far profited investors handsomely in the long term.
You're mistaken about Friedman not being for Basic Income. In an interview only 12 years ago, Friedman was asked about basic income as an "alternative" to the negative income tax, and Friedman replied that both were the same thing. Friedman wrote, "A basic or citizen's income is not an alternative to a negative income tax. It is simply another way to introduce a negative income tax if it is accompanied with a positive income tax with no exemption. A basic income of a thousand units with a 20 percent rate on earned income is equivalent to a negative income tax with an exemption of five thousand units and a 20 percent rate below and above five thousand units."

The entire interview is online at:

http://www.usbig.net/newsletters/june.html
... "Apple's third and final code name for the project was "LaW", short for "Lawyers are Wimps"

haha Apple has changed so much over the years.
If gas prices do not rise, Telsa will be in trouble.
I think you're missing my point. It's about the proportion of the wage spent on -foo-. When I was in the US, I found that food was cheap, but in a weird way. The cost of a meal was similar to here, but the portion sizes were a bit bigger. Obviously if you make your own food you'll save a bit... but given the differences in minimum wage, the poor in the US will need that comparative 'savings'.

Similarly, the costs of doing business in Australia are paid in Australian dollars. Need a new roll of paper for the fax machine? You're paying Australian prices for it. Need a business lunch? Australian dollars. Phone line? Australian dollars. Just because the dollar started soaring five years ago doesn't mean that all this pricing will be reset down. How would you take your boss saying "Because the Aussie dollar is strong, we're adjusting your salary downwards now that you can buy more with it"?

Sure, it annoys me that digital downloads gouge based on IP address, but the other goods you mention are more complex than "dollar strong, so they must become cheaper".
Perka coffee merchants had more mobile activity than their local Starbucks
I don't think your hypothetical qualifies as basic health care.

And there is the problem. Someone has to make this judgment call. It's all a matter of opinion. And it changes over time, there's no single objective answer. Today, "take this Z-pack and keep the wound clean and dry" is a completely ordinary treatment; a century ago it was sci-fi, that wasn't even available to the hyper-rich. When does it cross the lines from experimental to esoteric to mundane?

by the way, many rights are regulated by laws created by politicians

That's only sort of true, at least in the USA. If something is understood to be a right, then those regulations are limited to only what can clear various tests as defined by the courts. Enumerated rights like speech, for example, are protected by a strict scrutiny test; at the other end of the spectrum is the rational basis test.

But in the end, these are actually judged by the courts. In other words, it's ultimately the non-political branch of the government that makes the call.

By contrast, these positive rights are entirely driven by political caprice.

(Caveat: I'm referring to Federal regulation here. It may vary somewhat state-to-state, because of how state Constitutions are designed.)
These would be great for city travel. The two main issues would be safety and parking. They'd have to make a strong case for the vehicle being safe in the case of an accident, not unlike the challenge the Smart Car had. For the issue of parking it would be unlikely that a city would set aside real estate just for these cars as they'd have to do it all over the city and it would be relatively expensive. I think a better solution would be a car-sharing one like Zip Cars. I can pay a monthly fee to have access to the cars at certain spots and if I want to leave in rush hour, I'd pay a premium, or something to that extent. It's a really interesting idea, I live in NYC and I'd love it here.
I believe they are doing that to override any functions/objects already bound to window.infinity from other plugins/scripts. Look at the infinity.noConflict() function at the bottom of the source, which seems to be inspired by the jQuery.noConflict().
Yup, same boat here. I remember scouring the web for RPMs for my various Redhat installs and always thinking, "there must be a better way." In doing some work on the Gnome 2 HIG around 2000 or so, someone suggested I give Debian another shot. At the time, the installation process was absolutely terrible compared to the install of Redhat; but, I'd installed Slackware as early as 1996, so I made it through.

I'm not sure I've ever been as satisfied as the first time I ran "apt-get install XXXXXXX" and all my dependencies were hammered out for me.

Ran SID for a couple of years before my love of Dark Age of Camelot drove me back to Windows for a while. Been using Ubuntu since the 6.04 days and mostly like it: I always referred to Ubuntu as "Debian with a 'just works' attitude."

Sadly, I'm not sure that characterization still applies to Ubuntu; maybe it's time I give Debian another go.
> do you really think that getting featured by Apple in an App Store "guide" is accidental? That it's strictly Apple deciding who makes the cut without external influence? Or is it a whole lot of interested parties pitching their product in the background?

It is luck. If you emphasize the preparation part (of 'where preparation meets opportunity' -Seneca).

Of the three developers I know who have been featured in the App Store (New & Noteworthy, not the main spotlight), Apple contacted them out of the blue. In one case, they asked one of them to change their App title so it was less spammy (it was). All of the apps were polished and worthy of the designation (and not games). We believe that App Store reviewers have a special queue to submit noteworthy apps that are then editorially reviewed. Really, as an upstream commenter noted about reviewing film festival submissions, there is a lot of mediocre apps - good ones stand out in the stream.
It reads to me like he's conscious of the challenge his company will face rather than admitting defeat. This is a good thing.

I also expect the man whose other company sends stuff into space to be able to lead this one to overcoming those challenges.
Well, yesterday in Northbrook, I had to wait 30 minutes to buy something at the apple store, so the story is credible to me.
What? The poster I replied to said

I suppose it doesn't matter what product you have as long as you know how to market it and most importantly, solve a problem.

So I asked, what problem does it solve. That's all. Since you're not even the one who claimed it solves a problem, why not, you know, let me ask that question in peace, instead of moaning about me asking it?
If I had a fast enough machine, I'd like to capture some zooming, panning and rotating of my SVG based application for a schnazzy eye-candy video.
Quite unfortunate indeed, truth be told Pussy Riot acted recklessly too.
Is anyone here using Perl in a significant way for their startup?

Onyx Neon ( http://onyxneon.com/ ) isn't a startup, but the main part of our publishing pipeline is Perl. (Half of it is on CPAN, and the rest will soon be there.)

Of my other business ventures, two are entirely Perl on the server side and the other uses Perl substantially.
This happened in Brazil. From the figures in the blog post it seems as though Visa isn't quite so entrenched there.
Why the Citadel Trojan is like a trespassing jet skier
One company I know of literally ships hard drives-it's faster and more reliable than transferring the data over the internet. I'm not sure if that's what they do with BigQuery.
The car example is a bit more complicated nowadays: The price of the car does not only cover the variable costs of the producer, but also has to recoup the fixed R&D. Software is only special, because the variable costs per item are essentially zero.
Point one is valid, but point two: surely if the company dies then the exclusivity feel of your car goes way up, and it becomes more cool not less.
Of course that's they way the platform pushers market it, and you're right to be skeptical. But I wouldn't call it a lottery just because very few people win.

It's a marketplace; why would anyone expect the profits to be shared among the vendors? Saying there is a lot of money changing hands is not dishonest.
There are certain things I really like about SQL at least compared to other programming languages. I am not sure it is the best possible db query language. Personally I have always thought Quel was elegant. However compared to app languages, I would far rather spend my time debugging 200-1000 line SQL statements than 200-1000 line subroutines in Perl, Ruby, or C++.....
I hope this works - a compressed-air bike design from here (Uruguay) from 2005 failed to be funded, probably because the inventor was a bit of the crackpot type, but it did work.

http://www.practicalenvironmentalist.com/eco-gadgets/air-bik...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05kQHmXfcQw
Nutrition start-up plans to launch free nutrition API for app developers
"This and similar "quant" nonsense is precisely what has led to the biggest uncollectable pile of derivative securities and assorted options of the too big to fail banking disaster we are currently confronting. All these gambling scenarios are counter productive to improvements necessary to increasing the world's real physical wealth. These studies are worse than useless, they are parasitic cancers on society."

This comment below the article made me smile. I kind of feel inclined to agree, even though it is of course too simplistic a view.
I don't think "prehistoric" implies a specific number of years so much as it means "Before people could write down their history". I don't know if this applies to Britain circa 600 BC or not.