skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have full multitouch on this laptop, and use the two-finger scrolling and triple click that is provided by the synaptic driver everyday. The inability for programs to directly use gestures isn't great though.
Show the raw URL immediately after upload. Nobody wants a link where you get to see stuff other than the image just uploaded.
Cleaning bad code
Yes, that is a good substitute
I agree with most of your points, but as a German, my perspective is a bit different (and that is really 50 miles to the East of you). For all the things that are objectively better here in Europe, I always felt a bit like I was born in the wrong country, like the US is where I really belong. Of course, me being a scientifically-minded atheist, the idea of really fitting in there is probably absurd in practice, but still the general feeling remains.

Probably it's all more related to the idea of America as a country of free and innovative thinkers. Compared to Germany, where the definition of progress is a carefully hedged illusion of marginal improvement based on immovable foundations, the US still seems like a country where big ideas can be generated and accepted into society. When I'm over there, I also generally get the feeling people tend to be a bit more friendly and cooperative in the Staates.
This might be an entirely irrational fear, but throughout this entire article, I kept thinking of vegetarian/vegan extremists (and because I need to clarify, not all vegetarians are extremists, obviously). "What if," I thought, "these extremists started spreading lone star ticks around the world to further their ideals?" Historically, people have done some pretty crazy things for what they believe is right; I just hope intentionally spreading ailments won't be added to this list.

In any case, here's a video/article I saw two months ago, that summarizes this article, in case it's tl;dr: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/allergic-meat-lone-sta...
Hey Steve, don't let the detractors slow you down. As Steve Jobs aptly responded, "What have you done that is so great?"

Constructive feedback is the best way to test out hypotheses and ideas. It's unfortunate you have to weed out the noise to get to the meat.

Cheers and continue on.
> in their later years they were really quite progressive in their outlook and approach.

This is a common misconception about Sun. In fact, they were quite progressive from the beginning. They embraced a hybrid open/closed model from day one, for instance. They opened up some key technologies, such as NFS and SPARC. They maintained huge, comparatively, research budgets, with relatively few strings attached to productization of that research. Through the late 90s and very early '00 (Dotcom era) they were under constant pressure from institutional investors to cut research funding, but didn't.

In the end, though, I have to agre. I miss Sun (though my friends and co-workers probably do not miss me talking about how great Sun is)

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I never said or implied that Chiquita was engaged in local forms of corruption. I asked what Chiquita has to do with OTHER companies engaged in local forms of corruption. Please don't be so dishonest as to continue assigning me claims I did not make.
This is also clever. I'm a big fan of the 80/20 rule and I think this will work great as a first pass. There are definitely cases where it won't pick up anything, like this product:

OUTRAGE 5C NRG35 3S1P 11.1V 800mAH 35C NRG355C-8003

That's a LiPo battery, and should be classified under "Batteries", but nothing in the title explicitly states that fact. You can tell it's a battery because of the parametrics (11.1 volts, 35C discharge, 3S, etc) but none of that would show up as a categorical classification.

Then again, I probably want sub-categories in batteries for those parametrics, so perhaps I just need to allow categories to be nested under other categories and manually assign tiers later.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to play around with this!
Very true. Plus, the price appears to be a tad out of range for many who might be inclined to trash the place. A back alley would be more cost effective. The drug users who could afford to use the room would probably be discreet about the whole thing and wouldn't cause too much mess.
> Live Cam Porn – site with channels. People watch only live. The better girls perform, the better rating. The more people visit, the more money girls will make through revenue sharing. You can pay money to be the one to interact with the girl (tell them to do things, talk with them etc).

This is a solved problem. :)

I'm really surprised the author hasn't run into it before.

> Chat Support

This sounds like a great idea, but I think we'd have a problem finding qualified parties to do it 24/7.

It might work for lower grade work though like Wordpress support.

> Your Recipes – A site where you keep your own recipes.

Recipee sites do exist. I wonder what their short comings are in his eyes.

> Discussion Board Online –

Sounds a little like Branch.com as described.
You bring up an excellent point, which accurately describes my first experience with a windows smart phone. I didn't get back onto smart phones for a while (buying my next only three years ago), once the crop of non-smart phones finally hit rock bottom for my personal tastes.

I do despise how often my phone fails to act as an actual phone. I also despise the lack of hardware buttons to answer calls. The most frustrating aspect of a smart phone, is trying to answer a call while an app is going nuts, the screen won't swipe, or the damned buttons that aren't really buttons don't work.
I tried "Yotel" in the Gatwick airport, it's a similar idea but it's in a dedicated area.

http://www.yotel.com/Hotels/London-Gatwick/Sleep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YOtel
Reference please.
My understanding is that Android was always intended to be hardware independent, including supporting touchscreen "before iPhone" came out. The claims of a sudden change in direction are revisionist history to suit some people's agendas,
http://www.osnews.com/story/25264/Did_Android_Really_Look_Li...

I am grateful for the competition between both groups (Android and IOS). This competition forces organizations to compete on merit, or the market votes with its feet.
The point is that if one entity owns the original copyright, they can wreak sufficient havoc that the project can splinter into individually anaemic forks.

MySQL has splintered into at least 3 competing forks outside of the "real" MySQL: MariaDB, Percona and Drizzle.
But once you have those pictures what do you do? Take them to court?
This is bigger than my Tokyo apartment.
Actually, Yotel already do this:

http://www.yotel.com/

I've used the Yotel inside the international transit area at Schiphol for jet lag purposes, during a 5-hour stopover on an intercontinental flight; it beats a recliner in a business lounge into a cocked hat for thouse 4-hour dead spots after a sleepless red-eye. I wish this idea would catch on at more hub airports!
Copyright assignment is used by many projects, FSF included. Is there a comittment to the original authors to maintain an open source license in the MySQL case?
Here's a pastebin of the article: http://pastebin.com/bjq9zR4B
"Vision without execution is hallucination"
I have myself plenty of awesome ideas.
I have noticed other people executing similar ideas and getting millions of funding.
Ideas are worthless until you actually start working hard and execute them.
For beginner programmers, though some of these make good questions for an interview. We used Roman number converter question few times and it's an unboring exercise.
Would you have to go to court to dispute the chargeback? Couldn't you set up some kind of system to send them to the credit card company if a customer attempts a chargeback, so they can verify that the chargeback is invalid?
Because nobody 'gets shit done' in Postgresql...
Assuming a 100% load factor, and assuming someone is on hand to change the linen and keep it clean.

Being more realistic, it might be cash-flow positive from the start and turn a profit after the first year, if you put it somewhere popular and get the cleaning/maintenance routine nailed down with decent cost control in place.
you could potentially integrate physiological sensors to monitor for occupant numbers and elevated heart and breathing rates to detect for sexual activity, then have some sort of warning, alarm and deterrence system if you were interested in preventing it from happening. or customers who use the pod for sex could automatically be billed a premium/fee (assuming credit card use). molecular sniffers might be possible to monitor for drug use. but the best strategy to ensure would probably be deploying them in limited-access environments. or perhaps fixing the roots of anti-social behaviour and mistrust in our societies.
Pretty damn cool. On Firefox, though, I can't drag and drop an image straight from another webpage, or choose "Copy Image" in FF then paste - in both cases it says either "not an image file" (if I drag an image) or "Your clipboard has no image" (if I CTRL+V after copying an image), and doesn't work.
Not really. It was so, as mkurt explained, that MySQL AB could make money selling indulgences.

FSF is an exceptional case. In practice, however, dispersed copyrights are more effective for the user community because no one entity can wreak havoc through strategic neglect or minimal compliance.

There's a lot in a software system that is taken for granted that the GPL doesn't cover.
There are already some LinkedIn competitor out there that do more than survive. In France Viadeo (http://viadeo.com) is pretty popular/used.
alternatively, the lack of communal feeling and shame, that leads people to do things like trashing hotel rooms, is just awful.
I seem to remember a Scientific American article from the 1980s where they also had to rewrite code around a dead bit in RAM. They've done some pretty drastic changes since, like using the backup computer to add image compression on the fly (lots more detail here): http://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html
I think the destabilizing thing was how long Google _didn't_ play the MAD game. So Apple went on the warpath feeling safe. But Google militarized really fast.
If you're interested in this type of thing:

http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/ -- Mostly Military and Older Weaponry.

http://www.aimsurplus.com/default.aspx -- C&R, Military and Black Rifles

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/index.php -- Modern Firearms from almost all medium and large manufactures

http://www.cdnninvestments.com/ -- Whole sale gun catolog.
Glad it's helpful. In cases like that one I suppose you look for clues and have another script to assign categories. For example, if most batteries have voltage in the title you can regex for \d+V\w (or whatever) and assign battery to matches. Could become complex quickly, though.
Facetime Over 3G: Too Little, Too Late
You're more familiar with your data, but the last word doesn't need to be a hard and fast rule. The last word there looks like a product code. However, the first word looks like a brand.

If this is more of an exception, I'm sure you can generate a pretty small list of what falls into that. If you regex for some number of volts with some mAH, it's probably a battery or a motor. That at least reduces the number of things you have to manually go through later to clean up the data.
Right. I have one thing I am working on, but I am sharing all my other ideas so that if anyone likes something they can work on it. Sometimes someone has something similar and just by reading those summaries can come up with a mix or with the missing piece in his puzzle. You never know.
Well, that's not for me. I have RSI and track points give me terrible cramps.

On the other hand, with a properly configured (tap to click) glass trackpad that problem goes away.
You cannot simply turned them off everywhere. On certain platforms they are produced always, and nothing can be done, but openly deal with them (by expecting them to happen).
I can't wait to see the YC startups pitching plans to fix anti-social behaviour... NerveStaple (YC25) harmonizes us all to the Great Leader!
I do not think that MySQL will be in decline until PostgreSQL has a suitable cross-platform GUI that doesn't cost $80. It is easy to manage MySQL due to programs like PhpMyAdmin and Sequel Pro, but PostgreSQL lacks such software. While the early adopter crowd has long since moved away from MySQL, at the moment the software is too easy for more general users to abandon.
The word "freedom" appeared in this piece exactly 0 times. Ditto for "liberty." A society cannot be both free and equal. Amidst America's large geographic size, high population, and many different cultures, there are two warring factions that will ultimately split the country in two.

There are those that espouse the views of the author, where privileges are derived from a central government composed of only the most intelligent and gifted members of society. The means of production are centrally controlled and wealth is distributed by whatever means dictated by the core elite.

And then there are those that want to live free. Those that believe that rights come from nature and from god, and that government cannot create rights, only take them away.

These two ideas cannot coexist in one nation. America has survived with both so far because of our size. But soon the division will be too great and we will hopefully go our separate ways. We tried once before.
Awesome, that's exactly what I have been looking for, thank you!
MySQL was great, we all loved it. It allowed many real businesses to make real money without the overhead. Then the oracle thing happened. In the end they are all just tools. Its not really interesting to have a religious debate over tools.
We are not talking about some machine in amazon cloud there. We are talking about the robot on the freaking Mars.
Tighten SSH with Two-Factor Authentication
One Small, Arbitrary Change and It's a Whole New World
Yep -- apologies for that. I found the offending plugin and killed it dead.
really? have you ever tried PgAdmin?
Installation of PostgreSQL are in my experience no harder than for MySQL. As for management and usage I would say PostgreSQL is simpler because it has a much better command line with excellent error messages and good tab completion. The backslash commands of psql are a bit confusing at first, but so are MySQL's SHOW commands and once you get used to the backslash commands they are very powerful.
can someone just post the code?
>Everybody knows that.

I don't think they do.
You just gave me my reference. The video in that article was released almost a year after the iPhone. It's pretty obvious that the touch UI in it is also a very early version of the Android we have today. Just one glaring example is how the application menus are navigated by using the hardware keys on the device and not by touch. The touch targets are tiny. The UI is embarrassingly laggy. It probably isn't a coincidence that these BlackBerry-style Android devices never actually got released, either.

I have no "agenda". I'm an Android developer and I've owned one Apple device in my lifetime (and have no plans to buy new ones ever because of their business practices). I own multiple Android devices. I just realize that the iPhone truly did change touch devices forever because the UI was something new.
You may want to re-read comatose-kid posting again. He doesn't support "others do it" as a justification.
What It Means To Have $50
It is going to be hard to make an algorithm which can't be beaten (e.g.) by just applying more adjectives and synonyms. Which can easily be automated.
I love the TrackPoint. The first thing I do on any ThinkPad I get is disable the trackpad in the BIOS, because it's completely unnecessary when you have a TrackPoint. It's better than every other pointing instrument I've tried, including stand-alone mice (except for gaming) and trackpads (the MacBook trackpads included).

Once you get used to the TrackPoint, you'll realize what a piece of crap the MacBook trackpad is.
Was out of reach of a laptop the whole time my site got HN-ed. Thanks for posting this. Will get the site fixed and future proof right now. :)
It’s hard to encourage and nurture positivity on the web. Tumblr’s done it by not explicitly building comments into the product—so if you’re going to say something critical, it shows up in your personal space. It's conflicting to build a growing community vs. a good one. One of the only ways to do it is to have some sort of asymmetric follow relationship that allows all users to create their own smaller communities.

Clay Shirky: “The downside of going for size and scale above all else is that the dense, interconnected pattern that drives group conversation and collaboration isn’t supportable at any large scale. Less is different — small groups of people can engage in kinds of interaction that large groups can’t.”

David Foster Wallace: “TV is not vulgar and prurient and dumb because the people who compose the audience are vulgar and dumb. Television is the way it is simply because people tend to be extremely similar in their vulgar and prurient and dumb interests and wildly different in their refined and aesthetic and noble interests.”

David Foster Wallace: “We should keep in mind that vulgar has many dictionary definitions and that only a couple of these have to do with lewdness or bad taste. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum’s axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.”

http://christmasgorilla.com/post/29694673248/its-a-genuine-p...
I hate it how all discussion about anonymity and privacy ends up in CP.
Water surface tension effect captured in perfect photo of Olympic swimmer
Apparently he could make the text look fine, but some of the graphics weren't scaling along.
I hope I get to meet you, welcome to SF!
Works like a charm: http://pbrd.co/MDU1fG.

And that UI is amazing. I might have to take a peak at your source to learn a thing or two.
I agree with you on the development setup. Production setup is about the same.

Meant no offense. Seemed trollish but when you factor in development setup then yes MySQL is slightly easier. I think heroku is doing a good job making Postgres a snap.
It doesn't matter. The chargebacks count against your limit whether you dispute them or not. You must get less than 1% of your monthly gross volume back in chargebacks if you hope to stay in business. If you're above that for several months in a row, 99% of MSPs will terminate your account immediately.

As far as Visa and MasterCard are concerned, if you're generating chargebacks on a regular basis, something is wrong with your business model and you must either correct the business model or stop accepting credit cards as payment for it. It's not a question of whether you were legally owed the money or not; it's about protecting the card brands from whatever negative experience you're creating such that customers feel forced to go to their banks and complain about the charges.
What about his internet presence?
You keep saying this, but in my recent experience, postgres had been fantastically easy to get up and running on both Windows and Linux (debian and ubuntu to be precise. don't know about Mac). So this argument only applies possibly to its distant past. It's simply not relevant now. It's worth keeping an open mind.
This is truly a beautiful web app. Very nice work.
Please see my other answers about this - images that are already hosted somewhere else won't work at this moment.
And now all your opinions on the internet are linked to your credit card... while I'm not so concerned about HN, I don't think this is a great solution in general
Proof that time is now flowing backwards!
That wasn't the comment that I had in mind, but I'm glad my comment made you think about it. I'm certainly not going to claim immunity to this effect myself. I'm sure if I went through my comment history, I'd find some harsh comments of my own. I do make a conscious effort to notice it before I submit, but it's easy to slip up.

There's no denying that writing a smackdown is fun. We just have to remember that it's not harmless fun.
Actually, it works flawlessly. At least, that's what I found out recently. I am using it on Arc Linux and FreeBSD systems. If something like flash software works on FreeBSD (which is more of a server system), it will surely work on any Linux. (And if something is available on relatively less popular linux distro like Arch Linux), I am sure it works on Ubuntu and Fedora.
Obligatory Project Euler plug whenever anyone posts a collection of puzzles for programmers. http://projecteuler.net

These sorts of puzzles are great for when learning a new language. Take a bunch of problems you've already solved in one language, and see how the solution works in another. If the solutions are too similar, it may be a sign that you aren't quite grokking yet how to think in the new language. Or that the new language is very similar to the old one. In which case, perhaps it would be more worth your time to learn a more different language. As Perlis said, "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing."
Whenever there's talk of veg*anism, many people automatically think of 'extremists'. Why is that? As a vegetarian myself, I know I'm not an extremist; neither are all of my vegetarian friends. Some of them are repelled by meat, but that is no different than people being repelled by Durian for example; meat does smell offensive if you're not used to eating it.
uh... let me get this straight: live cam porn?

what the fuck. what sort of "idea" is that? are you a pervert or something? or do you just have no respect for women maybe? do you have experience interacting with normal human beings?
The fundamentals of patents may be very strong, but IIRC, the same does not apply to software patents,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_S...

IIRC, this discussion still needs to take place. I really, really hope that software patents are knocked on the head, unless there is true science, such as a complex algorithm, which should have a limited life of a few years AT MOST, otherwise my litmus test of "harm to society" is met.
To answer your rhetorical questions, they won't replace it because you took over the obligation for repair and maintenance the moment you decided to repair and maintain it by cracking it open.

Did you feel that the warranty would apply after you cracked it open and replaced the battery? You made an assertive action to void the warranty, and now you seem to be mad that Apple has agreed with your decision.

Surely you knew as that if the phone was swelled that the battery was damaged, and that Apple should cover the repair. Why would you even attempt this yourself, if the phone was covered under warranty?

The offer on the table seems pretty damn fair. Take it and learn your lesson.

Also, just out of wondering, in other pictures that I have seen of the iPhone4 and 4S, the back has different lettering than what is shown in your drop box images. There is a set of graphical symbols under the text, and the second line of text is longer than the first line. Is this an actual Apple iPhone?
By extremists.... He's thinking of vegans out of morality--the type of people who say meat is murder.

If meat is murder, making people allergic to the fruits of their murder is a lesser crime.
Related reading: "Streams vs. documents" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20100108034547/http://software-li...
Simply what we want. And you open source it. Thanks! Really great work!
I've made that same macro, unfortunately the unboxing is the hard part because you don't know what type the NSValue contains. This is why I was hoping it would be a compiler feature because the compiler could use the surrounding info to figure it out:

int x = some_nsvalue; // it knows you want an int
[obj takeDouble:some_nsvalue]; // it knows takeDouble expects a double
(CGAffineTransform)some_nsvalue // typecast is the ultimate hint