skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest you read the Daring Fireball article, which states:

"This is the subjective line between homage and rip-off. The old joke is that homage is when you copy someone else; a rip-off is when someone else copies you. But to me, it’s about the difference between drawing inspiration to create something new, versus slavishly copying to create something derivative. That’s the difference between great artists stealing and bad artists copying.

Apple’s products are in different categories than the corresponding Braun devices, and are separated by decades. But there’s no denying the inspiration. Jony Ive himself has readily acknowledged the influence."
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This is very useful. Thank you for sharing this.

What are your plans for this?
That's when I break out the postal code. If your city has that much of a span, then tell Google to start at your postal code instead - the idea being that you can usually drive from one end of a postal code to the other in <5 minutes. I know there are postal codes that span long distances, but they tend not to be in cities that span long distances.
> very hard to believe there's a patent system anywhere that doesn't require you to attest that the thing your applying to patent was invented by you.

11 years ago a man from Australia patented the wheel. It's obvious he didn't invent it. You can basically patent anything in some countries as long as there's not yet an existing patent.
Please remember how absolutely nobody was offended by the Nest Thermosthat while everyone talked about how it was strongly inspired by Apple. If Samsung had built a fridge that looks like an Apple product, the same would have been true.

Or another thing - I vividly remember a series of Samsung screens that were 100% designed to be used with the white plastic era of Apple computers. Guess what, Apple didn't sue them into obvlivion. (I wouldn't even be surprised if Apple Stores had featured them.)

Apple : Braun is absolutely not like Samsung : Apple.
You don't have to do a newspaper. Generate a one-time, expiring string, like "Q8uZ3" -- they have to write it on a card and take a picture of their face with the card underneath. They have 30 minutes before it expires.
Looks interesting if niche. Somebody should take all the documentation and create gamification experience around it. With levels and all. Maybe even as a submission to the currently running Gamification Coursera class....

I can just imagine: Level one: you managed to download all sources. All the way to "You are the master, you can now serve your own ??? (ruby on rails app?) from your own server".

Then build a community with badges and pledges and things around it. Have a side quest or two for the adventurous players.
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What's your take on it ?

More and more I hear people 'they've been doing this in lisp all along' so I make a naive guess that in the future lisp genes will reappear in more favorable settings and won't get dismissed as they were before. It's already happening as for gc's and closure right ?
Yeah, that work has been completed.
Not really. From the point of view of someone not into cars, Porsche and Corvette have differences and similarities, but only by looking at the brand name on the car you know which one is which. Similarly, someone knowledgeable about smartphones can tell an iPhone and a Samsung Galaxy apart even without reading the brand name (that is nonetheless well visible on Samsung phones). I haven't heard about Porsche suing Corvette because they have copied the design and users may be deceived, and I don't expect the same happening about smartphones.
Maybe he should have said:

- Symfony2 has a way way better debug toolbar and profiler

- a better integrated assets management (through Assetics and Capifony, both external projects but a de-facto standard, also documented in the main docs)

- a better documentation, focused on how to do, instead of how it works. (As a Zend advocate in some big companies in Italy, the most frequent question with ZF was "where to start?")

- A better command line component

- Even if loosely coupled (eg: Silex), Symfony2 identifies a standard set of components. So when I look for a freelance Symfony2 developer, I know for sure that he will master twig, assetics, doctrine, swiftmailer, the DI container ecc.

- Symfony2 is now a year old, with an incredible amount of bundles available.
Are you unable to read? The T&C, as quoted, very clearly states that the project creator is required to fulfil the reward or they must refund the backer.
If you're in the US or Canada, Avalara is a solid solution. They offer sales tax calculation and filing (in some states) and integrate into the popular shopping carts/accounting software. The agency I work at has done numerous implementations for large online retailers. Last I checked pricing was at $350/yr for up to 700 transactions.
Can anyone translate this? http://www.goophone.hk/ - I've noticed they mention iPhone 5 on the actual site! Also, it looks like it's Hong Kong, not China (different rules to play by)
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Does anyone older than 14 really care about that?
When I look for inspiration for new projects or new ideas, I often look out for posts like yours. Things that people would love to have, which don't exist yet and solve a real problem. This is a really great idea... maybe when I have some time to spare somewhere in the near future, I will try to implement something like that :-).
I don't like how the semantic boundary of the framework is creeping into the language. The language is complex as it stands and it's rather hard to get people who understand the entire language and framework and know when to use features and when not to.

The primary case is when people use the features they shouldn't do, which happens a lot on large codebases like ours regardless of the skill set of the people you employ.

If the language was extensible (as per LISP derivatives), I'd have less of a problem but it's a monolithic compiler.

Too much sugar is bad for your programmers.
Seconded. All the more so since OP explicitly mentioned he "did not mean to imply that a developer or back end engineer is any less of an engineer."
The subject being discussed makes some difference though. A search functionality in a programming related forum is fundamental, while it probably isn't in a music one for example.

I've been running a music forum since 2001 (millions of posts) and I'm not sure an implementation of this type would suit... but these are all good concepts overall.
A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post
Any chance you could just store the images in a single local image and use CSS sprites, instead of loading favicons from every different site. The front page does 62 HTTP requests and they're all over the place...
The "Welcome to" is still left without explanation.
The documentation and tutorials I read for version 1 was superb, I've not dived into 2 enough to know, is it as good ?
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Great! Then I won't have to rely on someone's ppa for PHP5.4 on Precise.
I don't care about (HN) karma, and i believe (a.k.a. untested hypothesis) most HNers don't care about it. In conclusion i don't think that adding / subtracting something most people don't care about will solve ... anything.
"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How so? Prefix notation reads left-to-right nicely when you are dealing with verbs. Boolean logic is less natural, but also makes up much less of my programs (especially when using functional patterns like predicates, map, reduce, filter, etc.).

I also think that while Boolean expressions in Lisp are less natural than "this AND that OR another", they are clearer when they get large (with good formatting of course).
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Yeah, it makes more sense to (e.g.) want to have the core strength to do 50 crunches followed by a pilates 'hundred followed by a ten mile run (the cause). The low body fat and developed muscles that leads to the six pack abs is the effect of that kind of conditioning.
Nice comment. Thanks.
Thanks Stratoscope, for summarizing most of the feedback i would've wanted to give about the hardware buttons, since i use them exactly like you do.

The Kindle App on Android could need more customization features, i find it very important to be able to change the text color to a grey or brown on a black background.

On the Samsungs AMOLED Displays that don't emit any light when the color is black this makes for a great reading experience in the dark since its perfectly readable while dark enough without keeping you artificially long awake.

The only app i found that offers all the features i need is a chinese one, which sometimes shines through...

EDIT: It's called iReader if anyone is wondering: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chaozh.iRe...
In my opinion, version 2's documentation is superb. I can't compare it directly against version 1's (never used / read version 1), but it's well written, well structured, has clear examples (including some which are non-trivial), and dives into various concepts (e.g. the section on HTTP caching). Overall, excellent documentation.

Here's a link to the documentation if anyone's interested: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/index.html
Examples: Windows Workflow (rewrites, drop of state machine model), AppFabric, Entity Framework (this is entirely volatile and unreliable), bugginess of MVC3 (attribute lifetimes, DI provider problems), Razor tooling (bugs, changes), IDE schizophrenia and unreliability, the mess that is MS11-100 (breaks every file download for us resulting in hours of work), Silverlight as a whole, ClickOnce being broken in IE9 (6 months for MS support to get us a fix).

I could go on. The whole thing is a dirty great minefield of crap. It's also entirely closed source which means you have to rely on the vendor to fix any problems, which we can't from experience, even though we pay them a fortune every year.

A robust framework is one that you can rely on to act consistently and reliably. It doesn't fulfill that requirement.

For the amount we're paying, we can afford to hire 5 new very senior guys in to fix any problems we have with open source software. That we can't do whilst we're paying for Microsoft.

Also, we feel screwed by the recent policy changes by Microsoft and do not want to end up in a walled garden or cloud service provider model which piggy backs of everyone else's work. Neither are a viable (or legal!) solution for what we do (high finance).

We're trialling various technologies at the moment. Python + Pylons/Pyramid + SQLAlchemy + RabbitMQ + PostgreSQL + ReportLab all on top of OpenStack is looking like the platform choice.

Azure doesn't have a SQL Azure instance that will fit 1/10th of our dataset.
Exactly. Whenever a script is made, it should have #!/usr/bin/env interpreter# as the first line.

#!/usr/bin/env python2
#!/usr/bin/env python3

Explicitly declaring the required version fixes that problem. In arch, most of the PKGBUILDs will have a line to sed the explicit line into the file in place of the generic python line.
It seems you don't know, but Notifio shut down close to a year ago,
almost to the day September 8, 2011.

http://blog.notifo.com/notifo

There are other alternatives listed in their farewell message. Since
they're no longer in service the 'notifo' field in profiles on HN and
the arclanguage.org form can (should?) be removed.

Personally, I hate notifications, but of course, tastes vary, and some
people really do love getting an endless stream of notifications. The
trouble, or course, is which service to integrate, and how triggering
should be done. It's not as simple as it might seem at first glance.
Worse yet, HN (actually news.arc) runs as a single thread on a single
system, so the performance impact of adding notifications might make
them infeasible.
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i say we take this discussion on at app.net. The thread view there is the key difference here :)
Why Zend Framework (over framework X)?
Well, I wouldn't say capitalize. To be honest, before someone found out, a couple of years ago, most people never knew about the Braun products, while everybody knew about the iPod. Polaroid is a different example, since while Instagram is well known, Polaroid was also well known.
But again, this is Ok, and this is also Ok with Apple. There're vibrators that look like Apple devices, there're TV's, radios, alarm-clocks, calculators, that all look like Apple devices, and Apple doesn't care about it. (Fun example: http://www.megagadgets.de/mipad-taschenrechner.html)

They care if somebody copies their devices really close, and then goes into their market

Years ago, there was a small american company selling PC's that looked 99% like Macs (not Psystar). I forgot the name, but here Apple also went to the courtroom. Same problem here, these people copied not only their designs, but they copied really closely on products that competed directly with Apple's products in Apple's markets.

Apart from that, the Braun products are from the 70ties, and the Braun designed said he was flattered by Apple picking up where they left off.

Interestingly, Polaroid does exactly what you said: When somebody releases something that has the distinct Polaroid picture look, they threaten with a lawsuit. I experienced it up front: One of my apps was rejected from the app store because my pictures in there looked like Polaroids, and the rejection was in order to prevent me from getting sued by Polaroid, which seems to have happened before.
I could do, but the way it's built is using a master array in the page creator file. To add a feed, I just add the new feed and favicon location into the array. Storing the images would mean more work each time a new feed is added.

Having said that, CSS Sprites is something I don't know much about and will be looking into.
I like it. May I suggest getting rid of the fixed social sharing buttons? The ones at the bottom do the job well enough. I find the top ones a little bit distracting. Good font choice.
This is one of the most repugnant and misinformed posts I've seen on HN in a long time.

Taipei isn't a country. It's the capital city of Taiwan, which has had de facto independence for over 60 years but is unrecognized by the UN as a country due to the fact that China carries a veto and will cut relations with any country that does recognize Taiwan.

Taiwan has never been part of the PRC (which is the country commonly referred to as "China"). Taiwan has a separate currency, democratic governance, a separate military and a separate national identity for virtually the entire populace except for a few graying nationalist soldiers. Its "standards" as you put it are much closer to Japanese or Korean standards than they are to Chinese ones.

Furthermore, even going back before WWII, Taiwan was a Japanese colony, not Chinese. You have to go all the way back to the Qing Dynasty before Taiwan was controlled by China. Using that kind of reasoning, most of Eastern Europe would belong to the Austrian Monarchy.

Note: I've spent over 7 years living in Taiwan and also 2 years in Beijing.
Twitter effectively killing JSONP too
Presumably part of the change would be that accounts with 0 karma would not be able to post? Perhaps the grandparent could elaborate.
Copied from my other post:

Python + Pylons/Pyramid + SQLAlchemy + RabbitMQ + PostgreSQL + ReportLab all on top of OpenStack.

Influences: not too difficult to re-adjust to, all are open source, multiple vendors offering support, fits the dynamic model of our application, we have in house experience of all components, we can make them talk to our existing systems during any migration steps.

We're not doing a 1:1 switch - we're porting as we update features.
I beg to differ. I don't recall how long it took me exactly, but the only thing I learnt about build processes was, both on LFS and Gentoo: if it fails to compile, lookup on google what to do and apply that. If all else fails, edit the code and hope it does not cause a waterfall effct.And I even cared about learning. If you just follow the manual you'll have learned nothing at all.
Well, to quote on site that has taken ADN to another level, here's a game of chess for you. http://www.apppassant.com/ I should think you can find them playing live at the hashtag #chess
Are there people who don't know that the majority of Western medicine is based on Newtonian physics, and tends not to account for quantum effects?

Yes, homeopathic medicine is extremely unlikely to contain any atoms of the active ingredient... instead, it works on a quantum level.
Even when we directly say “We’ll copy it!”, it could still come out as having the classifier outputting a small confidence value. So, in my opinion this should not count. There should be a confidence value of a neural network involved.

In the case of a real copy, the classifier should have a confidence of 1.0, or be enormously close to it.
As with JSON, no support for algebraic data types (so tagged unions or recursive data types)?
Why not a Gentoo server? It has one of the best package managers (portage) and with a decent knowledge of linux you can fix pretty much anything. I always waste time on distros like CentOS because of binary incompatiblity or library versions that are too old for what I need to run. Gentoo is the only distro that I never had the need to override the package manager.
Trello is too big for "pick up bananas at the grocery store".
I don't care much about karma. But, I do care about having the freedom to post stuff that I find interesting. Now, I am assuming that most of the noise will be either from new members or from members with low karma. If they are penalized something like 5 karma for submissions (and they can't submit if they don't have 5 karma), then that will both passively and actively discourage spamming.
A karma threshold can also be applied to new users to encourage them to first participate int he discussion and understand the ethos of HN.

Edit: I want to clarify that I am in favour of deducting karma for new submissions. The comment system is already fairly balanced thanks to the option to downvote. What I am suggesting is essentially a mirror image of the parent article.
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Android users who don't have root are still in jail, because even if they can run arbitrary application software, they can't choose not to run arbitrary preinstalled software, so jailbreaking is still necessary.
I used jimmyr.com all these years. Might as well switch to this. Hate those fixed social buttons though.
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And now imagine Apple had done exactly that. Would the consumer really have it better now?
Comments with so little value that they get downvoted already cost the commenter karma.

Most posts that have not reached the front page yet do not reach the front page at all. Comments on pages that do not reach the front page have much less opportunity to receive upvotes. This proposal risks discouraging comments on submissions that have not reached the front page; since some submissions only reach the front page because of the comments, this would harm HN.
It'd take a tiny bit more work on the frontend, but instead of saving the favicon location, you could save a data-uri of the favicon image. That would then completely eliminate all of the external HTTP requests.
I don't care about the other requirements, but the part where you get in if you have a degree from Stanford or MIT is downright mean. Those schools costs tens of thousands of dollars to attend to per semester but does not make you a better developer than having gone to a cheaper college.

There is no correlation between the amount of dollars you spend on your education and how educated you are. There is a correlation between having rich parents that can pay for it and going to an expensive school. But I wish people would stop perpetuating this myth about how a great school automatically makes their alumni great. The schools themselves aren't going to do it because expensive fees is what they live on. People who spent that kind of money aren't either because they gain a lot of free and undeserved opportunities from the reputation the school has. But we, the smart techies should know better. George W Bush graduated from Yale for gods sake.
Germany also has a formal (sie) and informal (du) pronoun and even though the latter is generally used over the internet, to the point that using the former can be insulting, there is no impact on "real life".
It's easier than building something without dependencies from scratch with Visual C++ :-)

I built an LFS system when it came out years ago and it was a good learning exercise. That's the cool thing here. I wouldn't consider using the system from day to day though.

I agree with your sentiment though. A recent attempt to get sstp-client and NetworkManager-sstp working on CentOS 6.3 resulted in a long stompy walk when I couldn't get it to build without breaking the distribution due to dependency hell. I just chucked Ubuntu on the box in the end and used the vendor provided deb packages. Was much easier :-)
I personally prefer an "user experience" tailored to my own needs instead of a set of defaults chosen by someone else. Specially when they push you into things like Unity and Pulseaudio.
Depends on how fast Foxconn builds new facilities in Vietnam.
Now schedule A/B tests to start or stop automatically at a future date
Very nice collection. Few sites I never heard of. Thanks for sharing. Btw, You Mentioned Amazon and Google Ad-sense in Privacy policy. I don't see any Ads, have any plan to keep Ads on this site and make revenue?
You have a few escaping issues, that Firefox nicely hi-lights if you view the source. For example, if the title of an article contains a ", you don't quote it, so in the html you end up with attributes like this:

title="something "something else""

You also don't escape ampersands. Eg:

<a href="http://example.com/foo?x=1&y=2">x & y</a>

Should be:

<a href="http://example.com/foo?x=1&amp;y=2">x &amp; y</a>

I imagine there is a more general issue with a lack of escaping, but these are just a couple of examples I found.
Blast from the Past: My 2009 prediction on the "Apple Tablet"
You have watched too many horror movies.
The Next Web added, should show on the next db refresh.

Plans is an interesting question, thanks for asking.

When I built it originally I had this huge project in mind (as we all do :) ), bookmarks, saved articles in a user area, FB login, link tracking for a "most popular links box", live stream, recommendation algos, the works.

I guess this scale is one of the reasons I originally dropped it.

After the rediscovery I thought "let's go MVP on this". So I cut everything back. What you see is what surivived. Literally, just the news links, on a html page, that is quick to load with no server hit.

Future plans - let's see how it goes eh. If the hosting bill enters the trips I'll drop a few ads in, but I like the cleanness of it all for now.
Slightly off-topic, but never auto-play video (or audio) content on a website. If I want it to be played, I click on it, otherwise it's just annoying.