skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couple things:

Pipes/YQL seems not to have been banned yet, so getting 4chan data back wrapped in a callback for nothing-but-front-end hacks seems doable. Also along those lines: it'd be super-awesome if the API would take ifModifiedSince as a query parameter and not just in headers.
Although I don't agree with this way of thinking, I acknowledge that some people may find a metaphor offensive. For that, I removed mine, but I hope people will start understanding when words are meant to be offensive and when it's just humour or metaphors.
Part of it's high quality polish and finish is the lack of seams and protrusions and screws. This necessarily means something that's difficult to open up.

You can make an argument that they made the wrong trade-off between aesthetics and pragamatism, but for the trade-off they made, they executed well.
The solution is to take some control back from the carriers and OEMs but Google won't do that because it's Android's main selling point to carriers and OEMs.
> Sure the initial set up is difficult. But once it's done, it's done

Are you trying to argue that it could not be made quicker and easier, and that there'd be no benefit to making it quicker and easier?

I think Vim is great and if, as seems the case, a lot of people are put off it because of the large amounts of up-front effort it requires, then anything which helps lessen that initial effort is a good thing in my books.

I think it's a shame that there's often a kinda moralising attitude towards this issue - as if the present level of up-front effort is how things should be, and if, for whatever reason, you aren't prepared to put up with it, then they're not a "Vim person".
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I don't think Google has used their might as a company well enough to convince the carriers it is their best interests to be more current with their phones' software or in general to do what is best for the customer in order to ensure they keep coming back. Or for example, does Google know that the Verizon store employees in the midwest will try to sell you an iPhone even when you explicitly walk in and say you want the Galaxy Nexus? To use a cliche, that's the situation on the ground.
I also type this way. I never took a typing class and evolved directly from hunting and pecking, to hunt-and-peck without looking, to typing in the way you describe — if I extend my fingers, my thumbs and index fingers form a triangle.

I rarely type at the manic rate I see in home-row typists but have never had RSI symptoms in 18 years. I did cause myself temporary soreness by constantly using Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-C by holding Ctrl and doubling my left thumb under my palm. That was the one conscious adjustment (switching to my little finger for Ctrl) I have ever made, and once I started using Mac keyboards (Command instead of Ctrl), I switched back.

I'm interested in your editor choice. I've always used CUA editors (currently TextMate) and recreational Emacs. Also, I have no interest in the Dvorak layout since I already get by being wildly inefficient. My only doubt is whether I'm missing the flow state in vi that is accessible to home-row typists.
ICS is starting to be a really good system. You can confirm this because Apple is activating its troll-patent machine against devices running this.
First, I don't know what your application does, but based on the small yearly price, I assume it isn't super-complicated. BUT regardless of how simple your application is, you should negotiate a deal that will bring you thousands or tens of thousands over a period of time. They have likely spend some time finding out about possible solution. Thus, they can easily pay a few thousand dollars immediately if it solves their need and more over a period of time.

However, don't just negotiate on a single price, but strike a deal where support work will bring you recurring revenue on monthly basis.

Try to have several dimensions on which you negotiate, not just the price. You already had a great idea for a negotiation dimension: do you offer it as a white or gray label solution. If they are willing to pay too little, require that your product brand is clearly visible for end users, thus bringing more customers for you in the future. You can negotiate on many things besides the price: the scope of your support, your availability, the response time to support queries, your scalability promise to them, future improvements to product, etc.

Good luck!
Obviously the 3D structure of chromosomes are important. But it is only one of many aspects that regulate our genes. While it is true we cannot understand the genome by ignoring its 3D shape, we also cannot understand the genome without looking at the many other ways the genome is regulated. Nature did not make things simple for us. There are quite a few variables that regulate our genes, and sadly it seems that all or most of these variables must be taken into account
> it doesn't launch a new process for each line like exec does

Exec doesn't either if you use "+" as a terminator:

find . $(options) -exec command {} \;

executes one command per match,

find . $(options) -exec command {} +

executes a single command with all matches

> exec is just an ugly hack on find

Obvious and complete nonsense, -exec is both an important predicate of find and a useful and efficient tool.

-print0/xargs -0, now that is a hack.
NY Supreme Court upholds Grooveshark's legality
Would you mind sharing some more information on these 'elegant solutions'? I'm yet to experience them.
Do you update your apps once a month? Once every few months?

This statistic is published for developers to get an idea of which OS versions they should be supporting based off market share. If you aren't opening the play store to buy apps in the 14-day period, then these developers probably aren't looking to sell to you.

Besides, I doubt most people know how to turn off background activities.
I wonder why you read ugly opinions about Grooveshark and its dubious model, but never about YouTube's?

Is it only because on YouTube there are proportionally lots of (low quality) user generated content?
Yeah, I am interested in this too. Any chance you can release some metrics?
Given that yesterday Google said Android had reached 480 million devices, we have the following (overestimates because some devices are no longer in service, but still):

Cupcake: ~ 1 million

Donut: ~ 2 million

Eclair: ~ 18 million

Froyo: ~ 67 million

Gingerbread: ~ 276 million

Honeycomb: ~ 10 million

Ice Cream Sandwich: ~ 100 million

Jelly Bean: ~ 6 million
Copyright protectionism - The award for irony goes to...
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Hehe, I was just thinking this while looking at a Github page watching that little cat with the spinning border; didn't want to be the one to say it :).
Without citations of scientific research, this is really just an exercise in generalizing from one example.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
One option I have not seen put forward is the possibility of someone in the Romney camp doing this. If Romney really has something to hide this could be political back up in case the tax forms go public.

Two big benefits; 1)it is now harder for the democrats to release them if they have copies on ice 2) If released the Romney camp can then say some democrat bought them from a 'terrorist' (or suitable term) and muddy the waters by flinging accusation backs.

I really don't think this is likely, but it is possible.
Does anyone have any insight about the basis for this rule? Most of the guidelines seem pretty understandable, but this looks very arbitrary to a non-veteran.
What's the huge difference with YouTube besides Vevo and huge amounts of crappy user generated content? Please illuminate me.
I'm jealous of all the non-verizon Jelly Bean Galaxy Nexuses out there. I had the first official ICS phone in the USA but Verizon has really hindered its potential.
This sort of protection is usually done by checking the referrer header, which is trivial to set when retrieving something programmatically or when using standard tools like wget. The API seems focused on reducing the processing costs of browser extensions that let the user view the page, but add extra features to the page, anyway. Those would probably still seem like a normal browser view of the image to the site by default even if browser plugins can't perform the trivial client sent header change (not sure if the browser plugin API exposes it).
Actually, SSE is a better fit here: it works in many more browsers than WebSockets when you count the existence of SSE polyfills, and you don't need the bidirectionality of WebSockets here.
So we have 100 million ICS devices out there? Suddenly, it doesn't sound so bad.
I will start with one from pg: thing that you might look back in 5 years and say "Really? we were doing it that way?"
I wonder what proportion of HN readers and population in general supports "labor theory of value".
You probably didn't mean to use 'strident' there. From Webster's dictionary 1913:

Stri'dent (?), a. [L. stridens, -entis, p.pr. of stridere to make a grating or creaking noise.] Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
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According to the legend, this was the place for the king's dungeon, in the form of a deep pit filled with poisonous snakes and scorpions, where prisoners were thrown. By the order of King Trdat III, one of the king's associates, Grigor (Gregory) was imprisoned and spent 13 years here as being guilty of preaching Christianity. And when the king ordered to kill 3 Christian virgins - Gayane, Hripsime and Shoghakat - as the legend tells, he fell ill. People called it a "pig disease" since the king's head became hoggish.
Yeah, and there have been Python scripts anyone interested passes around and shares too, so you haven't even had to write it yourself...
Meanwhile you can import into NZ for the price of the standard GST, 15% tax on all goods. Type approval not an issue if approved in US/EU/Japan etc.
As a result only 64000 of the 150000 cars imported in 2011 were dealer new. The rest were 2nd hand, 95% from Japan. The money saved to the economy is staggering.
Australia's import barriers add huge economic deadweight loss to their economy. (I.e. they waste money)
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We're launching http://www.billberries.com soon. With Billberries, you will actually enjoy managing your bills!
> But I think the testing protocol is flawed. As far as I know, long term effect safety studies are only done on animal models. And the benchmark is always illness or disease, not optimal health. Nobody can ask a rat how it feels. And then there's the issue of synergistic effects. The FDA only studies substances in isolation, but there might be adverse effects that only occur if a substance reacts with another substance or process.

All of this does sound rational, but without any specific reasons to be concerned it's pointless to spin stories like this. Why? Because we can say the same stuff about anything else on Earth. Singling out some foods and food components for this treatment is illogical.

> if I can choose between a product that is "natural" or a product that has mystery substance X in it, I'd choose the natural one

Carrageenan is not a mystery. It is to you, sure, because you don't educate yourself very well, but it isn't a mystery to the rest of us.

> I'd also prefer it that product B is labelled in a way that I can tell it contains mystery substance X

I'd like it if 'dietary supplements' were held to the same standards as the actual medicines they're advertised as being able to replace, but that hasn't happened.

And you're wrong: Foods have ingredients lists. Carrageenan is one of the things they have to mention. Ah, but that only applies to processed foods, and not 'natural' foods, where you don't know what they contain.

> I have personal experience that it makes my skin flare up, both when I ingest it and when I use it topically (shampoo for example).

Really. Assuming you're not lying or mistaken, you're one of a very, very small number of people who has a bad reaction to carrageenan in those products.

> I feel better when I eat Haagen Dasz "5", which has none of the funky stuff.

Probably because you know it doesn't contain (what you consider to be) funky stuff.

How about this: There are people who think casein, a protein naturally found in milk, is toxic to humans. How would you convince one of those people that consuming casein is not a problem, if one of them tried to talk you out of eating ice cream?
Do you remap ESC to another key?
I think the market will shake this out in the long run. Vendors that kneecap themselves with overzealous mods and fall behind in updates are going to get a bad reputation eventually. This has already happened to Samsung who in many ways is the flagship vendor.

Also, as enviable as Apple's uptake of OS updates is, I don't think it's essential for the viability of a mobile platform. If people upgrade their phones on two-year cycles you can just ride that wave instead of trying to get people to update their software. Since both iOS and Android are pretty mature at this point major updates are less critical.
> require 80% support to make a new law and 20% support to remove any law currently on the books

That's simply brilliant. Did you come up with that yourself, by the way?

I think that people could be persuaded that this should be a fundamental principle like democracy or free speech. It sufficiently meta that it wouldn't carry a lot of political baggage. For example, a person who ardently supports a particular law might accept this 80/20 principle even knowing that his favorite law could get stuck down.

This idea should be given a catchy name so it can spread as a meme.
> It's quite popular in countries where buying SMS credits is not always an afforded cost, but public wifi is everywhere.

What countries are that?
Please back these claims up with some sort of references. Otherwise it's just utter bs
> web apps are the great savior that abstract away all the device fragmentation.

I'm not sure if you are trying to be serious or not with this. Do you really believe this is true today? That you can build a mobile experience using HTML that compares to that of a native app?

Certainly there are SOME cases where it makes sense. But for MOST apps, it simply does not. For example, let's say I wanted to build an app that used location and could run in the background. How, exactly, would I build a "web app" that worked across iPhone, iPad, and say 75% of Android devices?

And how is whatever you come up with "HTML5"?

WORA has always been, and always will be a pipe dream. HTML5 gets closer but, unfortunately, due to the dynamics of mobile the target is moving further away.
I say enjoy Grooveshark while you can.

As that article states they couldn't or may have not wanted to pay the cost for streaming EMI's music. Heck there is a ton more money to be made when your not paying the content owners who without their content there would be no Grooveshark. THe masses would care less for it.

In 2012 I am surprised a court ruled in their favor as with Youtube it's focus wasn't just popular music, same goes for justin.tv. THough with Grooveshark their M.O. is access to popular music and now you can get all the music you want for free whenever you want through your mobile device.

I wonder how much longer it will last? Megaupload anyone? Well i'm going to cancel my Spotify subscription and use this instead!
If everything has failed for you, check out the alexander technique: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_technique All kinds of professionals (musicians, programmers, even actors) love it. Basically it improves your posture and gets rid of all the (unconscious) tension in your body. Main cause for many is that they unconsciously pull their head/neck back, which has effects all over your body. It greatly reduced my RSI. The symptoms basically travelled over time, I had RSI on left, right, both arms, wrist, fore-arm, ellbow, and arm-pits. Downside to Alexander Technique is that you have to see a practitioner for a few sessions. You cannot self-teach you with books (i tried).
The first few times it happened to me, I felt that I had been manipulated into "approving" of the article, when I felt no such approval. It was abusive.

Now, whenever I visit a new Svbtle blog, I block that whole element so I never accidentally vote again.
Samsung do their best to ensure that all the hard work google has put in to make android smooth to update is useless. My dad has a galaxy S (I've got a nexus s), he has to connect his phone to that POS kies crapware, I got OTA jelly bean about a month (if not longer) ago. I think he's just on 2.3.

Carriers and Samsung are poison.
Did you sign and agree to the increase? What was it before? What were the terms of your original service agreement?
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things that takes days to learn: landing a plane.
Really? I expect its harder to land a plane than programming.
You have experience paying money to corrupt cops in Cambodia? Are most cops in Cambodia corrupt? Did you already do that? Sounds interesting so could you elaborate?

Or have you never been to Cambodia and use HN to throw around racist comments about corruption in Asia?
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To multiply 14 and 12 in my head, I break it down like this:

14 * 12 = (14 * 10) + (14 * 2) = 168

Anyone else do that?
This is a strategy 100% certainly designed to make it hard for you to get another job. Just leave. What do you have to lose - your job? It may impact your referees but explain that to the next employer, they should understand that you are the victim of a predatory employer.
Congrats for successfully getting your rails site to load faster, but it's still slow.

Honestly, what you're doing at this point is delaying the big rewrite. That's not a bad thing, but it will still be necessary at some point to offload your real-time features to systems that are intended for those kinds of things from the ground up.

Rails was fundamentally designed to optimize for programmer productivity over speed of execution, with the idea that people generally cost more than hardware. Unfortunately once you get to serious scale the hardware necessary to keep things quick starts costing a lot and operationally it becomes a big headache and stuff just doesn't work.

It's going to take a seismic shift for rails to suddenly outperform lightweight 'real-time' frameworks running on faster scripting languages. We need to be honest and aware of both the benefits as well as the limitations of our tools.
How Much Money Do Bands Make From Streaming Music Services Like Spotify?
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I'm that way too, nor am I a designer. My point was just that if you have one of the best UX designers working on something then the point is probably to have him/her optimize for functionality and design... otherwise it would have been fine to have someone work on it who was only skilled at the engineering aspect of the project.
+1! Thank you for the thought out response! Seriously - your company should share it more broadly. You have a rare perspective on HTML5's audio story. Most folks have only focused on video.

I'm curious where 3rd party services come in in slightly more detail - I'd always assumed what I saw on grooveshark was a 100% client-server app. I'm assuming they're something like pulling from an album art service or a similarly ornamental interface that wasn't even worth carrying over to the mobile experience.

What's "flaky" mean? Do you mean that using it sometimes resulted in failure to deliver audio to a user with a compatible user-agent? If so, that sucks. Which browsers, any ideas what's wrong with it? If not - could you clarify?

I may strongly disagree with Grooveshark as a company, but that doesn't mean you aren't one of the only legitimate players with experience in delivering audio on the web. I am curious to hear more.
Kinda like Apple thought they could get away with edited iPhone sequences, that showed all sorts of things happening far quicker than they ever do in real life.

They had to be coerced, legally, to concede this. "Sequences shortened".
Currently there is no incentive for claimants not to spray out take-downs like a firehose. They need something to motivate them to take more care.

Google should implement a cost for incorrect claims as an incentive for claimants to get it right the first time. Somethink like, say, a $1000 for each claim that is obviously negligently submitted.
Harvard chemist talks about the problem of solving problems
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Yet another oh-my-zsh theme
Hey guys you mentioned that you have the observer send a message to the room. How does the Rails code send a message to the node server?
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Did people not read this thing? Folks, there is no new data in this. This is a study of studies. If anyone researched this issue 10 years ago, for example, you would be aware of this.

The nutrutious bit is link-bait. Organic is not changing the chemistry of the nutrient composition in food (like for like basis). That said, Organics are not equivalent per-se either. Organic methods are typically (historically) focuses on heterodox varietals and small batch production. Milk is not equivalent (due to fat solubility) lack of hormones, etc. Organic meat is more rare and again husbandry issues are not similar or comparable. There is less pesticide residue obviously (and it matters - nb-pesticides are waterproof). And the food is typically fresher, more local, etc. This is all non-controversial.

The bit that has changed is that Organic has been commoditized and mass-produced (horizon, etc). And also bought out by BigCos. That makes organic less distinct. Frankly, less interesting/differentiated in many places. And the prices of commodities are inflating, putting pressure on sales. And thats on the conventionals, in particular. The reasons for that are beyond scope (tl;dr=politics).

In any event, that is just some context.
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This is a deep question. Brainstorming I get:

- Steve and Alex founded reddit fresh out of school, and schools don't generally teach databases beyond the theory

- Fresh out of school, they didn't have the opportunity to learn it from someone with more experience

- They were busy building the rest of the site, and so didn't spend the time to delve in to these concepts

- Paul either didn't feel the need to explain it to them, or had reasons similar to the above to not know

Hmm... I'm out of ideas. Anyone else?
even in safari on iOS 5, i can't get it to play the next track after the lock screen timer kicks in while something is playing.
I will point out that copyright is extended to creatives by the general population as a mutually beneficial agreement to foster the development of creative works to be shared with said population. In the past five years, and to some extent before that, certain groups have started to abuse that relationship. I should come as no surprise that the attitudes towards the arrangement are starting to change. When the mutually beneficial part starts to erode, something is bound to give.
With every cloud service google launches I lose more and more respect for their technical prowess. Nothing that they seem to launch is significantly better than the respective AWS offerings, and most of them seem significantly worse.

This SQL service is so limited I have no clear idea what it's even useful for. Google is destroying their brand with these mediocre services. What happened to their standard of not working on projects unless that are at least 2x better than existing alternatives? That standard clearly has gone out the window with the return of Larry Page as CEO. Good luck guys. Must feel pretty bad to be out-geeked by a company that just a few years ago was basically an online bookstore.
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