skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there anyway to check in multiple times per day? For example I'd like to checking once per 30 minutes of uninterupted, focused work.
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Out of curiosity, for those who have typed gti, how do you type 'git'? For me, left index finger on G, right index on I, left middle on T. I'm wondering because I never make this particular typo, although I do have 'sl' installed and tend to see the steam locomotive once every few days.

As an experiment, I tried to type 'git init' very quickly a bunch of times and my typos were:

git niti
git niit
git itnit
giti nit

but never 'gti'.
"DNS being slow (fuck it, use IPs)"

So, yeah, ops isn't hard at all, if you don't fucking take the time to do it right.
Try copying a complex object with threads running inside it, open file descriptors being used etc. What does it mean, for example, to copy a running DB engine? Some objects are just non-copyable by principle.
That would be silly. It's silly to talk about the source language of third party libraries when discussing languages you use. 3rd party library code is all object code or bytecode for all it matters to your project.
I'd start by placing the ones that you do have more prominently on your site. Right now they're below the fold and are the very last thing on the page. However, to me they're far more descriptive of what the product is than a picture showing that you connect a mobile phone to a server. I also want to know why you're different. I can already connect a mobile phone to a server. Why are you better? Also, one thing that confuses the hell out of me is that the picture says "Create and instantly deploy mobile apps" and then later on you have text that says "The end-users (the humans in human.io) use our iOS and Android app". So which is it? Do I create a new app or do they use your app? I think what this may be is mechanical turk for mobile devices. That actually seems pretty cool. In any case, good luck!
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So, you are fresh on the road and you need to insure your car but you do not want to spend a lot of money on car insurance for new drivers yet you are aware that it is common for inexperienced drivers to have to pay more than those with experience.
It takes just as much time for DNS to propagate as it does for me to deploy a config change. It literally doesn't matter at this stage.
Just put a session id in the URLs.
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No, still the same old one. Improvements are supposedly coming though (though, they were coming 2 years ago also).
Do you hate C syntax or love C syntax? Make up your mind.
Well, I've always gone to the stores in the San Francisco Bay Area and people here are generally Apple friendly and those I've talked to at the stores seem to be fairly happy. Maybe there's less Apple-geeks working at the stores down under?
Isn't video rental (in the US) done under first sale doctrine[1]? That means copyright holders only receive money from selling each physical copy.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
I didn't note in this post (but in others), but before I switched, my Heroku bill was almost $700 (and I couldnt get it to perform well), the current bill is far less even with growth.
If HN would just put those counts next to each username (perhaps denoted by decorative badges) it would naturally reinforce the hierarchy and save honorable members of the inner party from dirtying themselves with smacking down the masses.
Yes. It's 2012, cookies are non tin-foil material, get on with the program and enable them.

Or, if you insist, at least do not expect to use any web app / sales page, anything without them.
When it happened to me, no, I couldn't. I click logout, then the browser redirects, and hey look, I'm still logged in. Kinda.
Write an Eclipse or Vim plugin instead, and have a greater impact.
There's also the US Government's Github including the White House:

* White House: https://github.com/WhiteHouse

* Other Federal Agencies: http://gsa.github.com/federal-open-source-repos/

Some state and local ones are listed at:

* http://wiki.civiccommons.org/Public_Software_Repositories
As others have pointed out, DDT is still in use for vector control, however its effectiveness is reduced because of resistance caused by excessive use for agricultural and general pesticide purposes.

Mosquito resistance to DDT was something that was noted in the years before the effects on birds were raised, and this had as much to do with the ban on agricultural use as the ecological issues.

DDT use really was out of control in the post-war period[1] and I think it is hard to say how severe the effects of a biopersistent chemical would be when its use was just increasing, increasing and increasing with no end in sight.

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UiCSvQvVys
So Heroku is good for higher margin sites. You couldn't run Facebook, because the value of each customer is marginal, and they are expensive customers.

You could host a B2B app no problem, because they are paying (high margin) customers, and will probably not use too many resources.
In the adtech world, this is what's known as CRM retargeting.

While most retargeting entails showing ads to people who visited a site and were cookied there, lots of businesses have customer data but don't do much on the web. Aka, they don't get a lot of visitors to begin with.

So they can go to a CRM retargeting provider like LiveRamp, give them their e-mail list, and then Liveramp returns a cookie segment that has some percentage of the people from that list in it. This data comes from companies that set unique cookies for logged in users and sell that data.

The business can then show ads to those people without them ever having visited their site.

Now Facebook's doing this. I think this will be pretty popular, especially for non-profits with big e-mail lists but not a lot of site visitors to retarget.
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This is an interesting design concept indeed...

If I remember right, some apparel company used Pinterest's
"revolutionary" display (Masonry right?) to a similar effect. Perhaps a HN Search is in order! :)

Memory issues apart,This is pretty cool!
That's against FB developer terms of servoce, so would never happen.
Are you aware that people are dying for lack of food in India? Food is a basic need. Denying food to starving people and letting it rot does not help boost agricultural productivity or help people 'work on our economy'.
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I am at CloudOpen (colocated with LinuxCon) and will make every effort to get to the SDHN meetup if I can muster the energy after the con. But, everyone knows at SDHN, I am almost certain to show up at Obrien's by 9:30p.
Good work tosbourn! Like f3r3nc, I would also like to read more about your process on redesigning it.
I had nothing but trouble w/ Ubuntu when trying to use anything non-Canonical tested. I suggest using something like Archlinux where you're not forced to stick with buggy software for a 6 month cycle.

And I've been really, really impressed with the latest Thunderbird/Lightning releases (14-15). Haven't had any problems at all, like I had with the older releases from several years ago. I used to be a Mail guy, but Thunderbird blows it out of the water these days.
What do you use to track your trackers?
Fantastic news, nested batched queries on the graph API were a total crapshoot in some circumstances last time I tried (FQL works much better). I may have to update some code now...
Yeah, I read your original post. I've worked pretty extensively with Heroku and with large, custom, in-house infrastructure, and I don't share your experience.

There's an I/O penalty for working on AWS, but it's on the order of tens of percent, not hundreds. I suspect that your original problems were related to working set size relative to cache (since Ronin => Fugu bumps cache by over 2GB, and you said that Fugu was working well).

Heroku's largest database has a 68GB cache at an (admittedly expensive) $6,400 a month. But even so, $6,400 is a small expense for a growing web application. A mediocre developer costs more than that. Trading off server cost for developer cost is an asymptotically bad bet.
You're missing the point. Linux would never have gotten to the point of being useful for Android if Linus Torvalds didn't have a benevolent dictatorship.

Anyway, if you are truly for freedom, support Apple's freedom to do things its way and Google's to do things its way. You can follow whichever one you want. Or did you want to dictate to me and millions of others that they can't choose a walled-garden such as Apple's if that's what we want?

You want to shove your preferred freedom down our throats?
It pretty clearly says they are deleting your data after one hour.
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I introduced them to sublime, but after watching me work on my vim terminal they really, really wanted to learn vim. and so it was macvim.
The case for one-on-ones in the follow-up is better. I would have found your colleague's first post on the subject satirical if I didn't know any better. The overall topic was about what it takes to make a company a good place to work and includes a conversation that makes Ben sound like an asshole (does he think he sounds like a badass?) and ends this way:

“In summary, you and Tim are preventing me from achieving my one and only goal. You have become a barrier blocking me from achieving my most important goal. As a result, if Tim doesn’t meet with each one of his employees in the next 24 hours, I will have no choice but to fire him and to fire you. Are we clear?”

Now really, just imagine the conversation with Tim and his boss later that day... Then the quality of all the one-on-ones with Tim and his reports...

Maybe you should get someone to review some of these posts because Ben just embarrassed himself with that previous one.
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> The irony is: it has never been less painful to switch to Linux.

This is so true. Linux has a bad rap. I gave up on it a couple of years ago due to the infamous "hidden cost of linux". I switched back a couple months ago and have been pleasantly surprised how smooth things are now. A lot has improved in the last couple years in Linux land.
Um, not using a virtual machine doesn't mean using unmanaged code. Even Java can be compiled to native x86 machine code using GCJ.

Golang, for example, does not use a VM, but it is a managed language.
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Someone should do one-minute versions of these TED talks.
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> If these billionaires are a part of the US economy, they contribute to its strength.

If you are interested in aggregate GDP, then yes, billionaires contribute to the country's strength. If you care about the average person, then no.

The US won't care about aggregate GDP so much once they aren't number 1.
Not directly relevant to the blog post, but Sentry is an amazing piece of software. We're running it on an m1.small AWS instance along with a bunch of other stuff and it is rock solid.
Try zsh (z shell). It has auto correction for typos:

pawka@yoda ~/Desktop> gti

zsh: correct 'gti' to 'git' [nyae]?
So say if someone is using a nail file would you be offended ? What about whashing hands ? Realy something that does not smell or make noise , what's the problem ? Look away and stop projecting your own programming on other people.
You're undervaluing a pitch, and you have no idea what a perfect pitch is.

You can be incredibly slick, with a Lessig level of timing matching your slides to your words, but that's not a perfect pitch. A perfect pitch is what gets you funded. you need to cut through all the VC's defenses surprise and delight them in a way that makes them want to give you money.

Maybe you do know this, but it's worth pointing out the perfect pitch isn't some generic bullshit that plays well on youtube, it's tailored precisely to one guy. your guy. your funder.
How does creating Instapaper make his views on a hypothetical device's internal hardware any more interesting than anyone else's?

As far as I can see, the only thing that came from Instapaper were the "2,5" and "2,6" strings - the rest of the analysis, while potentially insightful, is not related to Instapaper at all.
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For my particular application it's not even close to worth it, but in some cases I can imagine it might be worth the hassle.
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Craigstlist Email extractor tool reduces the time and efforts that you put into search Craigslist postings manually that match your criteria. It is a simple and cost-effective way to search classified postings and responding them automatically.
You want to shove your preferred freedom down our throats?

Not at all. Make yourself right at home in your cozy walled garden. Just stop using bogus patent suits to drive the products I want to buy off the shelves and compete on features instead.
A quote from the article: "The entire Internet runs on JavaScript. There’s a reason for that. Java programs are “write once run anywhere” — portable, easy to use, and thus very popular."

Say what? I should take seriously the views of someone who doesn't know the difference between Java and JavaScript?

Next quote: "Unfortunately, JavaScript itself is basically the computational version of AIDS. It won’t kill your computer, but it’ll lay out the red carpet for some virus that wants to do exactly that. ... If you want an understanding of just how incredibly dangerous it is, let’s talk about a Java exploit just discovered that works perfectly every time."

Pro tip: Learn the basics before telling everyone the sky is falling.
I had the exact opposite reaction. I know that not many people interact with their community outside of a tweet so it could seem like a rare problem but this API makes it easier to interact which should make interacting on this level less rare. If that makes any sense.

Take his photo scavenger hunt, if that was the only thing this thing was good for it would be a great tool for any major brand.
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It sounds extreme, by I personally believe that mice destroy the wrists of programmers - that's one of the reasons why we love programs and interfaces with tons of keyboard shortcuts - along with being faster, it's easier on the wrists.

In addition, good keyboard controls can make or break many programs. If you take a look at a program in the adobe suite, you'll normally notice two things. First, that using the program with the mouse generally involves awkward mouse manoeuvrings. However, keyboard shortcuts can eliminate 90% of this.

Third, do you personally recommend using a trackball? I've been experiencing some mild wrist pain lately and am looking for something better than a mouse.
>We search with Google, run our phones with Google, run Google's browser, now they want us to write all our code in Google's language.

Which is also open source and has a community behind it.

(Plus, you can search with Bing, run an iPhone, and run Safari/Firefox/IE)

>Why Google? What's wrong with Java?

You mean besides the stagnation (no closures? no type inference? no functional goodness? It's 2012 already), the enterprisey vibe and the lawsuits?

>>>The syntax of Go is broadly similar to that of C
C, seriously? C??!? Why? Why would I want to go back to ... C?

They don't ask you to go back to C. The SYNTAX is similar. Which is also true for Java.

That said, from reading the rant, you don't seem like the type that ever was in C in the first place, so it wont be "going back" for you.

>>> Of features found in C++ or Java, Go does not include type inheritance, generic programming, assertions, method overloading, or pointer arithmetic.

And that is a good thing or a bad thing or what?

That is what it is. Languages have different features, and it's not a spec war.

Java doesn't have tons of features C++ has (e.g operator overloading, pointer arithmetic, hey, even closures, as of the latest standard). But you don't seem to be the type that wants to go to C++, right? So why the double standard?

>>> A Go interface is best described as a set of methods, each identified by a name and signature.

That sounds like Microsoft's crappy COM from the 1990's.

Yes, I can see how you are qualified to make this kind of comparisons: "Interface of methods, with name and signature. Ah, just like COM!"

>The code sample on that page shows there are no braces in the if evaluation statements. A wise man, Peter Van Der Linden formerly of Sun's Compiler Group and author of Deep C Secrets wrote about using more braces if needed as explicitness is always better. I agree with that.

Good for you. You missed the "if needed" part.

>Oh...the language name sux.

And Rob Pike pissed on your cornflakes.

>PS How does Guido Van Rossom feel about Go?

Why should we care?
My deepest apologies Zizee. I'll think a lot longer before commenting next time. I'll be sure to keep your annoyances in mind. Thanks so much for your insight.

Seriously man. "THIS" (read: your grievances) are beyond first world problems. Pick your battles. Stop making annoy-enemies for stupid reasons. Go do something productive. I thought the guy was insightful, so I said it in my own way. Go do something productive.
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I interviewed with moovweb a while back... they basically transcode non-mobile-optimized sites into mobile-optimized sites on the fly by transforming html/css/etc.
You need to add extras for common git subcommands like sl implements extras for the common options to ls.

Like "gti init" could have it start from a dead stop, "gti push" could have it push something in front of it, "gti pull" could have it pull a trailer behind it, etc.
Normally someone's length of exposure to HN isn't particularly relevant to their contribution, but when they are making a snarky claim as to what HN is, or isn't, it's relevant.

Marco's just made a few interesting posts recently - I noticed that the people who have submitted his posts rarely do, and, there has also been a diversity of posters as well. For example, of the 300 submissions that Brajeshwar has made in close to 3 years, this is the first time he has submitted one of marco's blog posts.
I'm missing the point that the FinFisher, FinSpy, "Hallo Steffi" toolbox is a German product. The software is written in Germany, and Gamma International is just an UK sales proxy. The usage of this toolbox by state agencies within Germany is illegal, but Germany exports this illegal toolbox to friendly regimes, and uses it to spy on hostile regimes.

Thats similar to: We don't own our own bomb, we just borrow bombs from US, and export centrifuges to Korea and Iran.

It should be also noted that FinSpy got a valid Apple certificate, while Apple on the other hand side is known to block software like Drones+. Its therefore just an other example that locking down a platform by certificates is not to protect users, but to protect a monopoly. And a reminder to stop UEFI. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4337218
> From now on programmers should know that if they have (new) patents in their name, they will be considered part of the problem.

Remind me - why do I care? The answer should include who is considering such people as "part of the problem" and what they're doing about it.

For bonus points, explain what happened in the past when this "considered part of the problem" was done. (Yes, it has been done before.)
Congratulations! As both f3r3nc and mforsberg, I too am interested in your redesign process ^_^
Simon Senek and David Rose's talks are spot on.
He's not a great C++ programmer. Whether or not it's worth becomming a great C++ programmer is debatable, but it's worked for me.

He could also use http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/intrusive/usag... for exactly the "C" layout he wants.
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The earlier concept of "Build it and they'll come." eliminate as soon as internet had lots and lots of new websites each and every day. It not anymore works where just posting a completely new online site is so visible by anyone, if you can't complete several style of marketing on it.
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Wow. What is wrong with "you people". Hacker News has turned into a really bad episode of the Player Hater's Ball. I used the word "THIS". As much as I actually like the term, how exactly does that make one "terminally grammar deficient"? Good to know that we can forget about the middle east for a while and focus on problems with THIS. Just let it go, man.

Life will be SO much easier for you if you just let shit that really doesn't matter go.

Read it, react. If you REALLY can't control that reaction and THIS just REALLY grinds your gears... go ahead and comment. I don't want your next aneurysm on my conscience. Maybe think about controlling what annoys you a bit. They have really good articles online for this kind of stuff -- lots of people are dealing with it. You are not alone. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
In general, people who don't put effort into posting interesting submissions, don't usually have the standing to make dismissive claims about other people's submissions, particularly with backhanded snark.
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> Of course there are many dimensions here. In some dimensions unions are "evil", in some they are "good".

The question isn't whether unions are good or evil, it's whether they're actually a counter to a specific evil that companies might commit.

Since that evil produces more money for the company, you need an example where a union did something to reduce a company's profit other than by trying to increase the union's cut.

Unions are not new, so if you're going to suggest that they're useful for doing something, you should have actual examples of them doing said something.
>> C, seriously? C??!?

For those, like myself, that like C and do systems programming. Really never understood why people dislike or fear C so much. It is the foundation for so many systems and libraries.
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I also had to switch to Firefox (after seeing your post here). I tried with Chrome for hours before seeing this, switching, and it worked right away.
Another good Simon Sinek talk: https://vimeo.com/40979758
After I switch to zsh, I miss the `sl' so much.
Can't just make up a number though. What if the Haskell has 10% of the performance and uses 10x the RAM?
I read that as snark about people upvoting the submission and as a consequence placing it on the front page, not the submitter.
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Well, I take five Marco posts over Techcrunch. Maybe a possible explanation: I subscribe to his feed but he hasn't comments on his blog, so when I see a hackernews submissions of Marcos posts I always click into it to read the comments here.
It is similar to Votodo (http://votodo.com) - where you can share todos instead of habits.
How not to degenerate into only a programmer who stitches together APIs?
Oh I get it. It's a GTI, innit.