skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
still tweaking the web crawl a bit - the occasional older song shows up now and then.
It's a bit of a stretch to call the article an "assault". Basically it's just a piece arguing that YC sees Google Ventures as a competitor.

I think it's a pretty stupid argument and the VB article is badly written, but it's not something worth making a huge fuss over.
Yes, cool people do.
I turned Spotlight indexing off on my Lion install to stop regular bouts of unresponsiveness on my 2011 Mac mini (with hard drive, not SSD).
"You are letting the visitor know before they drop you their email that you're not ready for them and so you aren't deceiving them."

This is not true. Your product states that "Due to demand we have had to introduce a waiting list... Because of the of demand we have had, due to the success of Entrepreneurs, Inventors and Business People using LookAft, we need to add you to a queue to get going."

The above statement is very different than "Our product isn't ready yet, but if you're interested you can sign up here...", and is rather deceptive. It makes me think you have a functioning product and an already active user base when that simply isn't the truth.

All this isn't to discourage your efforts, but maybe to get you to rethink the way you approach your potential customers. Keep at it, but first and foremost -- be honest.
For 10 years I've been driving home from work in Silicon Valley thinking, "I am living in the future."
Steampunk! That's the coolest functional design I've seen all year.
The New York Times isn't the only media organization guilty of this. It is systemic in a lot of Western media outlets, small as well as large. Interesting to hear it pointed out by someone who cannot credibly be acused of being ignorant of gender questions, though.
Terminal as a decent terminal emulator? I believe you are referring to iTerm2 but that's not the default.

unfamiliar key bindings, look for any other keyboard except OsX ones and show me the apple or the option or the command keys then I will back.

For the "Optimal Size button", the underlying operation does not account for the contents width, it only accounts for the desktop height.

The world is not running on OsX or Apple hardware. They have a decent userbase but not the whole computer users are using one.
Wil Shipley: The Founding of The Omni Group
A neat idea, but three times is definitely not going to be enough reminders in many cases, especially if you are using the service often.
Not the virtual children, certainly.

Possibly the viewers, IF (research needed) giving them the ability to watch detailed scenarios of abuse -- possibly with willing "children" -- raises the possibility that they'll abuse a real child and ruin both the child's life and their own.

That's an important "if"; I don't know the answer, but I will at least say it's a bit sad we don't have more people calling for research on "what things actually prevent child molestation from happening" -- we just have people calling for harsher sentences, or broader laws, or more sex offender registries.
More or less I agree. Arch Linux is a special niche. People know what they are doing. In fact publishing it on Archlinux.org would suffice.
You're right. It didn't kill the session, it killed the process (Nutch (a search engine) was at its last stages of computing PageRank for tens of thousands of pages, which takes quite a while).
The world's biggest book club
CTypes is neat for simple tasks but Cython is the industrial strength solution for large extensions.
I watch co-workers struggle all day with their windows-based terminals logged into Linux machines. Copy is something like shift+insert or they have to go to edit > copy. So painful
Python 3.3.0 rc2 released
As dagw mentions - treat it as a feature. I taught High Performance Python at PyCon, I've published all the src and a 55 page PDF covering a range of techniques to optimise a Mandelbrot example (including cython, shedskin, numpy, multiprocessing, pycuda): http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/18/high-performance-python-1-f...
With some languages this is painful, with Python you can easily profile (cProfile, line_profiler) and then work on easy or complex optimisations (both within Python and using external tools) - great flexibility for when you really need it.
Thanks.

Most of my conversations here have been of a technical nature and that's fine, as I am both a geek and a pastor. I am just disappointed that off-topic conversations are welcome unless they enter the spiritual realm. Oh well, I have plenty of venues to show my spiritual side. I'll just keep it technical here, but it feels a little stifling to have to always keep it inside. Not that I want to bombard HN with matters of faith, but to never be able to mention it at all seems unrealistic.

I'll play by the rules.
If you are thinking of only OsX world, yeah they have never changed for the last 30 or more years, but the world is not only osx. I'm not a single desktop user, I occasionally switch between boxes and only OsX makes my motor memory to fail.

I'm sorry but I can't think of Terminal as a decent Terminal emulator.

Not having a maximize button invalidates my criticism but brings another one of unfamiliar titlebar choices.

I'm not trolling, I'm speaking of defaults.
..and you've swapped from using an open OS to buying an OS from a company that fires patent lawsuits left and right. You've also bought that company's hardware.

I grant you it's convenient in many ways to use OS X, but supporting companies that commit patent mayhem is not good for our industry.

(Yes, yes, I know the competition isn't clean either, blah blah. But you switched from Linux.)
I've seen some of his work; didn't think it could handle anything higher-order, at least not in the way I mean to. I'll have a demo soon enough.
Shorter answer to this:
That attempting to suppress it without any outlet is a recipe for a miserable life, possibly leading to dangerous and violent outbursts for perceived injustice and oppression.

We want pedophiles to have miserable lives, if that's the cost of preventing children from being molested. It sucks, but that's the shitty hand they've drawn in life (particularly sad because they probably were molested themselves as children...).

Whether porn makes their lives less or more miserable, I'm not sure, but the main question is how it affects the likelihood that they'll personally molest a child. This is not a question that's been answered yet, AFAIK.
So C/C++ are also inherently broken because game engines break out to raw ASM at their mist critical points? Or Java because it exposes native code via JNI?

This is actually totally standard behavior in pretty much every language.
Here's a clip from the documentary Objectified where Moggridge talks about designing a laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEA-jbo1aI.
1. Terminal.app is a very good app. I switched to iTerm 2 a while back, but only because of a few minor features that I could've lived without. What are your problems?

2 & 4. You don't run a Hackintosh and expect it to work. If you want OS X, you buy a Mac. And all Macs (except the Mini) come with standard Apple keyboard.

3. I'm not sure what you're talking about. There's no "magic" algorithm that all apps use. Each app can use its own "algorithm" and can account for screen width as well. Just because Finder.app (most of the time) just grows the height doesn't mean all apps should do it, or are doing it.
Paying $30 for well polished software?
> Zoning for singe-family residences is so bizarrely 1950's

I find that a ridiculous statement when dealing with a country with one of the lowest population densities in the developed world.

Perhaps it's not the best solution for the Bay Area, or perhaps it is (changing it would surely drastically change the character of the area), but that's a far cry from denouncing the very concept.
If you're talking about changing individual people's lives, I'd be willing to bet that the amazon effort will eventually reach more people than apple did, simply because the market at $299 is a lot bigger than that at $499.

If you're talking about showing the world what's possible, those of us who had tablets years before the ipad could see that. The software was clunky, but if you were willing to spend time learning and work with it (which, yes, is a niche market) you could do everything you can today.

What apple did was undeniably a huge step forward. But I don't think it was qualitatively different from those who came before or after, and I think chalking up their success to "innovation" is missing the point.
Sorry, I just don't see it that way. Don't get me wrong, I prefer open source, all else being equal, but software is a tool for me to achieve some other goal. If paying someone for proprietary software allows me to more quickly or cheaply achieve my real goal, then that's great. What exactly is irresponsible about that? What exactly is ignoble about that?
No -- as opposed to pacman -S package (or whatever his former distro used). Having come to Linux from OS X, I agree that OS X installations are pretty inferior to Linux's.
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

You're so close! Just put some respect in this and it'd be one of the best refutations i've seen on HN in ages.
The search function on Clarity.fm is rather confusing and seems sort of ineffective. You mainly have to rely on their recommendation to find a valuable expert/mentor. Also, their experts seem to be limited to just tech and business owners.
As you pointed out, the quality of decks is important. Limiting scope allows for creation of quality decks. At the end of the day spacing is just one aspect of forgetting - strong encoding is the other and for that you need rich varied content. Creating quality content is hard work. We started off with a focus on algorithms and engines and then realized that even if we slap the very best Memory engine if you have crappy content - no one cares (and retention is marginal over simplistic flash cards). We invested a lot of work on content and varied encoding and it's paid off and we are now branching into different verticals.
Shift clicking the green bobble maximises (really maximises, apart from the unremovable Menu bar) the window.

Not allowing the user to add this functionality (even if it's a hidden option in a config file somewhere) is sub optimal in my opinion.

There are some great things about OSX but there are a few small but frustrating things too.
I agree, but how hardcore do you take it? I'm on the fence about switching to a Linux-libre OS and wondering if anybody has any experience with it.
The Right Questions for Interviewing Testers
Moral Tedium
Nice gesture, but how many people are going to have the same reach in their complaints? It would be nitpicking to say the email fails the corporate sociopath-speak test with 'leverage the issues', but what irks me is asking for the help of someone your company has just offended. The frame of mind of a non-sociopath would be to say 'how can I help earn back your trust?'.

I've given up on PayPal for my meagre needs, but anyone with real money on the line should beat a path from them until their actions truly speak louder than their words. Speaking of words, I noticed a TOS update from them but haven't read it yet, so if they have taken positive steps then add grains of salt to this comment, to taste.
Actually, this has nothing to do with freedom of speech, and even Google's terms of service are irrelevant. Here's a very simple scenario that results in hauling Google and/or Google's partners into court:

1. Alice produces a video consisting of 100% original creative content, and registers copyright to it.

2. Alice licenses the video to Bob for distribution, under terms which allow uploading to YouTube.

3. Bob uploads a copy of the video to YouTube.

4. YouTube flags the video and declares the copyright to be held by someone other than Alice.

5. Alice, who is not bound in any way by Google's terms, heads down to the courthouse with a copy of her registration papers and files suit over the misrepresentation of her copyright.
ARPA-E has made more than 180 investments in basic-research projects
What now? I think your mind box may be severely out of alignment with the rest of the world. (It's not an unusual occurrence among extreme computer people.)

Four points. Four points only:

• Terminal.app is perfect. Except for the crashing.

• You can't honestly argue the command key is strange while the windows key isn't (which was a direct copy of "hey, Apple has their own key, why not us?" Also see: recycle bin versus trash can).

• The lil' green button adjusts for width but at max height (unless you are iTunes). It's up to each application to determine how the button should best destroy your viewing experience.

• Do you want to be the most popular or the best? Sugar water or make a difference in the world? Sounds like you may have a case of Bieber Fever.
Not tilting at windmills so much as a 'fool me once' wariness. But you're right, good leaders seek out customer stories in their own words and try to start conversations with those customers so they can hear the good and bad from the source. Otherwise it's all filtered by people trying to cover their butts.
Terminal app is a sufficient terminal emulator. But it lacks most of decent options. Can you split windows? Use tabs? Can you change color profiles? May be so many simple decent ap choices are lacking from it. Also I'm not even talking about the lack of simple Terminal emulation modes. I told you I'm a system administrator and I live in terminals. So Terminal.app is not cutting for me.

What's wrong with a Hackintosh other then legal and ethics issues if it's running well? I used Apple hardware and my criticisms were the same.

and for the 3, If every app is using it's own algorithm than I'm really on the wrong side of the issue. And my criticism lacks proper bases. I have to take it back. But again, why not a maximise button?
"Google is a private company" is not a set of magic words.

See my other comment for a simple scenario that shows why: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4497393
just as Apple had to accept competition in the MP3 player market, Cupertino will have to adapt to the Kindle Fire HD.

Did Apple "accept" competition in the MP3 player market? There were mp3 players before the iPod. Apple came into the market and absolutely owned it. Portable music = iPod. That's the end of the story.
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Come on. The default "blue" color is ridiculously ugly. I always thought of it as a punishment for those who want to mess with OS X.

Compare that disgusting color palette with a sane one: https://github.com/pstadler/optometrist
Obviously broken, because all possible uses of a programming language require the absolute utmost speed. Every other consideration of language design, usability, and ridiculous fluff such as "productivity" must kowtow before the god of performance.
Thank you randall. I lack the ability to down vote (for the seiji's comment) but this made my day. Thank you :)
The biggest thing to remember is that you need to select hardware that will work with Linux (just like how the vast majority of Mac users use Apple hardware). The issue is knowing what to get. If you're in the market for a laptop, I would highly recommend the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. It's a great piece of hardware by itself, and the Linux compatibility is there as well.
Batch Resizing Using Command Line and ImageMagick
I heard the same thing happened to another link aggregator.
Sounds crazy. Are there any real estate brokers who can do this job for you?
The performance benefits of MyISAM are exaggerated. Its advantage was that is was a decently fast and very simple engine which made it possible for MySQL to reach the market quickly.

MyISAM only gives good performance when you either have only reads or just one single writer. And even then it does not always win over InnoDB and PostgreSQL. And as soon as you get a mixed load MyISAM performance drops like a stone.
You should write a tutorial on doing such a thing. Especially the part where you bridge Objective-C and JavaScript.

Perhaps I'm mistaken but there isn't much documentation on this online it seems.
Decline of world's oldest bank hits city
Thanks for the link. Would have been nifty if 'Ahoy!' had of caught on!

This is the reference which backs up my point, however it makes it slightly more eloquently- saying that 'Hello' was a way to cut across Social barriers which were much more rigid before the invention:

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=AgLDhOySfMgC&lpg=PA3...

Ps apologies for the mess
>No one "owns" a view.

I agree with your sentiment about neighborhood groups using the law to protect their high property values, but you can, essentially, own a view. You can purchase the "air rights" above existing houses and buildings from their property owners if you wish to prevent them from building something taller and blocking your view. Trump World Tower in New York is an example of a building that did this.

If you can't convince the owners of such air rights to sell them to you at a rate you're willing to pay to guarantee the view, you don't deserve to prevent them by law from blocking your view (basically stripping them of their air rights without compensation).
I think this mostly comes down to things like vendor lock-in. Yes, the tool enables you to more effectively do something, but at the cost of certain freedoms to you.

For instance, I can buy a hammer because it will make it much easier to drive nails than without one, but the handle is too long. So I can saw the end off to suit my purposes. You can't with proprietary software.

Also, don't make the mistake that free == libre. It's the fact that you're paying for proprietary software, not that your paying for it.
What legal measures should I take when releasing a game?
Eh, it's not the only thing I find wrong with Tumblr, and I'm yet to try out your latest release (stepped on debit card, broke it, cancelled it, iTunes charge failed, no upgrade for me)

Please try going native, the performance increase would be in the order of magnitudes.

Are you the only one working on the app?
Putting Accessibility First
While there are other arguable issues, the whole point for me as that it's copying the 500 megs for the app because of all the static lib versions 'n stuff.

Then again we're comparing OSX to Linux, not Windows (Linux installs are ONE click, which is also less than OSX in fact)
Using a 10 second sequence that happens to be the same across multiple songs. Not knowing the exact details of the law, and thinking that reproductions of the song are also owned by him?
I hope you've cooled down a bit in the last two days. I pointed you
towards a resource that you didn't know about, and I gave you the
benefit of the doubt on your intent, but you still replied as if I had
intentionally stepped on you puppy. I didn't deserve that.

I probably should have recognized your frustration with HN and been more
empathetic in my response. I was also suffering from my own perspective;
when you have a deep fascination with the design and implementation of
discussion forums, finding and researching all of their features is a
lot of fun. I just couldn't imagine someone caring enough to write a
post like yours never seeing or reading or researching the docs/features
already available on HN.

Another part of the problem is HN itself; many people here tend to be
contentious rather than helpful. Many ask tough questions in impolite
ways, but others take the time to make sure there are no barbs present
in the tough questions they ask. Taking a bit of time to look through
the posting history of the person before responding to will give you a
lot of insight, and will often identify those who are just looking for a
pointless brawl. --There is a good reason for the 'delay' field in user
profiles. It makes your posts not show up for "X" minutes to give you
even more of a chance to think and edit rather than responding too
quickly, and often, too harshly. Personally, I actually don't bother
with setting the 'delay' since I learned to take my time long ago.

If you are interested if forum design and the group psychology behind
it, I'd be happy to share with you the resources I've collected over the
past few decades. Some of it, like this whole submission, are tough
reading with a lot more noise than signal. Other parts are far more
succinct and better researched. My email is in my profile if you're
interested.
> Creativity Predicts a Longer Life

False! Creativity is correlated with a longer life.

> A large body of research links neuroticism with poorer health and conscientiousness with superior health. [Emphasis added.]

There's that word again -- "links". Neuroticism is not linked with poorer health, it is correlated with poorer health.

And so forth -- frankly, the linked article is a piece of pseudoscientific trash.

Psychologists would be so much happier if there simply wasn't any science at all, rather than the kind they practice -- the kind that avoids control groups, experimental discipline, can't seem to express correlations accurately, and draw nonsense conclusions like this:

"...the results suggest that practicing creative-thinking techniques could improve anyone's health by lowering stress and exercising the brain."

Without a control group, without a disciplined, prospective, double-blind, replicated study, the "results" suggest no such thing. Isn't obvious that creative thinking may be an effect, not a cause, of good physical and mental health?

Reading articles like this, I begin to suspect that in school, psychologists are told, "say the word 'science' a lot -- that's how you do science."
Are you trying to be sarcastic?

- Terminal.app. If it's perfect what use has iTerm2?

- I'm not ok with windows key too. It has the same twisted mind after it. Also will be out of context but for the record I'm hating Turkey governments hate and movement against Turkish-Q keyboard layout.

- In this optimized button context, I was mistaken about it being a maximize button and it's underlying algorithm. I backed my criticism. But why be different and choose this strange button instead of maximize?

- I can't follow you here.
Sorry, how did this get so many points? Most of it is rubbish. All I hear is "Wah wah wah I like the control key, I don't understand the command key wah wah". And some of it is factually incorrect.
This is why you use macports ;)
Before that, from conception to birth to 2 years, mother is much more important.

Uninvolved fathers of America take note, you're off the hook until age 2. Apparently prior to that you don't really matter much anyway.

</sarcasm>
No worries! Sorry if my comment sounded super negative, I wrote it real fast while running off to make dinner so it was short and blunt.
This looks like a fantastic product. I can't wait to use it in my next project! Well done, Galago team!
Thank you. This is a really helpful comment.
"I'm sorry but I can't think of Terminal as a decent Terminal emulator."

Well I'm sorry but unless you explain exactly what the shortcomings are to stop it being 'decent' your comments are nothing more than trollish bigotry. You are just coming across as arrogant and ignorant.
I'm curious about your thoughts outside of software. This is a sincere question because I often see so much passion about the topic in software, but rarely outside.

Do you only play free games, listen to free music and read free books? What about the electronics you use, the architecture of the buildings you live in and the car you drive?
You can obtain similar functionality by adding the following to your .vimrc: https://gist.github.com/3012145
Can you split windows? Use tabs? Can you change color profiles?

Yes to all though you can only split windows horizontally. Terminal is a really good app. iTerm2 is great too but a little slower than Terminal in my experience.
Can we please, pleeeeease not have any more articles about this? They're adding nothing of value and serving purely as startup soap opera drama.