skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an atheist and a confirmed sexual libertine but those ads pissed me off too. Too tacky even for the Superbowl, which is saying something.

Much worse, though, was the ad for some damn NBC crime drama which showed some pretty young girl falling into the hands of a serial killer, then showed him burying her in a shallow grave down by the river or something. Yet another show about fear, pain and misery.
Ask HN: What hardware would you like Mac OSX to support?
Do you have a USB, FireWire, SATA, etc. device that you want to use with Mac OSX but can't? Does it have Linux drivers?

I'm looking for hardware not supported by Mac OSX. Please let me know the make and model so that I can get in touch with the manufacturer and write the drivers!

Thanks in advance, Joel

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That's a gross oversimplification. Drink a $5 cup of Starbucks every working day, and you've added $100 to your budget. Cut that expense; congratulations, you've saved 3% of your college loan payment. (Can you tell I've had this argument with Erin before?)

The big-ticket items I don't trust you're considering:

* Child care will cost between $1000-$2000/month.

* Commute will add $300-$500; parking $500-$900 (plus car payments --- $250-$400, plus car upkeep --- $100, plus gas, $150).

I know that people do live on $50k/yr, even near major metro areas. But I also know that 3 fillings at a dentist for my 7 year old cost over $1000, so I don't know how people do it on 50k/yr. I don't know, but I am pretty sure, that it isn't comfortable.
Very interesting idea. Do you mean each paragraph in a post gets lighter as it goes on or the color for the entire comment block fades depending on overall length?
No, but if both of them want kids, it will allow them to find a partner that isn't saddled with $1600/mo in college loans. As a partnership, breaking up potentially cuts their debt load in half.
It runs on Jython and IronPython.

It can read SQLAlchemy models (has a compatibility module)

It can read Django models, including validators (has a compatibility module)

It can use Jinja2 and Genshi and any any other template language.

Although I do not really see why anybody would want to do such things.
"The Adventurous Parts of the Internet"
4 years in college surely builds contacts

I've not worked with or for anyone I was at college with, nor found a job through them, nor interacted with them professionally in any way. Sure we're good friends an' all, but the networking people think they're going to do in college doesn't really exist.
How come you just didn't do the computations as a background process and let it run when each new comment comes in?
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Well, Django can be made to do so. I don't use Django, though Django at least has a valid excuse for ignoring the best-of-breed components (it predates them).
Not sure that limiting the textarea would help - it's not like it constrains the length of these replies, for example. It's pretty trivial to compose a block of text in Textmate and paste it in, I'll often do that just for the spell checking or to make sure it doesn't get lost in submission or browser crash or whatever. (and often to review and make sure I don't post something I'll regret)
This IS a message board.
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i meant inclusive within the bounds of hn's goals. there are still sub communities; eg: dev hackers, startup idea folks. no one is necessarily wrong in their interpretation of hn's community and submission policy. sometimes it is not that the level of comments has gone down but that the amount of comments has gone up. this is bad for the morale of commenter, to say nothing of the time readers waste (since without collapsible threads...). maybe after 20 comments no one should be able to comment.

i'm not advocating homogeneity so much as customized views. as the community grows it becomes harder to be a part of it. there's a social quality i'm trying to explain...and a concern for how exclusion is implemented... but i've spent far too much time on hn today as it is, so i'll let it rest.
How else are you going to report it publicly so that everyone can share their experience?

Also, perhaps there's something to learn from the issue, in other words it's relevant (it's both hacker and news)

Otherwise, yes, I agree: this is meta news.
I don't understand your math here. In 3 years, they reduce their debt to 160k. They can't buy a house until their debt is basically 0. How many years from now do they have to wait to raise children in a house?

Again, they didn't die. They just broke up. And $2800/mo is a shitload of money, however you want to rationalize it.
I think the reason you get so many repeated posts from newbies, is that HN does not have a search feature. I think simplly adding a google search to HN would likely cut down on this issue.
25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You
I am enrolled in an internship program which happens to be one of the world's largest (in scope and size, perhaps not reputation). I won't go into the details, but the internships have certainly been the most valuable part of my education.

Note that even when I was a photocopying coffee-fetcher that experience was valuable.
There's been a sort of strange convergence of a lot of "Ask HN" threads today. I don't really like it, but I honestly think it could be a coincidence, or more likely, the self-referential nature of the orange-related threads have made everyone think about the quality of the karma system and the community as a whole.
> 2) All comment up/down votes should be publicly visible.

That would have a major effect on the dynamics of the site. It brings with it a metric buttload of baggage in terms of potential fuel for vendettas and bad feelings.

On the other hand it would be interesting to see the effect it had.But if you (pg) go this route, give it a full week and let people know beforehand; otherwise it's going to be more about 'OMG you changed the rules!' and less an investigation of the potential of different rulesets for provoking beneficial social dynamics.
Yes, mainly when viewing my profile page.
That's what I was wondering. How would the Platypus technology be better than a traditonal RAMdisk?
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The "threads" page is very slow for me but the front page is actually faster than it was a few weeks ago.
He says "$5 = INR240", Indian Rupees, so I assume he was from India. The cost of living is vastly cheaper than the US in many parts of the world, so $5 may seem like not much here, but Wikipedia says India's average income is $977. So $5 is about 1/200th that. Say you're making $70,000, that would be like paying $350 a year for Hacker News.

Now is it worth it?
Sunday is the day on which Christ rose from the dead. See Matthew 28 (http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=Matthew+28&src=esv.or...) Christians meet on Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. At least that is my understanding.
I wouldn't exactly call Hulu a new model. It's basically broadcast's model adapted for the web. You see premium content (and shows like the Office are premium content compared to many of the home-made YouTube clips) and watch ads in exchange. Likewise, content is only available for a limited time and then it reappears as reruns later.

It's a wonderful service and it's polished like none-other with a great interface and 480p video (very good by web standards). However, its success is more based upon the fact that it's a joint-venture of Fox and NBC who supply it with content that people want to see than its technical merits. I love it, I'm grateful it exists and that it's so awesomely nice to use. At the same time, I can't really draw many lessons from its success. Maybe: get partners with monopolies on good content which will drive users to your site?
PDF is here: http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/accident_incident/1549/me...
I respect your decision, I don't think you're harming your kids in any way, but I've made a different decision about how to raise mine. Swearing, yes. A boob or two? Maybe. Overt sexuality? No.
I do find it impressive. I've tried it before and not gotten it too look that nice. I just didn't use enough divs, apparently. It's about 6, nested. BTW, the buttons aren't round.

I agree with you that web design with HTML is pretty sad in comparison to just about any purpose designed desktop client library. You get about 1/10 of the form controls you get out of the box with, let's say, VB6, and it's tough to extend.
I paid for Last.FM & Flickr.

I don't pay for content it's just one source. Show me a very good news aggregator and I'd be tempted.
YC is not the end-all be-all. Great organization doing great things, but you could have done whatever it was you were going to do without their validation.

Maybe you really weren't all that convinced of your own idea (doesn't sound like it). Maybe YC did you a favor.
Could you define comfortable? I'm really curious to know what goods and services are beyond your reach at $110k/year.

I've also done the math and lived it. Commuting from jersey is better, but even manhattan (north of 111'th st) is quite livable.
It's a money make. We needed some python work done. It was a small project 42 hours 6 hours was unit testing. Unit testing increased the invoice by almost 17%. I can see why consultants like it.
The fact that people are complaining about not being able to read longer blocks of text means it's working just fine. And it's a nice subtle touch - I never consciously considered why I tend to ignore rambling posts and stick to the discussion area instead until now.
obligatory: Tablet.
Who determines what the best of breed is? Is SQLAlchemy the best of breed because it predates web2py? Then SQLObjects is the best of breed ORM. Kudos to SQLAlchemy because I learned a lot from it and it is a good product. It is just too verbose for my taste.
Also on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468545
with extra.
Catholics meet on Sunday to give God his due, as he demanded in the Ten Commandments. Jesus is God, and is an intrinsic part of that ceremony. I'm not sure Jesus rising from the dead is what makes Sunday the issue.

Catholics are explicitly, overtly allowed to work on Sunday. It is, however, a venal sin to work on Sunday (a) at the expense of worship and reverence (in other words, don't skip Mass) and (b) when you had a reasonable option not to. Five generations of American Catholic men appear to have established the convention that Sunday afternoon football incurs minimal expense to revering Jesus.
I have a solution to the no-money objection: to become and to stay a member, you have to pay $5 / yr or solve CAPTCHAs or do some other kind of tedious make-work that takes about an hour per year out of your life.
Obama "Yes We Can" image is under attack. But t-shirts are still available.
I hate to say it, but innerHTML still reigns supreme when it comes to performance: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html.
No, date of origin doesn't determine best-of-breed. Features, usability, and power determine best-of-breed. Michael Bayer is one of the smartest programmers I know and both his major projects (SQLAlchemy and Mako) are best-of-breed in their categories.
I guess you don't need to worry about all that complicated fragmentation with the current GC. :)
Which tablet, though? I'm using a Wacom Intuos and it works just fine.
you should try using GoDaddy.com
As far as encoding goes, my experience has actually been worse on the javascript side, specifically with french text and regular expressions buried in 3rd party libraries. Compared to that, grabbing data from the DOM using DOM text node methods is a walk in the park.

The thing with the json solution is that once we have things being ajaxed in, it becomes very hard to maintain the code. Has id="date7" been used? What if I add a comment while the "shoutbox" feature is updating?

Having the data in HTML would let us use something like Jquery's livequery and it would work regardless of how the data and how much data got into the page (plus we get the benefit of the no-javascript scenario I mentioned before).
I'm not 100% sure I found the right youtube video of the advert... (hulu is flat out countriest), but it sounds like either kids won't get the sexual references, or will just see it as funny nude people :/

It's a tough call for parents though...
So, for quantified sites, audience composition is extrapolated from ISP data based on what? The Quantcast provided explanation (http://www.quantcast.com/docs/display/info/Next+page4) is pretty light on concrete details of how it extrapolate demographic data from cookie info.

Would love to hear a straight forward answer for this one. My clients love the data available, but give it low validity because not clear how its derived.
Well, if a person's Christianity doesn't affect others, then it doesn't really matter to others that they're a Christian, does it? Someone trying to control my life is exactly the sort of thing I'd want to hear about, if it's happening. :)
UK spends billions on high-tech IDs, forgets to buy card readers
Protestants would agree on the work thing. After all we have pastors don't we? I am really interested to hear an expansion of what you mean by "give God his due, as he demanded in the Ten Commandments." I am not sure which you are referring to, but that is probably my own ignorance of such things.
Also we protestants like Sunday football too. Not me personally, but that comes from not growing up in the US. :)
Yet another article that complains about Facebook or something on Facebook ... that has a button on bottom to post the article on Facebook.
I do not know him personally and judging from his programs I agree that he is one of the smartest programmers out there.

Yet, who determines what the best of breed is? How much time have you spent evaluated the web2py DAL vs SQLAlchemy to reach this conclusion? Or are you basing your judgement solely on the fact that SQLAlchemy has been out there longer and therefore it is more popular?

If you have pros/cons about web2py vs SQLAlchemy I would like to hear some concrete examples. They could help us improve it.
$110k is ~$6600/mo net working Manhattan, living in Jersey.

Aggressively assume $2500/mo to rent a house (forget buying). Assume part-time child care @ $900, commute @ $400, lowball utilities @ $500 (I pay more than that in Chicago), food @ $1000, car insurance for one car @ $200, and dependent health care at $150.

At $110k/yr, you're now less than $1000/mo over break-even. Lose an alternator in the car, you're in the red. Fill 3 cavities, you're in the red. Fly to Tucson for a funeral, you're in the red.

Can you do it? Yes. But I'm not going to call it easy.
By the way... I think you cannot even define "best of breed" since requirements are subjective. You can only list specific issues where one system is better than another.
I guess you might save a couple of bytes on the markup (but not like an order of magnitude), and I guess you save the HTTP request for that 200 byte image that gets cached. I guess that could make sense for Google. The semantic argument I don't get though - it's not like anyone reads web pages in source view. Unless that's the state of the art in web development and you're literally programming to the browser-metal.
I've heard about that. I think microformats are clever but I'm still waiting on the resolution of the whole microformats vs accessibility debate.
Okay, my cursor is at the beginning of the line. Now what?
Suggestion to improve HN quality: allow headlines to be editable by high-karma users
This will allow more clarity on the homepage, so that it's easier to see if an article merits a click. For example, the headline "25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You" (currently on the homepage) would become something like "Time Magazine reporter finds recent facebook meme annoying".

The initial headline could be preserved on the comments page as "Originally titled: ________".
Random walk hypothesis - stock market follows a random walk
Small $5 paypal button. Keep things simple. I'd click.
It's seems plenty fast to me. I'm on slow connection and I get snappy page loads.
Yes, sometimes it doesn't load, shows a blank page. I wonder if it's seeing malware from my machine, but clearly not given other eyewitness accounts.
Apropos of this, has anyone had success by swapping a platter-based disk drive for a SSD?
I was hoping for a discussion of the security implications of sharing 25 bits of personal information online with hundreds of people, but there was nothing about that. It's basically a rant against the little things that she doesn't want to know about her friends.
I'm 20 and living in Denmark. 4 years ago I created my first MySpace profile, a year later 95% of my friends where on MySpace. It was where it happened - we arranged shit and kept in touch and whatnot. A year-a year and a half ago the tide turned in favour of Facebook. It happened damn quick. Four months or something, and all 200+ had abandoned MySpace for Facebook.

I see no reason why that won't happen again.
He's about 1/3 of the way to reinventing BRL.
On non IE browsers the difference is negligible.

Also, being slow in IE is a good thing. Maybe people will switch to a better browser.

I also think it's a rare case where your bottle neck is speed of updating the dom. IMHO, having clean non-ugly js code is more important in most cases.
Powershell is not a unix, just because it can do some of the same things and has aliases for some of the commands doesn't make it a drop in replacement. Cygwin is a drop in replacement that lets me run the same scripts I run on my Linux boxes, i.e. it is not redundant.

I'll take cygwin over powershell any and every day of the week.
Just to spin your head...

I currently live on $14k a year.

Granted, I'm 25 and live in a college town in the midwest. My share of the rent is $255/mo (live with g/f). I spend $115/mo commuting. My car is paid for. My high deductible insurance is $60/mo. I spend about $220/mo on groceries and another couple hundred eating out and entertaining myself. Of course I have no children.

I'm in no way saying everyone should live like me, but I'm quite content living so cheaply. It's not because I have to (I make about $60k/yr) but the vast majority of it goes towards 'vacations' of 6 months or so between jobs (sometimes that involves traveling). I could easily afford a mortgage if I was willing to be tied down, but I'd rather not be. I tend to work for 6-12 months and then take that much time off. The rest of it goes towards my Roth IRA and savings.
Yes, definitely. Hacker News is worth more than $5/year to me with the amount of time I spend on it and it'd be worth it if it keeps users more reasonable.
I like using a simple CTRL+A to highlight all text on page; (windows xp, ff3.05)
If you browse with opera try view-style and select the option that suits your needs.
What I find interesting is - that Google is the only company who didn't lose ground when all others were; they just "grew" slower. I am a slow believer in building businesses as a 'slow burn' that lasts. (I know goog is the best slow burn example)
json? ajax?

The solution I posed was a simple inline javascript at the end of the html. The js data is generated at the same time as the html output. The IDs all match, and are used once.

I've never seen any issues with encoding in js, so I'm not sure what you mean about french text, regexps...
Way too subjective in my opinion.
It is not a fad, it is an addiction. My wife checks it more than email now.
Fark? Nah just kidding, the problem with this idea is that karma and quality do not have a 1:1 relationship on HN. Its close but not enough to predict opinion
Point is that 50 years ago, this wasn't an issue.
I'm certainly not opposed to this, but wouldn't a "suggested revisions" option be more suitable? I could see users quarreling over appropriate article names, and perfectly valid ones being changed without need. For instance, a user could suggest a grammatical revision, and in a small space beneath the title, people could vote on whether or not the revision should supersede the original. A certain set threshold would allow for this. Of course, these changes would also be subject to moderation.
I'd have to say that two bad programmers are not any better then one bad programmer even with TDD.

But TDD benefits even the best programmers when they are dealing with a huge, ugly, old code base.

When on the other hand you're user testing every day or multiple times a day, like you might with a web startup, then TDD may only slow you down.
replying 3 times to a comment is a bit annoying, can you try to put everything in one comment in the future (especially when responding multiple times within minutes of one another)?
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There are 30 something moderators who already do that. Giving it to the general public just seems stupid, since it'll be ripe for abuse
No. Building a critical mass of good users is hard enough without adding false friction.

If you're looking for a place to improve, I'd look at the way karma is used.

IMHO sites like HN should continue innovating with ways to better calculate and utilize karma. In most cases, it's done very badly, rewarding early commenters disproportionately, so that people with a lot of time on their hands get a bigger voice.
2x-3x improvement is not "negligible" if you're doing heavy caching + js replacement.

> Also, being slow in IE is a good thing. Maybe people will switch to a better browser.

I'm going to assume you're kidding.

> I also think it's a rare case where your bottle neck is speed of updating the dom.

Don't forget that your average user isn't on a brand new 2.4GHz Macbook Pro. The average computer is -slow-.

> IMHO, having clean non-ugly js code is more important in most cases.

Something that's fast, predictable, readable, and one line seems great to me. Being w3c compliant has nothing to do with how "clean" or "non-ugly" it is.

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I'm not trying to debate you because I like getting into silly syntax wars. I'm trying to point out that no matter how ugly, noncompliant, un "future proof" something is, doing the simplest thing that works now and in the foreseeable future shouldn't be vilified. In this case, innerHTML is, and still will for a while, be a great way to insert elements into the dom.
I agree with that. Law School numbers put admissions at nearly 50%, and median LSAT is around 153 which is about better than 60% for LSAT test takers. Also U.S.NEWS ranks it at 400. Also their pass rate for the California bar is 6% lower than the state average. Those are all horrible numbers.

I was considering law for a while, and have done a little research into it. Basically law is a numbers game. Schools only care about g.p.a and LSAT scores. Law firms only care about where you went to school and your g.p.a if you went to a bad school. And the firms who care the most about your school's name also pay the most. So the difference in salaries from private law firms at a top ranked law school and a bottom ranked school can be as high as 100k.

Sure there are loan repayment programs at law schools for people who go into public service, but again it seems like the top schools are able to forgive the most debt.

So basically, that law school seems like it has a horrible rate of return, and it looks like Kellum was lucky getting 100k+ a year. Also not looking at the terms of the loan was stupid

Law School Numbers:http://calwestern.lawschoolnumbers.com/

Salary info: http://www.ilrg.com/rankings/law/median.php/1/desc/MSPrivate