skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll sell my account for $35.99.
u could have probably used apache flume and created source for pulling data and sink for posting to facebook.
Is this a subtle way of DDoS'ing a site they don't like?
(pi - 22/7) < (pi - 3.14). 22/7 is closer to pi than 3.14.
#creative (see [1])

The Apple implementation is "logically the same" as the Microsoft implementation, yet so much cleaner.

check for yourself. http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html vs http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt

i won't comment on the differences, which include the meaningless URL and useless "ncsi" in the text, and the fact that it still looks like an error rather than a successful test page.

The Apple page is absolutely minimal. Yet everything is in its place, and it can't leave any developer confused for a millisecond, or make a typo, as it's a human English word at a human, English URL.

Apple is Apple. Microsoft is a split millisecond of headache for a developer who rechecks his spelling of "ncsi" and the whole meaning of the ncsi concept three times to make sure his code is correct.

just like windows versus mac. yeah, it's logically the same. but one just works, one requires a three-page document. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766017%28WS.10%...

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[1] This post is tagged as being creative (as opposed to rational). as a note, about half of my posts speak to creativity and design and half speak to rationality and logic. most people only do one or the other, so i can understand why each group is confused by the other. this lets me build two brands. just ignore the posts that don't apply to you.
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Am I the only one horribly confused by the math in these charts?

E.G. the second chart has FF at 20.08% and then has a breakout where they show
FF15 at ~11%,
FF14 at ~3.2%,
FF13 at ~0.7%,
and
FF12 at ~1%
Those add up to ~16% by my math...
That leaves around 4% missing, I'm assuming in an "other" category, but I feel like leaving off "other" when it's your second largest grouping is bad presentation.

Anyone else have a less confused way of reading these graphs?
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Does not work on Chrome on my 2008 laptop.

Annoyingly they suggest that I try using Chrome.
Female only gyms protect women from being leered at and feeling objectively and justifiably unsafe.

Male only anything is bullshit. Nothing but sexism and the preservation of privilege.
Thanks. Just got mine, too.
Social networks are keeping online & offline separate (and how it can be fixed)
Awesome, Renee!!!!!!
do you have mightybyte on board too?

(i like chatting with other nyc haskellers, so i'll be emailling yah :) )
After the domain was registered (and assuming no change in iTunes & App Store) - I'm curious to know who owns the right to the domain. And possibility of domain sale.
Especially when you're working on an existing product. Maybe it took some brilliance to come up with the first version of Google, but once something grows into a bajillion lines of code with tens or hundreds of people all working on little parts of it, brilliance will only get you so far.
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Windows 7 does this in a cool way:
http://superuser.com/a/277955

It tries to load a text file over HTTP (http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt) and fetch the DNS record of dns.msftncsi.com. If the return of either is not as expected, Windows indicates 'No Internet Access' (although you are connected to a network).
I love Python.

But we're seeing a fundamental shift from desktop to mobile that's the same magnitude, if not greater, than the shift from desktop app to web. And the Python community, by and large, doesn't seem to care.

I think Python is such an elegant language and deserves to be more than the glue that holds together UNIX-based systems.
Microsoft uses a DNS query, even cleaner.

Now stop trolling.
So is App.net now worth $36 instead of $50 per person?

$60 if you pay monthly. 66% interest per annum? over a no deposit 12 monthly payment plan.
Ask HN: Those who are going to Startup School, where are you staying?
Where is everybody staying especially those who do not have a car and do not plan to rent?

I am coming into the San Jose airport and I have no clue where to book a place.
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Edit: YC W12

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4393921
There are other, older Firefox versions that add up to the remainder. The same goes for the other browsers.
It's not laudable it's laughable, you want to go to Paris? Go to Paris.
one person can fill the form in and either cut and paste the "results" text into an email to send to the others, or save it and send them a link.
The developer plan is still $100?.

I never really understood this, it seems more logical to me to give all members the developer perks. Most of the users won't use them, and those that do are helping to promote the app.net service and get new subscribers.
>> partly because we complained about unfair rules <<

That's not true.
seriously, I don't think this is the correct medium - however you did refuse our solution using ctypes and you did refuse our solution using array at some point. Maybe you changed your mind later. This is one example:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-April/007169....

You also kicked PyPy out around the same time the array benchmark was introduced (within days).
How Not to Handle Your Company's Social Media
which inputs or buttons would you remove?
How is fixing bugs as they come in different from "fixing bugs before writing features"?
Hi everyone..

I am the author of that post and just wanted to clarify a few things.

First, the intention of the post was twofold: Blow off a little steam at the anger I was feeling and second, to highlight the risk someone is likely to face in a similar situation.

I have already admitted that this was risky, and therefore, not a great idea to do. In a similar situation, a better deal would have been to book a hotel rather than go through AirBnB. And that is the crux of my article. AirBnB is risky in a similar situation (travelling with family, travelling overseas etc.)

Next, the major issue and the failures were AirBnB's on multiple fronts:

1. Sending me the address wrong. I am not sure how this happened, but either the host deliberately provided the wrong address to AirBnB or something went wrong in the AirBnB's system.

2. Their support insisted that I wait for 5 hours or more for the host to be at the address. Otherwise they would charge me for the cancellation. Again, note that the address that they wanted me to go to was the wrong address (and no one knew at that point that that was the wrong address).

3. Asking me to follow up on the email rather than try and sort the situation over the phone.

Regards,
Vikram

I will individually reply to the comments if there is something specific that needs addressing.
Here is an AP article / blog on the Natural Gas side http://bigstory.ap.org/article/next-cold-war-gas-drilling-bo...

it seems to be a little... dramatic for my tastes, but it is AP
Pretty sloppy on Apple's end if you ask me. Why check for a domain that you don't actually own? Imagine if someone bought the domain and worked out how to maliciously use it to their advantage? (I seriously doubt that's possible though). What kind of info was being sent to this domain, was it just a standard request to see if there is connectivity or was other information sent that could be used to identify a user? Sounds sub-par just like how the Wifi functionality does a request to: http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html
Allow me to make a bold predication - the App.net will be done in a matter of months. Even if it becomes absolutely free.

The reason is Tent. If Tent drops the ball and doesn't fully execute the idea, someone else will. Their idea is bigger, better and far better maps onto the interest of various 3rd parties (such as hosted service providers) that wouldn't hesitate to support it. Commoditizing the social services is a great idea with balls and vision. Creating a paid Twitter clone is not.
Apple straying from its own Human Interface Guidelines
Critical difference is that pacomerh is speaking about the JS developers s/he knows while Camus had no such qualification.
Mother, not mother in law :).

The host wasn't delayed. I had no idea what the host was doing.
Variable scoping, unavoidable global namespace pollution, === vs == insanity, etc.
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I am. And that is why, I will not be using AirBnB to make the same mistake. :) That is the crux of my article.
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Call me crazy but a lot off people on app.net sound like they are participating in some kind of pyramid scheme. "Just invest some money and your time and app.net will be awesome. I'm having a great time, you'll have to believe".

Lowering the price to $36 after the initial "kickstarter" doesn't scream success to me. If it is that good people would have joined en masse for $50, no?. Will the price be discounted again in two months after everybody who's willing to pay $36 has joined?
Oops, misspelled the domain. Thanks for pointing that out.
Did you read the linked PDF? SF probably did exactly what you suggested; they banned non-compostable plastic bags.
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The AirBnB service made a bad situation worse by insisting that I pay for cancellation when I had no choice but to cancel as the host wasn't there!

Again, it shows that AirBnB is risky thing to do when travelling with kids, in a foreign country... but I repeat myself.
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Actually HN stops very old posts as well (it can fail, but it is very infrequent).

On this case, the urls are not identical: the older one did not have the www.
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>And if you need to "produce" pi just remember pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7...

This converges too slowly to be practically useful.

If you group the consecutive terms in pairs you get that the nth pair sums to 1/(2n + 1) - 1/(2n + 3) = (2n+3 - (2n+1))/(2n+1)(2n+3) = 2/(2n+1)(2n+3) = Theta(1/n^2). Thus it has the same asymptotic growth order as sum 1/n^2. That has has monotone terms and so it's easy to estimate how many terms we need to get k correct fractional digits by solving 10^(-k) = 1/n^2, giving n = 10^(k/2).

This is off by a big constant factor but it gives you the right idea that you need an exponential number of terms relative to the desired number of significant digits. From Wikipedia: "After 500,000 terms, it produces only five correct decimal digits of pi."

So, this series for pi has only theoretical relevance.
I'm willing to bet people at large aren't willing to pay as much as the programmer community thought they would.
I thought that the whole point of App.net wasn't to build just a Twitter clone, but something that you could build any sort of social service on top of.
22/7 is a better approximation of pi than 3.14 because 22/7 is closer to pi than 3.14. The hypothesis of the article is wrong.

I believe Colin [EDIT: I meant Jon McLoone, the author of the article. Sorry Colin!] is counting only full digit matches. It is this metric that is useless.
According to the last actual study[1] SquareTrade published, accident rates for the iPhone 4 were only 15% greater than for comparable Android phones that aren't "made of glass," so unless other high-end smartphones are significantly cheaper to repair (maybe) or replace (no), the headline is mostly just saying "in the past five years, Americans have broken a shit-ton of expensive smartphones," using the iPhone as an example because it's the most recognizable brand.

Link bait? Of course it is. Of exactly the sort one might expect from, say, the PR department of a company selling smartphone insurance.

[1] http://www.squaretrade.com/cell-phone-comparison-study-nov-1...
Just realized -- you can create a giant phone number database using Facebook
I got a call from an unknown phone number today. Of course, I Googled it and reverse-searched it and nothing really came up (since it was a cell phone).

Then I went to Facebook and typed the number in. One result appeared -- a girl a few cities away from me who must have accidentally dialed my number.

And then I got to thinking: what's to stop someone from iterating through a few million phone numbers and creating a giant database of these? I just kept incrementing the phone number in the search box and every few numbers would reveal a new name.

I'm tempted to write a script myself but as I don't want to get my Facebook account banned someone else can implement the idea if you like.

Note that phone numbers only show up if you have the privacy option "Allow others to find me by my phone number" on -- and for a lot of people, it apparently is.
Yes, but with the reservation only 24 hours old, I was hoping to get some sort of communication from the host by the time I was in the city.

BTW, as I have mentioned in the article, I was already in Italy and going from Rome to Padua.
I hadn't noticed that, thanks for the tip.
This is a great way to handle prices decreases: make sure that existing members don't feel ripped off (since they paid a higher price) by adding some extra months to the subscription length of those members.

<< [W]e are dropping the Member price from $50/year to $36/year. All existing members will get the benefits of the yearly price drop. Existing members will get additional months added to their plan so that they see the same pricing benefits that new yearly members get. If you are an existing member, you should have received an email from us explaining the extra time that has been added to your subscription. >>

Well played! Will have to use that technique myself in the future...
But my point is that in the snake-oil analogy, the only reason it's wrong is because the salesperson lies about the benefits of the oil.
I agree. What I did to my family was risky by booking via AirBnB for such a short notice accommodation.. that is the whole point of the article...
Especially to join a community full of programmers.
None of those reference enom directly -- only resellers of enom. That's like saying I bought a widget off amazon & chase paymentech is fraudulent as a result.
Ha! My wife has this problem.

She was teaching (as a grad student) and realized on the first day of class that she already knew the names of almost all of the students in the class, and little bits about them, from random encounters (like "I was sitting behind those two on the bus a few months ago").

She pretended to be learning their names, anyway, because that's just way too creepy, as you said.

Her memory serves her well in life; she writes fiction. She's also really useful for me to have around -- I have a terrible memory for data I'm not actively using (possibly due to lots of general anesthesia as a kid...), so she remembers tons of things for both of us.
Does anyone know whether or not App.net has plans to release an official app for iOS and Android? One of my major apprehensions (besides what I believe to be a still unjustifiable price) is the fact that most of the current apps available appear to be shit and cost a non-trivial amount of money.
Great idea. Need to cleanup the design a bit like others have mentioned here. How are you providing tutoring 24/7? Are you utilizing MT?
Before "Looper," there was "The Super Secret International American Time Box"
Not everyone has that privilege.
Perhaps we could say he's comparing Shannon entropy per symbol for the two systems.

It seems that what's special about rationals with power-of-10 (with power > 1) denominators is that we have a readily available shorthand, uh notation, for them.

Notation can be very significant. The transition from Roman numberals to positional notation with 0 took a thousand or so years. But boy did it ever make long division easier!
Nice article, for a better understating of Unix and its history I recommend the awesome UNIX-HATERS Handbook (http://m.simson.net/ugh.pdf).
I was trying to say that the conclusions being made seem to depend entire upon a single data point...
Slightly better than:

"We feel sorry for you, so here is a limited edition Early Adopter badge!"
Sure. Though I probably would spread the automated testing workload among the whole team as opposed to appointing one person.
So have you already started, and you're thinking of asking for additional equity, a title change, or something similar? Or are you still negotiating before starting?
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I'm not sure function level scope over block level is a bad thing. It makes it more Lisp-y. And if you want block level scope, it's about as easy as (in CoffeeScript):

do ->
... local variables right here ...
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The PUA is lying about the benefits of sleeping with them.
Here's some related functionality I need:

A group of people engage in N rounds of betting, where there is one winner per round. Each round winner is entitled to $X from all other participants for that round. Find simplest (ie fewest number of) settle-up payments at the conclusion of the N rounds. It's always harder to figure this out in real-time than it seems like it should be. Mobile app ftw.
Well done! Also you deserve a big thanks from Filepicker.io - this is great inbound marketing for them.
"Is your aim to become a re-seller for the existing sites? So you'd be a one-stop-shop for getting your holiday home listed in the places most likely to convert."

Yep, that's it exactly.

The selling point to them is that we bring them new customers. We're seeing that owners aren't marketing as they should because everything they do is incremental work and upkeep. If we can make launching into a new channel (or listing site) as easy as a click, and centralize the management of it all, we believe owners will increase their marketing. It helps that we can also bring large quantities to the listing sites, so that we can also get discounts for our owners (a further incentive to increase their marketing).
Are you confusing the person who actually wrote the article with me, who simply submitted it here?

If so, perhaps you can explain why people do that so often. I see it quite frequently, and am baffled by it.
I think by "performance" he was referring to hardware performance. So, beefier hardware is not necessary for today's applications, but might enable applications we can't even run (on current hardware) yet.
Man, this posting is everything I love about engineering. If I weren't halfway across the continent you'd be reading my resume right now!
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Funnily enough I'm of the opposite mind: users free and developers paying something like $50/month. I'd imagine placing such a price barrier there would vastly cut down on the abuse that twitter, for example, has to put up with.
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