skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stopwatch going 400Mhz. I pressed it and it read 55157:

18:16 A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great
men.

18:17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his
neighbour cometh and searcheth him.

18:18 The lot causeth contentions to cease, and parteth between the
mighty.

18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and
their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

18:20 A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth;
and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that
love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

----

Cain and Abel is the most important story in the Bible. Genesis 4. If I please God, He talks, otherwise I'm supposed to try again. What do you think God wants. Put a lot of thought into that question because it's the most important.

God likes bears and elephants. Honey is funny.

God says...

8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

9:1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing
me witness in the Holy Ghost, 9:2 That I have great heaviness and
continual sorrow in my heart.

9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my
brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 9:4 Who are Israelites;
to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and
the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 9:5
Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ
came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are
not all Israel, which are of Israel: 9:7 Neither, because they are the
seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed
be called.
You're right about that, and I think that's going to make their claim a bit unsteady. But I see an argument they might make:

1. Classified ads are facts, with negligible creativity put into their composition.
2. Facts are not copyrightable.
3. Therefore, 3Taps can scrape the ads.
4. If any ad actually does have creativity / an applicable copyright, the copyright holder can contact 3taps with a complaint.

Basically a "safe harbor" take on the whole thing. What do you think?
It's not entirely clear that USB Lightning cables are necessarily active.
No build this plug-in and give us source code and we'll all use it.
Getting rid of books
Is 3Taps different from Google simply because they show a map?

Maybe CL should have terms for their general website that say data can be scraped and cached but that it must appear in the cache either exactly as it does on CL, or with some things missing, but not with anything added (e.g. a map).
Exactly, and I think this is a poor pattern cropping up in a lot of JavaScript heavy sites.

Take, for example, Twitter--

You CAN right-click on links like:

- "Tweets"

- "Following"

- etc.

But you arbitrarily cannot right-click:

- A link to the user's "Recent images"

- The link to a user's profile from "Recent images"

- etc.
Here's a shot at giving constructive feedback rather than bitching about the cost which most people here are doing. Point taken, there's the other stuff I can think of:

1) Disclose cost earlier. Telling people to sign up for free and then asking them to pay you is not cool. It starts off the relationship on a bad note and will prevent people from signing up.

2) You have a great idea here. Startups need this. We do not have time to set up and configure nagios, or some other warning mechanism. You make a good start by attacking the problem no one else actually wants to take care of, and making it really easy to do so.

3) Either forget the hobbyist or make another (less expensive) level of service for him. Do not forget there is very little money to be made on hobbyists unless it is very easy for you to take them on. You do not want to take on these people asking for the same service for $1 unless you can make it much cheaper to provide service to them.

4) As some have noted: Put in a SLA, and tell us why your service will not fail. Otherwise if we are not warned we will not know if it's because your service is down.

5) Put up a tutorial or more info on what you offer. Can we have planned maintenances (ie, do not warn me about this for 4 hours)? Can we hit the snooze button? What are the methods you use for notifications? How many people/emails/phones will be notified per failure? The unanswered questions go on and on.

6) Do more stuff. What about other type of monitoring? Can we group servers into groups so we do not have to set up each individually? Can we monitor stuff that IS running but I send you a value periodically through the HTTP hit? I want to graph stuff, like HTTP hits per hour, or HTTPD errors per minute. I want a warning to be sent to me when I get more than X HTTPD errors per minute, for example.

EDIT: 7) Add a trial period, this just makes sense.

So for work I run Nagios. I would love to have a Nagios set up for my side projects because Nagios provides a world of benefits but if I invested my time in setting up Nagios then I would not have time to do actual development.

You are onto something good, you just need to shape it a bit.
There's a Youtube app in the app store now, it's pretty good, check it out.

I like how you can read comments while watching the clip, you couldn't do that before.
Why on earth are some of you guy's egos tied up in your choice of browser?
Baidu Map is not shit only if you download and store 10G+ map data on your phone
Trolling means posting something insincere to elicit a response. The point of trolling is to fool the target into investing time and emotion into responding seriously. Insincerity is the defining aspect of trolling, and seeing the victim's response is how the troll gets his kicks. What the asshole kid in this story was definitely stalking, but it wasn't trolling unless he posed as an antisemitic hate-filled stalker for the malicious fun of watching the victim react. Unlikely. Honestly, I think the guy is being way too easy on the kid by calling him a troll. The kid is a stalker. The police should have been called, because he's likely to do it again.
I would have prosecuted the little shit.
The Credit Card Prank
Errors in compilation are not exceptional; one of the main reasons to use a compiler rather than an interpreter is specifically to search for errors. So exceptions are a poor fit.

You're quite right that exceptions promote giving up control to a higher level. And that's the right thing to do for exceptional situations. The ultimate higher level is the programmer who's going to have to fix the bug, or the admin who needs to fix the configuration problem - because they are the two main classes of errors for which exceptions are great. (The third class is a logical abort, and depending on the language and how good its idioms support exceptions, this may or may not be good practice.)

You get rich information about the error, including a call stack, the ongoing operation gets cancelled as soon as it occurs rather than muddling onwards and causing more damage. If you can foresee the error such that you can write an error handler, using the method that throws exceptions is probably not the right one - unless it's unavoidable owing to race conditions, or impoverished libraries.
I'll pass on your humbling words to the design team, I'm sure they'll appreciate your words. They put a lot of hard work into the redesign, they're not trying to be anything. What you see is a refreshing take on a social site and although I am biased because I work for the agency that designed (as a developer) it doesn't take a designer to see this is the best MySpace has ever looked.

It's condescending comments like these that give HN a bad name. Let me know when you redesign a large social site like MySpace and then we'll talk.
Done, thanks. I would love to pitch b2b service for starters. I am fine with cold calling or working from an opt-in list.
Here the problem ... Google partners with handset manufacturers and markets Android as open / open-source. For me the core functionalities of a smart phone are to call smb., mail, maps and installing 3rd party apps. All four are NOT open-source in any definition (3g modem, gmail, google maps and play).

No Debian is not at fault there, yet the debian community does not have direct links and influence on hardware manufacturers.

Imagine a Debian, where the most of it is open source (after some time), yet the core functionalities you use daily are all closed source. Is it still open-source? :)
Streaming of Tesla's Supercharger event  8pm PST
The domain of programs for which C++ memory management is not hard has only a partial intersection with programs that are small, expressive and easy to understand.

That is, if you take C++'s techniques for memory management for granted, simpler approaches to problems won't even occur to you.
(Japan) My wife had updated her iPhone to iOS6 and we were using it to go to the next city over. Not only are the stations, trainlines and street names not listed unless you zoom in right on top of them, there are no traffic signals or intersection names.

The font that they chose for the area names is also incredibly wide, which works well for something like "Brooklyn" but not for a name as long as "KakamigaharaHonmachi," which is pretty standard for a Japanese town.

Everyone I've talked to in Japan who has upgraded regrets it.
Kamcord (YC S12) is looking for our first hire. Play games, laugh, code.
Kamcord is looking for our first hire to help change the way people discover mobile games. We're looking for a talented engineer with an interest in iOS. We’re a team of 3 MIT hackers with experiences that span top-notch companies like Google, successful startups like 3LM (acquired by Motorola), and one of the best high frequency trading firms in the world. We’re gamers with a passion to build a product that will be used by hundreds of millions of people.

In just 3 months, we’ve been integrated into 30 games on the App Store: http://kamcord.com/games/. This includes awesome games like Stickman Base Jumper, which was recently the #2 paid app. Here’s a funny clip from that game that was recorded with Kamcord: http://kamcord.com/v/eMNZrBYYwo7/. We’re also excited to be working with one of the top 3 most downloaded mobile games ever.

As our first hire, you’ll have considerable impact on the product, culture, and direction of the company. We’re offering a compelling equity and salary package, along with great perks (e.g. free food). We’re based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We’ve raised a $1M+ seed round from top notch VCs and angel investors. We’ll be growing our team, so this is a great opportunity to join at the ground level.

If you’re excited about building a product that will reach hundreds of millions of people, send us a resume or LinkedIn profile and your GitHub username to jobs@kamcord.com. We’d love to hear about your favorite game too :)
Pity this only supports news.ycombinator.com - I use news.combinator.net (don't ask me why, its not logical), always messes up these extensions for me.
The future of SLRs
there are patches for Android that correct the Google maps offset in China. tried it there, it works ;)
you might be thinking of deadmansswitch.com
Yes, then what about the source code for google maps, gmail and google play? Are they open source? Do you get them doing your git checkout?
As Children’s Freedom Has Declined, So Has Their Creativity
How long until the "Home printing is killing the small parts manufacturing industry. (And it's illegal.)" campaign?
"Right now or not at all" is a showstopper. So are unreasonable time limits on offers. "48 hours to decide" is an easy "No, thank you."

If they're worried about not landing someone, having to extend multiple offers and possibly overshooting their hiring goals then they should be up-front about that. I would also worry about their hiring bar.
Except that many IE8 users don't even know what a browser is. That isn't an euphemism, they literally don't know the word "browser". There message as displayed conveys the message better than "We don't support your browser" to those people, and there are more of those people than there are Opera users.
It's for adults- perhaps a paper route is more your speed.
Facebook Now Knows What You're Buying at Drug Stores
I am not saying it is not harassment. Though, I don't consider the terms to be orthogonal(as in, they can co-exist within the same context). I am saying it is my understanding that many kids(not all) consider the stuff in the blog post as very successful trolling in fact. The act of trolling, as I see it, is to delibirately cause harm and grief to the victim regardless of means. What differs it from just simply bullying the victim is that it happens online, and that's how many (victims) have put it too.
Because the police were never involved directly. "He" was still legally a child, for one. For two, the author was unbelievably gracious enough to not take him straight to the cops.

A happy ending all around, really. Hopefully the teen idiot will have something good come of his counselling and the world will be a slightly better place.
This should be very interesting: I think kids between the ages of 9 and 15 have started to see FB as the social network of old people (millenials and X-ers) and are spending way more time on Pinterest etc. And Pinterest doesn't give a complete social experience. The new myspace just might become the social network for gen Y (or Z or whatever alphabet we have for them :)
If I place an ad on craigslist, I would like to know if my ad will show up on...SanFranGayApts.net or something like that too. Where did I agree to have MY ad syndicated? Nowhere, that's where.

And why would ad copy not by copyrightable? I don't see a creative commons license at the bottom of craigslist ads.

I'm not sure where all this entitlement comes from that you think you have a right to another company's database simply because it's index is public.
Sorry for not looping back earlier, it's from http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/united_states_total_spen... which is getting its data from a few sources but I think for the transportation piece you can look on page 125 here http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2012-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2012... but may want to cross-reference with the other sources.
Yes, but calling it all "trolling" lumps it together. In the replies to your comment you can see people equating trolling to everything from slight teasing to serious harassment.

The problem with calling it all "trolling" is that it normalizes the seriously nasty things (e.g. threatening to kill someone's wife) by analogy to the less serious things ("I tease my friends all the time").

At some point, these are very different things. And they need to be treated very differently. Calling them different things (e.g. "harassment" or "hate speech" vs "trolling") helps set up that mental boundary in peoples' minds and helps them demarcate what's right and wrong.
It can be modified pretty easily to work on news.ycombinator.*... I'm sure ges will update it.
This place really needs a downvote feature to quickly call BS on the ficticious salary information that occasionally pops up.
My understanding was that, as the owner of a site, (even one that hosts mostly/completely content created by someone else), you get to dictate the terms on which any party accesses that site. It would be like if YouTube said that you may not access their site with anything but a web browser.

Strange that they went the copyright way, though. IANAL, but isn't accessing a service you've been explicitly forbidden to (via ToS or similar) a violation of the CFAA?
People who own their homes don't have mortgages. They pay their property taxes on their own initiative, the same as the honest people paying their use taxes.

You've stated your opinion about morality all right. You think it's okay to be a scofflaw (definition: "a person who flouts the law, esp. by failing to comply with a law that is difficult to enforce effectively"), even for tax evasion. Yet you'd look down your nose at someone lying to make ends meet. Tsk tsk!
I'm honestly astonished at how little Twitter seems to care about abuse and spam. I actually wrote an article about this last night (https://tyler.menez.es/articles/twitters-empathy-problem.htm...), when - after going through blog posts - I realized the spam problem there hadn't gotten any better since I first wrote about it in 2007!
It sounds like, instead of what is commonly referred to as "mob mentality" (which has a strongly negative connotation), you are suggesting that Chinese people are drawn to large crowds.
I always thought the signature was more about attribution rather than security. It's the thing that keeps you from later claiming that you had no knowledge of the transaction.
3taps isn't a client application for Craigslist, they essentially turn CL's data into a feed and then sell it to folks who then create services on top of that data.

Padmapper is a client of 3taps who's been the client app that most of this is focused on.

BTW 3taps doesn't scrape CL, they actually pull CL's data from Google's Cache so they can't be accused of violating CL's TOS.
If you're scraping user-submitted content by accessing (e.g.) CraigsList, then I would think that CraigsList could try and claim that it was unauthorized access of their systems.
This is a great idea! Those with 3D printers can get their parts almost for free and those without can pay Shapeways a "reasonable" amount.

As the quality of 3D printing improves I can see lots of companies doing this, especially for legacy parts.
I think the terminology has evolved a bit(at least among the younger generation, those who are trolling almost as a hobby), although it might just be me since I don't spend time around communities dedicated for trolling.

Are you aware of Encyclopaedia Dramatica for example? Many of the 4chan stunts are done "in name of trolling" and "for the lulz", when infact they may involve stalking the subject and even physically being in contact. I think in cases like these it's first and foremost a social thing for the "trolls" to stir shit up, the more the better.

Or perhaps I'm just ignorantly stretching the term.
It'll be interesting to see the large scale disruption that happens once 3d printing becomes ubiquitous. My guess is they'll have about as much luck shutting down 3d models as the MafiAA types did to various types of piracy.
Some of the tests are indeed pretty awful. The canvas clearing test doesn't even draw anything, so it's literally the equivalent of benchmarking an empty for loop...
Global Bacon Shortage 'Unavoidable' Next Year: U.K. National Pig Association
I needed to link to this image:

http://anongallery.org/img/2/0/javascript-the-good-parts-the...
That still doesn't mean it was sent to Nigeria. It just confirms that, for whatever reason, the author assumed the recipient was in Nigeria. The recipient may have very well been in Nigeria but he offers no definitive evidence.
Do you know if they allow non-http connections?
What are they proxying for? Downsampling images?

$45 price point seems unbelievable.
Interesting. I don't think I would have done the same, and even with time to think long and hard about it, I still would have gone after him with all my might. I don't think letting him off with just a warning is in any sense "justice" nor in the end was the smart choice.

There's something psychotic about harassing someone you know for YEARS, anonymously, in such a vicious way as he did. It's just cruelty on a level akin to torturing dogs for fun. "It was kind of a game" is hardly an excuse. "I will kill you, I will rape your wife, I will do <unspeakable things> to your wife's dead body..." Sending ashes. Putting dead flowers on the door step. Causing the man to be paranoid in his own house. Causing him to cry over the safety of his family. This is beyond harassment, and lasted daily/weekly over a period of years.

I almost don't believe this is real. How could a psychotic 17-year old be let off with a handshake and a look in the eye? He's going to kill someone someday. I'm stunned.
Tesla Model S getting first ever over-the-air car firmware upgrade
IT WILL BE TOO LATE IF WE COMPLAIN WHEN THEY LAUNCH PUBLICLY.
the evaluations wouldn't be done until after the class is over, from how I read it.
I love Github's hiring process and their software building process. More companies should implement similar things. Now obviously you can't expect all companies to shell out this kind of cash, but I've read so many blogposts of Githubbers that all say the same thing: we just want to work with awesome people and make great products. It doesn't seem like there are a lot of politics going on. One post I've read by Zach Holman showed that the interview process was more about working on a project that you cared about rather than rambling off tiny utility methods or impractical algorithms.

Hire people who show enthusiasm (and of course talent) instead of those who have memorized interview questions from glassdoor.com
A lot of it has to do with short-sighted decision making. Attempt to control some visual aspect of the application takes precedence over long-term issues, such as usability or overall architecture (e.g being semantic and searchable).

Also: biased technology evangelism and special interests influencing web standards and popular opinions. These tow are probably the root issues.
Are know of any google related events in LA? I found a mention of one on Sept 25th but no more info about location or time.
The song is beautiful and gives a romantic fleur to the endeavor. Just watched the official music video though and that made it even more oddly appropriate. Talking about an old creep stalking young teenage girls. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0okSCBqw18.
Having someone arrested is not "lack of moral fiber". It may be the opposite - the courage to bring a criminal to justice, testify against them, potentially lose his friendship... What the 17-year old did was vicious and clearly criminal.
I also received a C&D two weeks ago via email and FedEx for my craigslist interfacing iOS app. I also got an offer for a license but haven't heard anything since Thursday.
Why Mitt Romney was wrong (not just politically)
(2) Grab one off the Internet.

I just want to emphasize, for the benefit of anyone new to contract work, that even a reasonably well drafted contract you find on-line is probably only worth starting with if it was designed with your particular jurisdiction in mind. The rules on tax, employment status, liability, intellectual property and many other factors vary widely from place to place.

For example, Thomas mentioned being clear that you are not a full-time employee. That's a very important point, but here in the UK, merely saying "I am a freelance contractor and not an employee" in your contract will be worth about the paper it's printed on if HMRC start investigating whether you are caught by IR35. There are all kinds of rules and precedents that will override such a statement, and paying for 15 minutes with an accountant or lawyer who knows them could save you thousands of pounds and avoid the stress and inconvenience of a lengthy tax investigation.
The term "trolling," as the folks I know use it, doesn't refer to stuff intended to cause harm or grief. Rather, it usually refers to something that would cause fleeting annoyance, or perhaps an eye roll. Or something designed to stir up a tempest in a teapot, e.g. an exaggeratedly controversial forum comment.

What the OP describes wouldn't be called trolling in my social circle. It would be called stalking. I think this goes far beyond a source of lulz.
How do browser benchmarks account for incorrectly drawn or spaced items. Could I write a browser that will ignore everything except the elapsed time measure?