skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I opened a port using Localtunnel and this is what I got.
Show HN: Realtime Election Sentiment on Twitter
>Yes there is lookup, always lookup. Dynamic language, something in loop could change what lstr is.

And why is that presented as something inevitable?

The interpreter/compiler could analyze that part and see that the function/name is not changed during the loop, and cache for that.

I'd guess that PyPy tries to do it that way, anyway...
Sweet.js - Sweeten your Javascript (by Mozilla)
Hi,

First off let me appolgize about the sloppy coding. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, I outsourced the programming.

The information you posted is invaluable and I'll drop you an email shortly to follow up.
My bet: Map apps are ok as long as there is no competition from Apple. Let Apple build up their maps app and the stance will change.
According to the IRS the top 1% overall is $318k, according to the CBO it's $282k.

http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats---Individual-Statistica...

http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43373
Is it just me, or are we missing the source code? Would be nice to have a peek.

Edit: Sorry, didn't see that is was just JS!
EditEdit: But where is the source to /keywords
Vipassana is an _extremely_ powerful technique.. and not without its dangers - especially if you're not used to meditation. Check out http://livingvipassana.blogspot.com for a first hand account of a manic-depressive (bipolar) episode following it.

While no one knows the triggers to these things I would _not_ recommend just jumping in because you thought it'd be cool! Read up, do your research, and do lots of smaller practice before trying.

That'd be my recommendation anyway ;)
I highly recommend the Vice Guide to Liberia, if you want to hear about some of the lesser-known failures of colonialism.
If it’s anything like Google Maps on Android, there’s a small threshold before it snaps out of North/up alignment. And even then, you can tap the compass and it’ll reset the rotation.
Yes, it let's you trap right clicks. The event is called "contextmenu".
Hi Prodigal,

Although chrisacky flagged up some major issues in security above, there is more than one server/ domain running the system which they didn't discover. Once there is around 50 users on a server / domain I've created a new one.So thankfully chrisacky only managed to discover a small amount of users active on the service currently.
>Sounds like you're looking for a Sufficiently Smart Compiler[0]. James Hague has a good piece on why this might not be so desirable[1].

So, sounds like he's looking for something like v8.

if v8 can be 10-30 times faster than Python, for an equal or even more dynamic language, I don't see why Python should need to manual tune the things Guido describes in order to get some speed.
This is a good insight. Thank you.

'though I can't think of anything a community would want...
Android has it. No problems with usability here. Once you commence a zoom action you can't rotate at the same time.
There is still a rule in the guidelines that mentions "Apps that duplicate Apps already in the App Store" though it doesn't specify whether those apps are Apple's own, or any other developer (in fact, comically, the rule lists "fart apps" as an example). They don't really say how many apps of a certain type will be accepted into the app store before this rule goes into affect.

They also have rules against "Apps that look similar to Apps bundled on the iPhone", "user interfaces that mimic any iPod interface" and "Apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product"

I think basically the guidelines are written to allow Apple to reject apps with it's own discretion when it doesn't want them in the store. Whether that be for business reasons or otherwise. In the case of map apps, they seem to be rather lenient. I wonder if that's more of a grandfather type situation because they didn't have their own map app before iOS6.
"Marketing and sales seem to be about un-Truth"

Although it's easy to see why you would think this, it is a misconception that is costing you dearly, in ways you don't even understand yet.

I highly recommend you get a copy of "Three Steps to Yes: The Gentle Art of Getting Your Way" by Gene Bedell. He applies the same sales principles to any social situation where you're trying to get your way, whether convincing a partner to go on vacation to your chosen destination or selling software.

Suppose your partner just wants to tan at the beach, but you want to go rock climbing. Crucially, they may not want to admit (even to themselves) that this is what they want. A bit of empathy and creative thinking can lead to a solution where e.g. you go climbing a few days and you stay at a hotel with a nice spa for them.

That software buyer may only be interested in not losing their job, rather than the cost savings of the software. How do you show that person that you've done this at other companies to put them at ease? Can you see how useful understanding that prospects mentality could be?

Marketing is this kind of work at a larger scale. What it is people want to buy? How will you price it? Where will people find out about it and buy it? These fundamentals are hard to pin down and some practitioners are sleazy liars. Yet even without being an entrepreneur, just as an employee, you can try to answer those questions -- and that's marketing.

Learning more about these fields will let you spot good practitioners; working with them can be a boon to your career.
For anyone thinking/saying things like this: "they all use the most modern aspects of C++ (C++11, template, lambda, etc, etc)":

Take a swim in the ocean of Lisp (Clojure/Scheme, whatever...) and you'll never feel overwhelmed by things like these again. You'll realize that you're all kinder-garden children and the only difference is that the rest had been playing with shinier toys... THE TRUTH IS BEYOND SYNTAX AND LANGUAGE FEATURES :)
This is one advantage of C++ (and C, and others) which I didn't really realise until fairly recently. Because I have a good quality compiler, I do not have to worry about little functions.

If I want to make a class with a single int member, and a bunch of member functions, I can trust that will, in most cases, compile away to be just as efficient as a raw int and inline code. It is very liberating to not have to worry about the efficiency of creating another function.
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This is great article, and I totally endorse what the author is saying -- although I would leave you with a word of warning: Don't write simply because you want to "compete" or be like the other great authors out there. Several years ago when I was in high school I came across pg's essays and was bedazzled by it, and wanted to write articles like that of my own. (But I never got around to it.)

The fact was, I didn't have anything really that great to say. So even if I had written stuff back then, I don't know if it would have enriched the lives of others as much as the writings of certain other people have.

Hm, whatever. Just my 2 cents. I'm probably wrong.
Ruby's gemspec format includes an array of authors or a singular author for this purpose. It's quite handy.
> You may not be a dualist, but you sound like a negativist. It's nobody's job here to convince you of the benefits of meditation beyond the reams of research out there that for some reason you question.

"Negativist." Ha.

Likewise, no one gets a free pass on claiming scientific backing on National Skeptics Day without at least something to back it up. You can believe whatever you like! I'm just pointing out that the article does little to source its claims while making a lot of prescriptive suggestions.

> The goal here is changes that are highly subjective and personal. If meditation helps people, that is its goal, so to complain there is no evidence is nonsensical.
> I guarantee you if you learn to meditate and master a form successfully, you will not be in HN forums demanding evidence.

Yes I suppose I might be more prone to selection bias and personal investment if I sink years of my life into something. I'm pretty touchy about coffee that way, I suppose.

When you say stuff like, "You have to try it to understand," it's a huge red flag that suggests you're about to try and sucker someone.
Hi JD, Bryan,

I have thought this too, however the barrier of a higher price point was too much to stop people making that initial purchase.

I have done exactly what you have suggested and predicted revenue from a 2 month turnover.

This is no means meant to be 'startup' in the massive growth sense.

I like to build products that are useful for people. If I can earn some beer money out of it at the end of them month then great.
I recently got an email from youtube suggesting that I monetize my channel as they'd noticed that one of my videos was becoming quite popular. It's had about 500 (five hundred) views after 4 years! How much would I make?
Did colonialism ever produce anything but failure for the native inhabitants?
Few enterprises are ready for the app economy’s data explosion
Very cool. The right hand side should auto-scroll.
I personally did it for quicklytest.it as I wanted to great each of my new signups and ask them for feedback straight away.
For all I can see, it could be the Android app with an iOS status bar photo-shopped in at the top...
I bet if Apple had written their own map app from the beginning then all third-party map apps would all be restricted to using the iOS map engine - the same way third party browsers are limited to using the webkit engine.
You're dismissing paypal, which is the sin qua non and an actual 0,1 innovation. Thiel was also a lawyer by trade, who went into entreprenuership to do something useful. His investments in FB etc are also thru his vc fund, not his macro-hedge fund (clarium). These are details, but important.
Jailbreak Tethered iOS 6 pour iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 4, iPad 2 et iPod Touch 4G
Do you like to laugh?
Hi Bill,

thank you for the feedback.

1) I believe that a landingpage can validate and 'idea' as you can use it to gage interest, via the visitor clicking through for information, time spent on the page, number of times the visitor returns etc.

2) I think it's fairly well documented that ideas on their own don't mean anything, they have little if no value. It's the execution that counts and if quicklytest.it is the first step in execution then great! It gets you out of the door.
Is there a reason your writing comes across as agressive Amy? There's some jerks in other threads, but you're not being attacked and if you're secure in your success... then great!

As you're successful is there any gain by not being gracious?
iPhone 4 doesn't have turn by turn, only iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 has that feature
Christopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón; before 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy.[2][3][4][5]

-- Columbus was from a competing city-state in Italy

Also, as an artist I am sure you are familiar with the shift in financial and cultural power to the medici-backed city state of Florence during the quattrocento. While the art and culture of Venice stagnated, and largely just reflected its more medeival and eastward focus (still on byzanyium etc.)

So the legitimate question follows: why was innovation happening in close proximity to but outside the auspices of, Venice? When they had so many advantages (first mover, cash flow, ect). Classical Rome was also a city state, but with a more expansive and inclusive (citizenship, etc) worldview.
Pretty sure it's some guy fucking with the world to advertise his own app. He doesn't even HINT at where the photos came from!
How big is League of Legends?
I think this would be a very good candidate for the future of document reading
Typing "Bayesian classification of" somehow causes the relevant content "Naive Bayes classifier" to be added repeatedly in a loop.
AMD Said to be Readying Massive Layoffs
Agreed, I should have clarified that I meant hypothetically if the author started out with some example code that was supplied by the API owner under the GPL.
Game industry pros confess their piles of shame
iPhone 4 is missing the 3D flyover, but it most definitely has turn-by-turn.
I've already made up my mind to never upgrade from iOS 5.

We'll see how long "never" lasts, but I'd predict "at least a year".
Angle based SSAO
My point is how is that default advantage the rich have, a disadvantage to the poor? Unless the poor want it to be, it really can't be.

That's true in a fully transparent society. But far less so when some players can rig things in their favor by bribes or benefits-in-kind. The article is not criticizing entrepreneurs, but rentiers, people who extract economic profits rather than normal profits. Normal profits are what you have when markets fulfill their function as price discovery mechanisms. Economic profits are what you get when the dominant market players erect barriers to entry of one sort or another in order to fleece consumers.

Although I am no Marxist, you are quite wrong to think that Marx's ideas are irrelevant because he would not understand how wealth functions in the modern world. The product of work has changed, but the fundamentals of capital and production have not altered all that much. If you want proof of this, simply read (or at least browse) Adam Smith's wealth of Nations, which was written long before Marx's birth and which remains an excellent, if extremely wordy, introduction to economics. From the factors of production in a variety of different contexts, basic monetary theory, capital structures of the firm and so on, it remains surprisingly relevant (and readable) today. Marx was certainly aware of this, and while his proposed alternative to capitalism was not really workable, his analysis of capitalism's weaknesses still have considerable merit.

People can and do abuse the market system for their own gain distressingly often; I like the capitalist system, but the notion that it operates without fault is distinctly Panglossian.
And also, for using timeit correctly. The command line usage is handy too: python -m timeit -s "i=42" "str(i)"
An Objective-C library dependency manager
You're the one choosing a window to make a point. 2008 was the worst year for the wealthy, but also the only bad bad year. 2007 they saw record gains and those were mostly recovered by 2010. Jobs and housing has yet to recover.
Ruby as MatzLisp
Hi eskim,

It's not just startups that I'm targeting, but individuals who might have a couple of cool ideas that want to make that first step and see if they're as cool as what they thought.
The Breakpoint with Paul Irish and Addy Osmani
Related to Ryan Bates of Railscasts fame?
The San Francisco Gaming "Revolution" never existed. If it did, we'd also have to talk about the Tamagotchi Revolution and the Furby Revolution.

It was a (very) short-lived phenomenon that was wildly profitable for a short time, and at no point did it appear to be sustainable. Everyone who thought this was the beginning of a long-term industry was delusional.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4560691 <- (posted here three weeks ago, using https:// instead of http://)
I threw a link up to get some extra feedback/downloads on the App. — This isn't a hoax.
"remove macros, s-expression." I wonder if there is any language with lisp type of macros without the s-expressions. Or better, instead of lists, is there any other data structure which maybe used as to represent code and data.
HadCRUT4: no warming for 16 years
I don't check the prices frequentyl, but here's 1000 for $20: http://www.ebay.com/itm/1000-Facebook-Likes-to-your-WebSite-...

I've seen better deals than this within the last month. I don't use this sort of service BTW, I just did some research into it because I like electronic dance music and I've heard that audience-renting is rampant right now; it's easier to just buy your way into the charts than market a tune/perfmormer organically.
If I recall correctly, there might be a macro system in the ECMAScript 6 specification (which should be implemented natively by Javascript engines eventually).
Warning: This fake antivirus matches its GUI with Windows 7
Google to be sued for search monopoly
When you write "times" in documents, it starts to flash (I mean time entry goes and comes back continuosly)
(Did the developer claim somewhere the implementation was open source?)
Linus Torvalds Compares Hard Disks to Satan
Wow this is uh, sure exciting.
It could be this:

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/

Or maybe this one, too:

http://foundation.zurb.com/
why not bootstrap?
The way people normally plot these kinds of distributions is on a log/log graph (to be clear: where both axes are log'd, not where only one of the axes is doubly-log'd).
Facebook unfriended us, company claims in contract suit
Yet again today Apple Maps was a horrible experience for me (Chiswick Park Tube station does not exist!); every time something like this happens to me the amount I'm willing to pay Google for an iOS maps app increases. Would happily pay £10.
I'll say it again: I'm pretty sure several people here would finance your transition. With standard conditions, you should be able to raise in under a month. Think of what you could do with 100k, perhaps only diluting 5%.
Why is this at the top of hacker news?

It makes me sad that some more useful story was knocked off the front page for this pointless, unsubstantiated post.
A Company Claiming To Be The World's First Facebook
Some of you pointed out it's not easy to control/stop the mind, yes, that's very true, especially for some people. To solve that, I suggest to read Ekhart Tolle's The Power Of Now, I think it's the modern book that explains the orignal Zen in a easy-to-understand way.

I used to think/worry/imagine too much about the future, and thus missed every actual moment I was living in, and it made me unhappy. I was living like that since I was very young and until I read the book The Power Of Now. So I highly recommend it.
R amongst most popular languages, according to GitHub/StackOverflow data
I agree with all of your points above, and I very much agree with your final point that doing >= learning.

However, I'm going to argue that writing is nonetheless a special case.

I was trained as an architect. Unlike photographers, painters, composers, and coders, pre-architects cannot refine their understanding of architecture by doing it. They are confined to various simulations of architecture: models, drawings, renderings, animations, etc. While the emphasis of my course was heavily skewed towards the visual, I personally found that writing was by far the most valuable of all forms of simulation.

The reason is that writing has a unique ability to conjure worlds beyond itself. When I do a 2-point perspective drawing, your brain will conjure it into something greater: a three dimensional space. So far, so good. But can you tell me what the air feels like in that space? Is it perfectly still, or moving through a breezeway? Is it dry or humid? Cool or hot against your skin? Does it carry the sound of echoed footsteps, or birdsong, or traffic, or is it completely silent? Does it smell like rain, or concrete, or freshly-cut grass? Do you feel the radiant heat of stones that have been baking in the sun? Or the humid air which has been evaporatively cooled by a fountain or rich foliage? Can you imagine all these things in sequence, as you move through the space? Can you imagine what the space will feel like at night, or in the rain, or when it is completely empty or thronging full of people?

A single drawing can never convey all of this, and there are many things that drawings can never effectively convey at all. But a few paragraphs can easily conjure all this and more. This isn't the magic of writing, specifically: it's the magic of language: a powerful virtual-reality engine that is very likely hardwired into our neurons.

I found that the the pre-architects who wrote about their work -- and took the writing seriously -- were able to engage with their designs in a far richer capacity than the students who focused on the visual representations alone. This convinced me of the unique importance of writing. It is absolutely true that whatever you want to understand, doing it is better than just learning about it. But doing it and writing about it is best of all.

TL;DR: Doing + writing > Doing
I charted the LOG(video views) here:

http://i.imgur.com/WubeX.png

What's really interesting is that LOG(LOG(video views)) looks pretty much the same:

http://i.imgur.com/NnSrA.png

So I'm not sure what law the distribution follows, but the top players get a TON more money than the rest.
The top 211 players make more than the rest 4789.

EDIT:

It also means that the top player universalmusicgroup makes $485,707/month, and the 1000th player playboy makes only $7,880/month (assuming payouts are proportional to the views, which isn't perfectly correct)

Here's the table:

universalmusicgroup $485,707
machinima $261,804
JustinBieberVEVO $206,638
RihannaVEVO $198,898
expertvillage $182,052
LadyGagaVEVO $160,885
AtlanticVideos $147,373
EminemVEVO $145,593
RayWilliamJohnson $141,569
IGNentertainment $139,634
failblog $134,727
UltraRecords $134,724
muyap $126,330
smosh $124,425
shakiraVEVO $122,633
hollywoodrecords $121,395
FueledByRamen $113,681
beyonceVEVO $109,576
barelypolitical $104,784
collegehumor $103,772
Amazon Lending through Amazon Capital Services

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044349330457803... (google "Small Businesses are Finding An Unlikely Banker: Amazon" to get around paywall)
The Linux survival guide
> To add to that, there is a cultural gap in the translation of 'like' in some other languages. For eg. in some areas it is considered unpolite not to click the like button, while others use it as a form of 'mark as read', or 'seen this'.

I have a Facebook "Friend" from Japan who "Likes" literally every single activity I've made. Even if there's no way she understands it (since she doesn't understand English, and definitely not Swedish)
That's not true, only if the distribution in both directions is exponential, which is not the case here. The horizontal scale is just the rank, which is linear.
First problem is that without support of the local Sovereign (Be it state or local warlord) in this class of states you will be robbed sooner or later.

The other problem of marginal states is that they will catch you and present you as a token of good will to "The Empire", as soon as "The Empire" only mentions about "investing" around 10$ MM.

I really don't understand why (some) shady people feel safe in banana republics. Its a fact that as soon as Eye of Sauron turns towards you, you will be betrayed and given over. Plus you have to endure many other hardships.

The other way is that you serve eg. Russia vs USA or any other permutation of world powers, where one power keeps you in its area of influence and keeps signaling to your adversaries that you are off limits. This enables you to operate from where ever. Or if you become a possible diplomatic problem, your sponsor will tell you where to go.
Interesting; FWIW, I am going based on the comment "the channels follow a power law" from the grandparent post. I was under the (possibly mistaken) impression that these are normally plotted using log-log; would you be willing to explain what I am getting wrong? (I am totally happy to believe I'm missing something btw, and I certainly did not anticipate the person I responded to deleting their post...).

(edit: Further, looking at the graphs, it certainly seems like they would do well on a log-log chart; also, I would have expected the behavior that was described in the deleted post from a distribution of this sort: specifically, where further introductions of logarithms to the same axis did not affect the result, as they were asymptotically identical.)
Hacker gets $60,000 from Google for finding flaw in Chrome
https://votersentiment.appspot.com/ only partially encrypted