skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

(http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)

(http://imgur.com/a/As0m5)

Some comments in this thread are thoughtful and interesting. But many of them are an excellent demonstration of why political items are not welcome on HN.
You're correct. I was not thinking about conning the system but actually breaking into it which is obviously a lot harder. It is a lot easier to look at ways to dupe the algorithms for determining fraud rather than breaking the system and bypassing them. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Looks like hog-wash. Gabe knows that his main audience uses Windows.
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If valve want to push a new platform, half-life 3 is an excellent flagship product to do so.
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Seems to be fake. I did a Google search and buzzleberry.com is the only site covering this.

On top of that someone on this forum http://www.vg247.com/forum/topic.php?id=6802 sais that buzzleberry is always writing made up articles.
Not necessarily the man himself, but the whole republican party is pretty toxic. It seems to be a mixture of 'screw the weak' and 'Jesus is Lord' with a dash of just plain nuts. This is how it appears to folks overseas anyway.

When Bush was re-elected, for instance, it was genuinely baffling. Not that there was anything good about Kerry, but... seriously? That guy again? And since then the republicans just seem to have become more and more caricatured. The whole Sarah Palin thing would have been funny if we weren't talking about the upper echelons of politics in America.
In my opinion? Yes.

If you're getting paid a rate similar any other IT professional, then you're getting paid to provide more service than just typing code into a text editor. Seriously, the rate for a decent programmer is insane, yet many of them seem to think that anything other than writing code is outside of their job description.

If a client doesn't appear to be paying attention, then you either have to be more persistent, or re-think how you're communicating with them. Are your questions too technical? Too vague? Full of words that they don't understand? If so then they're not going to give you good responses. If they still don't answer them, then at least you have a record of the questions that you asked.
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That's not the right way to think about internal APIs. To make changes effectively you need to be willing to redefine those boundaries with a minimum of friction. If you make each function check its inputs then you won't be able to decompose your problem into small enough functions (a good function is usually <10 lines), and you'll mostly be duplicating your own work.

Null is probably the worst mistake in programming history; never use it internally, never call an internal function with it, and then you don't need to make your functions check for it. If you're really paranoid you can use a static analysis tool to enforce that you're doing it right.
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Based on the fact that this database is free and public domain, apparently it's possible for such data to have a restrictive license. So, I'm wonder what the sources of this data are? Is it compiled from public resources from the governments listed, determined and measured by hand by visiting the countries (with a GPS device in hand :P), or something else? I couldn't find this information on github.
Indeed some confirmation would be nice. What interests me is if it would be possible for Valve to provide HL3 on a Linux boot disk making adoption a lot easier for less technical users.. can anyone offer an insight on this?
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True, it is the wrong way. Ideally there would be a better system for this kind of thing. It is the reason why physical authenticators and two phase authentication are becoming more popular.
"serving the needs of pro photographers" is a little vague, but I'll try to answer anyway :

Top¹ portfolio building/hosting/sharing : ProPhoto [1], 500px [2], behance.net [3]

Printing+Selling services : bigcartel [10], platform-photo [11], prints995 [12], etsy [13], sssquare [14]

[1] http://www.prophotoblogs.com/

[2] http://500px.com

[3] http://behance.net

[10] http://bigcartel.com

[11] http://platform-photo.com

[12] http://prints995.com

[13] http://etsy.com

[14] http://sssquare.com/

¹Top used, not "best services". I'm sure they are great, but I still prefer building my own private solution, let's say WordPress. ;)
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How hard would it be to generate that kind of data from Wikipedia ?
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You are right, it does take scale to do this well. I'm CEO at Skimlinks, so although a little biased, I can assure you Skimlinks is at the same if not greater scale. Our uptime and speed is the best in the industry, as you can see from our public pingdom page http://api-status.skimlinks.com/554403/2012/10
And all this is while processing 230million clicks a month. Even Hurricane Sandy didn't affect our uptime. Our CTO wrote a great piece about it here:
http://blog.skimlinks.com/2012/10/25/the-importance-of-globa...
Also, it's not only developers who do side projects. I bet most professionals do.
Nice - much needed!
A bootable Ubuntu DVD with HL3 preinstalled would be amazing indeed!
I think time is the most limiting factor in my life, so what you described is near impossible for me.

I live in NYC, and so when my wife and I want to go out to eat or enjoy some activity, factoring in the time it takes to travel (usually 40+ minutes each way to any place interesting in the city), we truly can't afford to tenuously choose the places we dine because we want to hedge our bets that the place we'll be at will be great. If it's not, we just spent several hours going to/at a subpar place when we know there are actually hundreds of really incredible places in the city that we could have gone to instead given we had the knowledge.

It doesn't help that we're both programmers who love to program in our spare time together so even during non-work periods we're also "working" to some extent, so usually on a daily basis the only free time we have is when we're eating or right before bed.

But I digress, TL;DR - Not everyone has the luxury of time and the social prowess to curate locations themselves.
Actually, it was for creating a Facebook event. Arguably even more private.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/16/facebook-riot-calls...
Hopefully their financials continue to be, if not strong, at least good enough to support the business. They seem to have good leadership and great ideas about how car transportation and the industry needs to change.
Yet voting third party in the US has no effect, or worse it can boost the party your least likely to be interested in.

An interesting article on WSJ via Volokh about the Libertarian party covers this issue http://www.volokh.com/2012/11/05/my-wsj-op-ed-the-mistake-th...
now there's something we can agree on.

happy election day good sir.
It would be interesting to see statistics or a survey on this. I'm also convinced that the more free time one has, the more likely they are to start a side project.
Um, they could have had a process for how to extend the format. Even GIF has a definition for how to add new pieces. PSD apparently had a process:play it by the seat of your pants?

Now, Word docs are xml format. Pretty extensible.
Hey Matt. Pretty cool.

* Would be nice to be able to upload files (or drag and drop them onto the board).
* Would be nice to be able to affect the z-index (bring stuff to front/push to back).
* The appeal is the free-form drag anywhere aspect ... I'm not sure how much grid/list add to the app.

My goal with my project (http://www.thetaboard.com) was always to strive toward the simplicity your app exhibits (other requirements/features kept me from getting there) but I think there is a space for something like cork.io.

Good luck!
Because they could knit sweaters instead and it would have about the same impact on their bottom line.
because India is a corrupt mafia run state?
Bang syntax (like !hn) will take to directly to the sites search. Try for example "!g hacker news".

Plugins, or goodies I think ddg calls them keeps you within the site and provides more info in that zero-click box.
and for only seventy dollars more for a new one, buying refurbished puts it down to a size issue as the cost difference is not noticable
True, but it makes ordering takeaway much easier.
I've been watching this guys template sales grow and grow. Congrats on another great template!
Limits on immigration. Extreme antipathy towards Europe (eg. the recent budget argument). More in this article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19661190
There is no one from Valve speaking at the conference.

http://linuxconeurope2012.sched.org/directory/speakers/1

CONFIRMED HOAX.
i think you can make the case that for many (largely self-educated) programmers, learning new languages is a good way to understand programming at a more abstract level. and that, in turn, means that you can write better code.

for example, if you understand an object-oriented and a functional language then you understand two quite different ways of encapsulating state - as objects and as closures. that leads you to thinking about state as something more general than either, which gives you a higher level view of the problems you are tackling.

so learning multiple languages illustrates different aspects of "deeper" issues in programming and motivates the discovery of those abstract concepts, which then provide a stronger "mental toolbox" to do your work.

from my own work, for example, i feel that google's guava library has improved my java code considerably. using that library well requires (i believe) an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of both oo and fp programming.
You consent to it just as much by not voting. You pay taxes to fund them FFS!

You are doing less to change the system by not voting than you are by voting. It would be lovely to be asked "Do you want to be governed by a fool?", but you don't get that, ignoring the question you are asked is not bringing that closer.

You could at least spoil you ballot if you wish to protest. Doing nothing will be interpreted as laziness, apathy and comfort. Not voting because you disagree with the system is fundamentally misguided, at least if you want to be pragmatic.
its zipped; nothing is wasted.
quite incomplete. why not ask github users to fork, contribute as fixtures & send pull request
That's a different case. Details for the Tweets below:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/9431677/Twitte...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/09/matthew-...
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$2.4T in nominal dollars, considerably less with time discounting.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/10/24/us-iraq-usa-fundin...

This also assumes that $OTHER_CANDIDATE would not have done something similar, which I don't think is correct. The war in Afghanistan was a virtual certainty, regardless of who was president.
I briefly worked at Eidos amongst a bunch of avid gamers (really?). The consensus verdict: Elite - best game ever. We played Oolite mercilessly in our free time.

However, regarding a new version of Elite, David Braben is a feckless omega male, a Thargoid runt who never had his fear glands removed. Frontier is a fine developer of new games where there's no legacy to destroy, but if Braben delivers a decent Elite this side of 2015, I will EAT MY SOCKS.
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Hey HN, op here. Wiretap is a weekend project of mine I've been hacking on for a few months.

It's like your browser's Network Tab, but for server-side and mobile apps. Technically, it's a hosted reverse proxy / debugger that's really easy to setup.

Looking for beta testers as well as feedback from HN on the demo and landing page content. Thanks for your help and input!
Sure, I'll admit it was not a well thought out analogy. Regardless, we have the right to complain either way.

Consent or not, we are all governed. There's no opting out of that.
This reminded me of Tom Armitage's excellent dConstruct talk on Toys and Toymaking:

http://2012.dconstruct.org/conference/armitage/

"Toys are not idle knick-knacks: they allow us to explore otherwise impossible terrain; fire the imagination; provide sparks for structured play. They do not just entertain and delight; they stimulate and inspire. And always, they remind us of the value - and values - to be found in abstract play."

I wish I'd treated more of my side projects as toys instead of putting off shipping them because they lacked obvious value.
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Very interesting explanation, thank you.
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Adobe is moving somewhat that direction with an experimental product called Edge Animate (though oddly it does not use canvas):

http://html.adobe.com/edge/animate/

They also are working to allow you to export Flash to Canvas through what they call Flash Professional Toolkit for CreateJS.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/createjs.html
Extreme variations are more likely the smaller your sample size is, considering America has a two party system they have a very small sample size causing it to be prone to extreme variation. Examples: No women candidate, no candidate that is not a politician, no candidate that favors alternate economic models, etc etc. This makes no "good" candidates according to a particular individual's view highly likely.
The American constitution is great but please don't believe the US is the paragon of freedom and rights; there's people held indefinitely held without trial, warrantless searches/eavesdropping, "free speech" zones during Irak war demonstrations, Guantanamo, death penalty etc etc so don't talk bad about Canada & Western Europe as they have a much better record of Human Rights.
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if you use Chrome, you can add new search engine (right click on address bar -> Edit search engines, scroll down till end) and paste this into URL query field: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+site%3Anews.ycombinator.c..., and give it a short name, for example hn. Now you can search Hacker News by typing: "hn search query" into address bar (without "").
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Merriam-Webster "Ask the Editor": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai_VHZq_7eU

Also worth watching, "The History of English in 10 Minutes": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rexKqvgPVuA
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>Blog or tweet or post to HN and hope Matt Cutts sees it and notifies the right team, maybe.

It seems that's more or less the quasi-official support channel even for paid services from Google.
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It's not a religious thing - plenty of atheistic limousine liberals vote against their own self interest. Most scientists also vote D, even though voting R is the best way to increase scientific funding.

There are plenty of people in the bottom 47% (predominantly tax consumers) who vote R and in the top 53% (predominantly taxpayers) who vote D. Are they all doing it purely because of religion?

If you look around, you'll see lots of people voting for reasons other than self interest.
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I'm with you on this one. I 'get' that you have the benefit of being able to just 'code' and have it run without you touching anything, but what about your content?

A database on Heroku and other similar offerings such as AppFog, AppHarbor, etc, are really expensive. I'd rather pay 15$/month starting out and install everything I need with simple commands - and I'm not even a Linux-guy! Imagine what a veteran Linux guy would do!

Don't you lose too much control? The last time I tried to deploy a Rails app on Heroku, I couldn't figure out where to save and well, "admin" user uploads on my website. (I was building a 9Gag clone to practice) and it turns out you cannot save data on a Heroku app. You need to pay for YET ANOTHER service such as Amazon content hosting.

So for a full stack you're looking at paying about 80$/month, that includes Heroku, Database, and content hosting. For a lean, mean startup I'd rather just pay 15$ for a VPS and handle things my way.

It's not like it's that hard. If and WHEN I need a service such as Heroku for load balancing, etc when my app reaches critical mass I'll be able to afford it. Not before.
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I'm not sure what you can do at that point though, because spoiling or leaving a blank ballot gets you put in with those who weren't competent enough to register a vote.
Please stop equating "opposes SOPA" with "wants to pirate." You know how inaccurate that is, and the fact that you are arguing for (in your view) a higher cause does not make that Ok.
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What lmm said is spot on.

If your paranoid about null pointers in C/C++, use asserts or static analysis.
I feel bad submitting it now that it appears to be a hoax. Sorry everyone :(
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The same thing happened here in Bolivia.

Samuel Doria Medina, tweeted that President Evo Morales had sex with a minor (17 years old) and she was pregnant. The following day the mother of the minor (a political person of power in Evo's cabinet) files for jail time among other things.

This was about two months ago and to be honest, media died down on it, and I have no idea what happened to the process. Was she in fact pregnant? Was the president in fact involved sexually with a minor? Lots of questions, no answers.
Thanks!

File upload is definitely something we've talked about adding. Z-index too is something we need to fix up. We wanted to get this out there pretty quickly.

It's interesting what you said about the grid and list not being much use. And I agree, I just envision a time where one might have tons of items on a board, and not having a way to line them up could make finding something in particular a pain.

On a different note: Thetaboard looks nice! A very clean design. Congrats on that!

Thanks again! Hope to have you in our beta
Lame. I thought I was in for a good joke or comic.
There is a UN office in Berlin devoted to Geographical names. They issue a 179 page manual about the standardisation of such names, but it is unclear whether they produce lists that could be used as the definitive source for a database of this kind.
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With two inflection points in the phraseology, you can literally reverse your glue.
Hypothetically - All candidates disgust me and have abhorent views contrary to my fundamental views on human rights, ethics, privacy etc.

What now? One of them may agree with me on a single, small issue, the other doesn't. But how can I vote for that guy if I know that he's going to continue eroding everything I stand for on every other issue?
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Two thoughts for your consideration.

1) Opt-out. Allow anyone to opt-out of the FDA. That is, allow terminal patients/early adopters/test pilots to voluntarily buy products from companies before the FDA certifies them as safe and effective. For example, people might decide that they will use drugs that have cleared Phase I trials and proven safe, and use their own judgment for whether the drug is effective. Essentially this is a rollback of cases like Cowan vs. United States, a 1998 case in which the FDA sued to prevent a terminal AIDS patient from using a drug that they had not yet approved:

http://goo.gl/li7jl

2) Multiple regulators. The purpose of sites like Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes is that any one reviewer is flawed, but an aggregate will usually be better. But for most drugs and devices, only a very small number of people within the FDA plus perhaps a 15 person expert panel are involved. FDA does not have the internal expertise to evaluate all fields of medicine, so frequently gets outside experts from Harvard Medical School, the Mayo Clinic, and the like to serve on its panels. Here is an example where the chair is from Mayo:

http://goo.gl/8lxEQ

The multiple regulators concept would allow any of these institutions to certify drugs and devices, just as we allow multiple medical schools to certify MDs. As another analogy, a company rejected by one regulator can get a second opinion from another, just as academics can submit to multiple journals if the first one rejects a paper. Indeed, much FDA review is already subcontracted out to expert panels from these institutions anyway. In return for doing approvals, Harvard Med or Mayo would get the user fees authorized under PDUFA/MDUFA that would otherwise go to FDA. People could wait for a drug to be approved by the FDA, or they could take a drug which had Harvard Medical School's stamp of approval.

These two proposals - opt-out and multiple regulators - are relatively simple to implement yet will cause huge changes in the system.

Right now we have a crude version of both in that a wealthy patient can opt-out of the FDA by flying to Europe, and a company can to some extent have multiple regulators by going for the EU's CE Mark first rather than the FDA. Indeed, within the medical devices space they now say "Europe first" just like internet startups today say "mobile first".

But it would be better if a patient could opt-out without flying to another country, and a company could get a second opinion from a different regulator without launching outside the US.
Very cool demo - there was enough in the video that I got it without feeling like you glossed over much, nor did you go too slow - pretty good pace for this type of service and audience.
lol'd hard.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The process for deploying a Clojure app to Heroku is the same process as deploying a Ruby, Rails, python, PHP, node.js, scala, etc app. That's the basic win of the unified build/deployment/hosting process

How would you get a clojure app deployed on EC2 or Linode without doing a lot more sysadmin work than Heroku?
I'd suggest that if you need to document where is throwing the exception, you're doing too much work in the test.

Setup code should be pretty simple and stable, so should very rarely suddenly start throwing new exceptions.

If you need to pinpoint which bit of code under test threw the exception, you're probably testing too much in one test.

Of course, the advice changes when you're using a unit testing framework as a runner for integration tests.
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My bad, worth a mention though.

This one's a little more outrageous :|