skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just released version 0.3 :)

V0.3
* Fixed some bugs in the layout and interaction when searching torrents

* Netbook support (list now scrolls properly on low height devices)

* ThePirateBay mirror is now configurable from the options page. Implemented automagic ThePirateBay Mirror Search using FuckTimKuik.org

* Added an option on settings page to search only for 720p torrents

* Implemented auto-update.

If you installed v0.2, You will have to do a manual update. (go to extra -> extensions -> remove the plugin, re-install it)
"Leaving the signup process aside"...

I _know_ there are reasons I'd like to use Braintree, but the signup process is the first and most impression-leaving point of contact users will make with you, and the choice of signup process you've made makes cynical-me suspect this is all about gathering competitive information and acquiring all _my_ business information without bothering to tell me even even ballpark figures of what you're going to cost me.

Maybe I'm not your target market, since I don't find eWay or SecurePay or Paypal's "integration" particularly onerous - but as one of the tech guys in a small web dev firm, I talk a customer or two a month through the process of getting an Internet Merchant Account with one of the local banks so they can accept payments for their Magento/Shopify/WooCommerce/WPMU/Concrete5 shop. I'm unlikely to jump through your "tell us all about your business before we give you prices" hoops only to possibly find out you're barely competitive with Paypal and not even _close_ to what my clients can get via Westpac/Securepay.

It's all about trust. "Tell me everything about yourself before I tell you the most important thing about me" doesn't portray the sort of trust I'd expected given your reputation...
Not that strange. Everyone I know drinks tea, and they aren't connoisseurs. It's just not a big scheduled thing.
Sorry, I thought the transfer looked more administrative.

If the accused asshat actually paid for the domains at all, that's a whole nother story as they say.
I already posted about this upthread, but now I'll post with a link:

http://www.squattypotty.com
Not sure about codewright's use cases. However in my own brief experimentation with SOLR I ran into performance issues with garbage collection.

I setup a cluster of about 15 cc2.8xlarge machines (5 Shards with 3 replicas each) containing 240Gb worth of documents (48gb per shard). Each node was given on the order of 40GB heap space. While performing load tests with a relatively small load (~150 QPS) after a few minutes the garbage collector on nodes would kick in and run on the order of 15 to 30s. This had a cascading effect of causing zookeper to think nodes were down, start leader re-election, etc.

Admittedly I am quite inexperienced when it comes to dealing with applications using such large heap sizes. Though I tried a few different JVM options with respect to GC I was unsuccessful in resolving the problem.

If any folks here happen to have some good resources regarding GC and large Solr clusters I would definitely be interested.
> First of all, it is hard to take seriously any analysis that leads with a word cloud.

Furthermore, the word clouds don't even use the same fonts at all. The point they're trying to make is clear; they don't need to modify the graphs to drive it home. That's disingenuous, just like displaying a pie chart at an angle.
Excel has detected that .csv is a SYLK file, but cannot load it
A little OT: Where would a designer be able to find early-stage OS projects where the UI has yet to be fully realized? It's been a dream of mine for awhile to work on such a project but I don't know where to look or who/what is worth working with.
The company mentioned in the article seem to have comparable ones but are cheaper.
I saw this somewhere else, but it stuck with me: "if you get poop on your arm, do you wipe it off with a dry piece of paper - or do you wash with soap and water?"

I don't understand why bidets are fringe :(
Realtime war
There might might have been an issue with the search:

http://www.homelight.com/santa-cruz-ca/top-real-estate-agent...

Should take you to the page.
I didn't have sympathy for Facebook when their traditional ads turned out to be worthless and the price fell through the floor. Likewise I don't have sympathy for businesses who feel entitled to free distribution on Facebook and don't like it when Facebook tries to monetize.

The bottom line is that people don't come to Facebook because of brands. Rather brands come to Facebook because that's where the people are.

The fact that at one point a business convinced a user to click a Like button does not provide anything approaching a symmetrical benefit to Facebook. Sure, Facebook is always happy to add content, but that marginal value of that content is nowhere near as important to Facebook as the distribution is to the brands. Facebook's primary asset is an engaged user base, and it's the social exchange that engages users. Meanwhile if businesses are pursuing any social media strategy, where can they get anything approaching the reach of Facebook? Even if another startup comes up with the reach, they'll be in the same monetization boat as Facebook and certainly will make decisions that piss off someone.
It gave me the impression that Linus's role in the project has changed dramatically, or that he was suggesting something somewhat outlandish.
And why is 'engine age' a problem again? Unless there are major architecture problems, one should not need to rewrite everything every 4 years.
Do people associate liking things with "completing their profiles"?

Maybe I've been on the other side for too long, but I equate liking a page with opting into their facebook marketing content, and I unlike if I want to opt out.
well i dont sketch neither , doesnt make my designs bad, As long as one has a clear image of what one needs to make , the way one makes it real doesnt matter, weither it is using hand code css , dreamweaver, whatever...
A combination of a collectivist culture and crazy expensive real estate leads to more people living in smaller homes and in closer proximity to each others bowel movements.

The Japanese diet also probably plays a role......
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Well, that was fun. :)
I apologize for the difficulties, we're in the process of fixing the agent signup and will be sending emails out later today when it's complete.
Getting people to type at all, let alone correctly, on a mobile phone is worth a prize. Mobile users hate typing.

My little brother loves the game Don't Break the Ice, but also gets really upset playing it sometimes too because it is upsetting for him to have the blocks all over the place. Honestly, I think it's better for his development to keep playing with it, though. He's just a baby afterall, he is getting fun out of it, and maybe he'll even learn not to get so freaking upset.
I wonder if they took online donations through the site. I see the donations link, but maybe it gave a phone number/address rather than a cc form.
Google engineers open source book scanner design
The whois info is suspicious, I think it is just a mirror.
Bombing? Lets be frank, this was a targeted assassination by a nation state.

Say all you want about Ahmed Jabari but his modus operandi was a direct result of a life of occupation and subjugation.
You don't go into prison at the age of 22 and come out 13 years later a happy individual. I mean it was only 6 years ago that Hamas was democratically elected in a process considered fair and transparant, only for the elections to be found null and void by those (US/Israel et al) outside of Gaza!
This has been discussed many times on Reddit, and there are many, many people in the USA who stand up to wipe.
It actually is normal practice in major game engines to do major rewrites every few years. id Tech 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. for example.
It's frankly bizarre to say "the plaintiff would have been ethical to offer to settle for $90,000, but unethical to offer to settle for $9,000."

This seems to be the entire point of a settlement offer. "I think I could get more out of you, but we can both avoid the court costs if you pay me less than what a court would award me."

I think the argument is "if someone offers to settle for $9000, they lose the right to sue for more than $90,000." Which gets rid of the entire concept of settlement offers, but it's the best I can come up with.
Buildy: 1k HN users placed 250k objects in our HTML5 sandbox
Lyft, SideCar, and Uber all slapped with $20K fines from CA regulator
if-statement dispatching is not pattern matching.

Pattern matching yields more type information than if statements and can match recursively on multiple arguments (which even multi-method dynamic dispatch cannot). However, it always dispatches on a closed sum type, whereas OOP-style dynamic dispatch is on an open sum type, so the mechanisms are useful in different circumstances.
That does seem fair, doesn't it?
Unless you can poop at a higher pressure than the stream of water exiting the nozzle, the poop isn't going to work back in there.
I read somewhere recently that 80% of all stranger rapes against women are perpetrated by unlicensed taxi drivers.

So I am glad that these services are under a somewhat watchful eye.
Auto Transport Portland, Oregon - Shipanycar
I just read this Wired article and now I'm wondering whether or not I just read an advertisement for Chartio?
Looks pretty good on Chrome on a retina MBP (15"). Also looks fine on firefox. You could at least say which model of mac you're on.
Same problem here. My monthly data usage increased by 10x after I upgraded to iOS 6.0. It's annoying that there's (apparently?) no mention of this issue in the 6.0.1 release notes.
Nowhere in the "entire middle third of the comment" does he mention, or allude to, any of the following:

- That people's values are absolute, or in anyway similar to the laws of physics.

- The existence, or non-existence of god, proving it, or otherwise.

- That values are irrational.

- That you get to ignore people's values.

You're putting words into his mouth. I think he's got quite interesting things to say about moral relativism, and his view point is hardly as naive as you think it is, but you're not hearing it.
I took the course with papdomitrou (one of the authors), and he didn't supplement the book at all (his lectures were literally just the book in spoken word form, down to the jokes). I really liked the book and lecture, though, since I thought it did a great job explaining the material at a good level for an intro algorithms course high enough that you aren't bogged down in formalism and esoteric math, but deep enough that you still understand the algorithms well enough to recognize where to apply them in the real world.
User1: Lets talk about OOP vs FP

User2: I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with assembler

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with VB

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with C

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with VC++

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with APL

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with Forth

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with Lisp

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with Python

User1: umm...

User2: Then I made hundreds of thousands of dollars with RTOS

User1: Does HN stand for Hacker-News or Hundreds-Of-Thousands-Of-Dollars-News ?

User2: umm...
OK, so what do you do when the lights go out (and the power)?
Sony still hasn't apologized for multiple installations of rootkits on customer computers. I lost all interest in the company after they made those choices and I'm glad to see that a culture that tolerates such enmity towards their customers and disregard for copyright (they were illegally using GPL software in their rootkits as well) isn't doing well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
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Seems I should be able to contribute to the discussion in my own way too then, doesn't it? It contributes to the conversation by pointing out another poorly thought out/worded/constructed argument. True, there are bigger fish to fry and more important points to address, but that doesn't have to be everyone's prerogative.
Nice site! One minor issue is the main search box; for me it is completely empty and I have no idea what I'm supposed to type into the box.
amazon has some of the best selection of tease imo, can't get all the interesting blends but almost everything I've been shopping for was there. And i don't mean in those gross little boxes where you get baggies of random tea, but the foil lined packages or tins of loose tea from reputable companies.
For working class white American men, that is not limited to public restrooms. They're doing it at home too and laughing about it to their wives/girlfriends/kids - who probably call them disgusting to which they laugh even more.

People with more class and manners tend toward the French way of doing it.
Makes you think twice about those graphics where iOS devices take a big piece of the pie of the "internet usage"
Can I fine the CPUC for being hopelessly out-of-date in its strategies for protecting customers?
Exactly. The reality distortion field has collapsed and everyone is less willing to forgive mistakes. I mean come on, remember the MobileMe launch failure?

That said, the famous Apple attention to detail does seem to be slipping, I sincerely hope this is just a transitional period and they tighten their game back up.
Love the experience at Teavana until someone talks to me. The sales staff are very pushy to the point where shopping there is uncomfortable.
exactly, same thing for α: if it were different (numerically) that would mean that we are talking about a different universe, i.e. we would measuring a different fine structure constant. People in that universe would still call it "α", because we define "α" to be the fine structure constant. That wouldn't change the (numerical) value of α in this universe.

In the same way, we define PI to be "the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter", and that depends on the kind of geometry where you lay that circle on.
because the rest of world crap in a hole in the ground!

medicine has actually been with humans for centuries, but yes, mankind managed just fine without medicine. Most things that kill us (besides predators) are the result of technology, like agricultural-era based diseases and the more modern pollutions in the water and air. antibiotics, however, are a welcome modern addition...
Let's try and be certain before we start hurling abuse eh mobs?
I had this happen to me when I started a music blog in 2008. Some trust fund brat decided he would hijack the site and I was forced to basically start over. It was painful but 3 years later I'm glad I did. I was able to rebuild and now have a better site with a better team in place. It'll take time but these guys will recover too. Integrity always wins!
I guess this doesn't extend to oral hygiene?
As an aside, I'm very confident Starbucks will acquire Blue Bottle Coffee in the next 18 months-2 years.

By raising venture funding they are signaling they are looking for some kind of shareholder return/exit. The quality of the coffee, plus the "no-laptops" approach to their official cafes would make a great "luxury"/"high-end" marque and differentiator for Starbucks in markets where they are already saturated or want to attract greater wallet spend (SF, NY, etc).

Look at what they did with Seattle's Best but the opposite end.
Sony builds great products, and never follows up well. They poison their own name.

Walkman: the original portable media player. They improved battery life, they improved sound, they captured the high-end of the market and inspired competitors... but they could never reduce price while keeping sufficient quality to differentiate a genuine Walkman from a 60% cheaper competitor. Did they keep the high end? Sure, but they also produced crap indistinguishable from their competitors at the low end...

Repeat for CD players.

Repeat for DVD players.

Repeat for the VAIO laptops. Remember when a VAIO was always a high-performance ultra-portable? Now it means everything they do in computers.
Try one before passing judgement. Seriously, try one. It's a quasi-religious experience.
I have never considered Apple to be a solid software company. They are a marketing company in the tech sector. If they made washing machines they'd be sexy as hell. In my years of exposure to Apple tech I have always been in awe of their industrial design, mechanical design and manufacturing prowess. Their software, however, often leaves much to be desired. I say this both as a developer and a user. From OSX to iOS there are amazing patches of software manure in plain sight. And it isn't getting any better.
In case, like me, you like SQL:
http://gadfly.sourceforge.net/
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Yep, but hosting it is a pain.

It's actually heavily tweaked (this is what the IndexTank team has told me), and apparently contains components of Solr
Yes .... Yes you did (and I'm down voting the parent for that very reason).

P.S. If I could down vote twice, I'd give it a second one for turning a sentence into an article.
Why is it OK to criticize OOP using non-pure OO languages like Java, C#, or C++? Pure functional nut cases like Don Stewart and Simon Payton-Jones (whose favorite pet example of a dangerous side effect is a nuclear holocaust) don't have to defend FP from critics whose only experience with FP comes from non-pure functional languages like Python, JavaScript, and now Java and C++. Yet here we are again, with another under-informed, overly-prominent person publicly airing his grievances with Java as if all OO languages bear some collective guilt for them.

Smalltalk is not a hard language to learn. Haskell is far, far more complicated. You can download Squeak/Pharo/whatever and learn the language in a few hours. Why in 2012 is Java still such a potent argument against the entire paradigm of OOP, both class-based and prototype-based? Why does OOP alone have to put up with this sort of scurrilous, intellectually lazy and dishonest propaganda against it?
I don't really understand the justification for "There is no silver bullet". How do we know? There may very well be a silver bullet, after all, we've already had some!

Programming now using modern tools is at least an order of magnitude more productive than programming using punch cards or other methods used back in the day.

Why are we so sure that all the silver bullets are behind us?
Why would anyone want information services or casual games (apart from those to be played with others in the room) on the big screen rather than the phone/tablet?

In the pre-iPhone case there were lots of people wanting information services on phones (on the move especially) and people trying to provide solutions greatly limited by available technology and bandwidth prices (no wifi on phones at the time either). People were trying to read books off phones, listen to music and do many things including some apps even when the capabilities were extremely limited.

Its really not a people don't want argument but TV prolonged screen interactions don't generally fit into people's lives except in a very few narrow scenarios watching, sharing and showing content. In all these cases controlling with a smart controller and interacting offscreen really works better than indirectly manipulating a bigscreen GUI.

If we imagine a TV with unlimited computing power what would it be used for? Well it would replace games consoles. It would offer smarter ways to find content (but the availability of content is probably at least as important) and better search isn't generally a game changer in this market.
Yes, that's how FB poses it, as part of your profile. For instance, "What music do you like?" You type in some groups, and that counts as liking them. Suddenly, you get to see news about each concert, blu-ray, etc. they're doing, right in your feed. Not a great experience.

I'm not sure why anyone would assume a very casual social "hey I like X" is equivalent to "subscribe".
Andreessen Horowitz Isn’t Selling Any Facebook Shares
Load testing with Blitz.io experience
Month long Hackathon & Slumber Party starting Nov 25.. You in?
Dynamic inheritance is not unthinkable, I've used it in my languages before (or see research languages like Cecil). Of course, you can do this easily in dynamic languages like ruby.
Ike the CSS3 / HTML5 Robot
Android UI Testing
that's a good point, never thought of it that way.
I feel Sony never made the transition to software.

I have owned a lot of Sony products over the years and the older devices I had like VCRs (which had little software) where infinitely better. For example the a Blu-ray/Surround Sound System I bought a couple of months ago is terrible and maybe one of the worst products I have ever bought. It takes 60 seconds to boot up (So the Sony TV turns on and is displaying with in 5 seconds, but there is no sound through the sound system for a minute!!!) in addition, the DLNA client on the unit often becomes unresponsive and refuses to accept simple pause commands while watching video.

In today's world, if you can't do software well, you will fail.

PS: I loved my Minidisc player back in 1999 - I was sad it didn't have more success, well, up until I got my first iPod.
motorized transportation is clearly an advantage, having water squirted up your arse is, at best fetishistic, and at worst just a total waste of time/electricity.

If you can't see the difference then go right ahead and keep discussing this nonsense. Funny how the rest of the animal kingdom seems to have managed. Funny how nobody but the Japanese want these? Ever ask why the same nation that needs soiled panty dispensing vending machines also needs an electric bidet. See it for what it is, a fetish. I'm sure jonathan swift would have loved one.
Hammer for Mac: Build out static HTML sites quickly and easily.
Good point. But then you have Apple Maps.
Dilemmas of the digital humanists
Wow, this thread is pretty interesting, in which you can see the owner of the .com domain convincing someone to donate $500 a month to what they thought was the cyanogenmod team: https://store.n2acards.com/helpdesk/viewticket/moderator/cod...

And in the thread, he mentions that Swappa is doing the same thing, $500 a month plus $10 per device sold, though there's no way to verify if that's true. Swappa claims to donate $5 per device sold to Cyanogenmod, though who knows if that's been going to the actual project or this joker. http://swappa.com/cyanogenmod

That's some pretty serious fraud there, if this is true.
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great follow up. I was on the site and remember being pleasantly surprised by the good performance, so As for the ideas for technical posts mentioned at the end, I'd be most interested in the realtime event publishing with firebase and tornado and rendering and optimization engine stuff :)
never underestimate the web. Someone can come up with a game changing concept and attention can shift just like that.