skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The site is still virtually unreadable for me. In case you're seeing something different, I'm at work on Windows 7 with Chrome. I wear glasses. I pretty much cannot read the smaller text. That is to say, I can do it, but it physically hurts a bit. Screenshot: http://imgur.com/h9wNl
developer version of qsview.com :) http://webshell.io/prototype/OWFiO/2 and don't forget to run it!
Thanks a lot. The CoffeeScript marketing is threefold:

- I think CoffeeScript is really cool, so I like spreading the language.

- I wrote them in CoffeeScript for a Backbone app also written in CoffeeScript, so for what it's worth it's more "authentic"

- I thought Coffee Filter was a cute name

Glad you might find them to be useful!
It bothers me that this is being called "the fiscal cliff." Language matters, and I hope I'm not being a conspiracy theorist when I wonder if this term was propagated specifically to scare people.

The positive aspect of the fiscal cliff is getting no air time. From Wikipedia: "The deficit for 2013 is projected to be reduced by roughly half, with the cumulative deficit over the next ten years to be lowered by as much as $7.1 trillion or about 70%."
>Generally speaking, camping on lands like this requires permits

Nah. Places that require permits are typically developed camping sites. The vast majority of public land in the US (and Crown land in Canada) requires no permits to camp on. BLM land (1/8 of the US) is free to camp on unless local regulations say otherwise.
The parties simply re-adjust their policy mixes until they appeal to about half the electorate.

You say that as though the merits of various policies are equal along an infinite continuum.

Sure, the parties will readjust. Apparently, we're going to readjust after this election to debt-to-GDP ratios that collapsed Greece, immigration policies that will create a race to the bottom culturally, and a continued emphasis on government power over Liberty. We have decided as a nation to compromise with our worst influences.
A man named Joe Ades used to do something somewhat similar in Union Square. Apparently he was well known.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUct4NlxE0
You may not be aware such a thing exists, but I'd consider http://www.freesat.co.uk or
or even http://www.freeview.co.uk to be (subscription) free alternatives to cable TV.
It's worse than just contrast. The text is so thin, light, and small, that parts of the glyphs can't even be rendered. There are literally not enough pixels to draw the open area of the top half of an "e" in the usernames below the titles.

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

Part of it is Chrome's messed up subpixel antialiasing (for which I've had an open bug report since September when they broke it), part is just making text way too small for anything but a 30" Retina display, if that exists.
Personalization is eating the online marketing world.
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Thanks, recalcitrant GOP, for your willingness to take the nation hostage for your idealism!

Isn't that rhetoric a little inflammatory for HN? We're not talking about a huge dollar value on those high income rates, particularly if we're only talking about the 2001 cuts. One could equally say that President Obama is "willing to take the nation hostage" over $50B in a $3.7T budget.

The budget deficit in 2007 was something like $163B with all these tax cuts in effect and two wars in full swing. Tax rates are not the problem. Spending and the still faltering economy are.
I've seen professional women coming to the office with free logo-emblazoned tote bags. Not all professional women are fashion-obsessed.
You seem to have gotten downvoted without comment, so let me chime in. He's proposing a FOSS client. There's no third party here, the client is using this software to breach their own ToS (supposing there's a clause in there by which you're only allowed to access twitter.com from a browser).
Could you cut the last line? That seems inappropriate for a site that does not like overtly political content.

Thank you.
Well, I am a strong believer in Native > Web. That's why we started the company -- so only alerting other people to the fact that we're doing something in the same arena. I didn't make the comment to sell to you -- there is a common cause behind why I made the comment and why I started the company.
I ran across one of these kiosks recently while walking through a mall in Waikiki with my wife.

Same basic pitch (and the dude had a very similar name), including lots of "touching" of your hands, which helps make that connection.

From the minute we made eye contact I pretty much knew it was going to be a high-pressure sales tactic. I let him do his spiel and offer us all the tremendous discounts, then thanked him for his time and left.
As someone hailing from an emerging foreign country, I usually find these kind of encounters very uncomfortable and feel almost allergic to any sales process.

The pricepoints ($100) make things much worse. Not sure about you but once I get to 3 $digits, there's an approval step required by my internal auditor even if it's just a "sticker price" that will be talked down.

I tend to avoid these situations by all means possible, even if it means taking a less efficient route to my destination.
Free? Free to whom? Twitter charges some users, but doesn't charge others. The same could be said about just about every platform out there. I don't think that's particularly useful advice, because I don't know what you mean by free (is Android free? what about network tv? what about the road systems?).
I suspect that their level of amusement has more to do with themselves than the immigrants.
It would work if their goal was to gently discourage developers writing client apps without totally cutting them off; an economic disincentive.

But it doesn't make sense to do that, and they don't want to anyway.
> that our [...] future products do not already serve

wat?
It's Your Brand. Don't Let Other People Fuck With It.
This is easily done with a man in the middle attack. You can change your src ip headers and then listen for the response when it gets sent to the spoofed ip.
It could still make sense even for Google to do, if more of MS's potential customers would be expected to switch to Android rather than Apple. But I agree that both Google and Apple would have to look at that aspect of it, and there is something of a trade-off, the better it looks for Google the worse it is likely to look for Apple, and vice versa. From the point of view of someone who doesn't like the Surface advertising, though, that's just another reason to make sure to tell both Google and Apple. :-)
Yeah, I used to watch him do his thing. Seemed like an odd sort of echo of a New York City from a century or two ago...
If I were running one of these apps I have to say I would be terrified of being hacked. There will be a lot of explicit pictures exchanged between couples, including teens and a lot of people who will spend a lot of effort to get those photos behind their paywall.
The GOP shot down a previous bill that avoided the "cliff" months earlier: http://bloggingblue.com/2012/08/01/shocker-house-republicans...

It's clear they are seeking this confrontation, damn the consequences to the majority of the populace... just like their debt-ceiling brinkmanship in 2011.
I think the obvious solution is to have the client first check for updated scraping rules from a server operated by the client's creator. The client could check for these scraping rule updates every time the client starts up or on some interval (or maybe after certain errors even) and only pull down the whole thing when the cache is invalidated. Then, as you suggest, the client could do the actual scraping which would make it harder for twitter to block.

Not as straightforward as an API to be sure, but not impossible by a long shot.
How is mass immigration's tendency to dramatically change the existing culture not axiomatic?

It's like I said, "Please dont' pour that quart of water into my soup, it will ruin the taste." ... and you asked for a citation.
Shouldn't the real news today be that Twitter has invented time travel?
So this strategy is really only effective when you'd like to raise rent by 9.1% per year?
I wonder if you could make a game out of trying to regame these guys. Maybe as training? Try to be as obstinate as possible for as long as possible while not getting outright rejected.
Quote from article:

"Fitch, meanwhile, said even a deal to avert the cliff might not be enough to save the country's AAA rating."
>A person who does anything that is an offence under section 60, or who directs or causes an offence to be committed under section 60, is liable to compensate the government or the person against whom the offence is committed for loss or damage suffered by the government or by that person because of the contravention.

Charge him for the price of the tree.
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It's never too late.

Ray Kroc bought McDonalds and grew it to a massive empire when he was 61. Read his book Grinding it Out.

Frank Lloyd Wright was broke several times in his life and considered through by the architectural establishment. He was 68 when he designed Fallingwater, one of the great homes every built.
Every two years, it seems.
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Indeed:

http://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/bearded_geeks_for_ob...
Why I work on stuff I care about
I don't know if anyone is surprised by the response as much as disappointed. I've seen the news that twitter is limiting api clients but I haven't seen news of them denying someone who reached that limit more keys. I clicked this wondering what was going to happen with Tweetbot for mac when it hits the same limit and now I know.

Maybe the "Don't build anything for Twitter" thing is a little heavy handed but the fact remains that if you build something that you hoping will get more than 100k users you can't count on twitter as a stable platform.
The preceding sentence:

"Ultimately, if Congress and the president can't reach a deal to stabilize and eventually reduce the debt, now at $16 trillion, Moody's will probably cut the United States' current Aaa rating."

Doing nothing is much closer to this sort of deal than any measure that reduces the amount of tax increases or spending cuts.

The following sentence:

"Temporary measures to stave off the budget shock without a credible strategy for the years beyond could earn the country a downgrade, said David Riley, managing director for sovereign ratings at Fitch."
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I have to agree here. By the author's own admission, he does most of his shopping online - which tells me he lacks practice in dealing with salesmen.

I worked as a bartender/server at a corporate restaurant when I was in college. You would be surprised how easily people will do something if you just tell them. Me: Order a margarita. Customer: OK.

And not to get too judgmental, but this is especially true with the stereotypical internet dweller. For some reason Ive come to notice that people of this ilk are less likely to say no for fear of offending/not pleasing someone.
Cliff simply illustrates the discontinuous change in tax rates that occurs on January 1st. In this particular case there are several different tax rates that are all scheduled to change on January first so that the discontinuity is not just a 'bump' but instead is a 'cliff'.
That bugs me too, even more so when I hear it from VC or their brethren, because it seems like they should know better.

Steve Jobs was not the next Bill Hewlett; Elon Musk is not the next Steve Jobs; Google was not the next Apple; Facebook was not the next Google.

The only thing those all share in common is that they were the next big thing. Although you can use those examples as aliases for "the next big thing", they'll tend to change the traits that you're looking for. If you're looking for "the next Mark Zuckerberg" for instance, then it's easy to let yourself get trapped into looking for someone with Mark Zuckerberg-like traits -- and then you'll miss the next big thing, because that person isn't going to be "the next Mark Zuckerberg".
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True, you'd be left with "do the app like we tell you to" option, like offering an API where's mandatory to show the sponsored content in specific, Twitter approved ways.

It would probably be a nightmare to implement well.

A pity.
In his defense, I don't think Marco just connected the dots, he's been talking about this since Twitter first put out their updated developer guidelines.
From the email they sent me:

"Migrating to GREE Platform is easy and a basic integration can take less than a week of engineering time. In addition, migrating your game to GREE Platform allows you to keep your user data and player scores. Please note that migrating to GREE Platform will require you to remove the OpenFeint SDK and re-submit your game to the appropriate platform."

Three cheers for subcontracted proprietary services!
I can't speak in grandparent's name, but as a Belgian doing the same thing my main reasons are:

* Consistency 1. Most sites I spend my time on have English content. Same goes for programming, keywords are English, comments end up being English, etc.

* Consistency 2. Not every program I use has a (complete) Dutch version.

* Looks. Not everyone out there seems to take into account different languages when designing. Some English things cannot be said as shortly in Dutch without sounding silly (this works both ways). So pieces of the UI will look either overcrowded or overly empty. (Or the text sounds so odd because it got artificially shortened to fit)

* Convenience 1. When looking up an explanation/details about some programs you are using, the info will almost always be in English. It is easier to use the same language to find back what you need.

* Convenience 2. When reporting problems/bugs/finding out info about it, it is easier to use the English term used to find the info I need.

Those are the main things coming to mind. It's not like I've ever had real trouble understanding English anyway, so it's not a bother to put everything in English.

Keeping all that in mind, I do like my dates/times/... like I am used to them. Weeks start on Monday, times are in 24h clock, 16 Nov instead of Nov 16, 16/11/2012 instead of 11/16/2012, ...
>So sad. Before Y2K we were prejecting that the big debt landmark for around that time would be paying it off.

You could also add 9/11, two expensive wars (because the US can't stomach losing soldiers the way it used to, and protecting soldiers cost a fortune) and a huge recession that we are still not out of.

The projections assumed that everything would be running the way it was in the late 1990's. It didn't.
Reading this and the subsequent comments, I have to ask: am I the only one immune to the this sort of thing? I get approached by these kiosk workers all the time while shopping, and I simply wave and keep walking (possibly reinforcing with a "No, thank you" if they follow me down the path, as they sometimes do). I know it's a high pressure tactic. I know they're selling something that no one actually needs. I know if I give them an inch of attention they'll try to take a mile. It's a well known sales tactic, so I'm puzzled why people continue to get sucked into it.

I'm actually kind of confused why this warrants a post-mortem given that I would hope that no one ever duplicates this sort of tactic in a legitimate business. Let the product sell itself, don't "become the customer's friend" in order to push it on them.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
I think the updates you've made to your page are exemplary. I've updated my blog post with a note at the end, and bought some shirts.
If you consider unfunded liabilities (which obviously can be adjusted and is hard to calculate) you can add anywhere from 50-200 Trillion.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-06-06-us...

http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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Hi Joe Doliner engineer at RethinkDB here. RethinkDB is actually structured in exactly this way because it was originally conceived as a memcached compatible database optimized for solid state drives. Optimizing for solid state drives is a complicated matter on which we published some papers. Here's the HN comment level of detail description:

SSDs are, unlike rotational drives, inherently parallel devices. Each drive has a number of flash memory units which are capable of concurrently doing writes. To split the load evenly we divide files up into zones which we call "extents" the number of extents is configurable and varying the number of concurrent extents will give varying performance for a given drive. Normally there's a sweet spot where you have as many extents as it has independent chips. Extents are written to in a very specific manner. They are append only which means that you start at the top of the extent and fill it up with blocks of a predetermined size. The block size can be tuned to optimize performance as well although I'm not sure off the top of my head which properties of the drive determine which block size is best. Once an extent has been filled up top to bottom we stop writing to it and move on to another extent.

Garbage collection:
Each block that we write in an extent is actually a version of a logical block in a btree. When blocks are changes they are rewritten and the old block is marked as garbage. This leads to extents which are filled almost entirely with garbage. When we hit a threshold we look for the extent with the most garbage copy all of the non garbage blocks to an active extent and then reclaim the extent. SSDs have their own garbage collection mechanisms that can seriously degrade the performance of the drive if when they misbehave. If we get the extent size right the drive will have a much easier time of garbage collection (I actually think the drive won't have to do anything at all for gc in many cases.
Hey everyone - Ayo from Hipmob here. We released Couple as our first open-source chat project. The focus is to show any developer how to build a user-to-user messaging app using Hipmob's libraries - we'd love any comments, suggestions or feedback! (ayo at hipmob.com) - sorry this isn't reflected in the title.
Not to get too political on HN, but why increase taxes by nearly 3k on someone making 70k a year? Given the way the apples and googles of the world hoard money offshore, and the wealthiest people in the country sitting on billions of dollars (rightfully earned or not) it seems to me like it would make more sense to make them bear a little more of the burden.

For example, if you make 300k your taxes are going up only 11%. IF you make 80k, your taxes are going up 16.5%. Just doesn't feel right.
Unless you live in the UK or France (to my certain knowledge) and probably a huge chunk of the world beyond that.
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There's something I don't understand about this. It depends on twitter supplying its picks for trending topics. How do you use something like this in general if you're just given the stream of tweets but nothing else?
What you're saying is people should work because... they should work, regardless of pay, conditions, etc. People have choices.

Clearly, the reasons are far more nuanced than what you're going to get from an article. This company has gone through bankruptcy twice before.
I've upped all the sizes so hopefully it's a bit better now. I had only tested it on an old Macbook and a Nexus 7, where the original font, size, and color were all very readable to me. Thanks for the heads up.
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If anyone wants to play with rethink's (awesome) web UI, we setup a demo here: http://rethinkdb.a.pogoapp.com

We ran into a little bug w/ the ajax requests using the wrong port when run behind an nginx reverse proxy, and the team was very helpful and responsive in getting it fixed: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/63

Seems like a very promising project
That's what I occasionally do (only when they deserve it, of course). Marco Arment did it too a while back, in a Microsoft store: http://www.marco.org/2012/10/26/an-alternate-universe - HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4705299
OT: the site is hardly readable on ipad
It appears to mean a global average.
Is there a reason you're using a scraper instead of http://www.hnsearch.com/api ?
I worked 100% from home/remote for almost a decade. I found it via connections/chance... I'd emailed someone I read about in a magazine, we kept in contact, a few months later he asked if I'd like to help his friend with a small website project. Apparently they liked my work, because they kept sending me more of it.
That analogy is kind of flawed. If Microsoft specifically advertised 16/32GB of usable space then these arguments would have made sense. This just seems like buying 5 pound ribs at the meat section and then complaining about all the bones. Also how is this different from what other manufacturers are doing? I have Nexus 7 16GB which came with a usable space of ~ 11GB and heck it doesn't even have an expandable memory slot like surface.
> "It's illegal to not have Workman’s Comp."

Not true. You need to check local laws. For instance, here is the law in Texas:

"Texas law does not require workers' compensation. However, your customers may require you to carry it."

Reference: http://www.tdi.texas.gov/wc/index.html

And in California, if you don't have any employees, you may not be required to have workers' comp (but you should probably carry it anyway if your co-founder is not your spouse):

"My spouse and I are the sole owners of our business. We have no employees. Are we required to obtain workers' compensation coverage?

Generally, coverage for sole owners is optional. You would, however, need to have workers' compensation coverage for any employee you may hire, even if it's just one employee, and even if it’s just temporary employment."

Reference: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dwc/faqs.html

Please update your post to explain that this is based on jurisdiction, and to check local laws.

Also: This is one of many reasons why running a business in Texas is better than running one in California. (Yes, I've run tech companies in both places.)
Nicely done, these look like useful functions. I think it would be helpful to split them out as separate downloads so I can integrate them piecemeal.
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You can have multiple prices of subscription IAP. You just can't do an auto-renew IAP subscription. They only seem to allow magazines to do that.

There is a video from WWDC 2012 where they go through each kind of IAP. Worth watching for what you want to do.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/?id=308
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Sales guy tried to embarrass my boyfriend into buying a huge watch once by questioning his manhood. "A real man can carry off a watch like this"

I burst out laughing and asked the salesman, in no uncertain terms, if he would like to borrow my tape measure.
I only ever use it outside, and rarely at that (I normally use open fires or an alcohol stove these days), but thanks for the link :)
You're right. I confused AGI (line 37 on the 1040) with taxable income (line 43). And of course even that doesn't account for a variety of credits including EITC.

But everyone should have some idea what their taxable income is, and what credits they're eligible for. If the former is X and the latter is Y, you can take Chart(X) - Y and it will be fairly accurate for you.
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[citation needed]
I have an impression that once government will mandate the filter it will be more or less mandatory. For the sake of children. And your ISP will not bother much with configuring it for you because it is no longer a selling point.
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Average over what timescale? If you take it back 250 million years, then every human being alive has seen only colder than average months.