skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of them have been thought out - "how I mapped caps lock" by yakshaver, "derailed by a pedantic comment" by wellactually(I suffer from this; working on it), "apple's downfall" by armchairceo; the comment puns(stylish, worn-out, nebolous) are pretty meh.

Despite this being a parody, I would still like to point out "a labor of love you can say mean things about". I have seen it happen here way too often. Someone posts something and the crowd goes wild - "this is a feature not a product", "as a designer I can tell you you suck", "another cool aid drinkers pretending node.js is cool" etc. Someone posts a "Show HN" doesn't mean you get the right to walk all over it. And the worse part is, you pretend you were doing him a favor - "I was only giving feedback which the poster asked for". The poster asked for feedback, not for insults. It doesn't matter if you are a programming god(most of the people doing it aren't, but still) - there is a difference between feedback and "look at this pathetic shit thinking he is worth anything".

I am sure I am not the only one who thinks people go overboard with their so-called feedback. pg especially made a post about the flood of launches coming in and being nice to them.

Please be nice to them. For you their launch may be "yet another YC startup," but for each individual startup this is their big moment.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2862067
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See, my only thought at that was "Really? Ubuntu? C'mon, pick a better Linux Distro!"

As much as I love the idea behind Ubuntu, it really cannot compare to OS X (or, for development, a more nerd-centric Linux distro like Arch)
Comment on some small technical detail that I think is interesting, but that no-one else cares about.
Sudden realization that HN or Zerohedge or /r/programming/ are just a mass-media?)) This is a premature enlightenment.)

The next level is a realization that it isn't any different form /b/ - just a flow of a community-generated content about some buzzwords.))

Well, we must admit that a distribution of our interests is a little bit broader, but it is a substitution-based activity nevertheless.)
iMovie (the ideal app for parents editing a HD video of their kids) runs just fine on an _iPhone_. And remember, this is just _two_ years into the current tablet market, so this sounds a lot like how the minicomputer and mainframe guys were laughing at PCs when they were introduced.
Awesome, always love new charting libraries. I'm a big fan of D3 but it's too early to use in commercial apps (in my industry).
What an excellent idea! If I didn’t use CapsLock for choosing keyboard layout, I would have done this...
...and somebody would complain why this thing is in the front page, and other person questioning why HN becoming like Reddit, and someone will downvote the comment.

..but then some other guy would defend it by saying "but it is hacker-y, etc"
Sorry, I should have been more clear about hardware upgrading versus software upgrading. But you do raise an interesting point, as Apple progresses their software so do companies, so if Firefox and Chrome no longer work then is that the responsibility of Apple? I'd say no, and I'd say OS X 10.5 is still a mighty good OS with excellent features throughout, but I don't blame FF and Chrome for moving forward.
Exactly, but I don't think it's the fan boys who are complaining about it.
What do you mean? Who stopped operating what program?

edit: oh you mean BB running the buyback program. Well I assume the analytical model could be used in other ways probably. I don't think wether this specific program has stopped is very relevant to wether BB is still allowed to use that model.
Yes, at the bottom slot, with only 3 votes :-)
Where do you get the numbers for BB's gross margin? Isn't 25% a bit small? (also does it mean they mark up the vendor price by 25% or that 25% of the consumers price tag is profit?)
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I think the company you're explaining is Microsoft :) Both MS and RIM have released a me-too tablet with a curiously bad email client, and both have lost a lot of smartphone market share since the iPhone & Android have been introduced.

And even if Apple is treating power users badly - I certainly think they are - there is still nobody who treats them better. The BlackBerry was killed by more practical smartphones. Who will kill the Mac?
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Exactly; NIH syndrome refers to the fact that it wasn't invented in house /being/ (or tainting) the rational.

Edit: replace failed attempt at italics...
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Don't you love it when IE freezes?
Swiftkey was almost perfect. Then came last big release (not this one) and started to insert spaces between perfectly written combined words as well as adding what seems like a hard coded "correction" of i to I regardless of context. (One of the languages I write uses i a lot.)

Someone else reported it, I and several others voted the bug, nothing happens. I still use it but now it may take days after a new firmware before I care to reinstall.
I think that's a very specific definition which supports the argument but I don't really see any justification for that over, say, those who climbed on around the launch of the iPod or the iPhone. The views and expectations of those people would paint a very different picture.

There are plenty of Apple fan boys (I'm using the term in a non-prejorative way indicentally, I've got three Apple devices on my desk right now) who don't go back nearly that far.

Possibly we're just confirming that the term "fan boy" is entirely useless in any sort of real discussion?
this one did it for me as well!
I agree with @graue, descentralized services are better for their users. At least on theory. But I don't have any problem in using a good service provided by a company. Many things I can't live without were created by a company aiming to gain some money. The main point to me is focus on please your customers. So if a company do this, it will have my money.
http://www.language-exchanges.org/

Might be helpful?
It's the demographic for the movie.
Great article, thanks for posting. I find the 'Mistakes we made with X' posts to be the most useful thing I read on HN.
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In my books, Assange deals more with politics and organizational process issues. Sure - he uses the Internet as his medium. On the other hand, Kim Dotcom deals with Internet issues.
It's like one of those old ladies who wear copious amounts of perfume rather than bathing.
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He's a troll. Check out Joe Rogan Experience Podcast where he was guest, he explains it in details: http://vimeo.com/54406807
It is easily doable with a few lines of python. I gave it a quick shot: https://github.com/thibauts/duckduckgo
It doesn't integrate very well with vimperator either...
Same tone as every sports personality when they get caught out "I'm terribly sorry I disappointed my fans, don't worry I'm going to come back and things will be great again". I suppose this means video games are becoming a legitimate sporting category though.
It's this sort of thing that originally drove me away from /r/programming and which I continue to find hilarious about HN (and to found a parodic subreddit, see if you can find it).
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I agree this is the best way to buy electronics :)

(except over here it's a different large electronics chain and smaller online retailers instead of Amazon)

For an extra slap in the face, a friend of mine even used one of their on-display Macs to place the order in that very store :) (while he did take some precautions against keyloggers, I'd be a bit more hesitant myself, to enter such data into a public computer).

Their problem is that smart customers need to go online anyway, because the specs on the cards in the store are always incomplete (or even incorrect) so you can never quite compare two items. (and then it turns out that their cheapest model runs at nearly the same wattage as their expensive "energy saver" model ...) (that was for monitors btw)
I know HN is full of LISP hackers, but there's no need to add random closing brackets, surely?
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If it's really that good (I've never tried it), then surely a couple users would be willing to donate a few bucks for it to be signed (especially seeing as lightroom costs what, $150?). $99 isn't quite pocket change, but it's not big money either.

Reading the link, it seems like (some of) the devs have philosophical objections to doing that; fine. But philosophical objections aren't the same as "it can't be done".
Can this be a game changer? www.dealpu.lt
What do you guys think about this and offline deals and promotions? Can this be the game changer in retail industry?
Can't look at the listing in the same way after seeing that haha
4 things that you should Not do when fundraising
I can't believe I'm about to say it, but Arrington has a point. There's a trend of companies rapidly growing through user data and allowing whatever needs to occur to get the data rolling, then when they hit a point they rapidly close down links and go "mine! ALL MINE!" and then start acting like massive children who've had a strop and thrown their toys out of the pram.

For what it's worth I don't think that Instragram did this because they're now owned by Facebook, I think it was probably on the road map for a while.
If you want an upgradable computer, then all-in-one designs were never going to be the economical path.

Predicting this guy just needs to wait to see the next Mac Pro.

I'm still delighted with Apple.

Both iOS and OSX are prime for some rethinking (beyond a few licks of paint). But I do think Apple is in a far better position to do this well and in their own time now the Windows 8 threat has imploded on itself (somewhat ... well, at least it's not found huge momentum yet).
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No, he meant Linux users, just gave Ubuntu as an example.

Not just because most distros are like Ubuntu, but also because the user base of the rest that are not like Ubuntu, Centos etc are statistical noise.
You know, I was so happy when I discovered HN. It is normally such a refreshing respite from all the other tech blogs and aggregators, and from /r/tech in particular.

But over the past few weeks I keep seeing vapid, information-less articles like this make it to the front page, and it's pretty disappointing to see happen. The knee-jerk anti-Apple sentiments seem to have infected even this (mostly) austere and considerate site.

I hope this is a temporary thing.
> have enough knowledge of the languages that the 14 hours can be squeezed into 9.

Or enough knowledge of the English language to be able to tell the people trying to get us to work those hours what to do. ;)
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30. A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post

Should probably be marked 'unflag', too...
ok, i have to ask - how do you get smiley-face amazon urls?

[update: huh, so it can be arbitrary text. what's it for?]
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Lights out, Boeing creates the first working EMP bomb
We now have a working electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) missile that will be used as an offensive or defensive weapon by the military. The project test was announced on September 22, 2012, and codenamed, the ‘Counter-Electronics High Power Advanced Missile Project’, or simply ‘CHAMP’. This is the first time a real EMP missile has been tested with positive real world results.
- remember the cause of failure

- remind yourself about it

- go back to work

- do not repeat the thing from the first point
14 hour days are bad and wrong anyway, no one should do them, and no one should expect them.

Can you explain this claim? For what value of N are N hour days not "bad and wrong"?
Yes, only I'm not spending $20 to play portal on a calculator...
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Doesn't have the intro you posit and maybe a slight off topic in places. But perhaps informative. http://eggfreckles.net/notes/my-week-with-linux/
It doesn't make sense to argue about this, since different users expect different things from their computers.

Either you think that users should be able to save any files they want to their devices (and move them to other devices), or you don't.

Personally, I wouldn't accept this even if iBooks was preinstalled. There are so many other file types that you just cannot move/save.
We humans also need a habitat.
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Fantastic.

For #1... maybe the real feedback is that I didn't understand that. But fair enough. I don't disagree with your goal. :)

For #2... you're right, and my point was that there is nothing for those lurkers (or "pre-contributors") to do. The community is very singular in its focus, and that focus is on the minority. A "browse" page or a footer full of browsable suggestions would be worth a lot.
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I was hoping this would also include a simple CSV or other delimited text import method, but I guess you have to construct the JSON yourself? Is it omitted because D3 already takes care of this in some other way?
> OS X could display a warning that the user can override.

If it had an overridable dialog straight from double-click, people will just see this as an annoyance and end up clicking the "Yeah, whatever!" button without skipping a beat.

The way it is, it's actually overridable per application with "right click->open" which gives you the overridable warning you wish for, with OSX actually remembering the overriding and you can subsequently double-click on the now whitelisted app. This whitelisting apparently survives even Sparkle updating.

It appears that it's just convoluted enough for people dangerous to themselves not to shoot themselves in the foot, yet convenient enough for the informed user to act easily. And ironically the solution is actually written in the non-overridable dialog, yet the kind of people not reading dialogs is precisely the risky kind. I'd venture it's made so on purpose.
does it ever get old?
And both are getting stuck in the corruption of the system. More people need to combat it. Corruption exists in many forms. When you pay someone to get around the law you know it is corruption, but when a law is created to do one thing, but it is used for another thing it is also corruption.
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It's probably best to wear alternate pairs of shoes, so that they get a chance to dry out and air between outings.
Worse is any goverment willing to break their own laws for another government that is really a proxy for an industry... That's what's really scary about this
Change the localhost entry in the hosts file, for one.

Shoot yourself in the foot with iptables.

Had the IP stacked borked once too.
Every online community needs a good flounce every now and again. Extra points for the 'I just wanted to see if you all loved me really' reverse flounce shortly afterwards!
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> X11 is a platform.

By that definition, POSIX libc is a platform. X11 is a standard with one flagship implementation (currently X.org, formerly XFree86) and multiple other implementations fewer people care about.
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Not a two-thirds majority though :)
These libraries all look so very pretty, but with the exception of dygraphs, explode horribly given anything but the most superficial of data sets.

Speedy fetching/rendering/interaction of 10,000 samples for a handful of variables is always going to suck when every sample of every variable requires its own object with a handful of properties.

As for the usefulness of charts displaying only 4 or 5 data points.. well, you're really not gaining much from visual representation of such a tiny set, other than 'oooh that's pretty' feel-good factor.
I've been giving this some thought (this would be an idea to share on LaunchSky) ... what about a web site where people could go and ask for something to be developed? The ideas get voted and commented on and then developers could go away make it and know it's something that has a market.

It could even evolve into a competition where apps are being developed for the stuff that people want, plus the web site would give exposure to the apps.

Maybe this could be a section of LaunchSky?

Just an idea.
I attended two different courses on Coursera and i hope that i will pick more courses there DB is also most important course for me.
Beats me.

Of course the situation is unsatisfactory. But I like the 3D-Secure approach.

Unfortunately the implementation is card provider specific and quality varies.

I had a VISA once where I could enter a custom phrase that was displayed to me on every "verified by VISA" dialog.

Combined with displaying the dialogue in an iframe this practice seems strike the best balance between usability and security.

Of course as coinbase would have to implement something like this by themselves, but I that seems feasible.
Whether the USG is a collection of well minded do-gooders, an inept bureaucracy that can't tell one hand from another, a literal collection of antichrists, or absolutely none of the above: the USG has guns.
I'm on tenterhooks to know how you key Meta-Space now :)
xCharts is offering itself free even for commercial use unlike HighCharts
> The internet is not just HTML anymore.

Nor has it ever been, seeing as how it predates HTML by over a decade.
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Try Google Now, it's awesome and it understands me!

Try Ingress, it's a whicked game Google developped!

Try Android, if you like something more (widgets, tasker, ...), it's superior!

Try products of the Nexus-line, low prices for quality hard- and software.

Try Apple, keep your UI the same for 5 years, use only icons as UI and sell your devices with 50% profits.
Gain traction because of the narcisme of your users..

(PS. If you want to know why Apple is not adding Widgets, it's because it would be to difficult their users).
If you enjoy these, and you have BBC iPlayer I highly recommend the 3 part Supersized Earth http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00zy57x/Supersized_Ear... for more scary/wow Anthropocene material.
If you're expected to work 14 hour days as anything other than a one off then it's not sustainable. Don't get me wrong, some developers are very capable of being able to grind 14 hour days out over and over, but for the average person your quality level is going to dip off rapidly, you end up overly stressed and it ruins your health. I say this as someone who has gone his time in the pits doing 14 hour days, and whilst I throw the occasional one in when needed it's a rare outlier.
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Then why do we destroy the part of the habitat that provides us with oxygen and stable climate?
I raise you a "Another boring CloudFlare blogpost full of self-praise".
I think one of them was the "Location Cache" that remembered locations and connected WIFI hotspots (IIRC to aid in fast geolocation), and there was another case of something like some carrier-mandated monitoring software. All a couple of years ago.
I'd imagine the bandwidth for a porn site is huge, imagine having all that bandwidth dealt with by someone else for free! plus the porn industry tends to get in on new technologies early so Id be surprised if there isn't some somewhere.

Unrelated to porn this sort of thing could be great in general as all the content is searchable it would be a goldmine for information on how to use a function or do some specific action. I already use git as a codex of sorts!
I was a little disappointed some of them didn't link to actual articles.
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Just wait another two months, and it'll be around again ;)
Everyone knows Ruby doesn't scale! ;)
Also: "I made something awesome in a functional language"
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If you visit a different country and pay for something in the local currency, and then later on you want a refund, you wouldn't expect the shop to refund you in your home currency?
can you link to the bug please ? I thought it was something wrong with my typing.
You forgot to add woman-centric posts, like "How I hacked my daughter's brain into learning Python," or "How I taught 3 girls between the ages of 13 and 55 to love Linux command line."

But this is pretty funny. No MS hate?
I tried it out, you can now make an Eclipse like experience, albeit requiring many key presses to invoke compiliation and execution of code. It's not as slick as Eclipse, but its possible.

As for the merit of the technique - try it out. I've found it allows a level of experimentation not possible without the option; personally I've found that useful when it is not obvious what the right thing to do is upfront, I can try out a small change to a chunk of code, try it out via unit tests, then update all call sites appropriately; as opposed to attempting to "upgrade" call sites appropriately using a canned refactoring before I've validated whether or not I'm going to be able to achieve what I want for a few test cases.
Gelman and Hill is a nice book organized specifically around regression.
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Yeah, that would be great if a. the link was to a question on StackExchange about mmap, but it's not, and b. if the use of mmap was commonly known as using a "virtual disk file", but again, it's not.
Both have excellent points, read them and then make up your own mind.
I agree with your observations. They are sound and amplify OP's point: "I am not a Mac anymore".

Personally, I haven't even bothered trying an iPad, but speaking as a previously satisfied user of the Apple's laptops, the OP's comment very much resonated with me.

I also would like to note that (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread) that Apple software's propensity to assume the Big Mommy role is hardly a new phenomena. Apple was never an "open system", it is true. But there was a golden age in the '00s that produced just the right mix of open and managed systems.

Finally, there is a political subtext to all of this. Apple clearly believes in ('benign') authoritarianism -- it is in their DNA -- and given their empowered position in the computation loop, I no longer feel it is appropriate to support their bottom line, specially given the unacceptable stated position of Jobs on matters such as free speech.
Man, his phrasing is awkward and annoying.
Ask HN: Startup Vacation Policy
My company is getting to that stage where we have a number of salaried and part-time employees. My partners and I are looking to encourage and reward our employees while building an open and inviting company culture. At the same time we want to make sure and protect the company and make sure this environment isn't take advantage of. I've read of great companies with relaxed vacation policies and I've also seen other established companies with more traditional policies. What has HN found to work for you personally as an employee or an owner?

As this is HN, any links you've found to be helpful would be appreciated as well.
The biggest question I have is regarding content duplicates. If I have, say, a comment or a draft post somewhere that I later develop into a full article and post elsewhere, can I take measures to identify both as being written by me and thus avoid plagiarism penalties?