skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh... For my coding workflow, vim is the best tool out there. Eclipse/VStudio is completely useless in my world.

Side Note: pixels are not easy to parse, text is.
On the topic of Banach-Tarski, i feel obliged to point everyone at this Banach-Tarski related video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFvokQUHh08
HN can be pretty mysogynistic. (I have ben told other women have left because they find it unpalatable and I know that a lot of women downplay or hide their gender on HN because it is seen as a problem.) So, the environment here tends to bias perception. If you want support, you will need to make extra effort to avoid even an appearance of attacking the roles of women while talking about your concerns about the roles of men. Women are widely regarded to be second class citizens, something you no doubt know. The language you are using is more likely to be acceptable to women or other more "feminine"/not "hard science" types. It will not go over well with most members here. Not being careful of how your remarks will be perceived by the minority that might take you seriously practically guarantees you will not be anything but attacked.

I know from firsthand experience. You can check my remarks for how I am going down in flames elsewhere on HN today. Unfortunately, many years of history have painted me into a corner that, in practice, I don't know the way out of dven though in theory I know the general principles which should work.

I hope you find a path forward in discussing gender issues with people, whether here or elsewhere. I have long found such topics fascinating. But, yes, they are super touchy topics.
I was also running a news server for my school and an ISP around the same time (1994-1996). The alt.binaries hierarchy was a constant headache. The total data flow and storage requirements were already about 10X the rest of Usenet. We had to manually tweak refuse lists when the disk drives filled up.

I wasn't still around, but I expect the second wave of automated binary posting/retrieval tools in the late 90's probably created the surge that changed Usenet access into a separate paid service, no longer something that came with an ISP account like email.

However, it wasn't just warez and porn that killed Usenet. Spam took off there before email, and it wasn't until email spam became untenable that modern automated filtering tools were created.
Researchers find crippling flaws in global GPS
Do you want to collaborate on constructing a concrete description aimed at people with your sort of background/capabilities?
For the record, do note that "the taxi industry" and "taxi drivers" are not the same entity, do not have the same goals, and probably don't like each other very much.
Ugh, now I font know if I can trust them with my domains. Too bad, I might have to move away.
Isn't Atlanta a place with "strong traditions and moral values"? Which is Paul-Graham-speak for "an awful place for innovation"?
Sorry, my Aussie is showing again...
256 Colors in Linux Terminal
I actually wrote a CL crawler in Ruby - https://github.com/marcamillion/craigslist-ruby-crawler

I used it to crawl for freelance web dev gigs, but it can be re-purposed to do anything.
Honeydanber + Node.js. Ugh, can't wait.
OP - quit your whining. Sounds like the country mouse is complaining about life in the city. The City moves fast, and it looks like you were not moving fast enough. Stop with tired metaphors of "small town rules and old world business."

Pro tip: Get in the cab. Close the door. Then tell them where you are going.

That is how you get to Brooklyn or any other undesirable place in the city. (see what I did there? the slight dig at BKLN?)

You squandered an opportunity there in Midtown. I'll explain:

1. It was raining
2. It was Midtown
3. Sounds like it might have been near shift-change.

How many times have you tried to get a cab in the rain in midtown? Given those market conditions YOU are the common commodity with little value. There are plenty of other customers willing to take the cab who will apply my pro-tip above.
New York has a solution for this. It's called a livery car (they're usually Lincoln Town Cars). This is especially prudent when you have a flight to catch.

You call and they send someone at the appointed time.

It's cheaper than Uber and the drivers are the same.

Some have phone numbers you'll never forget:
(212) 777-7777 and 866-666-6666.
We can't control everything, but we can control or reactions. I believe that is what Derek is trying to get across, even if he didn't quite state that outright.

I'm reading Quality Software Management Volume 1 Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg. Page 111' 7.3 It's not the event that counts, it's your reaction to the event... Whenever there is a [i]human decision point[/i] in the system, it's not the event that determines the next event, but someone's reaction to the event.
Thank you for the tip! I was actually just reading about gearing in an article called "The Art of LEGO Design" (http://cheme.eng.wayne.edu/neuron/LEGO_ROBOTICS/artoflego_ar...)!

Was also looking at Technic kits (such as http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Tractor-9393) with a preference towards those with more pieces, and thus more flexibility.
I don't deliberately block ads, but I do block Flash and Javascript for that reason. (If you want me to see your ads, make them work without Javascript, thankyou very much.)
Right, which is why I started that evaluation at the top-end of the scale. How much data do you move a month?
Similarly "skiing" in the Tribes series was a glitch in the first game that eventually became the later games' signature maneuver.
Heh, interesting - Google's ANGLE project supports OpenGL ES on top of D3D 9, and if another project implemented D3D on top of OpenGL... would it ever matter which you used?
Laser pulse makes insulator conduct like a metal
The primary reason to make YoutubeSearch a class is, in the future, implementing searching other video sites and taking advantage of inheritance in the implementation. That isn't demonstrated here, but the plumbing of "doing a request", "providing an iterator" and such could be promoted to the base class and subclasses are only responsible for knowing their domain.
For anyone playing it: is there any real-money attribute to the game? That seriously kills e.g. Shadow Cities for me, and will probably kill qonqr as well. For Shadow Cities for example, it's not necessary, but it is extremely important for owning locations, which progressively increases in cost (some > 500 'potions', which is roughly equivalent to $30 [1]), or you spend many many hours earning small numbers of them. Yeah, it helps hosting costs, but it ruins the game.

[1]: http://shadowcities.wikia.com/wiki/Potions
Spoken and written languages are so inefficient and arcane, we all should switch to pointing and grunting to convey information.
I remember a mathematician's joke about this theorem which stated that an anagram of Banach-Tarski was Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski.
I watched that, constantly wondering when it would become interesting. Or funny. Or clever. Or anything other than a waste of time.

It didn't.

Added in edit: Fascinating - Someone down-voted this comment. Here I was thinking it would be helpful that people who trust my opinion will know not to waste their time, and people who don't know me can use this comment to see if their taste in these things matches mine. But no, someone just thinks it's of negative value. Interesting. I'm always learning new things about the HN community.
1) The author of this post is wrong when he assumes that the driver's refused his fare solely because JFK is a location that is "out of the way". There are indeed set shift changes that the large majority of cabs in NYC adhere to, and when they do change shift they leave their "off-duty" lights on and try to get one more fare on their way back to the depot/home at the end of their shift. I don't know how many times I've been refused by a string of taxis at the shift change because I'm going in the wrong direction, even though my route is normally one with the best profit margins for them.

2) To those suggesting you get in the cab before you state your destination, the cabs that do this already know that it is harder to refuse you once you get in the cab. That is why they will leave the doors locked, roll down their window, and only partially position themselves in the stopping lane.... They are ready to veer off very quickly. When it is raining outside and you are desperately trying to catch a cab you are going to comply with this routine.

3) Also, if you do manage to enter the cab and tell them a destination that is out of the way of their return journey, they have no qualms in telling you to get out.

EDIT: I'd also like to add that Uber hasn't really brought anything new to New York other than a smartphone app. Town car services in New York City are more than plentiful and no less reliable when you call them up than when you request one through Uber. In my my experience, the town car companies I have used over the past decade have been much more reliable and quicker to service me than the few times I've tested out Uber's service. I wouldn't call Uber a disruptive service in the NYC ecosystem, just a complementary channel for requesting private town cars.

It does make me think though, why should these town car services even cut Uber into the loop? Maybe there is space for some type of PAAS for town car companies to roll out their own web and mobile based booking system?
Ohh i know, my karma will disappear, but IE SUCKS!!! :)
From my experience, subway from Manhattan to JFK might be actually faster, let alone cheaper.

Yellow cabs have fixed fare from anywhere in NYC to any city airport. This is written on each car. This is why, probably, they tend to refuse: this is not that profitable.

Jumping in is best practice but not always possible. Cunning drivers would sometimes ask you where are you going before opening doors, though legally they don't have to, and the passenger should tell them once in the car.

/* This is another example how regulations aimed to make a service affordable result in its becoming inferior, yadda yadda*/
> DC++

Wow, a blast from the past - AND a comment asking what it is.

Is it weird to feel old at 29?
Anecdotally, having lived in NYC for a few years now, the shift change thing is real. Some time periods are just dead for a little while. If a cab is actually on shift and available, they'll have their light on and stop and pick you up without asking you where you're going. If they're at the end of their shift, they'll likely stop and ask you where you're going first (without letting you in yet) to see if you happen to be going the same direction they are. If a guy is at the end of his shift and he's based in Jersey, I can understand why he wouldn't want to commit to driving 30-45 minutes in the opposite direction. There are literally hundreds of other cabs in manhattan that would be happy to take you to JFK, and there's a high likelihood you'd be waiting only a few minutes for one of them to come by.

I think Uber's a great service, but this article seems to be trying to invent a problem that doesn't really exist. For some cities, like SF and several others in CA where taxis aren't ubiquitous, Uber makes a ton of sense. But in manhattan, I'd say 95+% of the time I'm able to find a cab in under 5 minutes, at a reasonable price, by walking to the nearest street corner.
These customs anecdotes are a dime a dozen. I've had a customs official arguing with another official because he wanted to 'nail me to the wall' for no particular reason AND I'M A GOD DAMN US CITIZEN.

Customs officials are given a wide amount of powers, and little to no oversight. At this point, I feel like a US customs official could rape an entire squad of 13 year old cheerleaders live on air over the public airwaves and receive a tax break for the trouble. </bitter>
I'm not entirely sure how Taxi's work in big cities, from my interaction with them I think they work based on the idea that there's always going to be x number of people in need of cabs in any area so driving around looking for patrons provides value to both people looking for a cab (cabs everywhere!) and value to the cabs (people everywhere!).

If a company like Uber takes off and eventually the uber model is delivering 50% of taxi rides, won't that harm the traditional cab market (less patrons) and in turn harm the customer experience (harder to find a taxi wherever you are) therefore requiring people to use the uber model? For example right now you could get an Uber ride in an available city easily, or you could get a traditional cab. If Uber took 80% of the market wouldn't that force you to use Uber?

Just thinking out loud and may be misunderstanding how it all works, but if my thinking is along the right lines it seems there are genuine downsides to the Uber model taking the largest market share beyond just "current taxi drivers will have to change how they work".
I really dislike that mental model. I dislike the entire concept of "we don't really know what is going on, so we will claim your body is merely attacking itself for no real reason". I cannot prove it wrong, but I believe it to be wrong. For my edification, can you list some of the specific conditions which are viewed as "auto-immune disorders" caused by a "strong" immune system?
Gem utility to automagically rename TV show files to a correct format
For an article like this, I do not think it is being pedantic to note that to "print a list of all the files with a txt extension in the current directory except for ignore_me.txt" you do not accomplish that by using the command "ls *.txt | grep -v ignore_me.txt". What if I have the file do_not_ignore_me.txt in that directory ?

Thus, I suppose my message is that Unix command line is even harder to properly use then he states. But in my opinion, the initial hurdles in learning it eventually pay off over time.
Because people voted it up.

If you want a deeper answer you might want to clarify what you don't like about the post.
Wireshark & RTMPDump may get you most of the way there.
Just donated 50 bucks! FreeBSD rocks!
As a UK resident, I feel a pang of embarrassment and sadness and anger as I see how non-residents are treated when going through immigration control. Heathrow immigration is the worst. It's depressing, oppressive, cold and ugly. These are probably deliberate choices.

On several occasions, I've seen customs and immigration officials behave aggressively, usually fidgeting with night-sticks (truncheons) in a way that suggests that they are itching to beat someone.
i like how the very example he uses is something that is a huge hassle to do in any visual UI as soon as the number of files in question is more than, say 300. partisan of visual programming have managed to make easy tasks trivial but i have yet to see a visual toolset that does not make slightly complex tasks tedious and difficult tasks impossible.

Just try porting any visual studio project to a different platform and see instead of a sed one liner to edit your makefile you need to open 72000 dialog to change the name of one header file.
Right, but to say such a thing violates the unspoken rule of startup/Silicon Valley culture of being nicey-nice and super excited about everything even when you don't care at all.

Thus the sin was not to ask a question with zero effort on the part of the questioner, moving all the onus onto those meant to answer it -- "I'm just asking questions, man!" The sin was to point out that this was indeed what happened. The sin was not being nice when verbally rolling your eyes.

Look upthread; currently, the highest-rated discussion involves detecting the sentiment of comments programmatically! The point is the sentiment, the enthusiasm -- not the content. Do you see?
one line to express what i have been grumbling all along while reading this article and facing that argument repeatedly...
>Homebrew or MacPorts and I have exactly the same setup as I have on my Linux server.

My biggest problems with the above:

1. Neither Homebrew nor MacPorts (nor fink, for that matter) has a complete set of relevant packages

2. Compilation from source is ridiculously slow.

3. Certain utilities are best installed from .dmg files instead, and it's a pain to remember which was installed which way.
the orange falling on the knife was pretty cool....but..yeah
Shadow Cities has been out for over a year based on the NYT article, and still has no android client. Who can blame someone for developing a reality overlay for android, particularly when Shadow Cities is more fantasy-focused ("spells")? Is every reality overlay going to be called a Shadow Cities rip off? In that case both Shadow Cities and Ingress are a rip off of the reality overlay concept in Vinge's Rainbows End (which itself is a departure, but got some of its inspiration, from previous fictional virtual environments, like the one in Snowcrash).
We're sort of interested in customer satisfaction (being customers).

If a law helps it, it should be kept. If a law prevents it, it possibly should be repealed.
depending on the resistivity of the copper wire versus the lead-tin mix in the solder, there may end up being more current going through the solder than the actual wire.

Even if the resistivity values of the copper and solder are similar (I'm pretty sure they're at least in the same order of magnitude), you'll still end up with the same amount of current running through the copper wire and the solder.
> It's like eating art.

I'd rather eat food.
Do you think the rubberband bounce-back effect is slightly too violent? Maybe the bounce back animation timing curve could be ease-out?

Otherwise, looks like an awesome app!
You don’t have to spend any real money on the game directly. The closest thing that comes to mind is travel cost.
I agree, and the "must reads" really are "must reads". You need to get back to work, but there's some knowledge out there that is just absolutely critical.

Things like "just fucking launch", "don't die", "make sure you're building something people want and if you're not change it", and "be hackers" among them.
The `find` command is not a very good example of Unix philosophy. http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/find-history provides an interesting snippet of its history, indicating that `find` and some other friends weren't designed by the research group of AT&T behind Unix.

> ... take a moment to consider how utterly anachronistic both of the above solutions come across to non-believers in 2012

While this as the author admits isn't what he wants to talk about, I want to talk about it for a moment. Apart from `find` which is indeed archaic (few people seem to use its many built in features and pipe to simpler programs instead--e.g. preferring to pipe to xargs instead of using -exec), I'm struggling to find what's so old-fashioned about the grep example and what a modern, 2012 design should look like. Is it the '-v'? You can type '--invert-match' instead. Is the problem old-fashioned? I don't think so, I still occasionally pipe the results of find through grep -v and then on to something else. Is piping old-fashioned? Again, what's the 2012 version of these things?

While I don't really like comparing programming languages to spoken languages (much like comparing OS kernels to popcorn kernels), I always liked this quote since I read it:

"Linux supports the notion of a command line or a shell for the same reason
that only children read books with only pictures in them. Language, be it
English or something else, is the only tool flexible enough to accomplish
a sufficiently broad range of tasks." -- Bill Garrett

As for the "meat" of this post, well, we'll see how Light Table turns out. I'm not particularly excited about it but plenty of HNers are.
Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science and Eng Workforce (2005)
REBOL seems to be the eternal answer to that question...
If you want 'real' servers with that density:

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/nfo/FatTwin.cfm

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/nfo/2UTwin2.cfm

http://www.supermicro.nl/products/nfo/MicroCloud.cfm

Those would all be cheaper than the Mac Mini
best layman explanation i've seen: http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2339.html
I found this in my bookmarks:

http://www.lshift.net/blog/2008/11/14/tracing-python-memory-...
The technique is not exactly Microsoft only. Using some sort of SGML to represent graphics seems pretty common.

I suspect that XAML is somewhat related to Adobe's MXML. Both seem pretty similar in concept to Mozilla's XUL, or even GLADE XML. Recent versions of HTML, with behavior defined in something like jQuery seem to be reaching for this kind of thing as well.

They all boil down to a representation of a tree in memory used to sort out what goes where on a screen.

Also, not all Text based UX is a command line. Russ Cox has an interesting if not exactly short demonstration of the ACME editor. http://research.swtch.com/acme Not all Text based UI's are command lines.
It's really unfortunate that the link you referenced contained too many wrong understandings and misrepresentations. A little research can make the following clear:

1. Bitcoinica was a regulated financial service provider before closing down.

2. I sold 100% of it in October 2011, ~5 months before the first breach.

3. There has been no conclusive evidence about the last hack.

4. I was not a defendant of the said lawsuit. I have not provided any defence regarding the lawsuit.

You're a credible person, but I hope you have credible sources to post here.

I have tried my best to discountinue my involvement on Bitcoin projects while keeping supporting the currency. I'm genuinely creating value through startups and you should be able to see this through my effort in NameTerrific.
I can agree with you, and the text supports your argument when he says:

"It's one of those base rules like “people mean well” that's more fun to believe, and have a few exceptions, than to not believe at all."

That part makes it seem alright but the way he talks about power and choosing this over forgiveness and the emphasis he places on having power as well as the importance he places on thinking of a situation in such a way that it avoids the realities of disappointment make it seem like its coming from an unhealthy place.

It's almost as if he's saying "I've found a way to avoid feeling bad about any negative thing that's out of my control" rather than what you're saying he means which would be something like "if you think of everything as being in your control then you'll find you actually do have more power over certain things than you think".

You can take either from this piece and I don't think it's naive at all to find an unhealthy attitude in this. It is very likely that he meant it in the way you say and that part I quoted backs that up. However, besides that one line, his tone and everything else he says in this piece comes off to me as someone training themselves to be avoidant in such a way that it can be construed as a virtue.
Google is only distributed internally, not externally, correct?

Also, I believe they stopped offering Windows a couple of years ago.
An API for getting the latest version of open source software
The only drawback i personally see is in fact that, when you realize that "everything is your fault" ie, that you can influence things, people around you to obtain the desired result, is in fact manipulation.

And I don't like manipulating people. Yes, it's a lot easier. yes, leaders do that non-stop. But personally I can't get around to doing that.

Also, if everyone was doing it, we'd probably play a much higher level of "manipulation game" and feel fake about everything we do.