skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kudos to aditya, jay, mike and all who helped out at UWaterloo. Fun fact: They went through Velocity here first - never underestimate the power of tractions guys. Congrats!
Thanks for your interest! It has been noted. Once I work through the existing backlog of bugs, I'll revisit ideas such as this one.
I highly recommend MailChimp. I use them for my newsletter and the fact you can start using them for free with up to 2000 subscribers is very nice.
Apartment buildings also have to adhere to fire codes and building codes too. If they are safe for residents, why wouldn't they be safe for guests?
> But my biggest pet peeve is just the sheer dumbing down of things. iTunes 11 is pretty, but why put everything a click away? What was so bad about a sidebar that makes everything instantly accessible and only takes 80px? Why does the app now prefer to be run in full screen?

Is "number-of-clicks" really the best metric to measure usability? I can't imagine something like this being considered a good interface, even though everything is one double-click away: http://it.sheridanc.on.ca/images/cluttered-desktop.jpg
Not for me. "syntax error near unexpected token ';' == no printf
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Sharding your database
HBO is subsidized by the price of the entire cable bill. There are people who get cable in large part because they want access to HBO; HBO captures a portion of that revenue too.

HBO has stated directly that they would lose money if they offered a la carte access to their content. Recurring revenue is an extremely powerful thing; if you have a business model that works that drives recurring revenue, you stick with it.

HBO's business model works extraordinarily well; they have almost 30 million subscribers.
Reminds me of some of the advice in "How to Make Friends and Influence People"; a very good book for teaching people how to deal with difficult situations (like criticism of things you're close to).
Another fun example of a computer generating mezmerizingly complex art from simple code is that as a kid, I wrote a Langton's Ant implementation in QBASIC on a DOS machine (don't remember the version). IIRC this was using Graphics Mode 1 (320 x 200 pixel framebuffer), and I used PSET and PRESET to draw white and black pixels. This so far sounds ordinary but:

The cool thing was that I forgot to write the bounds check to make sure the ant stayed inside the framebuffer! So the ant would happily trundle off-screen, encounter arbitrary bits that were in that memory, and would often eventually return back on the screen from a different location. Or sometimes (probably due to encountering zeros offscreen) it would run a lap around the edge of the screen and then veer back inward.

Langton's Ant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langtons_ant
This is not a blunder.
Yer in denial psy-ops. I'm in control.

God says...

3:9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for
ever.

3:10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:
3:11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be
cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

3:12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the
province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O
king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the
golden image which thou hast set up.

3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before
the king.

3:14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach,
Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden
image which I have set up? 3:15 Now if ye be ready that at what time
ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and
dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image
which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the
same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that
God that shall deliver you out of my hands? 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are
not careful to answer thee in this matter.

----

Fucken nigger still don't understand.

Ba ha -- fucken nigger threateniong me. The world is just -- half a dozen one way and six any other way. No worries. Turn other cheek. I fucken talk with God and highs and lows balance. rejoice when they persecute you.

Yer fucken retard, niggers.

God says...

Baal.

11:14 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry
or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry
unto me for their trouble.

11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath
wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee?
when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

11:16 The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of
goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire
upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced evil
against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of
Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger
in offering incense unto Baal.

11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then
thou shewedst me their doings.
Same fascination with this, I think, as with the simple rules of Conway's. S'pose there are other such "a-mazing" simple revelations still floating in the void?
I can't take time off from work right now (1 month old baby at home, and my wife is taking time off from work), so it would have to be a night and weekend thing for now. The reason I floated the Kickstarter option is that I could buy a few months off with any money raised there. The problem as you correctly pointed out is that education is tough to break into...universities are hard to convince, and school districts are notoriously difficult to deal with. The WordPress model I alluded to involves going directly to the teachers. I think that's where the real potential lies.
Who's putting words in who's mouth now?
A family member owns a condo that I considered suggesting they put on Airbnb. Then I thought about how other condo owners currently have a conniption fit when they think people (guests) are getting access to the building that shouldn't. I cannot imagine the amount of hell that would be unleashed if they saw so many random people coming and going. Even if there was nothing in the bylaws I could see them causing my relatives massive headache.

Conversely, the entranceway door to a condo is a security feature that all owners have a shared responsibility for. If I was one of the other owners (or even a renter) how would I feel about another person renting their condo out on a nightly basis to anyone willing to pay for it? I'm pretty torn on the issue.
Why piping to ruby? You have the -e operator for that:

ruby -e 'loop do print ["\u2571","\u2572"].sample ; sleep 0.001 end'
The startup I'm currently working for is pretty much the perfect place to work, and we have a good shot at a good exit. I'm employee #7 so I have a decent amount of equity, and the founders have had two $200 million exits in the past.
"It cannot contain profanity, pornography, or otherwise be abusive or offensive." -"2. Rules about Changing Jason’s Last Name", https://buymylastname.com/terms/
I don't think the future is GPS at all. I remember reading a while back about a researcher who was working on developing tiny optical gyroscopes that were ridiculously precise, the idea being that you can calibrate their position once and after that all future locations are determined simply by integrating the acceleration of the gyroscope. It would work in places that GPS can't (like caves).

To me, that's really awesome. Personally, I think the coolest use would be in running watches to finally get a perfectly accurate pace instead of a slowly-updating estimate.

I'll see if I can find the link to the researcher's page.
I'm so thankful that my parents taught me rationalism and manners. So many of these types of things are just common sense to me. Pay attention in your technical writing class and don't be an arrogant hothead.
Not all HTML emails are image heavy monstrosities. There is a lot you can do with HTML/CSS that makes the message easier to consume and more impactual without using a single image.

I feel like HTML email design lags about 5-10 years behind website design. Some of that is the limited feature set, but I think more of it is the lack of design attention its given. It seems like most of it gets generated by a marketing department using some crappy marketing campaign templating software from a decade ago with little to no thought to how the output is consumed.
Another important point is what would happen to services everyone use. Google and Microsoft probably don't have much to fear, since they use very decentralized services and have data centers all over the world. But it's surprising to see how many well known web sites are hosted at just a few, if not a single location. During Sandy, when PEER1 went down, that was a single building, yet it took down major sites for days.
That can synergize with GPS. Many OEM Nav systems in cars these days do something similar in tunnels, where GPS signals are unavailable.
I am an attorney, but this is not legal advice.

The reason Airbnb isn't providing (and are unlikely to provide) legal warnings to its prospective hosts is that instead of being on the hook for one potential legal violation (N.Y. MDW. Law section 304(1)(a)), they'd be on the hook for two.

Advising hosts to obey the local laws in its jurisdiction is pretty harmless. Advising hosts what the law is, on the other hand, could be construed as the unauthorized practice of law, and could get Airbnb into even more hot water. See, e.g., N.Y. Judiciary Law section 495.
It's really frustrating to watch people persist in ideas they know are bad just to keep rank.
Google+ users / generic consumers.
That's why I explicitly mentioned "manipulation and enrichment of physical goods"
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Dream Date Auctions? Bid to take women/men on their dream date.
"Move and be moved - Faithstreet"
I'm curious more along the lines of personalized emails to users of a service. As far as I know, MailChimp is more about blasting one message to lots of people. Unless I'm mistaken :)
The New York Times style guide recommends periods after the letters if you pronounce the letters individually. [1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Pronunciation-dependent...
It's not just this one that I mind. The "Humble Android Bundle", "Humble Ebook Bundle", and so on are also diluting the brand.

But this one goes against some of the basic tenets of the Humble Bundle series; namely, the DRM-free, cross-platform nature. One of the reasons I support them is that I support choice. I want to have choice in what platform I run. I want to have choice in what machines I run my games on. DRM and single-platform games mean that I don't have that choice.

All I'm saying is that in the past, I've bought Humble Bundles and never even played a single game, just because I supported the idea so much. Now they've violated some of their core principles; they are still "pay what you want" and allow supporting charities, but they are selling games that I am morally opposed to. I'm better off just giving my money to the charities directly.
Interactive JavaScript version:
http://js.do/samples/labyrinth
BitBucket is awesome. I've used it for months and I've had no issues at all. Great new UI as well!
We recently did this, and it's not that big of a deal. In our case, a 30-line sql script did the job (mostly related to renaming fk fields in other tables, and re-creating indexes and constraints). More than happy to share, although it's very specific to our app of course.
If you spend time in direct response circles, the matra is A.B.T. - always be testing.

An addendum to that might read "ABV" - always be valuing (visitor value, that is).

I've personally tested both. It really depends on how html vs. text affects:
a) your open rates
b) your clickthrough rates
c) your sales conversion rates
d) your long term lifetime value and visitor value.

It's very dangerous to make decisions about "html vs. text" based upon one's own personal preference - or even HN readers (unless that's your target audience).

What do you know about your audience? That's what I always say when chatting with friends and colleagues.

As an example, are the majority of your users using gmail, hotmail, yahoo, aol?
Or, are they using personal and/or academic addresses?

These different mailing providers treat html vs text quite differently.

The style of your email can affect whether or not you get inboxed (hence every action step from open rates, to ctr rates to sales will be affected).

What's the demo of your audience? If one has an older crowd, perhaps plain text may be easier to read.

A younger crowd? Perhaps xyz percentage more of them are reading via mobile devices. This would also affect the decision.

The Email Experience Council at the DMA has some great research on this topic - check their Youtube channel.

But above all I'm a big fan of making data-driven decisions based on a clear awareness of what your audience's behavior suggests - not on personal preferences or HN likes - IHMO.

Also HTML may be more appealing but text may drive more goal conversions.

Has anyone else seen better overall ROI with text, even though they personally have more of a preference for HTML?

added:
http://www.emailexperience.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/EmailExperience
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I'd like to point out that this is NOT an isolated incident for Ben. I've replied to the MailChimp newsletter before with my thoughts or questions and on multiple occasions have gotten a response back from Ben within an hour or two with a thoughtful, specific response to my email. I also sent a rant to him after we had some trouble with MailChimp and he apologized and worked to make it right within a day.

The lesson you should take away from Ben isn't how to respond to unfair post - it's that you should be always open to communication (positive or negative) and that you should respond as a polite, respectful human, not as a "company" voice.

As a result of my interactions with Ben and his incredible product, I'm a loyal MailChimp user and regularly recommend them to people looking to setup newsletters for their companies.
Reading this right now. I also made an SVG version at http://romulusetrem.us/10print/
Cardamom in coffee is quite tasty. It gives some of the flavor of Turkish coffee without all the viscosity.
This is heartbreaking.

This 11 year old girl seems extremely gifted. Her vocabulary and insight in astounding. She could be the next great innovator or artist but we don't do enough to help people like her act on their potential.
And yet they write "AOL" in this article.
Typographer’s and their handwriting
I think you should host the talks in the style of a traditional "salon." It would be a social gathering with food and drink that also happens to let people expand their horizons.
A few of these are incorrect -- Somalia has a huge amount of satellite connectivity through providers who don't bother to SWIP their RIPE blocks. I suspect it is the same in a lot of other African countries with limited "official" connectivity.
or "Accelerators Can't Just Be a Rung on the Venture Capital Ladder"
"From H.P., a Blunder That Seems to Beat All"

"The dubious title of worst corporate deal ever had seemed to be held in perpetuity by AOL’s acquisition of Time Warner in 2000"

No mention of Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch? Within 15 days of the acquisition's close, Merrill recorded an operating loss of $21.5 billion... Leading to a market capitalization loss of $108 billion.
That's because the company's name is AOL, Inc.[1], and not an abbreviation. It doesn't have anything to do with the pronunciation. AOL used to be known as America Online, but when it bought Time Warner, the new company was called "AOL Time Warner"[2].

The Times also writes "I.B.M." instead of IBM, because it is officially "International Business Machines". They also used to write "A.T.&T." for "American Telephone and Telegraph" [3], but now write "AT&T" when AT&T changed their name to the former acronym.

[1] http://www.google.com/finance?q=AOL

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2000/01/11/business/media-megadeal-ov...

[3] (google-cache) http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ByumNxy...
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Some of those are definitely not useless to kids. Remember when you were a kid and some crabby old biddy gave you crap for 'wasting your time'? I do.
As for adults and the web: How 'useful' is porno? (Same principle)
Yet Google still has a reputation for very selective hiring ... is that because most of the hiring decision isn't interview-related (degree/GPA/projects/resume)? Or is it that, while the data structures/algorithms questions might not be too hard, it's possible that the interviews are still difficult, due perhaps to a degree of randomness, or to high standards (candidate is IO-bound not compute-bound, never makes a mistake, uses of axiomatic semantics to prove correctness as she writes...)?
I'm gonna call BS on this. Hiatal hernia's are frequently associated with over consumption of coffee, which has other effects on the heart, esophageal and stomach lining. Anecdotally, an alarming amount of heavy coffee drinkers also seem to be taking maintenance prescription antacids, Nexium, etc. None of which are intended for long term use as they deplete Vitamin B12, among other issues.
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Those examples are not commerce, and therefor not relevant. Should the USDA regulate your garden? How about the vegetables in a grocery store?
I totally get the annoyance of previous paid users. But man, the irrational nature of human psychology around price and paying for things beggars disbelief. For anyone that owns an iPhone 99¢ is truly a pittance.

People's feelings about what is fair totally overwhelm any sense of proportion or of what's at stake in a given situation.
My roommate actually had an issue with this. He had a friend from out of town stay with us for a week or so without notification of the landlord. The terms of the lease were notification of overnight guests, and they couldn't stay longer than a week without written approval.
I have developed a number of HTML newsletter templates over the years and when I checked their Supported Email Clients table I found that they claim to have not tested these against Outlook 2007.

Personally, I bet they DID test them against Outlook 2007 and when they saw the amount of work that would be involved in making them render at least somewhat correctly they held a staff meeting and decided it would be more effective to just put a big red "X" in that column and I don't blame them for it one bit.
> This usage of the word "theft" only makes sense when dealing with private goods, as I explained in my original post

If I had indeed used the word "theft" to refer to it, that would be a good point. However, I did not. I said that if you're only considering the cost to the recipient, then the same analysis could apply with equal validity to theft.

> Applying the economics of private goods to goods that are neither rival nor excludable leads to a distorted view of reality as well.

Talent is both rival and excludable. That is my point. The marginal cost of transmitting the information is essentially nonexistent, but the cost of producing it in the first place (which depends on a finite supply of talented time) must be taken into account or we'll come to bad, unrealistic decisions.
JavaScript (in a browser):

var r = 0; function go(){setTimeout('document.write(r++ % 80 ? Math.round(Math.random()) ? "\\\\" : "/" : "<br>"); go()', 100)}; go();

This was actually a lot more difficult for me to write than I thought it would be. `document.write` blocks and also a browser doesn't wrap by default, hence the r variable.

This will, of course, nuke any page you happen to run it on. :)

P.S. Why is code formatted so badly on HN these days? Until that's fixed I'll just use normal formatting.
This brings up something I hadn't yet thought of. Google+ is known to have done a more thorough job of purging Real Names from their system than facebook. As far as I know they don't support relationship statuses. If Google+ adds this feature, will they block gay people from saying they're married if they live in a state that doesn't allow gay marriages? After all, Gundotra invokes the term "real life", even when he's on the defensive: https://plus.google.com/+BradleyHorowitz/posts/SM5RjubbMmV

I wonder if they'd say that less than 0.1% of users wanted to say they're married when they legally aren't married. I don't think that would fly as well as the same argument they made with names.
theres nothing wrong with proper preparation, but the whole idea of gamifying the process seems incredibly unnecessary. As an employer I look for people that are very self motivated, and don't require any external motivations like an ipad to do something. If someone told me they needed this type of effort to get something done that as in his words "is a dream of mine", then he already failed my test.
This has been posted previously, yet remains hilarious.

The best have to be:

Diddy - No Content. Well, unless you count saying random bullshit over Biggie's lyrics something.

Fresh Prince (Will Smith) - Moved Permanently. He stayed in LA.

MC Hammer - Unauthorized. Although I would argue Vanilla Ice would have been better here.

Cisqo (or however it is spelled) - Not Found. Unfortunately, he was. And so was the Thong Song.

I'm not getting the Wu-Tang Clan for Internal Server Error though, and Biggie and 2Pac for Gone is just depressing.
And now, Mr. Founder, let’s see who you really are…
PG said it:

A startup is too much work for one person.

http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
Don't wait too long - many parts of the world already have great adoption rates for modern browsers. Here in Brazil Webkit sits at 58%, adding FF+Opera that's 78%.
To add to this, is there some kind of high level what needs to be done for 5.4 support?
"Take the money and run," Woody Allen said it best.
Hence the use of "majority".

Thank you for finding that link, I was trying to find this[1] presentation for my comment, but couldn't.

[1] - http://users.cis.fiu.edu/~carbunar/teaching/cis5374/slides/a...
What? Why is it hard? I just wrote a web app a couple weeks ago to enable my co-workers to upload large files (.5-1.5GB) to S3. Like, I don't doubt you, I'm just curious why my experience was so different than what you describe.
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It worked for me when I copied it, not when I tried retyping it. I think the fancy unicode ╱ ╲ matters vs. plain ascii \/
https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/reference/qt_index...
I can't resist a golf!

ruby -e 'print %W{\u2571 \u2572}.sample while sleep 1e-3'

(Updated: Made 3 chars shorter.)

And a shorter, but cheats, version:

yes|ruby -pe'$_=%W{\u2571 \u2572}.sample;sleep 1e-3'

My favorite overall balance of readability and shortness though is:

ruby -e 'print %w{╱ ╲}.sample while sleep 0.01'