skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Rather than rant myself, I'll just point you at these august opinions:

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/happy-birt...

http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...
> If you can point me to any web discussion communities that are 10+ years old which use threading, I'd love to see them.

There are virtually no such communities because 10+ years ago people were still having serious conversations on mailing lists and USENET. Those were threaded and had specialized clients allowing to easily find new posts, replies to own posts, filter content, etc.

The great improvement web brought wasn't flatness but post-moderation, editing and later karma/voting/sorting. You simply couldn't moderate articles after they were posted on USENET. And editing ("superseding"?) mostly caused confusion over what your readers are seeing depending on the server and software they're using.
And now, reading this username, I realize I've been trolled... Nevertheless, I believe my points still stand.
It's the Doomsday scenario for Denver. If the Yellowstone super-volcano erupts Denver is toast.
I think you're hanging out in a reality distortion field where people actually do try and use Dropbox, Drive, iCloud, etc. I get it - all my friends use them and talk about them and stuff. But my friends are tech nerds. Normal people grow their file system organically. They don't use dropbox - they email stuff to themselves. They are disorganized, and if they ever tried to get organized, they'd just end up forgetting where stuff is.

This thing looks like it's going to add a whole bunch of work to my life while I try to figure out where the hell stuff is.
Why do people insist on creating languages with really terrible names? How about calling it "if" or "else" or maybe something truly impossible to search for like "the"?

If you're going to import an existing word into the technical context, that usually works, it's obvious what you're talking about when you say "Ruby this" or "Python that" since you're probably not discussing jewels or snakes, but "Kernel"? Don't people program those, not program in that?

Absurdity.
The coolest thing about it is that more than 2200 years ago it was already possible to measure Earth's circumference with only 2% error. If not for the dark ages, who knows what world we'd live in now?
Probably not a big difference to the large majority of people who are not aware this information is public.

A useful tool to be sure, companies should just be careful how they use it.
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For those who don't know, a more accurate calculation of speed of light was done in ancient india and had been mentioned in rigveda:
http://www.hitxp.com/articles/veda/light-speed-rigveda/
I'm surprised this is iPhone only and not a universal app with iPad support. I frequently bring my iPad with me when I drive to act as a turn by turn navigation device. Anyone know why? Hope it's coming.
A solution to an accurate measurement of longitude for shipping was one of the biggest scientific problems of the time and involved some of the brightest minds in the world working over decades and centuries.

After losing almost 2,000 sailors and 4 Navy ships in an accident attributed to poor navigation, the British government offered the Longitude Prize - which was worth millions of dollars in todays money.

From Gallileo and his method of timekeeping by tracking the moons of Jupiter, through to John Harrison and his invention of the chronometer - which ended up winning most of the Longitude Prize - the effort that went into finding a solution had many side effects for science and the solution opened up the world to better navigation and the eventual colonization.

The entire story is chronicled in the book 'Longitude'[0], which was a best seller in 1998. It is well worth a read. Wikipedia is also a good starting point for finding out more.[1]

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Genius-Greatest-Scientific-P...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_longitude
I used TotalFinder for over a year, but gave up on it a few months ago. It was nice and everything, but the number of times it crashed when I was moving large files (via USB or LAN) and basically ruining everything was alarmingly frequent. After a while I would (subconsciously) 'killall TotalFinder' before moving/copying any large file...

Been using XtraFinder for the past month and it doesn't have any problems.
Poetry Makes You Weird
The full writeup is much more detailed and available here:

http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/

I submitted the lwn article because it gives a nice overview and most importantly Chris Mason (btrfs maintainer) discusses the issue in the comments.
Check out https://www.useost.com.
Am I the only one who read the Casey Mulligan blog post which kicked off Professor Rowe's rant? Actually I didn't read the whole thing; I couldn't force myself to push past the egregious statement that "the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy has little effect on a number of financial markets, let alone the wider economy." Anyone who lived through the recessions of the early '80s in the US and believes that is sadly unable to learn from experience.
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Google Maps: Is the iPhone version actually better than Android?
No love for West Seattle? :(
I've found that its more about scale than anything. Flat discussion can quickly devolve into... well, youtube if the number of posters completely outstrips what the moderators can feasibly moderate. Threaded and democratized discussion mitigates the moderation problem by allowing the users to kind of self regulate.

Democratized discussion has so many problems of its own though that it's a real trade off...
Do the supporting countries have a specific beef with the IANA or is it only because it's US-based/backed?
Looks neat features. But I write neither HTML nor CSS on a regular basis. Does it offer anything for non-web programmers?
In case you are serious, there is no mention of how this calculation was empirically made. It seems much more likely that this is fortuitous teleological translation rather than an actual discovery of the speed of light cryptically hidden away in the Vedas.
need to find the embed code like this http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/13971387?rel=...
Don't forget that traditional values and wisdom at one point believed that the ideal child was actually a young gentleman.

Tradition values covered up a huge amount of pain and suffering and created the veneer of predictability.

We've turned over the rock and whats crawling out is what people used to know always happened, but never spoke about.
This summer was awesome, but it was not typical.
Summer 2010 was terrible. 60 degrees and cloudy/rainy throughout.
uprgaded to 0.9.9 for my app and no worries, thanks for the update and keep up the good stuff
My understanding is that it's intended (for the most part) for average people (who don't have projects and illustrator files).

If you want to be a "power" user, use Finder (or Path Finder) - you're not the intended audience for this "app" (nor am I).
I'm speaking of averages. On average, a two parent home is much better for children. Of course there are exceptions. Pointing out exceptions to robust statistical data is the most common fallacious statistical argument.
Le dernier bijou de Samsung est le Galaxy S4 
Samsung travaille actuellement sur un smartphone révolutionnaire nommé le Galaxy S4. La date de sortie officielle est encore inconnue à ce jour.
How To Win Benchmarks And Influence People
The case for relying on math more when programming is one pillar of a more general aim: for programmers to be more creative in their approach to solving problems programatically. IMHO, creativity can be learned, but not over night.

Creativity requires comfort with risk and can therefore be costly, which goes against the contemporary programmer's drive toward efficiency and optimization. Creativity requires bring a fresh perspective to each problem encountered, and can therefore be exhausting, which eschews the programmer's drive toward re-use and generalization. Creativity requires leaning on other disciplines for inspiration, which runs counter to the demands of being a language or technology expert.

With time, the grip of these convictions can be loosened and contextualized, allowing room to explore curiosities and creative impulses, many of which may be mathematical (or psychological, or involve re-framing), that arise naturally during the course of a project.
Since I can no longer flag articles, let me register my disapproval of the fact that this pablum is making it to the front page of HN.
The efficacy of any approach for dealing with substance abuse can be investigated scientifically: try it, and compare with a control group, trying to control for as many variables as you can. If it creates a significant difference, then something is probably going on. If there's no significant difference, then it probably doesn't work. Absence of evidence is, of course, evidence of absence.

None of this changes when the approach in question involves hypothetical supernatural intervention.
Right, i just looked..

On the mainpage it says rightbelow the big fat FB login button "you don't have facebook? Sign up here" which opens a sign up form for deezer
(I largely agree with you, but will still point out that Slashdot is 10+, 15 in fact, and was/is an explicitly arbitrarily-deep threaded discussion system.)
http://seattle.gov/mayor/SeaFi/gigabit.htm

Good news for you!
I wonder if that might be possible without this app. what if we were able to translate shell expansion operators into Smart Folder views, or some other similar thing? That would be a good start.
The Secret to User Retention is Creating Stored Value
"Request an invite => "Subscribe to the list"

Something's wrong here.
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I just skimmed the long video..

The good: auto-refreshing preview of HTML page upon save

The bad: no auto-end-brackets or end quotes as one types (ironic, considering the editor is named Brackets)

I am sure that the talented Adobe engineers will make this editor a major contender for Sublime and Textmate in the future, but at this point, I think the stunning attribute in the post title is a bit link-baitish. I'm looking forward to watching the editor develop into a mature product!
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I live in Columbia City. Obviously it's right out of my townhome's range. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFff
Christmas coding camps?
Will take two week off work for Christmas.
Instead of doing anything fun, I want to learn how to program in Python.
Any coding camps?
Most likely a catchphrase to disguise the fact that they are using millimeter or microwave radio links to provide a 1Gbps connection to specific buildings that they can't (yet) reach with fiber.
Unleashing creativity in Google’s CSI:Lab
Looks like they fixed that mysterious data loss bug someone reported on GitHub...
Understanding Google
Don't forget to include links from pinboard.in as this is an important part of personal knowledge
"...Sun (light) traverses 2,202 yojanas in half a nimisha"

Yes, but how did he measure it?
The Seoul of a startup
this probably isn't a bug, but just curious why the 2nd xhr parameter was removed from the collection parse handler?

I was using it to check the raw response and determine if the collection had actually changed & then supress unnecessary view renders. I worked around it by just stringifying the response instead, but it was a breaking change for some of my code.

Otherwise I've been playing around and it looks cool so far.
This has been around for a while now, I used it a few months ago, and while interesting it didn't do anything I don't already do with Sublime and other tools. Someday it may do those things more easily, but for now, I don't see any significant reason to switch.
"A scuffle ensued which ended when police tasered Li."

So they didn't tase her for simply trying to buy to many iphones? Shocking.
I noticed that the Emmet extension added keyboard shortcuts like "Command+Up". But that's a standard OSX text entry navigation shortcut! Why would you do that?
I've a machine with Windows Vista and accidentally found "\Windows\System32\where.exe". It's pretty dang useful, similar to gnu locate. Doesn't address the larger issues of Vista or file explorers in general, but helps get stuff done.
This is in no way a threat to native editors.
Can i just get this theme for sublime text while I wait for this project to mature?
Valve opening an office in SF
Then after reading that comment, I notice my mouse drifting towards the voting arrows.
Wow, that's absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing. It's particularly impressive to see how old (and accurate) some of these measurements are.
Is it me, or are they trying to hide the Brackets / Adobe relation ?
What is the auto-refresh going to show me when working on a Python or Ruby... or actually any non HTML file?
Show HN: I made a rational object for javascript
You guys should touch base with the https://tent.io guys.
Pobox suffers serious Mailstore outage
This is a project that I've been working on in my free time. Any feedback would be great. :)
The effect is mainly on people. For example in a period of deflation your pay should go down in order to remain at the same purchasing power. Can you imagine how people behave when told they are really getting a pay increase when their pay goes down by 2% and deflation is 4%? Inflation means prices/wages automatically go down when no numerical change is made. This keeps people happier.

Consequently inflation is preferable out of the two, but a small number close to zero and stable over many years is the most preferable.
Systems programming at my alma mater
> Unsurprisingly, 4chan users are celebrating on Reddit.

Is anybody else perplexed by this statement? Why single out /r/4chan, of all places?
In 5-10 years maybe. Now virtually all sites are slower than a ~ 10-50 mbs connection so having all that extra bandwidth doesn't help you at all. That's the reality.
Even as a toy, that's hideous Python code.
Well, it certainly looks nice, but seems limited to mostly front-end web development work. I don't think Sublime and Textmate have anything to worry about for the foreseeable future.
Hitting the high notes
I noticed your imagined workflow seemed folder-oriented, and thought of Hazel: http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php

It doesn't provide the timeline you were looking for, and I don't think it can do Internet-y stuff, but it could take care of the "if something lands in _____ folder, do ____" bit if you had it run a custom script for each action.

Perhaps you could hack together your own activity stream with some elbow grease?
Now when people complain that the white house doesn't take these seriously enough, they will have an easy out.
Great book. There was also a BBC TV doco about it - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/241228.stm
Googler here. I'm seeing POIs in Melbourne and Sydney - you're seeing nothing? Even zoomed all the way in? It sounds like a bug. Could you provide a link of where you're looking? If you tap and hold in the viewport, slide up the address page, and hit share you can copy a url.
I love these kind of stories. Such stories fills me up with an immense sense of appreciation for scientists/philosophers/thinkers from the post-middle-ages.

Also, why I'm absolutely loving the coursera class on astronomy: https://class.coursera.org/introastro-2012-001/.

If you have not peaked into it yet, the way Dr. Plesser explains concepts and bridges them with the historical advances leaves a lasting impression. I wish we had classes like this back in school.
Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?
Which web hosting provider do you use?
They just want more control over the Internet, and the ISP's want to make all content companies pay for transferring their data through their pipes. In the minds of ISP's, who so far have lived off ripping off customers with SMS charging, they don't think it's fair that people get to use e-mail or apps like Whatsapp for "free". They want their "cut".
As someone from Seattle, even though I don't see my neighborhood on that list (Maple Leaf) -- I am extremely excited to see more and more infrastructural focus on SODO and Areas 9-12 getting some much needed improvement. The light rail running through that area has been a step in the right direction for everyone in those neighborhoods, and I'm excited to see that development continue.
You WON'T “pick up crucial aspects” because there all aspects are crucial. Law practice costs so much money mainly because it's totally entangled and messed up, and ordinary person just physically can't follow all these legal procedures correctly.
Thank you for sharing. This is one of the gems for which I subconsciously mine every day I come to HN.
Slashdot isn't emulated anywhere (can you name any other site that has a discussion system like Slashdot?), and is near death from my perspective.

I view Slashdot as one of the weird Galapagos animals: interesting, to be sure, but a giant evolutionary dead-end.
Look at these countries here. Who are they? US' biggest allies perhaps? Yes, they are. And that's why they did it. Don't think they did this to protect the people's interests or whatever. Harper would install backdoors in everyone's computers tomorrow if he could.
Unfortunately, the consensus at this point is that it's actually the product from this ebay auction:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Indiana-Jones-and-the-Raiders-of-the...?

What likely happened is that this item was shipped but somehow came loose of its modern packaging, and the USPS delivered the themed mailer to UChicago per the address label.
Why the Dumbphone Still Matters: Especially to Startups.
You don't always need Joe and Molly sixpack. You do need the leading edge of adopters.

Some solutions aren't for everyone.
Support FSF - Turn your dollars into decibels
Already discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4917405
Windows 8 starts to head along this path with cloud-based file selection from within 'Metro' style apps. For example you can add a picture from Facebook or Flickr to Onenote directly from the file picker in Onenote.

It'd be nice if they did what Collections proposes and extended this by allowing apps to natively integrate with Explorer and not only the Metro file picker.
I wonder what role this resolution plays in the whole thing, though?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121212/23365121371/itu-go...

Does this mean the resolution is pretty much irrelevant now? Or does it mean most of the companies participating there will continue to seek that power over the Internet, perhaps at next year's conference (I think they are having one again next year, to talk about who owns the IP infrastructure or something).
I tried it with several hundred. The hit rate was very low. I don't recall exactly what it was, but it was low enough that I abandoned the service.
cpeterso is likely a member of Lesser Seattle. Started by curmudgeon Emmett Watson as a way to discourage Californians from moving to Seattle.

When I travel, I always emphasize the rain, the cloud cover, the risk of death by volcano, the very real likelihood very overdue The Big One earthquake, how traffic sucks, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Watson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Seattle
On the other hand, when it comes to the threat of TPP for the Internet, US doesn't complain (quite on the contrary). Does it sound hypocritical?
Opening the Doors to the Life of Pi
The link bait was mentioning HN's 2 favorite editors. Especially since we've discussed brackets several times before: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=bra...
The first time I heard about the 'long tail' was at a business conference in 2008 (09?), and this was used as an example.

It did a wonderful job of breaking through the assumptions of many in attendance - people who were tuning out because "my industry is too complex" or "we're too creative for this to apply" suddenly realised that if books could profitably br automated and printed on demand, then there were opportunities for them if they wanted to consider them.
Parentheses, Dollars and Dots in Haskell
SENSATIONALIST TITLE! This seems great for web dev, but Sublime is just killer for Python, I don't see this making any editor 'look out' if you spend most of your time in a backend language.
Yup, interviewed on the 30th. It was a lot of fun, which you knew. Now I'm trying to convince all my friends to apply.
2012: What a year for Linux
Sublime + LiveReload does basically the same thing.
ROI is fine compared to most industries. Don't get jaded by the super-fast ROI examples from the software industry, it's not usual for a company to grow into a billion dollar goliath in less than a decade. For most industries, even telecom, a >10% average annual return is fantastic and will attract plenty of investment and seed capital.
Thank you! They really need a direct link to this though
It's a natural evolution for an online store to shift from drop ship to inventory as they get a better understanding of demand and the capital/scale to do so. It's not a pivot.
Neat app. Any chance you might open source this?
Here's the patent (7,266,767):

http://www.google.com/patents?id=bHeBAAAAEBAJ
How well are the sources curated? One of the sample books is a medical text to be used by doctors etc. I would hate to see parts of that book sourced from unreliable places.

Seeing as this thing can apparently put together books on new topics on the fly I am highly doubtful of the quality.
"The only real problem I see with the present state of the Web is that Facebook wants to own all your data"

"I don't agree that the monetization of the Web has degraded the value"

Good thing you work for Google and can give an unbiased opinion.

"10+ years ago Microsoft dominated your computing environment. Many couldn't envision a future that would break free of this grasp. In a few short years Microsoft has diminished their control of your computing experience in ways few could've predicted."

If you have a money-making website, the new medium, you have to pay tribute to Adwords or be bust, increasing prices on every item. The King is dead, Long live the King.
Is "stunning" the new "beautiful," "great," or "awesome"? I can't even bring myself to click on such a baity title.
I'm kinda surprised that you can launch without achievements in any kind of gaming platform these days.
Longing for an open(er) web
I don't care about intentions of government. I care the results.

You can have a government that starves millions of people to death for a good ideal, and I would not think that government any better than Nazi government that sent millions of Jews to gas chamber.

The same way, if some dictatorial monarch yielded results than modern democratic government, I would not skip a beat and choose a dictatorial monarch over modern democratic government.
Why Ray Kurzweil's Predictions Are Right 86% of the Time
It says right on the home page that it's maintained by Adobe & the github repos are all maintained by Adobe as well. Just curious, do you think Adobe has a bad reputation for making software that would make them want to dis-associate with the company?
This looks amazing, but it sounds too good to be true.

This is the quint-essential problem of our current time, for techies and non-techies alike. Media overload.

No easy way to organize everything and find it.

Whenever I take pics with my iPod and put them on my PC, I don't take the time to rename them from DSC_001.JPG to something useful. Just drop them in a folder that is named appropriately and am off.

It is suboptimal. So if you guys can figure out how to fix that, there is much potential with that.

But....iono...I am a bit skeptical, would love to be proven wrong though :)