skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good translate is your friend.

Pick a language you don't know, and have at it:

"picture site" => "irudi_gune" (basque)

I find that Basque, Portuguese, and Welsh produce very good names.
"If my team can build it, I know I can market it."
Come up with something that solves a problem and is easier to build. Then use your skills to market it better than the competition.
Many business tasks can be simplified with nothing more than a simple database app.
YPlan CTO: Hire Very Smart People And Let Them Loose
you do know that buYing intelliJ gets you virtually all of the other IDE's as free plugins?
IMO not, I personally like WingIDE more but I am using PyCharm on OSX as it is better integrated and has a better virtualenv support. You can always just try PyCharm for free
I wonder if these senators are the kinds of people who believe that a cop would never lie on the stand.
The convention that Django REST Framework (which is an add-on for Django, not part of the core) uses is to add a 'url' attribute to each resource to represent the cannonical id.

Even better, when you hit the API with a browser, you can click around and explore the links easily:

http://restframework.herokuapp.com/users/

The docs talk about it a bit here:

http://django-rest-framework.org/tutorial/5-relationships-an...
2012 Has Been One Big Mayan Year For Linux
This is great marketing. Tie in your promo to the highly-popular, highly-dubious event as an advertising tie-in to multiply its effectiveness -- as a fringe story involving the event, you're going to have your message repeated automatically by others interested in the event.

You guys just reminded me that a Visio competitor exists, and you got me to try it. You did this by using a marketing message which entertained me -- don't buy now because "tomorrow's doomsday". You gave me some entertainment value in exchange for taking my valuable time. Thanks.
How did they determine the "perceived desirability of the user"? Seems a little presumptious to me - I didn't even know what it was until I clicked the link, and the first thing they say is "we don't want you."

Well guess what - now I don't want you either.
I vaguely associated it with "Surfin' Safari" and the Beach Boys.
Knuth's up-arrow notation and the Ackermann function are both designed to make very large numbers easy to notate, but unfortunately I don't know how difficult it would be to write a program to find an expression for any number in one or the other (I'm sure there are plenty of others on HN who can). Might still be worth looking into however.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann_function
serving 404s is super cheap actually.
It told me it doesnt want me to sign up, so I did anyway. out of spite.
It could use solar wind, or gravity-slingshot (which can slow as well as accelerate a satellite). So yes it could be much smaller.
It most certainly is not. It's up there with "irregardless," "supposably," and "pacifically/the Specific Ocean."

If you're a native English speaker there is absolutely no excuse for that kind of ignorance.
Even if you trust Instagram, ownership of them and their rights to your IP could change hands to less scrupulous parties...
Low? As a self employed entrepreneur, all in, I pay about 32.5% on the first $65,000.

Property taxes are 3% of my income.

Throw in sales taxes paid throughout the year.

I pay 40% in taxes out of $65,000 - not counting indirect effects of taxes raising the cost of everything I buy.
The term 'austerity' is meant to apply to a government living within its means.

No, it is meant to apply to a government radically cutting spending during a recession.

It's true that you can avoid unemployment by borrowing money to pay people to dig holes and fill them in again. What is also true is that, without production there is no consumption. Digging up holes and filling them in is not production, ergo, consumption will not rise.

And yet Keynesian stimulus worked in Australia[1]. Australia was able to implement it properly because the Australian economy had run years of surplus budgets prior to the financial crisis.

The jibe about digging holes is disappointing and ignorant. The Australian program involved a one off payment to tax payers for immediate effect (which ended up supporting the retail sector at Christmas time), traditional infrastructure spending on "ready to go" projects (roads etc) for effect in a couple of months and a very large school building program where building usually started 6-9 months after the initial crisis. These programs were production and - more importantly - all supported employment.

TLDR; Keynesian economics works just fine when the government runs expansionary budgets when growth is needed and surpluses when growth is robust.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_fiscal_policy_response...
Distracting syntax highlighting
Reuze.me: a generator of lightweight HTML/CSS for common design elements
In the US, your employer can forbid you from revealing your pay to outsiders, but the National Labor Relations Act guarantees that employees have the right to discuss their pay with one another. (I believe this falls under the heading “you have the right to discuss with your co-workers whether or not your job sucks so much that you should try to organize a union.”)
I donated, yet I still see the annoying banner. How do I make it go away?
FWIW:

1. The corporation will still owe a fiduciary duty to it's shareholders, it's just that it's shareholders are a non-profit. Being a cynical lawyer, while this may be good enough for some people, I'm still cynical. I've seen plenty of non-profits, even in the open source world, go bad. Hell I've helped fund/start non-profits with completely altruistic purposes, like Mozilla does (IE "Helping to open government data and standardize it", or "Provide a completely free non-advertising/non-tracking search engine for non-profit volunteer opportunities"), and seen them go bad and do evil things, despite the best intentions of all the engineers working for them. So while I agree Mozilla is in a better position than most, the idea that simply being owned/responsible to a non-profit makes it "better" is, well, wrong, in my opinion. They go bad just as easily.

2. I used to be involved in some auxillary mozilla projects (bugzilla, etc).
I stopped, because of the politics and development policies.

This was 6-7 years ago (maybe longer, i'm getting old), i'm sure things have changed for the better.
It would be interesting to find out why a large number of people upvoted a blog post about a simple harmless misunderstanding. Was it the phrase "cargo cult"? Feynman wrote about the same thing in science : http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3043/1/CargoCult.pdf
Considering we're now on track to lose the 2nd Amendment in the USA, the 1th and 4th are considered optional, they might as well just shred the entire document. What's the point of pretending any more?
MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism
Naw, I was just lucky to be hyperactive, and in the right place at the right time, plus I benefited from a lot of nice people who helped me get there.

There are a lot of great people lurking around here, but the really godly ones don't have time to surf the internet! The thing you realize by meeting such people is that there is really no limit on how much you can learn and what you can do. And it's a lot easier now to pick new stuff up, what with the internets and all those tubes. Just keep improving yourself all the time, and keep yourself open to luck.

And of course Will Wright has some great advice: Don't give up on your big dreams -- save and hone and cultivate them for later, when the time is right (and your skills and the technology have improved): "He encouraged designers with ideas for games that are far outside the box not to give up on those ideas, but instead to cultivate them and revisit them later, when the time, the team, and the technology might be right." http://www.gamespot.com/news/will-wright-wows-gdc-with-new-s...
I started here: http://www.pp-international.net/ but could only find legislation they are against, not any they are supporting. Stopping bad legislation is going to be a game of wack-a-mole until better laws are adopted. Is there any new legislation we should be supporting and lobbying "mainstream" (for want of a better word) politicians to support?
At the end of the lenders chain there are some rich people who want to get their money back and who have ties to the government. The whole thing is basically a scam to relieve the average population of their riches. At least that is my impression of the affair...
Well, if you're going to dismiss anecdotes, you probably shouldn't provide your own. (OS X Silverlight always seemed to work okay for me, too).

That said, the Azure portal never seemed to work that great for me, even if I was running Silverlight on a Windows box. The HTML5 portal actually seems worse, to me, though.

You might be interested in this, the azure-cli tools: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/12/19/azur...
PATH Down? Wife is getting a butt load of emails
Woke up this morning to my wife getting around 250 emails from PATH. Looks like she is getting even more too. Went to the site and got a 504 Gateway Time-out.
Someone over here -
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946858 -
asked for more details about the notation itself, and what the numbers mean, so I thought I'd put this as a separate place for more technical discussion.

Here's a link to a juggling animation package if you want to try out some of this stuff:

http://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net

And some examples:

http://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/bin/example_stnd.html

http://jugglinglab.sourceforge.net/bin/example_gen.html

They don't work on my browser (Firefox on Ubuntu) and I have no idea why, and don't have time to track it down, but they should work for most people.
Spoiler Alert: First 3-D Printed Records Sound Awful
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4947969
Show HN: Easy way to print Facebook photos
Wow, almost a week to the day after I upgraded to IDEA 12.
Just something about point 1, i donated last year and this, yet ive still received 2 emails this year (after this years donation) asking for another donation, plus you still get the massive banner on the wiki site.
I've tried switching to Intellij from Eclipse a few times, but it's just too different and I don't feel like the UI is all that great. This is a great deal but I just don't see the justification to buy Intellij.
The future of news certainly is not UI code. Code is definitely important for reporting, but much more so for analysis and much less so for delivery. If the NY Times (or anyone else) uses code to crunch through millions of records and finds an important story out of it, I will read that story in whatever format they publish in. If it's not some whiz bang "tablet optimized" CMS, I don't care at all. If I am readying your tablet optimized news site and you don't have the important stories, I will stop reading.

tl;dr it's the content, stupid.
I don't really see how Mashable's UI is in any way new or different. The same sidebar overdose and jumble of unrelated content thrown together on a page. Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, but eventually I think publishers will figure out that simpler is better. (Also see http://dashes.com/anil/2012/08/stop-publishing-web-pages.htm...) And Quartz, although there's a couple of kinks in their app, is a step in that direction.

Also, you're probably not their target audience. For someone who reads business news, those "spammy" topic titles you talk about are all things e.g. a Wall Street Journal reader is familiar with and cares about.
Totally worth the wait for it to go up again!
And The Wire ranks below The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in "Law" themed tv shows? huh?
It's one thing to have a considered opinion based on facts, statistics and reason.

It's another thing to be confronted with a mountain of scientific evidence, shake your head haughtily, and announce "Well I believe differently."
Hello, world is ending, whether you sign up or we all make love, tomorrow it's all in vain...
Love it! Great, easy way to get your new website project up and running with Grunt.
I am not happy with the poor differentiation between personal (individual developers) and companies: owners of small companies can earn less than an individual developer, expecting to earn more in the future but with much more risk.
I don't want to sound like a negative nancy, but anyone who as been paying attention since the early 2000's (probably before but that was when I started paying attention) is well aware of this. Historically this shouldn't be surprising aswell as all great "empires" have begun their decline in similar ways. I can't say for sure that it will keep moving in that direction but it wouldn't surprise me. Some United Stations (americans for all those of you who forget the rest of the Americas) will eventually rebel against this. Then who knows whatwould happen. BUt then again they might not. Maybe Huxley was right!
As someone whose lived in both environments, I can assure you that Intellij is far more intelligent in every single respect. I haven't done much RCP development so can't speak on that front, but in terms of JavaEE or web, there's no comparison.
Yeah I figured that after from all the comments here, IntelliJ is one of the few on the list I never actually looked at because I don't work with Java much.
For those interested in the original origin of the phrase "cargo cult," during WWII a bunch of American soldiers landed in a small island chain in the Pacific called Melanesia. They showed up out of nowhere with huge ships and planes, brought a bunch of food, vehicles and contraptions, looked and spoke completely differently than the inhabitants had hardly seen in such numbers. The GIs shared their food, gave little gifts to the natives, and then abruptly left.

The locals then built altars (such as the straw plane in the OP) in the hopes of luring back the "visiters from another place" and ushering in another era of abundance. They became a "Cargo Cult."

And it's hard to blame them. That must have been an absolutely worldview shattering experience.
I blogged about this same idea in response to a different article 3 months ago. Seems like the hypermedia discussion keeps coming up. Here's my response article: http://rtigger.com/blog/2012/08/27/discovering-the-value-in-...

TL;DR - there's no value in discoverable (hypermedia) APIs short of some generic API browser that end users don't really want.
"Cargo-culting" has been redefined and repurposed many, many times for different domains (science, programming, software engineering, etc). It's the closest term I know of to name the process I describe, so that's what I used. As you can see from the post, I'm aware of the semantic and etymological difficulty. If you have a better term you'd like to suggest, I'm all ears; having it won't make the process I describe "more wrong" though.

To use your characterization, the database index example is where someone has an expectation that adding indexes are a valid reflexive response to slow querying.

Of course the post goes back to navel-gazing in the end. It started out with a tweet, so I'm not sure why you'd expect anything less. In any case, I hope the space in between proves useful or thought-provoking to some.
Politicians thrive on control and power. All of this is a way of controlling people.
Yea I kinda feel bad for them. They have all these smart looking people on the about page, but the UI is so terrible.
Ok they use the word 'boffin' 9 times in a single-page article. Please.
This has been one of my biggest complaints about wikipedia and I'm glad they're addressing it - media rights. The more pictures, video, and audio they own the better. When I was a kid I read the encyclopedia for fun and a big part of what drew me in was the images in them. I feel like that would really help the site.
You are right when you say the economics is deeply corrupted by politics. At least mainstrean economics.

The problem is one of propaganda first and foremost: the only thing that is widely thaught in universities and that we keep hearing all the times is Keynes.

The problem is: Keynesianism is totally unable to predict anything further than two or three years. It also inevitably leads to the country defaulting. There's no other way. There never has been any other way for a country run under the Keynesian dogma.

I'll give an example: before the first euro even circulated there have been economists (of course non-Keynesian ones) who predicted the very exact scenario that happened to the eurozone 13 years later. Too many houses in Spain, too many industries in Germany, too many public servants in France and as well the default of Greece and Spain (Greece is going to default again btw and Spain is going to eventually default too).

These were quite impressive "predictions" for some. For others it was simply about applying what Friedman has been telling since forever.

That's the problem: Keynesianism can only predict up to two or three years in advance and that at the cost of sinking the country.

But Keynesianism is precisely what politicians wants to hear: they take it as a free ticket allowing them to create an always bigger public sector (and hence they can feel always more and more "important").

The result? Deeply corrupted economists that happily sing the only song that politicians want to hear.

The non-Keynesian economists who precisely predicted the mess we're in today? Nobody is listening to them (well I am for my positions, because it nets me a lot of money but not a single politican want to listen to them).

This is really a sad state of affair and it shall stay like that as long as the fraud that Keynesianism is is going to be taught in universities as if it was the holy gospel.

Note that the disciples of Friedman who predicted Spain and Greece's defaults did not just say: "Spain and Greece are eventually going to default". They did predict precisely the mechanism, over a decade and a half, that would lead to the defaults. They were already right for Greece and the future is going to prove them correct again.

Note that since then they've explained why there's no way on earth Greece is ever going to repay its debt and that inevitably Greece would default again.

While the Keynesians are all wrong and keep telling us that more public debt is going to solve all the eurozone issues.

The problem is that once countries reach about 100% of public debt (which they inevitably do when run under the Keynesian dogma), there's simply no way out using Keynesian tactics.

So, yup, to me Keynesianism is an utter failure and it's going to get uglier and uglier.

You don't want to be jobless in Greece today.

The fact is: Friedman disciples predicted precisely that in 1999. Keynesians didn't.
It's done for a variety of reasons -- ignorance, special interests, or pandering -- but the same enabler -- not caring so much about the constitutionality of the laws passed.

Congress should have a legal duty to uphold the constitution.
I don't get the 'decentralized' part.

Can I do a pull/push-like commands to a different repo from this app?
The animation that makes the header disappear is kind of weird, but what other UI madness are you referring to?
http://i.imgur.com/OqEwh.png
I've glanced through the license. You are allowed to install it on as many machines as you need as long as only you use it. I can't see any limitations on what work you can do or who for.

My conclusion is that as long as you have paid for it you can use it at work but cannot reclaim expenses for it or transfer it in any way.
That's my top pet peeve. Pay and still see ads? Removes a major incentive. I rememer long ago RealAudio introduced a constantly-rotating ad in their player. Paid for it -the ads remained! Had to ask for my money back, deinstall, never used it again.
We are refreshing. Trust us. Our fingers are on F5.
It doesn't work like that. The judiciary does that.
@hhariri / @rdemmer - any partial refund for anyone who recently purchased something? :)
The 9th amendment is merely interpretive guidance, and the 10th amendment is a tautology.

Also, what is happening with the NDAA is not Congress passing an unconstitutional law. It's Congress passing a law with a potentially unconstitutional interpretation, and both Congressional and Presidential guidance that such interpretation is not intended. Such guidance carries great weight in the court. It's a non-issue really.
qz.com is the only site that made it to my router's "block sites" list just because of their awful and random UI.
Ok! If it mentioned skills more specific than Python it would look less robotic :)
> If the banks found a loophole in mortgage regulations that allowed them to take the houses of people who were paying, should we admire them for finding a bug, or vilify them for taking people's houses?

You're ignoring the probability that banks would find such a a loophole. The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was an indirect example, but allocating the majority of blame to the banks is not appropriate. They acted rationally assuming perfect information (an assumption that's usually necessary in the economic models they used in evaluating creditworthiness), so if anything, they deserve criticism for failing to appreciate the significance of, and potential for, imperfect information. But that issue isn't really relevant here.

It might be a fundamental difference in our opinions, but I'm inclined to believe that the purpose of the law is to avoid situations requiring "social justice." These companies are playing by the rules, but it's the rules that are flawed. So I prefer to spend my time focused on the root cause of our outrage.
Sounds like they're spamming knowingly unconstitutional provisions that have already been struck down, in an attempt to overwhelm the supreme court's finite capacity to enforce them.
Tried and failed to sign up for an account before the promo ended. Seems like it was just timing out. :(
"It's your career. Own it"

This. I am amazed to see how many people don't understand the importance or relevance of this statement.
Ask HN: Is there a library that fixes capitalization and common typos?
I'm looking for a library that I can pass in a text blob and it cleans up capitalization, spacing and expands common typos. It's fine if it requires a database dictionary to be installed as well. Note, I only need it for american english.

Before I write this, I was hoping to sanity check that there isn't some holy grail out there.

Thanks!
Scala is like Git
We have got that sitting around somewhere, didn't realise anyone wanted it.
I took it to mean "instead of buying, try it out."

After hearing the part about the "perceived desirability of the user", I'm thinking maybe they only want to sell to certain people today, perhaps return visitors? Maybe they want all their new visitors to try it out before buying? They could have the button change based on cookies, and they just started an ad campaign that's on HN's front page.

Edit: This comment was unhelpful? If not, why downvote?
This almost feels like you're trolling your own post! :)
I'll probably wait for tomorrow.. it's not like it's going to be sold out (I hope).
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