skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're welcome!

Just to be clear, I am not the original author. I was impressed with it myself. :)
Price is a non-issue since I've already bought both, though it is certainly keeping me from upgrading to a newer Macbook Air. Why spend so much to upgrade to a laptop that I'll barely use?

With the Chromebook, I get longer battery life, a lighter frame, a faster startup time, no fans/heating issues, and more consistent keyboard shortcuts (there's only one set to remember because there's only one app). Some of these might not be issues with the MBA line anymore, but mine is a first-gen machine.

Aside from the things I mentioned in my original comment, my Macbook Air is really just a keyboard, web browser, and terminal to me. Well, the Chromebook is too, and it's a better one at that.
Thanks for triggering a rarely used synapse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grad_(angle)
"It's a useful tool used in the real world of business."

Tool? It does not sound like a tool, at least not based on your description:

"Need to see how long a company typically takes to pay?"

...sounds kind of like a credit rating service...

"Want to get and Federal work?"

...sounds like bureaucracy.

It sounds to me like DUNS is a service, not a "tool," and that they are the sort of service that slows everyone and everything down. It should come as no surprise that it is a pain for lone coders: it was designed for expansive bureaucracies, and it has the effect of further expanding those bureaucracies.

I have to wonder what it is that Apple hopes to gain by using this system. Why do they even bother to uniquely identify app developers? Why not just issue a signing key every time someone pays their fee? It sounds like DUNS is just another way for Apple to exclude small operations and focus on the large operations that make most of the popular apps in their app store.
For reference, the plane flight itself was 2 hours. I didn't know I was going until 3 PM.
Does is matter what the rest of the world would call it? No. In America, Obama is certainly to the left.
That's an absolutely huge barrier to someone first arriving at Quora- how are you supposed to know the answers are worth it?

And as others have said, if it's not on Google, how are you going to find the site in the first place? For a Q&A site that really needs to start turning a profit, this is not a trivial issue.
"As far as 99.9 percent of the world population is concerned"

I bet a large percentage of the population in the world doesn't even know about Microsoft.
Show HN: Simple command-line time tracking
The uneven-but-mostly-OK post-apocalypse show Jeremiah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_%28TV_series%29) dealt with this problem in a better way: the Apocalypse MacGuffin was a disease that killed everyone who had been through puberty. The show was set 15 years after the "big death", so the characters were all people who had been too young to understand how these things worked when they were still working.

(Some were smart enough to figure the basics out, of course, which made them highly valuable.)
Water's freezing point is easily the single most important temperature there is when it comes to (outdoor) temperature. Essentially, it tells you whether travelling is a deadly hazard or not. It tells you whether to expect snow or rain (which require quite different types of clothes). At least for those of us living in places with snow (as Celsius did), there's no more sensible thing to base the temperature scale on.

When it comes to boiling point, yeah I can give you that it's perhaps not as obviously the right thing. But it's the logical other end of the scale, and most of us do care about it several times daily, when cooking.
I also gifted myself an Arduino (Leonardo/Micro) over the holidays and have had a lot of fun working through the basic exercises and thinking up imaginative ways to use it.

Check out this Arduino for Beginners (In Comic Form) - probably particularly good for those of you who gifted an Arduino to children, and links to other resources in the last panels.

http://www.jodyculkin.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/arduino...
Just to backup what you're saying, I'm the generation you're talking about.

I have a vague idea of my height in feet and inches, I drink pints of beer and I drive miles in the car. That's about it. People may as well be talking to me in a foreign language if they give me imperial units outside of those contexts.
I somewhat disagree with the idea. I personally like having dedicated apps performing dedicated functions. Text messages are a different type of communication than email.
That approach, which I do use, is only partially helpful. I am clear about what is going on. I am also reasonably clear what needs to happen to resolve it. But knowing that information doesn't happen to instantaneously cause it to occur. "Rome wasn't built in a day."
This is a small tool I wrote long ago, then lost, then rewrote and improved. It helps me figure out how much time I spend on things. There's also a "don't break the chain"-style program that I wrote after that included in the post.
For the most part, although daylight-saving time rules are very non-standard even from year to year.
"Written on Jun 13 2010"

Why are people posting ancient and outdated stuff to Hacker NEWS?
Vaporware at the moment, but keep an eye out for Github's https://github.com/boxen which purports to do similar with Puppet. Demo'd here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlKXRdSAZhY
While I'm linking up stuff, another take on masterless Puppet is https://github.com/unixorn/miyamoto

So many of these systems are still too big and complicated. I consider myself an amateur, and therefore I bootstrap with manually getting Dropbox, 1Password, and then update babushka links to do the rest from the canonical sources via github.
Well, considering that White House Petitions don't work. I wouldn't worry about this one...

To simplify the arguments:

Pro (Current) Copyright: We need to protect artists. We need to protect the invested parties interests.

Against (Current) Copyright: Internet. It's companies who Copyright protects not Artists. Copyright actually stifles creativity and application of invention.

That's my take of this whole thing anyway. I don't care either way to be honest. It's all high level creation issues, and I've never had a personal run in to warrant an extreme positioning either way. I'd like is someone could give a more detailed explanation or correct any of my takeaways.
I think people want to see what the generated HYML looks like
Interesting! I will have a look at these cases. Didn't thought of syntax inconsistency
> "Redmond spends more on R&D than Google and Apple combined. Think about that the next time someone tells you Microsoft doesn’t have a future."

More like Microsoft wastes more money on R&D that doesn't convert in revolutionary products more than both Apple and Google combined.

We've always known Microsoft spends a lot on R&D and they like to make those "20 years from now" videos, but I haven't seen much come out of it. Last year they even bragged about how they had the idea for the iPhone 20 years ago. But so what? How did that help them? At best it helped them create Windows Mobile and the PDA's 10 years later, but that was a niche market, and Microsoft never had much market share with Windows Mobile in the smartphone market, which was a lot smaller than the current smartphone market back then.

So I guess the moral of the story is that "lab inventions" don't mean much, and you could waste a lot of money on them, and with very little to show for it in the market. I'm pretty sure the $2 billion dollar Kin project was part of that R&D spending, too.
And then the employees of startup X would tell the CEO that they should be working for 6 hours a day rather than 16.
>If you don't want an otherwise public URL indexed you must use robots.txt or equivalent.

Which only blocks bots that respect the file...
Some of you might have missed the perspective of the article's author (perhaps it isn't that clear); you might want to re-examine it from an implementer point of view. In other words, if you have a real-life big data problem (that would benefit from parallel processing via Hadoop) and you actually have to build the thing so that it would work and scale, the decomposition presented by the architecture would make the implementation a lot simpler. Architecting such systems isn't trivial, and this is a solid blue-print to start with. And it's really an architecture, not a model: It doesn't tell you how to formulate algorithms, it rather suggests how to build a complete system around them.

I have read the recent draft of the "Big Data" book by the author, which describes the architecture that the article discusses in better detail. Honestly, if you are a beginning practitioner in this field, you can't really go wrong by reading it.
I want to see what the generated HTML looks like
While this is true, it currently has pathological performance on all major Ruby implementations.
Australia is a ways away from Canada and aluminum isn't plywood.
The Amazing Difference Between Android 2.3 & 4.2
The input box is a keylogger that sends what you type to FB before you ever press enter. That's the interesting story here. Everyone already knew FB had a scraper for retrieving images and meta data. What they probably didn't know is every keystroke inside that box is logged and sent, no Enter required.
Erm what? Changing the class hierarchy invalidates all method caches? That sounds a bit brutal, and totally unnecessary.

Can't you just have a method cache per metaclass (or class; I'm not very familiar with how Ruby factors this stuff)? Since mixing in a role into an instances creates a new metaclass anyway, there's no need to affect instances of the original class.
For traveling from coast to coast there would be little point, but for shorter distances within the US high-speed rail should beat air travel.
Perhaps the future isn't evenly distributed.

Regarding the article, I'd like to see them plot the rate-of-change: how long it took to go from a month to a week to a day and so on, and then continue it into the present day. I think we've hit something of a cap on speed.
I would benefit from a "copy" button. When I highlight the code snippet, I also got the line numbers with it. Would be a hassle for large codestagrams
As long as you aren't a surveyor, that is... that industry has stuck with the previous American standard of 1/39.37 meters, for obvious reasons.
nice job!
I believe you have a "to do" list, but a mere 1 minute fix of changing the print-screen using your real URL would be nice :)

and ty for the inside history http://ozkatz.github.com/from-idea-to-mvp-to-1-on-hacker-new...
Just to note tha NetBeans RCP uses DCI as well, quite successfully.

http://wiki.apidesign.org/wiki/DCI

http://www.antonioshome.net/kitchen/nbdci/
Thanks for reminding me of this!
The age limit doesn't apply if your Uni has a contract with Zipcar — many of my under 21 friends are Zipcar members . . . and its great!
Yeah, waking up at dawn on a coach in the middle of the Pampa is a great experience. The front seats on the upper floor have a stunning cockpit view. I've done it on the trip from Bariloche to Buenos Aires and from Buenos Aires to Tilcara, and it's well worth the sore legs you'll get for sitting all that time.
Can you give me some examples of violence that wasn't caused by any individual people?
My guess is that it's programmed that way.

But seriously, I think HN must have a keyword bump, namely for U.S./Copyright/Show HN. It also probably has a few elite sites that rank high, like the Atlantic, and Tech Crunch. That or because it was voted up twice in new within it's first minute of being posted, which resulted in the front page, which only exacerbates the process.
I wanted to vote for this, but 10 years seems kind of short. Maybe something between 10 and the current "life plus 70". I think 28 years seems pretty fair.
It looks like the Hacker News front page is in danger of being taken over by petitions.whitehouse.gov on this first business day of 2013. The petition kindly submitted here for comment reads in full:

"Current copyright terms are much longer than necessary for promoting progress. Excessive copyright terms limit the usefulness of the works they cover without leading to the creation of more works.

"I ask the government to limit copyright terms to a maximum of 10 years with no exceptions. Compared to current copyright terms 10 years may sound very short, but 10 years is a long time; it may still be too long. I also ask that currently active copyright terms all end within 10 years.

"It is not society's duty to reward authors and artists for their creativity or hard work. Copyright should only exist as an incentive. The excessive monopoly terms must end."

This is a typical doofus petition to the White House in that the author has not even done the elementary research work of looking up the clause in the federal Constitution about copyright:

"The Congress shall have Power . . . To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

United States Constitution, Article I, Section 8 clause 8

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92preface.html

The best way to appeal to Congress (which has the authority on this issue, NOT the President) to change copyright law is to lean hard on the "limited time" language from the Constitution as well as point to real-world examples of places with shorter copyright terms (where?) with beneficial effects for the national economies of those places. Look for empirical examples when arguing about public policy.

Note that the United States Supreme Court has already interpreted the "limited time" language from the Constitution broadly enough to allow the current,

Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 US 186 (2003).

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1214768485224110...

long copyright terms in United States law (which was adapted to European law in this regard during my lifetime). Copyright terms in the United States used to be relatively short compared to those in most other countries with modern copyright laws, perhaps because of the constitutional language. But appealing to the constitutional language would be part of the task of persuading Congress to change the current law.
I'm an Android user, and I agree completely with this. Browsing the web on Android is a painful experience.
Try the Amritsar to New Dehli overnight. For the real experience, try second class, where my friend and I shared a small cubby with a family of five (all flights cancelled for weather, no first class left).

That'll make you appreciate the Shinkansen or ICE networks.
Like jaquesm says, I just bought plywood at home depot and it came in 6.45mm thickness, 24"x48". I don't know how you get 6.45mm either in metric or imperial, but it's clearly not "sized in metric".
I don't see why they won't go back on the deal. The T&Cs say that things can be changed.

The original deal was already changed with the Streetcar -> Zipcar conversion. My original Streetcar deal was for no annual fees and a £150 deposit (that would be refunded if I left Streetcar). Zipcar gave me the option of:-

a) Getting my £150 back and leaving Zipcar, although I would be free to rejoin and pay an annual sub.

b) Keep my existing £0/year deal but have the £150 deposit converted into £150 of credit that had to be used within 9 months (I think). Went for this and the £150 credit was quickly gone in two 24 hour rentals to go see family.

To be clear, I kind of expect Avis to end up backing out of the "founder members" deal and I'll be annoyed if they do, but there's nothing much I can do to stop it, and I don't see anything in the existing (or previous) T&Cs that would prevent it.

On one hand Avis are big enough to just keep the deal going for the existing members, maybe start to offer a new service that is only available to members that pay an annual sub. Or maybe they're big enough that they don't care about the small group of users that don't pay annual subs and will force them to pay up or go away.

[EDIT] And, yes, there's loads of other things they could do to annoy me more.
Wait, what? The whole premise is completely and utterly false?

http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201112-20121...

Android: 33%
iOS: 23%

That is a major difference in favor of Android. Why write a blog post without even checking the data?!
How Likely Are You to Die…Today? [video]
If you value the precious few minutes you have on this Earth, I suggest you get a job on the Internet instead of whatever the hell you're doing now.
Why not simply the regex itself in the url instead of some unique slug? - No need to store state on the server
I didn't claim the argument made sense. :)
Isn't the idea of ASIC's in general that they are only supposed to do one thing?
A much better series was the original BBC 'Survivors' from the mid-70s, then re-made a few years ago. Though it was a plague not power outage, the basis of society then does look at using mills and other early-industrial revolution technologies to help survival.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(2008_TV_series)
John Foobar is a 26 year old semi-technical analyst living in Austin who's sick and tired of Yelp. His favorite Mexican restaurant "Mi pato esta en fuego" has only received 2.4 stars! John wants to find food that he specifically will like, not just restaurants that are rated well. As luck may have it, John happens to have access to a massive amount of perfect data. So far, so good.

John does some Google searches and finds that a "k-nearest-neighbors algorithm" might be what he's looking for. He happens to have scored a free SQL Server license from an old barfly in exchange for listening to his tales about how wonderful life was when the mafia controlled New York, so naturally John searches for ways to implement kNN algorithms in SQL.

John finds out that kNN can be implemented efficiently using a spatial index, but that only works for two dimensions. That doesn't work because John really wants to judge places by location, price, and the ridiculousness of their dessert menu. So he spends a few hours trying to hack things together and finally posts an extremely specific question on StackOverflow about extending spatial indexes to 3 dimensions. He gets several answers that are technically correct but don't quite solve his problem and finally gives up, resigned to eat at popular restaurants for the rest of his days.

But if John had asked about the general problem of implementing kNN algorithms in SQL, he would have found that spatial indexes aren't the best method.

If he had asked about implementing kNN algorithms in general, he would have found that SQL isn't the best language for it.

If he had asked about creating recommendations based on like/dislike data, he would have found that there are better algorithms than kNN, and that there are several existing GUIs/APIs for these algorithms.

And if he had asked about the general problem of finding good food, well, his friends might have told him that Yelp already has a "personal concierge" mode and he just has to click a different setting.

Poor John.
Where is the math? Really, what's the point of making assumptions on the whole subject and invent a conclusion? You may be right, but you need facts to prove a point (which here is "go is as easy or easier than Python, faster, use less memory and has better concurrency"). At least the source code of both implementations..
When I applied for a number under the 'free' option, D&B said they would to contact the company. However, they would never leave a voicemail - the 'accounting' IVR option goes straight VM because it's not a full time position.

When I called them I was told I need some ~$700/yr service if I wanted to initiate the process on that phone call (though it was strongly recommend that I go with $1500/yr option).

Some time later, using their business search function, I found that they had issued a number for my company.
Sounds like a good plan.

There's probably more that needs to change than just the length of copyright terms. Registration should perhaps be required to get copyright.

I don't know if having copyright at all is a net benefit. Whatever is best, it might be something to approach in several steps and not all at once. Maybe we could get all scientific papers in the public domain at the same time, though.
The average Android user may surf less than the average iPhone user, but there are also way more of them. There are loads of cheap low-end Android devices that are able to browse the internet, but the people who buy them are not so interested in that. Apple doesn't make low-end phones (although they do sell old models), so it is a much more conscious decision to spend that much money on a phone. I think that if you take out all the people who went to a store "just to buy a phone" and just include people who buy high end models like the Samsung Galaxy, Google Nexus etc. the browser usage picture is not that different from iPhone users.
I've been thinking a lot about copyright terms lately, and this is what I have come up with: You get 5 years for "free", just like we have now. The next 5 years cost you $10k. The next costs you $100k. Add a zero every 5 years. It's going to be very difficult to keep a copyright for more than 20 or 25 years, but if it's really worth that much to you, then by all means...
When I saw this post I thought to myself "Code with colour filters applied?" When I clicked through it turns out it is just grey on grey so I can easily see why some wouldn't get it.
Does anyone else find the cursive (Narrative) font tough to read?
Cycloramic and Disruption
Fiber.js - Lightweight JS inheritance model
Thanks. Your links are much better than the one I posted.
I think this would be quite valuable -- provide a second input for sample text and highlight the path taken. Bonus points for figuring out a way to handle multiple sample inputs, showing capturing group output, etc.
Why All Entrepreneurs Have Founderitis, and How to Control the Monster Within
Isn't their R&D work being such a well-kept secret exactly the problem?
I agree completely. Netbooks were fine until they started putting Windows on them. They sold more for a while, until everyone thought they were shit because they were slow, meanwhile, with a light linux distro on them, they were more than capable.
Just take a look at Addy Osmani's

http://addyosmani.github.com/backbone-fundamentals/
Think it's actually sold by the pint, not by 568ml. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/72/section/8
It's "better" because it's just an offset Kelvin scale. So when you're doing delta calculations, there's no difference. And really, most temperature calculations are relative.
My point was exactly that the construction industry and others already deals in metric whether they know it or not.
Yes, they spec 2x4's, and 3/4" CDX sheathng, but every piece of sheathing they use is actually made to millimeter specs, not imperial specs.

This was my point about the collet, too. It's true they collets are not meant to be holding metric sized end mills/etc, but the collet itself is milled using metric sizes. They are not milled to 0.50000, they are milled to 12.70mm.
0.5 pints is still measured in pint units.
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New HTC, Motorola and Samsung devices have unlocked bootloaders, not to mention the generally superior Nexus brand anyway. The "exception" is locked bootloaders and that's pretty much a Verizon thing these days.