skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the frequency that this comes up, I'm a little surprised that no one has tried to build a start-up around this. I'm sure there's enough latent demand for customer service for Google that you could probably charge a fee for it - not sure how much it would be but still something.

Also you've probably got a willing acquirer in Google, providing you can prove out the model.

Only thing is you would need to have plenty of connections into the inner workings of Google to actually be able to serve your customers.
because you sometimes want to refer to the original 'this' reference inside an inner nested function scope, where the actual 'this' keyword is rebound to the context of the inner function.

function outer() {
var outer_this = this;
var inner = function() {
var inner_this = this;
// ...
}
}

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4886632/what-does-var-tha... has some more details.
The non-Jews that helped shape the 2012 Jewish story
Wish they were Jewishת or thank God that they're not
Actually (according to Ritchie's description of the history of C at http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html) they never wrote a C compiler in asm. Instead it was a gradual process of evolution, so the first C compiler would have been written in B; and the B compiler was itself written in B and self-hosting, bootstrapped from a B compiler written in a thing I've never heard of called TMG.

None of which is to downplay their achievements at all (I still write C full-time); but it's interesting that even in a period of computing history where operating systems were generally written in assembly language, compilers were bootstrapped from other high level languages.
French ?
And the other one is Government ?

C'mon there are many funnier and truer word i can think of
Not sure how you arrived at flat rate being the only alternative. It's almost trivial to count ingress only for host flows to which the customer's device responds positively (say, by replying using anything except ICMP or a TCP error)
For consistency and to avoid populating the scope with named variables, look at how jQuery works for good examples of how to use 'this' (the puns are infinite with this)
"Let's not forget that HN is largely driven by its readers."

I would add that HN is also driven by the admins. The admins can decide what gets on the front page and what stays there. They are the gatekeeper to being able to gain votes to stay on that page (unless an admin decides to remove something?).
This is hilarious. Also it’s a bit ironic that Pakistan is represented by the word “India”.
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I'm confused... doesn't that just reduce the question to "what is the current binding of self"?
-Submit my thesis and get my Masters

-Publish my masters work in the leading IEEE conference in my area.

-Move to Europe to live and work there

-Learn more CS, particularly in the areas of natural language processing and distributed computing. (My academic background is in EE).

-Get fitter. Hit my strength goal of 1xBW bench, 1.5x squat and 2x deadlifts
the marginal cost is negligible

The marginal cost to the creator is not negligible, it is absent. That's an important fundamental change that invalidates most arguments that parallel non-digital interactions. The only cost to the creator is the erosion of the paying market.
Well said sir.
This is also why these countries have firewalls and rules against watching foreign movies/music.
My Iranian friend told me that music is illegal in Iran. As well as movies. He told me he watched Friends in Iran and it made him want to come study in Canada.
Of course after that he was disappointed to see that things are not exactly like Friends over here.
This is one if the most interesting articles I've read on HN in a looonnng time. More tech companies should be thinking about this.
The first 2 I get. The rest? Who cares? I live in Japan, where NFC is probably used more than any other country. But I don't need it. I pay cash for most things and my train pass is a rechargeable card. All NFC would allow me to do is pull out a different thing from my pocket or bag to pay with.
Are there android devices that are difficult to root? I have only ever used the Nexus line (closes to actual Android spec), but they have all been incredibly easy to root. I was under the impression they were actually built this way on purpose.
It means you can have big success in an industry (search results) that doesn't require customer care.

The problem is Google is trying to approach other industries the same way they have with Search: If it can't be solved by a group of engineers and a rack-full of servers, it shouldn't be solved.
As I've aged, I've come to the conclusion that people become "old" more by choice than by the passage of time.
The people who want opt-in are not the bad guys here, and neither are the people who want opt-out. The bad guys are those who poisoned the well, tragedy of the commons, by abusing the system. Unfortunately, there is a greater chance of abuse than there is utility, and it's more difficult for everyone to manage opt-out on an individual occurrence basis than it is to manage opt-in centrally by trying to ban bots across the board. And neither are that actually that successful, despite there having been individual successes in some communities.
Ah. Saw the title.
Understood.
Bummer to hear, I too reported a privacy setting circumvention, and I did receive compensation. I think a big part of it is being the first person to report the error.
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This appears to be material from this book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_48_Laws_of_Power

Don't miss the first sentence of the "cultural impact" section. Lol.
No, Unity2D was still Unity rendered without 3D. MATE is older Gnome2.
I read the Count of Monte Cristo but I haven't met anyone who has. I'd like to talk about it with someone though. Do you want to read it and talk about it?
Uh, where's all the code? I'm guessing I'm missing something, but a lot of the classes in the lib/ folder invoke classes that I just can't find in the project. Are these external dependencies that weren't called out in the README, or is not all of the code in master actually functional yet?
Imagine how much wiser we'd be as humans if we'd all live 500 years, and be in good physical health most of that time.
1) I don't know, I get something very similar to this when I have a bunch of apps opened.

http://cloudfront.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/07...

Can you tell which one is active and which one is the app I'm switching to? I can't process it.

2) I think the super key is the one that's always bound. I can't remember this one either. It's been a while since I used Windows for longer than a week.

3) There is? I think the multiple app icons and the ridiculously slow moving sliding dock must have pushed it down somewhere, either that or it's been camouflaged by all the similarly looking icons... they are all the same shape.

5) Thanks for this tip! I don't know why I didn't try this combo, must have scared of touching the Alt key...
My New Years Resolution: Billing Myself For Wasted Time
As a self-employed consultant, with my own pet projects as well, probably my biggest challenge is focus. While I can easily force myself to focus when I have a deadline or paying client, when I am working on my own projects or on my own time it is super easy for me to get distracted.

Semi-inspired by Nathan Barry's post about his first year self-employed, and the comments here on HN, It appears forcing yourself to make commitments to yourself as well as avoiding wasting time browsing blogs and checking email and social feeds, is the main key to success.

So, my new years resolution this year is to start invoicing myself and tracking every minute, and every missed-dollar spent on various activities.
Using my last paid consulting rate (as this grows as I sign each new client)I will calculate my time and costs associated with each personal project, as well as tracking the cost of wasted time.

The hope is that,"You Manage what you measure," holds true, and by noticing I wasted $1200 a day and spent another $800 on personal projects, will help skew that math in favor of more productivity, budgeting time and knowing the true cost of pet projects, and most importantly, Recognizing How Much Money I Could Have Made By Focusing On Filling my Funnel, Finding New Clients, and Pitching New Projects to Existing Clients (why wait for them to come to me?!)

Do You have any tips or advice for tracking and managing this Resolution would be much appreciated.
Maybe "call" and "apply" belongs to that list?

Function.prototype.call(this, argument0, argument1...)
Function.prototype.apply(this, [arguments]) // array for args.

In a related note I created a variation of .bind that can have its bounded arguments an 'this' overwritten called mixbind, and also the methods .mixcall and .mixapply that can be used to overwrite arguments too (you can use NULL or undefined to left holes):
https://gist.github.com/4303394
Indeed, this is the solution. (One can also note that for for the original puzzle of two prisoners, guessing parity reduces to checking whether their hats are the same or different.)
Starting your first business in France? Here are the steps, and some great tips
That's definitly the right direction. Our software stack is getting too complicated, and is carrying so much stuff that is almost never used (e.g. obscure entries in terminfo's db). But of course, real world does not give us much time to rethink/refactor our computing structures.
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https://github.com/ircmaxell/PHPPHP/tree/master/lib/PHPPHP/E...
Which classes are you specifically missing?
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You can't build a startup around this because:

1) it would instantly flounder due to an overload in requests

2) a service department only works when it can deliver customer satisfaction, and you couldn't

The only party that can fix this is google, and they'll only fix it under competitive pressure.
I really have to echo this sentiment. Let me preface this by saying I have the utmost respect for all of these people. They're doing exactly what I want to do (SaaS products), and I follow each of their stories closely.

However, it can be disheartening when I see Product X owner posting "I made 6 figures this year!", only to open the post and see 10% of their income is from Product X, and the other 90% is selling information to people on how to create their own product X (often accompanied by doing consulting gigs for other people). I know the info products are high quality, but it still feels a little 'spammy'.

One of the reasons I'm getting into SaaS and not employment/consulting is because I want to work on my own schedule, on my own products, while traveling the world, without having to answer to anybody else, while still making more money than I could working as a developer in the Valley.

Regardless of this, I still fully believe it can be done. As a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation, if Planscope's growth stays on the exact same linear growth path for 2013, it will make over $110k for the year. But I predict it will make a whole lot more than that as Brennan increases marketing and develops reliable customer acquisition channels resulting in exponential growth.

Looking forward to the end of 2013 reports!
Does any ISP do that though? I've never heard of it, then again I haven't had contact with any ISP delivering external IPs to mobile connections.

The point about battery remains though. And the solution you propose can easily be exploited to allow unlimited data for say, video streaming.
TPB is a distributor of culture just like graffiti tagged freight trains are a distributor of art.
I've been there.
Stood at the edge of the Abyss.
Stared into it.
I saw myself staring back.
It was at my lowest point that I realized the true way to "happy" was to allow myself to be that way.
Meaning no other person controls you, no other person can give you happiness. The only one that controls your life is you. Instead of waiting for someone to come to you and speak. Speak to them first. The only one that ever needs to care about you is you.
A lot of them are installed via composer (see the PHP-Parser project for most of them): https://github.com/nikic/PHP-Parser
I had the same thoughts when I was homeless, but then I decided to be the one who cares. I started asking people how they were and I meant it. I started caring for others, and it made all the difference in the world.
Kernel != The shell system.

You can't get shell on the gas station pumps I did either, but they run on linux.
And, potentially, mental health - though the variance between people is huge. While my grandfather (mother's side) was mentally as sharp as he'd ever been when he died at 92 and my 94 year old grandmother (father's side) still plays bridge several times a week and has a fantastic memory for everything related to the family, it's also all too easy to find people who have been afflicted with dementia and alzheimer's from their 70s and 80s.
External links must be open in new window
+1 Right on. At least we should have something similar to a global opt out list for nagging to install apps. Most companies have become much better at making it easy to opt out of emails after you have done business with them. Web portals should learn the same lesson with nags for app installations.

I am firmly in the HTML5 camp on rich web apps instead of custom apps. A tangent, but: our purpose in life is to make life better for those we love and also the world in general. Assuming that you are producing good content, do you feel like you better serve people with a universal web + mobile HTML5 web app, or some custom Android and/or iOS app?

One of my projects for the new year is to take my old cookingspace.com hack and add "AI" for suggesting alternative recipes, generating recipes based on ingredients on hand, etc. Yesterday I started to flesh out a simple UI in an Android app, basically just having fun. This morning I had one of those "what was I thinking" moments, and then saw the linked article which I agree with.
Yeah, those were mentioned in the post as exception 2, but maybe I should make a note.
Hacking the brains of other people with API design
If free will does not exist, then it is ultimately not anybody's fault if they do something. That includes murder and buying cigarettes. But at the same time it is easy to see that as a society it is advantageous for us to punish criminals because that punishment is part of the environment that influences behavior for criminals and non-criminals in a positive direction.

So - nobody is responsible for any action, but it is useful to pretend they are.

Another reason why the concept of free will is so ingrained in western culture is the role it plays in religion - being saved/forever damned makes no sense without it. But like much of religion it is just an untruth that has (at least historically) proved useful for people. Since religion is so important to many people, they will also hold on to the idea of free will because understanding reality in a more accurate way wil undermine their religion.
I really like Uzbl, but I noticed that after a couple of "tabs" it gets really slow unfortunately.
That's why google is working so hard on AI, that way they don't have to staff a proper customer service department.

Hopefully they'll get that done in time for them not to be out-competed by a company that actually cares about their audience / customers.
Lets improve the internet
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Question: why would anyone want to use this? Who uses it or is the ideal market?

Inputting data on a touch interface is terrible, so filling out several forms looks really tedious.
The name itself has an error. It should be "An overly picky language style-checker."
Their business model isn't creating software - it's selling "get rich fast schemes" and other information for high margins. You are the target of their sales channel. You can just see it in the financial Brennan posts: 12% comes from selling software, 88% comes from selling to you -- and he earned most from selling a $1199! course on how to build your own multi-million dollar consultancy. It should ring bells as it's a very common theme in most other markets (where you have a lot of people selling "how to get rich quick" - - and the only people that get rich by these schemes are the people that are selling them).
"The backlash is from people who are so intensely jealous"

Behaviorally, I'm wondering if some of the jealousy is coming from the "aw shucks" tone of these posts.

After all, in high school, nobody was ever jealous of the cliche kid with horn rimmed glasses that studied all the time, never partied, went to medical school (or became a rocket scientist) and ended up making lots of money (and actually married a beautiful nurse). He worked hard he deserved his success. (Or the athlete who made it into the pros or pick your own example). I think it's human nature for people to see someone who appears to be naive/lucky and things just worked out.

A relative of mind recently commented that his college roommate "who had a lower GPA than I did" made it big on wall street and was living the life with a beach house and all the trimmings (while the relative was working for a bank doing just "ok"). It was clear he was jealous and that he felt he was smarter and had worked harder than this individual.

Just a hypothesis.

Edit: Emphasis on appears to be.
The one thing Congress can agree on is violating your privacy
There is a Steve Blank article that covers some of this: http://steveblank.com/visitors-guide/
Good start is also to use plancast, meetup, etc to see what's going on.
Can highly recommend using AirBnB to find a host who is also into the tech-scene (read descriptions, etc.).
I had a similar terrible experience spending $10 to transfer my number on google voice. Got the whole "Uh oh. There was a problem" error. Waiting for support like you, and then I found some obscure google group post that suggested my address on google wallet was wrong. After fixing that and waiting a day or so I finally made purchase successfully.

Google checkout/wallet is less than good, combined with virtually non-existent support is a terrible combination.
Recently I've had the opportunity to hang out with kids of various big companies' CEO's, CFO's children. Multi-millionaire families by all accounts and all that.

Something that jumped out at me while talking to them was that they'd watched a lot of cinema classics that I, or my little siblings, had not -- I'm talking about Scorsese movies, Orson Welles movies, classics, Sergi Leoni films, spaghetti westerns, etc. etc.

It dawned on me that films, very much like books, really are very profound mediums of culture. Indeed you would be most remiss if you were to deny that film cinema, music, etc. is one of the defining things of the Western culture. And it's a rather effective medium -- you get to hear how words /sound/. Watch Jeeves & Wooster (of Fry and Laurie) with subtitles on and you're going to increase your vocabulary with SAT-level words by about 10 words with each episode.

Knowing about these movies, it keeps you well-connected into the Western culture, and more in tune to what's going on out there. You'll be able to communicate with people better.

Sure libraries exist. And they're free. But TPB is giving you a chance to talk about culture -- to discover content in a free manner, you're checking out stuff at the comfort of your own home -- when you're in a quiet library the chance to talk about things is forgone. It's an overly formal and stigmatized process, as it potentially very well could be in inner city areas (I grew up in one -- I vividly remember being mocked in 6th grade by my peers when they'd find out I was heading to the library).

My philosophy is: while you're under 18, poor... go ahead, download it all (preferably in a 'safe' way) -- try to see the classics, broaden your musical interests by trying out Mahler, Beethoven, Beatles, Jethro Tull, Lata Mangeshkar, Vladimir Vysotsky, etc. Download some books, get some '100 must read books' list and go by that -- download pdf files, ePub files if you decide to invest in a Kindle or something, read 1984, Huckleberry Finn, Dubliners, Lolita. Download engineering, computer sciences ebooks for your college courses, that will otherwise cost you hundreds of dollars and financially burden you when you're already in a shaky position.

TPB is one of the great equalizers in our society.

Once you're old and you've got it made, and can comfortably afford to spend some money -- go out and spend the money to watch a movie, go watch a musical, go to the local theater, spend to your heart's content.
At the risk of being slightly cynical I'd like to point out you can actually phone and talk to someone if you're having problems paying them (i.e payments via Google Wallet) just not after they've taken your money.

For example I was having problems with a payment in Google Wallet for something off the play store. I was able to ring them, speak to someone from America and get the problem resolved in under 5 minutes.
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I for one wholeheartedly disapprove of an app like this. We don't need things enforcing old, arbitrary modes of prescriptivist grammar. If you spent time writing this, and you didn't realize along the way that natural language is far too complex and nuanced to support such reductivist, Cartesian attitudes, then you're entirely missing the point of how natural language works.

You're sending the wrong message and masquerading as a language expert, when really you're just codifying meaningless, pedantic complaints about how other speaker groups utilize a roughly identical system using shared constructions. Those attitudes lead to unnecessary prejudice against others at best and bigotry at worst.

You want to know the best way to determine whether or not a construction is grammatical? Whether someone said it, and another person understood it. Because well-formedness is ultimately determined on a gradient scale, and not a categorical one with a series of by-laws like some kind of rulebook for a secret club.
I can program my microwave to automatically heat my soup for 85 seconds at 80% power beginning at 2pm. End users would struggle to program their smartphones to navigate HN automatically at that time.

Traditionally, programmability has been the consideration when determining what constitutes a general computing device. Browsing the web or reading email are not.

What deserves analysis are the premises upon which the conclusion about Linux has been reached. The basis upon which the conclusion about Linux has been reached relies on a special definition. When an argument relies on changing the meaning of words, its honesty is suspect.
Gnome and KDE do not have their hats out for donations to keep them alive.
DRC and Nigeria also have government...
I guess the lack of it is important.
On iPhone it opens the keyboard initially when clicking in your demo... Seems like a bug
Just to remark on the new Alt-tab behavior:

* Now alt-tab switches between application groups
* and alt-backtick switches windows in your current group

Initial nerd rage for me, but I'm starting to like the distinction. Eg, alt-tab to get to empathy, then alt-` to chose one of its several windows.
I would like to hear if it is effective because a) the Chrome Webstore is full of spyware[0] and b) its not like spammers can't spend $5 to verify an account

[0] My example search is always 'youtube downloader': https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/youtube%20download...
Stupid is one thing. Disinterested in reading is my primary concern.
Even if you do not end up doing comp. sc., don't leave it like this. Win it and then leave it.

BTW, if you are interested in speaking to someone, you can send me an email and I will share my phone number. I am in India too and probably can help you in small ways. My email id is in my profile.