skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I learned anything from NaNoWriMo and from Stephen King's "On Writing", the labor counts much more than creativity.

My 400,000 words of novel-writing (and counting) might only contain a few gems, but it contains far more than the empty page of someone still waiting for inspiration to strike.

Sitting down and pounding out whatever you can for an hour or two a day will make you a successful writer faster than anything other than actually writing.
Enforcing a US law against VoIP scam artists in other countries is not trivial.
If you had just said "crappy cars", then sure. The "crappy domestic cars" bit was worn out a decade or so ago.
When I had the tires on my buell motorcycle changed the guy here in germany only had metric wrenches. He had to "fix" one to get the wheel of.
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And then people invented decimals.
>1/6 is a rather sizable fraction of the world's population (India itself is ~1/6 or 1/7 at over a billion people). Are there any other languages that are official for so many people?

The metric system graphic indicates <1/6 of the world's population highlighted as not using the metric system, making gp's point stronger.
Please move some of that stuff into the models. Please.
Slightly off-topic - the submitter's app (Big Lifts Pro) is very useful for people doing Wendler 5/3/1 or Starting Strength.
Useful. Thanks to this, found a bug in regex I did just today.

`/[^0-9^\+]+/` -> `/[^0-9\+]+/` # Thought that I needed to negate "+" as well.
If it's like the other chromebooks, you can if you enable Dev mode.
Really? I see an email address. Odd.
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Agreed. I've knocked out hundreds of thousands of words of novel on my netbook in vim. Having only low-end hardware actually helped me focus.
Two reasons: I didn't know I was going to need it that much and I pay cash for everything and thus do not have a credit card. You cannot rent a car without a credit card. Period. They do not accept a visa debit card at all.
Converting between m and km is dead simple, it's just a "decimal shift" / textual operation (move the comma).
Common sense never stopped most lawyers from not litigating when they knew their case was lost. Present company excluded.
Of course, if they made a deal with you, they shouldn't go back on it. But you're getting a service that the rest of us pay £60/year for, for free, for probably about 8 years now (Streetcar launched in 2004), that you seem to value. Surely there are more fundamental things about the service they could screw up than ending your free lunch?
Completely agree. And the fact that D&B gets to sell the info? Inexcusable.

This is a service that is simply begging for some competition, and I'm waiting for a startup entrant.
Much better visual evidence: http://signword.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/423399_101506340...
I tried the most complicated regular expression in the world:

http://ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html

and the server 500'd. Just joking, it's a very good tool.

P.S. it crashed with three nested groups (((a*)))
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That is a trend. I'm already seeing some startups pulling back into MySQL from Mongo admitting they followed the hype rather than using the best tool for the job.

While it could be the perfect fit for some tasks, I know there are a ton of Mongo deployments that would be better served by Postgres or MySQL.
The fact that other countries provide less does not imply that America currently provides enough.
yeah, if you wanted to keep the hackers out
Damn that would be nice, any time I see US paper sizes I go "WTH? Legal? What are you talking about?"
I'm a keyboard snob; My 'daily drivers' are two HHKB Pro IIs (one at home, one at work) on which I average about ~ 110 WPM, maybe 120 on a good day. On my iPad, I can get up to about half that without trying too hard - which I think is actually pretty good given the lack of any tactile feedback. While certainly suboptimal, I don't consider it to be anything like "abysmal".
A few places will accept debit (Enterprise comes to mind) but they require an additional deposit (150 - $200 or more) in order to process the rental. It can be a bit of a pain.
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You did, and I think this submission found me in a mean mood. For people who have read about polyphasic sleep etc. the phrase "26-Hour Day" has an intuitive meaning which led to disappointment on clicking to the article.

I stand by my point about entrepreneurs' blogs providing clues to their character, but I retract the judgement on your use of "26-Hour Day". You could have been clearer in the title rather than waiting until the third paragraph, but then there is a reason you seller types are what you are: you're good at hooking people in; after all, you got me to read the article.
Those numbers are used for Superbowls, not years. Get it together!
There is still value in a completed product, even if you never get a single paying customer. Taking something from basic idea to completion on your own is a positive signal, giving you a lot more career and business options down the line.
I recently tried to setup a hadoop cluster, just for the fun of it - but I found it slightly painful. Does anyone know if there are good puppet modules available for configuring everything? I wasn't able to find any.
Language learning begins in utero, study finds
Just don't bother with bench pressing, if you don't have a spotter or no bench. You can work on your pressing muscles in different, non-scary ways.
That's a typical case of theory and practice.

Yes, in theory the US is a country that supports metric. In practice, go and ask anybody in the country outside of the military for the following:

- An M10 bolt

- a 16mm wrench to drive it with

- a 3 meter long 50 mm od pvc drainpipe

- a tape-measure that measures only in metric

- a highway sign that is posted in km

And so on. See how many people can point you to any of these.

Then try this:

- a 3/8th " bolt

- a 9/16th " wrench to drive it with

- a 10' long 2" od pvc drainpipe

- a tape measure that only measures in Imperial

- a highway sign posted in Miles.

The petition is dead on in the way the US approaches the metric system, in practice it is imperial all the way. As long as the practice doesn't change what the technical situation is won't matter one bit.

The only way to get out of this is to change the law, and to deprecate Imperial in favor of metric.
Nokia predicted to abandon mobile business in 2013
In textbook publishing, it's very important to put out a new edition every year or two. Otherwise your sales will disappear, since everyone will buy the book used. For a book like Halliday and Resnick that's been around since the 1960s, it doesn't take a very large number of people selling theirs to satisfy the demand of all current physics students.

So you put out a new edition in which you shuffle all the exercises so that students can't do their homework, and you have someone mess with the text and the formatting to make it look like a real change. You add glossy pictures, because you get a much bigger visual impact from changing the pictures than from actually changing content.

For an old book, this is a problem because often the authors are dead or retired, or think the book is just fine. Now you have to find someone who would like his name added to a classic text who will sign off on the job. Today it's Halliday, Resnick, and Crane. For Arfken's old mathematical methods for physics text, it was Weber.
Netbooks were great for travel where you didn't want to lug around a big laptop, and I'd argue that ultrabooks are essentially a new name for netbooks. Even full-size desktop-replacement laptops have got a lot thinner (and with better battery life) than they were five years ago. So I don't think the netbook has failed; it's just been subsumed into the wider laptop market.
Focus on the line, not the dot
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"The Idiot's Guide to [Math Subject]" have all been really useful to me for my college courses. Well-written, detailed, and understanding of common mistakes, I would highly recommend them.
> "The keyboard just felt...odd."

My opinion is that all keyboards feel odd compared to what I use on a daily basis. If I use any keyboard for 2-3 days straight, it will stop feeling odd.

It's all a matter of what you're accustomed to using.
I agree that this is a concern. The entire cctld has been tainted, for me.
This website is awesome! Instantly bookmarked.

Suggestions

1) it would be really nice if you could allow the user to share a regex with a friend. IE http://www.regexper.com/shared/some_unique_slug will display my saved regex

2) Add a Favicon

Great work thanks for creating this
The friction of unit conversion is much lower, though, because they are constant and don't have transaction fees. The number of centimeters per inch or pounds per kilogram is the same today as it will be next month or next year.
That's great that you handle such an amount, congrats I guess? But you are seriously saying that 10 mill+ transactions every day is similar to a smallish web app?

And would you really say that a technology handling such an amount of transactions in such a critical setting is not ready for production?
Well then maybe they better get their asses over and fix this -- rather than go around invading small countries.
I know about Michelangelo and Raphael - both painters, but those three are considered to be in the same tier. I don't know any engineers that were considered better in his day. Da Vinci is obviously famous in the history books so it would be interesting to know more about his peers, especially if they surpass him in certain domains.
You just described airline ticket prices.
Since I'm usually starting with a bunch of data I want to parse/match/chop, I like going the other way - pasting a couple of lines into Patterns ( http://krillapps.com/patterns/ ) and tweaking my expression until it looks right. This would be a useful addition to help debug in place.
Software projects need more than a 10% margin for the same reason constructing a skyscraper does. Some types of investments are inherently less predictable than other types.
Adding Up the Year: 2012 by the Numbers
So to summarize, the defence is "feet seem easier to eyeball than meters" and "some people in the world still use Imperial".

It is indeed contrarian. Also stating that metric is derived form real physical properties of the universe "is about as useless and arbitrary in daily life that seriously, who cares" -- so it's useless to know that 1 liter of water is 1 kg?
Thus a foot is well the length of a human foot... A cup, is well a cup. An inch is a thumb length.

Not really much of a killer argument: my foot is not the size of someone else's foot. Nor is my cup. Nor is my thumb length.
Ask HN: Demand for revenue-shared US business presence?
For a litany of reasons, I think we can all agree that running a software company outside the US is harder than running one here.

The gatekeepers treat you differently- be they Apple (DUNS), credit card processing firms, banks, customers large and small, tax agencies..

Assuming all your company generates is 1's and 0's and you're happy enough doing it outside the US, but are tired of the artificial but nonetheless onerous difficulties the world places on non-US developers, what if a company came around that offered to:

•Give you a fixed unique US business address (not a PO box or a box at a UPS store)

•Give you a stateside phone number

•Give you a stateside IP gateway & address mask

•Help you apply for preferential US bank, credit reporting, merchant services, and US incorporation

in exchange for a 5% revenue share (or 5% equity in the event of pre-revenue)?

It'd probably be only for companies shipping virtual products- just doesn't seem fair that 5.3MB of stuff sitting on a US server should be 2x as hard to sell depending not on where it was written or where who wrote it lives; but rather where who owns it lives.

I'd imagine there'd be a screening process to discourage criminal activity.

Would this even be close to worth considering?
Never underestimate the selling power of cheap crap.
In that case you've voluntarily constrained yourself from using the full range of options available. I don't know what your rationale for not having a credit card is, but if it's control, you should know that ZipCar still holds you liable in much the same way a regular rental do, they just trust you enough to not require "collateral" in form of a credit card.
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Here's what you'll do

-Contribute to product design and implementation discussions
-Push the envelope on speed to implement projects from the idea phase to production
-Test and iterate code before and after production release
-Design, architect, implement, and QA new functionality

Here's what you'll need

-Experience with PHP
-Strong JavaScript using JQuery
-Good knowledge of SQL
-Understanding of scalability, systems engineering, and algorithms
-Sense of product and design
-You know a lot of languages and you’re comfortable learning new ones quickly
-You understand the importance of test/behaviour driven development
-A general familiarity with Unix like operating systems (Linux, OS X, BSD) and a love for the power of the command line

It would be awesome if you had

-Experience with Ruby, Erlang, Objective-C
-Experience with Sphinx, Lucene and/or Solr
-Familiarity with Apache, Memcache, Nginx
-Familiarity with Redis, Beanstalk
-Knowledge of database scaling and common caching, sharding and partitioning approaches
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Qualified candidates should send a resume and cover letter to hr@avidlifemedia.com. In the e-mail subject line please reference "Developer".
well PHP doesn't really handle it for you so you do have to call the function yourself. If you look at something like Razor for ASP.NET MVC, everytime you output a var (i.e. <span>@Model.FirstName</span>) it will automatically escape it. If you do not want to escape, then you need to call Html.Raw instead. PHP defaults to not escaping while it really should to make XSS less likely.
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Is there an API that doesn't require string concatenation? As-is these APIs appear relatively dangerous from a security perspective.
I'm struck by how much lower the valuation is than for the purely web based companies. Zip car has been operating for 12 years and looks like it will be operating for a long time to come. Even with facebook there's a question mark around whether or not it will be operating in another 10 years.
He was notorious for not finishing projects, or finishing them late; but that's not the same as procrastinating by browsing reddit all day, he got a hell of a lot done.
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First of all, I think it's a poor example. A full circle in degrees is an integer while in radians it's not even a fractional number (it's an irrational number)!

Also, I don't get the thing about fractions. Decimal numbers are fractions as well.
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The last sign in the US that I saw marked in metric was one on northbound I-95 in South Carolina, just north of the I-26 interchange. The sign was replaced about 2 years ago with a new one that only shows distances in miles.

I suspect that metrication of the highway system in the US will only happen if a large state like California or Texas converts. But with the current budget situation, that's highly unlikely.
We should have specialists in communication, and pay them a bucketload. They could also learn all those people skills. They'll effectively be managing the projects, so we can call them the project managers.

Would that solve the problem?
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Babushka is also great for this kind of thing: http://babushka.me/
We have 10 fingers and that's probably why base10 is somewhat naturally wired into our brains.
I'd like to remove 2 fingers and go to base8 but can't quite settle on the right ones.

Thumb is out of the question because it's what sets us apart, lets us use tools and so forth. Next finger up is usefull for pointing, not getting interrupted while on the phone and most importantly pulling triggers...seems valuable enough.
Finger #3 has too much social importance due to it's use as a universal sign of diagreement.
Finger #4 seems to be of mostly sentimental value if you're married I could see this one as a viable candidate.
Finger #5 is freakishly small compared to the rest but it is also very valuable for swearing.

So I think I'd propose removing both fingers #4 on birth from here on out or I suppose we could keep it as is. Occam's razor would suggest keeping it as is but could also be used to cut off the fingers.

Too many choices...which makes me wonder if binary isn't the way to go after all.
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Fails on non-ASCII characters.
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Amazon accused of noncompliance with video captioning rules
On earth, the meridian has an approximate length of 20,003.93m.

20,003.93km / 180 / 60 ≈ 1,852.22m ≈ 1,852m = 1NM

Note, however, that

20,003.93km / 200 / 100 ≈ 1,000.20m ≈ 1,000m = 1km

so if we used gradians/gon where the full turn corresponds to 400 instead of 360, the kilometer would be an approximation as good as the (international) nautical mile.
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I remember during the influx of Polish workers in the UK, that a pub got into some trouble because it sold a certain Polish beer in a 1 litre glass.

From what I recall, it was more that they were using Żywiec-branded glasses, which hold 0.3 and 0.5-litres respectively. UK law only allows beer to be sold in pint units.

I doubt they were doing it on purpose, but the small difference adds up quite quickly: serve 10 drinks at pint prices for only the cost of 9 pints.
So who's up for an emscripten port leveraging WebGL?
The Samsung ARM Chromebook I have has 2 normally located Alt keys. The Search key replaces Caps Lock (Good riddance!)

Are you sure you weren't using one of the Intel ones? Maybe it's the British/American difference...
It's more accurate to say Fahrenheit is brine based. 0°F was based on the freezing point of a brine solution used by Ole Rømer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8mer_scale
sorry I wasn't implying any malice, just wanted to say your explanation was misleading in my opinion
Much needed conference for iOS app devs.
The path idea is a great one! If the original dev doesn't add that I may be tempted to try building my own regex tool with these features.
The camera works just fine... I've used mine regularly for meetings via Google Hangouts since I picked it up a month after release.

As for storage, what exactly are you trying to store on the device? It really seems to only be intended for use as a dumb terminal to Google services, and in the current iteration I've yet to find a reason to use the local storage.

My biggest beef is the inability to locally cache music and video from Google Play. I think if this functionality existed, I would agree that the local storage is inadequate.
I can't read any of those questions/answers because I'm not logged in to Quora.

Log in.
> The metric system was originally developed by scientists during the enlightenment, but became the political tool it is today as part of the French revolution, yes it was brought to you by the good folks who also brought you the guillotine.

I forget the latin term for why this is a bad argument.

> An inch is a thumb length.

You have tiny thumbs.

> For measuring the length of something smallish like a notebook 15 inches just seems easier to relate to than 38 cm.

Which is why most people would probably say something like "40 cm" instead of 38.

> When measuring a room feet just seems an easier unit to eyeball.

Because you're used to measuring room sizes in square feet. Is it difficult to eyeball yards? Because my rule of thumb (or should it be "rule of inch"?) is that a meter is about a yard. If you can eyeball feet, you can eyeball meters.

> Almost all recipe’s call for a pound of meat as it’s a kind of natural portion amount of meat to cook with.

Of course, because we're living in a country where we use imperial measures. This is about as surprising and about as convincing as the fact that encyclopedias claim that the United States Congress has 435 members.
12 can be evenly divided into thirds and quarters, but 10 cannot. It is more likely that something will need to be divided 2 or 3 ways than 5 ways.
Agreed. and what can be "measured" by eyeballing it can be measure without. I usually call it "estimating".
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Chromebooks make excellent portable SSH terminals (see [0]) thanks to having decent keyboards (esp. for the price range) and great battery life. http://c9.io shows some promise as well, though IMHO it still doesn't beat good old-fashioned tmux.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
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Especially if it's handling money and donations. Not to mention it's a ridiculous abuse of TLDs (along with most of HN submissions but it winds me up nonetheless).
Chinese company plans to build world's tallest skyscraper in just 3 months
What do you mean the camera doesn't work? Is it defective? Or do you mean you can't use Skype with it? And did you honestly expect Facetime to work on it?

I suggest you use Google Talk or Google+ Hangouts. If you care that much about using Skype, I think you can use https://imo.im. I know you can login with Skype, but I've never checked to see if video-calling works.
I see these all the times, that and "How many squares are there in this picture?". Does my nut in, but it's quite surprising to read the comments and see how many people get it wrong.

I myself, am not anywhere near good at maths, I know what I need, but that's it, I didn't do too well at my exams either, but am able to do my job as a developer and yet people who you'd think need maths more are getting these questions wrong.

It seems programming really helps with understanding the "grammar" the term I use lightly, to read these equations.