skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm, placeholders should be working. Agreed about the blurb though.
I'm guessing, but perhaps a recovery partition?
I don't work in your office, but I have worked in several. More than I care to remember, actually.

There is no greater weapon for a knowledge worker than one solid hour of focused, uninterrupted work.

Most great knowledge workers are introverts. I don't mean 'introverts' in the pop culture way, I mean the scientific description - people who think deeply and internally about things and work best with focused solitude.Most people think introverts are shy, repressed loners but that's not accurate. There are athletes who do tons of interviews, very well, who are introverts.

There's a place for extroverts, but it is not in this kind of specific work. And extroverts work differently - an open office is great for them and they can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to work that way.

Whenever I see companies (usually start ups) who have their coders all working in a bullpen, I secretly think ('not hardcore coders'). Just my bias, but over a career that has now spanned nearly 20 years, I've come to trust it.
To clarify this point a little - I tend to find that once I know /what/ I'm writing and /how/ I'm writing it, it flows out with reckless abandon, and I'm able to get the words out very easily. Due to this, editing also comes quite easy as I find I've written the copy in a natural conversational way (as the article is written in).

However, I realise that this isn't normal, and may also be a big problem when not writing in a style that I can choose.
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I don't feel entitled to anything and take full responsibility for my debt. I also don't expect the loan to be forgiven (that would be ridiculous). This was written less for me and much more for others. There are a lot of people who signed up for these loans and have no idea what they're in for. Most were told they could go to school and would have a way to pay their loans, when in reality, they don't. Loans are handed out like free samples and people who don't know any better take them without understanding.
I imagine they're using something like wkhtmltopdf[1] (WebKit HTML to PDF)

[1] http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
The article is about the tendencies in communication due to Facebook. A hammer is just a tool but dammit if it doesn't result in a lot of pounding.
There are such laws on the books in at least some U.S. jurisdictions, but it doesn't really cause anybody to lose their tax status because there are legal workarounds. It is very common for a nonprofit organization's Articles of Incorporation (and any other legally-binding statements of purpose) to be written like this:

"This benevolent, charitable and eleemosynary institution has been organized [...under the appropriate state law for a charitable organization...] and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, literary, or scientific purposes within the meaning of §501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as the same may be amended from time to time. Within the foregoing purposes and not by way of limitation, [the organization shall perform its core mission]."
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I'm still on a 16GB iPad 1.

Of the machines I own, internal storage is just cache. I have a 9TB zfs NAS for stuff I actually care about. Whether an iPad has 16GB or 128GB of storage doesn't really matter; they are both equally inadequate. There would need to be two orders of magnitude increase to fit all my stuff in.
Zencoder has one of the nicest APIs I've ever used, it would take more than price for me to switch.
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You might be insulted when you saw how little they could afford to pay you. The idle time on random PCs is worth less than the overhead cost of managing it.
I think its a bit unfair to compare our parents generation (boomers) to ours (millennials, arguably).

The first thing that comes to mind is that, at least in my social circle, no one has a land line. We move a lot. We change cell phone numbers (carrier problems, relationship issues, who knows).

Its arguable that a FB presence is actually more stable than a physical presence for some social groups. Its not an all encompassing solution for human interaction by any means, but "worth it" is a very subjective term.
It's very easy to brush all of these as "don't matter in practice" or "just use <insert sane equivalent of ...>", but if we go that route, almost any language can be considers 'good enough' to write code in.

I see 2 problems with this point of view:

1) Ever programmer sometimes makes mistakes, such as forgetting a semicolon, or writing '==' instead of '==='
2) This assumes that anyone writing JavaScript knows about all these gotcha's

We can sit here all day arguing about 'how bad' some of the things JavaScript does or does not, but that's not the point. Most other languages have none of these issues, and if tomorrow somehow all browsers on earth would magically be able to run some kind of clean alternative to JavaScript, I'm pretty sure everyone would immediately jump on it.
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I’ve learnt a few things about traffic this week.
1. A SHITLOAD OF PEOPLE VISIT HACKER NEWS
So yesterday Informly was mentioned briefly in this blog post from @casjam. I didn’t know about it until I logged into my Informly account and saw this chart.
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A good majority of that is in China where the govt has banned it.

Show me a service that's connected more people that hasn't been around for more than 20 years and not named "the Internet."

The greatest value FB brings is making it easier to connect and share (ie. be open) with others and 1B people derive enough value in that to come back on a regular basis. That's the point.
You know how you can do YouTube one better? Offer to remember Sort. I tend to use several search terms every day. Having to manually sort each one is a real PITA. If I'm searching for "Nook HD+" and sort This Month/Upload Date, I'd like a checkbox that would keep that sort automagically for the next search terms I enter. That YouTube doesn't offer that -- and saved searches -- is a huge FAIL on their part.
"The article is about the tendencies in communication due to Facebook."

Yup, but my point, poorly made perhaps, is that you define your communication tendencies, and FB is just another communication tool. Not vice versa as the author intimates.
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Helsinki, Finland. The city is pretty small, so there's not actually that many unknown places. And every place is safe to go.
I didn't take it that way, just wanted to let everyone know that I've been working on it! :-)
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I'm laughing because as I write this I look to a board in front of me and there is a password of a router we use to manage EC2 connectivity written on it even though we signed for a passpack-like service.

Maybe we are trying to solve the wrong problem :D
Seems like you are hurting yourself by not getting a job. Yeah working for "the man" isn't as fun as running your own business. However, there is a lot to be said for getting experience in the real world and taking responsibility for your loans. You should be able to find a job easily with web dev and graphics.
I went there in April 2012. Computers are OK, and while the border guards check your luggage and take your phone (you'll get it back when leaving) they are incompetent; I brought an iPad and a camera with GPS. The camera even said "GPS" on it, and the guard noticed. But I acted confused and he let me have it back.

You're right about not wanting to support the government there, but the tourism industry is quite insignificant and not a major source of income for the regime. Do consider the moral implications of being used for internal propaganda, though. You'll be photographed wherever you go, and smiling is not really optional.
Uh, where's the skepticism here?

Converting audio of variable clarity to accurate text is still a challenge even for companies who specialize in it. As Siri has shown, it's even harder to judge actual intent.

And then there is at least one other problem: producing the content for each permutation of each political claim...it's not as if politicians phrase their assertions in exactly one way...and properly mapping them to the true/false evaluations.

And there's also the problem of the whole true/false content production, which even the Pulitzer Prize winning Politifact has problems with.

Given these very difficult technical hurdles, either the WaPo has a massive skunkworks budget. Or whoever came up with this has a poor, Jetsons-fueled understanding of computing.
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I find that in writing, I have the same problem as I do in most other undertakings. I have come to call it "paralysed by technique." I have no idea if this is a legitimate thing or not, so if there is a more apt name, I'm all ears. Basically, I get bogged down on the minutiae of how to do something, and quickly lose sight of what I'm trying to do.

Easy examples would be how the section where the author compared text editors has already given me some stuff where I am looking to see if the editor mentioned would be of benefit to me. Or, where to put notes that I want to trigger a thought later? There are more ways to do this than I can really consider, but I'll try. How many strokes should be used in writing a capital B? Is my version with 5 truly more readable than one with just 3? Should I care if I have a passive sentence anywhere? ...

With writing, the specific difficulty I have is in coming up with a narrative. I have the same problem in writing code. The computer wants things one way, of course. It is somewhat easy to talk to a computer. Making it so that the code is approachable by myself later, however, is tough. I've been lured into literate programming time and time again, but with no accepted toolchain in any of the languages I use, that really is not an option at work.

Anyway, ramble off.
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Idea: build a pretty web based UI or software downloadable UI for this and mark up the costs to be just under zencoder's pricing. Would that be viable? for people who need 1 off transcoding they load up $20 of credits minimum or something.

If someone wants to do it, I have a domain I've been sitting on which would be good for this.
I'm writing two books right now. It was a stupid stupid idea.

But I think when it's all over with, I will look back on this time ... and still think it was a terrible idea.

Seriously, don't write more than one book at a time. One is enough.
> A 2% increase isn't very good IMO. I'd rather look for other efficiencies that won't cost me more money.

A 2% improvement is a week's worth of effort in a year at a full time job. Even a small improvement will be worth it unless there's a larger opportunity cost (such as using a substitute text editor that will yield even larger improvements), or if there's a risk of something going wrong (such as it being buggy and wiping out a week's worth of work). There's also switching costs of learning new features, which may be significant, depending on what you do and how you you'd use it.

You should obviously make your own choice, but the rationalization can be valid, and 2% productivity improvement is nothing to sneeze at.
I one travelled to Ushaia Argentina and then simply picked a random hill to climb. It was about 3000ft and had snow on top in summer. I was under a lot of stress because my wife was in town and had an injured back. I contemplated if I should go all the way up (there were no paths) but decided I will probably never have the opportunity again. When I finally made it up I could see into a valley without any human development. It was one of the best moments of my life. Since this day I go out into nature more often and also spend a couple of nights outside alone. I always come back clearheaded.
A potential competitor, yes, but who expected Amazon to offer a video transcoding service? I certainly did not. Do you think that offering any compute-based service using Amazon's infrastructure is a bad business decision?
I've been toying with the idea of writing a book recently. Probably not a big 200 page job but even 50 pages on some niche subject. I always remember Jeff Atwood once said: "If I had to make a list of the top 10 things I've done in my life that I regret, "writing a book" would definitely be on it." (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/coding-horror-the-b...) - he means specifically a proper printed book by the way.

I'm really intrigued by the success of people like Nathan Barry who wrote The App Design Handbook (http://nathanbarry.com/app-design-handbook/) and Designing Web Applications (http://nathanbarry.com/webapps/).

I'd imagine the best way to approach it would be to just try to write a bunch of semi-disjointed blog post type articles on a particular subject, say Customer Development, then edit them together with an introduction, conclusion and some filler content to manage the transitions between articles. That way even if you never actually finish the book you can still release the articles on a blog or email list if you feel like it.

That said, your situation is definitely different since you were approached about writing a book on a particular subject. Most hackers who sit down to write a book probably won't have that going for them.
To be honest, most people have a completely incorrect view of introverts. Many stand up comedians are introverts. Many artists are introverts. Being an introvert is not the same as shy.
Interesting... I don't know anyone who seems to use iGoogle. I didn't think power-users would be interested.
God bless this project. I've been using Sequel Pro on a daily basis and am amazed at how many features and polish it contains. I am definitely donating to them.

Edit: To reiterate, this is just a wonderful project. They hadn't updated since 2011 and yet I've been using Sequel Pro daily, on Mountain Lion, with nary a hitch. I'm not a MySQL power user by any means so having this reliable, free tool to make handling gigabyte datasets a breeze is just a real boon to daily productivity and anti-frustration.

There are many great free GUI apps out there, of course (every major web browser, major web app, OpenRefine, etc)., but MySQL on a Mac seems like such a niche market that I assume no one would put real resources or talent to creating a slick GUI for it. Discovering Sequel Pro a few years back has been one of my favorite open source experiences in awhile.
I don't think it's harsh at all :) I'm too (well) on my 30s and I've been thinking about these things a lot. I'll write a blog post on the subject later, because simple vs complex solution thing intrigues me.
The figures for palestine are insane.
Population: 2,514,845
Immigrants: 1,923,808
Emigrants: 3,017,140
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>As long as Zencoder runs on AWS, barring some magic encoding technology, it can never be cheaper than Amazon could theoretically go.

Nobody is forcing Zencoder to stay on AWS, if it no longer makes business sense to stay there then they need to move. If Zencoder believes that isn't feasible they need to find different value adds to make themselves more attractive than Amazon. This isn't anti-competitive at all.
Ask HN: What have you launched this year?
It might be a little too early in the year but...

1.) What product have you shipped so far? (side project, SaaS, MVP, open source, etc...)

2.) Has it gotten any traction yet?
> I have come to call it "paralysed by technique." I have no idea if this is a legitimate thing or not, so if there is a more apt name, I'm all ears.

You are thinking of "yak shaving". Or possibly analysis paralysis, but the rest of your comment screams of yak shaving.
The article only talks about correlating Introversion to sales ability, so big 5 or MBTI wouldn't terribly matter. Further, in this case they used a different, 7 point scale.
Original unsanitised version here: http://neilmiddleton.com/writing-is-hard-do-it/
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(You've probably never heard of it.)

Is this a hipster joke?
If you'd asked me a few years ago, I wouldn't have expected Amazon to provide a CDN. Or a DNS server. Or a giant MySQL instance in the sky.

I think the general lesson here is that if it is a server-based operation that can be made more cost effective in bulk, Amazon are interested in doing it.
Might be a simpler explanation: iPhone had the longest head-start in the US.

Users, developers, and designers all have an iPhone bias because, for a few years, it was the only new-generation smartphone.

For many users, there is simply no reason to switch. iPhone is a really nice product.

Tablets are a more-competitive situation. I can see someone switching to a Nexus 10 or Asus from an iPad. But there, again, Apple has a huge head start, and many users will find too little reason to switch.
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Any suggestions for a PostgreSQL GUI client on a mac?
Maybe I wasn't clear. The gotcha with 3/2 == 1 isn't that it's giving 1, it's that the behavior changes depending of the version of python.
As someone who is ambi in several of those categories I still think there's utility in the classifications. It's definitely pop-pseudo-science, but I'm not convinced proper science can even distill something as complex as personality into something a lay person can understand. Maybe it's the best most people will do in understanding themselves.

A friend of mine who also recognizes the pseudo-scientific nature of MBTI put it well: use the test to pinpoint where people may differ from you and learn why they do. He claims he has almost mastered all eight letters (he still stuggles with T), and I have to say that he is one of the most well-balanced people I know. Personally, the test revealed to me why people may think I come off as arrogant (it apparently comes with the J and T), which I have become more aware of in my interaction with others.
I tried.

On fixed pipeline the thing is ugly. On shaders it is horribly slow.

Then it is buggy, the physics are horribly broken, and some default stuff are way beyond broken.

Back then, torque was kinda expensive, they used source access as selling point, but there was a internal joke in the community that the source was available because without it was impossible to do anything. You just plainly needed the source to do even things seen in official samples.

Also when I used it the documentation was so bad that you did better by not reading it and going by trial and error.
We launched pressureNET 3.0 this morning. It's an open source Android app that collections barometer measurements from phones and tablets, and sends the data to atmospheric scientists for analysis. Regarding traction, we'll see! The app itself has more than 17,000 downloads and we've collected more than 10,000,000 measurements. Version 3.0 is a very big update, the first that includes proper visualization and sharing of data, so I think we're doing well.

Here's our announcement blog post: http://www.cumulonimbus.ca/pressurenet-3-0-sharing-visualiza...

And the app on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.cumulonimbu...
Considering that most "fact checkers" that I've seen seem to write more editorials than objective reports, I'm quite dubious about this kind of thing. I've seen too many "he's technically correct but..." to believe anything these checkers say.

How do we know the "facts" that the system is checking the statements against are in fact themselves true?

Does the system take into account the actual definition of lying? As in that a lie is knowingly making a false statement in an attempt to deceive. If the person speaking believes what they state is true then it is not a matter of lying or telling the truth, it's simply being mistaken or correct. Painting "Liar, Liar" on the forehead of a politician simply because he's mistaken is stupid and a bad thing for an election process.

If the system gets it wrong, will they publish a correction in an equally visible manner and explain what the problem was? How can you trust such a system if they don't?

These "fact checkers" have turned out to be an incredibly bad idea, especially during an election. The idea of fact checking faster only makes it exponentially worse.
IMHO sublime dev/s should be charging double (like $149) for product and require a paid upgrade every year to pay for continued development and features. I would happily subscribe for this software like I do for the adobe suite.
Precisely what I was thinking... I'm probably going to jump on to this... do a 2-4 week hack at it and launch it. If anyone wants to partner, let me know (I can design and play full stack- either one).

Let me know what the domain is, I may be interested.
It's worth noting that Francis Irving is not just any man, but an uber-nerd who founded Scraperwiki (https://scraperwiki.com/about/ ) was part of the team that built They Work For You (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/about/ ) and other egovernment sites.

Then again, perhaps this note is moot. After all, using github issues to track house repair is probably all the bona fides one needs as an uber-nerd.
I must have installed the package manager a good 10 times across all the installs and different platforms I used to use ST2 on and I only paid for ST once.

I'm probably an outlier in that I work on lots of different systems, but I wouldn't be surprised if the 1.1 million package manager installs represents far less than 1.1 million uniques, and that's before you start adjusting down for pirates and non-paying users who just live with the nag dialog.
That is a much better article.

I try to think of writing as more like design or engineering, not (just) an art or skill.

No one would say: "coding a compiler is hard, so do it" or "curing alzheimhers is hard, so do it" or "teaching is hard, so do it"

Like in design/engineering, when writing or teaching or other similar activities there will be a lot of trial and error, you need to keep the audience/user/learner in mind, and it is critical to get as much feedback as you can. Not because you suck at it, but because it's essential to effective design of an argument or design of a lesson.
Now you're just being deliberately insulting, to avoid answering the obvious question -- what change was made to the algorithm?
By the way: Ogre is not much better.

For pure graphics I used to recommend Horde3D
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Myers Briggs aims to measure preference rather than performance. A score highly biased towards extroversion is just as likely to indicate a weakness in "introverted" areas, such as approaching problems strategically, as it is to indicate a strength in communication skills.

A better rule of thumb when looking for the right qualities in a salesperson, especially a complex-software-solving-complex-problem salesperson, is to look for someone that listens to the other party more than they talk.
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This is a great example of users of your application doing unintended things. In this case, productive, positive things.

I also think this speaks volumes about the possibilities that open, or at least lenient, platforms offer. Rather than being removed for not adhering to a rule saying that "All project must contain source code", Github allows and encourages this kind of use.

I hope more companies in the future create products like this and treat their users similarly.
I'm thinking about the same. Give it a few months, to see if Zencoder lowers its pricing. But yes, half price to have the same features we use with Zencoder is tempting.