skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks again.

I've taken care of most of the issues described above and from various comments.

The click handler issue was an artifact of my adding an XML response into the question and answer divs. Really strange behavior, but it's fixed.

I've opted for a simple link on the question to toggle the q&a. Also the data issues should be resolved, and instead of seeing a answerer's 'acceptance rate' I'm showing the total score.

Unfortunately I can't enable multiple-tag searches (API limitation). Single tags will have to do, and I'll add search soon to make it more robust.

I realized that with Stack-Ed.com, all I need to do is change the 'site' parameter in the StackAPI and I get access to the vast array of StackExchange services. Photography, Math, Home Improvement, Server Fault, Webapps, Cooking, etc. Crazy.
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As I just tried explaining in my reply to your comment's sibling, "direct attack" means "violence", not "name-calling." Anyone who tells you that Islam says it's okay to kill someone for calling Mohammad a doody-head is lying; the Qu'ran has many examples of Allah exhorting Mohammad to remain patient in the face of insults.
I'm very glad he's doing what he's doing.

It is also fair that when someone proposes a certain set of objectives, and then declares a plan to accomplish those, that you can criticize the plan to accomplish those objectives as being less than optimal. IMO, since this is his own money, he has every right to pick the objectives he thinks most important.

I think a marginal $1b spent to end the drug war would do more for his stated goal of fixing underperforming urban schools than a marginal $1b spent on teacher measurement. The irony is he wouldn't even need to spend $1b to make a huge impact on ending the drug war -- just showing through data that the drug war is responsible for many of the problems in schools and urban culture ($10mm to study this?) and then having the courage to promote that result (free or priceless) would accomplish it.
I'd be very interested to hear a ballpark estimate how much data they're storing in their PostgreSQL instances. Any word on that?
I can't even debate this blog, because if he doesn't get utility from Facebook, socially, then he doesn't get utility form it. That's factual.

But I, and most of my close friends, get HUGE social utility from the platform. Some just use it for Events, some for micro-blogging, some for passively keeping in touch, some for messaging, etc. etc. But I know lots of people much better because of Facebook.

And that is also factual.
Here comes Vine clone from Facebook.
Invent, which is hard, but there is always CLONING!!
> 1) This bill will remove per-country quotas for Employment Based Green Cards. Just look at the backlog right now and imagine what would happen if these quotas were removed.

Looking at the backlog, I notice that two countries where 1/3rd of world's population resides are over-represented. Removing the per-country quota reduces the decades-long wait which people from these countries have to put up with.
There is a project that tries to run Android on old iphones (iphone2G and iphone3G). I don't know just how functional it is but even if it was there's no way you could ran the latest version of android on that kind of (old) hardware).

And Microsoft would never, ever ever do something like that. I'm pretty sure they would face legal troubles if they did.
Wow! Does that man ever sleep?

And I thought 2 development has slowed down after release (sparse new dev builds etc).

We'll have Sublime Text 3 before Textmate 2 beta 2.
A bandaid that covers a lot of sensitive surface area...
A few adventurous folks wrote a c99-to-c89 compiler, to solve the issues with MSVC.

https://github.com/rbultje/c99-to-c89

(see http://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2012/09/27/microsoft-visual-s...)
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What I am particularly curious about is why people tend to believe that NPOs or charities are "especially different" from other businesses. In many cases, there are entrenched non-profits that share many of the same values as their corporate counterparts. There are non-profits and charities that actively support the restriction of access to research and knowledge, almost as strongly as non-practicing entities in court tend to. I exaggerate, but only slightly. Don't even get me started on Komen (the cancer mafia), OCLC (the library mafia), DFA-- any of those.

Watsi certainly offers something unique to the lineup. I remember reading a while back that Science Exchange was trying to get the National Science Foundation to directly sponsor grant money to pay for scientific services "in real time" (as opposed to giving the grant money to the research organizations, which may be better or worse). It would be interesting to see Watsi make up a similar "philanthropic exchange" API where donors can directly cover thousands of campaigns at a time at their convenience and query constraints. Maybe you could next have charities/organizations bid for a contract to solve a campaign problem (like "[offering a cheap but reliable dialysis machine for] dialysis for John"), this way you would be able to incentivize long-term products and solutions as well, instead of just one-time solutions?

I often hear an argument to the effect of "well, charities don't experience a pressure to optimize as much as private ventures do because their incentives are different". But I am not sure how true that is. Some of them seem to be optimizing for convincing philanthropists to make regular, large donations which is a far cry from what you'd think their core mission would be (like "make healthcare cheaper" or "scan and torrent a billion books"). Maybe you can eat their lunch. GiveWell is trying to help this situation a bit.
Liberty sounds great. I can't wait to be liberated from my mortgage when I lose the earning power to pay for it.
how can i give points to this article?
I wonder if Watsi will apply the crowdfunding nonprofit model to other sectors besides medical treatments...such as perhaps sponsoring the education of specific children showing great promise, or to micro-loans in a Grameenesque fashion...
I wish it had the ability to collapse width down to one column like sparrow does (cmd + shift <- || -> ). That's probably my favorite thing about sparrow.
I myself am developing a nonprofit startup. Right now it seems like the biggest hurdle will be all the paperwork and compliance work.

It'd be awesome if somebody started some sort of umbrella organization to file the paperwork, deal with the IRS, and maintain a board for "member" charities in exchange for a small cut of donations.
Just full your account up with junk info, use a nickname, install ghostery, and sign up with site specific auth. I'm pretty sure Fucking in Austria has an extremely high Facebook population... I know ALOT of my friends say they come from there LOL

Then its nothing more than a forum with photos of your friends and family, downloaded them and untag yourself.
Perhaps the newsfeed isn't useful, but Facebook has largely replaced email for personal communication for me - you know people actually check their Facebook inbox, as opposed to their 3/6/more email inboxes, and you can easily set up mailing lists and events. The newsfeed I could probably live without, but the messaging system is a killer app because of the network effects.
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In my current life, communication that I have with my friends via Facebook is closer, faster and more reliable than anything other than in person communication.

It happens very often, friend do not answer phone or text but will notice Facebook message right away.

I can't even compare conversations in comments in a photo of me in hospital with anything else. My friends (who mostly didn't know each other) learned who is worried about me and arranged a visit to hospital together right under my photo in comments.

People tend to abuse Facebook a lot. But if you use it as a tool it's fine.
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I was getting worried development was dead because of no blog posts since before the summer, great news!
Having worked at a nonprofit startup, I agree from the perspective of an employee.

Since we were nonprofit, it was easier to justify being open source -- which meant anyone could contribute. Imagine being able to fix that pet bug or feature on your favorite site that the developers just don't have time for.

Same perks, salary, types of coworkers, etc. However, you also get the feeling that you're working for a greater good and not just bottom line of your investors.
This is not news to me as I've had jobs offered by simply posting to debian and *bsd mailing lists from out of the blue once they read my posts on hunting kernel bugs. Mailing lists are still a secret gold mine for employment. I also didn't have to send a resume or anything was hired right away each time

Also +1 for IRC. Thankfully something social still exists where you don't have forced real identities, a whole profile of bullshit musical interests nobody cares about (i don't care that you love obscure hipster sweater and beard acoustic), or forum circle jerking and post count worshipping.

Plus it isn't monitored by your employers looking to fire somebody for slight twitter or fb breaches of conduct, and best of all the media and oprah have no idea what IRC is
I had a facebook account once. I thought that by deleting my account it would somehow limit my social life and, of course, make it a lot harder to keep my friends and family updated.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

Not having a facebook account (or any social media website account) forced me to be more active. It forced me to contact my friends face to face. This has HUGE advantages.

This notion that facebook is integrated into our lives tightly is absolutely an illusion; one that Facebook relys on (or any site like it). Take the initiative and go out of your way to contact your friends/family "the old fasioned way".

Rallying groups for a cause isn't as hard as it seems to be, either. You just have to work a bit more. So what? Our society(ies) is/are becoming so lazy it's almost unbearable.

Facebook does not dictate your life in any way, shape or form. There are many people who don't use it and are just fine without it.
This article sounds silly. Most of us have grown up with our parents talking to their friends in "real life". I don't know about some of you, but I definitely talk to my friends face-to-face, whenever I can...

To me, the Internet and social media, are simply a change. Just like the telephone was a "change". Before then, you'd talk to people face-to-face, (or using smoke signals) so I'd imagine if we looked through some newspapers when telephones first came in, we'd probably see this exact same post.
Yeah, it's hard to believe that they deliberately picked a syntax that would compile but cause crashes and security issues for the people already using these functions.

At least now we have an ironclad reason not to ever use this garbage.

[edit: I almost wonder if someone on the committee deliberately put this in to sabotage the whole "safe C string functions" farce. Reminds me of a Simpsons episode:

Speaker: Then it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield in the great state of—

Congressman: Wait a second, I want to tack on a rider to that bill – $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.

Speaker: All in favor of the amended Springfield-slash-pervert bill? [entire Congress boos] Bill defeated. [gavel]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Simpsons/Season_6 ]
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That is such a great news. Can't wait to try out the indexed Goto Definition feature. The current implementation is not so great. Hoping this will be improved with the new version.
'Racism' of early colour photography explored in art exhibition
I think they will connect web+mobile+TV analytics for advertisers and this will be huge if they will succede.
"Hiring foreign workers for cheap" is a myth. The US Labor Department has specific laws that it strongly enforces to ensure foreign workers cannot be hired below market rates.
Wow. I was thinking the same. What a great surprise.
Sublime 2 is already perfect, I'm going to be very impressed with how 3 is going to go..

I'm also amused that he's now restricting the ST3 BETA to registered users only, where ST2 had a long BETA period.
Goto definition and goto symbol? Oh my! Quick test and it works fairly well already. Definitely some enhancements I want (text preview) but I can already tell this will be a glorious upgrade.
Bohmian Mechanics (causal alternative to quantum)
will they keep antirez on?
> OSX: 10.7 or later is required

Looks like I might have to bite the upgrade bullet this year.
On a related note, check out the top 10 sublime text plugins:

http://www.henriquebarroso.com/my-top-10sublime-2-plugins/

Some of my favorites are there! If you haven't done so, check it out too!
Cool idea!

I think to make it really useful you should be comparing all of the permutations (at least for one of the columns) for me without me having to click through each one by hand. If I give you a word it's already pretty clear that the word is taken and I'm looking for alternatives.
I love the addition of better pane management. With a few slick keyboard shortcuts I think this sounds like a nice improvement to working with multiple files in a project. If it's implemented in a similar way to my beloved tmux, I'll be loving this feature.
> The price for a Sublime Text license key has increased by $11 to $70, the first price rise in Sublime Text’s five year history

That's a pretty big jump. Not saying it's not worth it.
$30 for an upgrade seems a tad rich.
> Linux: .deb files are provided

I wonder if this also means official repositories.
My pet peeve with editors is how they handle files changing underneath them. I do this regularly enough (eg I might make a quick change using vi, source control update), there could be ssh or sshfs involved, or another tool might be better for doing whatever it is that I wanted.

Emacs has been the only editor that has never lost a change for me. Whenever you try to make a modification it checks the underlying file is as expected, and tells you if not. I tried SL2 and it quite happily ignored the fact that the file had changed. I'm also evaluating AppCode and it has perhaps the worst behaviour - it silently updates the editor window. But some of the time it doesn't notice the change and hence overwrites it. Consequently you can't trust the editor.

gedit also notices changes proactively (compared to emacs' reactively) but I don't use it regularly.
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There's a useful idea toward the end: How a "box of strangers" tends to have cause the same social stress as a typical high school. Think of large companies, legislative bodies, or any other place where you're forced to deal with a large group of strangers.
14 pts and 9 comments and OPs site is down.

He probably should have posted it on FB.
Heh... it's funny/nice to see someone mentioning riverbed as an example of a "big company". I laugh because I was there when 150 counted as a huge headcount and the SF office had to move to fremont street (and before there was a south bay office). I left when it rapidly grew to about 600 or so soon after the IPO.
Obama Immigration Speech To Give More Details, Call For Swift Reform
Vim produces a warning whenever you focus on the window, asking if you want to keep your current work or load the changed file. If you keep your work, it reminds you yet again if you attempt to save over the changed file, just in case.
Facebook to me is hot garbage, cult of the celebrity trash.

Nobody I know in my circle of IRL friends and family uses it anymore when you can sign up to twitter under a nym and directly ask guys like Charlie Miller questions about exploit payload delivery instead of being drowned in an avalance of spam wall posts, annoying quiz results, farm watering requests, and endless PMs from ex girlfriends or people from highschool you have no intention of talking to ever again because you didn't like them then, why would you want to be their e-friend now.
I was thinking the opposite. I'm glad he's charging for upgrades, and charging a decent price for something some developers use all day everyday. I hope this will enable him to continue developing ST.

I'm growing fairly dependent on plugins, though -- I hope the new API isn't too hard for plugin devs to upgrade. Although with most plugins hosted on Github these days, compat is just a pull request away.
I don't normally call people out on their bullshit, but you, sir, are incredibly ignorant. Stripe's problem is not "talent-identification at their compensation level." It's the general overhead that comes with trying to sort through all the applicants. Increasing compensation does not change that.

Seriously people need to understand that "hiring foreign workers" thing thrown around is simply a myth. I'm a foreign engineer working for a US-based software company, and I make more than my coworkers AND that is on top of what my H1B application and renewals cost the company in terms of lawyer's fees and HR costs. So why did my company hire me? Because at the time they couldn't find any Americans for the position.
I believe the nimby stance against gambling is that it creates poverty. An opponent with such a stance might say something to the effect of "People are only keeping this in the privacy of their own homes until they run out of money. Then they start performing crimes in our neighborhood to feed their addiction."

I don't agree with this stance, but I've heard it made before.
"API: Upgraded from Python 2.6 to Python 3.3"

Oh god, I've got some plugin fixing to do..
Very nice.

It needs a little work on UI. When you select something in the lower end of a list it's very difficult to see the higher end (which is out of the screen) of that list. I'd keep the two main boxes at the top but rather than moving the list up and down make it stay the way it is and make the chosen word selected instead (more like a list of radio buttons without using radio buttons).
Same here, but I find webOS runs smoother and the battery lasts a lot longer. I would stay in webOS all the time if there were the right apps for it.
It's tough because it's not as difficult as you might imagine to get your IP address rate limited. If a lot of people were using it at once and I was sending out hundreds of availability checking requests I'd probably hit the limits.

For example, I had this hosted on Heroku for a while and tons of requests were failing because Heroku uses shared IP addresses for all the sites it hosts. Evidently I wasn't the only person doing domain availability checks from their network.

Also, the UI would get pretty nuts right?
Note the faster development process of Sublime as compared with TM2 (which was to be a free upgrade). The promise of cash works wonders.
Sounds like you are complaining about a personal problem.
Is it just me or Package Control doesn't work on it?
My previous post: [0]

As somebody who interacts with high schoolers on a regular basis, I attribute their nastiness to the snowball effect.

They can't read long form information because they didn't want to before high school. Now they can't without a great exertion of effort.

They can't write because they don't read, which is where it is easiest to learn new words.

They think social studies is boring because it's a lot of reading and writing. That the class usually focuses on stuff that happened too long ago to be visible in their lives doesn't help.

They don't understand mathematics because their earlier instructors taught it as algorithms without context, the beautiful axiomatic nature of mathematics is never revealed.

By contrast, everyone can do PE. Even kids who stay indoors a little too long, slowly giving themselves radon induced lung cancer. If you're good enough, you can even get a scholarship to play on a college team.

It's no wonder in most schools so much emphasis is put on sports games.

So what do you get when you have a bunch of illiterate teenage prisoners in a room trying to read Shakespeare?

About the same thing you get when you have a thousand monkeys try to write it.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125650
Such umbrella organizations exist -- they're called fiscal sponsors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship)

I worked at a non-profit fiscally sponsored by the Trust for Conservation Innovation (http://trustforconservationinnovation.org/), which is focused on environmental projects and takes 8% of project revenue.

I definitely recommend non-profit startups consider starting with a fiscal sponsor instead of trying to register as an independent 501(c)(3). You can always spin off later if necessary.
Coming from someone who has never used or tried Sublime Text, how does this compare to Vim in general? It's taken quite a while to grow familiar with Vim, is it worth the learning curve to ditch it now and try Sublime? Are the two really that different? A lot of what I'm seeing looks like things that can be done in Vim, but I might be missing something.
Is it possible to run the domain availability checks from the client-side with AJAX?
Wait, are you suggesting that software engineers currently do not make enough money (which is laughable), or that they should be paid as much as bankers (which is also laughable)?
Isn't all wine made from grapes?
The strange part is, I swear I remember buying Sublime Text 2 for $50.

edit: it appears I was right and I just misread: the price increased from $59 to $70.
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In case anyone is interested, this is a really bare Rails app which basically just delegates to two open source Ruby gems I wrote and does some caching to try and improve result fetching speed and cut down on api requests.

One gem is a wrapper for the Big Huge Labs Thesaurus API: https://github.com/dtuite/dinosaurus

The other is a wrapper for the Ruby Whois gem. It adds Twitter and Facebook availability checking functions: https://github.com/dtuite/name_checker
Same comment was posted in another thread.
BTW for one on one sharing Chrome's Remote Desktop works very well. Sharing/access works for Windows, Linux and Mac (screenhero appears to be Mac only at the moment).

When you share a screen a long numeric code is provided which you give to the other party. They also have a mode where you can export your own systems and access them when no one is at the console. That only works for Mac and Windows.

Hopefully competition will start heating up. I want to see my desktops on mobile devices and my mobile devices on desktops. I want sound, clipboards and storage. I want a better solutions to screen size disparities.
>>That kind of reasoning is what got us into Iraq.

That's a pretty incredible kind of Godwin you just invoked there.
The Wizard's Son (fantasy novel)
Personally I've been on many trips for interviews. I wouldn't ever think about what it's costing them to get you to the interview. If it's not you, then it's someone else that they will be bringing into the interview and you're better, right?

The bottom line is: you're interested in the position, and they are potentially interested in you.
Even more interesting ethically considering a large portion of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google.
I'm a vim/textmate user and I found sublimes UX to be lacking polish and the UI overall needed work.

I like textmates uniform OSX style and VIMs uniform terminal style, using the "Tomorrow" theme on both [1].

Although I'm also a part designer so the aesthetics matter to me as much as functionality. If you're measuring functionality I can't imagine sublimes better than VIM.

[1] https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme
I believe you are misunderstanding how valuations work. If the market price assumes an annual growth of 15% and they come in at 10% growth, that will affect the stock price. The fact that they are still making billions is irrelevant.