skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could be used for some public email which receive lots of email from real people e.g. support email. The bidding is used to help identify important emails, if you have an really important email, you can place more bid to attract the receiver, also it helps to prevent spam(like in Facebook you have to pay $100 to send an message to Mark Zuckerberg)

Also you can white list some tag (e.g. Gmail support email+tag@gmail.com), so if email send to an specific tagged address will automatically passed through, so you can use this address for newsletter etc.
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The bus in the first one almost looks stuck by how sharp the grade change is. Is this common in SF?
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The article talks about making a label whose name begins with a middle dot.
This kind of journalism really bugs me.

There are too many ways in which the author strains logic and reason. I think the companies of Silicon Valley are very interested in improving public transportation, but held back by an ineffective transit governance system. I think the comparison to the gold rush is ridiculous, as is the statement that "technology is just another boom" (what?). I think being a technology hub has done more to improve the lives of everyone in the Bay Area than any other human-controlled factor, but authors like this one are too concerned with irrelevant impressions and skin-deep, false comparisons to consider that.
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Instead of what, gold?
I hope Ubuntu gets there first.
Boxing gloves are actually a type of mitten, but are named gloves. I submit that as (very weak) evidence that mittens are a subset of gloves.
The World’s First Relocatable Research Center Opens in Antarctica
Show HN: A tennis info site using d3, cloudant etc
Playing to Lose: How Competitive Tetris Players Approach An Unwinnable Game
If public transport were a better option, the google bus wouldn't be needed.
So.. many.. cats!
Ugh, the color-grading puts me off immediately...
Dogs, Beer & Pizza
I was poking around at NoScript surrogates for GA the other day, I reformatted the code they're using in a comment here[1]

Seems to be using the special (to FF, at least) __noSuchMethod__ property[2] to catch all calls to the GA object.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5182359

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...
Love the concept, but I don't think you need 14 grand. You already have a huge fanbase, and I'm willing to bet developers would love to help in building the platform.
What should someone actually do when they really do need something done as soon as possible? It clearly shouldn't happen, but it still does.

Edit: re-reading TFA, it seems like his "Now" means what I thought "ASAP" should mean, so perhaps we don't really disagree.
Why Coinabase and not for example intersango? It used to be britcoin and has been around for quite some time.
tl;dr: i'm a snobby research student who is trying to trash developers who didn't need college.
(yeah. that was an ad hominem. come at me.)
If the Caltrain connected to any other public transit system in a reasonable way, I don't think the Google busses would exist. Riding trains is much more pleasant than riding busses, but not if it adds an extra hour to your commute each way.

Furthermore, if you want cheaper housing, build more of it. I don't think there's an easier way around it.
There's a deep irony in telling people on a site like this not to use the tools that we all put our blood, sweat and tears into every day.

If onboarding wasn't such a big deal and something people needed in order to prove the market exists and there's money to be made, we wouldn't see a good portion of the posts here about it and we wouldn't see so many ShowHNs with people asking for advice on how to make it more clear for their target demographic.

At the end of the day this hurts everyone; dropping users with no where to go and with a fraction of the effort they put into your tool to begin with causes them to question how much they can trust new companies and services. It makes it harder for others to make the case that they are worth using at all, no less long-term.

To turn around and blame users for their so-called ignorance on the matter is ignorant itself. We beg them to sign on with us and then expect them to know that's what they were in for when we kick them to the curb? This problem isn't exclusive to freemium models, either, which is even worse.
In depth comparison of AWS Elastic Transcoder and Zencoder.
I have a feeling that there is great deal of buggy software in biology. Taking
non-scientific software for example such as Rails, if there is a bug this
becomes obvious a page is loaded incorrectly or a model is pulled incorrectly
from the database.

In contrast imagine an academic scenario where I'm testing a hypothesis using
someone else's software. How do I notice a bug? I'll notice the bugs where the
output is in the wrong format for example. More subtle bugs I won't notice
because I don't have any expectation on the results. This will affect the
conclusion I draw though.
That's because it's the unit of value that the article's reader is most likely familiar with. When you go on vacation you're most likely constantly converting prices in the local currency to the currency you're familiar with - that doesn't mean the local currency is worthless (if that's what you were implying).

After I moved from UK to US, it was months before I stopped doing the mental arithmetic from USD to GBP.
So why do we need the public to run mass transit in the first place?
why did you build this?
Good idea...and, yes, you can do the same with puppet.
I am using laravel right now. Great community, amazing framework, and the performance is at one of the top 5.

The one that really gets me is their ORM, so elegant. It is still being actively developed and it's already stable and production ready, they just released version 4 (I'm not sure) check them out :)
I'm not sure it's really 'journalism', per se, as it is flowery language complaining about something with vague metaphors.
Agreed. OP, what is your goal here; to be a scientist, or just play one on TV? If your software is potentially producing the wrong result because of a bug then, well... it's a good thing that was found, no?
class Monad
def foo
return Monad.new
end
end

is a monad by the article, but is certainly not a monad.

EDIT: s/unit/foo/, to remove discussion about comparisons to the 'unit' that monads actually have.
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I've taken to kickstarting (et al) about $20 per month even if there's nothing I really want. Think of it as a tithe to a weird little religion. Lots of people more sane than I give a great deal more to churches and charities to make their communities better.

Why? Because I want to live in a world where people do the kinds of projects that kickstarter funds. It's better that way.
Well, I am actually considering going with Python or Node.js for phase 2.
I'm surprised no one mentioned this one: http://xkcd.com/208/
Well, I'd rather 50 people hate me and 50 people love me than 100 people have a neutral opinion towards me. Those aren't necessarily the only options, but a lot of personality traits/beliefs tend to be highly polarizing.

For example, I hate it when people spend a long time deciding where to eat. It drives me crazy. So if it goes on for more than 5 minutes, I'll say "I'm going to (insert restaurant here.) Anyone who wants to join me should come" and leave. Some people love this, some think I'm an arrogant prick, and most are just happy they don't have to wait 45 minutes to eat.

So really, you should ask why people think you're a jackass. I know some people hate my tendency to unilaterally make lunch decisions, but I have no intention of changing it.
Want cheaper housing? Make it possible to build more. The fact that quaint New England towns have taller apartment buildings than most of the city of SF pretty much tells the entire story.

The busses are basically the opposite of government intervention in a free market; instead of the government stepping in to correct for a market failure, private companies are stepping in to correct a public sector failure (to provide usable transit for their employees).
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Because it's a natural monopoly.
This is very cool. Tested it using Chrome (OS X), iPhone and 1st-gen. iPad together. Seamless experience on each of them. Really neat and with obvious use cases. Good work!
Yes, the website is ironically displaying text in an inconvenient way for a bunch of users.

But as for the content itself: why not just use left align justify? I understand that justify asymmetrically inserts spacing to apply a balanced center throughout, but is this really an issue? In what context are users so hypersensitive to readability issues that they need the justify spacing to not only balance the entire text but evenly balance each space within the text in reference to one another?

Pardon me for not finding this significant. I just think it's a bit anal when we have a solution already.
I strongly agree with your statement. I am the author of the original post. I
removed a sentence stating that job search committees care about the number of
publications and citations more than they do about if your software is well
documented and has a good command line interface. I feel as a post doc I am
in a vulnerable career position and I always have to think about how 'will this
lead to a publication' before anything else.
TI-55 here. Tough. No conditional branch. Not even branches except RST...

The next one was a CASIO PB-700.
If Heymann or Ortiz gets fired, the message isn't "seek justice". There are much worse miscarriages of justice that go unpunished daily. The message will be "don't fuck with defendants that have powerful connections and an internet mob".
I first noticed a similar behavior many years ago when the electric company pulled the power and we had some issues as a result. We were furious.

Their first response was to toally agree with us and give us the distinct impression that they were going to "make good". As a result we didn't do anything we just waited because we didn't think there would be any problem in restitution. Well time passed and later I had lost my steam when they finally came around and said "sorry but we're not going to do anything".
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I agree with pretty much everything you're saying but at the same time, I found the perspective of the author fascinating.

I'm Irish and I live and work in London in the UK. I've only spent a couple of months in San Francisco when I was much younger (before I truly realised the scale of silicon valley) and all I ever really hear about the place is the glorified, rose tinted glasses perspective.

Reading a negative perspective of the city & the valley was genuinely refreshing despite the authors blatant ignorance of youth tech culture.
Ask HN: What is the role of jokes in Hacker News comments?
I'm wondering what the community consensus is around joking comments here on Hacker News. I used HN search to look up some previous comments on the issue that appeared in earlier threads, some as recent as yesterday. What do you think? Are we looking for jokes here on HN? Or is the community looking for something else from comments? Is it a matter of distinguishing insightful or deep jokes from lame or thoughtless jokes? What do you think? I'd appreciate your thoughts on this issue.
no. String concatenation is not a monad.
Like I said, WP apps can be made using the same SDK. Apps can be made today that run on WP8 will run fine even on WP7.0 and vice versa. The only apps that won't run on WP7 are apps that use features that only WP8 can support (oh snap other platforms do this too). You know what platform they want developers to target? Windows Phone. I don't think they care which version. Hell, make your app for WP7 because it will still work on WP8. When I upgraded my phone, I didn't have to re-buy or do without any of my old apps. I booted the phone and redownloaded everything just like it was, with the same WP7 apps. Like I keep saying, they're the same. You're not even submitting to a different app store. WP7 apps continue to pour into the marketplace just like they were, and can still be bought and installed on WP7.

Again, what I'm reading from your posts is that you want WP7.8 to be called WP8. And until Microsoft starts to lie to you, you won't trust them. You've proven my point quite well, people will find the tiniest little things to bitch about when it comes to Microsoft. If you don't want to buy into the phone then don't, but stop telling your "truths" to other people who might. Please try to understand how ridiculous you're being.
The whole of the US sometimes seems to be a checkerboard of these low-pressure zones with lots of time and space but no money, and the boomtowns with lots of money, a frenzied pace and chronic housing scarcity. Neither version is very liveable.

After taking a few extended cross country road trips over the past couple of years, this sentence from the article rang the most true.
Journalism? I read it more as a blog rather than any sort of investigative journalism piece. People have their perspectives on how places have changed with the boom and bust cycles that have come to the Bay Area.

The bus analogy is really just an example of the larger observation that the author is making -- with the technological boom currently going on, there is an impact on the city, it's culture, and those living there. This has happened a number of times in San Francisco. One of the not so distant past examples was the concern around the gentrification of Bay View/Hunters Point. There are only so many places in San Francisco where people, not making tech salaries, can afford to live. As those place turn over due to evictions, sale, etc. there is one less place someone who may have been in the city can afford to live.

I'm not arguing if it is good or bad, but these booms do bring impacts to a city with constrained boundaries like San Francisco.
The article mentions ways the gold rush was bad.

The article mentions ways the tech boom is like the gold rush.

But the first set of ways does not intersect the second set.

I also found it ironic that the old "Yankee Go Home" sentiment was being expressed by an expat.
Yep, definitely a spaceship
This post really resonated with me. As you implied, it's really not an anti-mainstream thing. I completely understand why publishers want to sell CoD 143. There are also people like me who would rather play Star Citizen. With crowdfunding we finally have a way to simultaneously express our desire for those products and to give them a shot at becoming a reality.
Members of our team have been receiving recruiter calls for the past few days - it seems a few places running Rails apps are on the lookout for developers to help secure and update their apps. At least one has apparently experienced the awesomeness of the Ruby way, and had their servers compromised.

Make the decision to move onto Python seem more correct every day.
Unless you really need the changes in 2.3 I'd wait until 3 before jumping into a new bootstrap.
It's a tiny piece of the puzzle. To have a really usable public transit network ala Chicago or New York, you have to coordinate zoning with transit.

1) The terminal transit station should be built so as to exit right into the central business district. The Caltrain station is too far from SOMA and lacks decent public transit. Meanwhile, Chicago's three transit stations exit right at the perimeter of the Loop (within walking distance of nearly any office building, and with a transit ring around the perimeter of the CBD). New York's two transit stations exit right into Midtown.

2) You have to allow high-density construction near the transit stations, so people can live within walking distance of commuter transit. Look at the Menlo Park Caltrain station. There's nothing around it. There are far smaller Westchester towns that have a substantial downtown core around their Metro North stations.

With housing prices being what they are in Silicon Valley, there should be 30+ story buildings ringing the Caltrain stations in Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc.
the problem is that not enough gamers use controllers on pc, and even then, there is no standard dictating the layout of the controllers
Huh? Surely if you start with mockups that's more likely to result in form stomping functionality, not less - because your mockups only have form, and you can spend endless time moving the text 1 pixel left or right because it's only lorem ipsum and you don't actually read it. If the makers of this site had started with just the content (text), and added the boxes one at a time as they needed them, I don't think they'd've ended up with the extra borders.
What a truly terrible article, how on earth did it get published? This is the type of small minded, stereotyping, garbage that should never make it past some hack's crappy blog.

I looked up the author on Wikipedia and I find it rather ironic that there are quotes of her priding herself on her critical thinking abilities. Reading the article, I saw very little evidence of critical thinking or thinking of any kind for that matter.

As a side note, I see that she has a Masters of Journalism. Why on earth would you need a masters degree in Journalism? Find a story, research it/fact check, write about it. Do you really need to go to a university for 6~ years for that?
I'm sorry to hear the problems you and your family had with it.

But on the discussion we had before[1], this one does not seem to affect Rails[2]:

tiegz 14 hours ago | link | parent

Rails has been built around Rack for a couple years, but I think its sessions are safe from this Rack vulnerability. Rails' CookieStore class inherits from Rack::Session::Cookie, but it overwrites the unpacked_cookie_data() method which was open to a timing attack. Rails uses its own MessageVerifier class (https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib...) to do a constant time comparison, which would avoid this attack.

Any other frameworks/libs that use Rack's session cookies should upgrade though, afaik.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186245

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5186466
Yes, given we have seen issues in Core Ruby libraries (only recently updating the CSV lib), in Rails, in Ruby Gems, in Rack, it seems to pervade the Ruby Community.

Secure is not cool, nor magic enough, it seems.
It is actually even more closely related to nuclear weapons that the timing tells, one of the main proponents of the impact theory was Luis Alvarez, a physicist who had significant influence on the ignition system of the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding-bridgewire_detonator#...).

(The other one was the geologist Walter Alvarez, his son.)
Personally I would donate to a kickstarter project (or any similar platform) that seemed like projects I would like to build myself, but didn't have the time or skill to do so.

It seems too often that people forget that financial gain is not the end all be all motivation to work on something. It's like asking somebody why they're sitting on the couch watching TV, for free. Or why you're driving that car for free. It's because you enjoy doing it.

It's not a strange person who would want to create something without getting paid for it, even if others benefit. It's not even a strange person who would pay money out of pocket to create something that everyone else got to benefit from for free. So it's not a strange person who donates money toward an idea they're interested in, expecting nothing in return.
I respectfully disagree. It wasn't until I read the typeclassopedia and the article on the Haskell category (that goes into the Monad laws, the Functor laws, &c...) extensively did I really start to understand Monads.

At first, reading all of these "tuts" or "analogies" I always thought, "Oh! It's just like an object in Python!" but boy was I wrong - no one told me I was wrong, I just figured it out after reading the more formal presentations of what a Monad is.

It was also mind opening to understand the basics of Category Theory and learn that every Monad is a Functor.
I think by posting that, you did just announce it... ;) But yeah, that's awesome! Can't wait to see it!
The monal Lisa did not require flash. It is forwards compatible.
great feedback, the recommendations part can be part of the social network, with top contributors (head chef, sour-chef) based on your activity on the site.

Good idea on the groceries too! will take those into consideration. Thanks.
Look at the front of the bus; you can see some towing cables attached to it.
I'm not sure that a payment processor is the best thing to compare Flattr to, but if they believe it offers no value beyond that, artists are free to do everything themselves and use Paypal or whatever else.
I thought the Central Subway (4th and King to Chinatown) could improve this, if you could go from Powell to Caltrain without taking that long loop around the Bay (or walking, which can sometimes be quicker). But that probably won't be there for a while (anyone know the date?).

What I'd most like to see from Caltrain is more frequent trains. It's annoying to arrive only a few seconds late (due to a Muni delay) and then have to wait an hour for the next one. The 9:36 southbound they introduced in October helps. I'd like to see more of this.

Edit: Couldn't find actual completion date, so edited to reflect that fact.

Edit 2: Was referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Subway

Edit 3 (Last one!): This page from a while back says service begins 2019 http://www.sfcta.org/delivering-transportation-improvements/...
Bursted at 10mb/sec a few seconds after starting my download.
That's just the MUNI track.
Just to have an area in which to develop, a number of powerful servers, is a pretty large cost, let alone the actual work being done; UReddit runs on a single Linode, this requires at least 4-5 powerful servers. (Note that our fundraising budget is not for ongoing costs such as renting servers, but for setting up a development environment and recruiting some help, on a contractor basis, for the development work.) We did try to be reasonable with the projected costs and even lowball estimates when we could.
9 volumes!
TL;DR The Mercator projection is a solution to a problem that does not exist in Google Earth.

Projections, Mercator included, are ways to map a 3D shape (the globe) onto a static 2D surface (a map). Google Earth uses a dynamic 2D surface (a screen) to display a changing view of a 3D object. See TL;DR.
Really interesting point of view - thanks.

Do you participate at other sites, like IndieGoGo? I ask because I have a project that I think would get traction but KS has strange rules around some types of projects and mine is excluded.
Gets difficult to manage large projects, even though I appreciate the "week view". How about a way to order tasks within a group?
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I'm in this same boat. However, I give very little to kickstarter. I think I've helped fund 2 or 3 things at the lowest teir (like tim schafer's). For most things I am interested in I let other people fund them while I wait for them to hit retail with absolutely nothing lost.
I don't think the article serves any purpose. It uses an obvious strawman to try and argue; this is not going to convince anyone of anything, novice programmer or no.