skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://timelessname.com/sandbox/matrix_orig.html
is the only version that works for me. I don't have time right now to figure out why that is.
What Else Google Is Shutting Down
As another commenter pointed out, we're creating this huge straw man of what the "hacker ethic" is. I'd want a lot more clarification in this essay before I would be happy running off on a categorization party.

I was reading a commentary the other day that put it something like this: the technology community will pay a lot of lip service to libertarian ideas, but what they really want is the data. Assuming this is correct, then those companies that make gestures towards EFF and others do so because in most cases it provides more data to people. Google gives you email because it provides them data. The data is more valuable than the cost of running the service. Same goes for Facebook.

Tech companies want data -- and lots of it. They support various causes and make various statements because it allows them more access to data.

The subject of definitions is critical, because I think sometimes what we think we hear from these companies is what we want to hear, instead of what they're actually saying. Then we get surprised when their actions don't pan out the way we expected.
Startups are like DJ'ing
Tags like 'libertarian'? Or tags like 'thugs'?
Dear Microsoft, Samsung Isn’t Very Happy With You
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5299923
Start a riot. That is the only way this will ever get fixed.
Yeah, my great grandfather, who was an adult during the Depression, literally buried money in jars on his land.

Having seen something happen probably changes your perspective on things.
China Is Engineering Genius Babies
"They" signed an agreement to be honest in reporting their situation and meeting their obligations.

Instead, "they" lied and cheated, and effectively nullified any mutual agreement. The only reason why they're still getting the help is because the alternative would be much worse.
There are things that make sense to socialize, others - not so much. Conjuring up a weird one that makes little sense isn't a proper argument, it's a straw man.

Being able to send mail is a basic skill required to participate in society - tons of democratic rights (voting by mail if you're disabled comes to mind) can be exercised through mail. Furthermore, being able to receive mail is just as important. We are a society that still has a lot of its fundamentals build on the exchange of physical documents. Sure, it is starting to be more economical in some instances to do that electronically, but that doesn't change the fundamental fact behind the idea.

There was a time when fresh water and, later, electricity were an outlandish commodity to have always ready in your household. At some point, society has made the decision that they should be a basic human right (although that depends on where you live - in some parts, there is a weird quasi-privatization going on that I find absurd).

Finally, it makes sense. If you have a thousand letters and 90% of them cost 10 cents to deliver while the other 10% cost 100 cents to deliver, that means the total cost are 19000 cents. An average of 19 cents per letter.

The question is: Would the people who would have to pay 10 cents actually care about paying 9 cents extra? Do they care that much that it outweighs the burden that is put on the 100-cent people? Put differently: Is the happiness and relief that the 100-cent people feel worth more than the minor grudge that the 10-cent people feel?

I think that is the case. It improves society to do economically sensible things like we do them. And that is why some commodities are "socialized" and others are not.
+1 why not just follow bbc on google+ now though?
In running we say it doesn't matter how fast you went or how far you ran.

You still lapped everybody on the couch.
Getting Started With a GitHub Repository
Yup. The only problem is with using shorturls (since there no DB object ID to map to).
Multiple accounts for different behaviors/identities, and incognito browsing with DDG, basically. Nothing mind blowing, but a good simple strategy probably beats some amazing tech innovation.

Though I suspect that without Tor, you are passing your ip, which could be used to link you.
> China's trillions of US Treasuries - those are claims that the US economy cannot and will not service

The biggest holder of US debt is...the US. But ok, what choice did China have? If they kept the money at home, it would have collapsed the economy, investing in US treasuries at an effective -3% was the best they could achieve and have some degree of safety. Whatever you think of the US economy, foreigners still have a lot of faith in it. Only libertarians and republicans running for office think this faith is misplaced.

Now, who gets wiped out in a US default? We do the most, actually, but maybe the Chinese and Japanese hurt a bit also. No one is expecting that to happen, and US debt levels are not particularly high compared to the rest of the world.

> Physical, unambiguously owned metal is the insurance, the vehicle that will transition you through to the otherside.

You can't take gold with you to heaven. Ah, you meant the otherside of a collapse. If the economy completely collapses, no one is producing anything of value that they can spare for trade; your metals are still worthless. The law of supply and demand remains, and you just get screwed on supply.

If you really believe in metals, however, I strongly recommend that you move to Australia if you aren't there already. They have the largest reserves, take whatever we have out of the ground now and multiply it by 10. You can just become a miner and become rich, because of course, we can eat gold can't we?
My Review of Two Scoops of Django [BETA]
"Startups aren't a sickness (unlike alcoholism for example). Starting one is a choice we are all making fully aware that failure is the expected outcome."

I really don't think this is the case. Yes, people give lip service to that concept, but no one thinks they will fail, and investors don't think their investments will fail. Yes, they may know statistics, but no one would explicitly start something with the expected outcome of wasting months/years of their life and boatloads of money.

It does seem to me that 'startup culture' is another avenue for some people with addictive tendencies to express addictions. TechCrunch is startup porn, and people get addicted to the stories it peddles.
Furthermore, the characters are supposed to be horizontally inverted (flipped) half width katakana (Japanese) characters, not the Chinese kanji.
Whoa, it's pretty neat! I may have a suggestion to improve it: as gingersnap suggests, would it be possible to get a quick description of the movie from imdb and add a description of the movie. From gingersnap, there seems to be an API to get data from IMDB, but I was thinking of crawling the website using Mechanize to use the search. I'd be happy to help!
Hey Internet hippy, do you mind if people pass around your diary and photos.
Is your service available in country's that restrict access to certain websites? It could help them to access them. May be get some attention from vpn provider to increase visibility for that kind of matter.
I get around this with nginx rewrite rules. Since my old blog was Posterous, I spit out a bunch of rewrites to map my old URLs to new ones, e.g.:

rewrite ^/superpacking-js-demos$ /2011-08-31_Superpacking_JS_Demos.html;
This is exactly what I thought. They must know it's going to end in bank run. And they want to see if they can somehow manage it.
I have been seeing a lot of static blog generators being paraded around lately. I seriously think that static blog generators should be the next "hello world" when learning a new language. It seems to be useful in doing just that.
Yes, my point is that being "the product" is not necessarily bad or wrong, and more importantly, that screaming that cliche on HN is very inconsistent.
I actually like the typing - I can watch the video without having to turn sound on. (the reason why I hate screencasts normally). Makes it much easier to watch on the train or during a lecture.

If only the typing was a bit faster, it would be perfect.
Much of the money you have in the fiscally responsible countries is the debt of the less fiscally responsible countries. If they default you will see your bank account haircut too. One bank went under in the Netherlands so far this year, but the state bailed it out (so taxes will go up). Many German banks are not well capitalised, same with Danish banks and so on.

During the boom so much credit aka money was created from what is now nothing but people assume they will get to keep this "wealth".
I like the idea of generating as many of our site pages as 'static' as we can. We created our own system for our needs but I am seeing a lot more of this as I look around. What I'm curious about is how people tend to handle dynamic content?
Businesses pay for Apps and the ability to sync contacts and calendars is going away soon, too.
brilliant idea :) and a well-written introductory text.

I think that it's great for everyone (even those who currently don't need it) to know that you are there and willing to talk.
I consider it relevant, otherwise I would not haved asked.
WOW! Thats pretty sweet. Would be nice to see some v6 (psst. may be one more feature for the paid account ;)
Write Painless Specifications - Leanspecs
I liked how Samsung is blaming Microsoft for the failure of Windows 8 devices when the devices that Samsung released were defective.

Two of the most anticipated Windows 8 devices were the Samsung convertible tablets. Both of them were almost impossible to find at launch, and when people did manage to get a hold of them, they featured a $150 keyboard dock that simply doesn't work, and stylus drivers that lacked pressure sensitivity in the applications where it is most needed. (Photoshop, Painter, and Sketchbook Pro)

While it's important to note that Samsung has offered to replace many of the keyboards, for most people the replacements won't work either, because the design actually is defective.
These days most people prefer spend some time to create thier own static blog generators than use popular products like octopress or nanoc.

And that's great.
when you edit an article file, you also want to regenerate index, sitemap, rss feed, ... etc. or any pages that depend on the modified article.

when you edit a template or configuration, you need to regenerate entire site.

even if you blog very often, say 10 times a day, in 10 years, you only have 36k articles. Probably it shouldn't take too long to regenerate entire site for any kind of modification or addition of pages.

or, you can try to be smart and draw dependency graph (maybe using Makefile) and update what's only needed. basically you're solving caching problem, one of the hardest thing in programming.
What an interesting article! That set off my bullshit detector about half-way through.

"School boards fight to keep CS out of schools, since every minute spent on CS is one less minute spent on core subjects like English and math. The students' test scores in these core subjects determine next year's funding, so CS is a threat."

School boards fighting to keep CS out of schools? Huh?

I followed the link, and found a story from 4 years ago about how kids can use the internet but don't know much about it. The most supportive paragraph I found is from a quote by Computer Science Teachers Association's Chris Stephenson "Stephenson said computer science classes might be an unintentional casualty in the push to increase academic standards. Computer science is not considered a core subject by the No Child Left Behind law, which influences school priorities and budgets."

Looks like the CSTA were the ones pitching the piece to the Post, but who knows.

What I do know is that we need more Computer Science taught in schools, and the U.S. is definitely falling behind. But what I don't know is this idea that school boards are actively fighting CS in the schools. Not until somebody can show me something better than he did. (I'd also caution against stories about one school district here or there being extrapolated into some kind of a national disease.)

Please pardon the nit-picking -- this was a really good article all-around -- but this is an important subject in the states. The conversation over here is not advanced by throw-away accusations from left field.
You could have your static generator create symlinks for each post at the short url pointing to the actual page at the canonical url to handle this, and set your server up to follow symlinks.

Alternatively it could generate a table of redirects for you to put in your server config/htaccess.
"So it most definitely is a fiat metal."

Stockpile the BEST fiat currency at the moment. Over 6000 years of recorded history, which has the better record, paper money or gold?

There have been limited areas and limited times where even gold has been temporarily worthless. The Venn diagram of those times/places has always been within a much larger time/place where paper money has also been useless.

This smacks of digital archiving arguments. No consumer level digital media format has ever been popular for more than a couple decades, therefore some will tell you that any digital storage is literally useless. Folks who know what they're doing just replicate/transfer into the new format every couple years. You need to do that with your fiat currency. Right now a bank account in Cyprus is looking like a pretty stupid idea. I am sure we'll be able to bracket that with times in the past / future where gold was a dumb idea... it just won't be today. Minimization of transaction/conversion cost is crucial.

Gold has some pretty serious storage costs that shouldn't be overlooked. Apparently a lot of people want this supposedly "worthless" metal. Its fairly common to see anti-gold people trying to fight both sides of the argument simultaneously, which never turns out well.
Another photosharing website with a focus on geo-location sharing of photos is called Snapr

Check it out here: http://sna.pr/

They've also got a developers section with a focus on creating your own sites using their infrastructure. http://developers.sna.pr/

(I'm not affiliated with sna.pr in anyway except for sitting next to one of the developers from time to time in a co-working space)
The linux path is the same as the Mac one, which is pretty lol. It's /usr/bin/google-chrome on most systems I think.
(Another solution is to have a directory for each post containing an index html file. I do it that way myself using Jekyll.)
A Message from Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day
Live Reload appears to be OSX only, and this looks much more simple to setup than Guard-livereload.
List of Google Products that are not making money
A first step that brings the limit down: with only 100 in hand, O cannot beat you more than twice with a bet of 34 or more. So, bidding 33 on each turn is sufficient to win. That definitely is doable with at most 5 turns that you win for a total cost of 165.

However, the second square isn't worth as much to the one who already won the first, as it leaks information about his strategy. If you won the first, it may be better to let the other player win the second, draining his resources, allowing you to get the other squares you need cheaper.

Because of that, it may be possible to get the maximum down from that 165 (my intuition says you can, but I am too lazy to do the calculations now)
Working remotely. The good, the bad and you - Stefan Adamov
"White noise" is not just the title of the post, it is also a link to a page where you can play an audio snippet of the coin noise.
Dave Grohl's SXSW 2013 Keynote Speech
Riot control is very efficient these days.
I just recently found that if you put

debugger;

in JS, it will trigger a breakpoint. Very handy
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5388382
Who pays for your food?
Looks to me that Amazon are serious about the cloud and their hosting/database products. Amazon are good at making a business out of affordable margins.

Google are keen to engage with early adopters and see where that engagement takes them but show little sign of committing to being a long term service provider of this sort.
"It's a foolish thing to tell a research person what
the problem is - you'll get the answer to that problem
and miss a brilliant discovery in the process,"
Dr. Ross said.

Priceless.
I saw it as a hybrid between document collaboration and a message board, but they hyped it into the stratosphere as a communications medium & social thing too. Then everyone had to wait months (*edit actually a year or more, IIRC) for invites that came out painfully slow which had the effect of building anticipation and expectations even more.

When it was finally widely available, most of the people I know were disappointed that it wasn't a social network, it was a weird document collaboration-message board hybrid that didn't use documents, posts, or any conventional metaphors and therefore didn't live up to its year of hype and anticipation building.
The intention of Hello-World is to check that compiler-linker and basic IO works.

A static blog generator checks that filesystem access works and your language provides a markdown and a template library.
You're only talking about Western European and North American governments? They're not all that different from governments elsewhere.

See the interesting thing for me is that the taking of physical property is actually just as likely as taking savings from banks. You and the op seemed to disagree with this, but I don't know what you could use to back that opinion up.

If you believe that the discovery of electricity makes me a better person, or even a different one, I don't know what to say to you.
If you put Varnish in front of your site you can use edge side includes to populate the dynamic fragments of your site. Since it is Varnish you can also cache the fragments themselves.

https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/3.0/tutorial/esi.html
ENIAC to your phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectron_tube
Same thing as [1] (4 days ago), for all I can tell?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5364807
Because you're getting subsidized as well. When there are natural disasters in larger areas, money from poorer areas is used to help clean up. The cost of the roads to and from your more populated area is split/shared with road costs in less populated areas. And so on...
RSS like it or not is at its foundation a web-centric technology that enhances the ability of websites to push content, rather than have it be pull only.

Whether the technology is flawed or not it has a place in the ecosystem of the web. And google cares not.
Actually, we are planning to use Twilio API and SMSPoly will be like a sms marketing service with an API as well. The API is going to be an abstraction over Twilio' and hopefully simpler one.
Even if you aren't into "Facebook or any of those things', you could have found John Perry Barlow's mail address on his home page : https://homes.eff.org/~barlow/ - barlow@eff.org and the AT&T cell phone he lists there is probably still valid since it is also the one he lists on his Facebook page...
https://github.com/KostyaKow/shell_matrix

Bash version
Gold standards are horrible to base your country's economy on, while you are free to invest in gold yourself, its not like there isn't lots of risk involved. Mining increases gold supplies by about 2% a year anyways (you could also invest in gold mining companies if you want to speculate).

This has nothing to do with the digital archiving argument. This has to do with whether one arbitrary store of value is more sound than another arbitrary store of value. Money has only been around for 2500 years. Before that, gold was useful because of its rarity, but we might just as well have used large rocks to store/exchange wealth (and...there was an island that did that). The mezoamericans used beads. Heck, we can even start using bitcoin, which is based on the same rarity principle of gold.

And in this case, since Cyprus was on the Euro anyways, they couldn't deprecate their currency and were stuck giving everyone a haircut. They might as well have been storing gold in those banks.
Ah, OK. Yes I agree. In fact, I think this action will be viewed very seriously across the whole of Europe and not just Cyprus. I expect to start seeing bank runs starting next week in the PIIGS countries.
http://xkcd.com/242/
SMSPoly is basically going to be a SMS marketing service. Yes, we are absolutely going to have an API too and your apps can use it directly as well. Lastly, we are always to open to suggestions for this application to make its direction better. Sorry for the less information given on the post.
> Google certainly aren't as evil as 1990's era MS...

I don't agree. I think that Google is in the same level of evilness (or will be very soon).

They just released tons of code because it is not where they are making money. But they release their search engine code? The game rules are so obvious now (not only for Google) that it is incredible that we try to think about them in an ethical way. They do things, if they have a power position they shift they change the rules to maintain that power. Do you know how many times a Google Search API was deprecated?
http://blog.databigbang.com/google-search-no-api/

Another argument that I reuse every time when people compare Microsoft to Google is that you could always reverse engineered software on your machine but on The Cloud you have lost those hacker rights. You can't reverse engineer web APIs. You can build a search engine yourself but your pagerank algorithm will not be the same. More food for thought http://blog.nektra.com/main/2012/06/01/reverse-engineering-a...
Tell HN: Will work for a nexus 4?
So.
Recently with all the hype and chaos about availability issues of Google's Nexus 4, has led many developers like me very eager to test our latest ideas on the device.

I am a versatile web developer/ designer who doesn't wan't to work for per hourly rates or checks.
The next payload im getting... im definitely gonna ask for a Google Nexus 4 to be shipped to India in return for my services. :D
Is this possible on S3?
Thank you. I've seen Varnish but never used it. I will give this a go.
A Killer App for Google Glass
Speaking of vacuum cleaners, Stephen Pile, my very much favourite author ever, wrote an entry in his hilarious Book of Heroic Failures about the man who almost invented the vacuum cleaner. I reproduce it here verbatim, under the principles of fair use (transformative, educational, not for profit and a tiny amount of his work that won't impinge on his profits - buy his book!)

The Man Who Almost Invented The Vacuum Cleaner

The man officially credited with inventing the vacuum cleaner is Hubert Cecil Booth. However, he got the idea from a man who almost invented it.

In 1901 Booth visited a London music-hall. On the bill was an American inventor with his wonder machine for removing dust from carpets. The machine comprised a box about one foot square with a bag on top.

After watching the act -- which made everyone in the front six rows sneeze -- Booth went round to the inventor's dressing room.

"It should suck not blow," said Booth, coming straight to the point. "Suck?", exclaimed the enraged inventor. "Your machine just moves the dust around the room," Booth informed him. "Suck? Suck? Sucking is not possible," was the inventor's reply and he stormed out. Booth proved that it was by the simple expedient of kneeling down, pursing his lips and sucking the back of an armchair. "I almost choked," he said afterwards.

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There's a story here somewhere that aught to relate to mathematics, if only I could find it...