skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am the author of the email you quoted, and the punning reference to "patchy" is exactly what the "say 'Apache Server' ten times fast" bit was meant to refer to. (I didn't feel the need to elaborate, at the time, because the whole thing was about patches. As that email also states, we didn't yet have any kind of central source control; we were instead reviewing and voting on code deltas in patch format that we were sending around in other email.)
I don't like how it joins the summary line and the explanatory text with just a space. I'd recommend preserving blank lines in the commit message as line breaks.
We've gone back and forth on how much to put in the deployment chapter. Our concern is that deployment is one of those areas that has very good documentation, is discussed frequently at meetup groups, and best practices actually change more frequently than people realize. For example, many people got on our case about not including uWSGI or even bothering to include Apache!

In any case, I would love to hear your feedback on other areas.
Thank you for the EPUB version!
Very close. It fetches JSON data from api.moot.it, generates HTML with JavaScript and places it on your site. And when you load another page it does the same thing, but only for a smaller portion of the DOM.
Wierd Google Chrome bug
I equate real estate agents to recruiters. They have a bad rap, because most of them do suck (there's virtually no barrier to entry and they have a large lobby in the U.S.). However, when you find the right one, with the right experience, they actually can provide a good service and make their fees worthwhile.

The thing that's semi scary about all these under-qualified real-estate agents is that they're in charge of most expensive/binding purchase in most people's lives.
Does it really apply to a user-generated poll? I mean, this would be no different than a user of a forum or chat service asking another their age, with the server keeping some kind of message records. I think it's hard to make the claim that the administrators have concrete knowledge; it's just an anonymous record in the database.

Path's case is different, since the form asking for the birthdate was made by them, so they knew they had that information.
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This is inside-the-echo-chamber logic. People outside the techcrunch bubble aren't going to read that whole thing (seriously: that's a huge page!). What they are going to see is yet another story in the mainstream media about the "controversy" about whether or not Arrington raped this woman. See the very-different-in-tone coverage on sites like talkingpointsmemo.com for a good example.

How does that help his reputation?
I love what you said about the spectrum; it can't be re-said enough because I think it's a thing a lot of people don't get.

> ... but maybe not for a sales position where
> schmoozing customers is a big part of the job.

I think that makes sense the vast majority of the time. I think in some cases Aspergian tendencies can be an aid to salespeople.

I've never been diagnosed with Aspergers, but I definitely share some of the tendencies. At some point around junior high / high school (in the late 80's and early 90's, having never heard of "Aspergers") I realized I had to really start putting a lot of effort into figuring out how other people thought because it wasn't something that came naturally to me.

Over the years I got a lot better at it. I certainly get it wrong a lot of the time (who doesn't) but overall I think I'm better than average at it.

To me it's similar to the phenomenon of non-native English speakers often speaking English more properly than native English speakers: the non-native English speakers have often made a conscious effort to learn the language from books and professionals whereas most native English speakers simply pick up an imperfect version of English from their parents at a very young age without conscious effort.

Since understanding others didn't come naturally to me, I had to actually really think about it and work about it for a lot of years!
Turns out it was a popular sentiment! :)

To be clear, I like mainframes. They make certain problems much easier. I worked in the company that maintains the world's largest DB2 installation and it was amazing and terrifying.
25 is when you can (easily) rent cars (in the US). That's definitely a sweet spot.

Of course until 35 you still can't run for US senate or president...
This is awesome! Is the entry box for the repo supposed to go away once it finds it? It stayed there, covering the text in Chrome 27 dev on Arch... It would be cool if it disappeared.
Zillow's estimates are absolutely garbage. I'm not sure how they determine estimates but they are too low by about 30%, at least in the Bay Area. If anyone from Zillow is reading this thread, they really need to do a better job with gathering their estimates by doing things like weighting most recent comps better, and taking a notice of how much newer sold houses are being overbid on. They've been around for a few years now, and their estimates are still a joke.

They can calibrate their estimates by finding houses that are currently pending, making an estimate, and then seeing what they end up selling for once the deal closes. It appears they don't even bother doing any sort of backtesting on their estimates.
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I don't know if this is normal? I followed the tutorial on fixtracking.com and installed DuckDuckGo plug-in for Firefox, and later i realized by analyzing http traffic that everything i type in address bar is sent to DuckDuckGo, even it is not selected as a default search engine. I wouldn't trust DuckDuckGo
All successful startups are outliers. "Real life" startups, to first approximation, fail. This one did too. But frankly it wasn't because of the lack of market research.
>Google's results are starting to waver

I'll be honest I don't know for sure, but I highly doubt Google would intentionally hurt themselves by ruining their search results.
Also,

>Google+ requirement is a cancer eating their products from the inside.

I do agree it's B.S. but using 4 different computers on a regular basis and being a student I find it more useful to use their products than not. Especially, the syncing options so basically my drive/chrome holds everything between all my computers. This would be impossible without having some way to link them (via email say, well they use Google+ to try and make more money like every company NEEDS to do to survive).
Therefore I say I am alright with their changes because Bing and DuckDuckGo have significantly reduced capacities (to the point of usability is fair at best)
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Just so you know, we offer the book for free to developers in need. Please go to http://django.2scoops.org/ and scroll to the bottom.

Also, in my own case, just because I co-wrote TSoD doesn't mean I'm going to stop contributing to Django or it's documentation. In fact, writing it helped illuminate areas in the Django documentation that I believe I can improve. I hope readers of the book take the same approach. We all benefit from creating new and improved resources.
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> (...) anything that distracts my mind from the unfortunate souls I share this carriage with (...)

That's profound.
My notes from Lean UX NYC Conference - Day 1
Like many people, I 'paid' for Django via contributions of my time.
Several reasons:

1) unlike a bike, they can't bank into turns. Unlike a car, they're narrow. So at speed, a taller vehicle would be vulnerable to tipping. Being low to the ground allows them to sport a better ratio of base-width vs. centre of gravity, which is crucial to prevent tipping.

2) wind. Lightweight enclosed vehicles are incredibly vulnerable to wind. Again, tipping becomes a concern. They make taller enclosed 2-wheelers, but they're designed for time trials on tracks and are inappropriate for use outdoors because they get blown over.

It's probably possible to design a vehicle with a wider base and an elevated frame, and only enclose the driver/gearing compartment, but it would be very challenging.

These vehicles seem very cool and, more importantly, very efficient... but I'd never ride one on roads that include automobile traffic.
No, but a lot of companies did by paying people to work on Django projects, and allowing contributions back into the Free project?

I've not heard of any companies (except some colleges) funding actual books in a similar way -- probably because if you pay someone to improve Django, your product (based on Django) improves, and you presumably make money from your product.

Paying someone to write general documentation helps train both your and other's developers -- but the link to profit is more indirect -- writing proper text books is not something that makes sense to in-source for most institutions (shorter tutorials, technical documentation etc, being something different).
Setup your own instance: https://github.com/artemave/StarLogs
Aspergers is a relatively minor form of autism. (Not that the effects on one's life are always "minor", but it's minor compared to e.g. folks with severe autism that require assisted living)

All cases are different, but those with Aspergers can learn to understand others with effort. It's not impossible for them, it just doesn't come very naturally and will perhaps require extra effort and dedication.
A lot of racial slurs are based on a caricature of people's skin colors. Selecting a color that has historically had that problem and then intentionally assigning it to the target of those caricatures seems, if not malicious, at least completely oblivious.
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In the US it's illegal for any employee to flat out refuse to hire people with Asperger's syndrome under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Just something to keep in mind before you answer the question in the title!
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Yes, that's associativity failing, not commutativity.
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I think for buyers, agents make a lot of sense. Largely, because of how the system works, they're free to buyers, as the seller's pay the agent fees.

The problem is that the seller's must pay for both the buyer's agent as well as the seller's agent. And in order to get into MLS, you have to hire an agent to represent you. It's a horribly broken system where agents are essentially a cartel you have to do business with in order to sell your house. Everything has changed with MLS listings being online and so many real estate transactions have become boilerplate, with no major variables except price negotiation, which really isn't that difficult either.

If you're not familiar with the MLS system, it's something that is controlled by the Realtor association it's essentially a network of databases of every home for sale or rent that is represented by an agent. You have to have an agent in order to be listed that system and practically every real-estate website, including Zillow and Trulia, get the vast majority of their listing from the MLS systems.

Some smart agents realized how utterly ridiculous the role of the buyer agent has become in many situations (If you know the 80/20 rule, this is sort of the 99/1 rule: 99% of the value of a buyer agent comes from getting into MLS and it takes about 1% effort to do that). In response, they offer their services as "flat fee MLS" and they charge people a couple hundred bucks to play ball in the MLS system and you get to represent yourself in the actual sale process. You're paying $600 + 3% buyer commission, instead of a straight 5-6% total commission.

On a $300,000 house that will save the sellers $8,400.
Registered, just to get to know the date. Both corporates and fathers need to book holidays (way) in advance!
I have some questions and, please, don't get me wrong, I'm not being sarcastic. I am really interested in your services.

I got a cheap server on DO I use to deploy some apps just for testing purpose and, sometimes, I think I waste too many time configuring, breaking stuff and fine-tunning my servers (I do like it but it's not very productive). The languages I play with are Python (Django and Flask), PHP (Symfony2 and Wordpress) and Javascript (Node.js/Express).

My questions are: Why would I choose Stackful.io over Digital Ocean? Will it help me with that?
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This, a hundred times this. Confronting the possibility prior to frontal lobe development can radically redirect a life. In the spectrum, frontal lobe development can almost equate to tabula rasa on certain traits. It annoys me when parents ignore the signs and are literally altering the path of their child. Embrace it, because when the teen years approach and the decade following, they will fall into place and you will most likely get rewarded with the relationship that every parent wants with their grown kids.

I think this goes out to all parents. If your kid does not enjoy the things you want to do with them, set aside time and do some of the things they want to do. You're investing in a lifelong relationship. Years will pass and that opportunity will not come back.
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3 years to launch? It seems a lot of time without the user's consent. Although, nice work, very consistent.
A lot of people would not fit in boxes of that size (6'x2'6"x1'8"). But, if you where thinking of an average that might work.
> “We will never be a point-and-click industry,” says Phil Faranda, who runs J. Philip Real Estate, a 14-agent brokerage in Westchester County, N.Y. “You will always need a trusted adviser to ensure that you get the best terms possible. The stakes are so high. If you want to do a do-it-yourself project, build a hovercraft.”

This poor man will be blindsided when someone finally gets the formula right.
It's not commutative: -0 + 0 = -0, but 0 + -0 = 0.
The prospect for disintermediating real estate brokers looks to me about as realistic as the prospect for disintermediating investment bankers who provide M&A advice for fat fees. I say this because the services provided by real estate brokers on the purchase and sale of properties are similar to the services provided by investment bankers on the purchase and sale of whole businesses.

Just as no two companies are the same, no two properties are the same (even when they have the same square footage, style, location, etc.). Just as every industry is different, every neighborhood is different. Just as every M&A negotiation has its own unique cast of characters, every negotiation for the purchase/sale of a property has its own unique cast of characters. Just as every M&A transaction must accommodate for unique circumstances, so does every real estate transaction. Just as large M&A transactions (e.g., sale of a multinational corporation) can be very complex, the acquisition of large properties (e.g., sale of a skyscraper with thousands of tenants) can be very complex.

Most people are too busy with their lives, and they're not in the business of buying and selling properties, so they need expertise to navigate all this complexity.
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This is not new information to social science researchers. Responsible research will attempt to correct for these biases and/or simply acknowledge them upfront and not generalize their result further than the demographics included in the study.
Here's what's bugging me about this: potential conflicts of interest.

Kenneth Reitz is almost certainly behind this (he's the "Python Overlord" at Heroku, as well as the author of the Requests HTTP library for Python). Kenneth is a friend of mine from before I launched Gittip. I'll be hosting him in a couple weeks when he comes to Pittsburgh to speak at our local Python user group. Kenneth has been a big supporter of Gittip and has in fact been one of the top receivers since Gittip launched. I (openly) accepted a $300 hosting voucher for Gittip from Kenneth during Waza earlier this year.

Interestingly, though, I had no advance notice that they were going to do this. I've been planting the seed of this idea with Kenneth and his colleagues, and I'm excited and grateful to Kenneth and to Heroku that they've decided to follow through. It's obviously a huge validation of Gittip to have Heroku step forward like this. However, I learned about this when I loaded the Gittip homepage last night and saw Heroku listed under "New Participants" and clicked through and saw how much they were giving. My reaction on Twitter was genuine:

https://twitter.com/whit537/status/322523168659095554

All that said, let's pause for a moment to feel a slight feeling of paranoia here at the outset of what I hope will be an explosion of corporate patronage of open source through Gittip and consequent progress in open source. Let's make sure we do this right.

- Does this create any conflicts of interest?

- What if Heroku were giving to kennethreitz or other Heroku employees? They're not (I checked under the hood), but what if?
To me, the vocal, diehard android fan is akin to the Fast and the Furious crowd so proud that they can modify their cheaper Hondas/Scions/Dodges to be as [insert adjective of choice] as a more expensive German luxury car. When really, nobody else cares. Neither the people who want a cheap reliable car nor the people in the luxury segment.

Personally, I drive a Honda. I like it. I work on it, and I could modify it, but as I get older and busier, I'm looking forward to getting something nicer that just works.
I was so excited when the music began!!!
How will synthetic biology affect us in the future
Uber Dips Toe in Ride-Sharing
Based on the post title, my brain read the link name as thehell.com.
We're in the process of exposing our own compiling API for SpanDeX (https://spandex.io) already so this is good timing. Another benefit is that features available with online services could also be exposed to LyX users.
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Ah, that's news to me - can you provide a reference? I'm trying to look it up but my Google-fu is failing to find a specific link. Thanks.
It's very hard to check out the reputation of real estate brokers. Neither personal recommendations nor years of experience fully do the job (although both are useful at the margins). More than forty years ago, I was in school with a boy who was, I discovered, a pathological liar. He would make up elaborate stories to play practical jokes on classmates. About a decade ago, I was startled to see his name (very unusual) and face (three decades after I had last seen it) on a billboard in town. You know what occupation he pursues now. He seemed to have some visibility in our town as a successful business person during the height of the real estate bubble. He is still in the same line of work (but now just with lawn signs, not billboards) after the bubble popped. I wonder how any person shopping for a real estate broker could distinguish brokers like him from any other kind of broker.
Maybe, I work remotely, most other people will be in the office. Pulling something from someone on the internal network might be... interesting.

It is another benefit of git, and one of the reasons I first moved to it (often did work on a robotic system, pulling an pushing new branches was a really nice way of moving code back and forth without committing to a central repo).

Git is great, and github is brilliant. I just wish it was more stable, because I would say that is a real issue at the moment.
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Think infrastructure: putting in quality wiring/plumbing/hvac is much cheaper on new construction.
Possibly, but OTOH, when you actually have a problem where the dates are off, it's pretty easy to use binary searching to narrow the range down. The hard part is figure out why the error range causes an error.

Not to mention this question requires someone to be in the Chinese locale, and the asker is actually Chinese.
Her husband was a builder so she could walk in a house and easily assess its quality.

Should we choose agents based upon whether their significant other is a builder? Why not have an actual trained expert in home construction and maintenance be a part of the buying process, instead of relying upon the remote chance that an agent that will earn a five-figure commission may possibly have some value in that realm?

The real-estate industry is absolutely dominated by soft-skills -- the sales and people skills (ABC, etc) that dominate other sales industries (cars, mattresses, drug company reps, etc). It is not a credible argument in favour of agents that they may possibly bring some other incidental skill: Roll the die and find out.
I don't believe in forums as a SaaS.

Wordpress growth, in a sense, it is because it is open source. You can have your own version, and also, if you prefer, they can host your blog.

A forums is a different kind of service, takes a lot of time and effort to build a community, and if this guys dissapear in 2 or 3 months, years, etc, it is a big loss.

I prefer the path that Discourse is taking. It's software is open source & they are experts in hosting it. Like wordpress.
So, if my community finally is growing, I can think on host everything by myself.

Also, I love redis, I use it a lot, but don't understand why it is a key driver to explain the product proposition.
I'd probably use this a lot more if it weren't so single-purpose. I don't think I'd use an airport pickup specific app enough to remember to use it (unless I routinely went to the airport to pick people up, in which case I might have my own knowledge about traffic and time of day, on top of flight info).

What I would use is a more generalized "you must leave by X to get to Y" where the time of Y and travel time from me to Y both change dynamically.

And things like "you must start watching this movie now in order to have it finish before your flight lands".

I think Google Now does some of this (I'm not sure), but iOS alone would be a market for it, and a non-Google option would be worthwhile anyway.

I'm not disputing that "when do I need to go to the airport for an incoming flight" isn't important, but it just isn't frequent enough on its own for me.
Are there any active forums besides the main moot.it/forum? I tried going to relatively common keywords and most are just people kinda squatting on them during the initial landgrab.
Until your cache header grows too much and freezes or even segfaults mutt. (Removing it fixes the issue.)
Real Estate Agents are one of those things where the pareto principle applies. 20% of the agents, do 80% of the business. Just find one of the 20%, they'll have a ton of awards (million dollar club, etc). If you go visit them at their office space, they'll have a window office, not a cube.
Why is it "disgusting"?
AFAIK it works well now.
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> If you try to browse bigger threads here in HN or in Reddit you'll soon realize that you'll get lost.

That never happens to me, especially on reddit, where threads are collapsible. How do you end up lost?

> Especially when you come back to the site it's impossible to know what has changed.

No it's not. There's a reddit gold feature for that.
Downvoted for agenda-driven comments that focus only on generalization and speculation.
Killed/froze my iPhone 5 on Chrome.
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It does on Chrome 26.0.1410.65 (osx) or Firefox or Safari

Perhaps it is because of switch to blink? Anyway, forewarned - forearmed. Thanks!