skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought about doing this, but Growl running on one system (e.g. desktop) can accept notifications generated by a different system (e.g. server), but unfortunately the client library is Cocoa only, so you can't compile it on your Linux host, etc. (I think this is all correct.) Has anyone "fixed" this?
Before they were famous, they were the assistants.
i can NEVER get linode on the phone...it's an infinite freaking loop...
Ask HN: sharing social data
if you could share any data into a social network's feed, what would you share?

what is your favorite stuff to share in via email, on frienfeed, twitter, facebook or myspace?

if you were a website, which data are you most interested in from myspace, facebook or twitter?
I walk to work. Often I'll grab a ride home with a co-worker.
It's more enjoyable once your brain connects the taste with the effects.

On a tangental note, while listening to the BOS/NYY game last night one of the announcers mentioned that Joba Chamberlain goes through 6-8 Red Bulls in the dugout during every game. Nasty if true (they were BOS announcers so who knows).
Just because twitter CAN do it does not mean it's the most appropriate. For one the character limit kind of kills it if you want to send a really long CallBackURL.
I don't disagree that the metric system is simpler, but that's maybe not the best example, because the U.S. system has a similarly simple water volume-weight equivalence, and it even has a catchy saying: "A pint's a pound, the world around". :-)
I'm a massive red bull addict. I guess it's an acquired taste but I love absolutely everything about it. If they only released a caffeine-free version and hopefully a little less expensive, I'd be buying cases a lot more often
There are three platforms that are doing this totally differently: Apple, Palm, and Google. They're doing it in the mobile space, but if one of them "wins" (ie, the others start supporting their push API), I can see the browser vendors picking up on it too.
> The best you can do is allow the post to go thru and
> make it appear to the spammer that they have succeeded.

I read the cons on this suggest, but what about turning the approach just around: Keep the spam in by default, just the folks with higher karma get the spam filtered out? That way, the successfully submitted spam could not only be verified from the original source but also from every other node of, say, a bot net.
Status updates. The rest would make for interesting demographic research, but statuses change constantly and provide real-time info into what people are doing or thinking.
That's why I asked. I am well familiar with the ganja vaporizer, but the "e-cigarettes" also act as vaporizer of some weird nicotine chemical replacement for tobacco.
"Errors cannot be avoided by recipe. If they could, we could eliminate automobile accidents by plastering the countryside with Drive Carefully signs!" -- Andrew Koenig, _C Traps and Pitfalls_

Some of the article's examples come straight from that book, BTW.
I think singing would be perfectly appropriate in all of those situations. Is smoking more universal than singing?
Is TED.com using P2 ?
Does it only do human faces? Could it detect my dog, or a Cubist rendering? (Face detection in non-photographic art could be quite lucrative, I imagine.)
Is draftmix defunct or just in offseason?
>> Providing content with embedded advertising

Also in-program advertising, as was classicly shown in The Truman Show and as seen nowadays with the gratuitous Coke cups used on American Idol.

As for the networks being redundant, yes and no. Yes in the distribution sense, but certainly not in the production stage. On-line distribution may be easy (for varying levels of "easy"), but someone's still gotta put up the money, organization, time, and physical plant to write and film the show, and keep it going for a while until it gets popular.
Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks to download the web -- he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me.

Maybe a nod is encouragement, but it sounds like Larry had decided to do it anyway - so the statement reads as an absence of discouragement.

On reflection, I think we mean the same thing, your "learned a lot from his advisor and other graduate students", and my "great people around him". There's a question of what a PhD is. It could be the independent work; the academic justification and presentation in terms of literature; the discussions with smart, interested people. (btw I've been doing one for a few years now).

I think our disagreement is about our definitions.
I've been increasingly coming to the belief that Napster killed rock and roll. Maybe I'm just an old fogy at the early age of 25, but I think the music of the last decade has been considerably worse than the music that came out from 1960 to 2000.

People dramatically underestimate how important a great producer is to making great albums. It doesn't cost much for an indie band to make an album, but it does cost a lot to have a producer make it sound really good. The past ten years we've getting an unending stream of Bleach and Kerplunk rather than Nevermind and Dookie.
Funny thing is, I love karaoke, especially something called nomi houdai (all night, all you can drink, karaoke).

The idea of karaoke without cigarettes shocks and appals me! What next, karaoke without alcohol? Way to take all the fun out of everything.
Now I have an important question.
How should I properly take myself to the brink of insanity in order to boost creativity and flexibility of thought? Something to think about ...
If China loses faith the dollar will collapse
Alan Carr's "quit smoking the easy way."

Read it, actually. Great book. But the problem is, I don't want to quit.

I like smoking! It's part of me. I feel no need to justify it. Obviously I am concerned about the health effects but do try and mitigate where I can, plus have some faith that cures will emerge.

Don't really know what else to say. Oh yes, do-gooders..

I hate those do-gooders too. However, I'm in Australia and I pay fucking 40c+ tax for every single cigarette. I am not kidding. This fact fills me with a righteous fury, which is frequently and hilariously unleashed upon anyone who dares question any aspect of my behaviour.

Funnily enough, in Japan, where I'm not taxed for smoking, I'm much better behaved.
Smoking involves taking a break from your routine, stretching, deep breathing, and watching wisps of smoke float delicately into the air.

One can get the same benefit with a bit of yoga and a conscious effort to do breathing exercises throughout the day. I think many smokers mistakenly credit some of the good feelings they get to the smoke rather than the breathing.

Om.
In general, just human faces. But I had a friend tell me they drew a picture of a face on a whiteboard and it detected it.

Almost definitely won't detect a dog. :)
These would be great for really high density systems... 50 machines in 10U, or beyond. For certain cluster applications you could even make the individual systems not hot swappable to save packaging space -- just migrate the workload off of the cluster to service it.

I hope Intel is smart enough to capitalize on this and doesn't revert to their old foolish ways (like the days of CPU multiplier locks) to preserve the industry as it stands presently.
Private trackers are nice, but their selection tends to be kind of limited, which is why I've never used one for more than a week or so.
If I remember in the book he says his technique won't work unless you want to quit.

How much are cigs in Australia these days? I just noticed the ones I used to smoke here in SF are up to 7 dollars a pack at my corner store. ($5.50 when I quit)

I had the opposite experience in Japan. I smoked the most there. The smokes were cheap and you could smoke nearly anywhere. It was weird if you didn't smoke - and this wasn't even 10 years ago.
Most NDAs aren't very lenient to stripping protections one of the parties has put on its data. Protected PDFs aren't really consumer products like video and audio, you usually want to follow the rules.
The USB drag-and-drop still works, right? That's not quite as trivial, but still not particularly difficult.
How is the Nash equilibrium for stock prices infinity when inflation is greater than the interest rate on bonds?

I can see that being the case when the universe of goods consists solely of stocks and bonds (i.e., no other products are available for purchase) and you expect the current situation (interest rates, inflation, etc) to persist into perpetuity.

But, if either of those conditions is untrue I don't see how infinite price is the equilibrium (which isn't to say it isn't just that I don't see how it is).

Mind explaining?

Also, the fact that some prices were increasing doesn't necessarily mean there is inflation. Rising prices could be just as easily explained by real increases in real total wealth while the quantities of some good remained fixed, or at least grew slower than the overall economies rate of growth.
I understand you're passionate about this issue, but you've really got to stop flooding the conversation threads with your postings. I don't object to one or two, or even more than that. However you've posted a ton of similar one liners with no sign of slowing down.
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For one thing, there's conflict between using an OS-level packaging system (such as Debian or Ubuntu's package repositories, BSD ports, etc.) and a language-level packaging system, and mixing the two often doesn't work so well.

Also, as a language, Perl occupied a somewhat unique niche for a while. It certainly had a head start on other scripting languages, and I think most other languages at the time had issues with portability or multiple implementations that could prevent such a project from achieving escape velocity.

While we're just listing things, Lua has LuaRocks (http://luarocks.org), Chicken Scheme has Eggs Unlimited (http://chicken.wiki.br/chicken-projects/egg-index-4.html), Haskell has hackage (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/pkg-list.html), etc.
Cool, a blog post linking to a blog post. Even then it has nothing to do with programming a Twitter client, it's about how to use NetNewsWire to read tweets, which is at least kind of cool I guess
Yes, but that's the easy part, isn't it. Anyone can write a quick polling app based on RSS.

The hard part is (off the top of my head ...):

o Putting together a UI that people can use and will like. Notifications should be quick and easy to set up. They should be noticeable enough to work, but they should not cause problems with existing workflows. And the whole system needs to be easy for the user to understand.

o If a new protocol: get sites all over to use it. If an existing one, figure out how to wrap around it nicely (extract and display the right info, etc.).

o Integrate this with non-RSS stuff, like the things that Growl does.
too magical
Is the use of computers harmful to introductory CS pedagogy?
Ask HN: Reasonable Java editor for heavily CLI-oriented UNIX types who hate bloat?
Hi everyone --

Let me give some background to properly contextualise this question:

I am the type of programmer that has been doing UNIX (generally Linux, also some commercial varieties) since 5th grade or so, and consequently am very command-line oriented in my habits. Did mostly C growing up, and a fair bit of Perl later.

So, obviously, when I was faced with the real-world need to do some Java, I approached it with my usual arsenal of half a dozen, uh, terminals and vi (VIM) sessions. Eventually I broke down and started using 'ant' for building instead of Makefiles, but apart from that, this approach has served me well.

I wouldn't mind a more Java-aware editor, though; something that can save me a little time on the tedious task of having to switch in and out of editor windows without having a holistic view of my source tree, as well as provide cross-referencing of symbols and API-specific autocomplete and perhaps online javadoc summaries built right into the editor. I spend a lot of time juggling all these editors and 15 tabs in my browser.

I've looked at Eclipse and NetBeans, but, they're just way too bloated and complicated. It would take me an enormous amount of time to figure out how to use them correctly and do things the Eclipse Way or NetBeans Way, and I don't think it'd be worth the flexibility I'd be giving up. Plus, they do far, far more internally than I really need, and I'd have to upgrade half my desktop machines just to stand a hope of realistically running them. They introduce gigantic piles of unnecessary metadata and internal abstractions I don't really want to deal with for my relatively simple, terse code (as much as Java can be).

On top of that, much of my development is server-side and, although I can mount the code tree with SSHFS or NFS or whatnot, local building and testing is essentially useless.

So, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a decent editor for someone in this predicament. I'm imagining something like an "IDE lite," or perhaps a really glorified take on UltraEdit (but not for Windows). I don't really know. Something that can get me the aspects of Eclipse that make editing Java code easier without all of the metadata, complicated build processes, user interface bulk, or sheer scope. Some say IntelliJ is the way to go here -- is it?

Thanks very much in advance, guys!
Last time a similar topic was posted it Hacker News it was quickluy closed, though I found it was very useful since it led me to ecigarettes. I'm primarily a cigar smoker. However, I'm now really enthusiastic about ecigarettes. After all, nicotine isn't such a bad recreational drug (aside from the addiction). The harmful part comes with the delivery. Now, I can smoke while I work and reap the benefits of increased concentration without the negative smell and health issues.
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Because this gives people that have dismissed rails outright a reason to feel good about themselves.
Emacs?

For command-line folk, either Emacs or vi would probably make the most sense long-term. They often have plugins to add functionality to make them more IDE-like. Learning curve's a bit tougher though, and might require more effort than it's worth. I still haven't completely switched over to Emacs yet, but it might pay off in the long run.
C; I <3* u;
Tried it just for once when I was schooling. And I didn't find it cool.
Supposedly Fujitsu has one, using their own e-ink like screen (they call it "FLEpia"). It has Wifi, has a web browser, and runs Windows CE.

http://activitypress.com/2009/02/22/fujitsu-trials-colour-e-...

Supposedly, will be out in 2010.
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When I go to http://ycombinator.posterous.com/ I get a message saying "Welcome to neo.taki.net :)". Is this a config error, something weird on my end, is this hacked?....
No, only if everyone you know who's smarter than you smokes.
What's to kid about? Apple doesn't usually get into markets to be the low-cost supplier. They are the Ferrari of computers.

OTOH, they might well produce something so good that it captures the top end of the market. It's risky, but if they thought they could do it...
Mate, "liberal arts" is not a subject, trust me, you do have liberal arts in India :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts

edit:link added
I use XMPP for this sort of thing.
"Since function calls usually take a long time, getchar is often implemented as a macro."
And then I stopped reading. Does anyone know of a meaning for this sentence that's more sophisticated than "function call overhead is punishing, don't call functions if you can help it", advice that was out of date when C was /invented/, for God's sake? Something special about getchar(), maybe?
That's a bad idea, because you end up piggybacking on top of another service, unless you do something like.. individual users run their own jabber servers.
Basically if you are a programmer who smokes (and I was until a few weeks ago) it's easy to quit smoking. You already know how grossly inefficient and wasteful smoking is. You just have to trick your mind into instinctively realizing smoking is fundamentally stupid, the same instinct that kicks in when you see a code segment that goes "if (x = y) { ...".

Instead of trying to control the craving or stop thinking about cigarettes, you have your brain evaluate the "should I smoke right now?" question with the answer _no_. Once I did that, I found quitting smoking surprisingly easy. I still think about it quite a bit, but so far I haven't strayed from the correct answer even a little bit.

Regular exercise right at the beginning will help you ride out the initial physical cravings. Within a week your lungs feel much better and you're way more alert etc etc so the virtuous loop is in place and that's where I am and so far it feels pretty good.
Why haven’t you started your own business?
Anybody who writes java code in anything outside of Eclipse, NetBeans or IntelliJ is wasting their time. It doesn't take an enormous amount of time to learn how to use Eclipse. It probably takes 15 minutes of someone showing you the ropes. You need to stop thinking of the problem as "I need a text editor" because that's almost certainly not what you need.

Eclipse in particular does nothing like what you claim ("unnecessary metadata and internal abstractions") except one or two files in the root of your project's directory tree. Upgrading your machines to support Eclipse means at worst spending $20 to buy 2Gb more memory, which doesn't seem like a lot to me.

All of the requirements you mention (plus a lot more) are available today in Eclipse. And you don't want Eclipse because of a few poorly defended misconceptions that you are clinging to. Go back and give this a second look and get someone to show you the ropes with it over lunch. You will never look back.

I have personally converted two people like you: die-hard emacs users who will never use an IDE because you tried them ten years ago and they sucked then. Neither of these two fellows would ever go back to that world now that they know what they're doing.

You won't regret the few minutes it takes to learn basics.
The only explanation I'm aware of for people continuing to smoke after the first time is social pressure.

I think this is a bit off. The best explanation for smoking the first time is social pressure. Maybe the first few times. After that, the best explanation for smoking is nicotine addiction. When you are used to the effect of nicotine, smoking a cigarette makes you feel good.

Also, not that I advise smoking cigarettes, but you can avoid burning your throat and lungs with good technique. Don't just suck on it like you are sucking juice through a straw; you will inhale too much smoke too quickly. Instead, only loosely touch your lips to the end of the cigarette, and inhale slowly. That will both let air mix with the cigarette smoke and give it some time to cool. If you do it right you should not burn your throat or lungs at all and the experience should be purely pleasurable.

(Damn... I'm going to talk myself back into smoking if I'm not careful.)
Why still keep a pack?
I find it surprising that no OS yet comes with a distributed processing framework (i.e. a pluggable system to support things like Folding@Home) installed and running by default. I predict that it might be the norm in ten years or so; then we'll actually get the effect you mention, where anyone can rent processor time on "the InterVAC" (or at least "the MicrosoftVAC" and "the GNUVAC", if it doesn't get standardized.)
But why break the already-established custom of big black arrows that point at the buttons every time you need to use one? I barely even saw the letters on the map.
You could program something in VBA to do it for you.. I don't think I've heard anyone on HN refer to VBA as "magical".

(It does definately have a deficiency of ponies)
The idea seems good, but the page is not descriptive enough. Do you have a demo somewhere in there?
I love IntelliJ, but if you think Eclipse and NetBeans are bloated you'll almost certainly think the same of IntelliJ. Keep in mind, though, you do get a lot of features in return for all the "bloat"-- refactoring, intentions, inspections, better navigation and too many others to mention.

Programming in Java is tedious and a good IDE makes things much less painful so maybe you'll want to reconsider. Unfortunately, there's not much middle ground between plain old text editors and full fledged IDE's so your options will be a little slim.

You may want to check out JDEE for emacs. Setting it up is a little complicated, but it's probably going to be a little snappier than an IDE. You could also try jEdit. There are various Java development plugins so you can pick and choose the features you want.

http://jdee.sourceforge.net/
http://plugins.jedit.org/list.php?category=5
Nicotine is great for coding. I used to smoke, but now use Swedish snus instead. I get all the benefits I did with smoking, but with very little detriment.
Not for nothing, I think it might be best to give it an explicit license. I would suggest the MIT license ( http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php ) if you want to be public-domain-esque.

It turns out that just advising to consider it public domain doesn't carry much legal standing, neither in protecting you, nor in ensuring people can get it past their laywers.
Protected PDFs are how most technical e-books are distributed.
wow. I've never done drugs or smoking, but 100% no alcohol is pretty rare to find.. I'm impressed.

On Caffeine - I assume you've seen this pic before: Still amuses me though: http://www.coffee.co.uk/images/spider.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll
I don't support his spamming these threads but honestly, "quit smoking" is possibly the best advice you will ever get. Just because of the odds of lung cancer killing you. It's hard to argue with the logic that asks, is it really worth it? I admit, smoking is fun, feels good, enhances your social life, and makes you lose weight. But even so it's asking a lot to make that trade off against your health.