skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As novel as this app is, I agree. The only market I can see this app appealing to is teeny boppers that have no sense of etiquette.

What this app needs is a way to _design_ your own card, so there actually is a reason to have it digitally created. Think clipart + calligraphy with custom papers/stipling. Now you've got a real product.
The law and courts can specify, recognize, and decide things based on judgements of intent.
Please no...

Why should this become a place of witch-hunting?

You give no reason why it should be implemented other than that gaming sites has become more sophisticated.

That is not enough justification, especially since

-) i don't see clear signs for HN degrading in Quality

-) i am sure that pg is concerned about HN and has implemented some measurements to guarantee the high quality of this site for the future

No need for such drastic measurement just yet.
How about Google Tasks?

I rely on this with Gtasks on Android every day as my main note taking vehicle. I find it especially useful for literally instantaneous syncing between phone, tablet, desktop, and laptop.

Here's a way to access it via its own independent window (I keep this pinned in my browser):

https://mail.google.com/tasks/ig
I chalk this business up under the "no idea how it got funded" category. 16 million bucks? It almost seems like a joke. What exactly is their business model? I get it, they want to annotate 'stuff', but how does that make money?

If I want to read a quick summary of a news article, I read the top comment on reddit, or the first paragraph of the article. The meat's right there -- that's how journalism works. If I want to read summary of a book I read Cliff's notes, or an amazon review. What value are these people adding besides TechCrunch drama? It seems nonexistent.
Again, you haven't used Postgres very much if you think that. IP addresses are in there because they are generally useful, not because they're hard to implement.

Go have a look at the complex number implementation here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/xtypes.html then come back and tell me that Postgres is "not a real programming language" (whatever that means these days).
I feel less and less comfortable relying on Google for something this important.

Leaning more towards solutions that I can completely control and host/backup myself.
It's there on android and i absolutely hate it!

each tab can have one popup overlaying it. as annoying for advertising, and useless for sites that depends on popups as they usually require more than one, or require one to stay open when you keep working on the tab (which is inaccessible until you close the popup)

why not allow me to open as a new tab, i will never understand.
Values and culture are defined by actions. If a company has to spend a lot of time telling its employees that they are valued, that usually indicates that the message is trying to counteract some stronger implicit message based on actions. It's like hearing "we value your business" while you're on hold for support. If they actually valued your business they would take the effort to provide better support. When I file a ticket with my VPS provider there is communication going on almost instantly and typically the issue is resolved within a matter of minutes, they don't have to tell me that they value my business, they show it. And I spend less money with them than I do with my mobile provider or my ISP.
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I didn't see that until you pointed it out. Now it's all I'll be able to see!
The best Google hack I know for jump starting traffic
"MEH going to be expensive ... wait, $3.99? Nice."
Y'know, I disagree that it's an issue, and I'm usually one of the more immature people around!

Feltapp.com works IMO.
That is a pretty serious bug, that is not at all as easy to miss as something like a memory leak is in C/C++.

It is also pretty easy to detect by this (or something better), which might be handy in a big program: http://play.golang.org/p/XmKfgQ4TmS
You know, I never even owned a 2D printer until last year. And my girlfriend bought that.

Someone else always owned a printer and I just used it (Kinkos, library, work, school).

I would hope it would be the same with a 3D printer. I don't want to have one. I don't want to buy ink or parts or worry about it or have it obsoleted in 2 years time.

But if I want something 3D printed, I certainly hope that there will be stores nearby with high quality printers that are far better than the median at-home printer.

Edit: I should mention that MakeIt Labs[1] (hackerspace) in my little New Hampshire city already has a Replicator 2.

[1] http://makeitlabs.com/
Most 'totalitarian states' aren't as Bond-villain-esque as their image in the popular imagination and most 'dissidents' aren't as heroic.

You just have to convince yourself that the situation is grey (which is mostly true) and that everyone who is 'as good as you' is somewhere else (which isn't). Then it's easy to sleep at night. This has the benefit of being true some of the time, which makes it harder to convincingly criticize.
If the web was patented, just maybe someone would have come up with a stateful, non-markup solution (or at a least better markup solution) to supplant it :)
> each one of us is committing some crime every minute

This statement is actually not absurd. Well, actually, it is an absurdity, but it's also an accurate description of reality.

I was reading a comment by someone (I believe a law professor and criminal defense lawyer) who rode along with a highway patrolman in the US. They played a game, where the officer would follow a car, and the officer would win if he could name a legitimate traffic offense committed by the car, for which he could pull the driver over if he was so inclined.

The officer won every time, usually within well under a mile.

There are so many laws, and they are so complex, that just about anyone is probably guilty of something if you just look hard enough. Only the thin paper shield of the Constitution (in particular 4th and 5th amendments) is about the only thing that stands between just about anybody in the US and prison.

For more, see this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I saw an art show here in Boston at the MFA on post cards, which were a big deal from 1890s - about the 1920s (or whenever radio came in to play): http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/postcard-age

It's inspired me to try sending hand-written, everyday postcards to friends. Not just post cards from vacation, but home made ones that would normally be photos shared to social networking. I still appreciate how great it feels to receive a handwritten piece of mail every now and then that isn't a bill. And not just reading someone's impersonal FB update.
Is this a viable revenue stream for free app developers? Would it ever make it past the Apple review process?
Obviously I can't verify, but we did see a stockroom full of parts and working printers nearly ready to ship. It's $200, PLA-only with an acrylic stage. They will have a more expensive option with a metal base and support for ABS.
Instead of donating to charity, they should have given it to the gamers who had their computers illegally used. They do not realize the criminal and civil actions that can arise from this.
Custom miniatures for D&D night!

I could even see custom modeling my own miniatures for other games, either tabletop RPGs like D&D or wargames like Warhammer or any of the others.
Pair it with a Photon 3D, a low-cost scanner - http://www.hackthings.com/profile-of-a-white-hot-3d-scanner/
IANAL, but perhaps. The following paragraph actually states, that if all your content is password protected and you only give this password to personal acquaintances, then you clearly don't need an impressum. ( Along with two other examples, which also not very helpfill.)

The problem with this law is, that is says something about a page with some baby pictures ( so that grandma can see her grandchildren), and something about media corporations. However it simply does not address the case of a private blog, were the audience is not personally related to the author, but the author does also not try to make money with it.
I don't really care how hard it is for the company to implement, that's not really my concern. But hoarding my data sucks.
Pay what you want. 50% goes to taxes.
This is one of those rare instances where a statement like 'The Single Most Valuable Document In The History Of The World Wide Web' is not hyperbole.
1. I'm not sure I understand. If a function shouldn't hit the end, put a panic there. If you want to emphasize that it does, put an explicit "return;" in. But requiring you to put in a "return;" yields no information at all. Dead code isn't an error.

2. You're right, they're not only for short code. That however is where the forced "return" is most glaring.
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"Pure sitespam, this."

Forbes.com as a whole is spam. I'm genuinely amazed by how many articles get upvoted. I guess whatever anti-voting-ring measures in place here can't compete with forbes employees :/
I think you just send the SDF a dollar bill, that's it. You could just call a friend at the other side of the country and ask them to send it.
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I'll buy one as a way of turning the last stone to total reclusion from society. 85% off at shoebuy? Don't care - I print my own shoes.
Will.i.amsburg
it's an acquihire. they are not buying any product. (peanut butter spread too thin, etc)

they just have a lot of money to hire, and nobody wants to work there.

So they do the dumbest thing a company can. Spends 10~30million a head, and they are out the door as soon as their contract allows. (case in point, your host. and he was even a case where yahoo wanted to buy the product...)

oh, and they are so sure everyone is leaving, that the new policy (look it up, was on techcrunch) is to give out annual bonuses instead of pay rises and promotions.
> I find this interesting, mostly because if the generation of pieces is truly random, eventually you will lose

That's correct, but Tetris specifies that pieces are not chosen using a sequence of random pieces selected with equal probability. Instead, it uses "selection without replacement".

Think of it as you get one of each piece and stuff them in a bag. Pull a piece from the bag. That's the next piece. Do not put it back in (hence "without replacement"). Repeat until the bag is empty then refill the bag.
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Perhaps I should have been more clear. The 3D printing community actively trades tips on how to make their printers better. The hobbyists and certain 3D printer companies alike embrace open source hardware. It is this activity within a community that helps them make progress.

Are similar things happening in CNC machining communities? From my vantage point, it doesn't seem like it.
Sorry for the confusion.

When my list of columns is long, I split it up into multiple lines, usually 7-8 per line (where I work, column names are capped at 30 chars, hence the 200 character estimate), unless it is a case statement. In case statements, each case/when clause get its own line, so you'll have:

case when condition then result \
when condition_2 then result_2 \
...\
when condition_n then result_n end as column_name \

All of my queries and statements follow the same logic and set of rules, I just prefer a more compact view than most it seems (which could indicate that I'm optimizing for a different set of constraints/preferences).

I'll have to look into using :split.

Honestly I don't think about formatting that much anymore, as I've started storing most of my statements as "metrics" which can be easily repurposed for use in another script. Each metric contains the name of the metric, the columns added, the metric source (usually a table, but can also be a select stmt), the possible join conditions, extra SQL like where, group by, qualify, and any indices. When I want to use that metric in another script, I can do so by specifying the metric name, the table or select statement I'd like append the metric's columns to, and my join conditions. It works great for simple to moderately complex queries, and provides you a good starting point for really complex queries. Plus, it auto-formats everything how I like it. I also use comments to explain what the statement is doing, so someone theoretically should be able to get a pretty good idea of whats going just by reading that.

I really only think about formatting when I'm reading others code and trying to make sense of it, which is where I find the the formatting like the author mentioned most annoying/frustrating (perhaps because it's different than how I think/do things?).
I built a Prusa Mendel last year. It works... sort of. Unfortunately it's very unreliable and finicky, and takes a lot of babysitting to print anything. In theory I should now use it to print improved parts for itself to fix this; in practice it seems I don't have mechanical know-how to make a really reliable machine, nor (lately) the big blocks of time needed to experiment and learn. It's just been gathering dust for the past six months :-(
The final return does add information. It is common to name return variables to make the meaning clear to prospective users, without using them in the body. Just to pick the first one I found, here is the definition for regexp.Match:

// Match checks whether a textual regular expression
// matches a byte slice. More complicated queries need
// to use Compile and the full Regexp interface.
func Match(pattern string, b []byte) (matched bool, error error) {
re, err := Compile(pattern)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
return re.Match(b), nil
}

If the final line is missing, the compiler rejects the function. You might well have meant 'return', which could be inserted implicitly, but you might also have been interrupted while writing the function and meant to write a 'return something'. The compiler (really the language) requires you to be clear to avoid inferring an incorrect completion.

One nit: the return rules are separate from escape analysis, which is about keeping things on the stack instead of allocating them on the heap.
I don't have a 3D printer. I do however have a DIY CNC router: www.shapeoko.com
The problem you are talking about isn't editor vs. no editor, it's accountability.
"Welp, I guess that means everybody who currently works here is an A-player, great going everybody! Let's go get some beers for the next couple of years."
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People have always spoken about why 'palm rejection' is important, and I never understood why. I didn't rest my hand on my iPad when I wrote. Then, it came to me. Being left-handed, I could never rest my hand on a page as I would get ink/graphite all over it.

Maybe those of us who were less fortunate in the 'handedness' area actually write better on electronic surfaces with styluses.
Word on the street is that Makible is a group of scammers.
Can multiple people sign the same card like a yearbook page from separate ipads? I think that would really add value since it replaces the need for everyone to be in the same room.
Brilliant! Add a couples option for registration! Like, a small discount over $9/person x 2 ppl.
ahh, the joy of Z80 assembly. Such fond memories I had of hacking at my Laser 200[1], bought with my own money (I didn't have enough to buy a Thompson MO5[2], I was only 13 at the time).

You had to plug it into the TV, there was no way to record your programs although I got a tape recorder later. I later completely mapped the circuit board to understand how it was working and built a 16K static memory expansion (the original was too expensive).

I started bypassing basic and hacking away using PEEK and POKE commands, then hand-compiled small assembly programs (had to find out the OP-codes to directly store them in memory).

I later got an Amstrad 6128 that I bought from a friend. It had CP/M and a proper assembler, and a floppy drive, and a lot more fun was to be had with this one.

I still got my Laser 200. It probably still works, I hope.

These early computer were great: with a bit of perseverance, you could understand everything about them. The electronics, how the ROM was working, it was such fun to discover all these undocumented capabilities, to try to lift the hood and make sense of it all.

I don't know if this is a lost art today. The success of the Arduino and Raspberry Pi platforms give me hope that there is still an interest in low-level hacking.

As a young boy, it was so extremely formative to live during that era. Even though we didn't have the Internet, I still feel very fortunate for having access to these eminently hackable early personal computers.

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[2]:http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=...
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Yeah I think the advice about not going for your number 2 is really important. Of course that doesn't apply if you were dwelling on two people and ended up choosing one by a hair, but for the most part you didn't choose those people for a reason, and whatever it may have been it will bother you if you go back and hire them.
I believe gccgo already works on Solaris.
http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo
Indeed so. The article does a poor job of explaining - whereas down the other comments on HN here I now actually grok the significance.
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"A 12 oz beer contains about 300 kcalories."

That's an exaggeration. Here are a few mainstream beers I looked up on that site-

Sam Adams Boston Lager: 175,
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale: 175,
PBR: 144,
Guinness Draught: 128
> $9 seems quite excessive to mail a sheet of paper.

$9.83 is a Starbucks grande latte in Oslo...

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I don't read wired (tired of their lengthy narratives that always culminate with the subject cast in a holier than thou light) so i will assume this is about someone exploiting a bug left by the cassino on their own systems.

Anyone who understand law care to explain how this is different than sitting at a black jack table and the croupier just dealing up all the cards face up?
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The HTML5 spec has whitelisted the bitcoin protocol
They then want you to spend your time teaching them to be A-players.

10-15 years ago the "smart and driven" person was called a "visionary" in the dotcom world. Check Wired backissues, they probably bought out the entire late-90s inventory of the word.
Would have been a funny addition to the poll :)

Been working on one from a MakerGear kit for 6 months now on and off. Down to the calibration and a bad endstop now it seems. There was a good article recently on how to know which path to go down re: purchasing a printer prebuilt vs. a kit vs. buying individual parts that was a good read.

Did you use a kit or by individual parts?
perhaps like a networked HyperCard with downloadable stacks?
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Yes, been there done that. Especially - I think - in coding, there are people who put in negative performance by messing up the things theyre assigned to do so others have to come in later and clean up their bugs.
Terrible decision to let somebody go but best to cut your losses early.
Hah hah, good one.
The things you see as obvious are equally "read into" the slide, just from a different perspective.
Profiling Go allocations typically makes leaks clear.
http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html

If you are worried about leaking goroutines,

import _ "net/http/pprof"

in your web server and then visit /debug/pprof/goroutine (or even just /debug/pprof). That listing shows all the active goroutine stacks, but it groups bunches with the same stack into a single entry with a count. Scanning the list it is usually easy to see leaks (hey, why do I have 5000 goroutines with that stack) and also why they are stuck (because you have the whole stack).
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I don't see woolworths.com.au having the wherewithall to embrace something like this. Might be worth chatting with someone more "hungry" (sorry, couldn't resist) - e.g. http://www.hellofresh.com.au/
Extinction: Just how bad is it and why should we care?
You could also compare a McDonald's salad with a Subway sandwich.
Many large non-profits (united way for example) will work with business donors who agree to donate and cover an operating fund so that all individual donations can go straight to the cause. The business donors understand that costs need to be covered and this leaves a more appealing value proposition for individual donors who want their money to go to a specific project.
One of their rules seems odd. To "Feign" means to pretend. Do they mean that people actually pretend to be surprised about someone's lack of knowledge?

I would have thought the more common problem is when people are honestly surprised about someone's lack of knowledge, and then show it. That hurts more. I can usually tell if someone trying to show themselves off as a bigshot. That doesn't bother me as much as if someone genuinely thinks I'm ignorant about something that I ought to know.

Better to say, "Please feign unsurprise when you encounter ignorance." Or better yet, don't use the word "feign." Just tell participants that they may encounter people from a variety of backgrounds, and they should not assume that every understands what everyone else is talking about.