skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be a well-meaning technocratic mess - a lot of ambitious plans and actions, but most with unintended consequences that end up being worse than the problems they're trying to fix.
The tool caches the API responses (in the _raw_data directory), so if you're re-running it, most of the initial requests will be served from the cache.

If the XML parse errors are listing any item IDs, feel free to email them to me (mihai at persistent dot info) and I'll see if there's any workaround from my side.

Edit: If it's "XML parse error when fetching items, retrying with high-fidelity turned off" messages that you're seeing, then those are harmless (assuming no follow-up exceptions). The retry must have succeeded.
It's incredible how many successful entrepreneurs have become followers, think the latest trends are the ones on techcrunch etc.

There are very few entrepreneurs left who still think for themselves and are in for the interest of others and not for themselves.

The vast majority has become what investors have been forever, followers.
Their website design looks like a hardware store site design.
I would always use South, but you need to read the migrations and _understand_ what it's doing. When it gets a conflict (and it will), you need to be able to fix up the migrations.
They ruined their Indian market also by pricing their new models crazily.
Unfortunately that's the best we have right now. However, the guy who wrote South (and is a core Django developer) ran a Kickstarter last month to raise funds to write South-like functionality directly into the Django core.
I am with you. I first got online in 1991, when I was 10. You and I both are firmly rooted digital natives. Members of the last generation who had a choice in that. At the time it felt awesome to be on the inside as the Internet "happened." Over twenty years later and I'm not excited as I once was.

At this point the web is so interwoven into our daily lives (hacker or otherwise) it has become mundane. In many cases the Internet is not the new way or an alternative way, but the only way to do some thing. I am occasionally delighted by a burgeoning site or idea, but these moments are further and further apart.

The homogeny of today's Internet feels stifling. Not convinced I am a full on Neophiliac, but I do long for the sense of discovery and anticipation that accompanied waiting for your modem to finish its handshake.
Counter-point: http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/entrepreneurship/advice-f...

"Another legal obligation that is very common in Europe and unheard of in the USA is state-mandated severance pay packages. This is a direct impediment to start ups, the reason being that most start ups fail and in the USA there is an understanding of this. In the USA employees demand stock options as upside should the start up succeed knowing that there will be no severance package should the start up fail. But I have yet to find a place in Europe where employees or governments truly understand this. Not only are forced severance pay packages a problem because most start ups fail and they still have to pay them, but also because start ups are constantly trying out people and the concept of trying out people is very costly in Europe. In some countries like France, forced severance packages of people who have been with you say only half a year can be as high as double their earnings during that time. For most Europeans stock options are considered a scam to pay them less."
One reason there is a "crisis of trust" surrounding the revelations Snowden made is that, variously, other governments are complicit in the surveillance, or they are lackadaisical in actually implementing privacy protections by allowing services and products into their communications infrastructure that enable surveillance.

That may change, but I don't see a lot of concrete results in that direction, yet.
I think he's referring to his 20-year old self, not being 20 in general. I definitely had more time to look at stuff when I was 20.
This may all be true but you really are just arguing over who is the smaller loser given how far they both are behind Android and iOS.
I support that too, but I think Django should provide some default API endpoint support (like Django Rest Framework).
I must say that today you can do quite complex apps using just JS. So this might take off in unexpected way easily.
Ask HN:Students, Review my startup:Peers
I'd like to ask for some feedback on a product me and my team are working on.

http://peersapp.com

It's a social planner for college students. The idea is, we first build a network around the classes students are in.

They can manage school and social plans with friends. We want Peers to be a place where there is a good work life balance

Currently, we are in the process of developing the app

- Does the site convey the half social, half productivity theme?

-Is there something big you think MUST be included in a planner for college students?

- Do you like the look/feel of the site?

- What would make you not use this app daily?
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As ST2 will continue to run forever without a purchased license, I doubt anyone is rich.
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It's really not so bad. I've done 3 Goenka courses and I have no religious affiliation (neither before nor after). He does say some things that are definitely coming from a Hindu mindset/bias, but 99% of the course is just about meditation plain and simple.
>"As far as I know, Ecuador or any other government doesn't yet exercise such monitoring,"

Venezuela does it at phone level, I wouldn't be surprised that Ecuador does the same considering that they are very close in terms of political vision.
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204 mph is very impressive for an off the shelf Lola chassis. Though more slippery than an open wheel car, the Lola is has a HUGE frontal area. I bet the delta wing guys are looking at this and will have a go at the EV record. Their car is lighter, has a lower cd and backing from Nissan(think Leaf).

For those of you that have not seen the delta wing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeltaWing
What font are they using for their cheat sheet? It appears to have its apostrophe glyph turned upside down, which seems a rather odd thing for a font designer to do.

EDIT: Actually, it looks like the font is fine and (for some reason) the source document represents apostrophes with U+2018 (LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) instead of U+2019 (RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK).
> You'd said that submitting to punishment prevents self-deceit about one's motivations being for the greater good, rather than for personal gain. You said nothing about severity of the punishment.

Well, I said "Personally, I would add that acceptance of punishment reduces your ability to deceive yourself into thinking you're disobeying for the greater good, rather than just for your own personal gain or fame." I thought that was implicit in the "reducing", in the sense that the avoidance of self-deception was not full, and presumably depends on the size of the punishment. Sorry if this was unclear.

>Please be careful about suggesting I am avoiding the arguments of practitioners like MLK, et al. I am specifically dealing with the philosophical debate around civil disobedience

I meant no disrespect. I meant "avoid" in the same way a physicists proposing a new particle avoids constraints placed by existing experiments on the properties of that particle. He does this by specifying the properties of the proposed particle in a way that ensures it would not have already been seen.

> It is not inconceivable that a disobedient might act in such a manner...for the sake of personal gain and/or fame.

Not inconceivable, but it does make it much more unlikely.

> "His submission to punishment justifies his actions," that is a very dangerous maxim to put into play,...

I definitely never meant to suggest this.
Interesting answer, potentially suggesting the people of the US are the enemy of the US government, simply because government wants to protect some corrupt corporations.
To all of your points, I say: who cares? Who care if everyone uses Bootstrap? Who cares if no one does, and it all looks terrible? You know why Geocities was both popular and ugly? It wasn't all because it was 1995, it was partly because we were 15 years old and we were having fun experimenting with everything we could get our hands on.

Your comment takes this site way too seriously. I'd like to read your critical analysis of the challenges faced by a civil engineer trying to make a feasible plumbing system in a Chuck E Cheese ball pit.
Glad at least one person mentioned Angelfire, I still have an account there, didn't really go anywhere with it in the last 10 years though. LOL
I'm also a Sublime Text 2 paying customer who doesn't actively recommend the editor, though I find a lot to like about it.

For me, the reason is a bit more day-to-day practical in that I find myself increasingly doing development on Linux systems running on ARM chips and Sublime Text has no support for ARM builds. It is something often asked for in the forums and on the userecho site but is always shot down by the developer.

Editors are an odd case for me as a developer in that I'd rather use an editor I like slightly less that works on every platform I use in a consistent manner than use one that I like more but has limited platform support.
Kudos to you for trying the experiment, and reporting some findings.

As Lord Kelvin said, "If you can not measure it, you can not improve it."
A loss of 2% of revenue. Doesn't seem so tragic?
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I am withholding judgement as I don't know what to think after watching Oliver Stone's "documentary" South of the Border (free on YouTube) which constrasts directly with the content of Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/americas/ecuador

(I spent two months in Ecuador this year)
Is Stino actually for or inspired by something for Arduino? I can't tell, partially because I've never done Arduino development.
How do you know your monthly orders would have continued consistently this year? Were you adding features as fast as previously? How big is the market for what you're doing? Maybe you are now closer to what your particular market can bear and you'd have made even less at $19.99.
I thought their laptops are off the shelf hardware, are not they? If not I stand corrected.
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I live in the Midwest and will readily admit that I am WAY out of the loop of the valley but...

I LOVE buying things online. In fact I love it so much that I do it probably 1-2 times a week. I buy books, clothes, random gadgets, web apps etc.

I HATE having to fill out a payment form every time I want to pay for something. And in order to not fill out a payment form every time I visit the site I have to become a "member" of the site, give them my email address, remember the password and on and on. It's annoying. Why can't I just swipe my credit card like I can at a store and buy something? Why is it not that easy?

I really subscribe to the whole "Ideas don't matter as much as execution" mantra and I would surprised if this hasn't already been brought up many times. But if it has why hasn't somebody done something about it? And if somebody has done something about it why haven't I heard about it?
Ecuador's president came from Foro de Sao Paulo. If you don't know what Foro de Sao Paulo is you know nothing about Latin America politics.
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Your second point is right on the money. Failure to integrate with my Windows household is my chief complaint [1] with my Windows Phone (a Nokia Lumia 920).

You cite USB ports, but I think that's going after the wrong kind of integration. Here's what bothers me most: my Windows Phone doesn't just seamlessly join my Windows "HomeGroup" network, and it should. Doing so would be a killer app in my household. All Microsoft devices should adopt a HomeGroup (or an evolution thereof) model, where sharing of resources is expected.

When I take a photo around the house, it should not only be automatically uploaded to Skydrive as it is now. Since the phone is on my wifi network, the photo should be immediately dropped onto my file server's Photos library.

When I fire up the music application, it should (a) be able to play anything from my file server's music library, and (b) act as a DLNA remote to my various PCs, including the one in the living room hooked to the big speakers.

It should be comfortable joining other "HomeGroups" or similar ad hoc private networks. If I am out and about with my Windows Phone 8 and Surface Pro--and I am usually carrying both--the two should play well together--over an encrypted private channel--whenever they are both on the same wifi network. If I receive a Skype message, I should not have to dismiss it on both devices; they should each know I've been notified. (This last bit speaks a bit to my desire for "personal application omnipresence"--a model where applications run single instances with multiple responsive views, all exclusively for me [2].)

Integration remains the most lacking and frustrating element of multi-device lifestyles, and it's not a problem exclusive to Microsoft, but it's one that I specifically want Microsoft to address.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/lumia-920

[2] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
BASIC? Are you kidding? If we all had such short attention spans we would have thrown our hands up at assembler and would have said, "forget this computer stuff!" The "computer age" would never have happened.
Most of the site is dead, but I found this gem.
That's me Jumping off a cliff.

http://www.angelfire.com/nd/tysonb/newmexico/index.html
Same in Denmark. I'm not a Danish citizen, but since I'm legally resident in the country (work/residence visa), I'm in the system. In fact since everyone is in the system, the yellow health-coverage card is de-facto used as your ID card for some purposes (there's no national ID card).

Anyone visiting the country but not resident here is also entitled to emergency care, e.g. if you fall off your bike as a tourist and have to go to the hospital, there is no charge. Same if you have a heart attack while visiting.
Graphite & Carbon was an absolute nightmare to get installed on CentOS -- we had to settle installing it on Ubuntu instead.
> "a vast wasteland of garbage"

Accurate description of hacker news right there :>
Isn't this what Google is trying to do with Wallet?
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You know what is the mega-feature that is missing? Git integration. Yeah, it's geek, I know, but it would be a phenomenal way to publish a website (edit, commit, push).
You're right - any time someone is guiding you through any sort of spiritual process, there is the possibility of submission / sacrifice of individuality. For better or worse the struggle to maintain your individuality without the resistance becoming a barrier to "progress" is part of the process. On the flipside, having zero guidance would make things extremely difficult
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So did the people of the US though. There haven't been intelligence abuses because this is all legal to do, and the laws are publicly available knowledge if anyone would care to look.

If the issue is people think some of these things should be illegal, then the challenge is to get the appropriate legislation changed. But if you're only champions are people who think foreign intelligence should be shutdown altogether (as Snowden has been moving his message towards), you're not going to get very far (because it's an obviously stupid idea).
Want a throwback, services that are pre-1993 still exists: http://sdf.org/ , but a geocities retro revival is just a fad.
Your point? XP is essentially on life support at this point, and even that ends in a year. General support for XP ended in 2009. At that point, not supporting it in terms of software compatibility would be fine in my books.
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I agree, dev doctor is awesome! It integrates everything on devdocs and more (caniuse, MDN for instance). Works seemlessly with alfred, making doc lookups super quick.

Full disclosure: friends with author of dev doctor
I'm with you there. OP's experience is startlingly similar to mine. I hated the chanting, the obvious eastern cultural bias (an overzealous assistant told me not to point my feet at the TV while GoenkaHeadroom was talking), the vague conservative morality, the claims to nonsectarianness while still referencing reincarnation, etc. But the technique really works, and the gestalt of their teaching method does work, and I was, also, literally a different person than when I went in.

I'll say this for the chanting: by the time it starts up at about minute 55, it is the sweetest sound you can possibly imagine.
I think Chrome and Firefox are working on this. https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebPayment
http://storify.com/bretwalker/django-1-6-beta-fixes
Yup, I agree. Same sort of thing where people put down the use of things like Dreamweaver, claiming note pad is better. Same mentality, I think. And even though I would argue logically for Dreamweaver, I would still sort of feel the notepad advocates had a point. Yeah, typing feels more "real", even more exciting.

I then think is it a generational thing? But only yesterday was I sat there on that genetic car racing site watching live as people tried to hack the chat box. Command line again. I assume these were kids. Yet there they were in 2013 excitedly hacking away using the keyboard.

To tangent even more.... That was great to watch. Kids (I assume) excitedly trying to hack the chat box, by typing stuff, while the admins updated and updated them away. A wonderful race and frankly a joy to watch. YES hacking and defacing is bad, it even pissed me off to start with, but then I realised that there was something so energetic, or alive, about it. It was like sort of watching life or something. It reminded me of one of those movies where we see the "geek hero" furiously typing away at a terminal trying to stop a nuke launch or some such. Dunno how to describe it really. Anyway, the admins won easily and quickly, and that's as it should be.

Edit: All that waffle and I forgot the point...

Basically, those kids reminded me of back in the day. I guess the spirit me and the OP were talking about. So, IMHO, it is still alive. Heh, unless such kids end up in US jails....
The browsers all have automated form filling functionality, as do many of the password plugin providers (e.g. lastpass).
Whose laptops are not off the shelf hardware anymore? ie I am sure someone else manufactures them to googles specs - but thats the same for apple, dell, hp etc. From the moment you pick up a chromebook pixel you get the feeling that you normally get from apple devices - that someone thought this whole thing through. Actually the chromebook pixel and the htc one are the only two devices off late which had this effect on me.
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I think this is an area where ASP.NET MVC excels because, while REST is nice, you also have to consider web sockets, and I have not seen good web socket support in Django, where ASP.NET has SignalR which is loads easier to configure than a custom solution with Django and Nginx/Apache. Not to mention that SignalR has very nice degradation support on both ends when web sockets are not available.
Are you serious? You need help sitting quietly? What sort of guidance do you suppose someone could actually give you that would take any form other than telling you what to think?

You don't need help to do this. You don't need a magic tree, or to be in India to do this. Just sit quietly and meditate. Quit putting obstacles in your way and just do it. Forget teachers, instructors, gurus, priests, yogis, etc and just do it.
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He (Andrew Godwin) also recently gave a talk on the subject, (http://lanyrd.com/2013/djangocon-europe/schgcz/).
Please allow me to clarify a few common misperceptions.

#1 When you volunteer to be a soldier you voluntarily waive your rights to free speech in a few specific ways. You may not speak out against the Commander in Chief, you may not be a part of "extremist" political groups (extremist is defined as what your command says it is), you may not participate in many types of demonstrations. You can of course vote however you please.

#2 You are explicitly ordered not to obey unlawful orders and there is a process in place for refusing to follow an unlawful order. If you refuse to follow what you believe to be an unlawful order then you had better hope you are right because if you just feel you are right by the UCMJ and you are in fact not then your life will become miserable.

#3 Being in the military is a day job that bleeds over into many other areas of your life, the computer systems at work contain lots of sensitive information, things that you might find mundane. If you are deployed you may find it convenient to use a computer on NIPR in the TOC for personal use. Use that gov't hardware wrong and you can get in deep doo-doo. As a soldier I'd be happy to know they're helping me not do things on their hardware that would get me in trouble.

#4 Each soldier signs agreements to follow the rules around classified information, including not reading documents they do not have clearance to read.

#5 Being a good soldier requires shouldering an immense amount of responsibility without the frivolity of youthful indignation. In combat arms especially attitude and indignation get people killed. Indignation is reserved for private citizens, so use it on their behalf but don't expect them to rise up in defense of themselves.

#6 If a soldier is truly being wronged he or she knows they can go to IG, and if IG isn't working out they can write a letter to a congressperson and things will actually happen.

#7 If you think the way the military works is ridiculous, I understand, but don't assume that you know better. The military exists to kill people and break things not further social agendas (right or wrong). Most rules and regulations are written in blood, meaning someone had to die or get hurt, or some major loss of expensive or sensitive hardware happened to create that rule which you are ordered to follow.

#8 Most of your comments sound ridiculous to me (as a soldier), it's a different world with a different set of "BIG PROBLEMS" to deal with and you really don't understand it.
I'm no critic, but let me give you my opinion as a recent graduate. I think the site looks absolutely wonderful. I think the screenshots of the app convey a little bit of a clustered appearance. I don't think I would ever use the app. I much prefer writing plans down on paper, or just having a quick simple reminder in my phones calender.
By "SubWeb" do you mean "gopher"?
…[automotive diesel engines] seem to be more efficient and reliable than gasoline engines.

About 20% more efficient. If you look at L/100km or mpg you might say 40%, but diesel fuel has more energy by volume.
I think the whole push to go "card-less" or "wallet-less" is awesome and will eventually happen but what about the millions of people who won't do that for a really long time?? Cards maybe eventually die (I hope they do) but I still think they will be a prevalent of payment processing for at least the next 7-10 years.
I'm 41 too. If you want a feel of the old days of command line access you can always browse gopher via a proxy (now that most browsers have dropped gopher protocol support):

http://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.floodgap.com/