skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this include anonymity? I am not trying to dodge the law or liability but I am wondering if using such a thing like LLC or s-corp would?
He forgot one: "Everything is a run-time error."
I'll let the crystal meth users defend themselves. ;)
good, this feature seemed to only be used for <del>spam</del> relentless self-promotion.
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Results are not bad at all.
Some the the answers have vague or generic names which does not lead to good Google search-ability by itself. Perhaps add the keywords from the question. Also, if the answer is a url, you may want that to be the link itself.

But great job, keep it up!
It is also pretty good for Ruby on Rails coding, and getting better.

Ruby parsing is pain and a half, particularly for half-written Ruby code, but if you type something like

validates_(hit your autocompletion key)

in a controller you'll get a list of all the built in validations plus any you added which are in scope, and if you do something like

validates_acceptance_of (hit your autocompletion key) it will even tell you what all those wonderful damnable optional parameters are. It also saved my bacon once this weekend for

render :action => whatever, :layout => nil , which actually rendered the layout for quite some time until I backed out the "=> nil" and was told by autocomplete that what I really wanted was "=> false".
Somebody stopped reading before 5 and 6.
I agree entirely -- I love Python and it's incredibly flexible, I just frequently find myself wanting more. There's rarely something I /can't/ do, but I often find myself wanting to add, say, pattern matching in an intuitive way. I guess the best way to put it is that Python has a lot of flexibility in what you can do, but not so much in how you do it.
It seems like he meant add the ability to twitter a page from your site. Like a "Tweet this" link.
The power is in numbers -- the warm fuzzies users get when they see that many of the sites they visit will thank them (with tiny upgrades) for freeing the sites from total dependency on ads.

So no, it won't be one site making the sale. One site plants the seed of the idea, then another waters it a little, and another some more, until finally the user feels a gush of appreciation and/or need for one of the tiny upgrades. Then every site gets a proportional cut, from that point on.

Even if none of them alone can make the $6/month sale, in toto they can. And they earn microslices of the subscription fee even for first-time visitors who already signed on elsewhere.

In fact, unless your site is already charging some sort of subscription fee, there's no reason not to sign up. Just by adding the tracking code, you start receiving a tiny slice of any Contenture visitors' payments. You don't have to convert users yourself or run banners or lock content up (as far as I can tell; I haven't parsed all their fine print).

Sure, there's a risk of gaming and free-riding in this regard -- but that helps bootstrap the publisher network, and they can tighten things based on user feedback over time. (If I were running it, I would give all users an absolute right to reallocate their $6 arbitrarily -- the passive metrics would only create the default allocation.)
I didn't notice the design editor (or it's absence) in the 4 seconds it took me to close the qrisper tab.
Zero-Knowledge Sudoku: Verifying solution without looking at it.
Also, notice that they have not updated libjingle in over 2 years. They should include some sort of statement about the status of the project. It's my understanding that it won't even compile without work but I could be wrong there.
The country is losing billions to offshore poker sites in both potential tax revenue and oversea company profits. To ban online gaming when it's perfectly legal to do it in person is ludicrous.
While UTF-8 is a good default encoding, it seems odd to tie standard functions into things which cannot be presumed. Without having the ability to specify encoding, you will have one function for UTF-8 and a different one (roll your own?) for every other encoding out there.

Uhm... read the both these lines, not just one of them like you did before:

<jnthn> chars($string) # characters
<jnthn> bytes($string) # how many bytes
I do have the addthis button on all of the answer pages...if that's what you mean.
tsearch2?
correct study link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122384352/abstrac...

there's nothing new here - no new research - it's just an editorial. don't drink too much soda - duh. i was hoping they figured could narrow down what moderate means.
Municipal tap water often has chlorine, too. I'm not sure how much, and water varies from city to city, but there's often enough to affect bread rising, so it's not a completely trivial amount. At the same time, anything that gets added to tap water (to discourage micro-organisms, which of course includes yeast) is probably reasonably harmless in small quantities.

As sweeteners (both artificial and real) go, I doubt there's going to be a clear view of their pros and cons in the near future -- there's way, way too much money involved. (I like honey and vanilla sugar, but try to not use too much.)
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"Can you imagine 10 percent of the populace following Lincoln on this today?"

In transcript form, perhaps not. In spoken text? I think we could meet the 10% bar. A lot of the klunkiness of that is the transcription, I think; modern extemporaneous speech is transcribed differently.

"So far, I have been considering the understanding of the question manifested by the framers of the original Constitution. In and by the original instrument, a mode was provided for amending it. As I have already stated, the present frame of "the Government under which we live" consists of that original, and twelve amendatory articles framed and adopted since. Those who now insist that federal control of slavery in federal territories violates the Constitution point us to the provisions which they suppose it thus violates. As I understand, all fix upon provisions in these amendatory articles, and not in the original instrument. The Supreme Court, in the Dred Scott case, plant themselves upon the fifth amendment, which provides that no person shall be deprived of "life, liberty or property without due process of law", while Senator Douglas and his peculiar adherents plant themselves upon the tenth amendment, providing that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" "are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.""

Transcribe the same speech with modern sensibilities, dropping intermediate "ands" and other such information-free interjections when appropriate and lay off the semicolon and it cleans up fairly well. Even the "hard words" and phrases I think are more common speech of the time, and only sound erudite because we inherently think of old-timey things as sounding educated since only educated people bother to learn them. My great-grandchildren will probably think "old-timey" sounds fancy.
It reads as though you generally do agree with the flat is better than nested though; your argument appears to be more against how the system is currently organized, rather than being concerned with the ability to write libraries without worrying much about namespace clashes. I'd love to see the entire python standard library moved into a root-level "python" namespace; I'm guessing that would be about as popular as curly braces with the general python crowd...

Heck, even the ability to root your imports, like import .email would bring in the root-level email library, would be pretty nice. I'm sure I've seen the idea shot down before, but I can't recall what the reasoning was.
Yeah those generic answers could become problematic. However, I'm hoping that unhelpful answers get pushed down as more relevant answers are voted up...that's the assumption anyway.

But great tip about adding keywords from the question to the Google search...will definitely do that.

I'm still playing around with the links for the answers. As you saw, the default is a Google search. I'm also toying with direct links (for urls) as well as affiliate links.
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For IM, XMPP would be a wise choice. SIP could be be used as part of your voice/video solution but they are different things and as such you wouldn't choose one over the other unless you were choosing IM over voice/video.

Google chose XMPP and developed Jingle as an extension to allow for voice/video.

You could just build your setup on Google's services and take advantage of Google Apps for your domain.
I think it depends on what you're trying to search for. If you're interested in what stories Twitter users consider important it could be helpful. If you want to see what actions people are taking on Twitter in response to a particular story, it could be helpful. Otherwise, good old Google News is likely to provide better links to more relevant content.
"The reason for this is that you cannot have a democratic, indeed, civilized, community life unless people have learned how to participate in a disciplined way as part of a group. "

As to opposed to what? There are many opportunities for interaction and working in society. How to interact with older people, work a job, honor contracts, and be well mannered to people and stuff like that?

How can you learn that in a school filled with kids your age and the only adult is a teacher?

Don't get me about democracy. Most of society isn't a democracy. We don't usually vote unless it is about asking government to do an half-assery job of something. There is certainly no voting in honoring contract, or choosing who to marry, sell, buy, what club to join, or who to associate with.

We aren't governed by some crazy democracy that decide what to do for each facet of our lives. No, we live by trust, respect, and compromise. We choose to co-exist with each other, voluntarly.
I have memories of annoying developer no. 2 endlessly quoting Dave Winer's platitude about "sending away users to make them return." SBW (http://sbw.org) was right again.

Listen to your most annoying developers.
Hey at least you remembered how to spell qrisper!
I'll take what I can get.
When I see cans of Java Monster (an energy drink), I picture some junior programmer on an all-nighter, all hopped up on caffeine and copy-and-pasting more code than most people produce in a year. "Oh no! Our codebase got hit by a Java Monster last night!"
There's something missing intellectual depth, but it isn't programming.
I love it when I find a comment that is word for word what I was thinking when I read the title!
Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Twitter
just curious to know if you have a plan to make $$ other than through ads
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> If it's not okay to say that men are better programmers simply because of their gender (it's not), then it's not okay to say it the other way around either.

God forbid that someone make an argument and try to support it with data, when one person has already decided for all of us what the correct conclusion is.

WT* ever happened to debate, intellectual discourse, and the marketplace of ideas?

This is one of the things that I find most disgusting about political correctness: that it tries to just wall off huge swaths of POTENTIAL CONCLUSIONS based on an argument that boils down to a misconstrued sense of manners (at best) or political preferences (at worst).

Want to say that ethanol is a stupid idea? THE DEBATE IS CLOSED - NO SERIOUS SCIENTIST BELIEVES THAT GLOBAL WARMING IS ANYTHING OTHER THAN A THREAT OF EXTINCTION.

Want to say that women and men have (a) different average heights; (b) different standard deviations in intelligence; (c) different hormone levels; (d) massively different thicknesses in their corpus collosums, and therefore one or the other might on average, make better programmers/accountants/engineers? THE DEBATE IS CLOSED. IT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO SPECULATE ON THIS TOPIC.

I call bullshit on that.

Intellectually honest people respond to facts and arguments with OTHER facts and arguments.

Intellectually dishonest people try to shut down debates using social control.

WilliamLP writes

"People need to stop writing shit like this"

That's the phrase of a bully, and/or a censor.
Sometimes it seems like existence gets more laughable every day.
> in sociological terms, women are a minority because they aren't the dominant subgroup.

This is a useful sentence to read, because it helps remind me that "sociological terms" have little or nothing to do with honest intellectual framing of topics.
You are about as wrong as anybody can get about anything. The Wire is an outright masterpiece.

I can't see how you'd find it to be "cheap". It's got probably the most brilliantly characterized people I've seen on any screen. I'd understand not liking it based on the first few episodes, but by six in it was already gliding along.
"It's not that you can't say it. It's that you should say it some place where it will be appreciated."

I WILL MAKE A NAME FOR MYSELF, but the news will not accept what i have to say, tv wont allow it, dis saying the gov.t and all that one day i will sell 30 200000$ homes for 30-50k each, and the word of freedom will be spread
Lua is very similar to Python (with more Javascript and Scheme, perhaps), but with real lambdas and tail calls. It's a different language with different trade-offs (it's standard library is tiny; embedding is its primary niche), but its dev team very much shares Guido's sentiment of "keep it simple and don't clutter the core language trying to make it everything to everyone". If you want to see the parallel evolution of language with very similar values but a slightly different set of features, it's a good one to check out.
While its a nifty service, Topsy seems to be 'static' search for Twitter - another version of "<search terms> site:twitter.com" (especially when you consider Google's time-range search options). A lot of people seem to be linking to tweets on blogs and forums, and the 'old-fashioned' currency of these links seems to be missing in Topsy (and present in the Google version). This omission could be an issue for their ranking algos when linking to tweets becomes more common.

If I were the Topsy team, I would also worry about Twitter adding a static option to their own search. Unless of course I am hoping to go the Summize route.
I used to be a TextMate/Vim person, but NetBeans just has some really nice abilities.

It integrates so well with version control systems. The auto-complete isn't what I'd like it to be for Ruby, but seems better for other languages. It will run your program in NetBeans which makes it easy to fire up a development server without another window. It will handle lots of tasks like plugin management or rake tasks. Oh, and the refactor browser - I don't know how I ever renamed things without it.

Now, it's absolutely ugly (at least on OS X), but it's relatively straight forward which I can't say for Eclipse. It might not be your cup of tea, but at the price of free, it's worth seeing if an IDE's tools such as its ability to spot parse errors, code completion, versioning integration, etc. will help you be more productive/happy.
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What "features" is vim missing that you use for php?
Peacock feathers do not equate to attractiveness for peafowls. It is an assumption that was accepted without testing. Does this relate to the HN posting about how hackers are horrible at statistics?

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/26/peacock-feathers-fe...
Complete multitasking system using coroutines (Python)
outside of ads and affiliate marketing, yes i do. that wont matter till i find an audience but a plan exists.
I have never heard of "Shout" before reading this article.
How about BOTH Huxley and Orwell being right?

We've got the great firewall of Australia & China, and the camera on every street-corner in England, and coming soon to Chicago, New York, and more.

And we've also got American Idol.

We've also got the propaganda war of Iraq, the jackboots on the neck of countless vilified populations worldwide, the haves and the have-nots.

I'm not quite so sure it's wise to linger on pop culture while military power still murders many every day, keeps untold others in the dark, and the all-seeing panopticon is part of the effect of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and others.

Focusing on pop-phenomena and wringing hands over the trite uselessness of pop culture can be just another way to be self-righteous and better than thou. In a perfect world perhaps all we'd worry about is social networks and gossip. But we can't because Orwell's world is real and true, and power continues to absolutely corrupt.

I could go on and on. The treatise is interesting and thought provoking, but weak.
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"Real progress begins once people are bigger than their jobs."

Interesting, care to elaborate ? thx.
I always thought some musicians were sexually magnetic because women felt an emotional connection with the musician, probably through their songs.

Some musicians can make music that makes people feel better. Music can affect us at the most powerful level, the emotional level.

I saw Adam Sandler play at my university once and you would not believe how many beautiful college women were coming up to him after the show, wanting just a fragment of a moment of his attention.

The Hanukkah song. His trademark. It was scary to see almost everyone cheer and sing along as loud as they could. People were connecting their lives to his maybe-not-so-silly song.

I witnessed similar things with "Hootie and the Blowfish" and the Dave Matthews Band. I never understood "Backstreet Boys" and NKOTB. But maybe musicians are a societally-accepted way for women to objectify and idealize men.
Interesting to note that online sports betting will remain illegal under this bill due to intense lobbying by the NFL.

"Good handicappers can win against the house in sports betting, but it is impossible for anyone to win in the long run on slot machines, roulette or lotteries because they are totally random and based on luck with the house edge built in. Australia has recognized this and told its citizens that they are permitted to bet sports online, but it doesn’t want them wasting money on gambling where they can’t win. In America (and Canada) the states would rather citizens only bet on games where they can’t possibly win, hence essentially making the legalized gambling a hidden tax. It’s truly unfortunate, but is also a sign of the times." -H. Johnson, majorwager.com
The regulars who wring their hands over HN or whatever other site going down hill really should just go find somewhere else to read.
1) You and I agree, no publisher who is capable of individually converting a user will sign up to use this.

2) You and I agree, you can get all the bennies of being a publisher without actually attempting to convert users. Put on tracking code, collect checks, yay.

3) You think the game theory equilibrium results in a healthy ecosystem of lots of publishers cooperating to make an Internet-wide Content Cartel which will use the awe-inspiring power of warm fuzzies to convert a sizable number of people into Contexture customers. (Incidentally: you seem to minimize the difference between the free and freemium experiences -- tiny upgrades and warm fuzzies. I think this is because you understand that there being significant differences in the experiences makes sites substantially LESS valuable to you. Do you understand that this this same dynamic gives every site an incentive to defect?)

4) I think the game-theory equilibrium is that nobody makes any attempt to convert users, a few dozen blogs nobody has ever heard of put the tracking code on their sites, some intense competition happens for cuts of fractions of $4.80 times a few dozen people, and a few months later the system dies for lack of interest.

Like I said on the last thread, there needs to be a Killer App site to build this ecosystem around, like eBay was the Killer App that every other Paypal merchant got to freeload off of. However, unlike the eBay/Paypal symbiot, in this case if you have the Killer App you should run screaming from this business proposition.

My, this would be a fascinating collective action problem for a game theory class...

But yeah:

All sites have an incentive to defect (not lock up a significant amount of value behind the paywall, not attempt to convert users in any significant fashion).

If no one puts value behind the paywall, then this idea is a more complicated implementation of the oldest failed business model, which is putting out a tip jar and hoping money falls into it. Money very rarely spontaneously falls into tip jars.
I would like to mention the movie "Idiocracy" as a complement to this discussion. The trailer on YouTube gives you a good sense of the movie.
It's not the real regulars who wring their hands over this-- more the users who've been here 5 months or so. It seems to be a phase people go through.
Companies are still naming themselves in faux-latin?

This is not a troll. It's a criticism.
The author is comparing apples to elephants here. Facebook's growth is completely different and unrelated to Digg. As is twitter to digg. That's like saying hacker news isn't growing as well as google.
I'm curious about this new translation - do you know who it was translated/published by?

The most recent edition on Amazon I can find is from 2006, I'm interested in checking out the new translation based on your comments but not sure if this is the same one.
Yoko Ono found that Beatles dude pretty attractive. In my general experience, people from other cultures find certain loud and ostentatious Westerners with few redeeming qualities (I jest, I jest!) attractive, even when they do not find that attraction among their own.

In other words, I do not think that your observation and the post are incompatible. Context matters.
is there a way to do this in python directly (not cppython)?
Agreed. The quality of google search results has continued to noticeably decline over the last few years.
I've been using Netbeans for PHP for about 6-months exclusively now and I can say I too am extremely impressed with its speed, functionality, and most importantly, reliability.

Zend Studio was the last IDE I used before this, and I was pretty upset with what I found. Not only was it sluggish, but it would randomly crash on me, causing me to lose some of my work.

Netbeans FTW
Hey, Thanks for the pointers.

I estimate Reads to be 10x more frequent than writes and Reads would mostly be a key lookup, with occassional aggregation.

Yes, I was also wondering if anybody has demonstrated sclability with MySQl for this level, as I won't have to fiddle around with code too much.
yes. that was surprisingly good.
>To be completely honest, if memcache, memcachedb, redis, and tokyo cabinet are not getting the job done then you are probably doing things very, very wrong...

I am not saying that they are not getting the job done. They would get the job done but with significant code changes. I was just exploring if there was a better alternative. If I don't find one, I would resort to memcache most probably.