skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure ChromeBug (http://getfirebug.com/releases/#chromebug) lets you do this, though it has some trade-offs.

On one hand, it's built on top of Firebug; this adds a lot of power (chrome inspection, javascript debugging/breakpoints in the chrome).

On the other, it's alpha, and not the focus of development (as far as I can tell)--it hasn't had a new release in some time.
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Had a quick look at a few source files in:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~pytower-heros/pytower/main/file...

The code looks readable, very well commented and it appears that game objects are split into appropriate classes and modules.

Go for it.
Hey! We created Newsbrane because we were frustrated with the skew between the popular stuff and the quality stuff on social news sites like this one and Reddit. Easy-to-upvote stuff gets to the top quickly, which is not always what you want.

Newsbrane learns your personal tastes, so it avoids this problem. Now whatever's at the top of your recommendations is completely up to you, and if you don't like it, you can change it with a few downvotes. It learns instantly, so just refresh the page after making a few votes either way.

We wrote a more detailed article about this "lowest common denominator problem" and how Newsbrane solves it: http://blog.newsbrane.com/?p=4

Anyway, if you'd try Newsbrane, I'd be appreciative. If you send us feedback -- UI suggestions, security flaws, whatever -- I'll be VERY appreciative. Emailing feedback@newsbrane.com is the easiest way for me, but feel free to post here if it adds to the discussion! I intend to respond to every piece of feedback.

The main question I want to answer is whether it can replace Hacker News for you. If not, why not?

When you first sign up, you'll have to spend a little time training Newsbrane before it's useful. A good way to train it, if you know what you usually want to read, is to click 'Add Subscription' and add the Hacker News feed (or whatever other feeds you like), and vote on the recent articles there.

Good luck!
"The lack of Erlang programmers makes it easier for us to find great programmers."

And harder for Erlang programmers to find jobs.

Beware. This is a double edged sword. I have spent most of my career being proficient in a marginal technology. Whenever I get connected to someone with that technology, I'm often the first senior level developer they've seen in years. I can easily make their system do things they never thought possible. If often works out really well.

The downside? I may come across 100 .NET projects before I find one in my technology. I have to keep looking. This gets tougher every year.

My suggestion. Pick any technology/language that is mainstream and/or open source. You have over a dozen to pick from. Get good at solving problems in that technology. Then you won't have much trouble finding work.
Like every other web site, yes, we're competing for people's time and attention. This isn't an editorial-driven magazine or online newspaper. It's a service that lets people share and rate local stuff with their friends.
This is actually pretty poor statistics. They are basing their entire argument on ~100 provincial results. The deviations they are talking about with this few number of samples isn't likely to be significant.
I use Nagios to monitor about 60 machines, but I don't trust the booger...
Software Factories in the Small
"I can't be the only one who has entered a dozen or more fields only to lose it all with an inadvertent reset rather than submit."

The solution is obvious to me. If javascript is enabled, allow the user to undo a reset.

If javascript is disabled, don't show a reset button or make it harder to click accidentally somehow (make it smaller or a link or more out of the way).
Mod_parrot: The last Apache Module You'll Ever Need [PPT]
I think this article overstates the responsibility of the CEO, even in America.

"The board does not set the plans, objectives, goals, or strategy; instead, the CEO develops these, and presents them to the board for discussion, feedback and (possibly) approval."

Typically, the board DOES set the strategy and goals, and management's job (led by the CEO) is to execute the strategy and achieve the goals.
> there are some distinct conditions for when a tool
> is like a part of your body and when it's simply a tool
> we learn intimately.

Perhaps these are just different points along a continuum-- all tools (and limbs) are integrated into the body schema to varying degrees. Consider that dancers learn to exert far more exquisite control over their movements than most people do. Another example: a large portion of strength training gains are not simply due to muscle hypertrophy, but to the motor system learning how to recruit the muscles in more coordinated and controlled ways.

Edit: On re-read, it looks like we are agreeing with each other. :-)
The Glamorous History of Portable Laptop Computers
MS vs EU: Microsoft does not control Windows anymore
At the very least we should apologize for the chemical castration! WTF is that? Yeah not good.
My wife pointed it out to me. It's kind of a light-weight version of the huge wiring harness they attach to you when you get a sleep study. I'm tempted as well.
s/no principal/in principle no/
I agree with you -- the risk-adjusted rate of return may not be so good.
Which additional legal protections do homosexuals have where you are? (And where are you?)
Melissa rycroft work on good morning america
I didn't find the essay on a quick google but I remember a classic pg discussion that hiring a publicist was their best investment. Largest expensive also, but the right one knows how to get the mentions in the media. But don't worry about competition, traditional journalists will happily dig their own grave for another byline.
Given what we have since learned about life in the concentration camps, why would anyone in his right mind waste time and energy writing or playing music? There was barely enough energy on a good day to find food and water, to avoid a beating, to stay warm, to escape torture why would anyone bother with music?

Duh, for the same reason they would have drunk alcohol if it had been available. Of course people want to short their pleasure circuits all the more when life turns bad. I love hearing and playing music as much as the next guy, but feel no need for joyous mysticism about it.
Wrote this before you posted your demo:

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280slides has such a polished theme that I think it would take some significant time to duplicate. It's not one thing--it's every thing. You might be able to get something close quicker, but I suspect it would look like I-wish-I-was-280slides.

Still, from what I know of GWT (no direct experience) and cappuccino (tried it out, seemed to make lower-level DOM wrangling very hard, which was absolutely essential to the project), you're working at a higher level of UI abstraction than I yet have. With jQuery UI, I'd have to add tons of markup to my dialogs (e.g.) to implement the 280slides look, and there's no one place to do it.

So, post a link to your 280slides-like GWT app and/or write that tutorial, and I may well have to admit that you are faster than I and/or have more powerful tools (likely both).

And now I have to say:

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Well no kidding it doesn't take long to borrow someone's images and arrange a few in a way that more or less looks like the original. But (not to put too fine a point on it) your demo looks very, very rough, and 280slides looks like the best-looking app you've ever used. Your buttons aren't spaced right; they look wrong in hover state; they look wrong in active state. The dialog doesn't really look anything like a 280slides one apart from having a shadow (nor does it look very good on its own merits). And that's just what I can see in a tiny, compressed video of the little bit that you built.

You might still be faster than me and have better tools, but you didn't prove it here. OTOH, if you could produce something with the polish 280slides in two hours you'd be more than fast--you'd be able to rewrite the matrix from within.
The programmer thinks that security trumps usability. Unfortunately, he's not the one who decides how the security facilities will be used.

Consider systems that require long passwords, and even go as far as to scan them against a dictionary, ensuring that the p/w must be a jumble. Users will always subvert such a hard-to-use system by writing down the password, completely undermining the whole thing.

My netbook doesn't have hard CAPS and NUMLOCK lights, I need to look at the display's status bar to see it. When I log on, the status bar isn't shown. I can't tell if my keyboard is in numeric mode, so I can't tell if I'm typing my password. This frequently becomes very frustrating -- and this isn't hypothetical, it happens to me all the time.
My school houses were named after people: James, Cartwright, Francombe, Colston and Canynges. I went there for five years and don't know who any of them were. Next year I'll be living on Sir Henry Parkes Road; I have no idea who he was, either.

Simply naming things after people doesn't tell the public about those people, and I think most people won't bother to research "that guy whose name is on the building". In most cases, it won't be anyone interesting, just a rich person who gave money to fund construction.
Try some more to get a story in the Northwestern paper (or UChicago, UIC, etc.). You probably know some people who go there--get them to contact their friends who work at the paper.

I've seen lots of stories that originally got picked up by college newspapers and then appeared in the NYT, SJ Mercury News, etc.
First, Apple regularly spreads disinformation to its employees to find out leaks. Most of the company was shocked that the iPod came out.

Second, that's the most American-unfriendly name I've ever seen for a product. Sure, gianduia is the name of a chocolate with hazelnut paste, but I'd be interested to see what the public name of such a product would be.
That's orthogonal to the point this thread is discussing, which is whether it would have been better for Tesla to pursue a lower-end vehicle. It seems obvious that it wouldn't have been, since PEV's are an unproven early-adopter product, and since the mainstream auto manufacturers have something like a half century of sales and delivery infrastructure over Tesla.
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Just doing something like Vatican said sorry to Joan of Arc for her death. All it needs is a statement from UK government said "we are sorry for forcing Alan Turing to commit suicide. And we are sorry for cutting short his potential contributions to human being."

Maybe ask Morrissey to hold a memorial concert and play some Derek Jarman's movies.
They use the device serial number for what exactly?
So how many results would make their result significant?
I find myself doing some of these without even realising. I don't think that makes me a slacker, I just don't like people walking all over me.
I say again – phone your users
Great suggestion. One of my pet peeves is sites that don't show the year in the date of the post, never mind the ones that don't show a date at all. The date is extremely relevant when it comes to tech articles.
It's free for 1 server and £10 GBP (~$15 USD) per server per month for multiple servers.

(This is a product from my company)
Apologize so that successive generations do not have to continue arguing about whether they should.
I like the idea of a spoken apology, but I would prefer that someone non-gay be involved as a figure head. I'm not gay, but I feel very strongly that the treatment of Turing was despicable.

Someone straight needs to be a figure head so that people can't easily dismiss any apology as somehow tied to the agenda of a gay rights group.
Ask HN: Are there any good hacker mentors out there?
Recently I have tried approaching a few good developers through their blogs about various matters including advice on how to go about some projects I'm undertaking but I am surprised at the unfriendly responses I have received. Maybe I have been going about it the wrong way but it got me thinking; Shouldn't the guys whose work we look up to be keen on what some of us young aspiring developers have to contribute to the community? I mean sure, we don't have the experience or skills some of these guys have(yet) but we still have some ideas that are viable with the right technical skills to back them. If any of them want to reach out and help nurture some potential talent, it may very well benefit all them in the end, whether financially or in terms of new ideas and experiences.
Forget the New York Times: Google Should Buy The AP
Smartphone Wars - Which platform to develop for
I wonder if the first digits comform to Benford's Law. Basically, the first digits of the vote counts should be 1, 2, 3 much more often than they should be 7, 8, 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benfords_law
Guy uses 'Find My Phone' to recover lost/stolen iPhone in hilarious fashion
I thought that too until I re-read the article and started trying to do the math myself.

They sum it up nicely but it's too easy to miss:

"The probability that a fair election would produce [these number distribution disparities] is less than .005. In other words, a bet that the numbers are clean is a one in two-hundred long shot."

Key thing to take away from the article if you're going to perform election fraud, use a computer to produce your random numbers.
As I said, "real or perceived". Craigslist didn't seem like competition at first either, but then it killed the industry. The local media's business is advertising to local people, the same local people you're targeting. While you may not compete on journalism, you compete on attention and ad revenue.
I think he brings up a good point, but I have serious doubts about google using it because of privacy issues.

What he suggests is that there is a ranking for each person in the world, and the content he creates will be ranked higher in the world. Merely tracking the same author could either be an invasion of privacy -- tracking the ip and/or taking a peek at the person's cookie, or ridiculously hard -- analyzing usernames, vocabulary, tone of voice, etc.

He mentioned doing something special with openid, but it would need widespread adoption before this could be done.
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If you're referring to hate crime legislation that makes it a federal crime to perpetrate crimes against homosexuals, you should know two things:

First, the Matthew Shepard Act that would extend hate crime laws to sexual orientation STILL HASN'T BEEN PASSED. :P It's been stymied under 5 congresses, which you can read about here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard_Act#111th_Congr...

Second, and most importantly, the Matthew Shepard Act does not exclusively protect gays and lesbians. It protects everyone. If some psychotic gay person goes out and starts murdering straight people just because they're straight, that too would be a federal hate crime.

If you want to claim that the law would disproportionately protect gay people, maybe that's because straight people aren't targeted and murdered just because they're straight.

Ever think of that? Jerk.

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I do understand and appreciate the argument that murders and crimes should be punished equally, regardless of who the target is.

But hate crime legislation isn't really about the direct victim of the crime being prosecuted.

Hate crime legislation is about crimes committed with particular intent, and as such are about the mindset of the criminal in question, and ability to create a climate of fear amongst a particular group of individuals.

So, yes, we should prosecute all crimes equally. But to deny that hate crimes don't exist, or that they don't have a broader intent, is to deny reality. It is fundamentally different to say "Lets go beat up some fags/chinks/paddies/etc" from saying "Lets go find someone to beat up"

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Final note, hate crimes are innately about discrimination. The fact that hate crime legislation recognizes that reality is not creating discrimination. The discrimination already exists out in the populace.
Demo was done in the browser with flash. Quick google didn't find much else.

Source Code: http://spazout.com/assets/tedflartoolkit.zip
"PeopleRank" he's suggesting is good for jut two very special kinds of individuals.

First group is public figures and marketing people. Visibility and being relevant means everything to them. But even these folks often maintain dual personality life i.e. public/true versions of themselves. Some smarter programming contractors also fall into this category, although they prefer to call themselves "consultants" presumably because it lacks an unwanted association with plumbers, roofers and other contract workers of "lesser glamour".

The second group is pretty much "first group wannabes", i.e. highly social individuals crying for more attention. Most blogging programmers fall into this category, i.e. folks who (instead of actually coding) can spend an evening writing a post on something as pointless/dumb as "RDBMS is obsolete" prettying it up with irrelevant photos of random objects. No, they aren't any more "experts in AJAX" than folks who don't blog, they just want attention.

But most of us don't belong to either of these two groups. When I attended the startup school last year I met about 50 different HN folks, and most of them have never posted anything here, let alone using their real name. "PeopleRank" would only anger them, I suppose.
Hasn't been updated in a year. I used to watch and subscribe, until they stopped coming out.
Serial numbers are not used, UDID's are. UDID's are used in provisioning profiles, so developers can send apps out to beta testers that can be installed ad hoc.
I don't know about legal advantages, more like social. Consider a hypothetical bar brawl: if a gay guy gets punched, he can throw in hatecrime charges even if no gay slurs were proferred - just because he can. And that is completely acceptable in mainstream Western society, even if running deep against our principles (just punishment). The other way around, no hatecrime is suspected. No such thing as hate against the silent majority.

Note that I'm not insinuating that discrimination against gays does not exist - it does and it's ugly - slurs are thrown around in 99% of bar brawls and they're just the tip of the iceberg.

And his location is probably irrelevant - Western society is so much alike, the variations are much like ripples.
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Governments do not even hold themselves responsible for the previous adminstration's fiscal measures let alone the laws that were in place generations ago. Nor should they. The dead are dead. Let's expend our energies on being decent to ourselves, the living.
The wufoo.com guys are here in Tampa, but I don't know of anyone else in the state.
I'd like to offer a small observation about how you are pitching your idea to this group:

I know you are thinking about how to unseat the competition, but asking people to try out your tool with an eye toward abandoning something that we like is not the best approach, in my opinion.

I don't want to "replace" Hacker News. I assume that I am not alone -- many people are very loyal to HN, and like the community and the information found here. We're not looking to dump it in favor of something else, although if it's a compelling product I might use it in addition to HN.
Have you been looking for Textmate alternative on windows? Well you just found it :)

And this doesn't rely on "cygwin" or external stuff to do its magic. The editor is very light on resources so you don't need the best machine in the world to enjoy using it.

If you know python, the amounts of things you can do with the API is unbelievable. Python is an easy language to learn so you don't have to be a python guru to do your own plugins either.

Support and Community is very friendly and they are there to help you.
One thing I love about the author is that he just doesn't jump into things when it comes to adding or removing features, he thinks things through first, ask the users for their opinion and then he delivers. I think this is how every product should be period.

P.S: I was an e-texteditor and notepad++ user but after I found sublime text, I never looked back! Give it a try, you won't regret it, I guaranteed that.
It's also an example of people who don't bother to search for the whole truth before complaining about (what turns out to be) an imagined slight... But yeah.
The demo may have looked rough because it was recorded in some weird format. The images used were the same as 280, so it can't have looked too much different - here, take a look at this comparison:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2rqmx3o.jpg

Here is another version done with some different images I hacked up quickly:
http://i43.tinypic.com/x5wjdt.jpg

Obviously I could spend another hour fixing pixels. But that wasn't the point. The point is that GWT can be styled just like every other browser application/website, and it's trivial to do, just like it is for any other framework.

If I can do this in a few hours everyone else can too.
While I didn't think all of the advice was that great (send e-mail in all caps to a fellow employee?), I did rather enjoy the lighthearted tone. And I think #3 is especially valid for programmers who use that extra time for learning new stuff or doing an interesting side project (or even just resting one's hands).
OK, appeasement is certainly one solution.
Don't know what you're doing wrong (if anything), but a suggestion:

1. As a journalist, think back to the stories that were compelling to you, that you wanted to write about, that you knew were the great, newsworthy stories, professionally.

2. Next, find a story like that, that WindyCitizen is somehow an essential part of it. (it's great if WC can be the centre of the story, but it doesn't sound like you are there yet; instead, make it part of the story. Also, choose a story that you would want to be associated with, that puts WC in a role that you want it to have).

3. Now, write up that story, and give it to your journalists. This basically a press release, and it saves journalists a lot of time if it really is a genuinely newsworthy story. That is, do their work for them.

(If you haven't already done this, it means either that I am totally off-base.... or that you are simply too close to the business to see it from an outsider's point of view.)
$15 is healthy compared to $9 but not when compared to the $30-40 range that I, as a Yahoo shareholder, would've been paid a year ago.
He's talking about UID (unique identifier).
Just put a "show password" checkbox next to it and use javascript to change the input field type from password to text.
Just a few ideas off the top of my head, have you tried submitting to masshable, I sent one email and got covered. Traffic was nice, but did die down, but the amount of people that recycle(copy) thier posts has a nice trailing effect. They are more keen to mention sites with more 'social' aspects.

Have you tried getting onto nbc5 news segments were they talk about websites, I forget what they call it, but I think that might be something worthwhile because it could open your site up to new audience of people who don't read the tech blog and people who consume more tradional media.

Either way greetings from the suburbs and keep the good work up!
I'm not sure the american Matthew Shepard Act applies in the UK.
Understanding decorators (Django)
Actually, this started on the desktop. More specifically, inside Warcraft 3?
I agree, I find that I do most of these (and a few others that I wont share) just to gain back a bit of control.
Hmm. I can see what you're saying. (I'm actually kind of loyal to HN too, but I visit mainly for the comments.) Thanks for the idea -- it's much appreciated!