skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
two quick things.

on the cars -- horses were bought and sold. trains. boats. you name it. buying a product that is transformed by technology is not the same as trying to take a service and transform it into a product through technology. you can augment the service (large margins) or automate the service (thin margins), but you can't turn it into a product.

on the sheet music -- precisely! that's the exact analogy. note the incredible consumer demand for sheet music today! it's not exactly a booming market outside of the niche training/instruction arena.

edit:
btw, that last bit about the incredible demand today for sheet music was sarcasm. just in case it didn't come across....
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This neatly demonstrates what the alternative to "gouging" is - a shortfall of supply. Like breadlines for transit.
Link shorteners are highly discouraged on HN. This link goes to http://bit.ly/19IUGXU?cc=79a16693e4e904c00490c6eb9a2d621e (and you can see the stats https://bitly.com/19IUGXU+ ) which finally redirects to the actual article https://medium.com/p/d3b5d9216145
Alright. memcache is in place, and the performance is now phenomenal.
You never got why people don't want to be directly involved with killing other people?
Something tells me the RapGenius guys truly believe "any publicity is good publicity". Might be something they learned from the hip-hop industry.
Mac version is for PowerPC devices... thanks, Adobe.
How can people conduct business like a bad impression of Tom Haverford from Parks and Rec? I think I have too much Ron Swanson in me to take anyone that pushes me like that seriously.
"In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance operations from the US intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners. However I’m a foreigner. And I’m withdrawing my support from your event."

I realy like all the double layers he put into this :D Its a joy to read.
Welcome to the twenty-first century UK internet. We've taken a leading company from the twentieth century as our model: AOL.
Remove Cron Jobs of obsolete WP plugin
cached verison: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
This "explanation" is misdirection. The accusation was never that the NSA wanted to add just this one bust algorithm. The NSA, acting as a client protected by privacy, could have easily invested time and money to be a significant contributor, with a small, hidden, 1 time payload.
Eh. You can do something like set up a github repo with a webhook, such that every time you commit it just triggers a rebuild. Bam, instant web UI. Not the best, but yeah ...
> Documentation aside, who would ever want a static website?

Who would want a non-static website? I look at, say, gwern.net, and think: this is what blogs want to be, if we only took the time to categorize and have a sensible front page. The current "stream of posts" paradigm discourages you from polishing and improving your posts, and makes it hard to find anything older than a week or two.

> I don't see much advantage of having to pre-setup your environment, ensure libraries are as required – every time you want to do a simple change from a computer other than your own?

It's 2013; there's really no excuse for not having an easy way to set up your environment (i.e. pip+virtualenv in this case).
My bad, yes square.
Does anyone know where to submit a bug report (or a pull request even) for this?

I noticed that you can't hold down a key on OS X to view the special characters menu. (Does KeePassX not support non-ascii chars?)
Looks like he was wrong on the Lisp front then. But actually all your examples kind of strengthen one of the points of the article (for me). That is that of we want to get things done, make a difference, then we should be focusing on applied maths and not the lambda calculus and category theory. Only a very few people are needed to focus on those things. For the rest of us a focus on those things means taking our eye off the ball to the detriment of what we work on (as an industry).

I like your point about the blog posts. If you want to find out how to really make things they're often not where it's at.
I did include you as one of the UK people, fwiw.
I tried using MuMaMo for a while, but found it quirky.
I much prefer the actively maintained web-mode

http://web-mode.org/
I'm a person and I care about widespread surveillance of people.
This seems like a bad idea. Google is increasingly good at detecting and punishing unnatural links. This type of tactic is not something I would recommend; search optimization in 2013 is different than it used to be.
I tend to agree with this approach and use it myself (in the rare instances that I use C). My only complaint is that as the number of functions touching the struct grow, maintainability gets harder. Can you share any rules/strategies to mitigate this problem?
Correct, I actually worked at the Democratic National Committee in Washington, DC for a year as a software dev. He may be right that a Republican President would have made similar decisions but that is not what happened. This was a personal choice as I have become disillusioned with the party. Also, this has pushed me further to the left, not to the right.
> you can augment the service (large margins) or automate the service (thin margins), but you can't turn it into a product.

Why not?
what's the 2? is this the same as disconnect? a fork? a new version?
Not sure why this continues to work myself.
Don't rely on reddit, HN or /. to report on your sites availability help the Open Rights Group to create a tool to monitor it yourself.

https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Censorship_Monitoring_...
I believe the point is that artists have been making (music|sculpture|paintings|dances) for thousands of years. The great majority who've made money have done so only because of industry changes within the last 100 years.

Artists are unlikely to quit making art even in the absence of direct economic benefit to doing so. We'd lose some great art; we won't lose all of it.
It matters because the distribution situation has changed, so now you have to actively and aggressively impede the distribution of all recorded sound in order to preserve the business model.

It's like the government tearing out everybody's plumbing in order that the outhouse builders can still make a living.

>And by the way, in the early 20th century Broadway made a lot of money from sheet music.

By harassing and imprisoning people who would play music without buying it first; a vile little historical chapter.
Click "bug reporting" on the side menu. Takes you to https://www.keepassx.org/dev/.

Github page is at https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx.
Effective & Visual Story Telling (in 4 easy steps)
Kind of odd: this seems like something better suited to a blog post than a Gist.
IIRC the ARM ABI for C actually uses an implicit output parameter for a returned struct - so it's identical to passing the output parameters manually.
Irony Maiden, indeed.
Responding to RSA/NSA criticism on Twitter
http://searchengineland.com/matt-cutts-implies-google-is-awa...
Add an extra 'o' to spice things up a bit.
In my humble opinion the iWeb application in MacOSX does a pretty good job.

And it's much more visual experience and GUI experience than writing in a notepad app and "compiling" the site.
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There was a post a bit back (which you might be referencing) about almost this exact situation, except it was about black hat SEO dramatically backfiring. Specifically, businesses were asking bloggers and news sites to delete spam comments that linked back to the sites.

The HTML that Mahbod wants you to paste looks pretty similar to what those spam comments were like...
Please don't get confused, I'm referring to normal people rather than the technologically adept.

Is it so difficult to acknowledge that the blow-back from Snowden's documents would've been diminished had the news been prevented from reaching normal people?

The nations look at China and see a populace that is pacified whom dare not speak against the government, and they see the Great Firewall as something to marvel in its pervasiveness. America's rivalry is turning to jealousy, and they see themselves as hindered by policies that China is unaffected by (free speech, freedom of association, etc).
UK Prime Minister announces pardon for Alan Turing
UserQ: Lightweight user queue for Rails
I'll 4th this recommendation thread for those still on the fence. This and also Secrets of the Javascript Ninja.
In general, there are just a lot of information asymmetries associated with buying used cars that make it difficult for a seller whose high mileage car has been well-maintained and is running well to get what is perhaps objectively the "right" value for a car. In your example, you'd be crazy to do your scheduled maintenance at 115K if you were planning on selling your car in the near future. You'd never recoup that $2K you spent.

The reality is that this well-maintained car that doesn't have problems (and/or which has cosmetic problems that you've learned to accept) is probably going to be worth more to you than to a random buyer who just sees "high-mileage car" (that they're only looking to buy because they need a car and don't have much money).

Some of the information asymmetries can be mitigated by buying from a dealer with an add-on warranty but then the prices are such that they often don't look like a particularly good deal relative to a new car.
I'm using KeePass on Linux and it integrates flawlessly with Firefox and Chrome, just like LastPass does.
It's also a matter of scheduled maintenance: If you buy a car right before a bunch of critical components are replaced, expect a repair bill of $500-1K at the appropriate time. Although a lot of cars at say 60,100 miles will probably not have their 60K done - at which point you can use that as a bargaining point. If it's a high-activity auction, it might be hard to get the exact details on each car for sale
Some of that kind of data (account age, karma-per-day, newer vs. older users in the top-100, etc.) can be found by digging around here: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/

That's the site I used to grab the top-100 list, because the 'leaders' list on HN itself is wonky: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/49
I was astonished to discover once, from another site, that patio11 and tokenadult have the same join date on HN. I'm glad to observe that patio11 (deservedly) has a lot more karma.
Of course, many users don't think about lock-in until they buy a Roku and discover all those movies they bought on iTunes won't play on it, but I think about it every single time I install an app. That's why I prefer apps that don't burden me with the worry.
Flagged, not only is this an old article but the consensus around the traps for the current links is they are fakes that a couple of lazy mainstream news site picked up unverified.
I agree, but in the context of the comment you're responding to, this is subsumed in evading regulation. You are more or less saying, "Taxi regulations are bad because they reduce competition without corresponding advantages that outweigh the cost, so Uber's wins when it evades those regulations and reintroduces competition." But it's still "evading regulations." Although I'd prefer to think of it as avoiding regulations -- avoidance is legal and evasion is illegal.
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Clarification: The argument was not that it was clearly better, but that RSA believed the NSA could be trusted to have good intentions. This makes changing a bit more suspicious, but i guess the argument is that it wasn't suspicious enough to... reject $10M?
High Performance Self-balancing Queue API for Go
We've had discussions on HN about real names and handles...I think the consensus is that most everyone who has their real name or bio linked into their profile are OK with people knowing it, and the welcome side effect for some such persons is that they have another incentive to stay civil.
Royal pardon for Alan Turing
Honestly, I doubt that most of the voters even know what her seniority gets them.
I hear ya. I work in VIM and the command line all day too and for a simple blog I can see the frustration with the WYSIWYG editor. That won't fly with a marketing team of a couple inbound marketing experts though.

WordPress does have a Command Line Interface and you can in fact write to a text file and import it as a new blog Post:

- http://wp-cli.org/commands/post/create/

You can actually do a ton with it. I don't know how familiar you are with WordPress but with CLI you can upgrade WP core, update/add/activate/deactivate plugins, and much more with it:

- http://wp-cli.org/

It's a nice tool for WordPress developers that want to bypass going through the admin panel.
Yes, this is the most important, that we are all people regardless of what identities were were born into or adopted since!

I was just responding to his point that "Americans wouldnt' care about surveillance of foreigners" which is why I marked myself as an American. Some of us care.
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"The number one thing I would do different is not agree to a partnership until 6 months out...I would have held off on awarding partnerships until everyone settled into their roles"

I'm curious what being a 'partner' in a design/tech consultancy amounts to. Profit-sharing?
There are 2 on the list, and if it is from the leaderboard (which I presume it is) I'm one of them.

I think Denmark is quite an interesting case. Unknown to most people a lot of great technology is written by Danes (The V8 javascript engine in Google Chrome, Google maps, Google wave, Ruby on Rails, C#, Varnish, PHP, Turbo pascal, Delphi, C++, and probably more that I can't think of right now) yet we don't really have much to show for it in terms of entrepreneurial success, large technology companies or worldwide esteem. Obviously there are some fairly tech-savvy Danes around, so it would only be natural that a few of them hang out on HN.

Maybe we're just bad at marketing...
The ONLY way that you can have an impact is by (1) raising money (I'm talking $1000/person), and (2) donating a significant amount of time to working for their challenger.

Go after some of the most ardent supporters of NSA and get them defeated. Once you make an example of a few such politicians, the rest will fall in line. That's what the NRA does, and it works swimmingly for them.
This seems like a business opportunity for Github.
Do you know what portion of total "link karma" on HN has been "gathered" by the top 100 contributors?
I hope those comments continue. After dawg and G, I'm on the edge of my seat to find out what comes next.
Thanks! Agreed on both possible explanations.
Not if they don't pay.
He could have easily hosted his blog + all the tools on a vps (which you would need for a dynamic site anyway).

Then fixing a typo would be only a matter of SSH-ing into your server.
That old saw. Okay, if you wanted to restrict the cutting of grass, you could do this by raising the hassle and expense of owning lawnmowers. Would this then result in an increase of other kinds of gardening and lawncare? Maybe. I'm not sure that's relevant.

The real harm that comes out of the so-called "gun debate" is a polarization of American society and a failure of both sides to recognize our legal and societal framework as a treasure everyone holds in common. Instead, both sides vilify each other and only talk to their own to showboat their intransigence.

As a programmer, I can certainly understand the frustration of pro-gun side. I'm very familiar with the ridiculousness of laws trying to restrict technology written by clueless politicians. Many gun laws fit into this category. I just can't see this situation being resolved in an attractive manner the way things are going now.

The solution? Get people actually talking to each other.
There's always a performance tax, even on desktop.

With that said, I did miss the "mobile" bit.
Slavery is a word that applies to humans. Why would one create an AI that does not want to work, and then force it to work?
Raspberry Pi Project: Control LED Brightness with an ultrasound sensor
You miss understood a lot of the points in this review.

* Low-end smart-phone should not do basic things such as calling and texting worse than a low-end feature phone (dumb phones). Author is pining for his old, low-end feature phone after using ZTE Open

* While adaptive search may not be a market place, if it looks like one to the user, then it will be percieved like one and confuse the user.

* Platform ecosystem is a valid critiscism. The main criticism of windows mobile is lack of apps. While that is not the systems fault, MS are being active in improving this, since they know that this is the main feature of a modern smart phone.
If Mozilla don't realize this either, they are in trouble. It may not be ffOS's fault that the twitter app is bad, by users don't want it if it doesn't have a good twitter app.

* Critiscism of here maps should be directed at ffOS. Other maps exists, mozilla has strong ties with Google, Mozilla chose this one as default. Also see above.
My limited experience with here maps from windows mobile showed me a great service, so maybe the author is off on this one.

I don't know what the feature phone market looks like in Brazil, but if its anything like the Chinese, then it doesn't sound like the ZTE Open beats the feature phone market.

I was getting a ffOS phone for christmas, until I realized that the only one available to me is a ZTE Open. It really does look like a crappy representative for ffOS, but if this is what Mozilla and ZTE decided on, then the software side should run more than decently.
I don't get how they do it. So much of engineering is just driven by the necessities of war. My degree is in aerospace engineering, a field that wouldn't be anything like it is today without war. Heck, we're communicating over the internet, a defense research project developed to help the U.S. military maintain communications in the event of nuclear war.

I can understand the wish to disassociate from that aspect of the profession--I don't understand how people do it successfully.
Hm, I must have just blocked the specific domain: tcr.tynt.com (as per instructions here: http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks)
It would seem a pretty rare situation that a new car would be financially a "good deal" compared to a used car at a dealer, regardless of warranty or financing differences.

Most new cars are bought for psychological reasons, not financial reasons, IMO. (Nothing wrong with that, as long as you aren't confused into thinking you're "saving money" buying new.)

Need a "new" car and want to save money? Buy a late model (3-5 years old) car with higher than average miles on it. It will be cheaper than the average used car, because people are inordinately "afraid" of miles on cars. Late model, as it will still "look kind of new" (so scratching that itch), will likely have recent safety advances, and in areas of the country that salt the roads, it will have fewer years of salt exposure than a similar miles at an average rate used car. High miles in 3-5 years probably got a lot of highway use and surely got a lot of regular use. Those miles aren't as hard on cars as the "creampuff", low miles, sat in traffic for hours each day cars.

Once you've bought it, find a good independent mechanic for that brand (or a general independent). Will be way cheaper than the dealership, and in my experience, just as good. I do all my own maintenance (ex-tires and ex-exhaust), but a good indy will save you a bunch of money as well.

My car ('98 Mercedes E300) just flipped over 210,000 miles on the way into work today. It will be retired in 1-3 more years due to rust, not mechanical malady. I paid about $6000 about 4.5 years ago, and I've got an additional $650-ish worth of parts into it over the 4 years. Brakes will be good for the duration, and if it lasts 3 more years, I'll need tires, but if I retire it next year, it won't. That'll mean more than 5 years of service for $5000 in depreciation and out-of-pocket maintenance expenses, as I'll be able to sell it for $1500 or so running but rusty.

That's a little bit of an extreme case as I do all my own work, so the $650 number would be more than double that (glowplugs, brakes all around, and two window regulators would be the labor needed), but I've driven a pretty decent-looking, mid-sized diesel Mercedes for 4.5 years and over 30,000 miles for under $100 per month in purchase and maintenance costs. I paid almost as much in diesel as I paid for the car over its life. (I get just under 30 mpg, and diesel is a hair under $4/gal.)

Buying the new equivalent of my car? $51,400 base MSRP.
http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/model/class-E/model-E...

Drive that 4 years and 30,000 miles and it's likely worth $30K, or a per-month cost of around $500/mo, five times as much. (Granted, that's for a brand-new car, which has some appeal, even to me, but it's not worth 5x as much, IMO.)
Access is free if viewed from a federal courthouse terminal. While it's not necessarily convenient it is worth mentioning that a free option exists.

http://www.pacer.gov/documents/epa_feesched.pdf
Here's where they rank:

#1 - Justin Bieber All Bad Lyrics

#1 - Justin Bieber Confident Lyric

#1 - Justin Bieber Heartbreaker Lyrics

#1 - Justin Bieber Memphis Lyrics

#1 - Justin Bieber One Life Lyrics

#2 - Justin Bieber All That Matters Lyrics

#2 - Justin Bieber Hold Tight Lyrics

#2 - Justin Bieber Pyd Lyrics

#3 - Justin Bieber Change Me Lyrics

#3 - Justin Bieber Recovery Lyrics

#4 - Justin Bieber Bad Day Lyrics

#5 - Justin Bieber Roller Coaster Lyrics

#7 - Justin Bieber Lyrics

Source: serpscan.com
There's still Disallow in Google Webmaster Tools as a solution for bad back links, either done by an "enemy", old agency or previous stupid SEO manager
You download PuTTY, ssh to your host, and rebuild it? It's not like you can't run the static site generator hosted somewhere.
You can't get to p => q without an interpretation that links what was said to what p is.