skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this definition is that it assumes that a person seems politics as a struggle between the powerful and powerless.

I would say good satire is satire that correctly mocks an argument or action that is wrong, hypocritical, etc. now matter who is saying/doing it.

In this case, it is mocking people who claim that people in tech (A) don't deserve their salaries and (B) shouldn't be spending them the way they are.

Both these criticisms are unreasonable (although not necessarily for the reasons given in the article) and deserve to be made fun of. First, all salaries are a matter between the employer and employee. There is no other basis for deciding what salary is fair. Something similar applies to lifestyle choice. How people decide to spend their money is not anyone else's business.

The attitude of "I'm privileged so you can say anything about me, and I have to interpret it as valid criticism" is not reasonable.
> a default GUI framework

Tkinter is Python's "default GUI framework". At least, that's what they continue to claim (https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter), and it's the GUI library I ran into first when I first learned Python.

How does it look and feel once you get started? Well, let's just say it's a bad sign if a GUI framework website has no screenshots. Even with increasingly hacky theming engines layered on top, it still is hard to get anything feeling close to native: http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/macosx.html

Go ahead, you can start laughing...

(for anybody that is saddened by the above, there are thankfully binding libraries for Qt and Wx, both of which do get you fairly decent cross-platform widgets from within Python, and either of which would be better default GUI libraries in 2014.)
Stop trying to read fast like a moron.

As you see bits and pieces of text that you want to remember, you should be internalizing those words, thinking about their true meaning, asking yourself if you agree/disagree, and thinking about how you would approach the same thing in a different way.

The key to memory is meaningful association.
Based on his history, I assumed he came into office, went to the NSA, and said, "Well, I know you want to do way more creepy spying. I want you to do less creepy spying. So how about we meet in the middle with a little more creepy spying?" And then they talked him up a little from there.
Am I missing something? Are you suggesting that we put homeless people on an aircraft carrier? Or that we spend less on the military? Overall I'm confused by your response.
I love the Miquelrius/Paperchase style notebooks but haven't paid quite that much for them, I think. The grid/line-height is a good size and the multi-colour paper in the subject notebooks makes them really handy for multiple projects. I also find the paper nice to write on, but that's quite subjective.
From the article:

"Sadly, I haven't spoken at RSA in many years. Had I been accepted to talk this year, I'd certainly be canceling it."
This is stupid for 1 reason.

It means that we're STILL going to have cars by 2050. wtf.
I feel the same. I wanted to find a video about a zombie prank in a New York cafe and did a Google search for it. The first result was the actual video that I needed.[1]

Needless to say, Bing fails here.[2]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=telekinesis+prank
[2] http://www.bing.com/search?q=telekinesis+prank
Admittedly, that is another drawback.
The president does set administrative policy for executive agencies, and can certainly tell them they need to stay further inside whatever bounds Congress has laid out. Of course, that can be trivially reversed by the next guy...
I love pen and paper, and use it a lot. But I'm still struggling for a solution to capture things like bookmarks/mobile thoughts in a way that I can use alongside paper. Right now I use a combination of Google Keep and Pocket, which are great for capture but I fail to review them regularly enough IMO. Paper you can't help reviewing every time you use it :)
There was a story a year or two or so ago about a bookstore in Boston (I believe, although it might have been some other major East Coast city) that managed to turn things around on Amazon.

They bought a high quality book-on-demand printer that can print and then very nicely bind a book in a few minutes, and that is backed by a very large catalog of books.

They put in convenient computers so that customers could use Amazon from right in the store to search for books and read reviews. The customers could go home and order from Amazon, of course, or they could buy from the bookstore, and then go have a drink or snack in the in-store coffee shop while their book was printed.
That guys work is amazing. I saw snappycam before and didn't bother downloading it or looking into it. Now I'm reading up about it and it seems absolutely amazing. I can't wait to see how this technology is implemented in future iPhones.
The BIOS is replaceable software. Standard on the IBM PC, but not the "bare metal" itself. One can only emulate so much within 4096 bytes.
New biochip diagnoses HIV/AIDS on the spot
So which hit should google show for a query like "the fox lyrics"? Of course, it should be a page that contains the lyrics, but which one? The most popular one? The one shown by google will be the most popular one.

From an IR perspective, search for lyrics is somewhat strange. I don't think it's easy to say if some hit is more relevant than the other. Sure, more popular sites may offer better UX (or simply less annoying ads), but at the end of the day it's a search for facts.

I wouldn't be surprised if google will serve those lyrics themselves some day. Freebase (and hence the google knowledge graph) already contains tons and tons of information on pratically any popular song (organized in a confusion way via recordings, canonical versions and whatnot) - artist, genre, album, release dates, length of a recording, etc. I don't think adding the lyrics as well is totally out of question. After all multible KBs are user curated and users provides lyrics.

Just like they serve "fact-hits" from their knowledge graph for queries like "movies by spielberg", google should then be able to serve the lyrics directly. While this is bad for lyrics sites, imho it is convenient for users and follows the same prinicple like "movies by spielberg" or "wife tom cruise"
>C is so tiny that if you're going to write anything non-trivial you ...

pretty much know exactly how you're going to write it from the start. Since C is so constrained it's very easy to design for, and you usually have a very clear idea of what you are getting into, even if that includes reimplementing a common data structure or using external libraries. And if you are using an external library, the API is not likely to surprise you. There are countlessly fewer ways to design something within the rules of the language in C than C++. Different people will see this as a blessing or a curse.

For some situations it just makes sense. If your program revolves heavily around C libraries you will likely be forced into a C-like design anyway. And likewise, if you are designing a library with a primary interface in C. If you are already coding in this style, C offers some niceities to (ab)use that C++ doesn't (especially compound literals, designated initializers, and VLAs).

It's easy to become familiar with C which makes it easy for C to be a go-to language (obviously this depends on your problem space.)
FireCore Updates Seas0nPass, aTV Flash to Jailbreak Apple TV 2 on 5.3
So I'm actually talking about what the Go compilers themselves use for libc, not Go programs. From what I can tell it is:

http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/include/libc.h

Which is definitely not ANSI libc. Go programmers won't care about this, because it's an implementation detail, but we're talking about reading source code.
12. No! That is not a good shuffle. Search for "javascript shuffle" to find a correct Fisher-Yates implementation.
Google Puts Rap Genius Back Atop Searches, Favoring Smart Results...
Five stereotypes about poor families and education
What about targeted search engines? Google has gotten progressively worse for technical searches as it has been improving generalized "what you mean" searches for everybody else.
ehehe this is is sick. at least they used more than 1 sample, lol. i gotta figure out ableton.... i use it but mainly to process live tracks with max. WHY DONT I USE MY SAMPLING SOFTWARE FOR SAMPLING GAH

also... <3 the sprite cameos
I do know a couple of those "peace-loving, bleeding-heart, hippies" who don't have really any support for defense. They're not mostly Democrats, though - more typically Green if they have a party affiliation... (and not all Green Party members I know are like that, either). Generalizing is hard.
Google's value is derived from its users, and its customers will remain if the eyeballs are there to justify the investment. The best way to keep those eyeballs is to continue to serve the best results, and in this case Rap Genius is often the best result.
> I mention this because people on Twitter are taking the stance that instead of boycotting RSA that we should attend their conference, to represent our views, to engage people in the conversation, to be "ambassadors of liberty". This is nonsense. It doesn't matter how many people you convince that what the RSA did is wrong if that doesn't change their behavior. If everyone agrees with you, but nobody boycotts RSA's products/services, then it sends the clear message to other corporations that there is no consequence to bad behavior. It sends the message to other corporations that if caught, all that happens is a lot of talk and no action. And since the motto is that "all PR is good PR", companies see this as a good thing.

DO BOTH. This is the real world. People have to compromise to send a unified message. Don't refuse to help one group who shares your goals because they have a different idea of how to achieve it. If you are in a position where you can boycott and voice your opinion to their faces, do it. Maybe you're right and they don't give a shit about what you say. Who cares? Let the other people there know, and let them know that there are more of you out there.
Not to argue with Aaron Wall on an SEO topic, but you read the same article I did. There were 200,000 total links to Rap Genius and most of them were legit. Only a small subset analyzed ended up being suspicious.

They got 200 webmasters to remove their links, a few didn't, and the rest ended up being "site scrapers" who steal other people's sites. They just added those to disavow. Seems like they acted very quickly to rectify every suspicious link they could find.

But yes, they got special treatment in having the manual penalty removed after only a few days. But it's a legitimately popular site. You'd expect Google to do that since its harming Google's own users during the penalty.
That's an amazing insight, thanks, i hope potential entrepreneurs take note of this and realize the problems corporations face with innovation. It also makes sense as to why corporations are so quick to acquire a startup but also why most times the acquisition is not successful.
I use OneNote on my Nokia 925 Windows Phone, my Surface Pro, my laptop, and my workstation. All the data is synced in SkyDrive. I've got a lot of data. Global search is instantaneous. The application is extremely reliable. I save cut and paste snippets from the web. Stack Overflow answers with my personal annotations; anything. Images and sound files are extremely easy. I can record a meeting and take a few notes (by typing or using the stylus on the Surface) and later I can search on the string to find the note. If that note was taken 40 minutes into a 60 minute meeting I can click and get the .wav file to play that bit of the meeting. You can use OneNote on the other platforms as described in this article.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043415

I'm not shilling for the Redmond entity but I always do find it hilarious that a very superior software product can hide in plain view and all the "think different" people can't even see it.
Deploying Node Apps on AWS EC2 with Nginx Reverse Proxy and Automating Deploy
Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!!! Congrats to John Papandriopoulos! Very impressive work.. also the amount of work that went into it is wow!! .. "The final implementation comprises nearly 10,000 lines of hand-tuned assembly code, and over 20,000 lines of low-level C code. (In comparison, the SnappyCam app comprises almost 50,000 lines of Objective C code.)"
Personally? I think there's lots of room for innovating search. Probably not in that area, but in a lot of other areas. Consider, for example, that the majority of the world will has an Internet connection only via phone. Mobile search is an entirely different beast. It is not clear Google's solution is the best here, and because the pattern of using Google on mobile is shaky enough that it could be supplanted with a convincingly better solution. That's to say nothing of the fact that Google's success in developing countries is actually not at all a given.
Javascript is really showing it's 3D powers
I think its a bit funny that you praise Lua's C API in one point just to bash explicit self in another one.
http://streetlifeministries.org/ is run by an ex-homeless (David), you can ask him.
Sprio: How these Microsoft vets are creating pvt social networks 4 team sports
"Amazon is a charity". You should do charity on your money. You are not supposed to steal it from other people give it to people and get a good name out of it. I don't see any difference between microsoft giving IE for free and this. This is a cut throat competition. They just don't know to play fair. This country always butchers petty thiefs and lets powerfull people escape with anything. Like people like king.
there is `unicode_literals` too.

For the full list, see http://docs.python.org/2/library/__future__.html

And there is one forgotten in that list:
from __future__ import braces
ssh to emacs org mode
Excellent prediction by Oculus:

> I have a feeling that soon SnappyLabs is going to have Apple knocking on their door with a very nice offer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6138278
Kod.io Conference at Linz, Austria on March 1, 2014
It is not a game. The goal is not put homeless under the carpet. Because they are out of sight does not mean that the problem is solved.

SF is "the homeless capital of the United States"(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Stat...). So, SF must be doing something right, for homeless to come in the City. I wish other cities would do the same, for the homeless's wellbeing not necessarily to attract more homeless. But if every city would do the same, homeless would not need to travel, so no more no less homeless. Right now some cities do nothing (or even make life more difficult) for homeless, hoping they leave...

I don't think it is the right strategy.
True, I forgot to mention it. Also on OS/400, BeOS and Symbian.
Show HN: TV Weekly
What I've Learnt Being a Developer Dad
All IOCCC winners — http://ioccc.org/years.html#2013
"If that's not the case, then the United States is under siege, and the government has suffered a coup."

Not every instance of dereliction of duty is a coup... but at the extreme, yeah.
Rap Genius appears to have offset their drop in search results traffic with all the publicity they've been getting from being penalized by Google.
I think the mistake you are making is when you talk about it as failing "its least fortunate residents," without regard for the fact that those residents may only be there because of how well it does treat them.
I've never paid that much for one, but if a local store sold them I'd be more than happy to oblige. They are very thick as notebooks go, so I get a lot of use out of them. I know what you mean about the pen thing, too :-) I review pens and pencils from time to time on my personal site: http://www.friendlyskies.net/category/stationery/
This is already happening to some degree, however it has generally mostly been the smaller & weaker players who have been soaked first. And in many cases the web & search ultimately helped build up a lot of these players before later knocking them down.

A lot of people are quite apathetic until the impact is direct. They recognize their own usage of the service rather than empathizing with a story from someone who was soaked. Here is a perfect example from a smart, tech savvy person who is big on self-interest / own vertical, but entirely apathetic toward other verticals - and this post is less than 4 hours old
https://twitter.com/blam/status/419537614014672897

The tricky part in all of this is that one man's life work is another man's spam. Everything at scale has some mix of original editorial vs user generated content vs scraped & reformatted content vs policing of the mix. Ultimately the entity with a built in audience will be able to win more and more verticals over time due to preferential placement. A lot of people are unaware of how the knowledge graph will keep extending to swallow a larger and larger portion of the overall query stream. Anything of significant value that can be structured eventually will.

One of the more alarming articles I have ever read was one from 2007 where the New York Times explained about Query Deserves Freshness coming about after Google found that their own new finance service didn't rank as well as it should have. That was the beginning of the end for the indy web.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/business/yourmoney/03googl...

The 2009 recession was the icing on the cake that cut Google's revenue growth rate & got them fired up on moving beyond direct marketing to focus more on brand, brand, brand.
Yes, actually the Sketch Manual [1] (but who reads the manual?) and (my favorite) community resources [2] that you can download, play with, and re-use over and over.

[1] http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/help/
[2] http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/community/
Effective MArketing plan for your app: 4 things to do before app release
I've never used it for taking notes. I might try it out.
Fantastic. Finally some "hacker news" on Hacker News ;P
You are mindblowingly naive.
Any legal motivation for copyright notice with future date?
A user here has the following in his profile:

All comments Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2023 [...]

I have never before seen a copyright notice with future dates specified. Is there any legal motivation here, or is it humor?
Inspiring story on a bunch of levels, but in particular it's great to see the payoff of focus directed at a hard problem.
> A nice post whose essential point is that you should eschew formulaic methods of writing that force you to fit your thoughts into a rigid format and thus hamper your ability to express them in a way that best suits the subject.

Caveat: rigid formats are de rigueur in some poetry, such as sonnets and haiku. Though if press releases were customarily haikus, I think everyone would be happier.
I've always been interested and supportive of services like these, but man I wish they changed that wall-of-text website of theirs. Their homepage is fairly similar.
I went to college years ago, and felt 80-90% of my classes
were better than working, but not worth paying for--I only
took them because the college required them for the degree.

If I had a kid I would make sure they were introduced to
programming(including web developement) and the financial markets at an early age; We would also go to church. Yea--I think church matters. The world has enough Trumps and
Zuckerburg's(yes--I think he stole the idea, but college
taught me we all steal it's called Behaviorism, but I feel
Mark went farther than subconsciously thinking he came up
with a good idea. ). I think I flunked grammer though?

One more thing about school. I went to Chiropractic School
and lasted a little over a year. With in a few months I
realized I made a huge mistake(their are no Subluxations,
well maybe a handful of real subluxations caused by accidents). I had one teacher tell the class, "there are
over 17 different upper cervical techniques,--And they All
work equally well". I was floored. It works on a placebo
level. I went home had a break down, and dropped out. Paid
back the 12 grand to the government. I has a break down
for other reasons than the lie of Chiropractic School, but
What always amassed me was the amout of denial among the students.

I couldn't figure out if they didn't know about the Placbo
Effect, didn't want to admit they were duped, didn't
care as long as it was legal, or they just wanted to be called Doctors?

I had one classmate die of a stroke while biking on a Sunday. He was a nice Midwestern kid. He was going
to Chiro school along with his wife, but she was beyond
cool. The ironic and sad part of his early death is I
think he was seeing a Chiropractor weekly, and getting
"adjusted" by a technique called a Rotary(snap your neck
ligaments--Gases escape?), but patient believes bones
are moving. This is what Sharon Stone was having done
to her when she had an extremely rare bilateral stroke.
I heared the only reason she is alive is because by luck,
a visiting vascular surgon happen be in San Franciso on
attending a conference? Some how the hospital got him
to repair the vessels.

I was looking for some
"truths" while I went to college, and all I took away
from the experience was summed up too well in the
movie Superstar, by Molly Shannon, "a bunch of cliff notes,
and a lot of drinking". That was an extreme statement, and
I think finishing a bachler's degree in anything is important, especially for low income families. Rich kids
can fall back on their parents, or use their parents connections--usually.

I'll stop. I'm still confused, and just venting, and praying I have a few more healthy years.
would Apple just steal his idea (NOT implementation) and bake it into the iPhone regardless? I think Microsoft did something like this

Apple has certainly done this before:

Apple Literally Stole My Thunder https://medium.com/wwdc-round-up/253aed27a455

Apple rips off student's rejected iPhone app - iOS 5 lifts idea, name, even logo
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/08/apple_copies_rejecte...

Konfabulator, Dashboard controversy flows out of WWDC
http://www.macworld.com/article/1035200/konfabulator.html

Apple stole Karelia Watson
http://forums.macworld.com/index.php?/topic/2477-apples-stol...
Iraqi city of Fallujah falls fully into hands of Al-Qaida
I used to use Timely and even bought the ad-free unlock, but had to stop using it once I saw that it was triggering hundreds of wakelocks during the day, even when I didn't have any alarms set. Hopefully Google will set that straight.
You are so right. I agree with every word. Competition is very important and a real helper to the us the users.
Show HN: Simple Race Registration (Haskell, PostgreSQL, JS)
Racemetric is a simple athletic race registration and credit card processing app. It's all written in Haskell (Snap, Heist) and JS on top of PostgreSQL. The idea is for race organizers to accept credit card registration payments within minutes instead of having to talk to sales people, get a merchant account, build a custom web page, etc. As a runner and rower, I'd like to have all my race results in one place and one format.

Of course I'm looking for customers as well as any feedback you have to give! Feel free to contact me directly at luke@racemetric.com.

This Show HN grew out of another comment thread here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7008532
Game Theory is not about games. Please don't blame me if the name is confusing to you. It is about strategies and incentives.

My point is that from many SF residents' perspectives, spending their tax dollars to make the city the "homeless capital of the united states" is not a smart strategy.
30 years of consistency, but also 30 years of not having much power. Power does change people. Whether it would have changed him enough to have mattered appreciably here, or whether other concerns would have dominated, who can say? I'd bet he would have been consistent on this point, but it's not a certainty.