skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the great response. I'm not in need of the money or anything, but I haven't had much time to work on this, so I've been really thinking about just letting it go.
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The man has an opinion; but I used to / still eat this stuff up.
The more I think about this, the more I like it. I badly want my vim to be multi-threaded and a separate engine, especially one that had a queue based pub/sub type interface could really open up some cool possibilities. At that point if you could give it the ability to use operational transform for the changes it would make remote editing, as well as remote pairing work really well. I know floobits is doing something similar but I would have to think this would make that much easier to pull off.
I've been frustrated by the lack of iterm2 features in Linux terminal emulators: local autocomplete, tmux integration, etc
It's incredibly populist.

Pay close attention to what HN discusses on a regular basis. What proportion of it is software engineering? CS theory? Or any sort of deep technical topic, for that matter? Contrast that with the proportion of marketing/blog-spam about "ToDo in Ruby on Angular.js."

The problem with aggregators is the latter category always tends towards the top because it's easy and more people can relate to it. But it's not the sort of learning that makes you think, nor is it particularly insightful. It's just telling people what they want to hear: that this Ruby on Angular.js thing is what we all gotta jump on...because everyone else thinks so!
FWIW, the first time I went to https://notinthecert.imperialviolet.org in Mobile Safari on iOS 5.1.1, I got a "Cannot Verify Server Identity" error with Cancel, Details, and Continue buttons. After pressing Continue, it remembered my choice and did not alert me the second time.
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that's exactly what was my thinking also.
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Great idea. I wonder why Facebook isn't allowing sending money now...could be a great platform...
At its core, a programming environment provides a link between a formal system and some aspect of our world. You could think of a general purpose Computer as providing a link between any formal system and the aspects of our world that it ties int, but we can limit ourselves to programming environments for simplicity of discussion.

With that perspective, we can ask what representations of a formal system do we find easy to manipulate in ways that produce results that are significant for us (in a specific problem context).

A visual representation would certainly be a better match for a spatial problem domain (Sutherland's work, for example). Similarly, an audio representation can work well for an audio domain (ex: beardyman's realtime performance system he presents in his ted talk). Likewise, I'm quite sure a system for exploring cuisine art would match a "smell representation".

The notion of a "universal turing machine" guarantees that all of these representations can be mapped to that of a symbol stream. That is a mathematical result, but which representations appeal to humans involved in various kinds of work is not a mathematical question - it is a HCI question.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rather solid Mozilla/Firefox fan. I have Chromium installed for verification that things work with my web development, but that's all I use it for. I much prefer Firefox. It was only when I read the comments that had been made here that I remembered that Firefox had removed <blink> support and checked it in Chrome to see what had been intended.

I did not actually check at that point that it had used <blink> but assumed. This was an error.

As it happens, I run Nightly and for whatever reason the animation is not functioning there. I presume it's faulty browser detection on their part or the lack of a prefix-free version or some such thing.
Thanks for mentioning this. I never thought to even search because often something like this is in AUR, which I never bother with. I will definitely take it for a spin now.
This is great.

It seems to have trouble with the A on both of my classical guitars. The needle skips directly from one tick below to one tick above while never lighting up (despite the string being tuned correctly.)

Interestingly the needle shows C, D and E correctly using the A string at the 3rd 5th and 7th frets.
Skype has 663 million "accounts", very few of these were active.

According to http://www.statisticbrain.com/skype-statistics/, only 31 million Skype users are active as of 2012.
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I'm in need of a good(fast & not so expensive) proxy server. Probably one operating in Europe. Any recommendations ?
CS3 had a high failure rate?? Do you have a ballpark sense of what it was? I could understand it if 61A had a high failure rate, but I thought CS3 was the way to weed yourself out of CS without taking a hit to your GPA (i.e., realizing that you weren't able to do CS while still being able to do decently in the course, instead of taking 61A and having it be so hard that you failed).
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Senator from New York, eh? I am 30....
Shoot for 25k for the app

and 5k for the domain + social media and fees for transferring everything over

If they are serious they will jump at it
It looks CS3 is still in the course catalog (http://general-catalog.berkeley.edu/catalog/gcc_list_crse_re...)

Whoops never mind, I just saw the response to my other comment saying that the course catalog is out of date. Never mind then.
Oh...weird
>> are they any better than Android when it comes to privacy and security?

Privacy +1: the company behind Sailfish OS (Jolla) doesn't generate its revenue through ads.

Privacy/Security -1: Sailfish OS currently doesn't have any real privacy/security framework, other than POSIX file permissions. But they're working on it.

>> Is it feature-rich (some call that "bloated")?

The Sailfish OS ships with a good set of features. It really does leverage a whole range of technologies from the Linux/FOSS ecosystem: Linux kernel, glibc, Qt, Wayland, Pulseaudio, Connman (think NetworkManager), oFono. There are still some important features that are missing (e.g. LTE, MMS, Wifi tethering, Caldav -- but all of them are being worked on).

>> What about those Chinese investors?

What about them? What's your question? :)
>Individual agency en masse should be a random distribution //

Would you like a) a beer, b) a hot chocolate ...

Hmm, I'm sure it'll be a random distribution with equal weighting of men and women.

Is it really that weird that lawyers predominant in a legislative field? It seems like it would be the least weird tendency - like if street cleaners, dental hygenists or pop-stars were predominant that would be weird.
I have a hard time believing this, to be honest. I know far, far more people who use Microsoft Word, than I do people who use (or even heard of) LaTeX.
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In an earlier age, I ran everything through squid to consolidate browser caches. About five minutes after setting it up, I realised that pulling all the references in the log file and then indexing the lot with htdig would be tremendously useful when I was on the road without internet access.

I spent way too much time pruning stupid crap such as slashdot and started to learn this 'Bayesian classifier' thing.

Your idea is much better.
I disagree with the article. This was Facebook countering an existential threat to their core business.
Apple could massively improve Adhoc and Beta distributions any time they wanted to. They didn't need Burstly or TestFlight for this. In other words, get ready to move off of TF and onto another platform.
Surely logically - if you support discrimination [in favour of minority groups based on irrelevant characteristics (like skin colour relative to computer programming)] - you have to switch to supporting the same for the group that is now in minority [within this very limited geo-political locus].

Coming soon to HN ..., boys only code classes, special boys only STEM days, toys designed to interest boys in STEM, books with male characters doing computer-y stuff, etc..
I'm tempted to see if I can remember enough RPG/400 to whip up the RPG version (but pro Triangle, NC, not Portland).
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I herewith, define thee:Software?  No Creepware.
<p>If this industry is not to become a pack of lying scoundrels who lie to themselves, their wives their "ahem", customers(?), we must as a passive, conventional form of ethic categorize, acknowledge and inform everyone we have the pleasure of associating with the notions and the discrete differences of the following subject I am about to unfold to you.<p>Creepware.<p>Software written, invented for purposes of, with the whole intention to sustain a business model consisting of:<p>Saving your contact list in a database to cross reference (step 1)<p>Selling your contact list and any personal information to other to do the same (step 2)<p>I could go on and on. But Creepware mind you is a brand, now. If you will accept my premise.<p>If we as those who believe in software stand by and allow ALL software to become Creepware, then all of us, with no exceptions, no possible remorse or regret will be Creeps equal to the Creep-grammers and our judgement and punishment will be the same. be referred to as "software" again, nor its engineers be conferred the title of "software" - DASH - anything, only Creep - DASH - something.<

p>1) Facebook
2) Google+
3) iOS 7
4) Android
5) LinkedIn
6) Gmail
7) Yahoo
8) AOL
9) Google Search
10) Google Chrome

<p>If you work on any of these products, you are a creep, you create creepware, thats what you do, thats what pays for you to have little creepy kids and send them to school.<p>Please make it private school.
I win with 104006.

Was offered job as employee #1. Didn't take the offer. I was 15 y/o.
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Good to hear.

Sorry for being a dick; it just seemed like you were trying to make an anti-FF statement based on prior knowledge and nothing else, glad to hear it was just their nightly build not functioning properly.

For what it's worth, I prefer FF as a company, but I like Chrome for syncing tabs and the developer tools.
I still find it hard to believe that it is energy-efficient to carry fuel all the way up and then all the way back down only to spend it in the last few meters of the decent. I'm sure they've run the numbers and decided it is but it is the most surprising part of this approach to me. Does anyone have an idea of how much fuel is spent in the return phase?
Alas, people have forgotten the “data:” URL scheme.

data:text/html,<marquee%20direction=up><marquee%20direction=left><blink>Look%20at%20me%20gooooo!!!!</blink></marquee></marquee>
> Congressmen will start seriously discussing turning the internet into a utility.

They have already done this, it should be opposed. You don't want people who can't balance a checkbook and think that the internet is a "series of tubes" deciding how you get internet access. The PUC/FCC rules and tarrifs are already a byzantine nightmare.
Thats not relevant to traffic interchange...
Sorry isn't just what the loser says
Moral of the story: Vim is very good for deploying fixes from bus stops.
Bad as it may be, the fix Apple is pushing will reach roughly 95% of the installed base more or less immediately.

I can't help wonder how much worse a similar situation would be for the Android ecosystem, with the poor update track record of operators and OEMs.
What did she say to the 10th grader, though?

All this pontificating about the state of our education system and the problems with our super achievement-oriented culture aside, what do you actually tell a 15 yr old who's deathly afraid of failure?
Just a naive comparison, AOL paid ~24MM/user for ICQ. Facebook is paying ~42.3MM/user for WhatsApp. That's about 76% more. IRC wasn't making any money when it was acquired. WhatsApp was making some.
Get a privacy VPN, not a proxy.

http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymit...
Pretty sure anyone who has struggled with OCD cringes at hyperbole like this. After you've washed your hands till they bleed, "lol I'm so OCD" gets tiresome. Everyone has quirks, drop the special snowflake shit
Interesting how a lot of the advice in here parallels Steve Yegge's infamous rant.

The link, for anyone who hasn't read it: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Lock screen has been vulnerable with a bypass exploit on several occasions so caution is probably a good idea. Way too many times to give me any sort of confidence.
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I'm not a fan of In App Purchases or Ads (I despise them) and browsing the App Store I found that all of the Flappy Bird clones available on the App Store were either A) low quality cash-ins or B) Riddled with Ads and IAP.

So what is an enterprising iOS Developer to do in that case? Make a better hammer! The game was written in 12 Hours over 3 days in my spare time (Art took longer) so the total dev time around 16 hours over 5 days.

Available now for 99¢, No IAP, No Ads. Updates and expansions free for life. Multiple areas to explore and some cool weather particle effects (rain and snow). Proceeds go to being able to feed my family, Paying my taxes the crazy rent prices in the Bay Area. :-|

PS: my high score is 89 see if you can beat it!

I stand behind my work, if you buy it and don't like it I'll refund the full 99¢ out of my own pocket. Drop me a line @ kenrikmarch.com
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Ohhh love the site framework and use of snap.svg. Interesting how he didn't mention Google+ not once.
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Please do not invoke factual information that contradicts the myopic view of the world as I see it. K thanx bye.

(Sarcasm aside, ^this)
I find all the pie in the sky stuff on the page for this really silly and kind of pointless (for everyday use, at least), tbh, but this was exactly my thought when I read it. I really need a browser that interacts better with i3, because I don't really need tabs when the window manager is doing it for me.
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Is this a tacit admission from FB that Zuckerberg's statements from past conferences on how people want to share everything is basically wrong?

People don't want to share everything with everyone. They want to share what they want with the people they want.
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For an agency with "Security" in their name, they really prioritized security very low.

I loved the part about printers. They have printers?!
How do you [zero-initialize a structure] in C? Does unidiomatic mean you can't do it? Interesting challenge.

You can zero-initialize an object on the stack in C like this:

struct my_object obj = { 0 };

Everything in the structure, no matter what it is, will be 0. Longs will be 0, shorts will be 0, pointers will be null, etc.

In C++, you can still do this, but only for POD types. Basically, in C++, it is assumed that you will manually initialize all data members in the constructor. POD objects get a free pass since they're essentially C structs.
The premise that they missed the boat is wrong. They built a leaky boat because their core competence is in a different field. Google didn't "Miss the boat" they just never studied Nautical Science.

Google is very good at things that are mathematical, predictable, quantifiable, and numeric.

Google fails at things like Natural Language, Art, Social, Music, Video (youtube doesn't count that's just hosting and they bought it already successful, and it still doesn't hardly make any money)

Facebook would "miss the boat on search". Apple will "miss the boat" on social.

The difference is those guys won't go after a boat if they don't have the competency for it.
I'm not a fan of In App Purchases or Ads (I despise them) and browsing the App Store I found that all of the Flappy Bird clones available on the App Store were either A) low quality cash-ins or B) Riddled with Ads and IAP.

So what is an enterprising iOS Developer to do in that case? Make a better hammer! The game was written in 12 Hours over 3 days in my spare time (Art took longer) so the total dev time around 16 hours over 5 days.

Available now for 99¢, No IAP, No Ads. Updates and expansions free for life. Multiple areas to explore and some cool weather particle effects (rain and snow). Proceeds go to being able to feed my family, Paying my taxes and the crazy rent prices in the Bay Area. :-|

PS: my high score is 89 see if you can beat it?

I stand behind my work, if you buy it and don't like it I'll refund the full 99¢ out of my own pocket. Drop me a line @ kenrikmarch.com
‰s/bus stops/everywhere/g
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Moral of the story: This post has devolved into inane commentary.
575061 ;)
I remember in high school the only things I ever learned well were things that weren't taught there, or that I'd learned myself before going in. I'm still trying to recover from the hit I took in subjects like math and physics; I loved both when I was younger. Like many others I happened to be lucky to have discovered computers before going into high school, or I know AP Computer Science would've killed those for me too (haven taken it).

College dropout now. School's never "worked" for me. But I was born into a family where blindly grades were everything, and I'm pretty sure this had more of a negative than positive effect on me.
It's more likely (if we take on the assumption that this is natural language) that the author is not writing in a written language style. It can be hard to appreciate how much spoken language is a literate society is influenced by writing; much of that is due to the fact that we largely keep our memories outside of our skulls these days. Oral language, especially that which is meant to be passed along, is full of repetition, alliteration, rhyme and pun. If the script is something more like an abjad than an alphabet, the repetition may not necessarily be repetition. That may pose additional serious problems if the language (if it is a real language) is an effective isolate (having no documented surviving relatives). An abjad is hard enough to deal with when you have a Semitic-style non-concatenative morphology (words of related meanings have consonants in common, with the vowels changing), but if there is punning without semantically common roots, then all you know is that you have words close to each other that use the same consonants.
A web framework for building web platforms instead of websites/apps, where a web platform is specifically intended to integrate untrusted 3rd party apps/plugins/etc - eg Facebook, Twitter, etc.

See GitStar (http://gitstar.com/) for a simple implementation - a code repository like GitHub except where all functionality is implemented by untrusted 3rd party plugins.
I don't think your other examples of FB & Apple are any good.

* FB hasn't really given search a big go yet. They're working on getting onto everyone's phone. I think that's too early to call.

* Apple bought Lala & has PING. Neither were great successes.
You're not alone. The Google coding standard bans exceptions in C++. Firefox, V8, and a lot of other pieces of C++ software are also written without exceptions. It's particularly telling that the guys who wrote the LLVM compiler, who presumably know more about the dark corners of C++ than anyone, chose to ban exceptions in their code.
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Another HN comment on this issue (I wonder why HN don't allow its own comments as submissions):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6754053

Makes me wonder how Larry Page was convinced that Facebook was a threat.
Nope. Not at all.

It was about buying USERS, not an app or feature.
No other company can legally lay cable in the same areas as these companies. Same "natural monopoly" deal that governs the electric, phone, and water utilities.
Two questions:
Is there any funds management functionality?
Have you tried listing it on Flippa to gauge interest?
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> At some point you're going to have to move past the author and evaluate the words on the page on their own merit.

For this type of writing, you can't. You don't have the experience or the data to judge anything. That's just how expert advice works. It's not falsifiable to anyone that would be learning from it, so that's why the credentials are important.
Neither do I, but they almost always mention my employer -- that's what we're talking about.
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There's been a lot of literature on introversion and extroversion lately. They can explain it much better than I. Here is a good article:

http://blog.bufferapp.com/introverts-and-extroverts-what-the...

I don't mean to imply that introverts like movies and extraverts don't. Only that, as a manager of developers, you should seek to understand the type of people on your team along many different dimensions, introversion and extraversion being one of them. Then cater your activities for those particular people. What worked for the mix of people on my team may not necessarily work for the mix of people on your team.
The patch isn't ready for OS X. It will be in the next minor OS update.

Bad Apple.
Indeed. My first thought upon seeing this: "how in the FUCK did automated testing not catch this IMMEDIATELY!?"

Absolutely terrifying that crypto safety is such a low QA priority that something like this could ever leave the building.
Google would just push an updated Chrome app which soft fixes it for many use-cases.
It's not like Netflix is fantastic by itself. It's serviceable, but the player is very rudimentary, and often has severe issues with things like subtitles.
I don't know why, but I'm supremely bothered by the author getting the name of Carmack's company wrong so many times. It's "Id" (or "id") Software, not "ID" Software. It's not pronounced "eye dee".
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I picked those examples because both are looking at those as features not as core to their business. Google is trying to make Social a core of their business.

Facebook is building a search engine. They are very proud of their "natural language" graph search. If they expand that to web sites they will likely fail.

Apple is starting to look at social with things like Facetime. But they are looking at it as a feature not a core business.