skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See I could do that, yes. But exactly how many steps, how much technology, and how many organizations are between me and the site I'm logging into. It just doesn't seem worth the effort. What's the payoff?
1. That's the one thing that's not changing about the site. When I first made the site, the whole idea was to play with scale. There's big type and small type. The idea is to attack a topic with visuals and to limit the number of topics in front of you. I've stood my ground on this, and lots of people like the site anyway. Trust me, it works.

2. Now you're just being a jerk. YC isn't a good place for this.

3. It shouldn't contrast, because then it gets in the way and takes your focus off the content.

4. Valid complaint. As the site's been around for a little while, I take that for granted. I'm a little link-heavy up top; I can change one of those to a description of what the site is about. I can also rework the title to add the slogan.
Someone out there needs to create a recruiter rating site. Whether I'm looking for a job or hiring, I need to know whether this jerk is actually providing good matches, or if he's just shopping around the resumes of the most desperate.

My proposed name: ratecruiter
I wouldn't know where to begin to set that up -- there's the complicated part. Honestly, this should all be built into the browser -- all this web-service stuff is entirely the wrong approach.
I agree with you, now. It seems like every day I'm switching to some Google product and I fear in the future we might feel about Google the way we feel now about Rogers (or AT&T or whoever). And they'll hold all our email, photos, calendars, contacts, waves, ...
Adjacency list vs. nested sets: PostgreSQL
I do see your point that in some sense we make infinite many implicit decisions all the time, but I think the word really refers specifically to the intentional act of creating a position. Though that's a semantic argument and not really important because my main point in the above comments was that this is not a now or never issue. Inaction today isn't a commitment of any kind, because the same options will be available tomorrow.

Do you mean that we should (oof, I hate to bring "should" into this) sometimes maintain the status quo even if doing so doesn't have the highest expected outcome for us?

No, certainly not. I mean that we should maintain the status quo until we can reasonably estimate those expected outcomes and their costs/benefits (ask questions first, shoot later). This article is arguing that we don't yet have those reasonable estimates.

I think the "innocent until proven guilty" approach is and expected value approach. Public loss of faith in the system is a huge cost (probably much bigger than letting the average criminal go free). So I think there's an implicit cost/benefit analysis there.

There are also costs associated with (at least some of) the proposed global warming solutions. I'm thinking specifically of cap and trade, a system with far reaching economic consequences we can't fully understand until it's actually implemented. So before we implement it, we'd better know with some degree of certainty that the current situation is bad enough to warrant a potentially dangerous economic experiment. On the other hand, I think investment in alternative energy is a relatively low cost decision (sort of a "what the hell, it can't hurt").
Good PR firms charge thousands of dollars a month, many over 10k/mo.
The A.D.D. Guide to RabbitMQ
Whoever downvoted this is wrong. There's always a threshold so "fraction less than threshold" is x for any 0<=x<=1.
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From Wikipedia: In 1974, ownership was transferred to a charitable trust, The Irish Times Trust.

Grant, Trust, same thing?

The article also mentions financial troubles when a major expansion coincided with a collapse in advertising rates, so it's not purely trust funded?
I love the idea. Any plans on how to make money from it?
Age ratings plan to fight Internet piracy
Pandora: From near-death to profitability in a year
The debunking of the myth of unreadability omitted something of concern to me: How much Perl code "in the wild" uses those best practices?

I have no doubt that Perl can be written in a disciplined and reasonable manner, readable to people familiar with its idioms, and not especially bug-prone. I cringe every time I come across Perl code because I've never actually come across any real Perl that's written that way. Or maybe I have, but I've always gotten discouraged with the language before mastering enough of the syntax to master the idioms, so I can't really tell.

This is not a problem with Python. It's easy to learn to read Python, and I have yet to come across really bad Python in practice. Good coding seems to flow easily from the way the language is made.
Thanks for the replies, both of you.

My organic milk (I only buy it because I prefer the taste) is more homo. than cheap milk. I wonder if it's therefore worse in any meaningful way.
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Good hackers seeking ways to stop bad hackers
Ask HN: good strategy to parse all that information
Greetings

I found myself not able to read everything I would like to read (books, blogs, whatever), I only add interesting stuff from good sources to my reading list but it is still overwhelming.

I figured I'd better design a strategy to tackle this and would like to get your input. What is your trick/strategy of parsing/absorbing this sea of knowledge available to us in this age?

Thanks
Glad to see these guys doing well, I've been a rabid fan since a friend turned me onto the service four(ish) years ago.

Although I don't entirely understand the last line of the article "Pandora will be a textbook case for why execution matters more than vision in tech"

I get that they've worked their asses off to make it a reality, I think the vision of smart music recommendation and discovery is what drove the execution. ??
Your explanation does not seem all that accurate either.

What if pg/jessica had allowed a bunch of people to sit through interviews? Then, some administrative staff decides to kick out one guy.

That would be a more accurate description from what I read here(based on the OP + Seedcamp's response).

Philosophicals--like whether investors should be in the room or not--are totally irrelavant here. What matters is what was promised and whether Seedcamp broke that promise for one individual(for whatever reason).

It seems like Seedcamp has too many cooks in the kitchen. The whole idea of having "official" mentors seems to have backfired here. You have a mentor complaining that investors are treated better than them. The solution to that is to get rid of this whole "mentor" label.

You never hear much about weekly YC speakers. That YC keeps it a low key affair is telling I think.
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Who needs the rest of megalopolis when there's nyc? :)
Why not just release a binary patch to an official android firmware image (which the phone owner already has), and a patching program? Then he wouldn't have to distribute any google code.
First, deem things that have been in your reading list for a certain time to be unimportant and get rid of them. That's because they are unimportant if you can't even be bothered to read them.

Second, stop procrastinating and actually set some time aside to read several of your items (or in the case of books, a few chapters). Put the time in and you'll find you don't have too much to read - just not the concentration to keep it up.
Amd quad ?
No offense, but your "tree == 3" is hard to read. Most people assume == means "equal to", and containers cannot be equal to the integer 3.

I can guess that you mean the length, but if that's the case, why don't you write "length(tree) == 3"? If we are just going to guess to understand, then we have the same problem with Lua that we have with Perl. With Perl, you can guess that $array->[number] is an array lookup, that the $ in "$foo" is essentially meaningless, and so on.

In other words, Lua and Perl are both hard to read.
Typical hackers - hardly any of them saw the value of using a real designer for those protest signs.
I think this is a pretty great idea, but the main problem is it's going to be very mixed. I used to work for a recruiting firm. I wasn't there long enough for people in my market to form opinions of me (I think), but if you took one of the managing partners you'd get a pretty good number of people who would sing their praises for legitimately helping them make a big leap in their career, and an equal or probably greater number who'd just view them as a phone annoyance.

And if it caught on, you can bet the recruiters would have some lower level person on every team who'd be tasked with gaming the site.
Taking pictures. I hate exercise, and the only way I'd get out of the house is with the promise of good photo ops. This weekend I'm doing a 13mi bike ride to get pics from a lighthouse.
Well, if different networks can charge different amounts for access, why not charge different amounts for different networks based on what they charge?
Hey I care less about whether mentors were allowed. I care more about what expectations mentors had from Seedcamp. Were their specifics you guys were promised? If not, why such drama?
If the weather obliges I might go paragliding, if not geocaching. Which ever way it pans out there shall be beer.
You've made a factual statement: "global temperature is falling."

That's so easily checkable that I'm not sure why you'd assert it. You can just reread the post you just replied to. I did not say that. I have not edited that post.

The closest I came was that it was reasonable to believe that global temperature fell after 1998, and suggested that since I know of no source of data which isn't disputed by one side or the other, it's pointless for me to track down data to support a claim I haven't made.

If you are going to stand by the statement "global temperature is falling" I would again ask for a citation.

I have no plans to stand by someone else's statement. Thanks, anyway.

I did support my actual claim that it was reasonable for a third party to believe that global temperature is falling, by pointing out that google's first page of results provides many examples of vociferous arguing both ways. I really have no idea what global temperature is doing, apart from the obvious fact that it's not increasing or decreasing so quickly as to be unmistakable, since lots of mistaking is going on, one way or the other.

"JFGI" is not a citation.

On the assumption that you're unable or unwilling to copy/paste or type "global temperature since 1998" into Google yourself to see this first page of results, here's a handy link http://www.google.com/search?q=global+temperature+since+1998 . Sheesh.
This sentence from Google is priceless:

"The FCC's open Internet principles apply only to the behavior of broadband carriers -- not the creators of Web-based software applications."

Or in other words: Neutrality and FCC regulations for thee, but not for me.
Strange title. What's next, The O.C.D. Guide to A.D.D.?
I have been using perl longer than any other major language except C, and I still have to review basic syntax crap every time I have to read perl code.

I have been using Perl longer than any other major langauge, and I never have to review "basic syntax crap". Not to make a personal attack, but perhaps the problem is not Perl.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.

This is the danger of increasing regulation; the blade cuts both ways. You may think that Net Neutrality is about taking on big companies, but I guarantee that in just a few short years their smart legal teams will be using the regulation to increase each other's legal bills and to squash smaller competitors [1].

[1] Regulation is similar in this regard to patents. The defense of patents is always the hypothetical small inventor. In practice, though, the beneficiary always seems to be huge corporations (except for patent trolls, which are a fairly recent innovation).
not really extraordinary, unless you only know one language!
most programmers know half a dozen languages, and another half-dozen technologies and tools

Plus the fun is in the details ;) I love languages with depth in them!
When global warming proponents spell out the actual danger, usually things don't get bad for a hundred+ years. Seems like we have time to make carefully informed decisions.
What would they have done if this guy e-mailed back and said "Yea, I found your e-mail in my spam folder. It's been deleted. K bye."

Would we have even heard about this?
I don't think it's a lingusitics thing, rather, Perl was not designed to be limited like other popular languages were. Larry never sat down and said, "I am the only person that is possibly smart enough to understand this concept, so I am not going to add it to the language". (Java and PHP's designers did. Look what that got them...)
Carriers want to sell "unlimited" LD plans. Customers like unlimited LD plans. And for most of the US, LD is cheap enough that you can make that work. The model breaks down a bit if you have to start subsidizing your customers' calls to sex lines in quantity.
I rarely write "push @$ref" expressions, but they don't slow me when I see them. It is blindingly obvious to me what is happening here. I have never read a manual entry that specifically documents this situation, either... it just makes sense from what I know about push and what I know about references.

(Yes, you need to learn Perl to know Perl. Please let me know what programming language you don't need to learn to use.)
appreciate your input.

you made some implicit assumptions about me which are wrong. I concentrate well and do spend a lot of time to read, it just so happen that there is a lot I would like to read.

I was hoping for some detailed strategies, the simplest example will be only read title/summary/first line of each paragraph.
what you state may be true but it is not necessarily wrong. The physical equivalent is that while everyone should have access to the roads that doesn't mean you get to have access to my house as well. Even though my house is connected to the road doesn't mean the same rules as the road apply.
yi' will also work in this example.
The logic of Biological Networks - Jehashua Bruck (Caltech)
No, in fact, you can't. You can't use parameter lists in perl. You can't use variables without context.

This statement is meaningless. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Try this:

function( args => 'go here' )

And anyway, what exactly is the difference between your JavaScript (Lua? Python?) example and your Perl example?

ABC::Myclass->find_or_create({thing => $thing->itm, otherthing => $x->itm});

ABC.Myclass.find_or_create({'thing' : thing.itm, 'otherthing': x.itm})

Other than "Myclass" being a field of ABC in your example, I don't see any difference at all.

Your argument really makes no sense. I suggest you just say "I hate Perl" and stop trying to justify it.
I have a question. What about Chrome OS, I think the idea behind it is to build something like this, or?
It's quite interesting to see the leverage that Twitter can exert on TC now. I certainly hadn't expected them to have any recourse against TC from their last incident, but they have users that are the equivalent of mini-diggs now, and have many of them.

I'm looking forward to seeing how they wield this power in the coming year.
I'm not familiar with most Windows editors, but — at least on OS X — although blockwise selection is available in most editors, blockwise insertion like vim has is usually left out.

E.g., in vim say I have a list like this that I wanted to append a period to on each line (a simple example, but you can see its uses):

foo
bar
baz

I would just type block-wise select it (<c-v>$jj) and then type A.<esc>

I use this feature all the time.
All that garbage has really lessened any interest in Python and Ruby for me. I really don't want to join communities which have so many members doing so large amounts of hype, language wars and trolling.

So true.

Perl people are not immune to this, though; I have seen a lot of snipes at Haskell and Common Lisp in various Perl forums. People see a threat to their way of life, and do everything possible to maintain the status quo.

(The "complaints" are always about the same sorts of things, too. Perl sucks because it has sigils, Haskell sucks because I don't know what a functor is, and Common Lisp sucks because you can't get into the first element of a list and drive it. These are rarely problems with the languages, and more typically problems with the commenter.)

It is funny, because Perl has been around longer than Python and Ruby, and Common Lisp (in some form) has been around longer than Perl. If the designers of Python and Ruby had done their job, there wouldn't even need to be a debate, we would all be using whichever one was newest.
tabs are pretty cool, but I like split and a set of macros I use for easily switching. The main reason I prefer split screen to tabs is that I often want to see code in the other buffer while I work.

Open up a file, :split a new one, and then try these:

map <C-j> <C-w>j80<C-w>+ " up one window, maximized
map <C-k> <C-w>k80<C-w>+ " down one window, maximized
map <C-h> 80<C-w>+ " maximize current window
map <C-i> <C-w>= " all windows equal height
AT&T says Google has unfair advantage with its Internet phone program
What's a vacation?

Seriously, can we cut out the tech-babble so everyone can follow.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/753-ask-37signals-how-do-you-... is a good overview of what 37signals did. My experience mirrored theirs. Essentially, we wanted to offer annual billing, but when we went to our processor with that, they weren't willing to assume the risk associated with that. My understanding might be off, but I believe the rationale is that they're essentially guaranteeing that we'd be able to offer refunds to customers who didn't get what they paid for. So if someone pays $30 for a year's coverage of our software, and we go out of business three months into that, they're going to want their money (or, at least, part of it) back. But if we've gone bankrupt, the credit card processor is partly on the hook for that money.

The CC processor we use (www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com) {and I'm very happy with them} allowed us to apply for annual billing after we had many months (7? 8?) of billing under our belts, and they could see that we weren't super risky.

So, yeah. Look at different scenarios, but recognize that it might not be up to you at first, and adjust your expectations and projections accordingly.
FWIW, I've read that the reason for pushing interns beyond their physical limits is simply money, not teaching or building character. It's cheaper to work them ridiculous hours than to hire enough people to do the job well.

Working sleep-deprived for long periods of time doesn't really teach you anything after the first couple weeks. It just lowers your efficiency and increases your error rate. In software development, that causes you to waste time. In medicine, that causes, er, iatrogenic death, or something like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby_Zion_law#Libby_Zion.27s_d...
Google's Sneaky Trick for Getting You To Use Chrome
Javascript is essentially a less-functional version of Python, Perl, and Ruby -- but with many annoying bugs. (Variable scoping, for one.)

If you want to learn about prototype-based OO systems, fine, but there's a reason that only JavaScript (and Self) use prototype-based OO :P

C should be learned so that you are not tempted to ever use it for anything important.
reshma is not "administrative staff", she is the ceo

since the format is more formal than a sit down interview I imagine they didnt want to disrupt a team half way through a presentation to ask someone to leave.
The original article is more informative because it links to the response.

Original:
http://androidandme.com/2009/09/hacks/cyanogenmod-in-trouble...

Response:
http://androidandme.com/2009/09/news/google-responds-to-cyan...
Isn't satellite data subject to a different class of measurement artifacts? Since it is measuring reflection at potentially different layers of the atmosphere, some high, some low?
> but is it true that the existence of a civil action implies that no crime was committed?

Clearly not. However, if a court hasn't decided on the matter, whether the act is criminal or not is at least partly a value judgment. My value judgment is that while Microsoft did a lot of horrible stuff in the '90s, none of it warrants the tag "criminal".
I've always believed that the only reason they haven't brought this up with Canada is that it would result in 30 million left-of-center voters being added. Of course if when you say "western" you just mean Alberta that problem would be assuaged, perhaps. Though I think even the most strident right wing voters in Canada are still to Obama's left.

Anyway it would be Democratic governments as far as you care to extend the timeline.

There's oil in eastern Canada too, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernia_%28oil_field%29

and in the north: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_petroleum_indust...
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Ask HN: How about security start ups?
Hi!. I'm from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Unfortunately, we have too much insecurity in our country and seems it'll be even worst.

So I was thinking if some kind of web start up could help our situation. A web won't solve the insecurity and that's for sure, but maybe could help a little.

Do you have something like this in your country?.

Any idea?.

Sorry about my poor English, I promise I'll improve it.
Why should we let "the average web user" hold everyone else back?

You might I'm being purposely difficult -- and maybe I am.

I'm not, but I agree that you are. Sometimes times change. You are probably one of the people that adds that "Stop HTML Email" ribbon to your mail signature because the first mainframe you used didn't let you send formatted email. It's not 1960 anymore.
I was actually considering an Android phone, the Instinct Q to be precise. I got a Palm Pre two weeks ago, which is also Linux-based, and now I feel that I made the right decision.

With Windows Mobile, I was always running custom ROMs and tweaking. The Pre doesn't have any custom ROMs per se, but that's because the whole thing is so simple that you can easily apply patches (about 90% the user-visible system is created with plain text files--HTML, Javascript, JSON, et cetera).

I work at a T-Mo call center, and there are a lot of reps here who say the myTouch is complete crap without custom ROMs. If Google really wants to build a loyal following--particularly in the tech community--this decision needs to be reversed and /never/ repeated.
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> Wordnet: " an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act"

You conveniently elided the part that says "(criminal law)" before that. Who's the one being intellectually dishonest here?

> and "an evil act not necessarily punishable by law" ... my uses passes BOTH

Great, you made a value judgment. I disagree with your value judgment. I don't think Microsoft's actions were evil enough to be called crimes.
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>>Perl was not designed to be limited like other popular languages were.

That was a design decision, not influence from natural languages? Fun.
Geez, I had a similar experience with a guy named Ryan. I think this is some rouge clown masquerading as a lot o different people.