skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I dont think its the authors job to make it always aesthetically pleasing to everybody, he just wanted to convey his ideas and he did. I am not concerned about the tenth of a second I save by not typing y and o but the one second I do spend making "u" "you" again. The kind of short hand (or SMS) language is just the part of the authors habit. Has it became just so "aesthetically displeasing" to read "u" as the word and not alphabet?

As to the fuckery analogy I wanna say that it would not leave the post entirely understandable because you will have to still think if the word was actually part of the sentence or not?But I think (dont bother to deny it) that everybody who owns a mobile or had used internet would know simple things like "u" stands for "you","ur" stands for "your" and "bt" for "but". And if they dont its entirely possible to get that from context. But your fuckery example is just opposite.Nobody will "know" and will at least have contemplate as to whats the use of that word in the context.

For the 1337 point I wanna say two things. First if the author sounds like six but has a good or at least competent thing to say then whats the matter?You should just except the authors view and choice, also be scared by the fact that he is competent with you by the age of 6 and he would be surely outsmarting you when he reaches your age. Secondly I too dont like such 1337 language, but only when the spellings are so obscure that the reader may never even begin to understand what the word is. But again when someone rights "u" you can easily understand that he means "you" which is not the case when someone writes 1337 $|o3/-\|< |=/-\57 3|\|0U9|-| u </-\|\| 937 /-\ |0T 0F \/\//-\7 |7 5/-\5, 7|-|3|\| U c/-\|\| F|9uR3 0u7 \/\//-\7 u |\/||553o|.

I know to some people atmosphere is very important (like my college professors), but what dont understand is why these people dont understand that for some people it is not. To some people its just the content that matters the most (if you can understand it fully of course). If you expect people to respect your choice, why not first start to respect theres? Or like mahatma Gandhi once put it "You should be the change you want to see in the world". And here by change i mean respect for other people's choice.

PS:- I dont really care if you are down voting me or not, I am already having a rough day at the forum and I am actually eager to see if karma can go into negative or not.Nor do I expect a standing ovation to this post but this is exactly I feel in 500 words.

Edit: Now I officially Know that karma can go into negative, but I would like that people who down vote may just give me a reason as to why they did it
Why is everyone looking for a damn messiah/devil all the time?

It's always a dichotomy with some people, either you agree with people like pg always all the time, or you are expected to be a 37Signals "fanboy" and worship at their alter.

Hell, they are just people folks. People with valid experiences, but people nonetheless. It is perfectly acceptable to agree with certain things a person says and not with others. More importantly, disagreeing with a person on a topic does not automatically render their views on other topics invalid!

You do not need to be in one camp or the other, you can choose on a per topic basis, and hell, you can even change your mind as your experiences change and you gather more data. I know that some can't believe it, but even pg can sometimes be wrong, wildly so.

Stop kicking a dead horse already. Fried told you what he felt about a particular topic, and you're acting like he sat around the table at his secret liar in the Bahamas playing out a masterful attempt to better the 37Signals brand. Come on.
Ten steps for a healthier, happier life
"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Lot's of comments here are saying fundable is dead, but I don't think so. The web is big. Lots of bad things have happened to plenty of sites and they remain up and viable. I think we over-estimate the memory of the average internet user.

There are probably lots of fundable users now who don't know what just happened and there are countless more in the future who will never know.

This incident is really nothing major. Ford Motors built and released cars they knew were going to blow up and kill people and look at them today. People still buy Fords.

Do you really think some little founder spat that changed the home page for a couple days is going to destroy fundable? No way.
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I wonder why they didn't try the command a few times first from the shell.

Anyone who's ever done 'ps | grep' will have noticed that the grep sometimes appears, sometimes doesn't.

Course you could do 'ps | grep | grep -v grep'
The Best Approach for Avoiding Zombies
Heh, I went to those comments and found that, no surprisingly, I had already up voted them.

I'd certainly add to the prevailing sentiment.
Even as layoffs persist, some good jobs go begging
This is a well-established business model in poetry contests.
Same here. I had to use so hard to install MySQLdb.

This looks so much promising.
My God. I'm not going to parrot the "seek counselling" line because I don't think that is necessary.

What I would ask you to do though is to keep talking about it, as much as you can with people you trust. It'll help your healing. Whatever you do, share your feelings with someone.
Hey Apple and Microsoft: Most Mac households use Windows, too.
Reported at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520569
Windows Mobile 6.5 Arriving October 6
This sounds like a great idea if implemented well, but I just see the potential for a gigantic amount of noise. I mean the set of all topics is mostly highly-specific and uninteresting.

If you would subdivide everything into clusters and nominate a small set to represent that cluster, and only then suggest things that are highly dissimilar (but not opposites), this might be extremely useful. If one already feels strongly about a topic (health, politics, religion, etc) I'm sure that person would know where to seek to get opposing points of view.

If I am interested in programming or math material online, getting recommendations about conflicting problems or programming methodologies would not be very useful. However, getting info about topics like flying gliders, rock climbing or philosophy would be great.. (I'm picking things I'm familiar with, but I would have loved to find out about similar interests and hobbies through suggestion)
Ask HN: Thoughts on Singularity Univ Executive Program?
Ask HN: Contract for freelance work
When you guys do freelance programming do you have a contract that you send to your client? Should I consult a lawyer or is there a more canned contract I can use? I just want to be protected on things like delivery date, price, etc. Any thoughts.
Computer makers seek to banish boot-up blues
Would it be possible to allow non-admins to kill noobstories ?

That would make the response a lot more snappy.
I think you underestimate the significance of the term polymath. Polymaths don't just read about a lot of topics, they produce in a lot of topics. Brilliant minds like Da Vinci who painted, sculpted, wrote, experimented, philosophized.

Being a polymath doesn't mean you find lots of topics interesting, it means you significantly influence multiple very broad and diverse fields of knowledge. You write papers on nanotechnology, cured cancer, wrote, starred in and directed a blockbuster movie.

You also overvalue the term hacker. I can't tell you how many people I meet who think they are a hacker because they can get a Drupal site up and running or write a blog. I had a boss one time who was so happy that he had finally gotten back into coding. I said, "What'd you do?" He said, "I changed the HTML on the login form!" Ugh.

So, "hacker" is not synonymous with polymath. Hacking is just one small field of knowledge that may be a part of a polymath's repertoire.
Damn.

I didn't know Dan, but I did "know" fallentimes. I thought he was one of the brighter users here on HN, and that's saying a lot given this crowd. I always found him interesting and intelligent, even if I disagreed.

A loss indeed. Tom, take care and add my condolences to the rest of the outpouring. I wish you and his family the best.
Lie about it not being yours on national TV?
Screencast of CapCard running OpenTransact and OAuth
It's called Hacker News :-)

Or maybe something like http://sf0.org/ - I guess it's a kind of game where people propose challenges for each other.
'ps ax | grep [m]ysqld'
(The regex '[f]oo' will match 'foo' but not itself.)
If it restarted every few hours and the test executed once a minute, then the bug would appear only once in a hundred executions. It's a good post, I think I could have made the same mistake easily.
I don't see any lack of merit among your examples, Gates, Page & Brin, Dell, Zuckerberg, all solved major problems in a way that allowed them to build a business.
There are a couple of good templates you can use over on Agree2:

https://agree2.com/masters/public

One of them is described in detail here:

http://blog.extraeagle.com/2009/03/11/refactoring-the-consul...

Full disclosure, I am one of the cofounders of Agree2.
The Simmons Story: Profits for Buyout Firms as Company Debt Soared
The NDA is optional, although you don't get to participate in a lot of the MVP benefits if you don't sign it.
Definitely possible and I would use it (if executed right of course). Pick one niche/market to go after first.
that website he just described (without knowing details) would be done for between 70k - 500k at my company
How Private Equity Destroys Businesses and Jobs
Narrowing the value gap: liquidity with fundamentals
I'd never noticed it. I worked in a unix shell for a while, but I used to use ps piped to grep. But I suspect I often used 'grep -v' to filter the output anyway when I really needed just the non-grep lines.
It is my understanding that this is a way for spammers to fish out legitimate email addresses. If the content is pulled from the server, the email address must be real.

At least, this is what I tell my clients when recommending turning off HTML content from untrusted email sources.
That's an interesting stance.

If a user "respected" enough to get into the top 100 is saying things that you don't want to read, there are only two real possibilities:

1. The community (or a large sub-section)is full of idiots.

2. You are the "idiot". (quotes for a reason - I'm not calling you an idiot.)

2. Can be clarified as: perhaps this is a message you need to hear/are not understanding. I always read these comments extra, in the view of bettering myself.

I find it interesting that your response is to ignore them. Why?
Steve Ballmer on acquisitions and competition with Google
My dictionary says

polymath: a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning.

Wikipedia says

In less formal terms, a polymath (or polymathic person) may simply refer to someone who is very knowledgeable.
Michael Milken on Crises
"Lisp is known for hating infix notation, but Haskell embraces it. ... There are ten levels of operator precedence (0 through 9)"

This is one of the things I prefer about Lisp. Am I the only one who still has to stop and think occasionally about what binds more tightly with what when reading and writing code in languages with many precedence levels? Never a problem in a Lisp.
The Coming U.S. Crackup
Not only this, they often ask you to hunt them a brand-new laptop with 6 gigs of ram, 17" screen, a high-speed quad core cpu (basically the works) for all around $400. I'm exaggerating a bit, but this happens a lot often than I would like.
What's the reason they don't immediately post their spam?
Script vs Program
Does that include providing line numbers in error messages?
Looks like this Google vs. Microsoft thing might get rougher. Maybe we are going to see something bigger than the Chrome vs. Internet Explorer head on attack.

Google wanting an employee to turn down an awarded designation from Microsoft might be the tip of the Google expansion iceberg. How much market share will Google be able to take away from Microsoft, and what Microsoft Markets will they go after next? Can Google become Microsoft II or Microsoft Jr.? From a development standpoint, new products present new opportunities. This could get interesting.
93% of facebook app revenue is from young users. Older ones? Less than 7%
If you're a startup wasting 5k on a business plan competition, you don't deserve $2.50 let alone $250,000. Some don't know any better though. These guys should be boycotted, blacklisted, and shamed from anything that is startup related. Stuff like this really ticks me off.
Correct. If I send a specially formatted email to an iPhone or Apple Mail user and they read it, completely transparently to them, I will be get "notification" of when they read it and what IP address they read it from. Even if they tell their client to not load remote images and to not honour read receipts.
Will Oracle Or SAP Blink First On 22% Maintenance Fees?
This is interesting, I had an idea to do the same thing years ago. I ended up just taking a few of the really nice things from Drupal, and making a new framework around those.

I loved Drupal when I was limited to building sites in PHP. It worked around a great deal of common problems in PHP, and was well documented with a good community, etc...

Still, most of the advantages came from having a semi-regulated environment to use to implement CMS projects in PHP. Once you have a sane language like Python, it would be a huge waste to do a direct port. The result would be profoundly unpythonic, and give you no particular benefits because of it.

If you adapt it to make it more pythonic, then you lose the benefit of familiarity for new users. As it is, it's not really like you'll ever be able to use existing Drupal modules in a Python reimplementation; even if you could, it's hard enough keeping modules working across different versions of Drupal, much less entirely different platforms.
Oh, how I would love this for Atlanta.
This encourages the possibility of the reporter introducing their own biases.

Whether they know it or no, reporters already introduce their own biases into the text. Of all the utterances of the interviewee, they choose which parts to quote and which to ignore. De Saussure said that not even a photograph is objective for it represents reality from the preferred angle and from the point of view of the photographer.
Or have high ranking people have more flag weight?
To be fair, he does start with "down and dirty ways."
"Third world" hasn't been meaningful since the end of the cold war. (Originally it meant the countries that were aligned with neither the Soviet Union or NATO.)

Now the fashionable terms are "developed" and "developing" (which basically mean "rich" and "poor" and so are obviously two ends of a spectrum, not clearly-defined categories).
(in case it came out wrong, what "sucks" is what happened to his dad, not how he told the story).
Hey he had a platform and he used it. I'm not sure he lied about it but he definitely made it seem like something he had stumbled upon as opposed to something he built.

(slight aside, I worked at TechTV when Kevin Launched digg)
I believe we have Cisco Guard DDoS Mitigation Appliance. It was provided to our by our data center for additional $59/month. We certainly don't have our own data center.
I saw a CV the other day from someone claiming 10 and half years experience in a senior role.

His work history went back 11 years.
Ask HN: What are your (non-hn-related) hobbies?
Inspired by a recent thread suggesting recommendations on things not having to do with your interests and expanding your horizons, I ask:

What are your hobbies and interests?

And I don't just mean things directly related to HN.

edit: Hm, if you want to share these hobbies and introduce others, perhaps include your geographical location?
And I guess I can start: mine are rock climbing, flying single engine planes (hoping to get into gliders) which is currently on break, and neuroscience (at an extremely amateur level). If anyone wants to get an introduction to climbing and are in the DC, Philly or NY area, I'd love to show you the ropes (har har).
Because you're being a jerk. Just abide by the stylistic rules of the community and you'll be fine. When you're called out, fix it. Don't start a pissing war over something trivial. Especially because you'll never win here with that attitude.
It does. The relevant snippet from my .emacs.d:

;; For tramp with my bash config, the prompt of which terminates
;; in a newline. Tell tramp how to detect the end of my prompt.
(setq shell-prompt-pattern "
")

The value of the shell-prompt-var is a literal newline. (That newline entered, naturally, with a C-q C-j.)
Local Should Be Everywhere
Internet-based services such as Fandango should leverage the knowledge of their audience's geographical location to win over the local advertisers.
Journalism is best when it's used as a weapon against both political sides

It would then be convenient for someone to manufacture two opposing puppet causes and run the public through a tight course of fake debate and spectacle, while real issues are left ignored. You can already see how front-page news have very little effect on people's lives; death of a celebrity, or a lucky pet being found at last, etc.

News is dead because news is a commercial product, made, packaged and sold by the owners of the medium. And with its death, government will loose its biggest proponent. For the longest time, the papers and broadcast mediums "of record" have been manufacturing "national unity" and marching people behind the state; it's thanks to broadcast and print news that most nations of this world have created their sense of identity. Once this is gone, people will seek their ideological own and fellow like-minded people across geopolitical boundaries, and the taxing state will have to justify its continued funding a little harder.
It takes me about 10 runs to get a line of output without the grep. Sometimes less. Try it :)

EDIT:

test.sh:

for i in {1..1000}
do
ps | grep grep | wc -l
done

./test.sh | sort | uniq -c

13 0
987 1

Which would indeed suggest 1.3%. Likely dependent on how quickly you're running it, if it's in memory already etc etc
I appreciate the detail, and thanks for writing it, but what you're describing here is actually inferior to the offerings in Ann Arbor, MI, which is effectively in the middle of nowhere. A2 has amazing Mexican (La Fiesta), decent cheap Mexican (Sabor), multiple excellent cafes (Sweetwaters, ERC), one of the most famous delis in the country (Zingermans) and their barbeque restaurant (Roadhose), passable Thai, multiple laudable upscale Italian and French joints, one of the best breakfast spots anywhere (Angelos, which unlike Hobies is not supplied by GFS trucks) and in less of a drive than Sunnyvale to San Jose, Common Grill in Chelsea.

And we're not comparing A2 to SV, I know, and it's silly to compare cities like that, but it's not crazy to say that the lower bar for "good food city" is "better than Ann Arbor, MI".

I concede that Santa Clara is great for food if what you're looking for is a diverse selection of medium/low-end Asian and Mexican.

I used to work in the building next to Birks. Pass.
What field do you intend to apply this to? My thoughts on the issue are much different if it's music than if it's books and even more different if it's physical objects/gadgets.

I think books would be the place where it would be most interesting to me.
not true - those guys got shot due to their gansta lifestyle, guns were orthogonal to that
Ah, I eventually figured this out (if anyone is curious), by crawling the Python source tree to find this executable.

It is little more than a program with a main() function that calls Py_Main(arg, argv) (defined in <Python.h>). I was able to create my own program like this, and solve the problem.
Lessons from the closure of Rocky Mountain News
I appreciate both, honestly. Lisp achieves a great deal through purity of syntax, but that sort of thing was never Haskell's goal. Personally, I almost never think about how precedences compare; instead you learn a Haskell coding style that support the syntactic tricks allowed by operator precedence. A pretty common one goes something like this:

forM [1..] $ \n -> do
a <- monadicAction1 n
b <- monadicAction2 a
return b

Which is sort of ugly from a Lisp point of view, but I think it's a great trick enabled by having $ be an ultra-low precedence sequencing combinator. It looks like a Ruby block almost, but has zero extra syntax and very clear semantics.
No, it wasn't. One of the investors has said so in quite clear terms, besides that there are plenty of people quoting 'sources' saying that that was a nonsense story.

http://www.businessinsider.com/mintcom-founder-wanted-to-sel...

http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2009/09/18/jason-time-to-get...

http://blog.josephnet.org/?p=96

He should have simply not made that call without the evidence to back it up.
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Rethinking the American consumer
academic standards mysteriously lower when the topic is political.
It's not the same as property tax, because she's not a government and the power bases are quite different. Governments can get away with it because the switching cost of moving to another country or state is just too high, and they have all the power in the relationship so can charge what they like. That's the abuse, if you're looking for it. Switching costs of bingo card writers is very low. Nonetheless, he's voluntarily paid more than he could have.

There's very little IP value in bingo cards. It's a collection of words for SEO value. You could swap them out with another collection and you'd have a similar result.
Photography, Philosophy, Cooking, Travelling, Driving, Lockpicking, Tennis

(fun fact: my current start-up was put in to gear because of my photo addiction and a few unsolved problems the field had)
> ...show you the ropes

Along those lines, Shibari. It's a great way to meet girls.
Paris over New York?
I agree that I always thought that him presenting Digg on a TV show without a disclaimer that it was his, was kind of shady.

But, I suppose I would put it under his "hack the press" section. It's not much different than knowing influential people to talk about your product. And, in the end, an initial boost is never enough to be successful if you don't have a good product.
A (what I call) "real food vegetarian", anyway. There are "vegetarians" out there who consume crazy amounts of horrible processed foods.

IMO people tend to severely overthink diet. It's pretty hard to be unhealthy when you exclusively eat good, real, whole, food. Diet fads come and go, and are often completely contradictory, but this guideline has always, and will always, be more or less true.

Vegans on the left, Atkins people on the right... drop your food religions and just stop eating crap! It's not that difficult.

If you're trying to lose weight, EAT LESS. You can eat the most extremely healthy diet in the world, if you eat a lot, you will get fat. That's how the body works. Again, it's not exactly rocket science.
It's good enough for Professor Knuth, Peter Norvig and the other guys of "Coders at work". I reckon it's too good for me and you :)
one of the guys i used to work with titled himself 'interactive janitor'. i've always liked that.
Ask HN: Startup related Mistakes you've done
Learning from mistakes is much more powerful than learning from reading or doing it perfectly

What are start-up mistakes you've done over the years. There are lot of blog posts and lists, I am just curious of individual/personal ones here.

Resources: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html