skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite useful. I mostly use Wine staging instead of regular Wine. For instance support for PulseAudio is nice to have. Stock Wine still doesn't have it for some reason. And some other such things.
all it takes is a separate mobile URL, or dynamic response to mobile user-agents.
>Banks borrow money for less than they lend it effectively guaranteeing a profit if properly and concervatively managed

Sure, in a magical world where 100% of people pay back their loans. 2008 happened for a reason
If and or when they add thread folding, folding for the story links themselves might be a logical extension of that. You could have the top ranked story and under the fold the last, say, five related.
This seems to be the most obvious thing they're missing. I can't stand trying to read through HN comments without a greasemonkey script.
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A lot of people are really bad at math and we give them at least 10 years of it. I think at least some exposure to CS is important to just give kids a sense of it before college.
It came with the added fun of having Microsoft sue them, just to have the court say that "Windows" in the OS context is not a defensible trademark!
> Each of those sites could charge you for all their content but then you'd be broke or nobody would make enough money to keep the lights on.

Indeed, there are discussions on HN that argue that it should explicitly ban paywall articles from being submitted.
We need a new term for "unicorn" ... "Paper unicorn", perhaps.

A better comparison would remove the confounding variable of valuation. Instead, it'd be interesting to look at start-ups in each region with >$200M in annual recognized revenue. Valuations fluctuate based on investor sentiment and market conditions. Revenue is more fundamental.
yes, it is a term loan: we extend a loan to our clients, and they repay it in equal installments over a set period of time (the “term”). However, mobile app developers operate at a more accelerated pace than a traditional brick-and-mortar business, which means that the terms of our loans tend to be shorter and the interest rates are more forgiving than a traditional term loan.
Clicking the domain to see other submissions from that site is the best feature HN has added in years.
What does everyone think about links opening in a new tab rather than the parent tab? I'll often find myself getting off on a wikipedia tangent (or some similar learning loop) and HN will be several back buttons back. I now open every link in a new tab manually to solve for this problem.
Yea I was working for a company for a very short period which was focused on autonomy. The texts, emails, and slack messages as early as 7, as late as midnight, on saturday, on sunday. It drove me crazy to say the least as someone who, ironicly enough, valued his own autonomy very greatly.

That didn't last long.
Describing Pluto's features without interpreting them
Sweet chiptunes, nice pixel art and it's free
Related:

# FORTH in Bash

- More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashforth

- The script: http://web.archive.org/web/20141107021446/http://www.forthfr...

- The extension WP mentions: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ForthHub/ForthFreak/master...

- A screenshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20141106213840/http://www.forthfr...

# Tetris in Sed (by a russian girl)

- Info (in Russian): http://uuner.livejournal.com/55238.html

- Working downloads: https://github.com/uuner/sedtris

# Arkanoid and Sokoban written in sed

- http://aurelio.net/projects/sedarkanoid/

- http://aurelio.net/projects/sedsokoban/

# Sed LLVM emitter

- TBD
D'oh! Thanks for catching my error!
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The reason I'm submitting this is not because of the images but because of an important point Emily Lakdawalla makes at the end of the post: we don't really know the geology of Pluto yet so we should be careful about describing what we see on Pluto without inferencing about what causes the features.
This is the most "New York" way to do something: i.e. enforce it with LAW!!
What do Stop-and-Frisk, junk food tax and CS all have in common in NY? Government enforcement hahaha.

How about just getting kids to pass basic Math and English courses first.
+1 this. I am one of these people and i work till 2am regularly and i wish companies understood this more. Thankfully my past 2 jobs have been very relaxed with me coming in to work late.
Do you know of more initiatives like PHPmentoring? (which he mentions in the article). I like knowing about all the options :)

Thanks

P.S.

While it is helpful to see suggestions on how his perspective could still be improved its also good to know which of the things he said you consider good advice. I feel like people have a tendency to only speak out when they see flaws.
As always hacking on Quoddy[1] and Neddick[2]. Beyond that, I've been dabbling with a number of new languages, tools, libraries, etc. See [3] for all the details. The tl/dr; though, is this - working my way through Machine Learning for Hackers and Practical Common Lisp, and starting on an AI bot[4] to give me a playground to mess with AI and Machine Learning techniques. Right now it's just AIML[5] and doesn't do a whole heck of a lot, but I just started on this a couple of days ago. Right now it can chat over XMPP and basically say "hello" and give you the current time.

[1]: https://github.com/fogbeam/Quoddy

[2]: http://github.com/fogbeam/Neddick

[3]: http://mindcrime.github.io

[4]: https://github.com/mindcrime/LearningAIML

[5]: http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html
Strange. The quote is properly contained over here.

FF 40.0.3 on 32-bit Linux.
They could just finish the monorail to the airport. That would fix a huge problem. It's always a 30 minute wait during CES, for example. I imagine Uber will have surge pricing doing major events.
I had already left and just sent an email back saying "Well I already left and I'll be in Duluth for a while. I'll talk to you when I get back." I think the boss realized he was being a dick because it was never mentioned again. I think you might be right, discomfort plus not knowing how to handle the situation.

He survived the crash but is quadriplegic now. He was very lucky though, his two best friends died.
Then do the right thing and solve the problem by removing downvote on comments - you will do this community a huge favor and you will simplify the UX as well. It has no purpose outside of emotional buildups. Upvotes give you enough for sorting purposes - it's been working well for Facebook and Twitter. For everything else, there's reddit!
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The original title "De Blasio to Announce 10-Year Deadline to Offer Computer Science to All Students" is a better headline. Of note in the article, "Computer science will not become a graduation requirement, and middle and high schools may choose to offer it only as an elective." This is quite different than the HN modified title.
It looks like that's what they are gonna do, which makes me happy: https://vimeo.com/139401042
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David Graeber wrote about the origins of money as IOUs pretty extensively in his book "Debt: The first 5,000 years"
Capture doesn't need all that much energy unless you're taking a really impatient path to a distant location.
The "break HTML scraping" reason makes zero sense when an HN API exists.
Their isn't a great way to edit on android. It really is great when I am doing really deep research on a topic and I'm generating a ton of notes that I want to go back to in a bit. The ability to just link everything together in a hypertext mesh is really nice. While on the go I just send myself emails and put them in the wiki later.
Nice project. Where are you located? (Not your home addy, just the area)
No, please. Managing your tabs is not the site's job, it's yours or your browser's, such as you choose to split that labor. In most modern browsers, manually opening a new tab simply means middle-clicking or Ctrl+left-clicking instead of regular clicking. And if you really want it to automatically apply to all HN links, that's a great use case for a userscript.
You can see how that is a narrow selection though? Men and women don't remain 'similarly situated' throughout their entire careers, particularly when you factor in child-rearing (paternity still being highly uncommon, and few countries offer it as a social benefit).

In in simplest form that is like saying "the pay divide between women and men is non-existent when women are effectively men."
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Not just wide, but off balance.
So far I like the feature that new links are posted in green. That will give new sites the opportunity to standout against the larger, common sites posted (like bbc, wired, nautilus, etc). I just hope some users won't take advantage and scurry around for new sites to take advantage of this new feature.

Thanks for the changes. I'll definitely send feedback along the way.
It's not the recording that's the issue ...
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I'm not sure what you're point is here. There is no magical world 2008 or not, never do you see 100% of people paying back their loans.

Conservatively managing loans means minimising lending to people likely to default, and leveraging enough to cover those who do. You do not need 100% of people to pay back their loans to turn a profit, charging interest is what makes this manageable and guarantees a profit.
Hmm, I don't really think its off by much, especially in Westernized nations where practically every thing is governed by contracts, regulations and legalese. And especially at a management level. You allocate resources to accomplish tasks. If you have a C++ developer, that's a resource. Resource X costs Y and produces Z could be applied to JetBrains licenses or people. Maintence for licenses is quite simple requiring updated payment information, maintence for people is a lot less clear cut and requires communication, and lots of ambiguous judgement calls. It's stale but I'm not sure there's a better word to fit in its place.
In your 12 comments on this thread, you called OP or likened him to a parasite, immoral, exploitative, wasteful, crazy, a pickpocket, a medical quack, net negative to our society, a con artist, a scam artist, a Nigerian scammer, "why we can't have nice things", morally bereft, manipulative, a time waster, a waster of resources, and selfish.

I responded to this by asserting that you were making those claims by making large assumptions about AVIS, OP's mental state / situation, and OP's past and future dealings with AVIS.

I simply don't see how you can know the things your claiming to know without access to that information. For example, you'd need to have an answer to: did AVIS make a profit on all this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10215662 would seem to imply AVIS did make a profit, and OP is overvaluing airline miles in an economic sense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10221662 calls it into question from a different perspective.

If I was wrong in assuming you don't have that information, please correct me and post it! I will happily read through it and perhaps join you in judging OP. If you don't have the information, but feel there that the information is not necessary, please describe how and I'll read it and respond. If neither of these is true, please consider adding caveats to your statements in future. It will help others understand you, and make debates more fruitful (#include the replies to your other comments on this thread)

I don't normally engage with people making schoolyard-type statements, but did so in this case because it felt like my civic duty -- it matters to me that HackerNews remain a place for intelligent discussions. As you are probably aware, my intent with the ":)"s were not to be mean but rather to let you know I didn't have a problem with you as a person, only with your specific behavior. It's hard to call out behavior civilly, but I tried (and think I succeeded) in this case. That you then proceeded to call me snotty, smug, and a superior dick is only serving to prove my point: you're assuming, and mistaking those assumptions for reality.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MscGen
To see the animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8Av7Sc7yGY (it's linked in the page)
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Can you at least add an option to enable mobile CSS and view port settings on a per account basis? I know there are a lot of people on here who love tiny fonts but there are also lots that do not.
Your welcome.

dangrossman answered this in detail already and I agree with what he says.

Just as an example, in my system each email that gets sent out has a unique id (in our case a hashed id), we use that as the id value. From there we can get back to campaign, email address, company etc. As for the image itself, it is physically only one image generally (or an image byte stream cached in RAM).

btw -- dangrossman used sequential numbers as the ID only as an example to show you, you wouldn't do that in a production system. Have fun!
The tie between energy, population, and GDP growth rates to various points back to 1 AD, via the Angus Maddison datasets, is fairly well established:

http://ourfiniteworld.com/2012/08/29/the-long-term-tie-betwe...

There are very good thermodynamic reasons to suspect the relationship will continue to hold.
When the producer of the movie Hackers appeared on AOL for a promotional chat room visit, some malicious technology lovers showed up and kept knocking them offline.

http://www.aolwatch.org/list/0051.html
Unfortunately I don't know if it ever will reach the same level of importance as literacy, because the industry seems to be trying very hard to discourage regular users from ever becoming programmers or even "advanced users"; see the War on General Purpose Computing:

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

I mean, how do you even convince someone that learning to program is a good idea if it takes jumping through many serious hoops just to set up? The majority of interaction with computers is with locked-down mobile devices. Contrast this with home computers in the 80s that were practically begging to be programmed as they came with little other than a built-in interpreter, or the early days of the PC where user magazines had source code - in assembly language - that people could enter in DEBUG and create small but useful programs.

The walled gardens of app stores have also grown to the point where simply sharing an executable with someone has become an almost taboo act, with some central authority telling the users who to trust.

It's in the interests of the software industry to keep the majority of users computer-illiterate, so they can be profited from. On the other hand, basic literacy is valued by the industry, because it makes it easier to persuade users who know how to read and write (adverts wouldn't work if people couldn't read them...)
You're missing the point. Behind the scenes? Sure. But Schneier is asking why NSA didn't break into HT and then burn all their exploits with the vendors. That's not a behind- the- scenes hack.
Look, there is probably 500M "generalist thinkers" like you on the internet. The value of your opinion is zero - "0".

The value of the opinion of that other guy that you mentioned is way more than zero - he gets invited to conferences, publishes in peer-reviewed journals, publishes free security software etc. So, people actually listen to what he says.
Proper and conservative management includes due diligence wrt the borrower's ability to pay.
What is the origin of "compholio"? I chuckled when I saw that for some reason.
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Here's a more detailed account of the background leading up to that attack.

http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxiv/10.3.97/exclusive/let...
Zapf has made some excellent sans serifs. Optima is likely the one you've seen the most, but there's URW Grotesk, too.
I'll look up the link, but previously dang (I think?) said that it will be slowly improved, in a minimal-impact sort of way.

Introduce the HN API gradually, get the scrapers to shift over to it, improve html generation and css used. Would be interesting to hear updates on that.

[edit]

Found the link! http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api
http://bandsoftheweek.com/ - make a playlist of the bands coming to town.

Recently got some attention on reddit. It was fun to do, and Clojure worked quite well under traffic.
I'd like to suggest a very basic fix that will help new users.

People need to know about rules before they can reliably follow them. And Hacker News makes that surprisingly hard for new people.

Above the submit button, there is a line that says: "If you haven't already, would you mind reading about HN's approach to comments?"

I wanted to make sure I followed the rules, so I clicked the hyperlink and began reading a new page. It began, "Hacker News is a bit different from other community sites, so we'd appreciate it if you'd take a minute to read the site guidelines."

I thought that was the page that I had just clicked through to, so I continued reading. And it seemed like I was right: I learned about the rules against crap links, rudeness, etc.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. The first link took me to the 'welcome page' — which provides some guidelines for using the site, but not all of the rules. If you want to learn the rest of the rules, you have to know to click on another hyperlink to reach the site guidelines page.
I found this counter-intuitive, and I doubt I'm the only one.

If you want people to learn the rules, please consider placing them beneath the existing text on the welcome page, so everyone will realize they exist. Or, at minimum, place a link to the guidelines page directly above the submit button, instead of just sending people back to the welcome page. And maybe add a "Rules" tab to the top navigation bar.

Thanks for your help!
Not only that, but they do it when the lid is first closed. That way, if it dies in an hour due to a low battery... oh well. (This is also why the more memory you have, the longer it may take for the laptop to go to sleep after closing the lid.)
It's great to give the oportunity to kids to learn computer science but it looks like everyone associates computer science with programming. That's true at university level but does that make sense for young kids? Shouldn't we rather focus on the basics of computing: typing on a keyboard, understanding how an OS works, how internet works, a browser, etc. Then in high school some basics of programming in an easy but useful language like VB, java or python. And leave the hardcore stuff for university.
Denotation of people on salary as a "resource" is correct, and I'm even OK with including people in a collective set of varied types of resources. "We just don't have the resources to pursue all possible ideas" and the like is fine.

I'm recommending a terminology change to always call people "people" as it biases your leaders to think of them as special and different from licenses, machines, money, and black boxes. (It's not my idea originally, but I've seen it play out at my company and believe it to be helpful.)
Haha wow. Schneier fan, are we? Did I touch a nerve? The hilarious thing is you don't even know who I am or what I do. You have no fucking clue.

How dare someone think critically. Not on your watch.
Burning exploits is more or less directly industrial espionage/sabotage. The NSA seems to avoid engaging in economic battles unless it's a direct policy goal (stuxnet) or furthers their mission of gathering secrets.
What exactly is it that you're "valuing" here?

What's it tied to?

How does it grow without some real, resource-based, basis?

What evidence do you have for such a thing existing?

How about evidence that it cannot? What would falsify your premise?
I read the whole thing, in fits and starts. I think it took around five years, though there were some stretches of longer than a year when I didn't read any of it. I think it was a worthwhile exercise, and I'd like to do it again sometime.
I think the New York Times changed their headline. The HN headline is the same as the one in the push notification I got.
Is that so? I always figured it's worse to think you know something when you don't than to not know something and know you don't.
It's too bad he hates one of the most successful apps of all time...[Uber]
It's too bad he hates Uber..
OP sounds like he works for a startup, where he's given the title of a Lead Developer, but is expected to perform the role of an Engineering Manager and even some CTO duties. In addition to hiring/salaries, also worrying about software licenses? This is not the description of a lead developer.
It would be far outweighed by the positive effect of getting kids interested in programming. My first experience programming was when I was 7 and my 8 year old neighbor from Brazil would alter text based DOS games. Then we started making our own BASIC games. Who cares that we were using GOTO everywhere and doing everything wrong. We learned to love programming.
It's a fox joint or fox wedge joint.

http://www.basiccarpentrytechniques.com/Woodwork%20Joints/Wo...
(You need to scroll down a ways)
If you learn how to code, it'll still take you 6 hours at least to produce anything that would be even moderately useful.

What? No way. I crank out extremely useful shell scripts in less than 5 minutes all the time. You don't have to use an IDE, compiler and some heavyweight framework just to be a programmer. Cobbling together a quick shell or Python script can let you do TONS of tasks that would be extraordinarily tedious, if not impossible, for a non-programmer.
It's a person's internet handle (http://www.compholio.com/) who wrote custom patches for Wine that were popular before they were incorporated into the mainline project... and not a thinly veiled Beavis and Butthead reference.
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Just increase the font size on the main page by a couple of sizes. On both Chrome and FF Mobile it have to zoom in like crazy just to click on the "# comments" link.
This makes me think that automatic rebasing and test running as a service would be an interesting product. Continuous integration of upstream changes into your possibly proprietary downstream fork (for features or ports), with Travis running each time.... You could avoid the problem of divergent forks!
I admire the sentiment but I have to believe that at any scale someone qualified to teach CS would be doing something a bit more lucrative than teaching public school. Altruism is a beautiful thing, and something I wish I had more of, but let's face it: it's easier to demand this than to actually deliver it.

I imagine that when our industry has the next culling, public interest in CS will wane as usual until the next revolution is quickly unleashed by software fueled technology.