skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The design looks actually worse on Windows Phone[1,2]. The text is (or feels) a bit smaller now on portrait mode, so I'd have to switch to landscape. And the top menu is out of alignment. (Edit: The text is definitely smaller. I think it used to reflow nicely with bigger text but now it doesn't, forcing me to zoom out all the way)

Since we are talking about mobile, I'd focus on improving the arrows - I've downvoted way too many comments due to that.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/akAyUxP.jpg
[2] http://i.imgur.com/NWVSHMW.jpg
The US Postal Service is not a company.
What UI/UX expectations make it difficult to make visual programming languages general purpose?
> you won't be able to get it like that out of the box anymore in jessie stable

Yes you will, it's just an old version without security updates.

> but you will be able to get it in unstable

No you won't, Stretch is the current unstable and elasticsearch is going to be removed from it.
A step in the right direction but still meeds more done.
Granular – WPF (and XAML) for JavaScript
Sad. This person has obviously divorced reality. Shocking that a simple account deletion request could reveal so much. Whether his reaction was a product of pent-up frustration over normal growth challenges or a singular (now ongoing) display of gross immaturity, he has irreparably damaged his company.
Haven't used AirBnB so I don't know about the review mechanism but isn't it blind? For example, if i remember correctly, on Freelancer.com, you cant see the other party's review until you submit yours. The reviews only get posted once both parties have submitted theirs. Isn't this the same for AirBnB? If not, wouldn't implementing this resolve the issue?

Side note: You can implement a deadline for submitting review to avoid misuse where someone doesn't submit their own review in order to prevent a bad review from getting posted on their profile
> America has never had a famine, though.

I'm not sure I agree:

* We've had massive production problems, such as in the Dust Bowl.

* Many Americans are malnourished; the US is not getting enough food to them by whatever mechanism (supermarkets, food stamps, etc.).

Also, is it true that there were no famines in the 150 years before the Great Depression, even localized ones (i.e., not nationwide)?
But what if robustirc goes down? :P
> The design looks actually worse on Windows Phone[1]

Looks almost identical on WP 10 (Edge).

> I've downvoted way too many comments due to that.

I don't vote on my phone due to this.
Hillary Clinton was just as confused by LinkedIn as the rest of us
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era
European startup accelerator Startupbootcamp expands to the US
Why is free market in scare quotes? And why "so-called"?
My experience has been the same as yours - I spent years living in NYC and years living in rural Wisconsin. The difference, in terms of social contact, is remarkable. It used to kill me when I'd roll up to a complete stranger's farm to ask for permission to hunt out on their property and end up getting dragged into the house to have dinner with their family, ha ha.
I like it. If the majority end up disliking it and the look is reverted, please consider adding a confirmation step or ability to hide the flag button on mobile. That's my most common fat finger error on HN.
The “Inbox (Design) Pattern”
So, if I don't write a review, the other party's review won't get posted either? This misuse can be prevented by implementing a deadline for submitting review and beyond that, whoever submitted theirs gets posted. So even if you forfeit your review, it still wont prevent the other party's bad review from getting posted
9 Ways to Deal with Toxic People in Workplace
My proposal already includes a photo; I am not sure how are the human apiaries with no living outdoor space related to it.
Did Africa’s Apes Come from Europe?
Deterministic object disposal is quite easy to do in GC languages, provided they support higer order functions.

It is no different than imposing a programming pattern like RAII.
And it also made real estate prices skyrocket in some places, because rich people (or usually companies) bought out a lot of property, which is now rented for a nice profit. Some apartment buildings can looks very strange as they are relatively empty because it is clearly used as 'AirBnB hotel'.

Basically if you want to buy/rent property for a sane price you must go deep into suburbs.

P.S. It's all my subjective experience, I have not conducted any studies.
Yes, as a college student it is possible all your friends (or a lot of them) will live in that one huge building. But as time passes people move around (even within the same city) for jobs, family, and lots of other reasons & suddenly all your friends don't all live in the same huge building.
Some people are cheap, and use airbnb just as a way to spend less money.

Prime example: my girlfriend. We can both easily afford a normal hotel room, especially when traveling together. But in an expensive city, spending $80/night on an airbnb instead of $200/night on a proper hotel, is to her an irresistible savings. We've had bad experiences, and we've had fights about this. There may also be cultural differences. I have a high salary, no debts, and lots of savings, and there are some things which I think are absolutely worth paying for (like a hotel room), and she just doesn't want me to.
I don't disagree! Most countries' registries don't have requirements around geographical presence, so here we are.
Keep, please.
Climate change causes significant losses for farmers, and very likely will cause many more. Yet it's the city folk who vote to do something about it and the rural population that makes it a point of ideology to reject even looking into the possibility of it.
I get what you're getting at, but the difference isn't quite that stark among most of the actual population of rural areas, at least today (pre-1930s is another story). There are some really off-the-grid rural areas, and those people have quite different views, but that's less than 1% of the U.S. population. The vast majority of the population of rural areas has grid electricity, running tap water, mail delivery, a phone line, a sheriff's department, etc. The federal government's rural-electrification push still has visible results all over the place, the National Rural Utilities Cooperative is present in thousands of communities, subsidized rural mail delivery is almost ubiquitous, most people's kids go to public schools, kids get vaccinated, many farmers receive government subsidies and loan guarantees, many people have FDIC-insured bank deposits, many people live on Social Security, etc.
I tried doing this a long time ago, and eventually gave up exactly because of this. I self host a lot of things, but self hosted email has always taken up a disproportionate amount of my time. At some point it's just not worth the headache any more.

I ended up ditching the self hosting route and went with an Exchange Online hosted email subscription at $5 per month and never looked back.

https://products.office.com/en-ca/exchange/exchange-online
Regarding the various calls that it should really be the CEO who gets executed, I'd wager those ancient bridge builders probably were the "CEO" of the relevant bridge building operation. Specifically, they probably managed substantial funds obtained from some Royal and had plenty opportunity to trade-off between personal profit and structural integrity.

Calls to transfer the idea to today's lowly programmer drone would be akin to ancient bridge builder absconding with substantial extra profit after convincing his Royal that it really should be the bricklaying crew who should line up under the bridge.
Looks like it's finally a 404.
> this puts you outside the reach of big ad $, which is moving towards programmatic buying and serving retargeting ads.

Not if the big ad companies (google's adsense) create a plugin or program that serves the ads up locally instead of making obvious 3rd party calls to their own networks. I suspect they're working on such a plugin as we speak.
Why attackers are increasingly taking the fiat banks to the cleaners
It's great but needs qa badly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10474901
Wow, it is! After all this time, I've never been so happy to see a 404.
Just like almost everything else that ends up getting big and successful.
Neovim doesn't have a desktop version on OSX like Macvim or did I missed something?
Neovim articles seem to be accompanied by a bunch of top-level comments saying how unreservedly wonderful it is and offering nothing constructive. It looks like shills (but I of course don't know the intent of any particular commenter).
My mother was born in the former Soviet Union and I have a lot of relatives and friends that immigrated from Russia and nearby countries (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus) that share some similarities in culture.

My hometown was also originally founded by Russian immigrants and has a large minority (~30% I think) of people of Russian descent.
Looks decent on my Nexus 6.
And how exactly would they do that on your server?
The definition of science has never been settled. There are things which, broadly speaking, are accepted as scientific or not, but providing a rigorous grounding of and definition for the concept of "science" is a centuries-old open question, thanks largely to the problem of induction.

Falsificationism is one possible solution that's been proposed, but it is not the only one, is not universally accepted, and you really should probably do some background research on the topic before arrogantly spouting off about how you have the one true answer that some "army of philosophers" with "silly meta arguments" can't manage to come up with.
Yeah we use Adium which we've found to be fantastic especially when paired with the OTR plugin.
No mention of security impact of these bugs in the tracker. Anyone know if FFmpeg has some vulnerability process, or do they just commit fixes and let other people worry about exploitability, security hotfixes and CVEs, like Linux?
The GitHub pull request model is absurdly complex for drive-by changes. I wish there were a way to just send a patch.
My company's blogs:

http://blog.ukit.com.br/
http://blog.ucoz.com.br/
They could correlate with other sites with a back-end system that shares cookie data.
careful what you wish for
In this case, these friends are not farther than in usual case of a low-density suburban. You will have to drive, but not longer than if you lived in a single family house, as the building + park in the proposal above takes about the same space as 1000 single-family houses. So, it makes the friends more accessible, if they are in the same neighborhood, and not less accessible otherwise.

Also, living in the same building actually helps to find new friends, especially if there's enough shared space indoors/outdoors, such as cafes, gyms, hacker spaces, etc.
We're working on solving this at http://kittyhawk.io by creating a culture of safety. I'm also working on some interesting educational materials.
A pure Ruby gem for reading and writing sound files in Wave format
600 days ago Exec pivoted and left the game.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7380912

Can we stop now?
LWN –  Inheriting capabilities
And I was able to just send myself a password reset request, so looks like they just put in a rewrite or something.
> Nobody should ever have to justify one's right to privacy.

You always need to justify you rights, since you should never assume those with power over you - the ones that grant you your rights - are willing to do that.

There is no such thing as natural rights.
Multithreaded toolkits: A failed dream? (2004)
While Docker (and containers) are on fire at the moment, they're not the only game in town.
An old observation, but still relevant: We really have no liability in our profession, compared to other licensed professions. Why does software quality suck? Because our customers almost never sue us if the work we do does not meet expectation.
If you view the file on github.com, you should see an edit button, which - I believe - makes the whole process a lot simpler.
The Web is not the Internet. If customers have no means to receive unsolicited packets, then you're not really an Internet service provider.
'Escape Rooms' Challenge Players To Solve Puzzles To Get Out
People want LTS systems - it's why LTS has become a thing in recent years. It's not Debian and Centos forcing it on the community, it's the community asking for it.
keep it! much better, than before.
Yes, there is a push towards cashless in Sweden. Though we're still very far away from going fully cashless in general. The central bank are actually releasing new denominations of coins and notes this autumn, so we'll have cash around for the foreseeable future.

As mentioned public transportation is one area where cash is commonly not accepted any more. Banks obviously encourage card payments over cash and have also been reducing the number of their own offices that handle cash. On the other hand most grocery stores in Sweden allows you to withdraw cash when you shop and charge your card. If you need cash that's the most convenient way to get it.

Entirely cashless stores are quite rare. Maybe it is a bit more common in some big city locations, where the loss of the very few customers who cannot pay by card doesn't matter - simply because the vast majority already pays with cards.

On a personal level I prefer card payments and it can easily pass weeks between the very rare cases where I have to use cash.

That said, I would really not like a cashless society if that means I cannot have any mean of traceless transactions. I want to be able to hand over money to people I don't know or necessarily trust beyond a superficial level, without having to account for it later.

As for cash in the microwave oven... Well, duh, where else would you keep them? :)
When I think about switching to Neovim, I feel disloyal and ungrateful to Bram Moolenaar. He has done so much for so many, and if Neovim takes off he won't walk away with much of a reward. How much code has been written in Vim - and almost every line for free.
Singh is actually the Indian Sanskrit root word for Lion and is common in south Indian language of Kannada, Tamil and Malayalam which has Simha, Singham and Simham as the word for lion respectively. The Sri Lanka's ethnic majority are called Sinhalese which again is derived from the Indo-Aryan Sinhala language bearing similar influence, meaning the "lion people" or "people with lion blood", while a sword-wielding lion is the central figure on the modern national flag of Sri Lanka.The island nation of Singapore (Singapura) derives its name from the Malay words singa (lion) and pura (city), which in turn is from the Tamil-Sanskrit சிங்க singa सिंह siṃha and पुर புர pura.
The edit button lets you change it easily
You don't need to actively clone a repo to make a change. You just click "Edit" on the file you wan't to change and it'll do the heavy lifting for you.

True, you still have to make a commit message and click submit on the pull request, but the cloning/forking is taken care of behind the scene
point taken.

actually, I was referring to https://www.debian.org/vote/2014/vote_003 . But I see how my language could be interpreted that way.
Perhaps the rural areas can make up some of the shortfall by selling water to the cities.
check out https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/Related-projects#gui-p...
> yeah, it's not humans doing it, we can ignore it

Taking this further, even if we did somehow find out that humans weren't changing a thing it would still be in our best interests to prevent or slow the changes. Laying blame is an exercise in futility.

For example, let's say that we were somehow wrong about cows not actually being the #1 contributor to global warming (which they aren't[1]). Climate change deniers would have a day of rejoice for being right that it wasn't humans, and then what? Asphyxiate in cow fart.

It don't care if it's humans, cows, an alien beam from outside the galaxy or the hamster people. It's a problem, I stopped caring who's to blame a long time ago. We're currently going for the lowest hanging fruit (carbon emissions), which is the best approach. If tomorrow it turns out it was something different, changing that would be the correct thing to fix. Proving that humans aren't to blame does not exempt us from fixing it.

[1]: http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1734
Much better, but I will still use this web app http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

Don't bail, but maybe redesign the whole page, and get rid of the tables in the markup?
Let's be clear, I wasn't a good student. Keep that in mind with this advice :-)

This technique seems incredibly effective, but also way too time consuming. My best advice is to buy a ton of four color pens, and put them everywhere. Being able to use color to increase information density when both taking notes and re-writing notes was incredibly helpful (especially when drawing complex charts in economics).

There were people who had eight color pens, but those seemed a bridge too far. I honestly don't think I would have graduated without these (no affiliate): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000F2PFPS

And who can take notes into an app? I need the freedom of pen and paper for doodling when class is boring :-)
First China-made passenger jet leaves production line
Needs a [flash] in the title.
Reminds me of the Maoist solution to the urban/rural divide: send the urban elites to work on the farms for a period, so they could unlearn their bourgeois attitudes, and learn how the rural masses live [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_to_the_Countryside_Moveme...
Everything you ever wanted to know about the NYC Marathon
Why? It's readily apparent when you go to it.
> Nobody wants to completely get rid of cars,

I've seen far too many people argue viciously for exactly that.

> transportation nerds like myself just want the different modes to be on an even playing field, rather than cars being always hyper-dominant like they usually have been in the US.

Agreed.
The author makes some suggestions.

> Our leverage is weak, but there are some things we can do. Some companies using palm oil have made visible efforts to reform their supply chains; but others seem to move more slowly and opaquely. Starbucks, PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz are examples. Don’t buy their products until you see results.

So you could contact those companies and let them know you will be boycotting them until they publicly announce steps to remove environmentally irresponsible suppliers from their supply chain.

Are small countries that allow lots of pillaging of natural resources political entities? Or are they more of a political face to the underlying corporate interests that need those resources? It might be more productive in that case to treat them as corporations and hit them in their wallets by hitting companies up the supply chain from them to get them to change behavior.
Dubstep Remix Popular songs
The convex hull will represent the geometry more accurately than an OBB because it can have >8 points and doesn't have to be cuboid. So the collisions will be more representative.
He should set up a script to take a screenshot of it with each commit as well and make an animated gif.
you are correct - I had conflated the PID1 argument with cgroup daemon, because as far as I stand.. it doesnt make a difference to me.
There have been alternative managers like cgmanager [1] that lxc is bringing - which (surprisingly) work well with systemd as well [2] . Probably another reason not be scared of systemd ;)

[1] https://linuxcontainers.org/cgmanager/introduction/

[2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170998/how-to-create...
That was so far ahead of its time.
> The evolution of various atomic models prior to Bohr is also a case where one "consensus" after another was overturned by new evidence.

Models like the 'plum pudding' were known to be incorrect; they were just used at the time because they were the best available.
Sadly the housing situation in most metropolitan areas is an assault on all the senses. Housing right next to highways, no sound insulation between units, damp buildings infested with mold, inadequate ventilation, overflowing trash bins.

A lot of it is down to the short-term objectives of most property development projects, management companies who are unwilling to properly maintain buildings, and shoddy building standards in the US - flimsy materials, stick-built buildings instead of concrete, etc. The housing stock is in terrible shape and current policy encourages the development of disposable buildings that are barely livable.

Poor noise control in building designs results in:

Everyone's Upstairs Neighbors -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IRB0sxw-YU
You are assuming that web sites have any meaningfull code done in JavaScript.

Many outside the HN web bubble are still plain HTML/CSS sites with almost everything done server side.
When the SOPA/PIPA protests happened in 2012, I was really surprised to learn that students were upset since all they used as a resource was Wikipedia.

I mean for the most part I agree with the quoted articles in that Wikipedia is hard to "verify" other than what you believe sounds true. And sometimes this happens.

1) Someone write something on Wikipedia
2) Person changes it
3) Another person reverts, citing source X. Source X is "Celebrity Magazine" which may or may not have actually checked that fact on Wikipedia.
5) Repeat

It is a bit scary how much our source of information is just this one site source without decent "fact" checking other than turf war related reasons.

Here is one: I am pretty certain that Alicia Keys was born in 1980 and not 1981 as her Wikipedia article says. I have no way to prove this based on Wikipedia standards and if you look on "the Internet" you sometimes see 1980 and sometimes see 1981. The editors who turfed her page at the time sided with the 1981 timeline.

And how did they "prove" it was 1981? They showed links to some music related websites with articles about her saying she was born in that year. Completely ignoring alternative sources that said she was born in 1981.

I mean there are certain explanations on why this happened:
1) A major publication cited her DOB as 1981, others followed suit.
2) Alicia keys' handlers want her to be a year younger than she is, so she told her PR people to make sure everyone says she was born a year younger.
3) Someone misheard she was born in 1981, wrote that down on Wikipedia, then everyone else just used Wikipedia as a reference.

The problem I'm trying to get at is, Wikipedia is so popular its hard to figure out if people are just lazy and using it as a source, which perpetuates this cycle of "Fact F on Article A is true because of source S, Source S it turns out, used article A to look up Fact F and reprinted it without really fact checking F.

So yeah, popular, but hard to determine how accurate. /rant.
I've wondered at how, despite surnames being our "clan" or "family" names (and therefore a collection of people) and our first being our individual names, I seem to meet many more people who share firstnames than surnames.

Any way of telling how wrong I am?
For me it's just the A:tag that is slightly bigger. I have to do slightly more scrolling now, but that is acceptable.

I still have to zoom in to up-vote or click on comments though, but that do not bother me.
Legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the United States, with 74 percent growth in 2014, according to a recent study by the ArcView Group, a Silicon Valley investment research firm. Last year, it generated $2.7 billion in sales and delivered more than $200 million in tax revenue to the legal states. In Colorado alone, the $88 million raised from pot was more than double that from alcohol.
You lost me on the mandatory selection of an avatar upon sign up, if it has to be necessary then add some predefined images so I don't have to select something from my hard drive. I was at work and I didn't have any selfies at my disposal.