skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A childhood friend of mine(32) from elementary school, has a mild autism and does not know how to deal with his life. We used to be mad doom fans (well, we still are) when it came out and it stuck with us for years. But the poor guy is living with his family, sitting up until 4AM making Doom levels. At this stage he is one of the leading "levellers" at Doomworld[0]. "STILL MAKING LEVELS IN 2015" is a thing which is kind of funny, but it is actually sad. He's wasted so much of his young years thinking about Doom, making levels etc. I wish he'd just snap out of it, but it seems it will not happen. That is how the story goes I guess, with the kids you grow up with. Not all of them have the interpersonal and mental means to pick a chose a good path for themselves.

[0] http://doomworld.com
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"and Facebook can take them away from you at any time"

Have they actually done that to any website? That would undermine their whole system. They'd do that once and everyone would leave their service. That's like saying "Well Google could publish all your emails! So you definitely shouldn't trust your emails to Google"
http://elementary.io/ & http://www.linuxmint.com/ are the two distros I often hear about.
I have not tested them myself though, I might someday if OsX becomes too closed-up to be useful for my needs.

Even with all the random problems I had with the first version of El Capitan, I doubt that a linux distro can rival the polish of OsX though. Of course, I would love to be wrong.
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> I'm not actually sure how system updates from the "regular use" side work with SIP enabled. They could have a special exception in the SIP infrastructure, but I doubt it.

Apple Signed (with Apple's special key) Installers are allowed to modify system paths, including the current running system to install updaets.
This is worse than useless. None of the apps is identified in a way that you can actually look them up.

For example, there are apps from 4 different vendors on the Play Store called "Good2go" ... none of which resembles the stated app.

"Sex 101" can't be found by that name, either.

Pleasure Droid is a privacy suck... just what you want in a sex app.

And the Play Store can't find anything with the term "Fundawear".
I'd assume Christmas Cake is just a cake eaten during Xmas. I didn't know it had to be a special type of cake.
Powerful, easy to grasp, and frustration-free - so kudos on that alone. However it's the consideration put into everything around Vue.js that really helps it shine.

Clean website with comprehensive and clear API guide, the responsiveness and outright prolificness of Evan on Github, the thought put into the 1.0 release and the succinct syntax.

So many things that others have done wrong, done right.
And Sweden is with Donald Duck.

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/24/372940340/how-donald-duck-help...
Christmas Cake in Japan is entirely different from what the British call it. In Japan it's a double layer chiffon sponge filled with strawberries and cream, with additional strawberries and cream on top.
Christmas Cakes are (were) a thing in Australia. We'd always get one from our grandparents, stuffed with money. Biting down on a bit of cake and cracking a tooth on a .50c is a real tradition, yo! At least in our family it was .. :)
Also relevant http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/consumer-security/taxpaye...

Security isn't a strong point with these people, which is amazing for a portal that has literally every relationship you have with the Aus government …
We do not have Christmas Cake in the US as far as I've ever seen. Even 'fruit cake' which exists solely around Christmas has been the butt of jokes for at least 30 years so very few people actually buy/eat them and they don't usually have anything (booze, frosting) going on with them.
I posted my favorite yesterday; link to MP3 in the entry:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10781019

(Alan Maitland's reading of Frederick Forsyth's "The Shepherd")
I'm glad 6.Christmas is packaged and shipped.

It isn't (yet). Stay tuned.
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That's not so bad, considering the alternatives for people in such a situation.

I also have a friend in a somewhat similar place, although last we met he seems to have gotten a bit of a better grip on his life (managed to find some freelance work as a programmer, as far as I know he was never able to hold a "normal" steady job before).

If we didn't have happen to be into computers as kids I'm pretty sure things would have been worse.
Guess, you mean Japanese Strawberry Shortcakes?
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Oracle has a similar product with the same name. This might be an issue.
I think the rule is you have to use the original page headline. avoids editorializing.
Look at the source of this article.

This should not even be on HN.

This is just spam.
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> If they use an emoticon in their only root account password with FileVault enabled, it's Apple's fault that they are now locked out of their machine.

Ok, so: if you look into who I am, you can rest guaranteed that I agree with your overall point and conclusion... but this amazingly-very-real?!?[1] emoji scenario you've described is absolutely "Apple's fault"... if Apple lets me type an emoticon into that password field, it had better well support it reasonably :/. This is a legitimate screw up in the abstraction provided by Apple, not an unavoidable tradeoff in the reality of using a computer.

[1]: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/202143/i-included-e...
Really interesting article - one thing that caught my eye though, was the Looney Tunes wallpaper in their kitchen. That seems like an odd thing to find deep inside Russia.
Wow, always figured it was the same everywhere. Here in France we have "buche de noel" which means "log of Christmas" because it's a cake shaped like a log.
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> After a few half-hearted explanations on my part about how Christmas doesn't really involve cake

[...]

> they may transform your traditions into something unrecognizable

This "Christmas" thing really took off. You must be proud.
Ask HN: How to do market research for startup idea via surveys?
I can't find a link to the original paper but it would be good to check the details of the analysis. Firstly, they'd have to take care doing comparisons between the 4 different groups - it's not enough just to do multiple-comparisons as the probability of a false-positive result escalates with each comparison (I would expect them to have done this). Also, the sample sizes seem low and it would be good to see how they estimated the variances (say by using boot-strapping) and shown that this is indeed not just a result by chance.
this is working just fine:

nil&.+(3)&.+(5)&.-(7)
This is fantastic advice. Pretty much exactly what I did to get to the point of being employable (when not working on my own ideas). Starting from a position pretty similar to the OP.

The most important part of this is the emphasis on releasing code on a consistent basis. I'm 6 years into my journey and am still doing this pretty regularly. Example: https://github.com/Tapha/Custom-Highlight - A simple, open source text highlighter that allows you to add custom functions to it. Like the Medium editor.
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Linux can run rootless, in capabilities only mode. Linux has destroyed your ownership of your computer too.
Wish I had this for my CE Assembler classes during first semester. Wonderful tool.
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> After a few half-hearted explanations on my part about how Christmas doesn't really involve cake

Hang on...

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=christmas+cake&source=lnms...

You'd have been better off saying that Christmas doesn't really involve Santa Claus:

https://jakubmarian.com/christmas-gift-bringers-of-europe/
Apache wave (aka Google wave) has a lot of what you mentioned, and it's based on xmpp.
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Hacker News New Christmas Theme
The website really should provide some screenshots of the software!
Are there some higher profile examples of apps that have been built using white label builders like this?
This was originally a piece for Vanity Fair, published 2012, found here:

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/08/christopher-hitche...
Have you played (or watched somebody play) The Beginner's Guide¹? I watched a video of somebody playing through it, and it affected me pretty powerfully; now I'm pretty positive towards the idea of letting people express themselves creatively however they like and not trying to pressure them towards my ideas of "productivity".

¹: http://thebeginnersgui.de/
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I really liked Persona and put a bunch of work into extending it (adding support for things like selective attribute disclosure). One real design limitation was that it didn't support delegation (the original use case for OAuth).
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Ask HN: What was your biggest life lesson in 2015?
Hey All,

I want to know what you have learned in 2015 that you never realised before. I am going to start with my self, I learned one thing:
1. Identifying people who really matters in life is super important. We generally don't think like this but when the person is not around you, you will realise how the person was in your life. And don't forget to show your gratitude you never know when it's the end.

I would really like to know your life lesson. May be some of us learn from other and can use in 2016.

Thanks in advance.
I don't really see the big deal here, you ~just have to disable SIP to make dtrace works again fully, right?

I guess it can be an issue if in the future Apple decides to no longer allow us to officially disable SIP.
Christmas Cake is a British + Colonies thing (- the US it seems). So you should suspect your memory, because the Chinese/Japanese seem to remember better ;)

Did you really need to make the Chinese are depressing not efficient racial slur?
We do have 'yule logs' which wikipedia tells me are broadly the same cake (chocolate sponge cake rolled up around frosting) but I don't know that it's really all that common.

US Christmas is stereotypically endless cookies, with gingerbread and cinnamon rolls coming in strong. In general though I think the culinary traditions aren't really unified enough to be worth talking about.
That's an awful lot of Vice-y words about a Facebook group.
As a Muslim, Happy Friday :D
> The alternative to closing it was endless policing by him and Rumi Josephs, an artist who served as Boring Dystopia’s second admin. “It didn’t work at that scale

This is my biggest beef with all popular social media platforms today. They've invested vast effort in making themselves addictive but almost zero on making them efficient for users at scale.

Take OSS for example - any moderately successful project will start attracting so much noise the project will typically end up consuming all the waking and some of the sleeping hours of the founders, largely through communication and managing a growing team.

IMO this is the stuff we need to figure out how to scale effectively on social platforms instead of investing all out efforts into ever-more-toxic clickbait
Unknown.

The link you've given is - https://news.ycombinator.com/news/# - I do not think this means what you think it means.
Well, we had Persona working as both as GSS-API mechanism on Unix and a SSP on Windows. You could use it to sign-in to Exchange with Outlook - that was pretty cool. Links here:

* https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/04/mozilla-persona-for-the-no...

* https://github.com/PADL/libbrowserid

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-howard-gss-browserid-07
On Linux sudo messages also go to devlog. It just happens to be directed to journald on many Linux systems.
It apparently has real detrimental effects for people with birthdays around that time of year since many bakeries will exclusively make Christmas Cake and refuse to make any other kind of cake, including birthday cake.
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Japan is the master of Capitalism driven consumerization of Western holidays. Christmas is one (Cake + KFC), Valentines day (chocolate) is another. They invented "White Day" for 3/14 for men who receive Valentines day chocolates to give gifts to women in return (often quoted as being 3x the price of the chocolate received).

In recent times, they've succeeded in making Halloween a commercial "get out and buy costumes and party" bonanza (well I guess this is similar to what we have in the states).

Now, if only they could harness some of this prowess into international marketing... ;)
and yet no one could come up with a decent ms access replacement, which is still the go-to tool businesses use to build custom apps if they need something quick and easy to train employees on
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It's not the browser which is breaking the site; it's the site's developers who are using features which are not universally available.

Guess what? If you use simple, clean HTML and progressively enhance with JavaScript, CSS and HTML5 features then everyone can browse your site. Or you can use the absolute bleeding edge of everything, requiring every user to give your code a full VM on his machine (a JavaScript VM, granted — but it's still a VM), requiring that the user be on the absolute latest and greatest smartphone or highest-end desktop.

It's up to you.
So I gathered. It's an invitation of sorts, for people to start using it, but let's not get ahead of ourselves with this 'production-ready' idea.
See also some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10790754
Coolest UI elements all in one place
Learning to Reason: PhD Thesis Proposal, Wojciec Zaremba [pdf][2014]
The banner is ruby red, so why not.
It's not fair to blame web devs for not trying to support a browser that doesn't try to support any standards. We have clients pushing us for cool things that they have seen on other sites, or some interesting (to them) feature that they must have. If we refuse? They go to someone more accommodating.
For many many sites it really doesn't matter if they don't support 3rd world countries - what value do we gain from working hard to support people with no money to spend? Advertisers aren't interested in them, we can't sell anything to them. It sounds selfish but society is based on exactly that way of thinking.
Note that this tutorial will make a map that only works with ZDoom, not the original .exe. Having said that, mapping for Doom is fun and I suggest you try it!
Map making in Doom was (is?) so accessible as the editors were in 2D for a 3D world. Granted you couldn't place 1 room directly above another room, but no one cared too much at the time. Once things moved on to Quake a lot of my friends lost interest in trying to "figure it out" as the editor was more challenging.

In high school a group of friends would all create their own maps and then before classes started we would play test them on the computer lab LAN. Our favorite editor at the time was DEU.

None of us being map making geniuses, we'd always end up with something that didn't play well but did have a few "fun spots". Eventually someone had the idea to just cherry pick all those fun spots and Frankenstein together a single map using our individual parts. This map ended up being the most fun we have ever had in Doom.

I'm not sure if Doom was the first, but it was the first for me to instill the idea that a game should be moddable if you want to make a great community and give the game a very long life after the developers have moved on to the next thing.
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Almost like Facebook, but without the DIY approach. :D
> Which is surprisingly hard, because there’s this mixture of Silicon Valley ideology, PR and advertising which distracts us from our own aesthetic poverty, and the reality of what we have. Which is just all these crap robots…

Best part.
If thousands of users are desperately trying to use your site everyday even when it's broken for them then I'd wager the business is missing out on profit.

Our company sell to developing countries too, and there's definitely money to be made.

If you don't want to support people who you automatically assume have no money to spend, go ahead and leave it on the table for us to collect. :)
I'm a big fan of scolding people, and Christmas gives me that special oppertunity to make the scolding experience a little bit more fun me, so I built FuckedUpSanta,
It's a website where you can have Santa call your friend and scold him, and deliver a horrible Christmas Greeting.

Merry Christmas, you guys.
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It's a simple DNS proxy server.
> Christmas Cake is a British + Colonies thing (- the US it seems)

Seems so, yes. "christmas cake" is common in India too. For example,

"For sweet, the Anglo Indian household enjoys Christmas cake and plum pudding, perfumed with brandy, nutmeg and other spices." http://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/the-indian-christmas-table-...
So just bypass the ownership checks, with `unsafe`. It gives up on memory safety, but you still keep all the other benefits of a modern language: algebraic data types, pattern matching exhaustiveness checks, parametric polymorphism, etc. So, even when writing `unsafe` code, Rust is strictly superior to C and C++.

Also, I would contend that, for the vast majority of programs, the benefits of a simple, hierarchical, statically enforceable resource management scheme like RAII outweigh the downsides. Programs that need more sophisticated approaches are a very small minority.
Interesting, in France we eat that cake on Xmas :

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=christmas+cake&source=lnms...

I don't where that comes from, obviously it's in the shape of a firewood, I wonder if other countries follow the same tradition.
There was some discussion when that PDF was posted here 3 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10683778
We have Yule Logs in the UK, because some people dislike the other Christmas cake.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&sa=1&q=yule+log

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log
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The 7-11 slur was an anti-American slur. American 7-11s are depressing and inefficient. The slurpee... oh God.
I found Persona to have some pretty bad UX. I do not want to have to log in again when I close a browser window.
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YOU are sad but what about him ? He might be the happiest guy in the world.
>If SIP was about security they could have educated users about root - instead they removed it.

Yeah, because this would work....
I'm working on a React+ES6 project professionally, and use Clojurescript+Reagent for all my hobby projects. I would gladly use cljs+reagent for everything if I could.

First off, cljs allows you to type less. Second, functionality provided by Immutable.JS is built into the language. Third, I can use paredit. I love paredit. Fourth, google closure has amazing code minification, dead code removal and a good standard library. Fifth, I've found figwheel to be better to react-hot-loader, the latter cannot always reload my application. Sixth, devcards. Seventh, incremental compile speed is faster. Eight, macros can greatly simplify code you're writing and allow new syntax to be exposed by libraries (core.async).
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This article reads as if it were copied straight out of an email from a PR rep.
Here's a baseline XGBooost system that scores 0.51... AUC: https://gist.github.com/alvations/b754bffe1dab515d9af7
Tell HN: Google seems to have changed ncr (no country redirect)
A useful feature of google search is ncr, no country redirect, which prevents geolocation redirection to the localized home page. Useful if you travel a lot, only want results in English if you live in a non-English speaking country, and so on.

The url used to be

https://www.google.com/ncr

Unfortunately this seems to have stopped working recently (clear cookies and caches first for anyone using this to see). After not a little search effort as it's either an unannounced change (or a bug?), you now need:

http://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=cr

Hope this helps anyone relying on ncr.
>Unfortunately, it seems iotop and iosnoop are broken unless I press this big red button that only experts can press to disable SIP, when all I want to do is a little system profiling.

Wanting to do "system profiling" for your "apps" already makes you an expert compared to the regular user.

And there's nothing much complicated to disabling SIP, you can do it in 2 minutes with one reboot and a command line command.

If you know how to use iotop and iosnoop, you know how to do that.
> It requires a good mixture of luck and keeping your ear to the ground to find an undeveloped but large market niche, and a good crystal ball to know which features are worthwhile.

That's a bit exaggerated IMO. Granted, it's harder now than 15 years ago to find something under(not un-)developed on the Web e.g. that seems doable and interesting, but if you keep an open eye, you see opportunities every day and wonder why something that seems useful hasn't been done (or done properly). Some of these potential products will be very hard to develop fully and never be perfect, which doesn't make them less interesting (the opposite is true perhaps - does Google Search work perfectly?), only a bit scarier. As for which features are worthwhile: a lot of wisdom has been written down about this - it's important to look at the product from the perspective of a user. If you lose that perspective, talk to real users.

The rest is hard work and that's easier and more rewarding if you work for yourself, I believe.

My advice is that if you find yourself thinking "XYZ would be nice to have, why hasn't someone done this?" or "all solutions for XYZ I can find are terrible, why hasn't anyone done it right?", just sit down and attempt to do it, if it fits your skill set somehow (doesn't have to be a perfect fit and you don't need an MBA!). People are getting rich like this all the time. Don't look for "unicorn" ideas, you don't need to chase billions to retire comfortably.
The users don't want a site. They want an app.

It's like expecting the developers of the latest, greatest PC game to write a progressively enhanced game that the same executable will run on DOS 1.0 all the way to the latest Windows version. They will spend time and resources on making sure it works with DOS 1.0, even though there are next to zero users for it, making it completely uneconomical, basically working for free.

Or you can have them click the download Chrome/Firefox link.
Despite beeing more expensive (think double or triple the 500$ figure for a comfortable life, depending on the particular country you choose), south european countries might be a good alternative. You get more stability and much better education and health systems, while keeping the good weather and lower cost of living.
>A future with fewer security researchers is not a good thing, wouldn't you agree?

Depends. If it also means fewer malware, then I'm all ok for SIP and similar things to put security researchers out of business.

Where you sad when a while booming business for security tools and antivirus slowed down when people moved away from Windows 9x?