skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, Orwell. This was one of his pet peeves. He spent much of WWII translating news into Basic English for transmission to British colonies. The evasions and hyperbole of political speech had to be expressed in the plain and practical words of Basic English. That's a political act. Newspeak in "1984" came from that experience.

His list of worn-out metaphors understood by few, "ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles' heel, swan song, hotbed" is still apt. "Ring the changes" is misused in today's South China Morning Post.[1] My own favorite is "free rein", which is a horse term. (One not used by riders today; riders say "loose rein".) It often appears today as "free reign".

Today's metaphors come from popular culture rather than the classics, and age faster. This may not be an improvement.

[1] http://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/article/2002459/mark-coeberg...
I'd really want to see that technique studied on actual users before trusting it. I'm not convinced that users do anything more than glance at one or two characters in hex passwords and even SSH's visual fingerprints are probably insufficiently studied (but not totally unstudied[0]) to allow telling users that glancing is enough. And if glancing isn't enough, using visual indicators at all is probably actively harmful.

[0]: http://dirk-loss.de/sshvis/drunken_bishop.pdf
The only thing that really bothers me with this new OS is that the kernel is no longer GPL.
With a GPL kernel like Linux we had a chance of getting the kernel source code ( some companies don't care if it's GPL anyway ) for our devices but if it's Apache or BSD good luck with that.
8 fl oz = 25 cl, size of one serving of a small coke. That would be drinkable in 2-3 gulps so even if it's disgusting it's manageable... Maybe...
JQFuck converts your JavaScript to pure JQuery
He is comparing one VM to another. What is the problem? Even BEAM and other VMs outperform mri.
Comodo Essential Wildcard SSL Certificate Reviews
There are people using it already. Inside and outside of Google. http://flutter.io/
Yes!
I use a similar hazel workflow for screenshots.
I save all Screenshots to ~/Pictures/Screenshots
Screenshots older than 1 days get moved into a ./.old directory
Screenshots older than 1 week in that backup directory get deleted.

Workflow:
http://jmp.sh/QAEQSep
Humblesmith Ft Harrysong – Na U (Remix) || 1KoboAFRICA
The issue I have with many open source projects is that they use open source as a marketing and free labour tool. The contributors to the open components get essentially nothing, they get to make a slightly wonky product less buggy and more useful, and then the company benefits on this by selling the closed component that the open one depends on ( depends on perhaps not technically but at least from a practical sense).
Just "omit words" should be sufficient.
I do love bushcraft! I'm especially passionated with fire-starting techniques and adore to practice them in the woods, but when i can't go outside i watch a lot of youtube related videos.

I had also started a small website (http://bushcraftvideos.woodsandrocks.com/) to "collect" the best of them a few months ago but i'm facing a "break" due to work and personal commitments.

Starting a fire (small and safely) in the nature using a knife and a firesteel is an inspirational experience!
Fuchsia is not a combination of pink and purple. It is the color your brain comes up with when it sees contradictory color signals (such as very high and very low wavelengths without the appropriate middle stimulation). It's the only color not in the rainbow. As you can see from this additive color program (http://trycolors.com/?try=1&ffb5d9=0&c31cff=0), pink and purple create a lavender color. Whereas fuscia is what happens when you combine colors in an unusual way (http://www.exploratorium.edu/sites/default/files/ColoredShad...). Normally I wouldn't be this pedantic, but this is hackernews after all.
The ‘M’ Point of Mindful Presenting – The truth of public speaking
I want a website that rates packages in npm with more possibly useful heuristics:

num dependencies (shallow, deep)
total size of node_modules
installed size (correct use of npmignore etc)
code quality (McCabe, jslint, jshint)
typescript/flow/ jsdoc string types etc
test coverage
frequency of releases
documentation coverage
documentation text analysis: pretentiousness, overly laconic, bro speak
has a F-ing README so we could at least have some idea what the hell it is
number of blog and link references
number of authors
reputation of authors based on their other packages
open/closed issues

Make the stats available so others can build indices and ranking algorithms based on these.
The Twilight of China’s Online Consumer Paradise
So if there are no blog posts (1) then we all do 2 and then we suffer from first mover lock in.
The Romans probably aren't the best example to use to make your point considering how many structures they've built that are still standing.
> I just spent the last two weeks setting up a boilerplate

Two weeks for setting up boilerplate? Is that normal for react?
Thank you for your reply.

I think social accountability would only work if (1) someone else could tell whether I'm cheating (that's not happening in a personal project) and (2) cares enough to check my graph.

Maybe my cheapness trumps my integrity. Or more positively, I reframe the meaning of the price: what does $5 buy me in Beeminder? an accurate data point. Is $5 worth an accurate data point? depends on what I'm planning on doing with the data later. And because I don't know what I want to do with the data, an accurate data point doesn't seem very valuable.

That's really unfair, though. I know that losing those $5 eventually will coax me into complying, but my inner Hyde will convince me to lie. Sigh.

I guess I just don't fall into the target niche (although it really looks like I do—except for the cheapness-trumping-integrity issue).
Nothing is ever certain when discussing conter-factuals, but if Linux had not had a few years of little competition in the x86 space then yes I think the BSD variants would have become the dominant strain. They were better studied and known in the academic space vs the SysV-influenced core of Linux and the BSD strains have always had better support for the various bits of random hardware out there. Remember that at this time there was no particular assurance that Intel would reach the position of dominance that it currently holds, it was Intel 386 vs Moto 68k vs MIPS with a few Alphas for high-end shops. Linux as an alternative sysv-like kernel with a bsd userland would have worked as well as a world of all *BSD.
I was actually having the same thought while watching the video. I'm glad to see other people pay attention to these small details. (:
Why is this voted down? To build a new OS from scratch takes a huge effort. If you're going to do it then you should really try to advance the state of the art in big ways. An obvious way to do that is to use memory safe / managed code as deep as possible into the stack (and then you can do things like eliminate the notion of a process entirely). JNode is an example of the latter. Redox has a less radical architecture but is still on the right path.

When Microsoft did their own new OS research project, Midori, that's the path they walked.
Great advice. I started building quadcopters recently, and it's been great to combine technology with 'manual labor'. I've never been into DIY stuff before, but it's tons of fun!
The inertia of the fan blades rotating probably limits the data rates you can get with this method, assuming rotation speed correlates with sound frequency (to distinguish between 1 and 0). I would guess it might be a few bits/minute.

};-)
Cool tools Web Designers can use in their projects
If only you could estimate the error...
What is UI design?
No, but you can slip into injecting heroin easily enough. I started taking ecstasy, amphetamines and LSD in the party scene in the early nineties. One day some friend turned up with a wrap of heroin, and we smoked it on foil - it was great. fast forward couple of years or so, and a friend introduces me to someone who sells heroin. It was good the first time, so why not. I keep the number, and buy some occasionally - I have contract job that pays hundreds of pounds a day, so cost isn't an issue. I also start taking cocaine as well, because why not, there's a guy in the pub selling it, and my friends like to party. Heroin is pretty good for relaxing after hard night snorting coke, so I take more. Eventually it's more heroin than cocaine, and one day I wake up and realise I don't have flu, I just haven't had any heroin for over 24 hours. Hello, addiction, and the joy of withdrawal! Anyone sensible would quit, but I still have a good job, and I'm earning even more, so why not keep doing it, I can afford it. And it just carries on from there - it's just part of your life, a thing you do, along with going to work, eating sleeping etc. And since you're in this deep anyway, why not try injecting?

So, that's how it happens. Now, there's a lot of places this can go off the rails. If you don't have a good job, and the ability to keep working at it, then you're going to have problems. And if you don't keep up appearances, people will start to wonder what's up, so you have to work pretty hard at hiding the drugs and the habit - if your boss or colleagues find out, no more job, money and there goes the funding for your habit.

Not sure what my point is, except that a heroin habit can get hold of someone quite easily, even people you probably wouldn't expect.
A rule of thumb for remembering whether you want to say "power" or "energy".

If you could replace "power" with "horsepower", you're on the right track!

If you could say "gallons of gas" instead of "power", you mean energy!

wHrs is energy (and kind of a dumb unit. Watts is already joules per second, so you're saying (joules/second)*hours. It would make more sense to just say joules.
Do you know a vector format that is more adequate?
Knot DNS 1.1.0
Right? What a pointless life. Who could possibly enjoy it?

Now excuse me for the brevity, I have an awesome game of Candy Crush to finish. I think I'll get a new high score. Bloop bloop!
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Why is that useful? Doesn't your web app or web framework already log requests?
After 24 hours inside Microsoft HoloLens, I don't want to take it off again
I detest this essay. I won't go too far into the reasons why, because David Beaver has already done an excellent job of that: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992

I'd also agree with Geoff Pullum's characterization of it as "a smug, arrogant, dishonest tract full of posturing and pothering, and writing advice that ranges from idiosyncratic to irrational" (http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2013/04/04/eliminati...)

But apart from it being a very poor source of writing advice, I don't believe it's accurate in its diagnosis of how language is deployed for political ends—the question is a much more complicated one than he claims here.

There exist actual good books that can teach you how to write better, instead of patting you on the back and allowing you to tut-tut at those plebians who write things that are "outright barbarous". Pinker's The Sense of Style is one of those; Ann Lamott's Bird by Bird is another. There also exist much better (and more accurate and scientific) resources about how language actually affects the way we think about things. Benjamin Bergen's Louder than Words is an excellent start, and virtually anything from Lakoff's long list of publications is worth reading—Metaphors We Live By is the classic, but Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things in particular is excellent from his more recent work.
Interesting idea. Also, DuckDuckGo can do the same:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21ducky+inurl%3Aen.wikipedia+%s

I also use Google's "I'm feeling lucky" as my default search so I can type e.g. "mdn array" to look up the JS array docs quickly. I used to use DuckDuckGo's version but the results were unfortunately too inaccurate.
This is exactly my setup for my work / personal. We run Google Apps, so I have my Google work email and a different theme then my personal account. Makes it easy to distinguish. I also recently discovered that you can edit the name under the people toolbar, so you can even label it as "personal" and "work".

Good tip on the creating local users though, will definitely do that for webdev!
Using the opulent language Orwell argues against in English language tests like IELTS is a sure way to increase your score.
Piecing together the Arctic’s sea ice history back to 1850
CSS3 Flexbox helper classes (with support for older browsers)
You need Safari Technology Preview for ES6 support.
That is exactly where I stopped reading. I cannot take it seriously.
No, flutter is still in tech preview mode. There are working example demos in the codebase but that's it. I have no idea on their release schedule but my guess is that Q1 of 2017 can be a target for a beta release.
Yes, please see:

https://books.google.com.my/books?id=dlvNBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA287&l...
I went to your page. After 8 or 9 seconds, I thought "What is a transparent startup? This is just some random list of companies" and left. I have no idea what the content on your landing page means, at least within ten seconds.
Some more background on the 'line of purples', of which fuchsia is a part: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/vision/colper.htm...
Yes, that's a destructive definition of the word "mortgage" in that it facilities unaffordable housing.

Instead of defining it as a hedge, look at its actual intent: it's a loan, not a bet, that allows people to pay a large sum of money over time that they otherwise couldn't afford.

Access to housing isn't an investment, or a gamble, it's a basic human right.
Might it be this one ?

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8065404-containment

(Fifth google result searching "photosynthesis venus novel")
> What do you mean by "scripting language"? That's an old terminology which is lacking a clear sense nowadays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_language

> Would you like something that you can embed? Something that has an interpreter for?

I asked about your personal preference regarding a statically typed alternative to Python. Can you propose one?
On the flipside of that, my LEAF has a big button in the middle called "Auto". Hit that, and it's usually what I want (or damn close enough) if I'm at a time when I can't glance at them.

Front defog is the only thing that I might need to look at in any kind of a time-sensitive fashion. In my experience, setting defog on any other car is harder than mashing the two buttons the are on in that area (defog and rear defog).

I agree that if I want to manually set AC compressor on/off, fan speed 0-7, face, face/feet, feet, feet/windshield, windshield-only, that it's harder on the LEAF. Most times, I don't want that. I want either "defog" or "I'm a little uncomfortable; please make me more comfortable".
At one point I was picking up my soprano sax during test runs on a regular basis. Doesn't work so well in an open plan office mind you :)
yes and from !wen:

"In the RGB color model, used to create colors on computers and television screens, and in web colors, fuchsia and magenta are exactly the same color, made by mixing blue and red light at full and equal intensity."
Yes, there's no way to inherit the part of the estate without debt (or debt without assets, if there are any).
Is this something like ISA Server does? I've been looking for something like that without the price tag and this seems it!
Lets talk about Own-Mailbox again (home-hosted email service)
Cloud Atlas 'astonishingly different' in US and UK editions, study finds
It logs the headers and request body along with the response for every single route. This means if the server sending you a webhook changes routes, or sends some extra content or does something unexpected, you have immediate visibility into it and can replay the request with a single click.

Pretty nifty.
Ask HN: How have you achieved financial independence?
I know this is a niche question, but have you reached a point where you have enough passive income to not to have to work for a living?
If so how did you accomplish it?
It's probably the ease of use?!
By way of contrast several years ago I benchmarked a real application hitting 1000 requests/s on a $20 per month Linode box. At this point there was no noticeable increase in response time. I could have probably gone much higher but that was enough for my needs so I stopped.

My "secret" is to use a language that is not slow-as-mollasses. A decade ago Rails had a definite productivity advantage over the (mostly Java) web frameworks of the time. That hasn't been true for a while, and there are many performant alternatives. If you're culturally a Ruby or Python programmer you can go pick up Go, or Node, or Elixir and feel at home. If you live in JVM or FP land you've always had fast alternatives (in my case it was Scala).

You pay a one-time cost to learn new things but you reap the benefits forever.
> And "optional" is a misnomer unless you only ever touch your own code. Programming is generally a social activity, so for most of us, "optional" means just means "inconsistently required".

Optionally means that it's not required or mandatory.

You don't need to use it if you don't want to. If you're working on a project and the project follows a style guide then you follow the style guide, but nothing forces your bosses to require it. The code will run anyway.
Beaver is nitpicking. See https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/7oprg/orwells_poli...
Any tips for a beginner on optimizing usage of the dashboard? Not using it for much right now, and I feel like the interface is going to take awhile to optimize/learn.
Nothing works very well in an open plan office :-).
Unidentified object in a strange orbit past Neptune
If you can put yourself in hospital with 48V then you deserve a Darwin award
I spent plenty of time considering it the GP, my point lines up with it insomuch as I agree that open-source isn't perfect and can / is being improved. That's really quite a platitude though and on the important pieces we do disagree. I don't think open-source has an unclear reward framework that's causing it to under server nonprogrammers. It's just the there's only very seldom a reward for serving nonprogrammers. And quite often there is a reward for alienating those people so that developers don't have to spend all their time explaining basic principles to them. This doesn't fit into some high minded view of open-source that it's all about getting contributions from everyone and working together. In reality open-source projects make progress by attracting a few very motivated and talented people. Projects do miss out on good people because no one's willing to teach them, but there's many more people who will gladly suck up developer time and never give anything back and you have to draw the line somewhere or you'll never get anything done. I think fundamentally, where we disagree is that what you consider signs of dysfunction are really signs that the system is functioning as intended.

Finally I don't see any use in pointing out that these projects aren't 100% open-source with the RMS seal of approval. In fact I think it's pretty inane. To some people open-source is this high-minded ideology for Android, Chrome and most other open-source projects open-source is technique; we use it to solve real problems when it's the right tool for the job. Do you really not believe that Android and Chrome are effective applications of this technique? I may be dating myself, although I do know that not literally every language is open-source these days it seems like it's all but true. It wasn't in the dark days but that's a lot of why they were so dark isn't it?
> Verizon charges - and people pay - $10/GB for extra data for the same reason Apple charges $100 for a few extra $$ of flash memory.

Because consumers continue to pay those amounts.
actually I don't have had a Broadwell / Skylake which I can play with.
I have a MacBook Pro 2013 Late (Haswell). But I wouldn't try out something on my production laptop anyway ;)

I also have a two Xeon Sandy Bridges lying around, but I didn't tried em, but I guess even with some changes it would run on it. I just didn't had time, after it compiled it already was 2 o Clock at night.
Hmm. I think my biggest milestone came when someone signed up for the free trial, didn't respond at all to the personal "how is the trial going?" message... didn't respond to my "btw, your trial is ending in a couple days... any questions?" message...

...and then their trial ended and they paid.

Even though I'd written a full software system at that point, the app was still fairly hands-on, and it wasn't until then that it was fully obvious that someone would pay for just the software. In retrospect this is a pretty big thing that it would have made sense to test much earlier somehow.

I'm pretty optimistic by nature, and Complice has felt promising since the beginning. I think it probably helped that while I had a vision/goal (= become ramen-profitable by graduation) I didn't spend too much time fretting about it. I just focused on making incremental improvements to the system (eg UX).

And this in many ways is the philosophy of Complice itself: stay oriented towards the big picture, but focus on what you can do today.
In addition, people who use AdBlock have tracking pixels, often different analytics systems, also blocked. For you, as an advertiser, they go into a black hole. Even if they convert.

I wonder how Facebook thinks it can fix this problem besides telling trust our stats. It's actually beneficial to advertisers if both FB and your landing page are adblocked.
The video and "how does it work" don't really explain much, I think.

They claim to protect meta-data because everything is behin Tor hidden services. To receive actual mail, though, they set up a central SMPT/Tor-Proxy. So that proxy knows the meta data (and in case of unencrypted mail, the content) and the hidden service associated with that meta-data.

So even though everything is open source and open hardware, you still have to trust this central proxy, don't you?
How to Learn Programming When You're Completely New
Thanks for that follow-up!
And the hysteresis of the cooling policy.
You're absolutely right, that was a typo.

I meant 3 hours.

I don't think I could finish in less than a day at all...
Ask HN: How long it took for your App/SaaS to make revenue?
Please also share your product to get an idea and some correlation between your revenue numbers and the product. If you do make profits, also mention the profit margin.
Reminds me of reading how one of the Solyent founders bought a genome sequencer at auction. May well have been cheap, but you need a lot of knowledge and materials to use one, and the tech is evolving pretty rapidly, so will probably be outdated pretty soon.
pointless video