skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Straight into post-bubble doom and gloom? The experience was different than today, but I wouldn't considered it lucky.
Interest on student loans is tax deductible. Can't say the same for the loan principal.

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc456.html
Ah, my mistake!
UI/UX Design Glossary. Navigation Elements
What they are describing here, is called a WEBBROWSER. Every phone has one.
I am honestly curious if the powers that be at Google who made that decision would still say it was a good idea to do so. Obviously they saved some money since it was unprofitable to operate, pushing people off RSS readers may have improved ad revenue, etc. But of all the product shutdowns that have happened at Google, none has come back to haunt Google more after the fact as Reader.

I wonder, in retrospect, if causing that backlash would still not be seen as a mistake.
So you get open space. Then we put on headphones because it's noisy. Then we communicate via IM because it's easier and less disturbing. Then you have a bunch of people sitting next to each other communicating over IM.

In my personal experience, there is no difference between a team of people working remotely vs. a team of people sitting in the same open space.
Totally agree. I'm inspired by what they do, but working there would involve a big pay cut and a punishing commute, so (with some sadness) nope.
These buildings are replacing elderly buildings/adding capacity so we can serve more students. So the operation/maintenance costs should fall dramatically for the buildings that are being replaced, and new revenue from more students pay for the new buildings maintenance/operations.
Yes, on the whole they seemed to like it. Which isn't true of many of the redesigns they reviews.
b.clone(), of course, derefs b as well.
> And why should I care how many lines "hello world" is in a language?

Because it's a good proxy for how good the language is for writing short, (often) throwaway programs.
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The title is wrong. The popup is about Edge, not IE.
> Let the votes do their job.

Voting doesn't work if people are disenfranchised. 20% of HN discussing an article the other 80% can't read will be the end of HN. Maybe if this was a sub-reddit "community" where access to the WSJ was assumed, but HN is a general and open discussion board.

(Also, when politics or people like Taleb Nissam or Paul Krugman are discussed, the voting isn't very informative.)
How should you break backwards compatibility then? This is about as good a solution I can come up with.
Wow, you created this account to just say this (noticed based on 政治需要, to meet political needs in English, your username). Being very cautious is a good habit. Not seeing this often these days. People in Chinese community are quite aware of what can not be talked publicly and simply shut those topics down themselves by ignoring everything related.

edit: added English translation.
The problem with reddit, IMO, is that there is a unified identity as "redditors" that brings conflicting communities too close on a routine basis. That makes some sense based on the site's early history when it was basically targeted at the same audience as HN, and the unified identity has been fading more and more over the last couple of years, but it's still a large part of reddit's design.

Contrast with Facebook, Twitter, or other massively-accepted social networking sites. They start you out with ... a blank page! This not only allows but requires the user to craft an experience that will make them feel comfortable, and there's no need to confront them with things that may not be palatable.

I think you can only get away with a real "front page" if you're targeting a specific niche. Otherwise, you have to go really generic. Twitter usually recommends that new accounts follow very generic things, like late night talk show hosts, sports stars, and popular singers.

A lot of reddit's growth problem is that if a Republican or a religious person or someone over the age of 40 hears about it and decides to check out reddit.com, they're likely to leave angered, offended, shocked, or all of the above, and that's before they try to participate/comment, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.

Combine with occasional news stories about reddit's less-savory underbelly and the prevalence of pornography and profanity, and it really is no wonder that reddit struggles to find mainstream acceptance. The issue that reddit must now deal with is to become mainstream-acceptable without destroying its existing userbase in the process.
> Unlike yours, none of my comments are shitting on the efforts of volunteers that are doing their best to keep people like you happy and making money using a project you're not paying for

This was the line I responded to, and it has nothing to do with support, but with the ability to criticise something you aren't paying for. You introduced the idea that something was being "demanded" so that you could beat up that strawman.
You're right of course. I should have said half the founders that get mentioned on sites like this one and TC.
>The idea that rich people got rich because they screwed other people over is quite common but also a made up generalization.

Many people are wealthy because they have exploited the labour of others, exactly as any other commodity might be exploited. I would say this is the biggest screw-over: this great capitalist machine.
Well obviously you lack a basic understanding of bikeshed technology. It should be blue!
AdStage Launches Universal Data API
at this point, I fully accept my defeat at the hands of Facebook and want this message to reach people who are like me, addicted. I never blog on Facebook but this is one blog post that does make sense there.
Isn't that a lot of people?
I feel I should point out you can't hold up MacOS/OSX as an alternative to Win10 to avoid A company telling you how to use a computer.

That is very much Apple's ballgame.

If you don't want an opinionated OS you are going to end up using Linux. Yet commenters will still jump down my throat b/c a single distro does something they dislike.
In general, I've found that Ubuntu versions of the last 1-2 years support Python 3 fine, you just have to use the "python3-*" packages.
Science of Innovation: How to Imagine the Unimaginable
UBeam is another one of these faulty science startup that should fail soon.
I bet I know what subsystem their user authentication runs on!!!!!!! (Something old)
Workplaces are supposed to be inclusive environments. It's fine if your mother talks in a way that American-raised women don't like (whatever that means) with her friends. It's not fine if she does that in an office setting.

I'm not saying you need be friends with everyone. I'm saying part of your job is helping ensure everyone on your team feels included and feels like they fit in. I'm not suggesting this will always be possible for every last person, but it's hardly the tough problem you seem to think it is. Read people around you and be empathetic and accommodating. That's it.

I should also say your talk about women ruining careers by going to HR is ridiculous, but it's so ridiculous that I don't feel it needs further addressing. I've been in the industry a long time and I've never heard of anyone filing a complaint with HR outside of clear instances of sexual harassment.
> No, because people aren't complete idiots.

Sweet summer child.

http://www.gentside.com/le-bon-coin/le-bon-coin-un-ordinateu...

http://i.imgur.com/4nMqG8C.png

http://www.jofogas.hu/veszprem/Sony_mio_laptop_elado_6040346...

http://archiwum.allegro.pl/oferta/sony-mio-pcg-6e1m-laptop-o...

https://www.olx.in/item/sony-wio-laptop-ID19koWZ.html
Messages from Space Can Tell You Where to Fish
Dieting while weight lifting in my experience just leads to various injuries. I don't mean the passing out while doing squats kind. I mean straining muscles in a painful way that can take the rest of the month to recover. Note that this was after ~5 months of training before I got the idea to try and lean out. Overall I just wouldn't recommend it. Maximum weight I would say is body weight, then it's more cardio than weight lifting.
I'm beginning to believe that the WSJ and others are starting to monitor the number of referrals directly from google and if it hits some threshold they turn on the paywall for the article for some period of time as the direct link from google in incognito doesn't always work for me either.

"Oh look! Direct hits from google have gone up 300% (or have been hit XX times) in the last 2 minutes... turn on the sliding 5 minute paywall!"
"I have a Python 2.6 project that has been running smoothly, why upgrade to 2.7?"

If you don't need any of the new features and fixes, don't, that's perfectly fine.
> Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance.

Neither will constant picking on anything they do or don't do.

> VideoLAN.org website stats tell me that Firefox hits percentage dropped from 26.3% through Jan 2016 to 21.2% through Jan 2017.

I guess the reason might just be that the market is moving towards a new equilibrium.

Unless we start making websites and web apps that only work in other browsers then the web is big enough for both Firefox and other inferior browsers ;-)
Reproducible Finance with R – Sector Correlations
The current title (Windows 10 has alerts to encourage Firefox users to use IE) is not the one from the link and it is actually a lie. I'm not sure if the Reddit title has been changed after or if Op here thought it was clever, witty or funny to write "IE" for drama purposes.

You just have to click the link to see it encourages to use Edge, not IE.

Still something we might (should, really) frown upon, but there's no need to lie about it.
You're confusing "the citizens" with two specific citizens. I've never called out Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden specifically. We did nothing in spite of the actions of those individuals. They laid everything bare out in the open for everyone to see. In the case of Chelsea Manning at great personal expense. The citizens did nothing in response other than make a racket.
> You will not actually lose fat by lifting weights, so weight loss is a separate goal altogether.

This is both true and not true. If you increase muscle mass, you increase your metabolism, which means your resting metabolic rate increases. However, as they say, abs are made in the kitchen, and a better diet is the quickest, most efficient way to drop fat. But, why not both? The easiest way to drop weight is to stop eating bread and sugar (including beer, i.e. liquid bread). Plus, there are dozens of other benefits to dropping grains and sugar.
I am in a very similar situation. I have started doing a fast walk in the morning.

I am looking into the no equipment, no gym style workouts that take 20 minutes.
While I agree that programming necessarily involves a lot of decisions, I hope we can agree that there is a spectrum of complexity among programming languages. My point is that the likes of Rust and C++ introduce a huge volume of decisions that wouldn't exist in a simpler language, like Go. That said, if you think all languages are as complex as C++, I'm not sure we can agree on much...
Yep, though most of them are "provisional", which means it isn't a formal or permanent definition. Here's the full list:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xht...
Google V8 hash seed timing attack
Seemed to be down for lots of people in the bay area: http://downdetector.com/status/reddit

Maybe only small because most californians were still sleeping? I was only up due to a sick kid. :D
cool idea!

Note the first thing I tried (connecting a laptop with DVI, say, an old macbook) to a TV told me it didn't know what cable to use, I would've expected it to show me a DVI->hdmi cable
I hope they just find a way to support SQLAlchemy natively like they did with Jinja2 because Django ORM is really very restrictive and has numerous serious annoying bugs that have been open since I was in high school.
AutoMicroFarm End of 2016 Update
They had synchronization points on the hardware platform as well. The difference is that they had some amount of hardware support that made the thread check-in extremely fast.
Does anyone know if there is a good open source library for making equations (Latex, MathML) out of pictures like in their demo?
This is awesome! My only suggestion would be that for selections that are incompatible, you should offer an explanation about why they are incompatible. Just having the options greyed out and disabled is really frustrating for non-technical users.

For example: "I want to connect my tablet to the TV". As a techie, I know this is possible, but the solution is probably too complicated. It might be helpful to let the user make this choice, but then say "You can't do this with a cable". Even for stupid ones like "I want to connect my Printer to the TV", just say "This is not possible, you can't connect X to Y".
It's a demonstration of how powerful a good propaganda campaign can be. 80 years later and still swastikas=bad.

A more recent example : Just Say No. All these 40-somethings who never did drugs, never will, just hate them and can't really explain why.
Sir Paul McCartney Sues Sony Over Beatles Songs
It's very hard for people to step into the perception of another locale. One of the examples I see is in Congress, people often lament members of Congress and wonder why they continually get reelected. But while everyone else all over the country may hate that Congressman, there's a pretty good chance the locals love him and feel that he's representing their community well.
It really seems to boil down to how the software is used. I'm not sure how effective simply presenting the steps is, but some of the most well validated intelligent tutoring systems are built around simple algebra problems like these.

The big difference is that they test students on each step, and try to give useful feedback if they get a piece wrong.

(although, I just glanced at the wikipedia article for a tutoring system and it doesn't seem conclusive, so maybe I need to look again.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_tutor)
I am placing my bet on either the student loans, state pension systems, or the auto loans.
That's great.

The school I was going to closed the new branch I was going to after one quarter. They paid for most of that, and offered a tuition-free ride at the main campus across the country. Suddenly my ~$100,000 college bill was about $25,000. Graduated 2009, fully repaid December 2014.
GitHub Growth Appears Scale Free
You're missing a cable I had to buy recently for my father-in-law: Laptop to monitor: mini display port to DVI (specifically DVI without analog pins or it wouldn't fit into the plug on the monitor).
Everyone seems to think going all-in is the only option...I have a standing desk and stand maybe 33% of the day at most. The real issue is likely just taking a break from sitting and walking around the office every hour or so. When standing I am much more likely to walk around in the first place.
I do front-end development and I'd be interested to chat with you about this. Please contact me via my profile if you're interested.
> But lurking behind every statement was an existential dread that Donald Trump would either pull the plug on one of the great achievements of the last eight years, or worse — he might order the best and brightest to work on projects that violated their moral codes.

Certainly there are other people who have had the same concern that President Obama, Mr. Bush, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Reagan, Mr. Carter and so on all the way back to Mr. Washington would order them to work on projects which violate their moral codes?

For that matter, surely any employee must have at least some concern that his employer will order him to do something unethical?
Or thunderbolt, or display port.
The compiler should be helpful.

I love checked expressions, hate Optionals.

I'll be happy when the language pimps stop trying to make Java look and act like a scripting language.

Edit: I apologize if I've offended anyone with my opinions. I hope this helps. http://bit.ly/1S1943H
How do I enable ads on start and lock screen? A lot of people are talking about it, I feel left out. :/

>You no longer have search without Cortana.

Could you elaborate? search for what?

>These are not small annoyances that happen sometimes. They happen frequently. Microsoft is dictating how you must use a computer.

Good, otherwise we'd end up with bazillion window managers that get you 80% of "stuff" in bazillion different ways, but none do the other 20%.
Edge is IE. It's a rebranded fork. So I wouldn't exactly call it a lie. Conflating Chrome and Chromium happens all the time.
Most people don't care.

It shows how emo some of the users are.
Can you please share that param?
You can get around this by hiring level headed people. High maintenance people will cause trouble if you are in an office daily or remote. No difference.
Show HN: The 1979 Classic Game Lemonade Stand as a Facebook Bot
It's the result of Google throwing their full weight behind Chrome. It's insane not to expect the #1 cash-generating business to take a large bite out of Firefox when they set their mind on creating a browser that ticks all the marks of Mozilla's goals as well: standards-compliant (or setting), fast, secure, open, extensible etc.

And Chrome is now at the absolute core of Google's strategy: they need to make the open web as competitive a platform as possible to stop Facebook's walled garden, or Apple's native platform the future of the web. Because google has no place in those two ecosystems. Thus: Android and Chrome.

Trash-talking Mozilla is only going to make their funding dry up and/or demotivate their employees. But it's in everyone's interest to make sure they thrive. It's only a coincidence that Google and the public's interest are currently aligned. There will come a time in the future where we'll desperately need the competitor that is Firefox. Let's not forget that they were ones lighting a fire under IE from around 2005-2012. Who knows where we'd be without them – .docx instead of .html?
EasyMVP.IO launched to help startups build the first version of their app idea
I wouldn't read a lot into it. The author's friend apparently goes by Applejack from about the least dystopian show imaginable (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic). And the MyAnimeList shows a reasonable mix of popular shows.
On the other hand, the Boston and San Diego medchem startups are founded by established scientists in their 40s. Computers are quite the anomaly in the space.
It's good to talk about this as much as possible. We spend so much time on these things without thinking about it at all.

With time — we need to teach ourselves and our younger ones how to use the internet for our advantage and not let it take advantage of us.

It's coincidental that I was thinking about this just about the time you posted this blog and posted a related question myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13435981

It's about a simple wikihow guide on how we should use the internet correctly. I guess it could be of help.
At least for me, it wasn't so much about computers or computer science, as it was the first time I really deeply considered what consciousness is. It's actually the book, along with The Selfish Gene that made me dismiss the necessity of any kind of 'soul', fresh out of Catholic School.
I feel that is a rigid and too literal take on how government works.

At any given time, there are more laws to enforce and enact than people and other resources to enforce and enact them. Deciding what exactly to enforce or enact is - in other words, their priorities - is often left up to individual agencies. For example, the Obama administration prioritized immigration enforcement by targeting those found at the border, or those who committed crimes [1]. In another instance, marijuana use is illegal under federal law, but some local laws allow it, and the Obama administration explicitly deprioritized enforcement in such cases [2].

Finally, I think there are valid cases where individuals within government should exercise their own judgement and resist direct orders if they feel they are unjust. One such case is when Governor Schwarzenegger ordered the pay reduction (down to federal minimum wage) of 200,000 state employees until the state legislature agreed on a budget [3]. The person who was supposed to enact this order, state controller John Chiang, resisted.

"Under Schwarzenegger’s plan, the workers would receive their full salaries once a budget was approved. But California had enough cash in its accounts, and, in Chiang’s view, the Governor’s move could violate the Fair Labor Standards Act. Moreover, he thought, it was cruel. It was the height of the financial crisis, and mortgage defaults were up more than a hundred per cent over the previous year." [3]

[1] http://www.npr.org/2016/08/31/491965912/5-things-to-know-abo...

[2] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/president-obama-marijuan...

[3] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/21/resisting-trump...
> It’d be a lot nicer place if projects like this would be open, so people could use it on their own systems

Check Feathers.js if you want realtime on your own system.
I don't doubt your integrity and passion, but I couldn't resist mentioning that your comment parallels that of people who work in other industries that produce addictive products. Specifically I was reminded by a quote of an owner of a mid-size tobacco farm. For the record, I also did not doubt the farmer's integrity and passion. It's as if a non-addictive personality, or complete abstinence of the industry's product, is a prerequisite for employment.
Upvotes != access

Many people may see the headline and upvote it so it attracts some discussion in the comments.
Those of you who are a bit more...senior...may remember playing the classic Lemonade Stand "business simulator" game on the Apple II (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Lemonade_Stand) . For me personally, it holds a special nostalgia as one of the first computer games I ever played.

Well, we dug up the source code and ported Lemonade Stand to Facebook Messenger. While we made some small changes to the UI for it to work on messenger, we kept all the original game settings and equations. If you've played Lemonade Stand before, you can now relive the days of your youth! If you've never played Lemonade Stand, you're in for a retro treat.

Try the game here (http://m.me/retrolemonade) and let me know what you think!
Because deep down, when we talk about freedom of the press, we really meant free as in beer. No one likes paying for stuff. We will happily pretend that journalists don't need to eat, as long as we never have to see another paywall again.
This was great! I love coming across great, short talks like this that elaborate on a very interesting problem that laypeople like myself would never otherwise have even known existed.
> If the feature incentivizes using it in a wrong way - it's not a bad programmer, it's a bad feature.

So there's nothing good about alcohol (it may cause liver damage), cars (they may cause accidents), prescribed drugs (they may have unpleasant collateral effects), ...

Hey, it's also true that programming incentivizes bugs, so programming is bad. Let's stop programming!