skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a person thats currently dealing with this i found this a great read! There are a bunch of things i could use. It also made me realize that my state is more serious than i thought.

An addition to what you can do is reading. I recently picked up a few books and started reading. Its great for letting your self go and put work aside.
I don't understand why Chrome don't implement something similar to LocationBar2[1]. It expands to include the protocol when URL bar is focused, and hides the protocol on unfocus. It also tries to make sure text width never changes when protocol is hidden by center-aligned the domain part, e.g.

URL: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829087

When protocol is hidden, will be displayed as:

URL: news.ycombinator.com /item?id=1829087

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014/
Thanks! This is the kind of example argument I was looking for.

(And of course it makes terrible economic sense. If the city wanted to transfer wealth to the taxi drivers from other citizens, it would be more efficient to just have a transparent tax and payment system, rather than a hidden cost through a monopoly. But I figure I don't have to convince you of that...)
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I actually did this with Google code for a while, but removed it due to speed issues. I will have a look at the github api though and see if it is any faster.
A few days ago Apple made it clear that this iOS feature will come to Mac. The other question is: which Linux-distro will give us the best alternative approach? Haiku?
Chrome on the Mac is still lacking. In Safari if I right click and copy an image I can paste that directly in Mail. Using Chrome I get a broken image icon.
I'm also looking for a new permanent home for RSS reading now that Bloglines is closing down.

I like a cross between "click each feed" vs "all feeds" -- grouping. So if I click the group "London" I get all new items from my feeds that are in the London group.
if you've ever launched a website...you know building is a very insignificant portion of the equation...the value of digg isn't the website or the technology, it's the users...and getting those is a lot harder than most people think
I have a 13.3" Macbook. It is usable for development, but I dread using it to code after coming home from coding at work on a dual screen system. Its like programming while looking through a keyhole. The increased resolution on the new 13" Macbook Air does have me tempted to buy one.
But is that actually an argument that is given? Is there data showing that taxis are a significant contributor to congestion?

If this were a real problem, it would be better to estimate the marginal cost to the city for having an extra car on the road for an extra day (or minute or whatever) and charge that. Then, let the market decide how that affects the number of taxis. (Also, if this were true, it would be an argument for charging everyone, not just taxis, to drive in the city.)
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That's something that I'll be fixing over the next day or two - currently, any newly added feeds won't appear for up to ten minutes while the crawler catches up. I've just added a message to the articles page to explain this when there's nothing to read. Once the new feeds have been cached, you should see any new articles for today (although in light of your comment I think I'll push this back to show two or three days, what do you think?).

In any case, refresh after ten minutes and you should get something.

As for UI and design - I'm going for 'minimalist' ;-) The visual side of things is not my strong point and it's still 'work in progress'. If you have any suggestions, I'd be delighted to hear them!
"Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense

But I did five mil

I ain't be rhyming like Common since

When your senses got so much in common

And you've been hustlin since your inception

Fuck perception go with what makes sense"

He is essentially saying that he started dumbing it down after doing "Vol. 2 Hard Knock Life" - which sold five million copies.
I'm not targeting everyday internet users. As I mention in the ticket, it's our internal servers.

Hiding the label makes sense, but the way it's solved in Google Chrome has some trade-offs that some (which according to the number of tickets on the issue is more than just a few) people may not be willing to live with.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014/ - sirn mentioned this Firefox addon in a comment, looks like a good solution.

I'd also say the iOS-like animation I propose in the ticket makes more sense.
Nice idea - thanks!
In parent's analogy, the third party is the door manufacturer.
What really concerns me about Windows Mobile 7 is the damage it's going to do among mobile web applications. You see, right now, if you want to do a mobile webapp, you can live in HTML5 land with working scripting, working DOM, good CSS3-support and all other goodies.

Sure, there are differences between mobile browsers, but all major platforms are now using webkit of some sort (and for those that don't, Fennec is available which also works really well), so that's a solid foundation to build upon.

And now WP7 arrives, brining us not IE9, not IE8, but IE7 (which by now is 4 years old already) in all its glory.

Up until today, you could get away by just ignoring WM6 and pointing the rare user of that platform to Opera Mobile, but now, there's no more Opera Mobile and the platform is about to get a lot more popular, so your app better works in IE7 too.

This means to either provide two versions of your app, or go back to what we have to do on the desktop too, which is progressive enhancement which sometimes can really destroy the quality of your code and will, again, costs hours upon hours of wasted effort (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1828586).

Thanks Microsoft. Much appreciated.
I wasn't surprised. But it reconfirmed my convictions in a memorable way.

I'm pretty sick and tired of the "hate muslims" wave that's sweeping the U.S. as the election nears. What makes the U.S. great is that people come here from all over the world and get treated fairly -- at least more fairly then they'd be treated anyplace else. Yes, we've got discrimination, racism and other stupidity, but just try immigrating to any place else.

Americans who decide they hate immigrants are turning their backs on who they are.
That's Tim Van Damme's scrollbar: http://maxvoltar.com/
If you are instrested in coming to a country in Latin America im from Uruguay (little country between Argentina and Brazil) and I can help you to accommodate you here. We are one of the safest countries of the continente, we are a loooooot cheaper than US or Europe and the main advantage of Uruguay compared to the rest of LA is that most people speak English and you will find a lot of engineers, computer developers, desingers and more usefull people to hire to set up your new start up (the computer-related careers are very popular here)
Asks the user called zackattack :-)
Johnny is right in pointing out that this is simply called advertising, and is part of contracting. He's also entirely correct in pointing out that in the world of software all you really need to do is produce something.

I think the best way to go about writing a 'reverse' job application is generally "don't." Trying to copy The Oatmeal, adding in cute images, and other 'fun' gags to show you think freely (only when compared to an average 9-5er) doesn't make your software any better.
Give me someone who wants to create software that they feel passionately about, and can also express that, and leave the XKCD comics at home.

The photographer Rick Sammon has said a few times "Before people care how much you know, they want to know how much you care." Personality is great in any application, but if you walked into an office with a comic strip, we'd point you to one of the city newspapers.
We can only hope that either:

a) they release an OS update soon next year with an IE9 rendering engine

b) no-one buys the product

I actually suspect that both are likely, at least in Europe.
It's hyper annoying. Not being able to scroll with the mouse wheel makes me really frustrated. It's things like that that make people click on the back button of the browser instantly.
rooting for b) myself, but I can't post that here on HN, can I? That's not constructive at all.
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Maybe my post wasn't completely clear: I want to search for PDF/A, and actually the expected result is the Google result page for this search, ie:

http://www.google.fr/search?q=pdf/a

What I get instead is an error because Chrome tries to access the non-existent web page http://PDF/a
Which one of these is not a web browser?
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It's wonderful. I cannot wait to use it. Because now you have actual control about your pipe, but still able to use the easy gui. Useful for every quick project.
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really? Isn't all the PR about WP7 really focussed on the consumer? You don't read at all about the enterprise features (does it even have any?), but all is full of Facebook, media sharing and stuff.
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OK, I like that - I'll see about making it an option but it will mean adding grouping as well; I'll try to get it in place before Bloglines closes next Monday.
Try on an open wireless network.
> a) they release an OS update soon next year with an IE9 rendering engine

Unlikely - Microsoft's strategy is to fragment every market it can't control and prevent commoditization of the platform layer. The inclusion of a broken IE was probably deliberate.
I think he meant it as competing for the third place. I know RIM still sells a lot of smartphones, but it seems reasonably obvious it won't recover ground once it's lost to iPhone and Android.
The docs at the PHP site are actually really great with examples, comments and a tutorial style intro for everything PHP. I would just go through those docs and try out the examples. Otherwise, just get to work coding, you will learn faster that way.
Compute when the ISS will be visible from your location:

http://esa.heavens-above.com/esa/iss_step1.asp?nored=1
The cost to the taxi driver of gaining The Knowledge is far higher than $200, so the people who do it take their job very seriously, and they are in general extremely safe and reliable.

There's a marked difference in quality of service between minicab drivers who use GPS units and black cab drivers who don't need them. They both exist in London, and given the choice, I'll go with a black cab every time.
It's also completely broken on the iPad... I cant scroll at all.
> they get hyped months or years in advance

Remember how cool was WinFS?
No better way to see what they are up to than watching their Github repo.
makes me think...

maybe it's time we developers stood up and said "no".

Let's stand together and declare that "working mobile web" just isn't a feature of WP7. If you want the cool bling of todays mobile web, you'll have to get any other phone aside of WP7. Any will do. Just not WP7.
Illumination is one thing. Enabling a ten year old to do malicious stuff with a few clicks and poorly considered actions is entirely another.
Communicating Haskell Processes?

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/chp
"New" (in the title) = April 2003. Anyway, apparently if you're in space then sometimes cosmic rays interact directly with your retina or optic nerve, producing brief flashes of perceived light.
I will blame lock manufacturers if any damn key on the planet can open it up.
Generally, on this site, people aren't going to complain if you promote your own stuff, "within reason". I mean, if you took the time to create it, and link to it like this, it's not a problem.

Looks nicely done, although I don't feel like actually going through and creating it.

One thing might be to watch out for people grabbing 'nice' URL's...
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I think he was being ironic (look at how it was quoted: @bar.com and not @http://bar.com)
<<"If you think of willpower as something that's biologically limited, you're more likely to be tired when you perform a difficult task," said Veronika Job, the paper's lead author. "But if you think of willpower as something that is not easily depleted, you can go on and on.">>

This really bothered me. Maybe if you think that willpower is not easy depleted, it is because you have more of it than the people who think it is.

This being said, I personnaly believe that if willpower is limited, it can at least be trained to seem like it isn't.
Context at 23:35, interview starts at 24:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEtantlSsI#t=23m35s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEtantlSsI#t=24m40s

(Do those work for you guys? I have an old browser and they're not working for me ...)
My "Documents" folder is so full I've started a new folder at ~/<user>/Work/<year> to store my stuff. I go into my Documents folder and I feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of old files. I'd like an iTunes-like interface to control my documents.
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"Calling oneself a C Programmer is like saying you're a Hammer Carpenter"
Unless they've changed it, you'll only receive the invitation/rejection via email, questions and other feedback before this are delivered via the HN UI (in the coloured bar at the top).
And while everyone should have learned by now that there’s always some privacy risk when interacting online, hopefully the installation of Force-TLS will at least put less of a damper on today’s stint at your local “free Wifi!” boasting cafe.

For most people there is a huge gap between "can read everything I write" and "can gain full control/impersonate me". On the technology side, these two things are unfortunately coupled. It is way more than a privacy risk.

If it were possible to pass the cookie on an encrypted channel but the content of the web page unencrypted this would match most people's idea of how it works. Unfortunately that's not the case.
I stumbled across that later, much easier :).

I seem to be getting a weird bug where after a while the code editor window pops up with 'undefined' in it and I can't do anything further. Uninstalling and reinstalling the extension seems to fix it, but I lose my plugins. Sorry I can't provide much more detail than that, if it happens again I'll see if I can figure anything else out.

An even more awesome feature request than porting it to Chrome for me would be letting me use JQuery in the plugins.

p.s. If this functionality was wrapped up into a slightly more stable standalone app, with really basic alarm clock functionality, I would pay for it in a heartbeat.
You seem to be implicitly assuming that everyone can resist temptation through sheer force of will. Even if you're that way, a lot of people aren't; they have to carefully engineer temptation out of their lives. (There's a known cognitive bias for assuming everyone else is psychologically like yourself, but for the life of me I can't remember what it's called right now.)
It was a freaking chat room!
I think there are two kinds of people:

(a) people with a lot of time and little money, and
(b) people with a lot of money and little time

(Ok, there are two other quadrants, but no money, no time people are useless to use, and lots of money/lots of time is a rare and unstable situation.)

Facebook is really full of the type (a) sort of people. Maybe things are better for them now, but as of a year ago, Facebook's overall eCPM was about 10% of the eCPM of the sites that I run... And my sites don't have astronomical eCPM numbers.

It's not say that people can't make money off Facebook, because you can, but the real gold mine in Facebook is that you've got a community of people who will spend unlimited amounts of time on online activities. Personally, I'd prefer to suck them in and get them to create content for me that I can market (by other channels) to the type (b) people.

Another nice thing about FB is that you don't have as much trouble with griefers as you do if you're running your own auth system. People care about their FB accounts and they don't want to look like complete jerks in front of their friends.

I really wish I could pay people Facebook credits for doing work for me. My guess is that you could probably get $25 worth of work for $10 worth of Facebook credits, undercutting Mechanical Turk.

They won't make it easy for you to pay out credits, unfortunately, because people would discover that gambling would be just as profitable on Facebook as it is in most other places.
I honestly think the first example is a feature not a problem (its a good thing!) and the second is an edge case that will never happen to the vast majority of web users.

Whereas hiding the http/https prefix simplifies the web browsing experience for the vast majority of web users. Worth keeping!
Firstly great idea! Am I right in thinking this is comparable to a simplified Aweber?

Also I would suggest you have a demo page, for example where it says:

"People will be able to subscribe at:
http://tinyletter.com/your-newsletter "

It would be good if that link actually worked,
Sometimes willpower is the only thing you have when others say you don't.
On the flip side, this tweet and the action from it raised almost $15,000 for breast cancer in less than 24 hours: http://favstar.fm/users/Mike_FTW/status/27827936119

28 people matched the 10c donation, and there was $8,000 of adhoc donations inspired by the action.
See: http://favstar.fm/users/Mike_FTW/status/27901780152
The fact that they don't lends weight to the spdy conspiracy theory (can it be called that that?)
I get 'Couldn't validate the captcha, please try again' when trying to register. But there's no captcha visible. (OSX / Opera)
I have played with the samsung device for a week now and I hope people give the platform a chance. The ui and overall performance is higher than the captivate. The ui is innovative and lean.

The platform needs apps. I think there will be some interesting opportunities for developers right out of the gate. Keep in mind that ms is giving their employees a free winphone after launch. Building apps that appeal to developers/technoratti may be a good way to bring in a few extra bucks this fall.
I'm not sure that people whose life is a struggle to stay alive have much time to indulge in sad songs or wait for the perfect partner to come along: this kind of indulgence in misery and laser focus on small problems is exactly the kind of thing that's possible only in a society that's "happy" overall by virtue of good health, education and financial stability.

I'd agree with you that the "status game" is more prevalent in "well-off" societies though, except I feel that there's parallel competition to have the biggest problems and the most cynical take on the positive things in life - good for melancholic and angst-ridden cultural output but not so good for the suicide rate.
Mostly water, with some original formula Gatoraid, made from powder from cans (and a bit more concentrated that per the recipe).

Caffeine is a bad idea for me, although if I could find some decaffeinated Earl Gray that didn't taste like mud I'd drink that too.

Back when I could drink alcohol (interacts poorly with some drugs I must take now), Sam Adams Boston Lager was my favorite (and allowed me to say "Even my beer is political!" :-). I was in the Boston area at the time and was lucky to have a friend who appreciated good beer introduce it to me a couple of years after it came out (up to then I was singularly unimpressed with generic American wimpy downstream beer and couldn't understand why my parents drank it ... and now my father drinks Sam Adams).
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This person gets it. It took me a year after grad school to find a job I wanted. I tried a semester of teaching first, as an experiment, but eventually was hired when I could demonstrate the ability to produce new ideas.

That last article had me thinking the same. In one year why not demonstrate any sort of ambition or drive? Go out and make something. Unless you've signed a contract giving your current employer rights to all your ideas there's really no excuse. 4 hours a day looking for work, 4 hours hacking. There's your 9-5.
It's a grey area, I think.

There is little reason to support a platform that appears to break common-sense web apps. To take it to an extreme, would everyone be expected to support (or remain silent about) a new mobile platform that only supported gopher:// ?
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Ok, I get the message :) - it's gone now
Agreed. Scroll-wheel not working and a pain to grab. Annoying.
"Non-transferable API knowledge" sometimes saves a lot of time you'd otherwise spend debugging your newly invented low-level hexagon-shaped wheel.
And if the firewall does protocol blocking, solutions like http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/ might be able to get through.
Carpentry metaphors for programming continue to suck: news at 11.
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ASK HN: Advice on developing a web app, AWS, Joomla, Java
I need some advice on developing a web app. My domain is Java, with little to no web app experience. So I'm really stuck on where to start. I've seen that AWS EC2 is offering free for a year, which would be good to get things off the ground, but have no idea as how to use it or what it can do for me.

All in all I'm just darn confused.

The basic idea is that I want to develop a PAYG web app for SME's.

I also like the idea of Joomla and wonder if this could be used in conjunction with AWS?

The basic idea of the site would be to have the ability to:

- user login
- pay for service
- use service
- user log back out

All in all a simple web app. Although the technology that I have developed is in the domain of Java and it would have to stay that way.

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.

TIA
>dishwasher for dishes

The trick to doing less dishes is not using a dishwasher but to have less dishes. If you're not a family of 4 you don't need to dirty 4 plates. Put only 1 of each thing in your main cabinet and the extras in a separate cabinet. Wash them by hand after using.

Also for productivity, use timers like WorkRave http://www.workrave.org . Taking breaks is a key to getting stuff done. The harder the problem and the more you have avoided it and let it build up, the more frequent the breaks you will need to tackle it.

Also if you use todo list, the most important thing to right next to each task is an estimate of the time it will take to complete. As soon as I did this I realized I how notoriously bad I was at estimating the time it takes to complete certain tasks and improved.
Free is value destroying in newsletters, because I think you will have your sending IPs spam blacklisted by a payday loan affiliate sending spam through your service prior to me sending out my Halloween email to my carefully cultivated opt in list. Charge to keep out the riffraff.
Do you have javascript enabled? I'm using reCaptcha (although I'm considering dropping that in favour of something simpler - "which of these pictures is the right way up?" or something like that).

Incidentally, you will also need javascript for the password entry to work - your password is hashed (SHA1) before transmission.

Otherwise - could it be some sort of ad-blocking extension maybe?
I used to use the upvoting more like a HN-only bookmarking service. But you've enlightened me. I'm changing my policy now.
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