skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a discussion I had on a basketball forum with a fan complaining about their lack of awareness regarding the start of the season. Went roughly like this:

Them: I didn't even know the season had started. They've dropped the ball on marketing.
Me: There have been ads on TV.
Them: Oh, I don't watch TV.
Me: Quite a few articles in the main newspapers in your city and mine.
There was a launch event too.
Them: I don't read newspapers any more.
Me: Big promos on the league website.
Them: Oh, I don't visit that. Too busy.
Me: Lots of league and fan talk on Twitter and Facebook.
Them: Nah, I don't use them.
Me: Your team's newsletter has mentioned it a lot.
Them: I haven't subscribed to that.
Me: You read this forum. We've been talking about it for weeks.
Them: I don't really read many threads.

At some point, if you're interested in a given topic, you have to make some effort to poke around or subscribe to something!
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That's why as part of the interview we get people to write a short set of vulnerability findings from pen test output. It sorts out people who've got canned text from those who can actually write.
But if the government controls my ID card

Check all that apply:

[ ] State Picture ID

[ ] Passport

[ ] Social Security Card

The simple fact of the matter is that corporations such as Visa and HSBC and Equifax are more trustworthy than the government.

You should really read the proposal. It's a federation of privately run PKI authorities. Potentially people like Visa, HSBC and Equifax.
A creature running under that paradigm is abandoning their humanity. We can only exist as human beings with rights if we respect our fellows' human rights.
If there's anything I've learned from my own app, it's that there's a LOT more involved in attracting users than simply creating the app.
The means produce the ends.
EPIC 2014 - A future history of the Internet and media as predicted in 2004
If you have any interest in it at all, I'd recommend working on making very modern apps for PCs. Make some useful, beautiful apps for Windows 7 and you'll find a ton of fans ... PCs are really lacking new, exciting apps nowadays. Find some new apps on OS X that have no PC counterpart (or no good conterpart), make something similar for Windows with a great UI, and make sure to let us know on HN!
It seems like the trees were breathing in and out.
Sort of reminds me of another video with the same concept, except it was of a flower following the sun.
Internet and art go together
Having looked at the site (http://rrrewind.com/), I am thinking something more like:

Rrrewind: Today's most popular links, from across the social web.
You're on the right track, actually. Academic motivation is virtually nonexistent in the States, whereas in China kids go to school on Saturdays and go to private cram schools until nighttime. A nation is made or broken by its education systems since after all, knowledge is power.
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Part of the problem is it was posted (at least) twice:

Your link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083349

The other link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2083905
It serves as a reminder that the Tea Party movement harbours a diverse demographic that includes so-called educated people.

People like these guys.
Of course MS is not dead in a way that noone uses them. But think about what you wrote - 75%. In Y2K, you wouldn't even monitor it - of course 99,99% use windows. You might start being interested in the weird trend of some people not using IE by then. This is where they were - the default, good-enough and present everywhere. It's not the case anymore - people have choice and as soon as they realise it, they will not choose MS anymore (as far as OS goes).

Some years ago, I didn't know people who knew about alternative OS-es. These days I don't know people using windows, who aren't considering buying an Apple product as their next computer. In this sense they definitely died recently.
I don't think I'll be switching to Verizon, but this competition is great. Hopefully it will wake AT&T up and this current nightmare will end.
"Chance favors the prepared mind" --Louis Pasteur
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The Single Most Damaging Practice in Software
I know this is kind of a dead horse, but it is amusing to me that the difference in verbage there is literally a factor of 8 (almost a proverbial order of magnitude). Geeks often know, but laymen very rarely do. Kind of a big thing to gloss over, regardless of which side (AT&T, Verizon, WSJ) you are on.
Is this the method_missing function that Ruby invokes when it can't fing the method to was looking for?

http://www.alef1.org/ruby/method_missing/index.html

I guess Ruby ahem borrowed it from doesNotUnderstand in Smalltalk.
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Ask HN: What makes you happy?
Alternative title: how to be happy?
There will be a latency and CPU usage penalty every time a new instance is invoked to serve requests.
"... Err, yeah well of course Vim is a really nice programming editor, man - why do you think we use it?! ..."

traditionally because if you are on a machine with limited memory vi, vim is the only editor that will load and there is no way you will get me using 'ed' again ~ http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch13s02.html#id2963445
The Playbook hardware looks impressive to me. The main point the article makes, though is the important one - software. As a developer, I'm thinking equally about Android and iOS, and next about Windows Mobile (with a wait and see attitude). I can't see taking a lot of effort to create apps for RIM's platform or webOS unless a large audience was assured. With that sort of chicken-and-egg factor, I'm not sure if there will be enough software for this tablet to become successful enough to make software for it.
Why do people write articles like this?
really interesting project, fantastic results!
I'm currently hiring for a large organization and have received linkedin profiles (in lieu of traditional resumes) twice -- both times I was prompted to register a linked-in account in order to see the full details.

IMHO It's on-par with sending your resume in .docx -- finding a good candidate is hard, so I'll probably jump through the hoop, but you'll be mentally earmarked as "that guy who sent me the problematic resume."

Just do .txt / .pdf with the same info in both, and everyone will love you.

Edit: If you want to really stand out, provide an alias whose search results illustrate your domain knowledge and community participation. :)
So your reasons for choosing Windows have everything to do with third-party software that only supports Windows, and nothing to do with Windows itself.

From a strategic perspective, that should be scary to Microsoft and anyone who is betting on Microsoft.
The problem is NOT that people prefer religion over science.

The problem is people prefer sitcoms over both religion and science.
How long were the intermissions in Apple's play?
The Entertainment and Games division started turning a profit in 2008. They may still be in the red overall (I don't know for sure), but they're turning a steady profit now.
Yes, i think i fixed the obvious bottlenecks.
Unfortunately, i can't drop to C on App Engine.
Not quite. Both political parties represent corporate interests, not the publics. Our infrastructure has suffered as a result of this and too much profit goes not to producers of goods and services but to wall street and other special interests. We can agree to disagree on this, but this is the way I see it.
Yeah, way to go on the protests of late.
love it. data/results very nicely presented.
I supposedly have unlimited data from Verizon on the Android phone I have. I'm actually surprised at how little I've been able to use in a month (my max has been 2-3 GB). I don't watch a lot of videos, but I stream a fair bit of music and browse the web frequently, making use of wifi when possible.

I think this works like shared hosting. Many people think they need unlimited bandwidth, and it sounds great, but they end up using far less than expected. This more than makes up for the people who use excessive amounts.
No, two gigabits is correct. Its publication follows AT&T's new year's resolution to just come clean about what their network can actually deliver.
If they hadn't seemed dangerous, Paul wouldn't have written the essay.
We want to believe success is more probable than it is, that it’s the result of a process we can wrap our heads around. That’s why we’re drawn to prophets, especially the ones who get one big thing right. We want to believe that someone, somewhere can foresee surprising and disruptive change. It means that there is a method to the madness of not just business, but human existence, and that it’s perceptible if you look at it from the right angle. It’s why we take lucky rabbits’ feet into casinos instead of putting our money in a CD, why we quit steady jobs to start risky small businesses. On paper, these too may indeed resemble sucker bets placed by people with bad judgment. But cast in a certain light, they begin to look a lot like hope.

That sound you hear is the sound of a thousand VCs crying out en masse.
Decentralized systems hold personal information about you, but a detailed profile requires merging them all = difficult.

A centralized system requires hardly any effort to gain a detailed profile of you = dangerous.
"pythia" and "Pythai" and even "yhtapi" gets high quality but "hytapi" doesn't. Interesting...
If you try to buy a new smartphone from verizonwireless.com and you select the "Unlimited Email & Web for Smartphones" service, this [1] is the page they give you for the terms and conditions of the deal. I don't see any mention of a 5GB soft cap or any walking-back of the "unlimited" term.

[1] http://support.vzw.com/terms/products/vz_email.html
I doubt that anyone working at Sony or Nintendo shares this apathy toward Microsoft's continued ability to enter and disrupt an industry.
Nice propaganda piece. Goldman Sachs is really active on this one.
The browser solution is a nice idea, but it'll never work. There's too much information out there to consume in a million lifetimes, so even with a fancy browser-side solution, how will you find anything? And if you do find something somehow that's amazing quality, then what? How will your coworker who could really use that one specific tiny drop in the ocean of content find it? Will you recommend it to them? Vote for it? As soon as you introduce any method of filtering content whatsoever, it will be reverse engineered and gamed so that the quality stuff will no longer be synonymous with the popular content. Don't believe me? Look at Reddit, and increasingly, HN. this problem is ultimately not solvable in a scalable way without strong AI.
how many tweets are you basing this on?
The article reads like they are merely going to continue to offer their existing unlimited data plan which they already offer for other phones/devices. From the article, it doesn't sound like they are changing or introducing new services or terms.
I'd love to see this done for the whole world :) excellent work btw
Citation for your reference: http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use...
I'm trying to convince myself with a similar argument :)
(aka the version you want)

This. I'm very sad to hear about shortages. If there is a God of Tech, do not fail us at our hour of need. Do you have a link to this version being sold out? We coud post a comment on their blog, maybe they'd fill us in on the deets.
Apache Pig UDFs in Javascript
Julien Le Dem posted a patch to allow writing Pig UDFs in Javascript, using Rhino.
Didn't the lesser known founder of Facebook take leave and get in bed with the Obama White House?
Unfortunately not, it doesn't store anything for now, it's an API that just gives you a 0/1 for stupid/clever. That's a good suggestion, though. I'll add a feature to save the results and give you a link in exchange for manually marking your text as stupid/clever, so the filter gets trained.

A sort of a "tit for tat" scenario, it might actually work well, thank you for the suggestion!
Of course, things have changed a whole lot in the last five years since 2006. Also, Verizon offers a whole lot of different plans, and not all of the details are public.

If there is a cap for the specific phone+web+mail package you found, I would bet the cap is hidden in their terms of service as their definition of "abuse."
I've made that same argument, but... how did Facebook get its initial critical mass of users if it provides nothing new? There must be some reason all those college students signed up for it.
Who killed the Intel microprocessor?
Prediction: it'll start with the gov't allowing safe harbor for sites that use these IDs, when questions regarding copyright, pr0n, etc., come up.

If your users post copyrighted material, e.g., then you'll be offered safe harbor only if you enforce registration via the national ID. Same deal for people posting "naughty" content -- which is more insidious than it sounds, because of the overlap between (a) sexual content and privacy concerns in discussions about, e.g., STDs; or (b) in the wake of wikileaks, being hassled about publication of, or support for those publishing, "leaked" data be it from government or from industry.

It's necessary that we provide a way for people to maintain anonymity, but the government wants to offer enough carrots to divert our horse from that path.
Geography is becoming increasing irrelevant. I live in a small 855 person town in the middle of America. I just found an awesome job, working with an awesome company doing really interesting work.

Don't use the place as an excuse.
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Here's what I know, having done a year of biochem at imperial college before switching to physics: Fluoride is incredibly reactive. Its more reactive than chlorine. It will happily mess you your dna, or anything else organic it comes into contact with.

Here's what I know by deduction: The argument for putting it in drinking water is that the fluoride gets into our teeth, as children, during growth, via our blood. Childrens' toothpaste doesn't contain fluoride. If it can get into our teeth through our blood, then logically it can get into our bones through our blood. Is this good or bad? Are bones designed to be hard, like teeth? If you were an industrial designer, would you give bones the same structural qualities as teeth? Clearly not. Bones would have a certain amount of flex. Fluoride removes that flex.

Here's what I know about freedom: if you want fluoride in your water, add it yourself. Dont force me to drink it.

Here's what I know about money: Fluroide. Who benefits?

1. Companies that produce fluoride as toxic waste. Its still classified as toxic waste. But now they can sell it to put in drinking water. (WTF?)

2. Coca-cola wants to sell me bottled water. Its fluoride free, funnily enough. Why is that then? Why is it legal to charge me for fluoride free water?

When I am forced to pay, through taxes, my water comes with fluoride.

When I have the choice to pay, for bottled water, my water comes without fluoride.

That should tell you all you need to know.
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I didn't express myself well. It was an example where a style attribute may be implicit in one browser, but lead to incorrect rendering in another. In other cases it may be a hack. So I guess the advice is: be explicit.

btw: Microsoft must be the least "green" software-company ever. All the electricity spent on figuring out how to write css for IE.. :)
"31. Fluoridation is unethical because individuals are forced to drink fluoridated water. If fluoride is indeed beneficial, people can always take it as a dietary supplement."

Dietary supplement? The alleged benefit of flouride is to prevent tooth decay, how does taking it as a dietary supplement prevent tooth decay?
Please don't be crude :) Yes, like a fine malt whiskey Mr. Whitney can go straight to your head. I never said that he was an economist mind you, just that his economic analysis is spot on and he was yelling "housing bubble!", "credit bubble!" as the regular economists were ignoring Roubini et al. Whitney is pessimistic but if you hadn't noticed there has been a lot to be pessimistic about for the last 5 years of irrational exuberance and recessionary times. Besides, he's an accessible and engaging writer. Take the time to go back to a few of his articles from years gone by to get a feeling about his track record and insight.
cool idea, good luck with it.

Could you elaborate on the 'free cash flow,' where does the money come from?
I hadn't thought of it like that, but now that you mention it - how isn't Mark Zuckerberg the real life version of John Galt?
Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this. I am going to make one of this.

The thing that makes it wonderful is that if I ever need an A4 paper, I can just unfold it!

Another activity for me to do with my daughter :)
I think it has been like that for most of the lifetime of Microsoft, though.

If Linux games would have been as good as Windows games, none of my friends would ever have installed Windows.
Cool good luck with it. :)
It's worked for nearly every famous psychic - see Jeane Dixon.
Say what you want about Zed but his output is phenomenal. Every few weeks a new post comes out and so does a new addition to our industry. This guy is great, someone I definitely look up to.
Ask HN: Why do people consider Ruby better than Perl or vice versa?
I've seen a lot of anti-perl, pro-ruby speak recently on HN and am curious for what reasons people find Ruby to be superior (esp. from people who have experience with both)

I'm personally a fan of both (and continuously delighted by learning new things in both languages). I'm spending more time with Ruby lately because it looks like it's where the community is going and is fashionable these days, but I have no real major issues with perl itself.

Perl is often a stereotyped as unreadable, but it's largely up to the writers of the code itself to make it _that_ illegible; it's not a consequence of the language.
What's the point?

You either apply this affect as subtly as chrome; then it does nothing for usability (neither positive, nor negative).

Or you apply it as visible as in this blog post; then it's distracting and hurts usability.

Either way I can't see why you'd bother. Unless you're a bored google chrome engineer...
I don't understand, will this ID be required to connect to the Internet? If not (say it's only used like SSNs are now) I don't see how starting your own internet would help.
That's because every single data plan (that you can buy) from VZW now comes with a monthly data allowance of some sort: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobilebroadband/?page=pla...
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Not true. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Old news, dupe, and barely HN material
Academic motivation is virtually nonexistent in the States, whereas in China kids go to school on Saturdays and go to private cram schools until nighttime. A nation is made or broken by its education systems since after all, knowledge is power.

Well, the OP said "rapid decline". This is a gradual non-improvement, which is not the same thing.

Also, does going to school 7 days a week increase learning? I can sit in front of my computer and type stuff for 24 hours straight. Doesn't mean the result is any good.
The element highlight has a purpose. It tells the user: You are currently hovering this and your next mouse-click will activate it.

How does highlighting only part of the hovered element help to "elevate" anything?
Show HN: Google Translate/Ebay Api Mashup. Search eBay in "any" language
Weekend project/byproduct of contract work. Translates eBay query into language native to each eBay site. Surprisingly useful in my native language(polish).

Link: http://www.manyatonce.com/
By running under the paradigm that they assume they are flawed? That's the core claim in there.

>..if we respect our fellows' human rights

This is a problematic clause. Whose rights do you disrespect: the one you pushed, or the 5 you could have saved?
It's amusing that something can now be considered "old" and "beat up" in less than 18 months.
There's the rub though. How do you respect others' rights? Would enslaving 10 people to set 100 free not be respecting others' rights (at least in the long term)? Now you can argue whether or not that's the right way to respect others' rights, but it's respecting the rights of others nonetheless.
> Even with a more optimized program, I'd be surprised if "fairly easy" were an accurate characterization of the effort to separate timing of comparing one extra character of a password from all the other stuff going on during a request: database access, routing, parsing query parameters, load from other requests, garbage collection pauses, network latency... The signal-to-noise ratio is just too low.

Timing attacks are possible over networks, even when the timing differences are minuscule. [1]

[1] http://www.usenix.org/events/sec03/tech/brumley/brumley_html...
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"Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works."
Show HN: The Vibes of Ireland;Mood of Ireland derived from Twitter
When I saw the headline, I thought surely it must be The Onion with one of their better jibes. The idea that it was written without irony leaves me speechless.
We have one carrier offering an unlimited 3G plan here in Austria. They don't limit you or shape you traffic when you use too much (I had 80 GB traffic last month). The bad thing is that their network is often an order of magnitude slower than the networks of their competitors that don't offer an unlimited plan. During the late afternoon/evening it is unusable, even for surfing or checking your mails.
Text shadow is easy to do, just not always gonna look great:

filter: dropshadow(color=#333333, offx=1, offy=1);
Yes and no. Tests that are not written well can be a burden. After code changes, a lot of time can be spent fixing test "failures" that are more a failure of the testing methodology than the app under test. So test, yes...automate, yes...but EDIT those tests and AUDIT those tests, to make sure they are all really useful.
"I think a grain of salt have more value than a possible bird might shake nowadays then caliber it for turtles and China."

Mark V. Shaney -- High quality troller since 1983 ;-)
I meant that it was consequenceless for the bullies ("consequence" being a term from decision theory, where you can compare a consequenceless Prisoner's Dilemma—where everyone should defect—to an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma—where people can take revenge for slights in past rounds, and so everyone should cooperate.) The problem is really that we throw a bunch of kids together who aren't yet socialized, have one another far outside their monkeyspheres, and likely won't see the same faces next year (let alone after graduation), and expect them to play this game without role-models (i.e. mixed-age play) or useful/just arbitration. The bullies are just a symptom of a broken system.

(And, if you're wondering, I was on the receiving end of this. The internalization of the idea that, for them, it was truly just a game, actually somewhat reversed any sort of scarring that could have occurred, although I do admit feeling quite suicidal in sixth grade.)