skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mate, I think you're making too many generalizations based on things that feel true, you know, 'cause that's what everybody says.

Statements like "social security is a time bomb" belay a misunderstanding of what you're talking about. SS is just fine, there are many other, more real issues—but I don't want to get into a policy debate. My point is that you've been here 4 months and should give it a few years before making such sweeping, half-informed judgements.

Anyway, drop a line sometime if you want to grab a beer. I live in the WV as well and I can point you toward much better pizza than anything you'll find on Bleecker.
This is one of the problems with cloud platforms. You know how people proudly announce on twitter that they "fired" a customer? What happens if a cloud platform you are using and depends on decide to "fire" you because you're a complainer or a heavy user?

If you're a cloud app user, you can't even complain loudly. If you are enemies with your host, they can just decide to kick you off. Even if they resolve it, you'll always have a bad feeling knowing that the person running your infrastructure doesn't "like you".

Software you could buy, once you have it, you own it. Nobody can kick you off.
Cut / paste those into spam emails today and nothing has changed other than the dollar figures and the method of delivery. Sadly someone will always prey on the gullible and that in itself is a timeless method of getting rich.
Rare pictures of North Korea
What mobile app developers can learn from Oprah Winfrey.
If Egypt changes government, it will be interesting to see whether the decision to turn off the internet becomes seen as a crucial motivator for the coup.

The internet is getting close to a basic amenity: if the govt shuts of the water or electricity to stop protests, you know it's not on your side anymore.
I'm a friend of the owner.
That's a pretty good one. Here's another:

Purchase home in warmer climate and sell current home.

Arrange move of belongings and family members. Leave the shovel.

Perform the actual move via plane/car/other appropriate method of transport.
This revolution as I understand it (barely) is a really tricky thing, here's why:

If only chaos is created and the people don't take complete control soon, there are a few opposing parties in Egypt, who could easily be classified as terrorists, who could take advantage of this and take control.

But they aren't at that point yet so these fears aren't discussed (yet). Government has not been dissolved. So if/when you hear that, everyone best be paying attention.
Of course they will try to manipulate the situation, but will you see them on the street?

It's not really the point though. Perhaps I'm wrong about the importance of the wealthy in revolutions throughout history. The point is it's naive to expect giant corporations to take enormous risks in defying government power. Wealthy individuals? Perhaps. Perhaps small businesses or startups. But not big corporations--they are too profit-centered and conservative and they have too much to lose. Just look at Vodafone's complicit behavior in Egypt. It's a direct parallel.
Violence against the head of state versus violence against police is a totally different story. Of course the one will hide behind the other and it may be hard or impossible to get the 'job' done without violence I'd still advice restraint and to use it as a means of last resort rather than the first choice as though there are no other options.

Romania and Albania are fairly recent examples of successful revolutions that had a relatively small amount of violence (compared to what could have been, and being in the middle of it certainly wasn't a pick-nick), Poland is an example of an even more successful one with almost no violence (not that they authorities didn't try to change that, but that didn't work out so well for them.).

The middle east has a long history of having violent revolutions only to return to a 'new boss, same as the old boss' situation, it's high time for some real improvement there and this is one very big opportunity to show how it is done. Make sure that you give your opponent something to lose, if they know they're going to die anyway then they have nothing to lose and will hold on to their power in the most irrational ways. Give them a way out with their hide in tact and who knows what might happen.
If people are buying books to fill up the available space then you're right. If people are buying books to read them then you probably aren't.

I'd guess that most people are buying books to read them.
Just a measure of performance, for definite set of problems :)
In the original email, William clearly says he wants to leave and that the lack of an export feature is the only thing stopping him.

That part makes a HUGE difference in the framing of David Karp's.
Agreed, the math here is way off. No mention of amortization to either side of the argument: the "saved" $104,000 OR the expected $800,000. Perhaps I invested the $800,000 (or what's left after I pay my student loans)? Depending on how the $800K is distributed over my lifetime, that investment could be well over $1.4mil when I retire.
Dialogs like that should be reserved for important, irreversible changes but instead are used everywhere. They're no longer read and solely seen as an interruption to the program flow.

Always providing undo, or a delayed action without interrupting what the user is doing eliminates the need to retrain users.
How "fresh" are stock markets data? Does those include EU market too? Italy, in particular? thank you
> It doesn't mean shareholders would be happy about it.

Actually, shareholders would probably be ecstatic.
Wow this is good stuff:

"It is not a dream, it is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering, only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world! [...] Humanity is not yet sufficiently advanced to be willingly led by the discoverer's keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence — by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle." – Nikola Tesla, "The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires as a Means for Furthering Peace," Electrical World and Engineer, January 7, 1905.
Hi, very cool editor, currently I'm thinking about making it my default editor instead of TextMate.

However there are few issues:

* The default theme looks too dark (at least on OSX). It's hard to see which tab is active atm. Simple gray would be better (like in Chrome).

* Cannot change between tabs with Cmd-number.

* If the file is long and minimap is bigger than the height of the screen, clicking on it does not take you to the clicked position, but somewhere else.

* Too much animation, imho.

* Seriously needs a better icon, at least on OSX. It's too simplistic and looks like the frame that you can move when Cmd-tabbing through the programs.

Hope that helps, and keep up the good work!
Considering that a good portion of the money that you're suggesting the gov't would pay those companies to shut down their internet facing services comes in part from those same companies' internet revenues(as taxes), I don't know how this would work. It would be an economical disaster for the gov't to shut down the one thing that's propped up our economy so well in the last 20 years. You seem to forget the gov't has money because of taxes, they don't just pull it out of their ass(es).
Ropes, pulleys and frost are a good recipe for frustration. You'd need these ropes to be some sort of non-freezing rubber tubes you could run some hot water through to unfreeze the whole thing before starting the operation above. Or you could just move to florida.
4 Ways to Improve Your Content and Your Online Revenue
In order to be successful for the web, you will need to write in a way that is easy for people to scan your content.

Consider breaking up a complex topic into a series of posts. It’s a great way to keep people coming back for more, and readers will find it easier to take in your content if it is in smaller parts.
It reminded me of the AK-47 quote from Jackie Brown:

AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf@#$%r in the room, accept no substitutes.
Here's an even better one. Position a butterfly in the palm of your hand and agitate just enough so as it flaps its wings in just the right way as to cause air currents that propagates into low air pressure which in turn cause the winds to change from northerly to southerly .. wait a few days and the snow should have melted.
New York Times needs to fix 200 more paywall glitches
Thanks. This is the first I've heard of OmniGraphSketcher and it looks like quite a flexible tool.
And all of those together comprises Internet, basically... ;)
Yeah, right. Tell that to America in 1770.
Ask HN: The book "Upgrading and Repairing PCs" but for servers
Does a book like this exists for servers? I spent countless hours memorizing an early edition of this book. It seemed to have the answer for any hardware problem I ever encountered, and I would think that something like this for servers would be invaluable.

If you are unfamiliar with the book, here is a link: http://www.quepublishing.com/imprint/series_detail.aspx?ser=335234&sorttype=3&dir=1&page=2
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and that's great because, unlike windows, it just changes the file name. Not the extension unless you actually move to the extension yourself.
> I don't understand why this move should piss off anybody in the OSS community. Oracle is a private company and as such has only obligations to its shareholders. They may or may not support and/or promote OSS projects as they see fit, same as every one of us. It's their free choice.

Do you REALLLY don't understand that?

Because it is, say, about 100% understandable.

a) Oracle took away a tool some people used.
b) Several of those people feel pissed by this.

Between (a) and (b), what does all this fluff about this being "[Oracle's] free choice" has to do with anybody feeling pissed?
How about using twisted-pair or some other networking cable? They are rubber coated usually.
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Having a roof cover that could be lifted in the middle seems like a decent solution to the flat roof idea.
Apparently a lot of people do!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof#Drainage

The high steeply-pitched roofs of Germany and Holland are typical in regions of snowfall. In parts of North America such as Buffalo, USA or Montreal, Canada, there is a required minimum slope of 6 inches in 12 inches, a pitch of 30 degrees.
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Reading an article does not confirm anything.
As far as decay, this has been a long term thing. Outside of major urban centers where people rely on public transit, most of America is based around car culture. To sum it up, Main Street USA didn't die because of big box retailers, it died because the parking sucked and the affluent went where their cars took them. If the buildings are ratty, we build newer, cheaper ones and drive to them.

This is nothing recent, it started in the 50s and 60s with white flight and has been on a slow, slide downhill ever since because of cheaper constructions methods and cheap gas. Take those two things away and Americans just might go back to monolith building, if for no other reason that the need to work.
There is also the Netsukkuku project. http://netsukuku.freaknet.org/
However, it requires other nodes around you to have the software installed as well, which would require planning prior to a significant enough communications outage that would warrant its use.
@spolsky Why are you so invested in this? If a CEO has nothing good to say, he needs to say nothing. That's his fiduciary responsibility and I'm sure the board has the same opinion.
The preview-on-single click makes a bit more sense if you have the tabs turned off: it exists so the set of open files doesn't get cluttered when browsing a project. I'm planning on making it optional (and likely off by default), as many people aren't a fan of the behavior.

You can change the font, but it involves editing the preference files: Have a browse through "Preferences/Default File Preferences", and then copy the relevant keys into "Preferences/User File Preferences" - font_face and font_size in this case.
There is an an emacs interface to ruby-debug. See http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/rdebug-emacs.html

The rewrite of ruby-debug for Rubinius currently supports syntax highlighting via CodeRay. See https://github.com/rocky/rbx-trepanning or https://github.com/rocky/rbx-trepanning/wiki/Terminal-Colors for how to set that up.

The github project Emacs interface for the newer series of debuggers is https://github.com/rocky/emacs-dbgr.

But as someone else pointed out, it sounds like you'd be happier using an IDE such as one from JetBrains, Aptana, or Eclipse.
There was nothing self-righteous or whiny about the blog post or the original email. Both contained substantive and completely reasonable criticisms to which you have responded with name-calling and CAPS LOCK.
They're not "unreadable" on the Kindle, but the Kindle (especially the smaller models) are pretty non-optimal for using tech reference books in PDF format.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230451070457556...

I don't have any personal experience that I can offer, but I recalled reading this article a few months ago and it might be of help.
Scott Adams (Dilbert) on TSA security
You should consider switching to decaf.
You mean "a little search" to find a tool that's only available in the +1 version of Chrome? I don't think you should have to trade off stability for the ability to get a warning (or save state) before you nuke your browser.
We'll also find Turing's prosecution as insane as Galileo's. I suppose the overwhelming majority of us already do, but hopefully in the year 4000 even the most conservative of religious folk will consider the "crime" of homosexuality to be as invalid as the "crime" of claiming that the earth revolves around the sun. I'm looking at you Uganda!
"1. Special variables seems really like a take it or leave it idea. I'm really not convinced that keeping these as explicit arguments of a function are a bad idea. I really like the ability to reason about a function by simply knowing its arguments (including the mplicit self/this)."

Sometimes it is nice to influence the entire call stack. The canonical example of this is probably re-directing "system out." Special variables provide a nice solution to the problem of making all the printlns in a call stack go to a file instead of the console or REPL, for example. That would be really awkward if you had to chain the System Out variable through all the calls.
I bought a Kinect release week and to me - its a <Steve Jobs>magical device</Steve Jobs> that's just not quite ready yet - but it has absolutely enormous potential.

When I first hooked it up and put in the sports game there's a definite "holy shit" moment when you realize that moving to your left and right and aiming your kicks in the soccer game actually works. You can take two or three steps to the left, around a defender and then kick the ball with the appropriate foot, in the air or on the ground, etc and it works, well. As someone who writes software for a living it was a feeling I haven't had with a hardware/software combo in a long time.

On the other hand there are parts of the experience that just aren't there yet. One of parts that seemed to have the most potential was the 10 foot interface - controlling ESPN and your dashboard without ever touching a controller. Unfortunately this just isn't very good. Its finicky and much less efficient than just using a controller. I tried it for a few days before going back to a normal controller or the occasional voice command. To me - this is the part of the experience that needs the most work.

I can easily see the Kinect being a revolutionary technology as it evolves and improves - it already is one for games, but its not quite there yet in my opinion.
I wonder if Amazon is counting all the free downloads? I know I've purchased one Kindle book, but downloaded maybe 20 free ones from Amazon.

I'll be more impressed when the e-book revenue catches paperbacks.
It's just a rebranding of the 7digital service, not something Ubuntu cooked up themselves.

http://about.7digital.net/
"One very important point that William fails to mention about his email to us - he spent the time to track down every Tumblr employees email and sent it to the entire team. It was way over-the-top, and yes, discouraging to the team."

Assuming that is true, your comment deserves more attention. It changes the situation significantly.
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Sadly the range of Kindle books is still too small as the publishers (pretty much every content distributor actually) is stuck in the dark ages.

They need to get their act together. If there is no good 'offical' ebook, people will easily turn to piracy. If that gets established as the norm for normal people, the book publishers will lose out.
I'll only be pedantic about them rarely being forged (mostly stamped) and definitely still having problems of overheating. Try firing one on full auto for more than one clip - better have gloves...

They are great weapons though. I've never cleaned mine or had a jam. I hope this database is that good!
"the American experiment seems broken--eve dying"

That's the exact way it was used and it is pretentious, because it dismisses our culture and country as something fleeting.

The phrase "the American experiment" may be a common phrase, but it doesn't say "we are fundamentally unique compared to other democracies;" it simply says "our exact experience is unique." Same can be said, with meaning, for any country.
Google algorithm change launched
Earlier this week Google launched an algorithmic change that will tend to rank scraper sites or sites with less original content lower. The net effect is that searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content. An example would be that stackoverflow.com will tend to rank higher than sites that just reuse stackoverflow.com's content. Note that the algorithmic change isn't specific to stackoverflow.com though.

I know a few people here on HN had mentioned specific queries like [pass json body to spring mvc] or [aws s3 emr pig], and those look better to me now. I know that the people here all have their favorite programming-related query, so I wanted to ask if anyone notices a search where a site like efreedom ranks higher than SO now? Most of the searches I tried looked like they were returning SO at the appropriate times/slots now.
This is a wicked cool site, but you need to put in screenshots of the input (how it went in) and the output (what the output looked like in an epub reader).

What approach do your algorithms use? Do you do recognition of title, subtitles etc based on differences in fonts, spacing, line length etc.? Or do you need to enter regexps to recognize those?

Do you recognize paragraphs correctly?

Can you filter out front- and back filler like the ToC, and extract only the 'content' pages?

If so, it's 90% of what I'm looking for and I think good enough to pay for :)

I have some notes on how to approach from when I tried to make it myself, it includes what functionality I consider necessary for a MVP. Let me know if you're interested...
Poll: are you an entrepreneur, wealthy and happy?
Inspired by: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2149061

Are you an entrepreneur, are you wealthy, and are you happy?

Definitions for the purpose of this poll

Entrepreneur: you are a founder of a business or start-up
Wealthy: you own 1M+ in assets minus liabilities
Happy: do you like what you do professionally, have low/no stress level and have time for non-work related things you enjoy (if you have any)

Note: I'm not trying to start a pissing contest here, please stick to the criteria/definitions above when answering and be honest.
entrepreneur, wealthy, happy
entrepreneur, wealthy, not happy
entrepreneur, not wealthy, happy
entrepreneur, not wealthy, not happy
not entrepreneur, wealthy, happy
not entrepreneur, wealthy, not happy
not entrepreneur, not wealthy, happy
not entrepreneur, not wealthy, not happy
Hidden Fractals Suggest Answer to Ancient Math Problem
im not exactly sure about that but i know that at least for integers there are atomic update commands and that for strings there are atomic append commands.

so for this you would really just want to do: APPEND foo d

or for more complex situations you could do use WATCH instead of MULTI so that you can get the intermediate results. so for your example:

WATCH foo
GET foo ->value
//calculate new_value
MULTI
SET foo new_value
EXEC

now if at any other operation (not part of this connection) modifies foo then the transaction will be aborted.

GET foo -> value
//application logic to update value
GETSET foo new_value ->prev

then prev will contain the value of foo at the time it was set, so you can then use application logic to roll back or redo the transaction
Show HN: Cloudflow = Coverflow + Twitter Pic Search
I don't think you're reading that quote right. "Trusted" doesn't mean "trustworthy". What the implementors were probably trying to explain to this poor technical writer is that they have proven that their kernel correctly implements the isolation policies they have formally specified - enabling it to separate (isolate) trusted (kernel level) from untrusted (user level) software.
Thanks for the feedback! I will work on it :)
Yes it does - and William can confirm this was the case
>Basically you're falling for survivorship bias.

Yes some artifacts will be destroyed in caves. But we also know that artifacts won't be preserved in museums. Hence I said relatively safe. Clearly not all artifacts survive but we're sure that no artifacts remain in the Library of Alexandria (whether scrolls from there were saved or not, they weren't saved in the library).

Yes I see that you can also argue that items in caves/other caches are also eventually removed or destroyed in situ but it is the preservation against rampaging hordes and systematic destruction that I was targetting.

>That doesn't mean that being lost is safer than being in a museum. (Perhaps it is, but where's the evidence?)

Obviously this is circumstantial evidence but I think that museums are simply too obvious to protect against certain things like looting in war or social collapse scenarios.
I spent some time studying this kernel in a graduate class a year or two ago.

Basically the kernel was implemented in subsets of C and subsets of Haskell, and a 1:1 mapping between C and Haskell was proved. The Haskell code was formally proved to match certain properties in the prover.

One of the key innovations in the seL4 project is a formal treatment of properties regarding memory allocation and usage. That is to say, they were able to write proofs about malloc using only static analysis (just looking at the code, not running it), which was something that's been pretty out-of-reach to that point. Of course, there are limitations to the C code.

So, the seL4 microkernel is provably immune to certain classes of bugs. That's basically the big deal.

If I was looking for a secure kernel, seL4 would be a good starting point to look at, IMO.
Unfortunately, a determined governing body with the resources to back it could still track HAM operators down.
How Egypt Switched Off The Internet