skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for crashing my website guys. Any ideas where to put it so I don't have to pay an exorbitant amount for hosting?
Sounds like a good idea (I wrote the CLI).

Wish there was a list out there with all the quirky registration rules. I've also been thinking about adding prices.

Thanks for checking it out!
QR codes used as quasi-tour guides and on gravestones
Perhaps you missed this in the original article:

I wonder if this party would so outwardly ban any black gamers from registering. Because it would be so, you know, uncomfortable to hear them being insulted.
now that your friend logged as root, you did have a breach.
The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer's Perspective
Despite the good feedback system there's still a bit of a psychological barrier for a lot of people when it comes to the main premise of the company--because as you eluded to in your comment, there are some sketchy accommodations in the world and I'm very interested in seeing how with this new money the guys will attempt to combat that issue and why it wasn't a slight hitch in the investment process--as you said the additional information is helpful but for a 1 billion dollar company, I don't think it's useful enough to escape generations of non-altruistic living where we trust no one and sleep with one eye open. They deserve everything they've gotten, and they're certainly going to earn their money when tackling this specific problem.
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WordPress themes (both free and paid) nowadays come bundled with a lot of different kind of options — color schemes, custom post types, portfolio pages, contact forms, custom shortcodes and much more. These are the kind of things developers usually offer to their users, but what do they get in return? Well if it’s a paid theme they obviously get some money and if it’s a free one, donations are more common. But there’s one thing you always get in return as a WordPress theme (or plugin) author, and that’s awareness.
I think you've hit the nail on the head, @peteretep.

The problem is that ideologies like TDD try to come up with simple rules for how to develop (i.e. always write tests first). In reality, it's better to use your brain when you're deciding how to approach something (i.e. is this a good situation for writing tests first?)
Do you have any statistics to back up your blanket assertion?

I find that searching for a specific person through a common friend is a tedious exercise of first going to that common friend's page, locating their friend list and then typing the specific person's first name to filter the list. This is not always fruitful as you would need to know that a specific person is in fact a friend of your suspected common friend, otherwise their profile would not come up in your filtered search.

However, if you type their name in the search input, Facebook will assist you by first finding friends of friends and then people of that name close to your home location.

Friending people as they come up tagged in common friend's activities is not search, it's affinity engagement, which is best achieved when you use your real name or the name most people know you by.
>Or, he says, if the operators transported you to their reality (which, of course, may itself be a simulation).

This is what probably happens when hackers die and go to paradise, they are transported to another computer system. Except of course teleportation would have been much more interesting.
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The title is a little misleading. At the beginning of the article, the author states that he is also using a bluetooth keyboard, since the on-screen keyboard is ill-suited for anything beyond "brief emails and outlines."

At the end, the author says:
"It's not that it can't do real work, though. You just have to have the right apps, the right hardware, and be willing to work around the interface's limitations as you go."

Why choose an inefficient platform when you need to do "real" work? The tablet platform (iPad or otherwise) has it's place, but it sounds like true content creation isn't that place. It seems like a lot of people are trying to adjust their work to the device instead of the other way around.
Depends on your goals. HN can be beneficial. But you can also just waste a lot of time with procrastinating here.
Grandparents were key to prehistoric man's survival
Ok, let me rephrase. A group which is majority black men playing basketball will, under many circumstances, engage in racial ("cracker", "wetback" or "nigger" - whatever fits) and non-racial ("yo momma") smack talk.

(Note: not a hypothetical.)

Are they bad human beings for doing so?
Unnecessary apostrophe is unnecessary.
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"Basketball among black men"

So you're saying that white people playing basketball don't talk trash? Why would you even mention race and skin colour here?

And what is the culture of computer gaming of which you speak. The chances are that I've been gaming longer than you have, and while i recognise that there are certain juvenile elements who love shouting "cunt nigger i owned you" when playing, they do not represent gaming, and while they might be a feature of certain parts of gaming, they are, for the most part, denigrated and dismissed by their peers - not just women.

Are you a male gamer? It would be interesting to understand your clear bias here.
Apple iPhone 5 To Feature Complete Voice Control?
RIM “Streamlining” Operations, Lays Off 2,000
A dev server is for dev, even to show off the app to your friends you've got to remove this console. So IMHO, you don't have to worry about security if it's your tiny dev machine that runs on your desk

One of your friends is named Firefox, and he does not take orders from you, he takes orders from me.
I have a morbid fascination with improving my workflow and programming environment, so I absolutely adore combing through other developer's fabfiles. This one is definitely nicely put together, and there's some nice gems I look forward to adapting into my own.

I'll say this though: while fabric is _ok_ at configuration management and provisioning new servers/instances, it's absolutely dwarfed by real tools for that kind of job. If you value your sanity and want another excellent tool in your arsenal, look into using Chef or Puppet for building servers (with a dose of Blueprint for reverse-engineering your existing requirements). Fabric is great at everything else it does, but for building new servers it's very flimsy and prone to break, which can cause many a needless headache. I prefer Chef, but Puppet is equally excellent. Do yourself a favor and take the afternoon to learn one or both.
The problem is that compared to birds humans are very heavy in relation to any of their cross sections. Thus we can not produce enough lift in air. We would require enormous wings. Big birds tend to glide more than they flutter. Fixed wings aren't a bad approximation for birds our size.
For the relaxing part I suggest watchlater http://goo.gl/p0Ck7 it's like instapaper but for videos.
Aaron Swartz v. United States
I think there is a surplus of books out there on JavaScript fundamentals, the language itself being quite simple. Maybe I (or somebody) ought to put something out on using the DOM effectively, the ignorance of which I think is most responsible for the "black box" syndrome decried in the introduction. Flanagan's book is decent in that regard, but has never done a good job of talking about practical use, browser/version differences, etc.
51% say their home is worth less than their mortgage
This is the best definition of the term 'start-up' I have yet seen:

startups are a temporary organization designed to search for a scalable and repeatable business model

This definition explains why funding is the single best predictor of startup success: it permits the startup to survive until it can hit upon a successful product. Because most products fail. Even a product that succeeds depends as much or more on market context beyond the perception of its creators as it does on its intrinsic value. People are important, but they can only stick around as long as there is funding. (Of course, funding depends heavily on social networks, so in that sense the people are important.) But as the author acknowledges in the article, the fact that VCs generally don't understand why one startup succeeds and another fails does not change the fact that they control the single greatest differentiator: money.
So, because you've been bullied, it's ok for everyone to be.
Android phones are usable without a Google account. You need one in order to log in to Android Market, and obviously the GMail app and contacts sync won't work, but the OS can still be used. Cyanogen, for IP reasons, even goes so far as to package all the Google-dependent stuff in a separate firmware image.
Earth to Microsoft: Don’t sell Bing.
I don’t see upvoting as giving something to a beggar; I see it as an exchange of value. You give me something I like (something interesting to read) and I give you something you like (karma).
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It is very rare these days that you'll come up with an idea that hasn't been done.

What's important is that you do it better than anyone else - so take a look at how they're doing it and figure out how you can do it better.
This. Regardless of the technicalities (i.e. if it's the fed reserve, etc. who are responsible for printing money), there's nothing stopping the US government passing a law allowing them to directly print dollars which are legal tender.

As US debt is denominated in USD printing money to pay off debt will always be on the table.
Aging PC giants see writing on the wall
What was Google thinking?
Kind of obvious, I just hope this kind of idea is picked up by the media. It's also why Google+ has some very tricky rules in regards to what becomes public on your profile, because publicly indexed information can be used and monetized more than the private information. That's why Google has made all the "revolutionary" platforms that it has been, and why Schmidt says so many scary things that should make us feel sick.

Facebook's doing the same thing though, Google and them are both selling our identities, interests, social connects and other data to the highest bidder. But the handsets are cheap.
I mis-spoke when I wrote "expect 'addictives' to be CEOs just as often as non-addictives". I meant to write "expect to find 'addictives' amongst the population of CEOs at the same rate at which they occur in the general popluation" or something.

Would've been easier to write it out with math. :P
It's not illegal at all. Why would it be illegal? It's a private event. It's ethically wrong to me but not illegal.
My current hobby is writing simple cardgames in javascript. Currently I have Hearts - http://www.hearts-cardgame.com , Idiot/Shithead http://www.shithead-cardgame.com and Crazy Eights http://crazyeights-cardgame.com .

Am getting my first payout from Google Adsense this month, about 120 $. Which isn't much, but they're pure client side games, require no maintenance or anything so I'll just keep getting a small check every month :)
Nothing turns off my brain to listening to anything you've got to say faster than using reddit meme faces in your presentation slides.
Wish there was a list out there with all the quirky registration rules.

Here ya go:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_doma...
And likewise, I will mention that while I’m quibbling about one little bit, I consider the rest of your comment worthy of an upvote.
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Right, It is an academic exercise, not an attempt to understand how you would actually do the job you are applying for.
I have friends with the facebook names Hiphopopotomus, Joseph Stalin, and Professor X--and they've had these stupid names, that aren't their real names for a long long time--if there is a policy like this in place on FB they aren't really enforcing it.
Does it clear out the clipboard after a certain timeout? This is why I like browser extensions to handle autofilling my passwords.
Yes: Slavic in general (my other example is Russian; wife of Makarov is Makarova).
Interesting presentation, would do better with some more details in a blog or pdf.
Winners of Start-up Competition Announced
F1000 Enterprises 2011 Storage Spend Continues at a Strong Pace
dup. More discussion here...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2793615
They may claim to purchase real iphones, ipads and macs, but anybody with any biz-know-how about China will tell you that knockoffs can be better than the real deal. I would bet that fake stores are selling counterfeit devices, regardless of their claims.
It always has been and it's still the case in America that what is not prohibited is permitted. The problem is that in the last 70 years, the number of prohibitions have greatly increased. Technically we're still free; practically, there are fewer free domains available. The internet is one such domain, and that's why there is so much innovation here as compared to, say, banking or medicine.
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So long as there are women-only gyms, scholarships, etc this argument falls a little flat. In other words, you can't have your cake and eat it.
In the beginning Facebook was far more restrictive in requiring a university email as well as a real name to sign up. If it had instead launched based on an open invitation system and not policed pseudonymous accounts then marketers and trolls would have ensured it remained an insignificant niche site.

If anything, real names were far more critical to Facebook's success than they might be to Google+
Have you tried talking to them? - Shocking new technique for resolving arguments
6-Year-Old American on No-Fly List. DHS: We're not taking her off.
Being in a similar industry, I share the sentiments of the last couple of slides: Dataloggers are expensive and horrible pieces of hardware. Proprietary solutions with no regard for real-life scenarios (Limited connectivity, power failures, connection failures, weird and inflexible data formats...)

I would love to have a look at their Arduino based solution.
I wrote a post that was widely misunderstood. So, I responded with the style of (1), (2), (3), etc. to say JUST what I was claiming and to support my claims in a way that even a good present or would be Google employee could understand! So, yes, I'm "pedantic": Considering the complaints about what I posted, the 'pedantry' was, unfortunately, necessary.

"Google is an engineering company". My Ph.D. is in engineering!

Google should be a good place for people with my qualifications. That it is not is Google's failure, not mine.

For where I would be "better off working", I agree that I have better alternatives than Google, especially now if not when I had a Google interview.

My main point is nothing like your objections to my posts: Instead, my main point is just that the Google recruiting process is a mess. I am not the subject here; Google's recruiting process is! Making me the subject is confused based on some emotional instead of rational reactions. So, come on, hard nosed, highly rational, detail-oriented software 'engineers': Stay on the subject -- Google's recruiting, not me!
Social safety net harmful to economic growth?
Sabat, would you do the following for me?

Turn on Rails.

Open Firefox, type http://localhost:3000/a-malicious-string into the top bar. Hit enter.

Observe how that gets you a malicious string to your web server. This particular string will 404. I can construct much more interesting strings.

Now, notice that step where I told you a URL to type in? Pretend that, instead, I had control over some element of a webpage you were looking at. Any element would do. Say, you come to a blog where I control an image embed for my avatar, and I embed <img src="http://localhost:3000/a-malicious-string />. Firefox is going to make the HTTP request I desire without you having to do anything suspicious and without me having to ever talk to localhost:3000 directly.

After I have a malicious string in your web server, this application lets me execute arbitrary code as your web server. Things get very, very interesting then, in the "may you live in interesting times" sense of interesting. For example, one interesting thing I could do is read your SSH private key, which you use to connect from development to staging or production. Another thing I could do is read your database credentials from database.yml, and maybe even just open up extra ActiveRecord connections directly to those databases and start executing arbitrary SQL. Still another thing I could do is install a keylogger or rootkit on your local machine and wait to get whatever credential I need to totally compromise your company. There are many, many options.

Do not install this anywhere.
Delivery Speed, Part 1
Interesting idea. I think it is best-articulated with the phrase, "Choose the path of least resistance in order to complete your degree."

Finding a developer is very difficult. Have you thought about pitching the idea to one college and seeing if they will front the cash to develop this for themselves? I could see a nursing school wanting to use this for lead-gen purposes. Structure the deal properly and you'll get the cash to develop something now and an opportunity down the road to roll it out without any exclusivity. Maybe not ideal, but an opportunity nonetheless to get the ball rolling before securing a partner. Having a customer developing your first product would go a long way in your recruiting efforts.
FWIW, this is WordPress' default behavior if you use the [gallery] shortcode to display all images attached to a post.

That said, I strongly dislike it as well, and I think they should change it.
Not to be confused with my project on github with a hundred followers that offers browser-based pubsub http://github.com/aaronblohowiak/Push-It
This is pretty awesome - nice job with it!

Just a shameless plug, I released a Domai.nr Chrome Extension just over a week ago that I think would go well with this, if you're a Chrome user. You can find it here: http://goo.gl/O8rtK
Yeah, we should probably have a government where every person distrust what every other person does and verifies every fact, taking nothing on faith. That'll be efficient.
There are built in feedback mechanisms to encourage responsible behavior from both parties which makes it less likely that someone would use AirBnB to commit "illegal" acts (not entirely illegal in all markets). You're being down voted because here's why it doesn't make sense to use it for prostitution:

- Many AirBnB listings are shared spaces so you're getting a spare bedroom or a couch/futon so the privacy factor is not there.

- You have a traceable identity on AirBnB so if it was illegal, you would be leaving a trail of evidence pointing to you.

- Your host would most likely ask you to leave and then you would get banned from the site or get a really negative review which would prevent you from using the service again.

Mostly, it's just not something that is going to be common enough to be a big problem and like I mentioned, there are built in feedback mechanisms to discourage bad behavior.
Given that I wrote both the article in question (on a medium, Google+, that has no title field) and the title of this post, I think it is fully in my right to assign the title the way I want to ;P.

For context, though, that phrase is there to point out that when you are dealing with a worldwide audience of tens to hundreds of millions of people, you cannot make silly assumptions (see patio11's set of "myths") regarding names.

As for using that /specific/ wording, that is how Google themselves often describes the state of operating with that large, and that diverse, of a userbase, making it anything but "nonsense" and in fact fully "apropos".

(Also... what is "NB" supposed to mean?)
Sounds like a good book, but might it be out of date the day it was published given the current release cycle of desktop browsers and mobile devices?
To Wendy
There are women who actually want to attend the LAN party (as evidenced by the fact that they used to be allowed, were present, and "caused problems"). Are there really men who really want to get into Curves? If that demographic exists, then sure: open the gyms!

But honestly, it seems like you're just nitpicking here because you don't want chicks at your LAN party. Some of us find that pretty hateful.
Sure thing, but we are smart enough to do better than piston engines and gas turbines used in aircrafts.

I am confident we will one day discover another form of energy, so we can build aircrafts that do not require jet propulsion engines and induction engines. In fact, such a new form of energy will be necessary for us to fly at and possibly beyond the speed of light. And this will allow us to go deep into outer space and other galaxies.

I always thought if we can somehow ride photons, like hop on and go for a ride, then we can move at the speed of light. But right now I am only a programmer, I leave that to the Rocket Scientists to figure out :)
It depends on what you mean by environmentalism. Clean air and water are non-controversial, motherhood and apple pie issues, and enjoy support across the political spectrum. What has failed to become a mass movement is the notion that we have to give up our technology and go back to nature.
OK, so what _is_ the method?
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>They want it because it makes for a better social network.

Psueudoanonymous accounts certainly haven't made Twitter a worse social network. My stream would be considerably duller without them.

Ideally, Google should allow those who only want to interact with real named accounts to indicate this in their account settings. Filtering, not censorship, is in order.
> "it's a private event. Don't like it? Don't support them."

This is a classic refrain of apologists for bigotry. I belong to a country club that officially excluded blacks up until the 60's, and did so unofficially for years after. The policy changed under pressure from the community, which included bad publicity, public embarrassment, and disdain directed at individual club members from people on the outside. Public scorn for the organization prevailed over the objections of assholes who said, "it's a private organization! Go make your own country club!".

Eventually, Augusta may repent of gender discrimination due to similar pressure. And it still won't make the front page of HN because it has nothing to do with computers.
It doesn't need to be internet enabled, that's the point. As long as I can guess the URL you are using for your development machine and have you click on a link on your laptop one can make this work (in the bad sense of the word).
You think environmentalists care more about "visual pollution", aka, "not in my back yard", than coal pollution, hydro dam flooding, nuclear meltdowns... I think maybe these people you are referring to aren't environmentalists at all.
I will take this statement seriously when you start arguing for a specifically exclusionary "black-only basketball league" on this basis.
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Understanding the effects of pressure
I think that's illegal in many European countries to match the ads so closely, so it is unlikely that Google's had this in mind[1].

In my opinion, the actual reason is slightly gentler. There is a lot of research that says that people behave more responsibly under their real names.

(I'm short on time right now, but please let me know if you're unable to find the papers within five minutes.)

[1]. There is a huge difference in the privacy laws between the US and the EU. Shortly, in the EU you own your data, not the company hosting it.