skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, funny coincidence; because of this and also because I just wanted to try out, I recorded my working sessions of the last days and uploaded them to Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w8z9ryoulE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-4jpbcHHD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12D6S25aY8o

I guess most of it is pretty boring but I cannot really tell Maybe also because the first two are without sound; the last one is with system audio mostly playing music (and thus blocked in Germany :)); another one will be uploaded soon will be with audio from my mic but I am not really saying that much.

I, for myself, really like watching other people coding.

Btw., I was working on https://github.com/albertz/ChromeWebApps. :)
Do users change their settings?
I had the same question. He has no clear thesis. He never says, "The problem with current filesystems is: ___".
Same problem for a member of my team with a accented e in her name.
I hate stuff like this. When you or your product just fucked up the UX, it is not the time to be cutesy.
They pulled out of China because the government was hacking them! Do you think they had some knight-in-shining-armour reason? That was all just PR.
The absurd part is that some developers believe that account creation is difficult/hard for users who are very sophisticated early adopters and privacy conscious.
very cool..i like that it updates in real-time unlike jsfiddle where you have to click save.
Home speakers
As we were developing openstack swift, we evaluated many different file systems and settled on xfs because our testing showed it to be faster than other file systems when storing many small files (where "many" is much more than the number of files in the linux kernel).

Unfortunately, I can't find the test results that back up my claim.
May be something completely unrelated?

I had the same trouble ironically. Blamed my desk and chair for ages. Then I sold my car and it went away. The thing I didn't realise was that the car whilst having the perception of being infinitely more comfortable turned out to cause all sorts of muscle strains.
I am quite surprised to see that. I suppose upvoting makes sense to reward karma, but the purpose of downvoting is to make a comment difficult to even read. It seems against the spirit of the site to do that to somethig one merely disagrees with.
It's a tablet in desktop form. Everything but the kernel was rewritten with the tablet as the default use case.
Sure, but when someone's doing something sketchy its important to be able to recognize that, rather than thinking they're stupid or confused or acting randomly.

When you're discussing what is, don't be blinded by considerations of what ought to be.
Android App Development
The well known android operating system has carved its name in the history of oane of the greatest inventions of these times. The intelligence, creativity and the smart work of some of the best people from around the world paved a way for this technological invention.
Isn't the term R&D being overused?

I don't think any research actually happens. Almost by definition, hacking and building things is just development.
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Haha, if you want to disagree with my rose-colored review of why Google are so benevolent then please do a bunch of work so I can just sit here nitpick with nearly no effort on my part.
Not only does it indicate how close I am to completion, but also which categories I have completed. Additionally its pie shape makes it easier to use in this setting (where a horizontal chart would be too big)

http://www.mint.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/trivial-...
An interesting list I found the other day:

Automotive: Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lamborghini, Lancia, Fiat

Agricultural and construction equipment: Iveco, New Holland, Case [CHN is the 2d largest agricultural manufacturer in the world and the third construction]

Motorbikes: Piaggio (Aprilia, Moto Guzzi, Vespa), Ducati, Cagiva [Piaggio is the world's 4th largest motorcycle manufacturer and the largest European one]

Bicycles: Bianchi is the world's most prestigious brand of racing bikes.

Technogym: official supplier of the Olympics

Shipbuilding: Fincantieri is one of the world's largest ship manufacturers having built cruises for Carnival, Cunar, Disney, Holland America, etc.
Ferretti luxury motoryatchs. Filippi Boats, the world's premier racing shells

Manufacturing: Pirelli (tires),
Indesit is Europe's second largest manufacturer of home appliances
Candy Group owns Hoover Europe
Chicco, toys
Finmeccanica (Helicopters (Augusta), Missiles
DeLonghi: appliances, owns Kenwood

Technology:
STMicroelectronics Europe's largest semiconductor company and the world's fifth (after Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments and Toshiba)
Thales Alenia Space, Europe's largest satellite manufacturer, is an Italian/French consortium
NHIndustries (Helicopters)
Eurofighter, Alenia

Fashion: Armani, Prada, Gucci, Fendi, Bulgari, Salvatore Ferragano, Ermenegildo Zegna, Versace, Valentino, Borsalino, Dolce & Gabbanna, Diesel, Bennetton, Mandarina Duck

Eyewear: Luxottica is the largest eyewear company in the world. It owns Ray-Ban, Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Oakley. It manufactures pretty much every luxury brands in the world.

Sports: Lotto, Kappa, Diadora, Geox, Fila, Nordica, MOMO

Music
Fazionli Pianos are widely regarded as the finest in the world

Food:
Parmalat is the world's largest dairy products manufacturer
Autogrill is the world largest catering company (airports, train stations)
Ferrero (Nutella, Ferrero Rocher, Kinder and tic tac among others)
Barilla: World's largest manufacturer of pasta

Wine:
Italy produces the largest amount of wine in the world

Beverages: Martini, Campari, Cinzano, Maraschino

Arms: Beretta, Benelli, Perazzi (precision guns frequently used in olympic competitions)

Petroleum: Eni (including Agip) Europe's Third largest oil refiner. Market value of 100 Billion Euros
Enel is the third largest electricity provider in the world

Finance:
Unicredit - Capitalia is Europe's second largest bank
Intesa Sanpaolo is Europe's third largest bank
Assicurazioni Generali is the world's fifth biggest insurance company

Media: Mediaset, Panini

Italy is the second largest producer of movies in the western world after the USA.

Federico Fellini, Vittorio De Sica, Martin Scorcese, Sergio Leone, Roberto Rosellini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Roberto Benigni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Argento, frequent collaborations with Italian Americans like Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Nicolas Cage, Leonardo Di Caprio, Al Pacino, etc.
In looking at it, it looks much more generic than Pivotal Tracker (which I'm a current heavy user of and absolutely adore).

Pivotal Tracker is very focused on being an agile workflow tool. You enter a card, estimate it, start it, deliver it, and then it gets accepted or rejected. This is great for agile projects. Where it falls down is if you want to use it for non-development efforts, like say a marketing project, or building a new data center. Projects where that workflow doesn't really apply.

In my opinion, this is where Trello seems like it could shine. It's one tool that everyone can use to manage their work.

I don't see myself leaving Pivotal Tracker any time soon, but I will definitely keep an eye on Trello.
do you?
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I think the idea is really well executed so forgive my question: why would I use this instead of the built-in functionalities of chrome/firebug?
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Yes, storing files is fast. We ran similar tests to yours and storing never was the problem, deletion also wasn't a problem as long as the number of files was in the low millions. The problem comes around when you start to delete files once you have 10's of millions of entries.

I helped a customer set up a CDN and this was one of the most painful mistakes I ever made to correct for. It took weeks to migrate all the data to EXT3 filesystems while the system was live. The whole point was to end up with something scaleable, the 'sweep' ran 3 months behind the write so after 90 days, with the filesystems nicely filled to 80% capacity or so we found out that deleting a single file would take an impossibly long time.

In the end we found a manageable workaround, to try to select candidates for deletion on a directory-by-directory basis which improved performance to the point that we could migrate the data but it still was a pretty scary operation.
Thanks, will correct the post. I hadn't experimented with how much space to leave, but had some serious issues when using the whole disk (via fill free space with music) and got some advice from the genius bar about leaving a buffer.
yup, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. I'll have to change the display from "airports in that country" to "airports within x miles", possible with a slider to adjust the radius.
Do you suffer from a Weak Lower Back?
First I thought it was hilarious. Nice troll. But then it made me wonder how much frustration my apps cause.
Even worse is the Orwellian Google love that's shitting all over this thread. Bill Gates started a charity because charities suck so bad and he wanted his billions to accomplish something. Steve Jobs doesn't even take money for his work (he gets stock options that he often doesn't even bother to extercise), hell, even Larry Ellison signed a thing to donate most of his fortune to charity when he dies.

But, no, it's Google who are the benevolent ones! Why? Well because their motto says so, duh?
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I don't think you know how large ecommerce websites work. Pricing, availability, listing pages are all generated dynamically. "Static web content" doesn't even get close to describing how an ecom page gets served with that many variables. You can't simply create a version for every permutation of visitor and cache it.
How would universities get paid for the research they facilitate if this were the standard practice? My university would have to close or curtail its activities in nearly unimaginable ways without the billions of dollars that the research foundation has generated honestly (via things brought into existence by UW researchers: without their minds, their work/results/products would not exist). Incidentally, my university also sued Intel recently over a patent dispute and won.
Lokpal bill in India. There was a big discussion about it recently on Hacker News[1]. It's an anti-corruption bill. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Lokpal_Bill for details.

Also, I thought that in India people code in Java, not in C ;).

EDIT:

[1] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2931598
A joScrollbar for the Jo mobile app framework
Is the comma really needed after the word handle?
Develop iPhone app according to your needs
Ask HN: User base bootstrapping via promoters
In many dating sites, the desirability of joining the site is in many ways simply a function of the number of people on the site. There's been a fair amount of discussion on bootstrapping a user base on HN so far, but I was thinking of a scheme that I have not yet seen around here...

The basic idea is to identify in each region I'm focusing on (e.g., New York, Chicago) a number of "Tier-1" promoters -- people who are well connected, have large numbers of twitter/facebook friends, generally outgoing people-persons. They are given some kind of code, and invite people to the site using that code (can even be certain bloggers, etc..). For everyone that ends up with a paid membership on the site using this person's invitation code, they will get something like $5. Anyone they invite can become a "Tier-2" promoter, and can get something like $5 in credit on the site (or an extra 6 months or year, or something like that). Any thoughts on a scheme like this? Thanks.
Does anyone else find CoffeeScript insufferably unreadable? Why take a basically nice-looking language like JavaScript and bathe it in special forms?
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On the other side of your other side : this is the only company that shipped a device as revolutionary as the Kinect - a device that is pretty badass.

At this point MS has a 580bn ecosystem. I know that America only deals in trillions now but still 580bn is nothing to scoff at.

[Disclaimer : former intern]
R&D is commonly swapped with 'devs' in French companies
- You can still google the code Windows provides.

- If you're really savvy you know how to use WinDBG and load up a memory dump.
Yes - but the risk experienced by a portfolio does change thousands of times a second. Once every time every underlying asset is traded in fact.
I think he/she means this: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.benhirashima.unloc...
Another 'Android from the perspective of an iOS developer' Post
You do understand what a BSOD is right ?
I'm not convinced at all. It took much longer for me to dissect the information in the example bar chart that it did for me to dissect the information in the example pie chart. The bar chart was confusing; the pie chart was instantly clear.

Furthermore, I disagree with the author's assertion that it is difficult to compare areas and angles, and I personally find it more difficult to compare length. The author provides no references that support his claims - without some clear research behind it, I simply cannot take his statements as anything other than opinion.
The STOP code is still there. It's small in that screenshot, but the bottom line reads "You can search for the error online: HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED".
Thanks, I just saw this (new?) feature. Works beautifully.
Where Perl 5 is Headed
Real-Time Collaborative Whiteboards
I believe that even if this was the case then sausages of varying lengths would be clearer than pies of varying areas.
Amazing Social Media Stats
Hint: One of the easiest ways of finding out origins of (probably any) picture, is drag and drop it into http://images.google.com/.
I'm really glad that somebody enjoys Unity. I gave it a try, although I don't generally use desktop environments on Unix, and I thought is was a step back from Gnome.
> > ... only managed to monopolize less than five percent of the market
*> It's unfortunate when someone who knows nothing about a topic decides to start making assumptions.

It isn't just the lack of Chinese knowledge. I prefer to take marketing advice from people who at least know what the word monopolise means. (hint: 5% isn't it)
Cristiano Ronaldo Most Expensive Historical Player
Cristiano Ronaldo is the most Prominent, Popular player of Football.He was born in 5 February 1985 in Portugal. he is the national player of Portuguese football team who playes as winner or striker for his national team.he has become the most expensive player in the history of football after moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid 2009-2010.His transfer deal is worth &132 Millions.
I hope (s)he does become instantly famous. The work is beautiful and poetic. I'm glad that phoboslab posted this and I'm glad that I coincidentally clicked on the story. There is so much ugliness in this world that I will take beauty anywhere I can get it.
I imagine touch interfaces will become prolific enough and touch screens cheap enough that all laptops will eventually have touch screens, even if it is only a tertiary form of input.
This is actually something PeepCode is doing with the "Play By Play" series.

http://peepcode.com/products/play-by-play-zed-shaw
"Oracle has made Android a target in spite of the fact that Oracle has little or no stake in mobile devices, now or on the horizon"

I guess the author never heard of J2ME. One of the reasons why Oracle are up in arms over Android is that it does an end run around their J2ME licence revenue.
I'll be honest, this is the type of thing I'd see on Reddit and not on Hacker News. The guy is obviously a troll, as his motto is just a "bullshit generator" in paragraph form, along with the sign up info being obviously fake.

Even if this was real, this is shallowly interesting at best. Hacker News is about deeply interesting content, not just something we can consume quickly and move on, or else why not start posting rage comics and meme jokes about startups and entrepreneurship?
I second this idea, however I think it would be better to rotate through the comments as they reach points in the video rather than have a cluster of icons on a timeline that you have to hover to read the comment.
> There's something that feels incredibly silly about watching YouTube or reading Hacker News while standing, and so I just don't do it.

I suspect you'll get over it.
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When it doubt, RTFM. If TFM can't help you, read the code.

Line 1: #include <india.h>

Ok, so we're talking something in India here.

q = "india"

Line 2: #include <jan lokpal bill.h>

Hrm. This isn't something I recognize. Better add it to the query.

q += "jan lokpal bill"

I think we have enough to go on here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=india+jan+lokpal+bill
I had no idea you could do that. Thanks for the tip! All I knew that was out there was TinEye
Because developer time is incredibly valuable to startups, the amount of users who don't want to use facebook/google/etc is relatively small so it's not worth spending the extra time to implement.

I think you underestimate the complexity of managing your own auth. It takes a lot longer than a couple of hours to do it right. Testing alone would take longer than that. Authentication is one of the most important part of many apps, it's not something you should be skimping on or doing in a hurry. It's much better to pass it off to a third-party until you have the time and resources to do it correctly.

(here's a bunch of things you might not have considered: password resets, https, stopping spam bots creating accounts, users changing email addresses, etc.)
Nice list, though I'm not sure if longer breaks and longer periods of sitting are as good as more frequent breaks. The last suggestion, dancing, is a very good one (And one I should do more). There is one thing that's even better then sitting and standing, and that's moving (hence the treadmill-inder-desk phenomenon) so if you don't have a treadmill, dancing is a good second ;)
Transmission ( http://www.transmissionbt.com/ ) is an open source torrent client with a nice web interface (as well as native interface) just like Deluge.

I think it is somewhat lighter resource-wise (I'm running it on my NAS), but apart from that I don't know the exact differences between Deluge and Transmission, but I thought I'd mention it for completeness' sake.
No.

I was questioning the assumption that because they use the law this way they are necessarily bothered one way or the other about the laws and regulations as they apply in contexts other than this one.
Am I really the only one who finds it actually a wee bit harder to read when "eyeing" through a lot of code ? It might look nicer, but you read it like "do this, ah no cancel it if that" forcing you to rollback in your head.
Yeah I'm sorry but you can't argue with science.

"Sitting for more than 1 hour has been shown to induce biochemical changes ... leads to the deposit of fats in adipose tissue rather than these being metabolized by muscle, ... heart disease risks". Read the original article for details.

Apparently we have a tradeoff between staying in "flow" and staying healthy. Since that seems to be the choice at the moment then I'll move every half an hour and worry about my productivity using other hacks.
Actually, Consolas is extremely similar.
I also find correctly written (i.e. without "bad parts") JS code more clear and readable, with syntax which better articulates programmers intentions. Although it
may be that I got used to common JS's idioms and patterns.
Anyways I still don't find enough incentive to try to write in CoffeeScript.
This is strange. The IE 10 preview used to be available for Windows 7, but the link for it no takes you to the download for the Windows 8 preview.

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/12/native-html5-...
It fails to return nothing here:

e.onclick = function() { false; } // returns nothing

Translates to:

e.onclick = -> false // returns false
If I recall correctly, Google is facing a patent lawsuit over the Courgette technology. I don't remember if the complainant was a patent troll or not.
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Google Chrome already has this feature.

chrome://crash/
"about every 20-30 minutes take a posture break and move for a couple of minutes"

Sounds like an unintentional endorsement for the Pomodoro technique. Just get up on your break.
I'm sure all the relevant data is recorded in the event log, which is how it should be done. In fact, I do believe that's what the error message says in smaller font.
Laws, being constructed by humans are not infalliable, or otherwise new laws won't replace existing ones. I don't know how willing the google's decision to permit advertising of prescription drugs was, but I am assuming they went with it because there was no precedent for such a thing in the past (the article mentions this as this is the first time a search engine being held responsible). But I hope and am almost certain that google won't do such a thing again. We will see.

Your example of child porn and crack is taking it too far and I am sure no such thing will happen. But if you want google to be enforcing all the laws for you, then maybe it should also detect your location and disallow all merchants catering to gay marriages in the search results, in states where it is prohibited.

Also I don't agree with your generalist approach to corporations that they are all equally evil. I for one would prefer a corporation which makes a bold statement about its policies being non evil and one which is ready to be called upon when it goes astray its path, than one which makes no such claims. To me this is not self righteousness but self discipline.
Young people only want to talk about the "presentation"? Appliance based systems were far easier to "management" than provisioning file systems?

Rambling & incoherent this article is.
It'd be neat if it could grab an existing page. Give it a url and start messing around.
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> It'll hardly take a couple of hours to write a simple login script, no?

Completely agree, makes sense to do the simple thing first, then optionally add auth from other services later. Given that I recently nuked my Facebook account for example, having Facebook-only auth on a site effectively blocks me and others like me from signing up (never a good thing).
Oh wow! What a coincidence! I have a downvote for jackasses.
> this is the only company that shipped a device as revolutionary as the Kinect

Were you an intern in the marketing department, perchance? ;)
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I don't have a problem with a university owning a patent unless the work was somehow funded by the Federal Government, in which case it should be disallowed.
There have been studies done -- I can't find any on a quick search -- that show that changing a working habit makes them more productive. Then it tails off. Change the habit back, and they get another burst of productivity. So you may be right, and it's just because it's new. Or it may work for you.
Lucas de Groot, who designed TheSans, also did Calibri and Consolas.

http://www.lucasfonts.com/case-studies/calibri-consolas/
That is a terrible argument as downtime is essential for humans to stay productive.

Of course people are going to watch some TV with their families, or play an hour of games to unwind a little, or go watch some sports game with their buddies, or spend god knows how many hours practicing their musical instruments. This is what keeps people sane, productive, balanced, and happy.

Having other hobbies after work is generally a good sign that the person is mature, and has good perspective on life.
You can always flag the post if you think it doesn't belong. I know I did.
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