skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a weekend-ish project to learn Backbone.js, among other things. http://bookmarkly.com is running on a small linode so it's a little behind on generating screenshots after some large imports.
Others can still see your karma (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kolinko), just not the points on individual posts.
Someone made some extensions to modify Unity that seem okay..things like turn off the thumbscroll thingy, etc..

I still had to modify gkrc(GKT2.0) for my Eclipse SWT tooltips

And of course most of the time I am using CairoDock anyway
These are guidelines and not unbreakable rules. I think it's fine to have unsubscribe link change the state of the resource. [And personally, I would only flag the user for not sending emails, not delete his email altogether.]
It's always the worst time to buy technology hardware. Just go ahead and buy if you need something and don't look at the adverts for a few months so you don't kick yourself silly for not waiting for the all the shinier toys that come out immediately after your purchase.
I thought the same thing and while it should work like that it doesn't. I've gone through specifying the compiler, making a symbolic link to GCC, messing with my bash_profile... there's just a lot of problems. I'm probably going to have to do a clean install of Lion as getting things to all work involves a fragile, and very specific
Procedure I think I've found.
I find progressive trance great music to work to - some great artists in this genre are Ace Ventura, Gaudium, Lish, Zen Mechanics & Space Buddha.
To directly address that question, no it would not affect my purchasing decision, but it would affect my decision to join a club for BMW owners and associate with those members. To me, I view HN as more of a social group than a product.
A 12 Year Old App Developer
As programmers we are always attuned to thinking about the edge cases and endgames, so I wonder:

Would be possible that such a fungus proliferated into a sort of "termite for plastic", feeding on plastic piping (in houses or cars maybe) and the like.

Of course house owners already deal with mold so I suppose this would just be another one.

The article suggests introducing it into landfills to eat the plastic. Kudzu was introduced to America to control soil erosion. The invasive vine now spreads at a rate of 150,000 acres a year, so it certainly accomplished goal A.
Menu bar and dock are still there for your use, drag your mouse to the top of the window or to the bottom. When you click a different app you will be switched to a desktop with that app.
It all depends on the amount. Water is toxic, beyond a certain intake level.

Sugar is a nutrient, provided that intake is within acceptable ranges. But most people in the West are eating way too much of it, due to lack of information, lack of will power, etc. When something causes heart disease and diabetes, what do you call it? "Healthy food"? Not at this intake level, no - it's become a toxin.
I hope so - the idea is awesome!
> [And personally, I would only flag the user for not sending emails, not delete his email altogether.]

Sure, just wanted to make my point. In reality you move the subscriber from "subscribed" to "unsuscribed" or something like this...
Yehuda Katz and Jeremy Ashkenas discuss backbone.js vs. ember.js (IRC log)
How?

Since a trackpoint can't possibly support two-finger scroll, which is what makes scrolling both directions so easy on a trackpad, it seems like you either would need to drag the scrollbar block or hold down a key in order to scroll, two cumbersome solutions.
The BBC has an odd comment on this:

It was unclear how Anonymous had managed to obtain the
recording but a lawyer for one of the suspects discussed
told the BBC it appeared to have been taken as an audiofile
from an intercepted email, rather than having been
eavesdropped on.

So how did he interpret that from the video plus the email? Odd.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16875921
A microscope that can peer at living brain cells
Rational Irrationality: Jobs Report Makes it a “Super Friday” for Obama
Uhm, because ambitious European services don't restrict themselves to the (often smaller and more conservative) local audience?
You'll probably see that you don't have an account registered with the website through Twitter, not "none of my data". As a user, if you like FB more, you'll likely try FB login first. If you like Twitter more, you'll likely try Twitter login first (if available).
> it breaks a convention that people (even Apple users)
> have been used to for decades

And it took me about 40 minutes to adjust. I just told myself "you are moving content within a window, not window around the content, just like you do on iPhone" and thing everything clicked into places.
Education is privatizing itself. It's not that public education is inherently bad - it can work beautifully and does right now in some parts of the world. But in the United States, at least, something isn't working. Private universities know that degrees are effectively mandatory so they're jacking up their fees, and many public universities are in states with budget issues. Additionally, standards are so low that I got in. I'm not that smart and I sure as hell wasn't good at being a student.

Depending on where you are, high schools are not graduating large fractions of their students and those who graduate are not always that successful. On the west side of Austin, a rich high school has a $2M jumbo-tron for their football field. On the east side of Austin, I once volunteered at a school with moldy textbooks. 7 mile difference.

There is a push toward private, micro-schooling. It's a natural progression of post-industrialization. We have free materials: Khan Academy, TED, millions of informative blog posts about everything, Wikipedia (needless to say), etc. I think that much is obvious. Why not just get study groups together with good books and free lectures and teach ourselves?

It's a great idea. The only problem I see is that many people who are interested in this are autodidacts, a group in which I include myself. It's not about being better or worse than other students, it's simply a learning style. The problem for many people, though, is that they need a kind of push in the classroom. There are a few startups working on education which focus on making lectures easy to share.

That's great, but interactive collaborative and meaningful projects - projects with depth and which require a thorough understanding of the material - are essential to igniting a students' curiosity. I would dare say that autodidacts are simply people good at coming up with their own projects. A truly good teacher is still necessary in the post-industrial education system I see forming but (at least for STEM) we need teachers who know the Moore method. We need teachers who assign the lectures for homework and can lead three different discussions in three different sections of the class, or who know the material well enough to pivot based on student needs. A good teacher will be just as effective when she is not speaking as when she is (perhaps moreso). Classrooms should be student run but framed by the teacher. That takes way more skill to get right than simply talking about problems in isolation.

I always rant about this subject. I guess my plea to education startups is this: help teachers share ideas and full curricula, help people train in the Moore method, and help create a parallel in-person presence to complement the impersonal digested presence of KA et al. Many bright people simply need socialization and tangible projects to form correct mental models. Skillshare seems to be a good start on this.
Fructose is 'toxic' the same way as alcohol. The metabolising process in liver is quite similar.

You should really be careful about your fructose without fibre intake.
When typing into a text box field and navigating back Safari will actually ask you if you meant to do that. It is the same behaviour when you close a tab that you've typed in, or close a window that you've typed in.
> Alcohol shouldn't be regulated, endangering others while intoxicated and other irresponsible acts should be.

Once a substance impairs your judgement, good luck "regulating" anything that may happen as a consequence. Regulation should intervene before reason flies out the window. Doing otherwise is illogical - just another ivory-tower, human-nature-ignorant, "liberty trumps everything" nonsense.
The problem is, they do that because people buy more of the product when it has sugar in it.

On the whole, I don't think pressuring the producers is going to get us anywhere. There may be specific cases where such pressure might work -- vegetable soup, perhaps -- but even then, that can only happen if enough consumers refuse to buy products containing gratuitous sugar.

No, I think educating the public is really the only strategy available to us. Even regulation and taxation, which could be beneficial, can't happen without a certain number of informed consumers pushing for it.
I was unconsciously searching for this for a while!
Dear Boss: For a programmer, 10 minutes = 3 hours
Another reason: yesterday's poll on who has and does not have a Facebook account showed that 38% of people here do not.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542976
We can see your karma. Downvoting and flagging are enabled at sufficient karma. I also understand that high average karma has a small but real effect on comment rankings.

Also, it keeps people participating.
It runs against the principle that my liberty as an individual is above all other considerations. Ergo, it's "unscientific".

/sarcasm
He's not really paying 102%. It's really 20%
Can't speak for "electronic music", but the binaural beat folks have their argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_waves
Strangely, neither the U.S. nor Canadian border agents stamp passports upon departure. They often have to resort to using people's credit card statements and cell phone records to verify when a person was in one country or the other.
Attack of the Clone Attackers
Replying to both questions about my bad experiences:

One of my first work laptops was a handed-down lenovo, so that may or may not have been lenovos fault... However the person doing the handing down was certain not buying a new lenovo. It performed ok, but never anything stellar.

It had a lot of weird quirks - it would suddenly flip it's CapsLock state, so i'd need to turn it on to shut it off. It would stay like that till I rebooted.

Eventually, the red button died... but it didn't just die, it forcibly dragged my mouse to the bottom of the screen. I had to fight with the thing to find the option to disable the button in the control panel before I could regain control of the computer. Plugging in an external mouse didn't help, the red button overrode all mouse commands.

Finally ,the thing all but gave out on me. I got a 2nd hand me down laptop, a Dell, before finally getting a real PC to work from.

That was my old job...

This current job, I have a T410, and I hate the thing. Everyone here has the same laptop (one guy has a slightly better model, but he hates his as well). They lock up, they have poor performance, they come with worthless bloatware, things fail for no reason... it goes on and on. Here are some examples:

Performance: It came with 4GBs of RAM. My old Dell had 4GBs, and I could keep 2-3 Visual Studios open at a time, no problem. This thing struggled to keep a single instance open. Keeping 2 open, damn near unusable. It would routinely take me 40-50 seconds to switch applications around (this is not an exaggeration. It would lock up and become unresponsive for a number of reasons, mainly switching between applications). For a developer, this is killer.

Sometimes while typing, the USB port my keyboard is attached to will die. Sometimes redocking fixes this. Sometimes I need to reboot.

Same thing for my bluetooth mouse. Sometimes I can pull the nub out and re-insert it and fix the problem, other times I have to reboot. Unlike the keyboard, the bluetooth nub stays with the laptop itself, so it isn't just that the dock has issues (Although it could... it was made by Lenovo)

Speaking of undocking, sometimes the screen goes dark, and never comes back. Other times, when I redock it, it's forgotten the video settings. Occasionally, it will only partially forget them, and turn on one of the 2 external monitors. I'd say I need to fix the monitor setup atleast 2-3 times per week.

Sometimes when it goes to sleep, it can't wake up.

When it isn't docked, and I'm using the built in screen, the color pallet gets off-kilter, and there is massive dithering over wide portions of the screen. Whole swaths of things get dithered, with green and red dots filling in the blanks. The severity of this seems to change day to day - sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's the entire screen, sometimes it's just a portion...

This isn't just my issue, mind you - Every single person in our team has these laptops, and experiences these issues.

ThinkPads used to be great, when IBM owned the brand. They were rock solid tanks.

Lenovo destroyed the name and the quality.

If I never use another Lenovo for as long as I live, I could die a happy man
I'm back in Boston now, but I wrote a blog post about my first month in Portland:

http://dalethoughts.com/2011/05/first-month-as-a-start-up-fo...
From the page for this episode:

"I caught up with Hugo Duncan and Antoni Batchelli (everyone calls him Toni during one of the lunch breaks at the Conj. These guys have been on a tear with Pallet, an open source Clojure project that Hugo started in early 2010."

Here's the list of topics for this episode...

* Clojure/West, happening March 16-17, 2012 — be there!

* Disclojure, a great stream of links to Clojure tutorials and news maintained by Toni

* Pallet, representing computing infrastructure with Clojure abstractions

* swank-clojure

* JPDA (Java Platform Debug Architecture), includes the Java Debug Interface

* Clojure Debug Toolkit

* Alternative Maven support for Clojure, written in Clojure: zi

* clojure-maven-plugin (by Mark Derricut a.k.a. talios)

* Leiningen
Fructose is metabolized primarily in the liver. Glucose is metabolized through many other (supposedly less deleterious) processes. HFCS is primarily fructose. Refined sugar is a mix of about 50-50 fructose-glucose. Thus, refined sugar is significantly different that HFCS.
This could be great news for the 3D printer industry.
Another reason, no oversight in FB.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/01/zuck-power-play/
An individual post's karma is shown if you access that post through search.
Ask HN: anybody looking for design help?
I'm the guy behind Folyo (http://folyo.me), a private job board for freelance designers. There are about 300 designers on the site, and I thought it might be interesting to pick 3 or 4 designers each week and ask them to do a short "design roundtable" and give their impressions on a site's design.

So if you've got a site and you'd like a chance to get feedback on its design (for free of course), just leave a link here :)
This is actually a reasonable answer, having been around at that time. At one point, if it worked on IE it went out the door.

Actually I know that "one point". It was when Mozilla completely destroyed their browser platform with the horribly broken Netscape 4. Everybody stopped using it immediately.

Back then it was like "does it work on ie" and maybe "should we build an AOL presence?".

AOL then = Facebook today.

You're welcome, young people.
>What kind of fat to bring to almost nothing?

The point was to show that one cannot simply "add fiber" to a candy bar and make it comparable to fruit. Their individual nutritional values are not correlated because they both have sugar. Nor would they be if fiber was added to the candy.

>You need fats to aid in the absorption of vitamins and minerals[1],

Would this hypothetical diet consist of only snicker's bars? Otherwise I don't understand the argument.

What point are you even trying to make?
(OT: You've been hellbanned. I suggest creating a new account.)
Why most women will never be CEO
This reminds me of the book Ringworld and the "Fall of Cities" - the civilization had become dependent on a particular superconductor, and wired it into everything. A microorganism that fed off of the superconductor came along and spread like wildfire. The side-effect was that it essentially wiped out the civilization because their entire energy infrastructure was built around this stuff.

Hopefully these guys know what they are doing :)
Link to Folyo: http://folyo.me
Ctrl-Z in unix puts your app to sleep so you can background it or kill it via the `kill` command. I find on badly saturated connections (accidentally running a command that produces tons and tons of output) that I can often suspend a command more readily than I can interrupt it with Ctrl-C.
Well, with the exception of a class tree (which I've had trouble using in the past), those are all the reasons I just use a text editor. So, I guess I still don't understand.

You see, I have file/project trees, warning/error buffers, build status and shells (among other things) in Vim and Emacs with keyboard-driven access to all the tools I use, without having to hunt through a twisty passage of menus, all alike.

Even static analysis and error highlighting is available (even for C++ with vim-clang-complete, for example).

So I guess what I don't understand is why there is a need for all of this to be "integrated" in a WIMP-style GUI.
You must know the exact name of the program's launch command before you type it in the terminal (in Unity I can simply type Music.. or whatever) and of course you must remember to follow the command with an ampersand if you want the app to run in the background and retain the usability of that particular terminal window. But other than that, I agree it's similar.

For me it's easier pressing the "Windows" key and just typing what I need. Not to mention that that key has regained its usefulness which, until Unity came around, hasn't been pressed since I stopped using Windows.
From a dev's point of view I really feel that OpenID/OAuth is absolutely not worth the headache.

I'd rather just go the hacker news model. Choose a strong password and if you forget it, we send a new one to your email address.

Works fine, offloads a lot of security issues to email providers (who tend to be good at it), easy to code.
I highly recommend watching King Korn [1], a documentary about growing corn in the USA and the subsidies that come with it.

At one point, they make High Fructose Corn Syrup in their home kitchen - The chemicals involved and the process is mind blowing. It's amazing it's considered "food".

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1112115/
I don't like the fact that it requires Mozilla to have a proxy server. It's a single point of failure - it has scalability and political implications.
Also, another book from the same era, _Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters_. Davis and Pedler. Pointed out the ubiquity of plastic with a grey goo scenario.
I still don't understand why people put sugar into tea? At least Trader's Joe has very good tea (yes, I have to put that one here "UNSWEETENED")...
I was thinking the same thing. Getting a colony of this stuff established in the voids and nether regions of say a wide body jet would not be a very good thing at all.
Yay snow! Currently stuck at home in Littleton :P
That's a point of view that law enforcement seem to hold. Illogical and yet never questioned in print media, except by the likes of Robert Fisk.
Is This The Future of Touchscreen Tech? New Video Will Blow Your Mind
Sometimes more than others. The civil rights movement largely dissolved after achieving most of its demands, for example. Many of the individual participants continued to campaign for additional causes, but the movement didn't continue with anything near its prior strength once the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed, because they couldn't hold together the broad coalition around a new series of demands.
XaoS.js - a real-time fractal zoomer
How do you have german citizenship and two others at the same time? I thought germany was a one citizenship state. Or is it in practice that you can avoid that rule fairly easily?
The government decides to ban human sacrifice.

"Well, there go our traditions, and culture, and family values," libertarians proclaim. "How dare you infringing on my essential right to throw my sister-in-law on the funeral pyre after my brother dies?"

Makes a lot of sense.
His contention is that it's as toxic as alcohol, although alcohol has immediate effect on the brain and therefore is more self-limiting. You can also check out his video where he goes through the biochemical pathways:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

At one point, he asks what you call a substance that primarily gets metabolized in the liver and when presented in excess (not an extreme excess either), gets metabolized into products considered harmful to the body.

I should also note that every objection you make is unsupported and ad hominem ('alarmist', 'hack science'). If you want to counter his claim, point to a study where fructose is shown not to be correlated with the diseases in question. There are certainly a lot of studies as far back as the 50s that support his claims. I personally am on the hunt for well-controlled studies with reasonable duration (years to a decade) that involve sugar/fructose.
Because each of these sugars ends up as glucose and fructose in our guts, our bodies react the same way to both, and the physiological effects are identical.

I'm not sure you read this before you copied and pasted it. The sentence I've quoted specifically agrees with jganetsk's claim.
Making the World's Largest Airline Fly
Right now America doesn't. You're making a philosophical argument in the context of a US Border cross where predetermined visa categories have already been established.
>I am not a financial expert or anything, but from what I understand most all of the actual Facebook users won’t be able to get in on the initial purchase and will have to wait for major investors and institutions with all the cash to ride out the initial stock offering. With all of the Occupy movements bashing the 1%, I find it interesting that there isn’t more of this uproar over the way the stock purchase system works where the rich get richer while the people using the products and services work to survive.

Clearly the author is not a financial expert (neither am I), but does he also become angered when someone is able to buy expensive property and sell it later for a profit? How about when someone flips a rare car for profit? The author's attitude makes it seem like he is entitled to the stock. Just because the underlying asset (facebook) is free doesn't mean you can own it for cheap.
How would they have identified this fungus for it's properties in the Amazon rainforest? Do they just leave a piece of plastic near a tree and come back to see if anything's growing on it?
Continuing with that reasoning, there are only 30 slots on the home page and there are hundreds or thousands of "classic" links that noobs would be interested in, so HN could end up with no actual news.
>The invasive vine now spreads at a rate 150,000 acres [per what]

150K acres [per year]? or per what metric.
Please post to HN when you open source it. Very interesting stuff.
That is absolutely horrible. There's no reason to subject yourself to that. Use this instead: http://www.viemu.com/

I've been a happy ViEmu customer for... Hmm... Three years? Maybe a little longer. Anyway, it's just perfect.
HFCS is 55% fructose; sucrose is 50% fructose. This doesn't strike me as "significantly different".
I'd bet a million dollars Apple's gonna fix the full screen "bugs" in a future release. They probably just haven't figured a good way (and API) for that...