skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welcome to the internet!

I love this quote From "How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie"

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"I will speak ill of no man," he said, "...and speak all the good I know of everybody." ~ (Benjamin Franklin) Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
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I say do you part, and ignore everyone else and your world will be a better place. You can't hope to control other people, however you can control how you react to them. ~Kenrik
Dispersion and Entropy In Social Media
You can't manage comments in a site that doesn't have a sense of community. Letters of Note's blog post usually get traffic from random links and e-mails by other people - just look at the recent letter from a former American slave - which just brings together all these random people.

For a site with as much traffic as LoN, it would take hiring someone to moderate all the comments to reach a decent level of discussion.
These types of services are offered by a lot of credit cards these days. Just have to call up customer service and talk to them about it.
I don't have a blog, but I'll answer this question: As a reader, do I find comments by other users on your blog useful?

Yes. The "me-too" and "great stuff!" comments I could do without, but a lot of times you get the situation of "I did what you said, and X happened, how do I fix?" and the answer by the owner is just as helpful as the original post.

Or if the post is a few years old but still relevant you can post the tweaks you made in order to get the solution X to work.

So if you're using this as a benchmark of whether or not to have comments, as a reader I'd prefer if you did, even if they're empty 99% of the time.
There are already limits. Around ~$2k per person per politician and around ~$30k for a party committee for a single person. Encouraging people you have influence over to donate can help overcome this limit.
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Automated testing is neither good nor evil, it is a tool like many others which has certain advantages and certain shortcomings and disadvantages. Unfortunately, we've been living in an era where, frankly, uneducated heathens dominated the industry with their beliefs that automated tests were not worth the effort.

Finally we've started to move beyond that. But unfortunately we've ended up more or less lurching into a general mindset of unfettered adulation for testing. On balance that's probably better than the unwashed heathenism of earlier but it's still a dangerous situation to be in. Automated tests have their own pitfalls. Test code is often lower quality than regular code, for example, requiring special care to keep it up to par. Also, it's all too easy to write passing tests which hinder rather than enhance your ability to modify the code base (which, by the way, is the primary reason to have automated tests in the first place).

The proper way to approach testing is openly and directly, by having an honest debate on the level of testing necessary, the cost of testing, and the processes necessary to ensure that tests are high quality and providing value. Sometimes this can result in a decision to not test some aspects of a product. And that's ok as long as that decision is made rationally.

More so, as Fowler says, automated testing is just one tool for increasing the quality of a product, but in many ways it is not the most effective one. Formal code reviews and beta testing, for example, have shown to be some of the most effective techniques for finding defects. Additionally, they are capable of finding defects that testing cannot: defects at the level of design.
Okay ... I'm still looking into what might be happening with it, but to make it up to you: any of you who e-mail me at charlie@monotask.com will be put on an "extra-advance" list. Be sure to let me know whether you're on a PC or a Mac (or Linux).

Thanks!
Attaching refined petroleum products to dead plant matter using denatured animal proteins remains popular.
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Or in fact you do not care as long as your shinny new toys are isolated from the poverty and suffering of the rest of the world and manufactured in your sunshine and rainbow and god's chosen America.

Instead of being a dick, why don't you read what I've written more closely?

Manufacturing in the US is just one option, which I suggest because they insist that they can't possibly do anything to improve labor conditions at the Chinese factories.

China, with its vast under educated labor surplus can not afford the US dream, can not abandon low value add manufacturing industry.

Nobody is saying China should abandon its manufacturing industry. People are saying that labor conditions should be better. This can be done without destroying China's manufacturing sector.
$10 in direct labor wages goes into an iPhone/iPad is paid to Chinese workers
I could see myself using this when I'm killing time answering questions on Stack Overflow and don't want to launch SQL Management Studio to test out my answers, or if I'm on a machine where it's not available. I was pleased to see it supports the declare table variables in MSSQL. Are there limitations on commands, etc?
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Use Facebook-authenticated comments. Requiring people to use their real names usually alleviates this kind of problem.
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Actually, we ding you for putting sensitive information in URLs that are used in a browser. The reason is that it will then be sent to other sites in the referrer header. When it is used for an API it doesn't matter. A security audit will check that logs are not logging sensitive information or that they are properly secured and encrypted if they do contain such information. The combination of telling users to put their password into the url and logging the url would be a problem, but not either thing on its own.
In the accepted answer, what's so bad about the "non-restful" approach the author describes? Who cares if I use GET/DELETE/PUT/POST vs putting the "verb" in a query string argument or the name the file that's being called?
IE6 may ye rest in peace... (or hell)
How to Disable Image Smoothing in Modern Web Browsers
(create a new composite resource which can represent the entire tree in one go)

This is the problem I face with REST all the time. I have yet to see someone pull this off gracefully. Take the hierarchy Authors/Books/Characters. If I wanted the full list of all Authors, with all Books, with all Characters what are you suggesting I do? Now what if there was another level after that? And after that?

This simple example could work with the use of a 'depth' value which has been suggested. But it doesn't work all the time. Especially when there are forks in the hierarchy and you want to go deeper in one and not the other. Basically I've determined that it seems impossible to have a pure 'model' of your data and an efficient API.
Thanks for the report. The zip file seems to be valid: I can open it without any issues with 7zip (on Win7). The "read zip demo" [1] is also able to open it and extract the compressed PDF. What zip software do you use?

[1] http://gildas-lormeau.github.com/zip.js/demos/demo2.html
What we’ve learned from Hacker School
The violence is fake. The nudity is real.
So 2 people died total or are there more stori mes like this? 2 people of 1 million is a low percentage.

Surely there are a number of companies that kill far more people that a petition would do more good for.
In related news, this just now:
http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/01/commenting-on-bgr/

"I’m disabling comments for a bit, though. I’m tired of reading nonsense and of interacting with people that solely troll this site just to get a rise out of other commenters and start a holy war in the comments section. I’m tired of having to delete crap and I’m tired of people complaining that a few thousand people ruin it for millions."

[edit: adding quote from the article]
Show HN: Made a video for my startup, with zero budget in 3 hours
This is the age old dilemma of the generalist, I am valuable but no one can use me because they are too focused of filling roles. I too am a generalist and have risen to the top of every company I have been a part of. always becoming the MVP. What I did in the end, was that I found a sales guy, that could sell my services (my generalization was in technology) and we where able to field all kinds of requests that others could not. If you do not have hard skills like Programming, or Accounting I would suggest that you develop some, you don't have to be the best at it, but if you cannot be a doer then you have little value as a generalist. I am not implying that this is the case but rather you don't specify. A generalist must be able to jump in where needed and this means having general skills in development, system admin, etc.
Somebody always has a bad experience with any given company. What I keep wondering about is how to effectively get the collective knowledge out there to figure out whether you're the exception or the rule.

I sort of wish hosting companies would publish the hardware failure rates -as seen by them- too - though I don't know how much of a competitive advantage that would be, if any.
All I could think the whole time I read this was:

What a MIRACLE it would be if I woke up one morning, opened my Android Developer Console and saw an option to disable comments on my apps. Permanently.
Ask HN: Why you can't follow organizations on GitHub?
You can follow/watch everything on GitHub, apart organizations (ex: Google, Yahoo, Facebook)
Needed to make a video as quickly as possible to get our new homepage up. Would love to hear any feedback, and any tips on the next iteration which needs a bit more of a story! (than an edited screencast)
I assume pg will be the sole arbiter of what constitutes trash?
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Internet jurisdiction revisited
If we're talking about popularity contests here, all the "contestants" aren't doing very well…
I understand that every site is not necessarily a forum. What will be lost from having to have the conversation on the site you got the link from?
BoingBoing went through the same thing... they closed down comments completely, and then some time later brought them back with a community moderator, who ironically privately censored posts by "disemvoweling", as well as completely censoring posts related to Violet Blue (or anyone referencing that fiasco).

http://sfist.com/2008/07/01/boing_boing_responds_to_violet_b...
Are they shooting digital? How do they choose pics to print? What's the process from camera to final product?
And yet we regularly see corporate donations to individual campaigns well above that level; clearly there are ways around the rules as they stand.
I disagree with your assessment. "ready for gesture-based computing" indicates more than just public acceptance (which is likely there) - it requires the hardware power and capacity, form factor, and killer-app software use cases.

This mindset of "build the OS, the apps will come" is no longer valid anymore, not when competitors like Google, Amazon and Apple are building out destinations and ecosystems, selling consumers on direct apps and tools rather than platforms that promise... especially, in Microsoft's case, when those promises have failed to pan out repeatedly in prior years.
Arguably an open-faced sandwich could be considered nude.
I'm not sure if this is quite what you're going for, but I've added a bunch of sample buttons at the bottom. You click on one and it should adjust the sliders, and you can tweak it further, as you like.
No, I wouldn't be 99.994% sure of that at all. In fact, I would assume that if they are suggesting that people use GET, that they are in fact not logging the query params, as any security audit would catch that.

And again, if they are compromised, then they are compromised. It doesn't matter if they have logging disabled, someone who would have access to the logs also has access to either the httpd account or the root account. Either way, they can already read your plaintext usernames and passwords directly when they are being submitted. Of course, they don't need your username and password anyways, as they already have full access to the system.
Interdisciplinary people don't fit in. You need to settle on one side of things to get in the door, or you have to do your own thing.
1. The article is about an algorithmic way to try to shield people from the horrifying notion of seeing flesh-colored pixels.

My story is about another perverse way in which puritannical culture considers sex taboo, but violence perfectly acceptable.

2. I don't know how to respond to being called a liar outright. It doesn't seem likely that I'd be able to convince you that this happened.

3. I've only been to reddit two or three times and didn't see the value. So I wouldn't be a good judge of that. I take that that's supposed to be derogatory in some way.

4. I'm not sure how you're trying to add to the discussion. I was making a comment on the societal and moral underpinnings and ramifications of the kind of technology described in TFA. If I may make a suggestion: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Google announced recently that it didn't. They thought it would, but it turns out that people are perfectly happy to behave awfully under their real name (or, in some cases, throwaway accounts).
If you're being serious, I'd love to hear more.
I've slacked off using it lately, but I used it a lot last year. My middle-school daughter even organized a group project for school with it.
I love the bill & teds reference but I like the buttons from http://css-tricks.com/examples/ButtonMaker/ better.
Update: I've added in the "filter" line, so it should work in IE as well. I don't have a way to test it, though, so if any of you have IE running and can confirm that you do, in fact, see a gradient on the buttons, I'd appreciate it.

If it doesn't work for you, rather than posting here, e-mail me, at charlie@monotask.com. Thanks!
When I worked in finance, long ago, I ended up having to do an animation of a few seconds of all NASDAQ traffic. It took hours to render...
How Y Combinator Evaluates Teams (an alum's perspective)
No, SomeOtherGuy. This is an HTTPS site. The referer header does not behave the way you're implying it does on HTTPS sites.

And having read and written this particular audit line item about 29074894389734897 times in the last 15 years, let me assure you that logging is clearly an issue.

The bit about how "if someone can see your logs you're already boned" is also message-board-logic more than reality. Logs are shipped all over the place. On a network pentest, one of the things you do when you pop a box is hunt for logs; even after you get root on the machine, you don't automatically have all the passwords that get stuck in the log files. Same goes for all the random LogLogic-style consoles those logs get fed to.

If you have more questions about this stuff, my contact info is in my profile --- just click my username above this comment. I just wanted to chime in to say that 'carbocation was exactly right, but my comments are now repeating themselves, and so I'm done on this thread.
Hey look...an API with DOCUMENTATION!

You guys are spoiled. In my day we had to guess what parameters to send.
the benefit in producing in China isn't any longer low cost labor, but because it is so big and the whole world produces there it developed enormous long-term advantages in flexibility and infrastructure.

From the same article:

People will carry this phone in their pocket, he said. People also carry their keys in their pocket. “I won’t sell a product that gets scratched,” he said tensely. The only solution was using unscratchable glass instead. “I want a glass screen, and I want it perfect in six weeks.”

(later)

In mid-2007, after a month of experimentation, Apple’s engineers finally perfected a method for cutting strengthened glass so it could be used in the iPhone’s screen. The first truckloads of cut glass arrived at Foxconn City in the dead of night, according to the former Apple executive. That’s when managers woke thousands of workers, who crawled into their uniforms — white and black shirts for men, red for women — and quickly lined up to assemble, by hand, the phones. Within three months, Apple had sold one million iPhones. Since then, Foxconn has assembled over 200 million more.

So, because Apple engineers did a shoddy job designing their screen (which scratched in Jobs' pocket), a relentless pace was set over six weeks to put in new glass.

How does HN feel when their boss says, "oh, hey, you know that six month project we've been working on? Yeah, we're going to have to change this, this, this, and this, oh, and we still have to meet next week's deadline. See you over the weekend."

Why is it acceptable that Apple's shortsightedness "required" these insane working conditions?
Testing out snippets of code without altering a structure of the database you have installed locally/on a server.

Doesn't require a startup of the database - the results can be discarded and you don't have to worry about cleaning it up :)

Generally, just a fast way to test things - I would see it coming in handy during some presentations maybe?
Congrats on being the first person to create an iBook 2 using the javascript support to include a built-in REPL!
"I’m glad I got in free because I’m a journalist."

Wow... that definition is painted pretty broadly these days, isn't it? Almost every paragraph had a meme. Very mature.
Well I really think that's why it bothers people. If the movie actually had people being beaten up or dismembered etc. I think they would care a lot more. But it's fake, so it doesn't matter.
EyeIO promises high-quality streaming using 20-50% less bandwidth.
yeah it's frustrating to me because discussion forums really are the best place on the web for detailed thoughtful conversation. avsforums is an unbelievable repository of information, for instance.

However, actually extracting that information from a 3,000 page avsforum post is nearly impossible - that's the problem with most good forums.

That and the moderation efforts are extraordinarily high even in very good forums where people generally agree on what they want to read.

I suppose I'm just saying that we nerds need to provide better tools to automate some of the moderation cost.
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