skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, good find!

So, if @pirtlj said that in response to Linus's first comment, then he was way out of line, and something should have been said. Maybe Linus didn't say the exact right thing, but I doubt I would have been able to say much better. Hopefully @pirtlj learned more than that he shouldn't have said anything (although even that would be a good thing, I think)
Yes it is. check it out http://evernote.com/
... and time more people wrote about it, in whatever way they see fit. Your name sounds Dutch; are you? You agree with this '1-2tje' between Kuik & Hensen?
What a load of crap. Most of this article isn't even true. Last time I checked, Apple could care less how much data is used. The only reason FaceTime is wifi only is because of the carriers.
>He's not "a guy". He's very famous and has his own TV show that he created, starred, wrote and post-produced on his macbook.

So, "a famous guy self publishes on the internet". Does that make it MORE news-worthy? Famous guys have been self-publishing on the internet for a long-long time.

>Also, he's also selling his stuff, without a middleman, DRM-free and with a very decent price.

Like tens of thousands of other artists you mean? They even used to do this pre-internet, e.g. the music tape scene market, or the fanzine market.

I don't get what Louis CK does differently than any other. Famous and non-famous people have done exactly the same things before, from Stephen King and Radiohead to thousands of underground bands...

And if we remove the absolute "no middleman" rule (which is not exactly true in this case, he pays some service for the payment processing for example), and keep it to mean: "no media company/recording company middleman", then any of the tens of thousands of bands/artists that use a "submit to music stores/process payments" middleman TuneCore, CD Baby, etc are doing the same.
Rails' method_missing is a great example of this and awesome to read through for a thorough mind fuck.
If construction workers are anything like carpenters or other craftsmen this rule might even go to 1:50.

Ever had a carpenter fix something in your house? The difference between a good carpenter and a bad one is enormous. A good one comes in and fixes the shit in a day or two. A bad one can delay a small project for months, they don't show up, you can never reach them, the final bill is 5x the quotation, they leave your entire house dirty, they come in, punch a few nails then they have to drive pick something up - on your expense of course. And once it's done it's not better than anything you would have been able to do yourself. Once you find a good carpenter you simply stick to him, attempting to hire a new one is too big of a risk.
When someone asks me for money, I just give them money. I dont care what they do with it. I think people complaining about being deceived are just looking for excuses for being greedy.
The end result is the same, no matter if the beggar is honest or not: i'm more happy because I feel generous, the beggar's more happy because he got money.
The first time I relised that the story I got told was a lie I was upset, but I realised that it doesn't matter.
Z Kombinator rips off Paul Graham’s startup incubator [satire]
That is the base of good copywriting. To connect with the reader in a perosnal level. It can only be achieved by (big surprise) being honest, human, and friendly.
Well it does provide some parameters - but he claims to be a student, so unlikely to be one of the first HBCI users 10+ years ago ...

He's probably lying too.
Unfortunately, much of the industry is still stuck in 1996 because, hey, IDEs take care of the boilerplate, so it's "free", right?
The bad case of Hacker News authentication usability design
This is absolutely disgusting to me. The people that run big and small government in this country are complete idiots.
How many devices do the Instagram developers use? Since there's only one guy developing the Android version it's hard to imagine that he uses 400 devices. If he did, there would be no time for writing code.
It might affect your insurance premiums. Or, search for 'headache' too many times and you might become uninsurable.
> I work in the financial industry and I'm very convinced that my work is not harmful by any stretch of the imagination.

Well duh? Of course you are. It's you working for the financial industry, after all.

We could debate this all day without getting anywhere. It's easy for you to blow smoke up everyone's ass, pretending your work is beneficial because it provides "liquidity" or whatever. You can confuse us laymen with fancy terms we don't understand.

But in case you're being sincere, here's something to peruse: http://maxkeiser.com/ and http://zerohedge.com

You work for an industry whose raison d'être is making money with money. This is vastly different from producing something of value.
Burning bridges with the founders is usually more than just not working with them again in the future. Everyone has their own network, and the founders may be good friends with other potential employers, potential co-founders, etc. with the OP.

And if this dispute spills out into public -- "I want to protect the identity of my former employer for the time being" -- then everyone is usually tainted by the end of it. Once it's public, the founders will probably try to justify their decision (by smearing the OP, more or less politely and more or less truthfully), the OP (angry at being smeared) will say something still more stupid, and it will all be preserved for posterity, regardless.

I have no idea what the OP is entitled to, legally or in-all-fairness. But please think through every step very carefully before (and while) burning bridges.
Can you explain what you mean by "I’ve spent more money on food than usually (which is a postive effect imo)"? Most "average" people want to minimize food/living expenses.
No, just some.
And in a technical context, it means that a data file produced a read error.

In a blog context, it means neither.
This is pointless countering to an idea that is established for a reason, people reading above the fold only is largely true. But like the page says, don't take other people's word for it. But just because you shouldn't believe them that doesn't mean you should believe the opposite. If you really care about then TEST IT YOURSELF.

Caps lock applied for the importance of the point. Like many other comments are saying there is a wealth of evidence that points towards nearly 90% of users tending to only pay attention to what is above the fold, the other 10%, may read more. That 10% is important, hell they're your most engaged audience. But your design needs to only cater for the 10% and focus on the 90%.

So test your site, use a tool like http://www.crazyegg.com/ and look at scrolling heatmaps of your site. See if a page that draws users down is really working or not. Don't take somebody else's word for anything, just use studies, design cliches and common sense as a foundation for your own result based investigation into what layout serves your entire visitor-base best.
Tweakers.net: Het artikel of de meukupdate op de link 'http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/12/dutch-judge-who-ordered-pira... bevindt zich al in de queue. De link kan niet nogmaals ingestuurd worden.

Translation: The article with the link [where this HN story leads to] is already in the queue. The link cannot be sent in again.
The same reason you don't say black beggars or Mexican criminals. The racial or national background of these people might be interesting for sociologists but it's unhelpful in everyday discussions. It strips people of their dignity, whether it's intentional or not. Don't be that guy.
Do you think anyone in a governmental capacity will take this Reddit and start an investigation? I'd like to think so, but sadly doubt it. There might be a couple of vigilante efforts though.
I disagree with the above commenter's general points, but I believe he's picking up on the concept that violence against men is much less visible a problem. Admittedly it's generally non-sexual (until we talk about prisons, and then it's seen as a joke or a righteous part of punishment) but men are expected to shrug off violence. There's even a social stigma for men who can't defend themselves.

It's a mistake to view it as a him versus her debate anyway. It doesn't make women's public lives better or worse if men have an easier or harder time.
Is it time to stop writing headlines that end in question marks?
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I've forwarded the link to Ot van Daalen, the CEO of bits-of-freedom.

He has a lot of press contacts so maybe that will make it go somewhere.
I think people should seriously consider that not all women want children.

Women aren't idiots. We think about the tradeoffs.
I really like this idea. I've been considering an iPad and I'd love to tether it to my iPhone's data plan. I'm on Verizon. Unless I pay the tethering tax I can't do it without jail breaking. If I can take my data plan and apply it to any device that I own that'd be great. I'm one person, why should I need two data plans?
Think "you'd feel bad if this happened to you. By empathy, you should figure out that women feel bad if this happens to them."
Another intriguing approach in the same family as ILP and GP is some recent work on just doing exhaustive search, but over heavily type-constrained Haskell code, with the semantic information being used to greatly narrow the search space: http://nautilus.cs.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/~skata/MagicHaskeller.ht...

and paper: http://nautilus.cs.miyazaki-u.ac.jp/~skata/skatayama_pricai2...
Downvoting because its ridiculous to compare the situation in Sweden with that of Thailand (the difference is immense), because it engages in leftist bashing (I'm sure there must be very few 'leftists' if any who really say "lets build new apartments for foreign criminals whilst Swedes get nothing", although this is exactly what you imply they say), and because you claim to answer a complex and nuanced issue with a single sweeping generalisation.
I didn't see this one before, but happy I did now. Some great tools I didn't know :)
There was that book called Bootstrapping Design (http://bootstrappingdesign.com/)

http://blog.studiofellow.com/2011/11/01/bootstrapping-design...
Article aside, virtualization of the SIM means a few technically joyful possibilities:

* Potentially little more than a software tweak to add UI for automatic SIM swap while roaming. The current best solution for this is a dodgy Chinese dual SIM phone, or that just-before-landing step on the plane when the battery comes out and your phone loses its time, and fires all calendar reminders when switched back on again.

* Potentially user hardware gets a chance to intercept the Ki (subscriber authentication key) as it passes through iTunes. At this point all kinds of interesting things can be done (entirely outside of the mobile network's TOS, of course). Like an app that lets you rent a SIM in a target country for 24 hours, at local subscriber calling rates. While within 10 years Europe's roaming rates will be normalized, this would still be a killer feature for international travel.

Sadly chances are high they'll get this right, and the vSIM will be delivered encrypted to some security module on the handset. Sometimes incompetence is a desirable thing.
FWIW, Geenstijl (probably the largest/most known blog in the Netherlands) reported on this matter in 2010 already, here http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2010/06/rechter_in_zaak... (in Dutch).

There has been some uproar about this on (Dutch) internet sites, however I haven't seen anything about it in mainstream media.

On a related note, just today a small ISP that needed to block TPB has refused to do it and they are now sued by BREIN (http://tweakers.net/nieuws/81929/brein-daagt-zeelandnet-om-t...). The trail will start in June and is expected to last several months. I just hope this time maybe more uproar will ensue if the same judge is doing the case again.
Good post Thomas! Good luck with the barefooting :)
>> rather than beating their head against the wall for 10,000 hours only not to get anywhere

If you ever played a puzzle game (or dwarffortress), you should understand that "beating our head against the wall only not to get anywhere" could even be enjoyable. If you embark in this math adventure, maybe you will not become the next vonNeumann, but you will still have fun.
Woah - I've used those docs dozens of times and never realized that the demos were interactive. I just assumed they were static examples. Thanks!
Fortunately, Java is "developing" with regard to its expressiveness.

Using Scala and co only brings you a part of the way, especially if you have to interact with Javaesque APIs like in Android, where you have dozens of different abstract classes (or sometimes interfaces) begging for anonymous inner classes.
From the site:

"Already bought a "DeckPower120" solar appliance and want to add more green power? "DeckPower120" solar was designed for easy connection, and additional kits can be added over time, up to 5 kits can be connected into a single outside receptacle, and can produce over 1,000 watts of clean green energy!"

http://spinrayenergy.com/DeckPower120.html

So that's a total of 25 solar panels (each kit has five panels).

So if you have 1000 watts* / 120 v you get 8.3 Amps. Most (US) household 120 are wired at 15 amps max (via the wire gauge + circuit breaker). 20 amps circuits require heavier wire and larger circuit breakers.

*1000 watts assume max output from solar panels.

I should send this to my master electrician brother to see what he thinks of these.
I have worked on military communication software in Ada a few years ago. We had to encode and decode messages with a nested structure and irregular binary structures. These binary format were very well specified.<br>
We have developed manually encoding/decoding of a couple of message types, then I have coded in perl a code generator. I can not give you the code (classified), but the structure was trivial:<br>
- first part: a copy of the format specification. Perl allows to have syntax very close to the structure of the specifications, reducing the risk of mistakes.<br>
- second part: reorganize these specification in data structures more adapted for code generation<br>
- third part: generate each source file.<br>
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It has been very effective. Perl is ideal for generation of text files. Ada is very verbose. With the big number of messages, coding manually so many lines of code would introduce many bugs, hard to find.
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The generated code was very clean, fast and easily tested. It has been developed very fast. The business logic was added via inheritance, as a result it was possible to update the generator and regenerate everything each time a missing feature or a defect was identified.
And, from many years of personal experience, quite a lot of people don't treat their card and PIN securely. This might be in the form of (and these are genuine examples):

1. Writing the PIN on a post-it note and sticking it to the back of the card.

2. Writing the PIN on some paper and keeping it in the same place the card is kept.

3. Giving the card to someone else (partner, kids, relatives, etc.), along with the PIN, to run an errand for them.

4. Saying the PIN out loud as they type it in.

5. Asking the customer assistant/whoever is dealing with the transaction to enter the PIN for them.

Chip&Pin, while claiming to be more secure, enabled and made convenient basic forms of fraud, such as that in points 3 and 5.

I'd actually argue that the shifting of liability from the card issuer/merchant to the card holder/customer in the UK is a direct consequence of C&P allowing careless people to be more lax with the security of their card.
And this is why I hate begging so much. It's a transaction - the beggar gets the money, you get the feeling good. But try to take this to its logical conclusion in a free market situation and you'll understand why the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I've seen a little girl being taught to beg once. She was as beautiful and clean as a young girl can be, and she was with a slightly older boy in a subway. He was leading her by the hand and showing her the ropes... what to say, how to say it, how to act... Most people there thought that it was so very charming and paid well for the feeling. All I did was to try hard as I could not to hit something or somebody, because I was watching a soul being mutilated.
I actually thought the proof presented was pretty convincing, if that holds up the lawyers for XS4ALL, ziggo and a bunch of other dutch providers will surely use this in their appeal.
don't forget the entire 'model-driven software engineering' world, which is very much about smart code generation from DSLs, and very much not anymore about that 'executable UML' nonsense that was once associated with the term.

I think MDSD is very undeservedly underrated in the web world.
They would also need to hire someone to manage those devices which would cost maybe 2x the router year after year. It'd suck too (not going to get a competent person in that position).
Can't agree more. There were a couple of "Ask HNs" recently that were job related and made me wonder why people aren't immediately contacting a lawyer.
Being Shy Is Just a Bad Habit, and You Can Break It With Regular Practice
Thanks for responding. I don't think I necessarily agree, but then again I rarely rebase because I distinctly dislike rewriting history, but I think I understand the rationale a bit better.
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"Found corrupt" in the same sentence as "judge" strongly suggest a judicial context. This is not accurate.
OP could make his statement much stronger if he wrote the whole piece from perspective of bit asexual straight man working in environment dominated by gay men who would introduce in daily worklife all kinds of innuendos often forgetting that protagonist is not interested in them and also not very interested in sexual layer of human interaction.

I think the innate homophoby of the readers could help them to better understand.
It looks like a wildly successful device ecosystem.
In the UK we have The Big Issue. It's a magazine only sold by homeless people, for £2.50 per magazine. The sellers buy each magazine for £1.25. The sellers are trained, sign a code of conduct and wear badges so you can recognise them easily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Issue

I like this approach because I know that they have some degree of control. For example, they can't spend all the money on booze/drugs because otherwise they can't purchase more stock. It's a start.

That said, I like Stallman's method. I might try that sometime.
I use straightforward techniques to automatically generate about a third of my C++ code (108,000 lines of code or so). When I'm writing code, I keep an eye out for things that I'm doing which are very repetitious.

For instance, I have nine libraries which do the same things for different file formats. Ideally I'd like the main API for each library to be as similar as possible. So the files which implement the API are generated by a Perl template script. Each library implements a couple of core functions; then the code generated from the template calls those functions in various ways. So I implement LowLevelStepImport; the automatically generated code uses that to implement ArrayStepImport, ClassStepImport, CCallableStepImport, etc. Then I implement LowLevelJTImport, and it implements ArrayJtImport, ClassJTImport, CCallableStepImport, etc.

There are lots of advantages to this. It means I don't have to write a bunch of boring code which is essentially the same. It makes it very easy to keep the APIs consistent across all the libraries. If I need to change part of the API, I just change the template and all the libraries update automatically. And if I add a new library, it is trivial to get it added to the collection.
I'd posit that reducing the barrier to switch doesn't improve the whole user experience. Granted Apple would staunchly disagree with me on that. But when I engage in a 2 year contract, that's on the carrier-side. I should be able to use whatever phone I want on that contract. I no longer use an iPhone, but I used to regularly pop the SIM out and put in an old flip phone if I thought I was going to do something that had a high likelihood of breaking my iPhone.
But how would you know that you don't have that, supposedly, innate ability if you don't try first? and why does it matter?

If you enjoy it, do it.
On the contrary, I consider "personalised" search results to be of lower quality.
The Zen of Javascript
Thank you for all the information.

> On the plus side, it could end the endless howling about this problem.

:-) I think that would be also immense relief for the howlers.
I think for us, this is redundant as we made a direct jump to the cloud, but for applications that need to be built on the desktop, this would be great.

Mike/Verelo.com
This looks really cool, but for HTML5 games to work well it really could do with these things:

1) support for hardware-accelerated rendering with canvas2D

2) support for hardware-accelerated WebGL

3) ability to turn off the extremely restrictive driver blacklists in Chrome (which will turn off hardware acceleration for ~50% of users, and is not necessary if building a desktop app)

Yeah, basically games really need hardware acceleration. I know they don't mention games at all but something like this is great for additional distribution platforms and monetisation, as long as it has hardware acceleration. Anyone know if it covers that?
I'm Romanian, and I have no problem with Muzza's comment. He's perfectly right. If anything, we can breathe a bit easier here in Romania with all the gangs gone to better countries.

I do disagree though that deporting is the way to go. The problem is real, and shoving it under the carpet doesn't really solve much of it. What is needed is an EU-wide solution, and it needs to be well-thought and well implemented, because the problem isn't easier.

We've had a lot of negative feedback here in Romania because of the various criminals we exported to Italy. To my surprise when I went to visit Rome I found surprisingly large, very prosper and very hard-working Romanian minority. Yes, we exported beggars and criminals, but the number of "legitimate" immigrants was dwarfing them.

This is the main purpose of an open EU - to move labor, capital and markets where they are naturally needed. I'm pretty sure even northern countries like Germany, France or Holland (and quite possibly even Sweden) benefit from highly trained immigrants from Eastern Europe. I personally know Romanian doctors who lives in each of those countries. Sadly, Romania can't afford to retain good doctors - but this is how an open market works.
You are obviously not an attractive male.

I've had to put up with quite a lot from women of all kinds and I'm not even that attractive.

I'm not going to say more, since I will get called a pussy and a bitch.

But lets please stop pretending that only men are perverts and that all sexual discrimination and indecent behavior towards other people comes from men.