skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really interested in this for some research I'm doing. Just installed it (XP 32-bit).

I wonder if knowing the title from my browser tab is enough to correlate it with my browser history to find the URL, or if that'll have to be a feature request.
> "you cannot really grasp the lengths you will go to to preserve your life and the lives of your family"

This justifies things... how?

Not to mention that imminent danger has been the mother of a huge number of evils in our time, and since time immemorial.
Look for example at password rules.

Rules restricting the range of passwords that may be used in an arbitrary fashion can markedly decrease the search space for an attacker.

A strict rule count by itself is neither good nor bad. Well, arguably, it's bad, as it increases system complexity, side effects, loopholes, and trains users to thwart restrictions. Ideally you want a small number of sane rules (mostly based on role and access), tightly implemented, with strong auditability.

Going back to passwords: the simple check of denying the use of any known password (there are collections of millions now from various site compromises) would be an audit check, not strictly a rule, though it might result in a rule of "known passwords will be denied".
Thank goodness.

If I can help it I'd like to only work at companies which don't have:

- An IT Department

- An Exchange Server

- A sales team

In my experience, all have been a vicious waste of energy.
If someone appeals to me to care about X but lies about the facts of X, their credibility is damaged in my eyes and I am inclined to think that they are overplaying the danger.

For example, "sneak" replied to my comment with lots of CAPITAL LETTERS and links to other information. But I'm already less inclined to trust sneak, since he/she is already known to play fast and loose with the facts.
"Blizzard should be embarrassed by Diablo 3"

They sold like 6.5 million copies. I really don't think they care at this stage.
The article gave me hope. Then when I clicked through to the website and looked at the ingredients, I was let down. The 'chicken strips' seem only marginally better than the soy sausages in our supermarkets already. I guess I was expecting some miraculous new ingredient. It's nice they have amaranth in there but it doesn't exactly seem groundbreaking.
It's pretty easy to customize Bootstrap to your needs. Whenever I start a project, I usually always use Bootstrap to help increase my development pace. Once all of the functionality is done, I then try to get away from the default Bootstrap look and give my project a unique look. I can usually do this just be playing with the variables in variables.less, although sometimes I have to add some styling on top of Bootstrap.

For example, I used Bootstrap for my Chrome extension's web page (http://thejakeharding.com/philanthropist/). At first glance, you probably wouldn't realize Bootstrap was used, but really, Bootstrap is pretty much the only thing that was used for styling. All I did was tweak some variables.
Lion full-screen (http://bugzil.la/639705) is coming in Firefox 14, which will be released six weeks from today (https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar). You can use it now on the Aurora channel (https://mozilla.org/firefox/aurora/) and in a few days it'll also be on the Beta channel (https://mozilla.org/firefox/beta/).

Lion-style scrollbars (http://bugzil.la/636564) are still in progress. You can test them on the UX branch: https://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/mozillas-ux-nightly...
Ask HN: Best way to backorder a soon to expire domain?
Whether it's a service, website or otherwise, please inform.
But did drawing ox-bow lakes really help you?

It's the attitude that we should stop shop class because nobody is going to work in metal bashing anymore - and of course there is no way that exposure to engineering in school is going to lead to somebody being an aerospace engineer.

While any 'proper' subject is sacrosanct
Well, the penalty for disallowing access seems to be a refusal to allow you into the country. I imagine that giving access to a legitimate but old and useless e-mail address would be taken as a refusal, and you'd just get back on your plane and go home.
Hetzner[1]. I never said "in the US", but even in the US you can get a pretty good deal: 16GB for $79/month[2].

[1] http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s

[2] http://www.honelive.com/xml/#new-york-city-dedicated-servers
What are you waiting for?

Go with http://leanpub.com - publish it and then complete it.
What is a good explanation of Latent Dirichlet Allocation?
"If you believe that there is good reason that evolution may be guiding you towards something unhealthy..."

I don't think there's any doubt about this. Compared to evolutionary rates, the typical diet in the west has changed at lightning pace from just a few decades ago, meaning our bodies and taste buds are behind the curve. We need willpower and common sense to have a healthy diet, rather than raw survival instincts.

Unfortunately what's driving change in our diet is the demand for companies to serve food with high profit margins and low cost raw materials (e.g. high-fructose corn syrup). Capitalism is great for providing us with cheaper clothes and ever-cheaper computing power, but providing cheaper food means providing crappier food. There's no Moore's Law for food.

I think it was here on HN I read about studies done in remote communities (possibly some remote whaling community) that had recently become westerised, and the diet quickly shifted to one more similar to a typical American diet. Within 5-10 years (or a relatively short time frame, can't remember exactly) obesity and type-II diabetes rates exploded.

Another interesting story was reports from surgeons who operated on injured Afghan fighters from the current conflict. Normally when operating on westerners, you expect a certain amount of yellowish fatty tissue surrounding the major internal organs. This wasn't present on Afghan locals, which surprised the surgeons who were so used to seeing it on western patients and pretty much assumed it was normal up till that point. The difference was down to diet.
Perfect! This repairs the relationship because it means these people will be responsible for _producing value_. In most organizations this is a cost center designed (whether consciously or not) to produce friction in the name of safety.

There's probably a TSA-privatization analogy here somewhere.
interesting point. did sean parker see the missing link in facebooks product? aka the google hangout for facebook?
India nigger shrink is clueless.
US eye on Asia: Panetta to give boost to defence talks
Seeing as how Taco Bell recently got dinged for using mostly soy (only 35% was beef) in their beef tacos, have no fear, your McD's meal will probably be the first to become all-veggie as soon as they can lower the FDA's definition of what qualifies as meat.
What is a 32GB server?
What is so bad about ... PHP?
I believe the gist of the article is about how IT has always been (and is always going to be) data-centric as opposed to solution-centric, and the guy who understands how to process one petabyte in one nanosecond has a better chance of surviving the consumerization of IT than the guy who does it in 5 nanoseconds (metaphorically speaking).
It appears that even giving them your real email account will get you refused from the country.

As a US citizen, I'm disappointed in Israel, and would prefer even less of my tax dollars are used to support them after this.
but then, how might they know that I have other personal accounts? Are they going to put on a lie detector and ask me if I have a gmail account?
They may have more and better reasons than most to be obnoxious in airport security, but this measure is nothing more than security theater (or worse,) yet again.

Now that this measure is public, any terrorist worth his salt will prepare a plausible and innocent looking email account.
I thought Diablo 2 was nowhere near as addictive as Diablo 1 shrugs.
If blog posts had theme songs, this one's would be by REM.
This is the smart approach. Keep everything as "format agnostic" as possible.

The only reason someone would not use this approach and opt for one of the services mentioned is marketing. There is no marketing for storing files in a "non-proprietary" format.
It's simply a matter of not knowing how to do it.

What's funny is the proprietary approaches ultimately can make things more difficult for novices. At least it's more they have to learn: different rules for each service. How often I have heard novices wanting to know how to convert/export/transfer files to/from these services.

Compare this with learning the jpeg format, IPTC and EXIF. You only need to learn one set of rules. And every service uses jpeg. That's unlikely to change anytime soon.

It's a battle against the "lowest common denominator" in the interest of creating a strategic advantage via incompatibility and proprietary formats. But it seems always some compromise is necessary. All those services work with lowest common denominator formats like jpeg. They don't each have their own proprietary image formats, though they could. Compromise is made.

The entire web is built on "lowest common denominators": e.g., IP, UDP, TCP. To allow things to flourish you have to have some lowest common denominators that everyone can develop on top of. But let the battle continue. We the users all suffer inconvenience as a result.
I've said it before, but Scrollkit is what I always wanted Dreamweaver to be like. Maybe I had the wrong expectations of DW but I really think Scrollkit is going to help people who think they're hopeless online see that they can make good stuff too. They're lowering the barrier-to-entry for making a great looking page to almost nil.
Yes, it's rarely pleasant working for an acquirer. We tell founders who are thinking of selling to factor that pain into the price.
I suspect the OP is looking for something more like 1 person for 1-2 weeks. Which is not unreasonable, IMO.
If you don't like the homepage/new tab thing (I don't), as there appears to be no options pane thing to disable it, do this:

1. visit about:config

2. Search for browser.newtabpage.enabled

3. Set to false
Couldn't disagree more with this. The day I deleted my Facebook account was the day that I lost many real-life friends.

Those friends weren't willing to maintain those relationships with me outside of facebook.

Sure, they won't ever say that.

But I phrase it like that because they're so used to keeping up with their other friends on Facebook that keeping up with me was (comparatively) a chore, so I faded from that circle.

You see, Facebook has lowered the cost of keeping up with friends. The flipside is that people expect not to have to spend more effort to keep up with friends. Thus, it raises the (relative!) cost of connecting in meaningful ways (over the phone, in person, ...)

Many social circles start out treating Facebook as a tool. Then it becomes the norm, and they're less willing to take extra time to connect with anyone who does not use it.
I don't wish to open a whole separate thread, but...

The strategy you advocate is what many environmentalists, notably Al Gore, have been employing.

It turns out that most people aren't as dumb as you think. They pick up on the fact that they're being misled. And that tends to turn them against your mission.

Thus, many people are now desensitized to warning of climate change. They've seen the scientists lying and conspiring to gag dissenting views, and cherry-picking studies to highlight the worst possible outcomes. And if those scientists (rogues that they might be) need to gag the dissenters, they must not have very strong arguments.

Please note: I don't mean to take a side here in the climate debate, only to illustrate how one strategy used in that debate is having an effect opposite to what was intended.
Not to derail too much, but insects are much misunderstood and wrongly vilified, which is why I wrote Take the Humane Stance with Ants: http://allsprawldown.com/animal-ethics/taking-an-ethical-sta...

Please share this with someone who is quick with the can of Raid.
> A bytecode standard would free us from the crazy design decisions of javascript

Not really, because most of the complication and mess is in the document object model, not the language syntax. How do you propose to solve that problem?

> My sense is that the people that suggest javascript as a compilation target really don't want competition for javascript in the browser.

You sense incorrectly. I'm not working in that area, I don't have a dog in that fight. I just think it's a good idea to point out problems with a proposed solution before somebody goes off and puts a lot of work into trying to implement it.
I'm sorry if the truth is inconvenient, but that's no excuse for suppressing it and spreading lies in its place. If they really are so bad, you shouldn't need to subvert the truth in order to prove it — because their badness is the truth. If they aren't that bad, I don't see why it's so important to make people scared to death of them that I'd sacrifice my good name to do so.
scale is one of those problems that sneaks up on you (well unless you're an instant hit site I suppose)

In all of my cases dealing with scale issues it's been due to the DB growing very large in size to the point where you can't use the same techniques that you're used to using. That usually happens in combination with more concurrent users. Depending on how large and how organized your code is, things can get very ugly when the site starts throwing errors, being unresponsive, etc.

I usually know where I want to go as a next step with scaling and monitor our resource usage until it gets pretty high. Then we take the next step. But we don't spend a huge amount of time scaling until we know we need it.
I'd love to play hardcore, but the friends I play with aren't on board. I love the idea of it (and I've been watching some Hardcore-Inferno players on TwitchTV)
No real content in the article for non-subscribers.

Reddit comment[0] has (a) full story[1].

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/ulvaj/israel_airp...

[1] http://mondoweiss.net/2012/06/do-you-feel-more-arab-or-more-...
A dedicated account.

PKI (SSH or similar).

OpenID.

I'm another one for whom FB is an instant no-op.
David & Christian are a great team, and there's nobody I'd like to see attacking this problem more. I'm sure they will do amazing things for their women students. I have taken a class with Christian before, and all I can say is this: drop what you're doing and apply now.
First off, great concept. Always wanted to see a better version of http://www.world-newspapers.com to get a local perspective on international events.

However, I'm noticing some errors in matching sites to locales, e.g. US > CA > Fillmore (San Francisco Downtown) maps to the San Luis Obispo times.

Also, might want to consider tweaking the name to avoid confusion with the popular NewsMap [http://www.newsmap.jp].
For iPhoto: go to ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals - there are all your unaltered Photos.
One of the shockers I came across with MongoDB is that each instance of a key takes up memory. There is no form of a symbol table for the keys, so this means a huge amount of data overhead if each 'row' of data uses keys at all, which they likely do. No one just uses arrays.
Unless you're a grossly incompetent terrorist, searching through your email isn't going to help you determine how much of a threat you are.

Israel can continue what they're doing, but without any US policy or financial support if they continue to do so towards US citizens/legal residents.
An Awkward Entrepreneur
I thought you were just joking with that but their site looks an awful lot like Geocities did way back when it was still relevant!
Wow. You just perfectly described exactly how I'm feeling right now. My company was acquired last year and I'm in the midst of an earn out. The acquiring company is fine and all, and our product is doing better than ever, but I've felt this utter sense of "loss" since we were acquired. The rent vs. own analogy is perfect.

I'm with you - If I ever sell another company someday I will immediately leave and will not do an earn out or continue on as an employee.
$99 Game design online course. Is it worth it?
Actually with an uncheck of the "Keep iTunes Media Folder Organised" and "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder when adding to the library" options in Preferences this is precisely how iTunes does it.
The people most likely to maintain several "live" email accounts to get through this situation? Those with criminal intent. So once again this is a perfect way to make innocent people (who value their privacy and won't co-operate) look like a security threat.
While this is good news, it is frustrating that Google has taken so long to recognize how important a first class document editing experience is on Android (particularly for tablets). When I recommend an Android tablet to somebody it is because I tell them "it does more". However it is hard to do that when there is barely a single word processing application available with more functionality than say, Wordpad. Nailing a good all round office experience with seamless integration with Googe Docs could have put Android tablets into a entirely different position in the market than where it is now.
Stephen Guyenet's my favorite writer in this area, by that criterion. http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/

On Good Calories, Bad Calories, I was convinced by the critique of the mainstream but not by his alternative proposal.
There's kind of a sliding scale in meatiness from ordinary tofu to smart dogs to "soysages" (soy sausage links) to the product being developed in the article. They all have a place. There are some dishes that benefit from that texture.
Venmo Features “News Feed Of Payments” In Redesigned App
This looks really interesting. And yes, there's other options on Android to do it, but Microsoft looks like they've taken a different focus on it.

I do wonder at the 'less strict security model' part though. I'd think more 'less strict process model' would be a bit more accurate as it's a processing issue, not so much security issue.
One of the biggest pros for having a file system is data portability. To a local degree that means being able to use files across multiple contexts, usually "apps". Another related effect is that you can transfer your files across devices/platforms without the need for systems to build ad-hoc/proprietary techniques to communicate with each other (i.e any iOS app that does app-to-app cooperation or how iTunes can show you files related to your apps).

A lot of people feel iOS 6 will include better system-supported architecture for this so in that sense he is right we don't need a 'file system app', but iOS hasn't given us this kind of abstraction yet that works to scale.
I don't get it, but that may be because I don't have a problem eating meat -- our emotions are not evolved to live in the world we live in now, so they shouldn't be used to derive what we should eat.
And, I should add, without compelling local role models or opportunities, many students looking at selecting a major are going to go elsewhere.
Because you don't really expect a music player to destroy your collection without as much as a warning.
> Chrome is faster, has great extensions, why would I use Firefox?.

Firefox is more open, has new JS language features before anyone else, why would I use Chrome? :P
I totally disagree. I jumped back just to comment how nice the design is: large typography, sparing color, reasonable line spacing, and no junk. Although I do think the column width could be about 20% narrower, overall, it's fantastic.

I think a subtle textured background would be a welcome addition as well.
This all seems to assume that Javascript,css,html and the web 'stack' in general are reasonable and efficient ways to write robust applications. I fundamentally disagree.
Security Plays Key Role in Coming IT Skills Revolution
That attitude is disastrous. You're misleading "people", considering them too stupid for the truth and manipulating them for your own ends.

i.e. exactly what you're (ostensibly) trying to oppose.

Replacing one form of control with another is not progress :)
We may need a HN Guideline about paywalls
Today The Living Room, Tomorrow Your World: Why Xbox Is The Key To Windows 8
I would demand that my government did go around and committed genocide on my neighbors. I would demand that they treat the palestinians as humans -- so they wouldn't want to kill me.

But that is just me.
I'm an American who has been to Israel countless times and unless you've been there you can't imagine the security situation. At the last moment I was saved from a terrorist attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_BMW_attack when I went into a corner store to buy a candy bar hearing gunshots with girls running into the store before I could make my purchase. I have eaten at several locations that were later bombed by terrorists.

I have been in Israel where terrorist bombs have blown up buses or the open market just a mile or so from where I was.

A major difference between America and Israel:
In America they search your bags on the way out of a store.
In Israel they search your bags on the way in.
Presskit() - spend time making games, not press
when I receive email from people on non-Google hosted domains, I sometimes check the headers and see that mail was delivered to my gmail with ESMTPS, using TLS. so a lot of non-google hosted mail on the internet will use ESMTPS for delivery between servers, silently.

you can check this too by looking at the SMTP headers on some mail in your inbox.
So its not worth letting me know I am 0wned because google's lawyers are on the case?
Bots: Who Can Get Grandma to Secure Her Laptop?
This has been discussed previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3873470
It seems to be really hard to create tissues.
Unfortunately, for me there is really no good alternative to OSX. I require a unix environment for work, and yet also need word, photoshop, and other such applications. If I left OSX I'd be forced to run either Windows with a Linux VM, or Linux with a Windows VM. It would be clunky for sure.

Also, I completely disagree that iOSs success is due to it being closed. As the current OSX environment shows, it is completely possible to have both an App Store yet not discard your professional customers. I can tell my mother to only use the App Store and she is perfectly happy.

Apple is removing control for a single reason only: money. They want their 30% of every sale on their devices. This is a good reason for them, but a bad reason for their customers.
Go's net package has its own resolver. See http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/dnsclient.go http://golang.org/src/pkg/net/dnsclient_unix.go

But yes, it does not appear to be used anywhere now, as all of the dns lookups for each platform seem to end up at cgo calls.
US Federal Employees’ Information Compromised
1999 called ...
I routinely load and reload ~7 billion rows into oracle 11g, once every 5 months or so. It takes about 4 days, 20 days if you do something stupid like create the indexes before loading, although I think oracle can go quite a bit faster, and that 4 days is limited by processing and non-DB I/O.

We use oracle because the partitioning options are better and bitmapped indexes. (We wanted more partitions so we could use a hierarchical triangular mesh for point-radius searches)
Launched http://mixy.tv to the public last week. It's a video aggregation site that pulls video content from different sources, including your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Then Apple would sell fewer macs.

They would be opening themselves to a world of pain with hardware drivers that they are immune to as long as osx is only available for hardware they choose to sell. (There is a lot of PC hardware to support, and some of it is quite unreliable --- Windows' reputation for flakiness is not entirely its fault.)

This would go against Apple's whole approach to computing --- that hardware and software should be integrated.

But this debate has been done to death before.