skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there is:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ -- for conceptual, no-source-code whiteboard programming questions

http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ -- for questions about general professional workplace issues that aren't specific to programming

And of course the rest of the sites at

http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic

I'll be the first to tell you that our Q&A engine isn't necessarily effective at every topic. It's primarily effective at technical-ish topics where there can be somewhat definitive answers backed by a bit of research. That's still a pretty big chunk of the world, e.g.:

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-su...
The marked answer may be changed, so there's still hope. The problem is when the question is asked by someone who won't be back to see your new awesome answer because they've already moved on.
Multi-factor authentication is needed more than ever. With security breaches ranging from bank accounts to unauthorized access for viewing secure documentation, stronger security rules should be of importance. With the majority of corporate users on a Microsoft platform, the Windows8 platform will serve as a springboard for security awareness.
I'm sure I'm not the only Android user who would be interested in using this. Is there an ETA for an Android version?
How did you embed the exe client into a jpg (rather than just changing the icon)?
I like this idea. Maybe even things like Jonothan Coulton's cruises and conventions. A full fledged travel agent for the like minded. Or hire one and you just do the site and take a cut. Also have a kids section where you list youth tech summer camps or space camps, etc. The premier geek getaway site.
I am less concerned about the machinations of a bunch of second tier states trying to put the internet genie back in a bottle via largely toothless legislation, than I am concerned it will get used as a thin end of a wedge for those in the US who want some data autarchy imposed here at home.

My belief is that the reason there is a lack of pushback by the US is because the elements most in line with this ignorant proposal are those at the helm.
New Microsoft tablet surfaces
How are unsubscribes handled? I see in the activity there is a filter for unsubscribes but do not see any reference in the docs of how to handle.
Again, what is the entrepreneur is happy with this scenario?

Say you can earn $20k a month as a consultant.

If you are only making $19k from your own small business, are you therefore making a loss?

I would take the latter scenario all day long. If that's a loss, please bring it on.
5. Some kind person writes a step-by-step tutorial on how to develop an app LIKE THIS... And the family writes their own app, and uploads it to their own iPad / Android Tablet.

If it's an academic article explaining HOW to do something, I don't think they're breaking any laws, just writing and publishing that article.

If I make something for my own personal use, which violates a patent, I'm on legally shaky ground, but who is going to know?
whats also sad is how the Russians took advantage of the situation and instilled communist rule for the next ~50 years.
I believe Suprgeek is referring to the impact the financial crisis has had on the city: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882089,00.htm...
I tried to do incremental editing of a self-answered question. As I was editing and improving the post, within 30 minutes of originally posting, my question was closed for not being a real question. Which was true, the original question was a problem statement.

I continued to improve the post, including the feedback from downvoters. However, I had to flag the post to have a mod reopen the question and none of the downvoters have returned to modify their vote.

It's annoying to end up with negative feedback after attempting to be helpful and taking time to improve a post. Maybe encourage closers to come back after a post is reopened?

For reference, the post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10748274/faces-are-black-...
#pragma implementation in gcc [before 1989]
Mensch launches Menshn, a new platform for realtime topical chat
Think of the username and password as a tracking cookie, more than actual authentication.
I disagree with the author on a few points. The branching out of Stack Exchange has been excellent—I’m mostly active on English (14k), SO (9k), and Programmers (6k), but I often browse the other sites to pick up useful and interesting information that I would never have come across if it weren’t for that diversification. Where else can I stumble across juicy morsels about mathematics, or TeX, or any of several languages I don’t speak—all in one place?

I find the idea that Stack Exchange is anti-community laughable. The chat system is excellent and has relieved a lot of the tension between contributing to the site and just having fun meeting people who share your interests. I know a lot more about my fellow language enthusiasts, C++ programmers, and Haskellers than before. And more people read my blog and watch my YouTube videos now. I call that a win.

So: the last time I asked a good question on SO? Last month. The last time I gave a good answer? This week. The system still works from my point of view. And I’m one of the guys who actively edits questions so they don’t get closed for stupid reasons—moderation isn’t restricted to just moderators.
Silicon Valley Socialites and Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome
IEBlog: Adapting Your Site to Different Window Sizes (IE10)
All true, and far more real a risk. That's why we now (as of about 6 months ago) require registration to ask questions, for example.
The first paragraph was incomprehensible to me; I stopped reading there. This is no criticism of the author, whom I assume is not writing in his native language. But so many links here seem to be to articles that read as if they were written with a crayon while the author was talking on the phone and watching TV.
Good point! Definitely. Will make adjustments so it's clear what you get and what limits are set etc.
thanks
Spotwag Helps Facebook Friends Find Pet Sitters
Article resources for startup founders
45 Remarkable Examples Of Typography Design #9
Who are the U.N. supposedly going to grab power from then? Why shouldn't ICANN be under the ITU? How is the ITU "obscure"? Do they do a bad job of regulating telecomms at the moment?

Launch of wcitleaks
http://jerrybrito.org/post/24541436396/today-were-launching-...

another article I found interesting
http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2012/06/officials-s...
Finally makes sense? The "missing" puzzle piece was just a matter of time. Laptops are getting thinner and tablets are getting faster, now they are about to blend into one and microsoft was brave enough to make the change in software before the hardware was done.
It sounds like you haven't experienced or seen Quora moderation. up/down voting is not moderation.
Creating the app is apparently not the challenge.

Defending it against patent suits is apparently the challenge.
Portfolio, Blog & Shop icons are broken under Chrome 21.0.1171.0 dev-m on Windows. Mind fixing it?
A good start. Does Buffalo offer any sort of SLA which promises timely firmware updates? What scares me about buying a router is that vendors silently stop supporting them. So, while grandma's grandson might have turned on automatic firmware updates, widely known security issues might not be patched after a year or two.
Virus prompts US Navy and DoD to switch to Linux
According to the article, if you have one business and still work for someone else then the business is not profitable.

It basically states that multiple-streams of income means the smallest stream doesn't deserve the definition "profitable".

So questions like mine are valuable to fleshing out this theory....
Dating in San Francisco
Badoo - the US dating website – has launched a new version of its iPhone app.
I believe most EU countries require you to pay the social/health insurance on a "virtual salary" (usually tied to minimal wage or similar.) This is to curb evasion of the social security payments by setting up "businesses" whose sole purpose is to provide labour to a single employer.
Agreed. Most of my SO questions get moved (not sure why, they seem on target) and then never get answered.
Is it retina/high-resolution ready?
Member Function Pointers and the Fastest Possible C++ Delegates, by Don Clugston
An example of what this actually looks like would have been nice. Otherwise it's hard for me (and probably others) to believe some of the claims this page is making.
Are you saying that the top YC companies on demo day get funded at valuations of ~$10M? I can believe that but I wonder if there's any data... for instance I wonder what the top and average valuation of TechStars companies is at demo day.

If you've built something worth 1-2M you could go into YC and presumably end up with a 10-12M valuation at the end. Not the same growth percentage wise but the same in terms of dollar amount.
Nodejitsu on why other PaaS pricing models are damaging communities
Announcing TrustAuth for WordPress (formerly Foamicate)
Profitable does not mean 'making more money than you could otherwise', profitable does not mean 'worthwhile', profitable does not mean 'sustainable without ones founders.'

Profitable means making a profit. End of story.

This is a petty, semantic issue. if a company is making $50/month in profits, then the issue isn't that they're calling themselves profitable, its that they're only making $50/month.
The granular feature selection is nice, but I am selecting features - and being charged - before I know enough about what they do to make a decision. As has been stated elsewhere, examples/ a showcase would go a long way to ameliorating this issue.
Yes and they are right most of the time. Not because women cannot play those games, just because the majority of the women that are sent there do not.

As a foreign developer, I'm on the receiving end of that type of attitude all the time when there is talk about business, marketing, local trivia ... or most generally about a project they never thought I had heard before.

People make assumption, you can set things straight in the first seconds of the discussion. So I say in this case, grow up: they don't know you, swallow your pride and just tell them you mean business.

What would be more worrying is if their attitude do not change immediately after that. That is still a day-to-day problem for women in anything IT related, but I would except big show like the E3 to be quite smooth about that.
[from the link]

> Backbone UI depends on Backbone, Underscore, jQuery, and laconic.

That's a disaster waiting to happen.
Yes, sorry I saw the law that civil partners had exactly the same rights but they did vote down the law calling it marriage
If nobody is complaining about your moderators, they aren't doing their jobs.

Moderators are there to protect the community from itself, as described in http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/01/the-trouble-with-popul...

It's a tough job. But if you disagree with the way the moderation works, bring it up on meta, and/or run for the position of moderator in the next election.

How many other sites offer either of those options?
Paul makes a good point, and I think it's one the post addresses -- eventually. Context is everything, both in terms of talking to other people and being honest with yourself. I was a textbook example of the "Profitable since month one" crowd, since our reimbursed expenses < revenue, but when I'd go around saying that from people who started/ran businesses, there were a lot of rolling eyes.

It's really easy to look around at huge venture-funded flameouts that have never had a dime in revenue and be proud of what you've built. I know I sure am. But that doesn't mean, at the end of the day, you've created a truly profitable business. That shouldn't take away from what you've done, but it does provide a little more nuance that can be hard to swallow.
It was on a website for trading items on steam. Perhaps he wanted to force them to trade items, then sell the items on for real life money.
onli's response is spot-on. He is definitely not insane. I agree with his views.
Hmm, the Mac Pro has Xeon processors and PCIe slots. People were complaining just recently about the lack of Mac Pro updates.

I assume some of Apple's professional video tools, at least, are CPU-bound. They'd probably love to have an "add 50 more processors" option for Mac Pros.
I disagree. The current generation of nuclear plants needs to be shut down as the technology is irredeemably flawed (nuclear waste, no disaster-proof emergency shutdown).

Accidents have happened, will happen again and carry a cost that's hard to accurately quantify (death toll among the hundreds of thousands of Chernobyl liquidators is approaching 10% according to their Union and still on the rise; a new sarcophagus is being built right now, and I won't even guess at the cost to public health).

Thorium reactors can help with some of the issues, but are decades away from being viable in Germany. Investing in a smarter European grid seems to me the most rational choice.

And to all these people talking about the environmental cost of coal plants - there are two things you should take into account: They are intended as a short to medium term solution, and only about 45% of the total C02 emission of Germany is due to energy production.
After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth
Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s
Goofing off can make you more productive
Technically that's turning Google into a noun rather than replacing a verb with a noun. You still conjugate it as "I Googled," "I will Google," or "I like to Google things." English's lack of inflection in the "base" forms of words just tends to obfuscate parts of speech somewhat.
I think it would be useful to know if a customer can transfer his/her domain to the platform, or if you offer redirection services to point xyz.com to the pages in question.
The Cover-Colors of the new Microsoft Surface Tablets
A brief overview of the Colors used for the Cover-Keyboards of the new Microsoft Surface Tablet
Hey, I would like to have some more information on exactly what type of data you have?

>just about anything that would come up in a game of "20

I don't feel like that is clear enough.
The RT (ARM) version is slightly thinner than the iPad. 9.3mm vs the iPad's 9.4mm. It is about 25g heavier, though.
Greplin never worked right for me, couldn't find anything not in the inbox.

On the other hand, my copy of "ReMail", the first iPhone Gmail indexer (which got bought by Google, discontinued, and open sourced[1]), is still going strong on iOS 6 with a quarter million emails in its offline index.

1. http://code.google.com/p/remail-iphone/
Previous submissions of this story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4118122

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4121266

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128906

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128994

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129122

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129125 <- Discussion

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129134

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129154

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129179

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129556

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129563

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129798

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130556

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130731
How about the Freebase quad dump? Can't I just import that into virtuoso and do the same sparql queries?
Building A 96-Core Ubuntu ARM Solar-Powered Cluster
How I Won $1000 in 3 Minutes
New Robotic Touch Technology Developed That Is Superior To Human Sensing
Wasn't that also the justification at one point for not releasing details about the interrogations of Gitmo detainees? That it would violate the prisoners' rights to privacy?
I'm ambivalent about the Campbell's soup graphic, but this is otherwise a really well-designed simple landing page.
State of Working America
That's an interesting point and I agree with what you say for a simple question and answer. But there may be just as much subjectivity in the "right" answer for a complicated problem.

What if it compiles but gives erroneous results? What if it compiles and gives correct results, except for a certain day of the year? (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4128208). What if it compiles and runs and always gives the correct results no matter what, but isn't as efficiently written as it could be?
Why amateur? He was running it in virtual machine to see what the virus is actually doing.
There is a big shift underfoot, as people take a hard look at how unsupported the valuations were on SecondMarket and SharePost.

But the bigger picture is simply part of the cycle. Everything built up to the FB IPO, now startups will move into a new mode, until another game changing company emerges to lead the next cycle.
The reason that Valve makes more money per employee than Apple is that they have tapped into a market of gamers that did not otherwise exist: those that would have either gone without, or pirated the games.

I was one of them, and instead, I now have legally purchased far more games than I will ever get round to playing. Keeping prices high in order to finance bloated AAA titles (that are IMHO, generally unappealing) leaves my money on the table.
Both will are possible i.e. ability to use your own existing domain or purchase/ transfer with us. Need to include that in the copy. thanks
Microsoft Surfaces
It's really simple right now. We add a List-Unsubscribe header to each email which in supporting email clients (like gmail) adds an unsubscribe button to the report spam button that's always there. If the recipient unsubscribes in that way, we treat it as an unsubscribe. The more traditional subscription model isn't supported by Mandrill at this time. You'd need to build your own or use MailChimp for that. I recommend MailChimp, it's pretty good at handling subscription-based email like that ;)
OFA Iowa: Sign Up for a Gotta Vote Early Weekend of Action
I'm surprised ThemeForrest hasn't done much yet around Bootstrap. Some of the designers have started using it but I would have expected a full-fledged category or section by now.
China now third country to carry astronauts to an orbital space station
Apple Has No Fear
Well, then, if that's the only sticking point, allow people to waive this "privacy" matter and thus indemnifying the gov't. Something like how patients can release their own HIPAA data, if they so choose.

[edit] of course provisions for being of sound mind (as with any contract) and being of age of majority (i.e. an adult capable of consenting)
Removing config.threadsafe from Rails
The Oatmeal responds to Charles Carreon
If Xeon Phi is going to run linux out of the box, then that's Intel basically declaring that they want this card to be supported by the opensource community from day one, correct?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the Xeon Phi is only going to be useful to open source developers early on, and then as libraries are built that make use of the Xeon Phi, application developers will be able to build on top of those libraries. So we're probably a long way off (and likely a few different shifts in co-processor technology) before a card like this is useful to the typical, end user.
Greplin is by no means scrapped. All of that search functionality still exists and is an integral part of the app and website. Think of it as adding a new feature ("What's next") and that being the default screen, with search only one tap away.

Also, in what circumstance would it ever make sense for a rational business to revoke your credentials and assume that because they've added functionality you just might not want to use the product anymore? They should just cut off all access and make you go through the whole process of re-enabling it?

That sounds like you're demanding seppuku, and I think you're overreacting quite significantly.
> The damage caused by the worst nuclear accidents in human history is still less than the every day operation of a coal plant.

Citation needed.
And then you know they banned them with a nonremovable patch, right? http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2005/4
At home I use a macbook and an ipad. The ipad is a consumption device- it's great for playing a casual game, looking up a recipe, and better than kindle for reading pdf files. It isn't really usable for programming, writing documentation, or any real work (that I do). It doesn't replace my laptop, it just does some things in a more convenient way.

Microsoft's Surface looks like (for me) it could replace both the ipad and my macbook. It isn't a consumption device- it runs a full operating system. I could remote in to work from anywhere, attach it to a monitor if I wanted to work at home, and easily carry it around. It provides the convenience of a tablet, while allowing real work to be done. It even comes in pretty colors.

Apple wants me to own a phone, a music player, a tablet, and a laptop all to do separate things in separate places. This isn't necessary.

This is not a reversal of Microsoft's position- it's the logical next step.
Could the hydrogens be assembled into the carbon and hydrogen chains that make up gasoline? Specifically isooctane and butane? If so, a solar thermal to gasoline converter like that would make you an instant billionaire.
Holder.js - client side image placeholders using canvas and data URI
Distressing Unfinished Furniture
Yes? This is good thing, right?
"How it works" - but which: The product or the marketing department?
Why Microsoft's New Surface Tablets Will Fail
What constitutes information infrastructure? And what does "within the state" mean? Available, hosted, owned by operators living within?
Free resizer
Free online photo resizer you can use to resize, shrink, rotate, etc your pictures. At free-resizer.com you can resize your images online for free without any installation.
Microsoft has had an interest in producing tablets since they were working on the Courier in the run-up to the iPad's release (and of course Surface itself is related).

In the current market, tablets appear to be similar to game consoles - consumers are willing to accept a closed ecosystem (e.g. iPad, Chromium, Kindle). So Microsoft may be assuming that a branded tablet is a reasonably sound strategy, particularly given the lackluster interest among consumers in Android and Linux based tablets from mainline electronics manufacturers.
The Top 56 Social Networking Sites
How ironic they do not listen to the great U.N. Commissioner Pravin Lal.

"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."
Duolingo wants your help translating the entire web, now open to the public
So maybe they're both bad ideas, I can accept that. In fact I know I personally would be far more likely to just Google "budweiser superbowl" than pay attention to the URL, but if I'm going to pick one or the other for my ad I'd stick with a URL. Those same people you reference certainly aren't the ones who are going to both know what a QR code is and have the motivation to scan the code. Anyone could read a url and remember it whereas no one I've heard of can look at a QR code and understand a lick of it. If nothing else I stand by a URL in this situation being a better bad idea than a QR code.
Codecademy closes $10M round
That's more like "I took a pay-cut in exchange for a better quality of life", which is understandable and totally a choice I might make. But the important bit is that you would, in fact, take a pay-cut.
It seems as if there are two sides of the fence with supporting unsubscribes from transaction emails.

Do you have any input regarding this?