skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So if a friend of mine had a Kickstarter project and I wanted to get it some attention, I could use a credit card, donate $10k, and then cancel my credit card straight after? Kickstarter would show it as a pledge but will never get the actual money. It seems like very dangerous idea of course =)
I just tried it out. This font is... massive! It's pretty to look at, but tough to quickly parse, IMHO. I think I prefer HN's micro font.

Also, the margins are way too big for my taste. I feel like 1/2 of the screen is unused white space. Is there any way to tweak it?
You mean like this: http://boingboing.net/2006/01/12/vw-presses-ridiculou.html?
> There is at least one study that talks about this.

I couldn't find any. Could anyone provide some pointers, please?

> I'm talking about modal editing. Obviously I'm not against context.

When scientific proof lacks, appropriate analogies can be our only tool in analyzing a issue and reaching a conclusion. My point is that people don't seem to have issues with modality in other contexts, provided that they know how to cope with it, thus why should I doubt their ability to cope with modality while editing?

> This isn't how we progress. Do you have a study that demonstrates the opposite? Then claiming the study was flawed is meaningless.

Sadly, progress is slower than we wish. If a study contradicting empirical evidence is flawed, it doesn't prove anything, for empirical evidence wins and we are back to square one.

> I knew how to use it just fine, but mode management slows everything down.

This proves that some people have issues with modal editing. Why? Maybe:
- they didn't approach it effectively (in the case of Vim, they lingered in Insert mode);
- their tools were inappropriate (in the case of Vim, the Esc key was too far).
- or modal editing requires some mental capability which not everyone possess (some people can type on Dvorak and Qwerty, indifferently);
- or modal thinking is a learned skill;
- or...
If we can solve this problem, instead of saying that modal editing is better, we could say that modal editing is better when some conditions are met.

EDIT: I've also thought about reasons for Vi-style editing not being as superior as it was in the past:
- keyboard layouts do not resemble the keyboard layout used while designing Vi;
- keyboards with integrated touch-pads and/or track-pads are available to make switching to a pointing device quicker.
Oh, it works if you don't have "Show Dashboard as a space" checked.
Yeah, I just don't get how this is possible. The first time, sure, people just get caught off guard. But after that?

Send your bitcoins to me, people. I'll never give them back, but at least you'll know where they are.
real in the sense that people make rational economic decisions. This is especially true when you see things aggregated.
He has finally satisfied part of my curiosity about how his electric vtol jet would work
This is already somewhat in place at a few retailers, albeit under the guise of a "discount". A store called "Specs" (they sell booze and fancy food) put's two prices on their shelves, the price to pay with credit and the "discount" price if you pay with cash or debit. (Fees differ between credit cards and debit cards)
Cascading into Hadoop's Golden Age: Interview with Chris Wensel
You guys seem to be missing the real point I was trying to make here.

We are in a Not Enough Programmers Boom and it will be followed by a deflations in about 4 or 5 years. I taught CS during the mid 1980's during one of these.

Most of the people who are going to 'learn to code' don't really want to be programmers - they want a job. They aren't going to be competitive when the Bust happens, so they would be better off planning their careers for when that happens than living under the illusion that they are going to be Programmers.

I didn't write this 'poor article' for you guys. I wrote it for the rest of the poor slumps who are being conned by the 'Learn to Code!!!!' hype.

Lighten up.
HN: Please add a "save" link to bookmark posts
Like reddit. I often run into posts/links that I want to come back to, but I sometimes lose them. A "save" link would be helpful so I can go back to prior favorite posts.

EDIT: Thanks to the one commenter, I didn't realize that was an option.
Hacked Oyster Card London Transit Ring
Why? There is no reason to make faces if nobody sees them. Unless you think your face muscles get weaker?
I ran a simple test with Chrome 20:

var a=new Array(4e9);
for (var i=1; i<a.length; i=Math.ceil(i*1.0001))
a[i]=new Number(i).toString();
a.sort();

The speed suggest that this sparse string array is not sorted with a quadratic algorithm (today).
I would have the same challenge - TinyMCE gives me a way to link to other pages (the list of other pages is generated by a script).

I wonder how you could add such help on top of a Markdown editor.
Three times apparently (from the forum):

Feb ~ 200k USD
May ~ 91k USD
Today ~ 300k USD
I agree that there are generally problems doing this; we had thought a bit about doing this at a previous job when testing an AfterEffects plug-in we were developing, but we didn't actually do it.

Just wanted to add that one technique that could allow this to work better when testing across different kinds of hardware / driver settings would be to share high-level results (i.e. for release 1200, these images seem okay) rather than actual images among testers. (So each tester would generate its own "correct" images.) Yes, it is possible that some of the images this other tester assumes are correct aren't actually correct on their machine due to the hardware configuration. But if you care about this, you would not be able to share test results, anyway. And you could still test actual rendering on different kinds of hardware in a separate pass.
I agree with that completely. I'd love to see it happen. It's the only way it makes sense for technical books to remain relevant.
Not that I agree with the other person but by your logic everyone (who is not bi-sexual) practices sexism because they have a "special preference" to relationships with one gender over another.

If the OP of the article had all those same things done to her (ass grabbing, pillow fight invitations, etc) by gay women, would that still be considered "sexism" or just sexual harassment? People sometimes forget that sexual harassment is not always a "Man on Woman" action. There is a 2x2 matrix of how that can go down.
2005...Thats way before Too Big to Fail,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management#19...
InDesign gets Temporary Fix for MacBook Pro, Air Crashes
Perhaps they'll add a thanks-awareness feature that will eavesdrop on your online conversations and thank you next time yyou're using it - "oh BTW, thanks for mentioning me to your friends on your blog" ... or y'know, maybe not.
Punishing regulators? Sure. What about punishing the people who snuck it by the regulators?

I absolutely cannot stand the libertarian line on this. For decades, it was all "don't regulate the banking sector, you're hurting freedom, they should have the ability to combine investment and consumer banking, don't regulate them", and then when they fuck up the economy?

"Oh, you should have let them fail. That would have been free market."

Great, that's a lot of help. We should've let your ideology destroy the modern economy. You know how much it burned non-libertarians to have to bail those banks out, after listening to all this crap from you guys for decades about how deregulation was the way to go? But we still supported it, because we're adults, and didn't want to flush the economy down the toilet.

So here we are in 2012. Still hearing that the banks shouldn't be regulated. They're the "free market". Sure.
> I noticed that a particular “FUUUCCKKKKKasdjkfnff” wasn’t getting printed where it should have

:)

I've never seen a shorter description of real-world software development. That's it in a nutshell!
From the article:

> The original hacker could have compromised the funds on May 11th or any day thereafter.
Yes, the collective efforts of engineers should be praised.

Elon himself would agree, since he once said in an interview: "“No, I’ve never aspired to be an astronaut–I have aspired to invent things,” “In fact, I think an error was made in the Apollo program in that there was too much lionizing of the astronauts. Not that they don’t deserve to be lionized, but the real difficulty was the creation of the rocket–it was the engineering and the invention of rocketry.”

Kids should aspire not to be astronauts but to be engineers."

Elon doesn't explicitly state on most interviews how awesome his engineers are, but he did express it when the space station docking mission was successful during the post-interview. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjuvIlskUf4#t=7m20s

Also, he recently delivered a speech at Caltech. He told the grads to go out there and change the world with engineering. His speech was really focused on the Arthur C Clarke quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And who wouldn't want to be a magician?"
The Caves of Clojure part 5: Stationary Monsters
How To: Calling into Mozilla C internals from JavaScript
I think they were getting confused. It was the Flowchart Guy that said it: <Did you open by sexually assaulting this woman, such as by unwanted touching?> -------------YES---> GO TO JAIL
I got into college on an essay addressing essentially that topic. It was a while ago and discussed what emotions are appropriate when a talking ATM thanks you for banking. In a British accent.
I've read those, which are good, but I think this one is better than all of them put together:

http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-30th-Anniversary-Edition/...
The term "government" has multiple meanings, but the most direct and common meaning is for the entire apparatus of state power, literally "the instrument which governs". This is true in all places that speak English, the United Kingdom included.

In the United States, we use the term "administration" to refer to an executive, his cabinet, and other associated officials. However, we still recognize the (not-so-subtle) distinction between the administration and the government as a whole; our government, as yours, is divided into three separate branches, and then again into many departments, agencies, committees, circuits, districts, and other subdivisions thereof.
I'm actually surprised HN's up and down arrow images don't have any alt text. Was that intentional?
Looking at your profile..do you make webapps in cpp, or am I reading it wrong? Wana plug your company?
@netcan allow me to disagree. People make part of their choices partially basing them on rational reasoning (and, even for that part, mostly based on incomplete data and often faulty logic). But just check what works in marketing and you'll see how limited that rationality really is.
Depends on your perspective. These days I mainly like reading the stories guys post, mostly for amusement.

I never really considered myself a "pua" although I did dabble in that world a bit a while back, and hung out with some of those guys. But now I work a day job and am founding a startup[1], so I don't really have time for dating, or going out and meeting women.

[1]: http://www.fogbeam.com
It could actually have function value as it could trigger some positiveness in a bayesian filter, subsequently increasing results accuracy. I let you be creative about the negative sentences.
Bye-Bye, Wall Street: New Flavor Of Big Data May Be More Lucrative For Quants
Are you Busy at Work, but Still Bored?
Exactly. The visionary is the catalyst that brings everyone together and makes the accomplishment possible in the first place. This is why personality cults (in this context) are appropriate, in my opinion. Without Jobs, we would not have Apple today. Without Musk, we would not have Paypal, Tesla, or SpaceX.

The thing with visionaries that sets them apart from other people is that they are one of a kind. Whereas the vast majority of their team consists of people that, for the most part, are expendable. You can always find more engineers or product people or salesmen. You cannot find more Jobs or Musks.
If you don't mind upvoting them, you can subsequently find them via your "saved posts" link on your profile page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/saved?id=jstalin
"Within PowerShell, you can call out to your Unix tools" -- so the answer, to the question "how closely does PowerShell emulate Unix scripting?", is "totally". That seems like a pretty objective and plausible answer to me.

The questioner did not ask which was _better_, but how close one is to the other, and on particular dimensions. If a question like that is too controversial or slippery to answer, then I don't see how S.O. can answer any question about choices among technologies.

I think some moderators just saw Windows vs Unix and reflexively decided a food fight must ensue. And that's just sloppy.
Yep, but the transfer didn't happen until today. He might have had the passwords all along, that's a different thing.

In May, the equivalent of some ~90K US$ were stolen.

Today, 40K BTC + 40K US$ (amounting to ~350K at current valuation) were transferred out of Bitcoinica's MtGox account. Different issue and it definitely doesn't explain the recent rally.
This approach most likely requires that the script runs within the same trusted local network, correct? So, technically you'd still have to "ssh" into at least one box, and run all admin scripts from it.
Well if I am ignorant, educate me.

Here's my take: I am a straight male and I go to a gay bar for a friends birthday. Guy there thinks I am hot, so after a few minutes of conversation he starts rubbing my chest. I politely apologize for leading him on and tell him I am straight. He understands and goes away.

In my mind that's an exact analogy to what happened there. Sure a tech conference isn't a bar, but according to the OP the "frat environment" was there. What I did was realize that I am out of place. What she did is the equivalent of me calling the guy a creep, handing gay people red/yellow cards for creepiness, posting it on Hacker news and getting lots of sympathy from self incriminating gay people.

Again, if you disagree. Educate me. Help me understand.
This seems like it has turned into a game for the hackers now. Bitcoinica get breached, re-load their defenses and then its just a matter of time before the hackers get in again.

I don't think anything nefarious is going on, but it would appear there is little or no consequences for breaches which makes it a low risk, high reward opportunity.

If I were them, I'd kill the business, completely start over with a new company name, new site, new everything. As long as they're in business, they are going to remain a target.
There's a report some time ago of a chap dressed as Gandalf who had removed the chip from his oyster card and inserted it into a wand.

Well played.
Mutation limits Alzheimer’s disease, other cognitive decline
I don't think anti-aliasing is the explanation. I had a look at the GIF zoomed up in Paint.NET and there's nothing unusual about it, just the gray triangle with some lighter-shade pixels around the edges. I think the browser has a flaw when enlarging images with transparency - eliminating the transparency around the arrow would probably fix everything.
> I don't understand why it's there. It's a bit redundant given all the arguments of the no-www folks.

I agree. It's redundant and, like 'http://, can and should be inferred. I also think it looks much better without it.

The reason it won't go away is technical. See Heroku's article on it: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/avoiding-naked-domains...

I do hope that the technical reasons for not using naked domains can be worked around some day. Whether by evolution of the technology or by the browser inferring it.
I dunno. Sometimes there's just a scenario that isn't really easy to fit into a meaningful phrase, and that shouldn't happen too often.

"FUUUCK" is awfully good at conveying the seriousness of the error, and "aslfkhsdf37" ensures that the string is unique, so you can pinpoint it instantly in your gigantic codebase.

The fact is, it kind of works. Something like "missing record (line 38)" doesn't indicate the severity, there might be 10 different "missing record" error strings in your codebase, and somehow in real life, line numbers and filenames never seem to quite match up like they should (transcompilation, async callbacks, and so on.)
I'm not so sure about the statement that being bilingual reduces the vocabulary. If this is true, this would discourage me from raising a kid to speak two languages... after all, wasn't George Orwell's thesis in 1984 that removing words from the language removed the ability to think? Who would want to do this to a child? Does learning Latin as a second language, or Ruby indeed, restrict your vocabulary? I doubt it.
Coderwall does give you links to contact the author if you'd like to suggest something. His Twitter handle is on his profile page.
My guess (which I repeat is just a guess) is that it doesn't store any fuel at all (excepting some amount for emergencies) but relies on beamed power from the ground.

A fully-fueled 747 weighs something like 5x an empty 747 so you might get some real efficiencies from not having any at all. Plus, this would give all those solar and windfarms in (literal) flyover country a nice place to sell their power without running lines.

You can launch with a sled or some crazy version of an extension cord.
But they were only cashed out from MtGox today. So he could have done it earlier, but only did it today. At least that's how I read it.
if the talk was intro to node, then why bring Mocha and CoffeeScript into it?
July 13th, 2012 – Obama to Raise Taxes on Greediest Two Percent of Americans
A unbaised post comparing the two would be nice. Sounds like a post Addy Osmani would write. I found this post(http://blog.millermedeiros.com/amd-is-better-for-the-web-tha...) talking about why the author thinks AMD is more flexible (better). Though a biased article(though I think the CJS approach to defining an AMD method is reasonable), it does show the syntax of the two approaches. I CJS syntax has less boilerplate, but is that due to fact that CJS loads synchronously? YES, I know processors like Onejs can make so CJS modules can be used in a browser(wonder is the processed result looks similiar to Requirejs?). Just wondering if Requirejs is designed the way it is because it took loading modules asynchronously into account from the begining.
It works better during off hours when there is little traffic.
I was on reddit for a couple years before that. The jokes about digg's quality certainly didn't begin in 2008.
Firebug 1.10 New Features
Nobody is using bitcoinica. Everyone is seeking refunds.

Edit: Bitcoinica is still in the process of refunding everyone from the last breach when this happens.
Without arguing for or against it, I'll just say it's the first book JGC recommends in his linked post. :)
I love Elon, he is amazing, but I'd rather motivate other wealthy people to be creatively ambitious and altruistic, rather than deify an individual personality.

He is a great human being, no doubt. But some of Elon's friends are not great people. And I hope he no longer hangs out with them socially (other billionaires).
>Seriously, what is it that you find to be so objectionable about interesting topics?

The US presidential election is very interesting too, but that doesn't mean that HN or SO is the right place to discuss it(even if some upvote it).

SO is about giving specific answers to specific questions, like 'How to get two DIVs side by side', not discussions that result in flaming.
Actually the lesson to learn is charge monthly subscriptions.

Actually that's a little unfair. The thing is these are businesses where (presumably) vital parts are left to fester. I presume because the management 'dont get it', but every business has these corner cases, and odd parts. I think the foolishness of ERP was ever daring to dream it could be solved monolithically.

THe future surely is a form of SOA where some guy in accounting can write a crappy service, authenticate it globally and plug it into the enterprise directory system.

But this really assumes everyone working will be able to program. Just like we assume everyone at work can read.
How would a new company name help anything? If they want customers to be able to find them again, surely so will the hackers?
It's not that hard to understand.

There's a lot of talk on this site about changing the world. I think there's some good reasons that happens with this crowd that sort of get back into the history of computing, but in any case, that mindset is a driving force for many in this community.

Musk is doing it. He is, in fact, changing the world, driving change in the directions he wants to see things move. He's being as audacious as hell about it, and he's actually pulling it off.

That's a personal trait, and it's absolutely worth admiring and attempting to emulate.

No one thinks he's engineering the rockets or the cars, but he's shaping the visions and driving them forward, and most crucially- he's making it happen.

Anyone with any sort of vision (90% of this site) knows how hard that is to do, so seeing someone pull it off on that scale gets our attention.

Leadership, true leadership, motivating people to do their best and to reach beyond, is rare as hen's teeth, and people get excited when they see it. Nothing whatsoever wrong with that.

Having said that, I'm with you on the so-called plans to make social widgets and then cash out and THEN start on the big plans. That's a plan that's going to end in tears, and it won't be all the much fun along the way, either.
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That's a good point, but Microsoft is slowly working on that.

The Exchange guys whom I work with live in PowerShell -- they barely touch the GUI to make changes to things.

As the Microsoft Apps get powershell-ized, I think you'll see it become a bigger part of the environment.
A trip to Spain is 50 hours or so of my life. Driving a cheap car easily exceeds 400 hours a year, for around ten years. I'd rather have a comfortable, well made car to drive in than a once in a life time trip. YMMV.
Apologies to people hurt by my post
While 111 bytes is small, it is actually 111 bytes + size of the image HTML tag (82 bytes) = 193. When I checked (at 08:08 PST on Friday) there were 163 instances of the image tag in the code. That means that the way it is today 11 bytes the first time and 13,366 (82 * 163) bytes of extra HTML every time. If we changed it to the unicode character if would be 163 * 2 (2 bytes for the unicode character) which is 326. 326 is way less than the 13,366 bytes currently being served.
It's precisely not the need to explore a lot of new ideas. Rust is taking tried and true paths to something new :-)
The problem with their tabs is that they put different things on the same sized window. I like my overall Tbird to be almost full screened. But I like messages relatively narrow, because I (and people) generally read less efficiently if the lines are really long; it's harder to track back to the beginning of the next line accurately.

I like tabs in urxvt, vim, Firefox, etc. But they don't work well for me in Tbird.