skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great post! I have also found useful:

- Record the (Git) revision number of my code for each run.

- Use GNU make to manage the pipeline of downloading, training, evaluating, etc.
Title: "Why Facebook Comments Is A Bad Idea For Your Site"
In the article: "Perhaps in some contexts it makes sense"

Parts of the post sound very contradicting to your actually post title.

Regardless, to answer your third bullet, yes the author can setup Facebook comments to give him/her notifications that you did leave a comment. Granted, I guess there is no UI to let you know that the author was notified, but most blogs (not using Facebook comments) don't have a UI for that either.

I personally like Disqus comment system on blogs because it gives you the option to comment in various ways. It's a win-win-win!
As a Google shareholder i was always strong against spending money on this uninteresting, uninovative and unsustainable shack. Well, nobody cared for my opinion, I want some sort of online and realtime voting system for shareholders. A bit like LQFB but with one vote per share.
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next best approach for software development: stop talking start acting
Of course you don't. I realise India is a country of great contrast, with a mix of modern cities and less developed rural areas.

I also think (and hope) that India becomes a greater power than China.

But having a Mars mission whilst taking state aid is like spending your unemployment benefit on an iPad whilst your children go hungry.
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Really? I find reading on any device for a decent length of time that isn't e-ink a real pain.
I've had the same reaction and gone for long periods without reading Gruber for this reason. I do agree that he has toned down - far fewer jackass awards (which always seemed unnecessarily petty).

I wonder if some of his gentler tone has to do with Apple's success. It's easier to be gracious when you feel you are on a winning/popular side, and there are certainly fewer reasons for Apple users/fans to feel persecuted by misinformed pundits nowadays.

What's funny is how Apple whose very core has always been counter cultural has now become mainstream, and Android has become the new counter cultural reaction (even though Android is just as much the product of large corporations and not exactly the product of a new youthful startup). Samsung's marketing team has certainly been effective at reminding us that the hipster crowd is aging - and becoming less cool. Apple itself needs to decide whether it wants to become a mature company or somehow hold onto that more youthful "stay hungry, stay foolish" mantra.
> My main criticism here is about how the vast majority of developers react to all these things. It is not just because someone, somewhere wrote a book, recorded a video or gave a talk in a conference about something that it will make that thing right, in all contexts.

The vast majority of developers probably don't care much at all about development methodologies. The author notices the vocal minority and mistakes it for the majority.
Flash still works on my HP TouchPad, but it's not that good. Video almost always lags the audio which makes them awful to watch and Video playback is the only think that matters with flash anymore and it fails at that so, I really see no purpose for it. I wish all the sites would just adopt native video.
I'm not blaming the Indian government, I'm blaming the UK one.
Really? England banned slavery without having guns pointed at the government. Women have achieved right to equal pay and privilege without threatening to shoot men. Canada became fully independent from the UK by simply asking for it. Stop being so macho.
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I think it's a bad practice to outsource data like comments in general. I prefer keeping controll over the comments. This way the commenters don't get monitored/analyzed by Facebook or another US company, which is important, especially as a European. Maybe Facebook don't like what the commenter wrote on your site and just censor the comment and you won't even realize it. Comments should stay on decentral places, which is important to avoid attacks against the freedom of speech.
Black hat SEO tactic of "flood competitor's results with bogus DMCA takedowns" incoming in 3...2...1...
Facebook comments are also bad for your viewers who don't have Facebook... Me for example.
Something that hides all the track comments on Soundcloud so the user doesn't have to do it manually on each track.
Different countries, different priorities (perhaps ?)

Different things - equally noxious, depending on who you ask - get swept under the rug in different countries.

A lynching offense in one is not so in another.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333420/Paedophile-r...
Why are Some Bugs Harder to Fix than Others
Military services was never required for Congress or the President of the US:

"No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen."

"No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen."

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

Besides, as soon as the President is sworn into office, he's the Commander In Chief of the armed forces, so if he wasn't already in the military he is at that point.
I have no idea what Croydonisation, Shoreditchization etc mean.

And the umbrellas I buy are probably Chinese.
The JOBS Act: General solicitation under Rule 506: hold that tweet
Regardless of what the (obscure) legal reality is in this matter, do you agree that this woman presents her case in a juvenile way, and shows a general lack of understanding of the real-world procedures (as opposed to how keyboard warriors imagine things are or should be) in matters like this, and an apparent unwillingness to learn about them, to a point where it makes her seem unsuitable to voice an informed opinion about it, and certainly ill-suited to be the flag bearer for a contentious topic like this one?

See how that works?
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"Monetization: With app stores and native apps hooked into services like iTunes that have your credit card, native apps are just much easier to monetize than HTML5."

really? many web apps have PayPal or Amazon payment integration, and there are far more accounts on those two platforms than on iTunes
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No.

You put the details of your legal representative on that form.
I give you full credit in the about page. I've made some minor tweaks, and assumed it wouldn't be a problem as you open sourced it. Was certainy not my intention to offend. Happy to change if it'd make you happy.
Creator of writeLaTeX here...

Thanks for the feedback. Can I ask what kinds of features / changes you (or others!) would like to see in the complete product?
I think one advantage of FB comments is that it supposedly cuts down on trolls, spam, and stupid arguments.
Maybe there is, I hope someone more experienced than I will answer you :) (there are plenty of more experienced people here :) )
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Free men govern themselves.

I find it funny that people spouting this kind of sloganed ideology never seem to care about women being free.
But if the "Uber way of doing business" effectively drives regulated cabs out of business, that's a problem.

A problem for whom?

Yes, it's a competitive problem for regulated cabs and their owners and operators. It's certainly not a problem for the customer who benefits from a greater number of options.

One could hope the regulated cab business would respond in a competitive manner - e.g. with greater accountability, ability to call a cab via app, GPS tracking, and other competitive innovations that Uber has introduced.
Assuming this is true across the board and not only for some edge cases, will this actually mean that video files get smaller? It seems to me that this is a case of Jevons paradox[1] where increased efficiency leads to higher consumption. Example: x264 led to 720p encoded videos with higher file size rather smaller files with lower resolution video content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I am the author - The article lists reasons where Facebook comments are a bad idea for your site, it is not a generalization.

I mention that in some cases it might make sense to have it - but in the case of technical or professional blogs / articles, that usually is not the case.
I think this effect was largely due to the draft. Since the US military became all voluntary in 1973, it has become more difficult to find candidates with a military background. Notice that military service has not been a talking point in the 2012 Presidential elections at all, because it can't be.
> Obviously all of this is somewhat pointless, but to work on Android they'd either have to come up with an equivalent method or turn off one or more layers of "protection". That's probably difficult politically, if not technically.

I agree about the difficult this poses. Given the kind of wide range of Android devices, simple content protection might not really be possible. Verifying a device as Android doesn't really tell you much about the kind of hardware that it is running on, so for business types this kind of uncertainty makes them unwilling to try alternatives.

Big Content will not really care about Android until it is easy enough and/or profitable enough to service. Given that Android doesn't have an easy way to implement DRM schemes right now, it is unlikely that many companies will be rushing forward to work on Android until some easier solutions are available.
If it's really that much better they should give themselves more credit than .001
So building a launch system capable of landing a rover on Mars is the answer then? Its hard to confuse the point im attempting to make. I will make it clear. They should concentrate on their own populating, Government and infrastructure before they even consider attempting something like this, because in the end, who is actually going to benefit from it?

A Government with these problems should be considered criminal when they cant actually provide their population with the basics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/business/global/a-failed-...
You must be new to FB.
Or like bailing out the Greeks and the Irish when parts of your own country are on the verge of destitution.

Perhaps this explains the recent nazi unrest in the East German state of Brandenburg.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/masked-neo-nazi-immort...
I think this is not DMCA request. Google has it's own takedown mechanism, which afaik what this is about.
It's a combination of the blur filter, a huge monitor, and integrated graphics. With blur turned off or the window resized, it's much smoother.
Well, members of Congress and their children are still something like ten times as likely to have served in the armed forces than the general population.
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I think the files will get smaller, but the hardware to encode and decode them will be a lot more complex, expensive and probably power-hungry.
>> As long as selective enforcement is practical

This is I think the key.

Technology gives us the ability to catch everyone.

Speeding is the obvious example, but Facebook, lifeloggers, mobile GPS will help us auto-catch far wider ranges of crimes.

So if we can catch everyone, and log that data, but only prosecute, for sake of argument, those of Hispanic or Afro-Caribbean descent, will the democratic process choose:

1. prosecute everyone
2. decriminalise
3. keep the status quo, deal with the rioting severely,
send a large proportion of your populace to prison.

None of those are great choices, and vary depending on the crime. But I suspect 3. is always going to be a socially unacceptable - but it is the status quo now (5% of US Blacks in prison vs 0.7% Whites - what happens when that equalises ? Which way will it go - 5% of the whole of USA?)

Interesting.
Well, it sounds like we have two different use cases. We're using Trello as a ticketing system for a six-person team and haven't figured out a good flow yet. We're using it for much more than just to-do's. In fact, "To Do" is basically a separate board.

Like I said in my first post, I am prepared to accept that my issues with Trello are a product of how we're using it. That being said, I don't want to use a tool where "how you decide to use it" can have a negative impact on productivity. (Within reason, for those of you from the "Literal Internet".)
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Microsoft should scrap Windows Phone and buy into a joint venture with Samsung - Bada Bing!
Sorry about that -- it was probably due to server load. I have brought more capacity on line, and previews should be working better now.
Hmmm.... I'm not very versed in video encoding technology but from what I gather x264 has been adding features outside of the 'official specs' for pretty much all it's existance, and looking at the list I directly recognize things like higher bit depth and cabac from x264 settings.

So I'm wondering is there some new sercet sause in h265 which makes it really much better than say x264 or is it just a new standard created around extra features which encoders like x264 already has implemented?
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Nick Griffin and the BNP will be delighted to educate you on that, I'm certain.
Seriously, my search patterns have been derailed, my life is in an out of control spin.
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"In spring of 2012 XXXXX XXXXXXX shouted out "XXXXX, XXXXX, XXXXX!" at a conference,"

Why would he blank that part out if it was said publicly at a conference?

(also have to say, this is one of the more annoying interfaces on a website I've seen. Single clicking your mouse anywhere outside the main paragraph navigates you back to the index?!"
I see your point, but then money is money. So, why pay MS anything? Why is computing treated in this unique way where minimizing cost is not standard practice?
As far as I can tell they just amped up similar features from h.264. Better motion estimation, more block types in B-frames, etc. Just "more" of the same. edit: from that link I posted larger block sizes, larger transform sizes, fancier interpolation filters, improved intra prediction schemes, improved motion vector prediction, increased internal bit depth, new entropy coding schemes, and so forth.
... and you have to work really hard to make C or C++ run any faster than the JVM. For all normal levels of programmer effort there is no difference or the JVM is faster.
It's also bad SEO-wise. User generated content can help you with long tail rankings
"But it's also a side-effect of the web making it easy to construct social networks among people with minority interests; suddenly all sorts of stuff that was hidden back when it was just one person per 10,000 population town emerges as a 30,000-strong continental community. The 0.01% are no longer hidden, can no longer be marginalized. Never mind the 1% or the LGBT 10%."

This is completely off. We have seen first hand that knowledge of different types of people existing hasn't stopped marginalization and oppression, both on a personal and institutional basis. Just because groups of people can come together online for various subjects doesn't mean that society as a whole is more tolerant of those people. Legal prosecution and personal attacks continue for people regardless of how many others like them they can communicate with online.

What people will want to hide will remain of function of society at large, including the internet and how it affects perceptions.
Isn't that a rule rather than the exception in any massive project?

"The project was scheduled to be completed in 1998 at an estimated cost of $2.8 billion (in 1982 dollars, US$6.0 billion adjusted for inflation as of 2006).The project was not completed, however, until December 2007, at a cost of over $14.6 billion ($8.08 billion in 1982 dollars) as of 2006. The Boston Globe estimated that the project will ultimately cost $22 billion, including interest, and that it will not be paid off until 2038."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
It is not all Slumdog Millionaire you know. All countries have problems that they can't cope with. In the face of Katrina what happened for e.g. in the US was clear for the world to see.

Again, these are parallel lines of progress. Spending on a space mission does NOT affect other public expenditures in this country. Neither does resolving ALL public problems make us more or less morally qualified (I still don't understand the objection) to launch a rover to Mars.
This apparently has status updates. https://help.joyent.com/entries/21854886-pendrell-textdrive-...
Because the default datatype is int:-

$ cat z.c
foo( a, b )
{
return( a+b );
}

main( void )
{
return( foo( 3, 4 ) );
}
$ gcc z.c
$ ./a.out
$ echo $?
7
I think "historic" is important here. RPMs were still hard to use (mainly dependency hell) for a while after .debs were easy. This hasn't been true for years though.
Facebook is in a quandary because it would be difficult to monetize (to the extent that it reclaims the 100B market cap) and still retain its user base. And if these business people existed, don't you think Facebook would have already hired them?
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Users reporting CPU spikes in Chrome from Google opt-out extension(s)
do they? do you have any examples?
while this is awesome, I can't imagine anyone in my research group trusting a not submitted paper to a site like this. For on-site usage I hacked together a similar site in minutes when etherpad-lite came out ( you can try it out at http://brutus.lostpackets.de/ethertex/ethertex.py ) , but sadly I lack the time to make it really usable.
EInk is definitely better, but I read the entire "Game of Thrones" series last summer on my iPod touch using the Kindle.app.
I was studying one year in London and went to almost all Hacker News Meetups there. It was fantastic that these kind of events are possible. Well done and thanks to you both!
Very good! Configuring a LaTex environment in a new computer was a pain for me. This took that pain away.

But I still can't type in Portuguese, with 'áàãç' (without escaping and coding everything). That would be a killer feature for me.
> Your site appears to be open source

There is no license anywhere which makes it closed source. The exception to this is that actual content published on the website (notice, this does not cover stuff in the github repository of the same name) is under the Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike License which is also not an open source license.

In a separate repository there is the build tool for the website which is under an open source license (BSD).

> He probably should have given credit, but I don't think it would be considered "stealing".

It's against my licensing wishes. I generally don't like the idea of open sourcing visual styles precisely because I do not want other people to have websites that look the same. Visual styles are associated with their creators or companies behind it. For the same reason I license work under the three clause BSD license and not the MIT license.

TL;DR: source code available != open source.

//EDIT: the source code is on github because it makes it easy for people to see changes being made between revisions of articles if they want and it's an easy way for people to provide pull requests if I make a typo.
Sorry to hear it, but he at least had a good innings.

Odd that one of my favorite of his satirical novels, _Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers_ (a spoof of E. E. Doc Smith's books, the _Skylark_ series in particular) didn't get mentioned. _Bill the Galactic Hero_ is a spoof of military SF, _Starship Troopers_ in particular.

The Stainless Steel Rat books would make good material for movies.
"Decisions made by interns" = probably why FB is constantly raping user privacy. I hope.
By a reasonable reading, the linked repo is BSD licensed (see lucumr/about.rst).

If author didn't intend for some files in the repo to be BSD licensed, he should be more explicit.
"No meetings != no communication" is analogous to saying "Without meetings, people may still be communicating."

"Meetings != communication" is analogous to saying "At meetings, communication doesn't necessarily occur."

In terms you would personally appreciate: (No Patrick Hernandez != No Dancing) similarly is not equivalent to (Patrick Hernandez != Dancing)

One says without Patrick Hernandez, there may be dancing. The other says with Patrick Hernandez there certainly is not any dancing ;-)
Is that really Pythonic? Isn't that just general best practice in programming?
>Maybe Facebook don't like what the commenter wrote on your site and just censor the comment and you won't even realize it.

Does this ever happen in any appreciable amount? The TOS for what FB will kill a comment for is pretty reasonable.

As to decentral places, meh. I don't blog for a living, and don't have time to deal with spammers, trolls, and asshats. Something like Disqus or Intensedebate handles that nicely, with no nebulous "freedom of speech" issues. Heck even Facebook, to a lesser extent.
The stylesheets or templates are not licensed under an open source license. In fact they are completely closed source.

Don't worry too much about it though because I have since changed the design of my website. You were not the first to just copy the design. I would however prefer it a lot if you changed the design.
Just because I think it's the first time it's come up in an article here, Monocle magazine is an amazing publication. Profitable, growing, and a loyal audience paying through the nose for a subscription (I am one ;-)) - unlike many magazines nowadays. Their approach to magazine publishing is pretty novel - a lot of interesting advertising/editorial crossover, their own radio station, their own real world stores.. (Fanboy mode over.)
I agree, plus remembering implementation nuances isn't the same as knowing a language.
Wonder whether Bada manages to avoid what Japan's carrier-owned MOAP and KCP platforms had become- once dominant in its home country, yet never managing to break outside and rapidly losing out to platforms that did attain global adoption.
I guess I don't get the point of the faux-censorship here. Anyone care to help a clueless newbie out?
I don't see many textareas sized by row/col attributes anymore. Usually they're set to an explicit height and width.
Ask HN: How to catch GA hack?
What are the most powerful hard evidence to prove that a website is facing a Google Analytic hack.

I am suspecting that my supplier is hacking the campaign website to reach the UV/ page view KPI. With no other promotion going on, UV is jumping straight from 70~80/day to 2300/today. Traffic breakdown are: 2,000 (direct link); 300 (referral); 1 (organic).

From the direct and referral, 94% and landing to www.homepage.com/?from=app ; instead of www.homepage.com

Visiting time is distributed throughout the day; 75% of visitor are coming from 5 areas, 4 of the area are located in 2 tier cities.

But, what will be the best way to prove it?
Microsoft would probably sell more of them if there were some decent phones on carriers besides AT&T. Last time I got a new phone, I wanted to go Windows Phone 7, but I'm sure as hell not switching to AT&T from Verizon for it.