skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry but the copyright does say Copyright 2012 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science; all rights reserved. And the license at the top says "personal non-commercial use only" which I think this violates... I'm not a lawyer though.
Cheers rodly! Yeah I'm definitely not happy with it and want to fix that/get it re-done if we decide to keep it. I'll most likely have it stop animating after a while and also only load when it's in view. It's something one of us threw hacked together really quickly with HighCharts.js
The State of Social Media Customer Service
Where did he say pirating anything was okay?
I agree. My point was that pre-css-grid, it was easier to use a table to build a pages's layout than it was to figure out the wibbly-wobbly divvy-floaty stuff.
I ride to work every day. Most of my commute is on a popular bike path. I always warn people before I pass them. Every few months, someone decides to do a U-turn or a left turn, without looking, right into my path, while I'm passing them, leading to a near-collision. So far, 100% of the adults who've done this have been wearing headphones. (I've had one kid without headphones do it; I said "on your left" and she got confused and veered left into me. Now I just say "passing.")

Based on this, I think joggers and cyclists with headphones are significantly more dangerous to themselves and others than those without.

Of course, it's possible that you are different and can hear fine through your headphones, but I'm skeptical. (Just as I'm skeptical of people who claim they can drive fine while talking on the phone, or while drunk.)
Go big or go home, I like it.
Although sort of a cheap way out, my favorite solution is to drive once a week (I choose Friday) and drop off four days of work clothes. That way I don't have to bike with any bags at all, and can get as wet as I want during the ride and just shower when I get to work.
Get a pair of fenders -- at least a rear fender (prevents 'skunk stripe' effect) but go for a full set if you can. There are detachable ones that will fit almost any bike, but the ones that bolt on to frame mounts provide more coverage and are less likely to move out of place.
Fenders are incredibly effective at keeping groundwater off of you. In my experience this is at least as important as wearing rain gear.
Regarding the let keyword; the following code:

var x = from post in posts
let keywords = post.split(' ')
...

Is compiled* into:

var x = posts
.Select(post => new { keywords = post.split(' '), post })
...

* If you didn't know already, the compiler transforms query syntax into extension method syntax.
How about open headphones?
I just don't get the bootstrap hate. Same buttons and toolbar? Well you see the same buttons and toolbar about every page, in your browser window. It doesn't bother me.
NIST Publishes Draft Guidelines for Server BIOS Protection
pg has an essay that talks about some of these issues:

http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html

It's worth a read, esp. for anyone who hasn't read it yet. The part under the heading "Working Harder" is especially relevant.
Show HN: BizRake - Search and download US business contact list
Ok, I am at work and can't watch it. Can someone post updates here? Thanks.
With all the buzz, military honor guard, etc., this has the potential to be the best prank for years.
Chattanooga, TN has fiber available to individuals and businesses through their municipal electric company[1] (they put the fiber in for a Smart Grid). It is a cool little city, but there's not much of a tech sector. It is probably 1/3 the size of KC.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattanooga#EPB.27s_gigabit_pub...
Oh, the text editors you'll use OR How I got into programming
Kickstarter Nightmare: Pen Type-A + Torr pens
So instead of telling us the limitations up front, we have to sign up for your service and stress test it ourselves to find out.
Condo Connect
Your example showed it isn't artistic value so much as social class.
Snap Point
Others have mentioned it, but it's worth saying again: please don't wear headphones while biking in a busy city. It only takes the one time when you need swerve around that parked car's open door and but can't quite hear the car that is about to pass you...
Whether you wear headphones or not is a matter of how much risk you want to take. Just like riding a motorcycle is more risk than driving a car. Wearing headphones is more risky, but like anything in life, you have to decide if the benefits outweigh the downsides.
InGamer Sports #GCTO | Toronto Standard
I can't watch either. I hope it's the iPhone 5.
The Sales Commission Dilemma
Lambda Jam (from creator of Strange Loop) - Coming to Chicago July 2013
In the news feed, there are topics for 'Ask HN' and 'Show HN', but one thing I really enjoy are the books or other sorts of list-based suggestions people provide. It would be really nice to have a more explicit way to pick these out, like a 'List HN' type of comment as opposed to sorting through all the 'Ask HN' links for a good booklist.
Ubuntu 12.04.1 "Precise Pangolin" Released
Grand St. Reimagines Retail for Personalized Tech
10 things we’d like to see Tim Cook do in his next year at Apple
You could go for abstract or literal, but don't mix the two. Read guide to naming your startup: http://jonpolygon.com/2011/07/guide-to-naming-your-startup/
How to bootstrap your indie art needs
>Alexia's articles are so consistently pure garbage.

It was even posted to HN by Garbage!
What is the target application and who is the target customer or this service? It seems like a solution looking for a problem. How often does an application need to burst, but only within the resoure limits of a single VM? The problem of burst capacity seems solved already by simply scaling the number of instances in a well designed architecture.
Apple’s new Retina Display dogged by image retention, increasingly unhappy users
What's "badging"?

Also, re acquired company "eating [acquirer] from within" and

"You might argue that Doubleclick has been steadily doing that to Google"

... that's pretty interesting. I remember thinking "weird cultural mismatch" when Google acquired Doubleclick. Could you expand on this?
I'm a Paleo/Ketoer and my primary reason for being so is for one animal: me.

It has been proven to be the best diet for me. By a huge margin. I eat less, I have more energy, I can work and exercise for longer without feeling tired, I can write code (be in the zone) for longer and I help the local economy.

You make me remember Steve Jobs. Yes, the same one who died from pancreatic cancer and only believed in extreme vegan diets. The same diets that probably caused said cancer.

For a start, follow the money. Monsanto wants you to believe grains and legumes are the best food anyone can eat. And the Monsanto executives hold very important government positions.

Second, gluten is bad for you. It has been proven, that even if you are not celiac, gluten will cause inflammatory responses in your guts and the rest of your body. The more gluten you eat, the more stress your immune system gets, until it snaps at some point, and you become celiac, or worse.

Third, quinoa and potato peels have saponines, which basically means you are eating soap. And soybean has lots of estrogens.

Fourth, cooked eggs are very good for you. No other food will be absorbed as much by your guts (highest biocompatibility of all foods), which means we should be evolutionarily adapted to eat eggs (I think this applies to all mammals, not just humans).

Right now we are just tiny little specs of dust in the current ongoing grand internet debate about diets. Both sides have their blogs, studies, etc. The list is long.

Some links:

http://www.archevore.com/panu-weblog/2011/3/30/paleo-20-a-di...
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Challenging-Conventi...
The issue is only complex because you believe that some people have inferior DNA than other people, and you posit that there exists some people who are "defective", and who should not pass on their genes through reproduction.

Your reasoning is absurd, and has been demonstrated as such by the questions asked of you. Such questioning is part of a valid form of argument known as reductio ad absurdum. It has the unfortunate (some would argue fortunate!) side effect of making the one putting forwarded the invalid argument look ridiculous.

Of course, sometimes reducing to the absurd occurs in reality. It wasn't that long ago that sterilisation of those deemed "defective" was being done in first world countries such as the U.S. Your ideas are a branch of eugenics, which has been widely discredited for some time now.

So before you tell the readership of HN that the idea should be taken seriously, I regret to inform you that not only have people done so, but the majority categorically reject it for extremely good reasons.
I hate fountain pens.

You get splotches everywhere and they often dry up for no apparent reason.
Guide to Naming Your Startup
They launched a year ago, the title should say (2011) :)

And they've already raised 10 millon dollars, and a few fights with ZenDesk too :P
Allow people to put bounties on their lost items. The finder gets a reward and you take a cut.
This Inc article has some interesting stuff on compensating salesmen:

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20030501/25416.html

Excerpt:

Want to stir up controversy among a group of business owners? Ask them what's the best way to compensate salespeople. It's like throwing raw meat into a den of lions. You can just sit back and watch them go at it. Over the course of 25 years in business, I've developed my own system for handling sales compensation. I've also become convinced that the way most companies do it is a recipe for trouble.

I'm referring, of course, to the practice of paying sales commissions. Unless you're very careful about how you use them, they almost always have the effect of undermining any sense of unity and common purpose in a business. How? By putting the salespeople in a separate category, by making them stand apart. Granted, sales commissions aren't the only culprit. It doesn't help that most companies put the salespeople in separate offices, hold separate meetings for them off-site, and treat them far more gingerly than other employees at performance review time.

But commissions play the largest role in distancing salespeople from other employees. The result is a lot of animosity and resentment, leading to inevitable conflicts. The accounting people complain that the salespeople make special deals with customers and then don't inform the people who do the billing. The operations people complain that the salespeople make unreasonable demands. As the owner, you're constantly having to mediate between departments while resolving disputes among the salespeople themselves over who has which territory, who handles which customers, and who gets the leads coming into the office.

You also have to cope with the great fear all owners have that their salespeople will leave and take customers with them. That's actually more likely to happen with a commissioned sales force than with a salaried one. For salespeople on commission, the customer represents security. As long as they have that connection, they think they have a means of earning a living. Consequently, they have a strong interest in making sure the customer belongs to them rather than to the company. They resist letting anyone else have a relationship with the customer.

To protect themselves, owners come up with all kinds of mechanisms aimed at preventing salespeople from getting too cozy with customers. One approach is to transfer every new account from a salesperson to a customer-service rep, who handles the relationship from then on. Another technique is to reduce the commission over time. Such systems may or may not weaken a salesperson's hold on a customer, but they don't address the underlying problem. The salespeople are still not members of the team. Their focus isn't on making the company successful -- it's on looking out for No. 1.

So yeah, commissions cause their share of problems as well...
7 Secrets to Requesting That Raise You Deserve
My ride to work is over an hour each way. Been doing it every day for years here in the northeast U.S. A mostly residential route. Funny thing is if I take the bus, it takes the same amount of time.

I started doing this out of a distaste for cars and statistics show that driving is actually much more dangerous then biking.

Weather-wise, I far prefer snow to rain. The hardest part is cold feet in the winter - never found a great solution. My advice is, if questionable weather is a deterrent, dont bike those days. But dont let it stop you from biking at least when it is nice out.

I do a single ear headphone with audiobooks (note I am not in a city). Gotta have something to listen to or I would be bored to death. Music can drown out important road dangers. Spoken audio has enough space and quiet that emergencies easily get my attention.
I mostly use wmii, firefox, emacs AND vim, and a bunch of compilers. But I also use things like virtualization, GPU compute and opengl, which are probably harder to get on BSD.

I would settle for Intel graphics, but I don't know if the HD4000 generation is supported yet.
It doesn't do anything to a child's brain, it's just gratuitously cruel. That is reason enough. But many people the world over learn to eat or whatever with a certain hand and it does not hurt their brain.
YOU FOOLS!
Yeah, obviously giving every voice equal weight isn't practical, and whatever filter you apply is likely to introduce some kind of bias. I'm not saying that the fact that you get echo chamber effects devastates the whole notion, just that it is a failure mode you should be aware of if pursuing something like this, and that "local in values and principles" is worse than "local geographically" as pertains to this specific effect.

Edited to add:

In fact, "mostly local" helps address a failure mode we see presently - if you only hear news from your tribe and a little from neighboring tribes, things you hear about are far more likely to be significant.
Fenders, and don't skimp on gear. I rode every day for two years straight in Chicago, back a few years ago before the really mild winters. I rode into the negative teen temperatures whether it was snowing or not.

I switched to clipless and picked up some cheap but good Northwave boots from Wiggle in the UK. I got some wind & weather resistant knickers from Swerve. Picked up a bunch of of merino wool base layers and a thicker wool zip up, under a goretex shell zip up. Many pairs of wool socks as well. Pearl Izumi lobster gloves were great. Pick up a balaclava or some other head/face covering, a cheap pair of anti-fog goggles, and you're good.

It sounds like a lot to buy, and maybe it sounds expensive, but considering the use I got out of all of it, I didn't blink. Plus it was more fun, and in my case it's roughly the same time to ride as it is on a perfect day timing the bus/train combo I needed.
What determines new design trends?
Warm rain doesn't matter, except that it affects your stopping distance so you need to brake earlier. Rain gear is mostly pointless in warm weather because it reduces ventilation and leads to getting wet from sweat rather than from rain.

For colder rain, I use a Showers Pass jacket, and I ride a bike with fenders.

For snow and ice, I ride my mountain bike with studded tires. (The studs aren't really needed for snow but they help a lot with ice.) And I switch from clipless pedals to flat pedals so I can get a foot out faster to catch falls. (I fall about once per year in the dry, versus several times per ride in bad snow.)
Hopefully I (as the only SoftLayer employee in this thread that I'm aware of) can provide a little insight. Before addressing the specific issue in the post, I want to share a quick overview of SoftLayer's Abuse Department and the processes of handling complaints.

The abuse@softlayer.com address functions as more of a notification system than a medium for conversation. You don't have to be a SoftLayer customer to contact that address, and when reports of verifiable abuse are received, the abuse team will work with the customer responsible for the infringing server to get it resolved as quickly as possible. If the DMCA is properly formatted, the abuse team will work with our customers (who may, in turn have to work with their customers) to have the infringing material removed.

If a complaint is submitted to that address that doesn't meet the legal guidelines of documentation we need before we can take action, we cannot take action. If we can't take action because of an incomplete or invalid complaint, we also can't provide any visibility or feedback to the complaining parties about what was incomplete/invalid, as that could fall into the "legal advice" category.

Abuse tickets aren't handled by technical support, and they people creating and responding to the tickets are only responsible for abuse-related issues. Not only are they a distinct team, they fall in an entirely different part of the organization (alongside the legal, internal security and systems teams). As such, the way they respond needs to be extremely consistent from one issue to the next, and they're only able to make decisions based on the reports/evidence they have.

I don't have visibility into the specific complaint that was submitted, so the only assumption I can make is that the complaint wasn't properly formatted or it didn't have the legal evidence we need to take action. Whether or not the copyright infringement is "obvious" or "unquestionable" from an outside perspective does not change our legal requirement of having a properly formatted DMCA complaint to take action. If there's a lawyer in the building who is willing to offer his/her services to the game developer, a resolution might be a lot quicker. When the DMCA is submitted, I'd love to be copied on it (khazard@softlayer.com) so I can immediately have it investigated and acted upon.

-Kevin Hazard
It would be mostly for coding, but things like OpenGL and virtualization are sometimes involved, so those might be dealbreakers. From what I read in the comments I got, it might be possible to use, but it's probably not going to be a pain free situation, so I'll stick with Linux and continue to watch BSD from the sidelines.
Yup, having your bike slide off the road is no fun. A studded front tire helps a lot.
You seem to have missed that I wrote "I can easily hear any meaningful sounds through the music".
Look at the version under the "Start download" button: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
I predict another Al Capone vault [1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_Va...
I think people should configure Bootstrap and use different colours, and approach it not as a strict guideline but as a good starting point with useful widgets to play with. I am, however, completely happy with people using Bootstrap unconfigured, it looks good and for the most part is normally used in a really clean way. A lot of iOS apps look like the stock components, and that's fine as those components are nice and clean.

There often seems to be a bit of push back about websites looking the same, especially with Bootstrap sites, but we don't expect (and often don't want) applications running myriads of different UI styles on our desktops. Maybe it's just a sign of the times.
Nested views and automatic view updates.

How would you display a list of items in backbone? What do you do when an element is removed/added?

How do you update a view when an element changes?

It's a lot of grunt manual repetitive work.

In Knockout and Angular, it's all automatic.

Related: forms.
It's not due to be open until 4:30pm GMT (5:30pm BST)... another 50 minutes.

At the moment they're interviewing some spectators asking what they think is in the package... and the package itself is in a plastic clear crate on the floor in the middle of a room of people.

Unfortunately I have to jump on a train before it's opened, so I can't tell you what is in it. There's probably another Norwegian or Swedish speaker on here that is also watching and who will be able to explain it all.
Thanks :) I originally didn't want to add it but I'm pretty strapped for hosting right now and it's supposed to renew. ;)
As HN users I suspect we're seeing a far greater quantity of brand-new bootstrap sites than almost every other group on the internet. I wouldn't sweat using bootstrap for your app if you're targeting a different group.
This made me pause and think about what might be needed when I get old. Will the nursing home need to have a vintage Macbook seeded with data from The Internet Archive so I can obsessively check Hacker News and Twitter to see if anything is "new"?
When I started on my project I created a /css directory and then a /twitter folder underneath it full of the raw .less files. When I decided I wanted to use a bootstrap component, I would move it out of the /twitter folder into the main /css folder and then include it. It's a good way to get a lot out of Twitter bootstrap without falling into the "obviously bootstrappy" look.

Over time, I've tried to remove what I can of the bootstrap look and feel but I found it hard (for me and my below average css skills) to beat some of the items (forms, etc). My site (http://www.thetaboard.com) is definitely 'built with bootstrap' but I don't think it gives off a 100% bootstrap vibe.
It's been said here before, but I'm fairly sure the only people "disappointed" and "annoyed" at the many sites using Bootstrap are web developers. Of course we notice UI frameworks because it's our job to create websites.

However, the vast majority of users don't give a half a cent about what UI framework the site is using, let alone know what a front-end toolkit is. All they notice is that it is easy for them to interact with the app, probably much easier than if the developer had coded it. In fact, the site is probably built sooner anyway since the developer didn't have to spend the time to create a UI by themselves.
That's fine. I tend to get riled up about it because there's just no variety. I understand "standards" and "defaults" the way that the browser displays stuff but this is just a bit too much for my taste.
Readability is definitely subjective. For simple scenarios, I do prefer the extension method.

E.g. in my code, it would actually be like

var males = customers.Where(c => c.IsMale);

vs

var males = from c in customers where c.IsMale select c;

But often, queries are not that simple and in such scenario query syntax offers far more readability:

e.g.

var filteredCustomers =
from c in customers

join o in orders on o.customerid = c.customerid

where c.IsMale && c.Age > 30

where o.IsPending

select new {Customer = c, Order = o};

The corresponding extension method syntax will not be readable. In fact, I don't even know how to write that code off top of my head.

My point was that the whole purpose of query syntax was to improve readability and it was not about 'pretty' or 'clever'.
Hey, I'm the intern who implemented the HNSearch Zero Click plugin, so let me explain the poor result:

A HNSearch (HNSearch.com) for "interview duckduckgo" doesn't return this thread at all, in any of the results (even on a 'stories' only search), however the one thing it does surface is your comment, because that exact phrase was found in it. I realized we weren't showing the right comments, and I found a very small bug which has now been fixed. So thanks for getting me to notice that :)

However, if you search "interview duckduckgo's" (ie. the same wording in the thread's title) the ONLY result returned is this exact thread (an HNSearch limitation).

These same results are fed to us by the HNSearch API and so the fault lies within HNSearch's search methodology (as far as I can tell). We're still looking for a resolution to this, however, any suggestions are welcome!
Don’t Ignore Your Social Media Responsibilities
For an office http://www.hasbean.co.uk/ makes far more sense.
Your url is broken. The HN parser eats quotes from URLs, which wikipedia uses a lot. You need to urlencode it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_Al_Capone%27s_Va...