skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous submission, which reached the front page with quite a few comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4403906
Do it! I'm a NYC'er as well and getting a bike was one of the best decisions I've made recently. The city has gone wild with bike lanes, etc. and you'll be in good company.

And as for storage, a friend suggested something like this to me:

http://www.shelterness.com/diy-bike-wall-storage-racks/

Solves two problems - storage and wall art! ;)
Superfreedraw / unlimited online drawing and the internet's bathroom wall
Google reforms 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button, lets you savor other emotions
You have a couple of choices:

1) Wear rain jacket and pants. Breathable waterproof gear is best; doesn't have to be gore-tex. Expect to spend at least $150 on a set, though. This is what I do. Bonus, keeps you warmer in the snow. Minus, makes you sweat if it's a warm rain.

2) Ride and just get wet. Change when you get home/to work.

3) Take the bus. As the Bike Snob NYC says, IIRTTB is the hipster way.
If you're going to go to the trouble of making a fake cafe or bookshop, you might as well make the real thing. The point of the fake bus stop is that it's trivially easy to do.
The thing is, you're viewing this from a moral rather than a business perspective. From a moral perspective, sure, people should plan ahead and not have children until they have the requisite resources with sustainable income.

From a business perspective, six months paid leave is worth it if you can avoid hiring and training a new employee.
Excellent quiz to test your knowledge on global and local variables.
Rain makes it more fun. Just stop caring about getting wet clothes and buy a backpack with a waterproof cover.
Google "Linode Security".

This year they had a major security incident which resulted in a number of their customers being compromised. We still don't know exactly what happened, what they did to fix it or whether it will happen again. And as a customer at the time we heard about it on Reddit days before they bothered to tell us about it.

That lack of transparency is completely unacceptable and a giant warning sign to take your business elsewhere.
Given a multiple choice True/False test with the statement “people turn food into energy”, I would have had to spend some time deciding on what to answer, not because I have to question whether or not the statement is true, but because I'd have to wonder in whether or not the test writer understands the nuanced implications of that statement.

The way I see it, people don't turn food into energy -- they simply move energy around and transform it by breaking the chemical bonds in the food and forming other chemical bonds using enzymes to keep the activation energies low enough to make a net gain despite losses to heat. So based on the conservation of energy, people don't turn anything into energy. The energy was already there -- they simply transformed it.

But then with the conservation of mass-energy, we know that some mass is converted to energy when chemical bonds are broken. So technically the statement is true in a sense. But the amount of energy created from mass is so small it can't even be measured or detected, so for all practical purposes, the statement is false. You have to be breaking nuclear bonds before you see that.

The article's author says the statement is true, using it as an example of a statement that's consistent with our preconceived ideas, but instead of explaining it, he simply does some pseudo-scientific hand-waving -- digestion, respiration, metabolism, and all that. This suggests the author somehow considers energy as something that is created and used up on a regular basis.

Which makes you wonder, what if the writer of the statement was an expert biologist whose major focus isn't understanding the concept of energy or the chemical underpinnings of microbiology? What if they also saw energy in the same way as the author of the article? What if the answer on the answer key is true, despite being arguably false? In that case, the answer is true in the sense that that's what the writer of the test wanted you to answer.

I think a better test would give the option of adding a statement or two to qualify or explain your choice on the test. I know that would allow me to finish such a test sooner, especially if it was computerized and I could type my explanations.
Show HN: Game developers: target markets through player profiling
I concur, commuting by bike always seems to take the same amount of time, no matter what the traffic is like.
It sure beats getting any form of public transport, being stuck in such a confined space, especially in the morning is horrific. the time difference is also huge; I can cycle the 7miles quicker than the tube or bus.
What about walking? Why the focus on biking?
God, Square Mile coffee is good. Why we don’t have that at work instead of a Nespresso I don’t know…
Long ride!

I love that my bike ride is much more consistent in time than driving or taking the train. Heavy traffic just doesn't slow me down much. Conversely, open roads don't let me speed up much either.
That argument would fly if the movies were only about legitimate killings. Most action movies aren't.
Show HN: Wall mural purifies the air around it
Would you please go back to Reddit?
Choosing A Profession With Job Security -- Jef Raskin
Hackers can be found in all walks of life, it is not a label to be restricted to those working in technology or writing code. Hackers are people that can effect leveraged change on a system (eg human, technological, natural), taking delight in the outcome. Above all, I would say a sense of mischief and fun is the common trait found in hackers. Read a couple of Richard Feynman's books. He's quite explicit - his work was often done simply 'for the fun of it'.
It's a pretty big fine in NY (headphones) that's actually enforced. Also illegal in most cities AFAIK.
What's the benefit of not wearing a helmet when biking?
Minified JavaScript is only marginally easier to read than disassembled/decompiled binaries.
If there's no facilities, you can duck in a bathroom stall to towel off and change. Wash your hands and face, add some deodorant and cologne. My dad calls it the "Sigma Nu" shower.
What you think is tragically sad, I find very funny, very clever and a real life-hack.

Tragically sad would be to keep fighting with the patients every day.
I was going to make a sarcastic comment about the silliness of the thought that since you haven't had the same experience then the author's complaint is invalid.

I don't think it's necessary though.

After all, if it hasn't happened to you then there's no way it has happened to someone else, right?

Plus, your automatic assumption that he's a bad coder is part of the problem the author is complaining about. You know nothing about his code therefore an assumption, positive or negative, is not something you can make.
"I'm Feeling Lucky" Button Becomes a Showcase for Google Properties
I've actually been weighing the idea up, I live in Middlesbrough and there is bike stations there, but it'd be a reasonably long cycle after an hour commute home so I'm still in two minds.
The reading and podcasts are one of the things I miss when I ride. I love the exercise, fresh air, etc., but I also like sitting and reading on the train. It's nice to be able to mix it up.
How locale setting can break unicode/UTF-8 in Java/Tomcat
Why Starting A Non-Profit To Create Social Change Is A Bad Idea
Is this simply an attempt to affect the outcome of the US trial?
I bike ~40km per day in London, from near Richmond to Tower Hill. It takes slightly less time than the tube, and it's a lot of fun.
In Fashion, Are Trends Passé?
The opposite view is they are alerting potential customers to the counterfeit. If, somehow, you only knew about that version, it would be helpful to know you won't get support, but that a supported version is available.
"The ultimate goal of DragonFly BSD is to allow programs to run across multiple machines as if they are running on one system."

Isn't this OpenMosix? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMosix http://linuxpmi.org/trac/

The two features I miss about openMosix were the distributed filesystem and process freezing. As nodes were auto-discovered, they would be populated in a global filesystem, so you could access the root filesystem of any node from a central tree. In addition there was a tool that would 'freeze' the state of a running process and any files that were open and save it all to a file, so you could 'thaw' it at any time and resume where it left off. This worked well if you only used i/o with the distributed filesystem, so you could thaw it into any system and it would just work. I guess this is an ok alternative: http://cryopid.berlios.de/
wow,

This list is one of the most naive I've ever seen.

"Tax citizens with the highest income the most and with the smallest income the least."

So..if he truly believed this, why was he living in a mansion funded by his Megaupload money? Why not give all your money to charity Kim?

I love #15: "Fix all other problems"

Great! I wish you were president!
New Reality: No One Wants A Cheap PC Anymore
Here in Colombia a fake bus stop would mean buses would use it anyway.

In fact, they still use almost every corner as a bus stop.
In the UK as far as I'm aware you're not allowed to wear headphones whilst driving a car as you lose a sense. I think the single ear phone thing is a sensible idea, and you're right inattention is the bigger risk but that's a bit more tricky to change than no headphones.
Mutating Algorithms?
I was visiting Tokyo last February and ended up coming to the meetup, was a ton of fun! Really interesting mix of people
Wear the right clothes and bring a set of clothes to change into. :)

I bike to work in Ireland (150+ rain days a year - yay). Rain clothes takes care of that - just make sure they aren't too heavy.

When I was younger I worked as a mailman in Sweden for three winters, using a bike for 2-3h a day, every day. You don't even need a lot of clothes for that - a fleece over a set of thermal underwear will do you down to minus 10 C or so, after that you want a thicker jacket on top. Heat from the exercise keep you warm enough anyways.

For both rain and snow - get a good pair of gloves (hands are the only part that really sucks when wet/cold). For the cold, get a decent set of thermal underwear.
HN formatting is limited to the following: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

Because the monospaced format is intended for code, it assumes that lines will be short, so lines longer than ~85 chars get the overflow effect.
Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan
I feel your pain. I just attended a NoSQL conference this week and my head is spinning with the amount of service providers and solutions there exists. One day, I'd like to extend my calculator to include doing a full blown IaaS vs PaaS comparo.

To answer your question, getting a good handle of knowing your operation costs has happened after the fact your servers were spinning. Most of my clients assumed that going to Cloud will help you save money. That has not been the case and I had to keep calculating costs over and over again.
Unit testing has made me a better programmer
We fully intend to offer a transition to GoScale, for StackBlaze users, if they want it. They've been informed of that. But it's a fair question though. The change of company was a consequence of our funding sources.
Will PayPal’s History Derail Its Discover Card Deal?
The fascinating thing about Android is that the same model seems to produce the best devices and also absolute trash. I think this is just the price you pay for diversity but I also thing diversity will win out in the long run in this market. Apple's one-size-fits all model is just too limited.
I'm fine with people (be it men or women) taking extended unpaid leave to take care of their babies, as well as underlining the necessity for potential parents and individuals to save money ahead of time in order to have a child. That is reliant on personal responsibility rather than outsourcing that responsibility to corporations or the state.
Major news outlets request right to use instagram of empire state shooting
Organic Wine Retailers Reveal Diverse PPC Strategies & Budgets
The med industry would love the technology to make that possible.

Just think 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' with some extra rejuvenation added for fun!

I would gladly write some stuff in a diary and go back to 12 years old.
Nice Hotlinking.
I'm really sorry about that, thanks for bringing it up Secoif. I've just pushed a quick fix. The website was supposed to be fully responsive to iPhone/iPad resolutions using various javascript and flexible width methods.

Unfortunately I made a change to video providers (to VidYard for analytics) which broke the video resize script (FitVids-JS). Whoops, my mistake.
Just for comparison: Sweden has got 18 months per child at 82% salary, where none of the parents can use more than 16 months.
A 30-year plan to study America’s ecology is about to begin
I come here for the comments, as I used to go to /.

Now get out of my lawn!
I also happen to bike to work and it's indeed a refreshing experience.
For me, the hard part is on the morning where the ride is 10km of climbing only — it starts in somewhat traffic heavy streets and ends in a peaceful quiet forest. The good thing is that the evening ride requires almost no effort, and it's a real pleasure to feel the wind on the hot days.

I wouldn't do it if I couldn't take a shower at work, though.

(Also, piece of advice : take your breakfast AFTER the ride. Your guts will thank you for not doing it before and you will enjoy the taste of food even more)
When we started using Backbone it was good for awhile until there was so much code duplication all over the place. We decided to build a small declarative API on top of backbone that allows us to easily compose views by mixing in common functionality. It looks something like this:

AlbumsView =
bQuery.view()
.set("el", "#albums-view")
.init((opts={})->
@readOnly = opts.readOnly or no
@app = opts.app
)
.use(Mixins.bq.init('albums'))
.use(Mixins.bq.collection
tag: "#album-list"
createView: (m) ->
AlbumView = Views.AlbumView(readOnly: @readOnly)
new AlbumView { model: m, app: @app }
)
.use(Mixins.bq.filterable
pred: (album, ftext) -> album.get('title').indexOf(ftext) is 0
filterTag: "#filter"
collectionTag: "#album-list"
)
.on("click #addNew", ->
@collection.create
title: "New Album"
type: "Album"
)
.make()

For example, the Mixins.bq.collection plugin abstracts away the common task of adding and removing subviews when new things are added the collection. The filterable plugin abstracts away the common task of filtering collections. Our custom init plugin sets up all the events common to all of our views. In the end make() just returns a BackboneView with all the events set up properly. It has saved us so much time we figure people may actually want to use this as well, we just have to write the documentation and some plugins now :)

https://github.com/jb55/bquery
Write Now. It works. I can write again.

http://www.handwritingsuccess.com/write-now.php
It is a terrible article.

1. Why would the author recommend using extension method instead of using the 'query' syntax? The main purpose behind creating the query syntax was to make your code easier to read. Query syntax is not at all about 'pretty' or 'clever'. It's about readability. [And why call the query syntax as 'language extension'?]

2. Why invent terms like 'seal' LINQ queries? By default, all LINQ querie execution is deferred. And yes, you have to understand this deferred execution and how it affects your code. But his code example is TERRIBLE.

var allCustomers = customers;
var waCustomers = allCustomers.Where (c => c.Region == "WA");
var waCustomerIDs = waCustomers.Select (c => c.ID);

Why copy the variable to allCustomers?
And if you need Id and name, you can write code like this:

var customerIdAndNames = from c in customers
where c.Region.Equals("WA", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
select new { ID = c.ID, Name = c.Name };

There was absolutely no reason to create two different IEnumerables for a scenario where you needed different properties.

3. Again, one has to understand that result of a query is just that, a 'query'. And you don't have to call 'ToList' method to execute the query. In fact, if you want to iterate the query results only once, it's better to use foreach and enumerate over the query results instead of calling ToList method as you will be not have to consume memory to store the entire list.

4. Horrible idea to suggest that you should always return List instead of IEnumerable. This choice should be left up to API caller in most cases.

This whole article is garbage. It is OPPOSITE of best practices in LINQ.
Video: node.js is stupid and if you use it so are you
Storage has been on my todo list. It's been a little difficult to grasph since AWS and Rackspace offer both block storage as well which charge differently than just straight GET/POST/PUT operations.
Customize Twitter Bootstrap To Not Look Bootstrap-y
This is also on the roadmap as well. Since I'm seeing the trend for Database-as-a-Service.
Agile Creativity | Think with Google
Not at this stage but there are a lot of people using it successfully according to the comments on the (very active and informative) mailing list.
The same benefit as not wearing a seatbelt in the car. You feel more free, less restrained. I've cycled across half of Japan without a helmet and I did not feel in danger even for a single moment. Then I did one trip in Central London and vowed never to cycle without a helmet again.
Bzzzzt, argumentum ad hominem (and nothing else); thanks for playing.
The Lighter Side Of The Cloud: Passing By
I would bet that most of HN is ethical and aware enough to buy the original.
Thanks! We elected to use facebook because the user experience is fairly horrid without some initial suggestions, which facebook makes easy through liked artists. The backend for facebook free registration is there though, so if it's that important we can turn it on.

I'll speak with the designer and see if we can get Facebook free registration rolled out. Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it a lot.
[Caution: GRAPHIC CONTENT] Photos from around the Empire State Building today
Anger aside, he's right. mesa is used even if the intel driver is used too. mesa includes a software implementation, but it's also the gateway to the hardware drivers.
I've found a good, British-style rain cape is light years better than waterproof jackets and pants. Better airflow means you sweat less.

Another trick for the cold: unless it's Sweden-cold, you should be a bit chilly when you get on the bike, otherwise you will overheat rather quickly.
I wrote a piece a while back, which I think retitled would make a good companion article, "Why I am tired of merging pull requests" <http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/05/i-hate-patches-confessions-of...;
Content, content, content, and…you guessed it; content.
> both those theories are absolutely false.

Here is a quotation from a page the cites the constitutional law on this issue:

URL: http://nationalparalegal.edu/conlawcrimproc_public/FreedomOf...

Quote: "Commercial speech holds a special place in First Amendment analysis. It is not an unprotected category of speech, nor is it afforded the same level of protection as non-commercial speech. In addition, there are sub-categories within commercial speech. Truthful commercial speech is afforded protection while false or deceptive commercial speech is not protected."

Here is another account that makes the same point:

URL: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News&Templ...

Quote: "In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned Kevin Trudeau from appearing in any infomercial promoting any product except publications, which are protected by the First Amendment, provided he did not misrepresent the content of the publication."

What these rulings mean is that the contents of a book are protected by the First Amendment, but promotional claims about the book are not.

Sound familiar?
Indeed. Just wanted to see the HN reaction :D
Video lectures for the knowledge hungry
Wordpress to deprecate PHP's MySQL extension
Gmail in Google Search Results
Aside from the always controversy-inducing lack of semicolons and the slightly unintuitive leading bang for the IIFE, I don't really see what's wrong with this code.
The one-ff charges don't count?
What number is on the tax forms?
Why don't insect wings break?
This was the source of my fustruation. I needed something quick and dirty to share with my clients. While I could create a spreadsheet to do it and there are a lot of them out there, I'd figure I just help others out there by creating a simple app.
> An easy smell test for this idea is the "get rich quick in real estate" infomercial.

Yes -- and here is the law on that issue:

URL: http://nationalparalegal.edu/conlawcrimproc_public/FreedomOf...

Quote: "Commercial speech holds a special place in First Amendment analysis. It is not an unprotected category of speech, nor is it afforded the same level of protection as non-commercial speech. In addition, there are sub-categories within commercial speech. Truthful commercial speech is afforded protection while false or deceptive commercial speech is not protected."

Here is another account that makes the same point:

URL: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News&Templ...

Quote: "In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned Kevin Trudeau from appearing in any infomercial promoting any product except publications, which are protected by the First Amendment, provided he did not misrepresent the content of the publication."

What these rulings mean is that the contents of a book are protected by the First Amendment, but promotional claims about the book are not.
Data integration tools vs scripting
What does everyone use? Do you feel like it is getting easier to do bigger jobs w/scripting?
Its not about the PC but more about the marketing behind the brand. If people get a reasonably priced machine which runs either Windows or Linux that they can use effectively and with confidence, who the wants to burn money on mac. I think its just that people are being blinded by the marketing propaganda of who we know :). If you save a 1000$ on your early or every other yearly purchase trust me ... you are saving much more for your gas, for food and for outing. The article is another ridiculous propoganda article.
Heh... they say that there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear! With that said, it really depends on where you live and what route you take to work. In my city (one of the colder parts of Canada), I can ride a road bike in the winter since my route takes me into downtown and the streets are usually well-plowed when it snows.

Otherwise, a mountain bike with some studded snow tires can get you by - it's pretty invigorating to make tracks in fresh powder in the mornings!

Generally, the heat your body produces while cycling is enough to maintain your core temperature. Just keep your extremities well-insulated and your body as dry as possible.
You could get a folding bike. There are quite a variety of folding bikes these days in a wide range of sizes and price, and they are actually pretty nice bikes. For a lot of choice (cheap to expensive, big wheel and small), check out Dahon http://www.dahon.com/, or if you want a really high-end folding bike that folds down really small, Brompton is the way to go http://www.brompton.co.uk/. There are a few other brands as well, like Bike Friday http://www.bikefriday.com/.

My father commutes to work by bike, but he's moving overseas for a year, and will be living too far from the office to bike the whole way. He just bought a Brompton for just that purpose; he can ride it to the train station, fold it up, take it on the train, then unfold and ride to work.

Here's the video that really sold me on folding bikes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LndpgmPLW-0
Releasing Outside The App Store
thanks. good to know
Good Branding & Bad Branding
Yeah, I need to sort that out. Thanks for the feedback