skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you don't seem to like posts about Apple but you do seem to like posts about Android. Isn't this the whole 'problem'? People only object to posts they don't want to see, so to a fandroid any post about Apple proves that HN is full Apple fanboys.
> "I am not aware of any major website today using ZF2"

I was surprised to read this. Since no one has contradicted, I'll presume it's veritable, but surprising nonetheless.
Treating configuration as code with Python’s import hooks
Google announces its first datacenter for LatAm in Chile
I'm not saying I didn't read the article because of it but it does just start the article off with a bit of annoyance. You can't argue that anywhere you enjoy going in the online or physical world is determined by emotional responses.

Imagine when you got to a restaurant that has music annoying loud. You may still enjoy the dinner food, but you had a bad experience eating the good food because you were annoyed with the music. That scenario similar to this article. You could still enjoy the article content but you were annoyed because of the bad experience. And after so many of those bad experiences you may just think "you know what, I'd rather eat somewhere not as good just because I won't be annoyed by loud music."

If you don't think that small things like this (that can easily add up over time) do change how your viewers see your site/company (regardless of the content), then you need to think again.

However, I could be wrong. I mean, everyone did love the animated images, colors, and sounds on GeoCities which lead to their industry takeover and incredible success. ;)
Get rid of the text as much as you seem to love it. The screenshot already explains everything.

All you need is one screenshot. One download button. One donate button. One mention that it's free.
It really all depends how intrusive ads are for me. As long as it doesn't keep me from doing what I want to do I can ignore it pretty easily.
I ended up choosing Bing which surprised me. I had two draws and 3 times I chose Bing. Google did not win any for me.
This seems like an interesting idea, and the cert is for www.barackobama.com, so in theory, it's legit.
Best of luck to you. While not exactly on topic, one little thing I noticed was that that it looks like there's some remainder help text from the template you're using - check out the top right where it says "ADD A MENU IN APPERANCE, MENUS."

Not a deal-breaker by any means but you may want to remove it.
Many of the responses there are for C in lieu of C#, which I disagree with. Unless you need the performance of C, you should always use a higher-level language, and C# is a beautiful and powerful language, and if you're any sort of C programmer, you can pick up C# relatively easily.
Nokia has indeed the best _free_ navigation of all. I am keeping in my car an old E72 just for it, loaded with all the maps of EU. However, even if updates are quite often, sometimes the map is outdated. But anyhow, the navigation is only for orientation and trip data, I mostly drive by signs and, of course, common sense.
Yes, this ^ please!

Perhaps a toggle of some sort?
Calendar Apps Suck, but they don't have to
I fucking hate sexism in science
Apple thinks (rightly or wrongly) that giving you that control will diminish the experience.

I used to hate it when people would install stupid stuff on Windows and then blame Microsoft for their bad Windows experience.

It's like buying an <insert generally reliable car make> and putting a bunch of crappy aftermarket parts in it and then getting angry with the dealership when you're stuck on the side of the road.
As an old-timer who used to be very active but isn't anymore I agree with you. When I first created an account 1883 days ago I thought this place was amazing, and that I'd never seen such high quality discussion on the Internet before. Now I don't find the quality to be quite as high, but after thinking about it I've realised what has changed: Me.

It's been 5 years, and I've changed. I've become much more knowledgeable than I was five years ago (partly because of HN) and obviously the barrier for what I find insightful has been raised. This is a natural progression in life, and it happens to everyone. Chances are that if you look at what you did 5 or 10 years ago you'll find it to be naive, shallow or obvious.

Maybe it's simply time to move on.
MINSWAN is now DHHIAJSWAJ.

Being a jerk isn't always the wrong thing to do. But people who are not dhh propagate the tone without always propagating the situational awareness.
Doesn't that mean that the people who can afford $x, who advertisers would like to target, are the only ones who turn off ads?
From the Nicholas Humphrey paper cited in the post:

"My view is this. The human capacity for responding to placebos is in fact not necessarily adaptive in its own right (indeed it can sometimes even be maladaptive). Instead, this capacity is an emergent property of something else that is genuinely adaptive: namely, a specially
designed procedure for 'economic resource management' that is, I believe, one of the key features of the 'natural health-care service' which has evolved in ourselves and other animals to help us deal throughout our lives with repeated bouts of sickness, injury, and other threats
to our well-being".

in full here: http://www.humphrey.org.uk/papers/2002GreatExpectations.pdf
Andrew Koenig : Are You Sure That Your Program Works?
Yeah, that was all meant to be over-the-top. Because... well it's a very simple little app. Like, "This is why Steve Jobs invented computers" doesn't even make sense. Maybe I should make it more ridiculous? Or maybe I should just get to the point, ha. I'd love to know if other people had the same impression.

And thank you for your congratulations :)
+1, good sir. Thank you for releasing this out in the wild!
>> "I very much doubt there is a single designer at Apple who has felt flattered by Samsung. And, on the flip side, I doubt there is a single designer at Samsung who sees their work as homage to Apple. "

Braun and Apple are not in the same market, Samsung and Apple are, that's why.
But did it have to swing so hard in the other direction?
Should lunch breaks be mandatory?
A Pixel Qi display may fit your needs. There's a 10" DIY display available http://www.makershed.com/Pixel_Qi_display_p/mkpq01.htm although you may just want to pressure your favorite consumer electronics company to include one by default.

By the way, the earliest version of the Pixel Qi technology was used by the first OLPC XO laptop model.

Edit: Pixel Qis are not actually E Ink.
Can you define full stack designer?
Why e-books will soon be obsolete
Yeah, when the proverbial shit starts hitting the fan, it's hard to recover.

I re-discovered that after unlocking the Adjudicator realizing ships with L2 shields were completely immune to my firepower
It's not his design. The Pastry Box Project is a collaborative blog made by someone else. He just contributed the content.
Legal means application of the law, and law should be derived from morality. If we think something legal is not moral, it should not be legal and we should strive to change the law.
The public forum should follow democratic ways... I dont like the idea of costing karmas, when in such public forums, one have full right to speak freely for free...
Upvoted for comedy value?
Have been there, will go there, will talk there :-)
See you there...
your persistance in this argument

I replied, he replied, I replied to his reply. That's not persistance. Where I come from we call that a conversation.

Replying to you ... now _that_ is persistance.
This dude works at Yahoo and can't spell bait. I'm not really sure he deserves a respected opinion.

Also, note the last name. Is this a troll?
Not to mention that there is also a pretty big incentive to sell out your users. Probably a high percentage of shady business that the entertainment industry normally can't get a hold off legally.
Could you please recommend a consumer operating system that is immune to security flaws in application software?
I can only imagine that if it was JUST a screenshot, I would see this exact same comment but saying to add text because a screenshot doesn't explain everything. But that's more of irony on HN comments. Haha

However, this seems like a nice/simple app and I'm excited to try it out!

EDIT: My 1st joking point is perfectly demonstrated by tzaman's comment below. Haha
I'm going to work on a post in response,
"29 things I wish designers knew about fashion."
How did you come to the 160% figure? Golden triangle?
And there are way too many people who claim such a thing as well.
I'd at least keep "Click on an app group and Foreman closes all apps not in that group and opens the apps in the group."
This is pretty good. Currently I use NetVibes, which is buggy and actually TOO customizable. I like the strict grid layout.

If you made this a service, here's what would make me switch:

- customizable feeds (kind of obvious I guess)

- ability to mark items as read/unread (link color is not enough - I want to skip some items, or just read them all from the blog itself without clicking individual items)

- have individual feed header be a link to the feed's main page (it's the <link> element in RSS)
- customize number of items per feed (e.g. I'd want more items for feeds which update frequently)

Nice to haves:

- tabs (I have LOTS of feeds - would be easier to manage instead of long scrolling)

- along with using the <link> element above, ability to override this, because I've noticed lots of feeds that don't set it properly (link to the domain root instead of the blog root, e.g.)
If the authorities observe transactions in the block chain sent to known actors (like a centralized BTC bank), the actor can be subpoenaed, raided, or shutdown.
I think there is a lot of truth to the argument that the customer is best served by a product that is created for the customer.

However, I think both Amazon and Google and Apple and Microsoft are in this for the long haul. They probably figure that they are best served by customers who love their products.

So while it might be true that in the end, Google wants to sell ads, Amazon wants to sell content and Apple wants to sell hardware, all of them can only do so by satisfying customers.

Actually, the difference is rather that since Amazon and Google only use the hardware as a means to another end, they need to exert less control over it and thus offer a wider range of different products.
Well not only Big Cable, but roads and cheap clean water and electricity lines, after all, are already subsidized and are not controversial. At least, not controversial today :)

I don't see anything wrong with subsidizing what could become a de facto public good[1]. And I imagine citizens in Kansas City will get a more positive return for the fiber they subsidize than many of the (sometimes massively inefficient/dead-end) country or sparse suburban roads they are subsidizing.

I wonder what the attitudes were like 100 years ago. Would something like this be considered bold and praiseworthy? Or would most people complain about the cost? From my quick glance at the Hoover damn Wikipedia page for instance the only controversial part was the naming, though I'm sure there are more nuanced histories of that project.

[1] I suppose we shouldn't kid ourselves too much though, and frame the public good not as rich internet, but as rich internet access
In terms what they can do, Ruby and Python are very similar, yet Python generates about 1/100th the drama of the Ruby community. I'd say that points very strongly at ego, or at least the culture of the community. If that doesn't convince you, have a look at the update at the bottom of this post from Giles: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/rails-went-off-ra...

Python programmers appear to be more welcoming and don't seem to have the same need to wave enormous meta-programming wangs at each other. Not to say that metaprogramming isn't useful, but that it's just another tool in the toolbox. Take mailsnake for example: https://github.com/Leftium/mailsnake/blob/master/mailsnake/m... Completely classy :)
I've been here for nearly 3 years, and I've been fairly consistently active over that time. I completely agree with you. The quality of discussion here hasn't changed that much at all.
I've taken to checking if the domain of the email has valid MX records. That, and a very rudimentary regex expression (not quite as simple as the OP's though) seem to do the trick well.
I don't want Hacker News to turn into Quora.
I don't even have to think.

Yes.
stupid idea.
Inc. Magazine: "Why Success is Not Like Pornography"
> > I'm told that polling people can be done accurately and scientifically.

> And you believe that?

Yes.

What you have done is cited people who have shown polling can be done incorrectly. This is not a surprise.

Polling can be done in a correct way and will produce valid results. It costs money, and not everyone _wants_ a poll that is accurate but there you go.
I often wish HN turned into a child of c2.org wiki. I won't complain as I don't have the brain or knowledge to help much in the matter.
I'm just starting out with http://www.jamaicanize.com , really small compared to other but it's a start. I've been searching HN and learning a ton. I'm hoping to release something bigger soon :)
they didn't give me a spelling test. (thank God)

but thanks for making fun of my name...
I'm confused, where do you see an option to pay $30 post-purchase to disable the ads? The previous model offered this as an option, but one of the points from the article was that they've haven't announced any such offer for this generation's model.
I've been here for a few years and never noticed that link. I think the OP can be forgiven for having missed it.
I think that HN already has Karma thresholds below which you can't downvote (or change the colourscheme!)
I have a current gen Kindle Touch Ad-Supported version. The ads are displayed in two places:

1. When the Kindle is switched off, there is a full screen ad. They're mostly for books (sometimes audio books) or some sort of local special offer. Sometimes they just give you a heads up about an amazon sale.

2. When the kindle is switched ON and you are on the main navigational screen: There's a very small ad at the bottom of the screen. Clicking it will switch to the full screen view of the ad to give you more information.

No ads are currently displayed in the middle of your books nor do they interrupt the flow of what you're doing.

So long as they stay the same way in Paperwhite then I'll be fine with it. I barely pay them any attention anyway.

Here's an example of how they currently look:
http://cdn2.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/2268850/kindle-t...

http://cdn1.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/2268908/kindle-t...

(The above images were taken from http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/14/2559732/kindle-touch-revi...)
In English we say 1 + 2 * 3 as "one plus two times three":

1 + 2 * 3
one plus two times three

But in Lisp when read naïvely left-to-right this becomes "times add one two three", which is nonsense in English.

(* (+ 1 2) 3)
times add one two three

Most people cite "lots of brackets" as their reason for disliking s-expressions, but I think the unfamiliar ordering is a less superficial criticism. Of course, for those of us manipulating ASTs they're very natural, because we see language as trees.
The article from science based medicine is fantastic. To quote:

"Recently the main special pleading we have been hearing is that CAM modalities work through the placebo effect. That is why they are so desperate to represent the placebo effect as something more than it is"

I think this is a very important point. In years past, all my 'alternative' friends would throw out all kinds of wild statements on how their treatments would work, safe in knowledge that it had not been conclusively disproved. Now that the gray area they reside in is being shut down, I've noticed a lot more lately that conversations end with "well, I just do it for the placebo affect". I never really noticed how often I hear this until I read the article. And now that even that gray area is being shut down, it makes me wonder what special pleading is going to be next.
Data mining the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Well I want to make sure that nobody assumes that just because I am not aware of any major website using ZF2, that its necessarily a fact. Quite likely nobody in the ZF2 community heard that both opensky.com and exercise.com launched on Symfony2 2 years ago.
@pcc are there any limitations on how many employees you have? Can single founders apply?
I don't understand why the RoR community needs to endorse Scala as sucking less than Java?
There was a whole section in there which was nothing but silly, "atmospheric" text which was meant to be ridiculous and jokey, but which didn't add any information. I've taken that out, so hopefully it's tighter and more informative while still retaining the overall tone.
So in summary, there are different business models which benefit (and penalise) the consumer in different ways. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked.

The real issue here is whether people understand what they're buying in to when they buy the various products.

* Do they understand that Apple are going to restrict you in certain ways? Do you understand what those ways are and what the consequences are?

* Do they understand Google's (financial) interest in your personal data and what that means?

* Do they understand that Amazon are only selling you this stuff as cheaply as they are because it's a down payment on more stuff?

As technology changes, business models change and the nature of the deals you're entering into is becoming more complex with greater consequences than you might have understood.

There's nothing wrong with any of these models and I think the OP is wrong in implying that Apple are in some way "better". The issue is that I don't think that the typical consumer is keeping pace with the changes and, as a result, is potentially entering into deals they don't understand and making choices that don't reflect what they really want or need.
Kirjoitin jo englanniksi. Katuvalojen lisäksi kiinnitän huomiota kylttiin "RAVINTOLA". Pitkällä valotusajalla se "Neonvalo" tms puuroutuisi. Nyt se näkyy selkeästi eli kyseessä on pieni aukko ja lyhyt valotusaika.
I agree, contract work is where you can make more money.

"HR departments here lag the USA and can't accept what techs are worth."
You are referring to full-time work right?
The more worrisome phenomena is the cult of the whiny fandroid.
I'm a great fan of HN, but since some 'ill-judged' remarks I made about someone or other I got some negative Karma that I can't get rid of. So if this proposal went forward I'd never be able to post at all.
Uh, apple just bought all that from fingerworks. And in the process left the market without the awesome mixed input keyboard from that company since 2001 or so.

Also forbid anyone to license it.

So Apple DELAYED touch interfaces for at least 7 yrs!
Set Ideas Free
> Harrington on Holdem are the best strategy books on poker in my opinion. If anyone is interested in seeing how poker players should be thinking as they play I highly recommend those books!

Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo the single most important book to read after you actually learn how to play, which the Harrington books are excellent for.

It covers everything about poker that doesn't have to do with what the cards actually are. Where to sit, when to look at your cards, how to act, when to play, when NOT to play, how money flows, etc.

http://tommyangelo.com/table-of-contents/
That's a different product line, though. The article and discussion here is about the Android tablet, not the e-reader.
If You Can't Sue The Feds For Spying, Sue Them For Lying About Spying
I tried using it on OSX 10.8.1 but I can't seem to get it to work. It doesn't let me drop anything into the box where it says "Drag Apps Here To Create New Group"? It just does the typical "delete from dock" poof animation.
The Secrets of Oobleck Revealed - Partially
I think the difference is that the kindle isn't a "real book" if real books were printed on perfectly white paper (that wasn't glossy) they would easily show up any marks or finger prints on the pages making it distracting to read in the future. This isn't an issue with the Kindle.

It's also possible that off white paper is cheaper to produce which made it the choice for mass produced books for many years leading to us being more comfortable with it than alternatives.

All that being said I've never had a problem with the contrast of the Kindle but that doesn't mean I won't be happier with the new high contrast version, once I get in my hands for a few weeks and read in different lighting conditions then I'll know for sure.

My biggest concern is the page turning of this latest version...
+1 Nice, I am reading it..
By the way, servo is using it. Right?
Heh Wikipedia is the worst. I feel like half the time I post something intelligent I basically get a bunch of people calling me a faggot for reading books, more often than not with 'references' to Wikipedia to explain why I'm wrong.

I feel the need to point out that this is not, in fact, a problem with Wikipedia.
The first thing I noticed is that you cant scroll horizontally or zoom from an iPhone. The text overflows on the right and theres no way to display it. oh the irony.
Attacking the todo list problem, with Chronofencing - Context and the Calendar
The Hungarian Algorithm for the Assignment Problem
I am going to stick with http://laravel.com, Laravel 4 is going to be awesome.
Captain Obvious here.

Amazon wants you (to buy through them, because they are like Walmart, getting a sliver of each transaction, but making an enormous amount of transactions). You get liberality with content.

Google wants you (to view their ads, because every time they display an ad/make a conversion, they get a sliver). You get liberality with hardware/software.

Apple wants you (to buy an iDevice, because every time you buy an iDevice, you just gave them a 30%-50% of the product price as straight profit, in addition to being locked into their marketplace, which they get a hunk of each sale, in addition to ads being run through free apps and them getting a sliver for the view/conversion). You get a well-done, end-to-end experience.