skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The domain name needs some serious improvement. I think I'd need flashcards to remember how to spell it or even try to google it.
I think this is a good thing. I know plenty of people who have bought an iMac because it looks cool, not because it's a Mac running OSX. Now people can have a machine that looks trendy like a Mac, but (I'm assuming) at a lower price, and without the hassle of having to install Windows on bootcamp afterwards (or learn how to use OSX and then complain when they realise it's not Windows).
True. You just have to imagine yourself in that situation to see how unbearable it is. Even censor doesn't stop people from getting their hands on the material.

http://www.komonews.com/news/42848327.html

Quote :
That leaves Kylie feeling ice cold every time she thinks about the "sick" people who take pleasure out of watching her "body being ravaged and raped."
"Those images are out there forever," Kylie, now 19, said at her father's sentencing. "We can never erase what Ken has done."
Haskellers don't so much want to keep the variable names terse as avoid naming the variable at all.
> "This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality."

A potential solution to get this fixed:

1. SNRKY_COMMENTS = {MODs manually tag comments such as OP}

2. SNRKY_UPVOTERS = {Users who upvote SNRKY_COMMENTS}

3. Vote = Vote * 0.5 , if user(Vote) ∈ SNRKY_UPVOTERS
While they are similar in some ways, they are not as similar as the article makes them out to be. From images I found elsewhere, the iMac seems to have its components behind the screen, and a very thin stand, while the Spectre One seems to have its components in its thick stand, while its screen is thinner. I think the article is misleading by not showing that, which to me makes them completely different designs. As for the keyboard and trackpad, of course they're going to try to make them as small as possible.
Agreed. I've been out of work more than 6 months. Right as my family was packing to move to the closest bridge, I got a call from a company to setup their servers and finish their web app. With so much on my plate and no time to do it, I picked the easy and fast route. Use GoDaddy for cheap fast DNS and deal with it later. I brought our servers online this morning. Database and all. I was getting congrats and thank yours from the whole office. Now I might lose the job I just got. Thanks guys. Perhaps you can tell my kids.
I think in this instance, "ruby" is more accurate. they didn't say "it is an exclusive property of rails", just that Rails has it, which is true. It's more true than saying Ruby has it.

edit: removed completely presumptuous gender pronouns
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This just reads like any contemporary "fashion" writing to me. You see it in those magazines with a model on the cover and stories about if he's really that into you inside. I think you summed it up pretty well, but I don't think it's got very much to do with the subject matter.
Do you use them? Why would $50 / year for one domain and one email be a good idea?
Godaddy has their email servers back on line already. I almost hope this was a hack attack, just to show how fast they could deal with it.
I'm kind of curious if this high tech paper can be folded like origami into interesting transparent and super strong creations?
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU ARE BRITISH; DON'T PRICE IN DOLLARS.
I think a lot of us entrepreneur types have files, Moleskins, txt documents, blogs, etc. that are similar to 'The Spark File.' It's an excellent tool, and keeping track of ideas, inspiration, projects, and more is a vital part of organizing your thoughts.

One thing that differentiates this particular implementation is the consistent (but not constant) review of ideas, as well as the consolidation of ideas that seem to go well together. The creation of "full" ideas vs. "half baked" ideas is a really interesting concept, and I feel that I learned a lot about idea formation, even from just a four minute video.

While ByWord seems great for offline editing (and I'm certainly going to give it a shot), I've had a really great experience using Trello for my "spark file." The separate "cards" that Trello supports allow me to have different categories of ideas that I can then individually consolidate. For example, I currently have cards for:

- Startup (ideas for ventures I'm considering.)

- Posts (blog posts I'd like to write; either expanded versions of HN comments, or stories in and of themselves. This comment will likely go right in there as well!)

- Research (security & appsec research I'd like to conduct, as well as particular technologies I'm interested in. My to-learn queue.)

- Software (non-startup related software I'm building or would like to build.)

In the end, I can't help but agree and evangelize Alex's post -- the human brain can only keep track of so much on its own, but with help and organization, we can be much more productive!
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That's called irony.
Right, but you made it sound like a problem. It seemed like you were disagreeing with ig1, rather than rephrasing his exact thoughts.
I find it readable enough as is, but if textifying is desired, how about use Aaron's own textifier?

http://html2text.theinfo.org/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaronsw.c...
I can see how this can come in handy, but setting up a LAMP server on localhost is so easy nowadays that I can't help but think this is a little redundant. Sure you get a full-blown Apache install but honestly, calling that bloat is semantics on anything but the worst of developer machines. I wish they had spent the manpower working on core language features instead.
I'd just like to add something: there are some of us that love nice (alternatively read: Apple) hardware but do not want to run OSX. Sure I could buy a MBP and install linux or Windows on it; but that is absurd. Mac hardware is designed to work with Mac software and it does a great job at that.

I really was hoping someone would do a nice job of making a macbook-like product without having to rip Apple off wholesale; I'm still waiting for this. No other laptop in the world feels as good to use as an Apple notebook.

Do you know how horrible every other trackpad in the world is?
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback.

If it simplified exchanging skills & helped freelancers to jump into projects where needed, it could be great!
..the subs builders would re-purpose them for more nefarious ends if the drug smuggling incentive is taken away.

I suppose the subs could be sold "on the cheap" if the cartel business went away. There is probably some danger there, but probably not as much danger as 1) a lot more of these getting built and 2) the US strengthening its police state to protect us from these subs.

The second is my real concern. Our rights have already been ludicrously eroded anywhere near a border. I really don't want added to that "anywhere near a waterway that can be reached by ocean." I guess that those of us in northern Utah and Nevada would be OK, since our water goes into the Great Salt Lake.

I'll tolerate some risk of a terror attack that I'm less likely to be involved in a terror attack than I am to drown in my bathtub[1] rather than the degradation of my civil liberties that the police state engenders.

1. http://reason.com/archives/2011/09/06/how-scared-of-terroris... (using the numbers that assume attacks would have succeeded if we weren't in the semi-police state we are)
Also mandatory zip codes. I keep getting sites that won't let me submit a form without a zip code, even after I've deliberately chosen Ireland in the list and the page refreshed and replaced the state field with a county field. The latest case where this happened to me was creating an account on Sony's website for the Planetside 2 beta. I usually enter in na or n/a for that, but I've even had sites that attempt to validate the zip code according to US rules even after I've selected Ireland in the country box.

(For anyone wondering, post codes in Ireland don't exist outside Dublin, and even then they're a number from 1-24, which doesn't validate either)
> Non-tech-guys don't see such little differences. Especially if they are bit older.

Just because my mother can't tell any of the modern cars apart doesn't mean they don't look different in some way. She's just not educated on the differences, and doesn't know what to look for. That doesn't mean that Hyundai and Kia should be sued for designing their cars to incorporate styles from the most popular luxury cars on the market; in the end they're still selling you something that isn't nearly as high quality as the competitors they're imitating, and nobody walks into a Hyundai or Kia dealer thinking they're getting a German piece of engineering.
Is this a 'good artists copy, great artists steal' example? I get the sense they're underestimating the modern consumer. Even though the shape and color have been duplicated, the slightly educated consumer will likely notice the cheap plastics and same crappy OS that made up the beige boxes.
Your idea is not perfectly clear to me.

My first impression was that you want to promote 1-day consultancy transactions focused on specialist advisory and/or mentoring.

My second impression was that it would be a idea grooming platform where people get together.

Which are you leaning towards? #1 may sound boring (actually, I find it cool) but I think it has a market, whilst #2 may have a greater appeal but you'd have to build some monetization strategy upon it (and it sounds awfully like co-working spaces for trendy startups)
The PNG version is rendered with subpixel antialiasing, which is kinda annoying to see. Besides that, awesome job.
For smaller projects, sure, this is great. The moment you need to test your site with the the Apache rewrite_module or another web servers flavor of it is the moment this becomes useless.
Probably a little early to be advertising this, since we're a couple of days from an "official launch", but I'm launching NameCan.com to specifically address the problems in what I perceive to be an unethical domain management space, namely:

- No Up-sells
- Simple intuitive clean powerful UI
- Pricing transparency
- Security
- Innovative management tools for handling larger domain portfolios

DNS functionality will be rolled out in the coming month.
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Ask HN: Why Facebook's blog hasn't been updated since February?
https://blog.facebook.com

One could imagine they don't care?
Godaddy has been a powerful supporter of limits on internet freedom. Given the size and influence of the company and the arrogance of its (politically reactionary) owner, I understand why they would be considered a target. Even though I have close to 100 domains registered with Godaddy, I fully support this action by anonymous.
For anyone who doesn't already know about it: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
According to this(http://www.spaceelevatorblog.com/?p=1125), no not yet.
I haven't read this specific bill, but parent's comment was a meta-comment about policy and is not specifically about this bill. I was strong Obama supporter, but my opinion has changed.
Most generals ought to have read Sun Tzu...
shirts.io
Very cool work.
Thx.
Standardizing stagnation
>it doesn't do anything against radiative heat transfer

That's easy: put Multi-layer insulation between you and the sun, and install radiators on the shaded side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-layer_insulation

http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1971001...
Treasury to Cut A.I.G. Stake Below 50%
This recommendation suprises me. Do you have particular reason to recommend them? $50 per month for DNS strikes me as ludicrous, but I suppose it's worth it for some sites if they truly can provide a more reliable service.

But I don't find the quotes on their website to be confidence inspiring: "UltraDNS manages and maintains its own industry leading resolver platform; as a non-open source platform it isn't prone to hijacking, spoofing or viruses".

And their industry positioning scares me:

The revised bill would place a ".kids" subdomain under the
control of NeuStar Inc., the Washington-based
telecommunications company that won the contract to manage
the ".us" country-code domain last fall.

NeuStar would be expected to police the subdomain to ensure
it remains free of inappropriate content, and it would
answer to the Commerce Department's National
Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Web sites in the domain would be prohibited from linking to
sites outside it, and they could not set up chat rooms,
instant messaging or other interactive services unless they
could certify that they did not expose children to
pedophiles or pose other risks.

If privately held NeuStar were to lose money on the
venture, it could give control back to the Commerce
Department, which would seek another operator.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/687237/posts

ps. You're probably aware, but I was checking if the site listed in your profile was served by them, and noticed that many9s.com looks to have expired over the weekend.
NearlyFreeSpeech has reliable, simple to use DNS service. I've used it for years without issue.
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Do you have an opinion about this bill as it pertains to civil liberties, or are you just commenting because of an ambient concern about Obama's handling of civil liberties?

If you do have an opinion about the bill, will you consider reading it?
Its a commodity PC filled with Samsung guts.
It accurately detected that I'm running Safari on OS/2. Pretty great!

https://aboutmybrowser.com/4004112543

(Actually, Chrome os iOS, but close enough.)
Potentially not, many MTA relays will retry a couple of times before completely giving up.

The sender might also get a delivery failure message from the relay.
My position on the security-liberty spectrum, as with many on HN, tends towards liberty. But the risk of an offensive cyber hit on critical infrastructure is real. If not a voluntary bulletin and audit network, how should the U.S. ensure the viability of its critical infrastructure against cyber attack without compromising civil liberties?
"These are all done 100 times over. In combination with each other."

That's exactly the problem. HP is using the same combination here, the resembles is obvious and the sad part is to give the reason to Apple on this :(
> A Brief Look at Grid-Based Layouts in Web Design

Yes, most certainly "brief". Somehow the author managed to write the entire article without once showing an example of the HTML/CSS markup one would use to create a grid. Here's a bit more depth:

http://designshack.net/articles/css/rolling-your-own-grid-la...

It turns out that Microsoft has created their own vendor-specific version of grid CSS, all elements of which are prefixed with -ms- (as in -ms-grid). But I recommend that people avoid the vendor variations on the grid system, and I'm not the only one making this recommendation:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2010/03/css_vendor_p...
Seems like a bad idea but is a good idea.
HP Makes the TouchSmart line which is an all-in-one computer and is not similar to an iMac so clearly they know how to do original design. So what they heck were they thinking when they released this product? Did they think no one would notice? It boggles the mind.
Yeah I like v-necks too. It's definitely something we'll consider, but it has to balance with not having too many options (simplicity being the by-word for this project).
Why can't HP copy Rahm's language?
The site name implies Helvetica, but uses Arial in the examples. Anybody who knows the difference will never come back.
"purely shitting on the submitter's choice of title."

It's the title of the article. It could also have been re-written by the admin's even if the submitter had chosen a different title (which no doubt would have resulted in less points).

Your comment smacks of "look what you waste your time on" in a belittling way. Perhaps I type fast, work fast and I'm not lazy and would prefer to back up the point I am making if I decide to make a point about something.
We are only using GoDaddy for email at this point. Hopefully, my bosses will see this as a final reason to move to Google Apps...
I think they use http://www.fb.com now.
I should have mentioned that it doesn't look like an iMac if you go to the Engadget article that TNW references. They have pictures from different angles and those don't look much like an iMac to me.

i.e. http://www.engadget.com/photos/hp-spectre-one/#5256830
I recently rented a VPS specifically so I could run my own DNS. I use tinydns[1] on the VPS as a stealth primary to host my zones and then use BuddyNS[2] as my secondary. It works seamlessly and wasn't that hard to set up if you know how to work a command line.

Of course, if someone were to do this same thing to BuddyNS I would be up a creek for a little while, but I could just login to Namecheap and point to a different secondary.

[1]: http://tinydns.org/

[2]: http://www.buddyns.com/
Is downforeveryoneorjustme.com down for everyone, or just me?
Yeah. It's a tough one. We might change the name if we can find the right domain.
My guess is that godaddy customers crashed the site.
>Laws don't actually allow or disallow anything; they create incentives do perform certain behaviors. //

That's just being linguistically obtuse. One can still do something that is not "allowed" by the law.

In your terms though the law is "disincentivizing" the relay of erotic images between minors. Why? Well I'd posit that maturer members of the community see that having naked sexually posed images of oneself available online is not especially helpful to the individual and may lead to negative attention, bullying, abuse and such. Making such actions illegal is saying that they are outside of the behaviour expected as morally normative.

>Since law or no law, kids will send pictures of themselves //

This is completely specious reasoning. Presumably then you're for anarchy as 'people break the law therefore it's wrong to have a law'. Great. But that doesn't speak to how to modify the law sensibly which is the locus of discussion.

>I find the very idea of criminalizing such behavior to be obscene //

This just seems like overly emotional speech; as if it's supposed to take the place of reasoned argument. Like "oh you find it obscene, now we must renormalise the societies laws to your personal preference".

Aside:

>The vast majority set [the age of majority] at 18 or older. //

I was quite surprised to find this. It's seem really strange to me not to treat a person over 16 as an adult. In my country they can leave home, vote, get married, have consensual sex, go to war, drink alcohol (with conditions), get tried in court as an adult, make medical consent decisions ... just not be called an adult, weird.
We'll intro geo-based pricing asap :)
You're right... instead of copying they should steal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
Core language features? Oh, you mean like all these guys? http://nikic.github.com/2012/07/10/What-PHP-5-5-might-look-l...
Wow, someone tried to sell me something...oh, it was so hard to say 'no' to things I did not want to buy and did not need. Oh wait, that's right, I don't care at all. I have no problem not buying those things.
Why the UN is not going to impose an "Internet Tax", but you should still worry
I'm not reading that as snark, sorry.
> Romney would obviously be even worse for this

I am not sure how you come to this conclusion. Is it something he said, or history of his actions, or a general attitude against the Republican party, or something else?
It sounds like what you're saying is that the strawmanning can go both directions. People who want longer variable names can be regarded as lacking intelligence and being inefficient. People who want shorter variable names can be regarded as not caring about readability or communication. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in the middle.
Stop posting this until its out haha. They've been teasing with videos, and their "pivate beta" for so long now its torture...
Expanding Your Design Vocabulary
Apart from you're using camel case in ruby.

def update_outside_subscriber
...
end

Surely? I hope I'm not being pedantic, it just looks really odd to me. It sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise excellent point.
It's a fair point (DNSimple is unicast). We're working on building out an Anycast infrastructure, but even that isn't a guarantee for surviving a DDoS. Bottom line on a DDoS: it's a war of bandwidth and the enemy has all the advantages. If you must buy bandwidth and you get DDoS'd you have to pay for that bandwidth, which can be very expensive (not to mention the ongoing operational costs and the ).

Still, we're going to do our best to switch over to Anycast and continue building out our infrastructure as we have the capital to do so.
To expand on web crawlers, monitoring/uptime services are affected as well.
Without copying, design and implementation and business practices become bundled, reducing my options in a different way. If I like the kind of industrial design Apple encouraged but not the prevalence of non-commodity components or the aggressive deprecation of ports and interconnects or their policies towards independent developers, I can't get the product I want. I'd rather have commodity hardware that's beige and commodity hardware that's shiny and boutique hardware on the market, rather than have to choose one or two. It'd be one thing if Apple were willing to produce a wide variety of price/perf/design selections, but they're deliberately not.
Glass, people. Stop calling them Glasses. There is only one. NYM and NYT both got it wrong-- NYT even misheadlined the article that had the right content.
That JSON data type looks pretty awesome!
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no reading of the actual facts could lead someone to the informed belief that Obama's DOJ and NSA are worse than Bush's, or, for that matter, Clinton's or Bush I's.

Oh? What about everything related to civil liberties going severely downhill since Bush? Take the NSA "spy center" in Utah we're all aware of by now. How's that for Change You Can Believe In?

Now, why is it that whenever there's a post about the US government being up to no good, you are all over the place defending the government or making things seem less serious, or like this time, just mixing things up?

Are you some kind of perception management agent or what?

Last time there was a post that um.. required your intervention, the thread was like half-full of your posts. Seriously. What the fuck? What are you doing?

Everyone who lives in reality knows you've got quite a police state going on over there. Everyone knows your government is totally owned by Wall Street and other elites [1]. Everyone knows your police force is full of thugs that tase people to death for fun. Countless Americans have had their houses fraudulently foreclosed on by the banks.

America is swirling down the drain. What the hell are you trying to accomplish here on Hacker News by trying to polish the turd of reality?

[1] Well, except for Ron Paul and a couple of other people.
Seriously. How great is it that anyone with PHP installed can get up and running from a git repository in literally 3 commands?
Integrity and bullies with blogs