skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only ios for the moment, but non-iPad users can use the web dashboard to communicate with kids they are close with. Android development foreseen in the future!
I actually do the exact opposite. Being one of the corporate workers on HN and a non-programmer to boot, I browse the site at work while there's no work to be done. In systems administration, we do get downtime where nothing is happening. When something needs to get done, I cannot let HN distract me or I lose my job, which is a pretty good incentive.

At home, however, I have HN, Facebook and reddit null-routed, only accessible through my phone on 3G. Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant are only accessible after 9pm and only on my HTPC in the living room according to my firewall rules. There's no strong disincentive to me sitting at home browsing all day instead of doing more productive things, so I create a barrier that keeps me from visiting. I can easily reverse the block, but that's admitting defeat.

I guess after writing it out, it's not that different. The only difference is, I have a corporate office and a bit of downtime here and there that I fill with semi-work-related HN.
I am generally a pedestrian, and in my experience when I am running on a paved path and cyclists go around me, they sometimes say "on your left" which works pretty well, but bells are great.

edit: doh!
there is some potential for confusion though. I imagine scammers would love .edu.uk for fake university sites...
You've heard of google right? It seems to me that a large amount of data is insufficient impediment to finding the data people are looking for.

Anyway, I never trusted tin foil - that's why I stick to my replica magneto helmet. I think we can all safely say that Sir Ian Mckellen would never lie to us.
I joined Hacker News relatively recently, 514 days ago (not sure when I joined Slashdot, but my ID has five digits). I remember finding it more adult than Slashdot and appreciated its maturity, figuring I would leave Slashdot. Most posts here that mention Slashdot talk about its immaturity, superficiality, or something like that.

After not reading it for a while, I went back to check it out. Upon further review, I don't find Slashdot inferior to Hacker News. Obviously they're different so you can't compare them directly. Still, I find Slashdot, at least reading at +5, which is where I read it, funnier, no less insightful, and less self-important than Hacker News. I don't see evidence supporting the denigration, which I now consider unsupported snobbery. Do the posts below +5 bring Slashdot down?

That said, I post more here, but I read both.
Works in any modern browser. Check this out:
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I'm interested in using clojurescript and your project is a nice entry point for real world usage.

One of the concerns I've had with clojurescript is the filesize of the generated js. Are there any techniques for reducing the filesize of the generated js? (I'm aware that closure compiler advanced mode is used). Clojurescript projects I've looked at seem to compile to a minimum filesize of ~70k (uncompressed). Using closure compiler advanced mode I'd like a bare bones hello world project to compile to something closer to alert("Hello World").

I understand yours includes jayq so not referring specifically to yours, however ideally I'd still like to see it compiled out to something along the lines of:

$(document).ready(function(){$("#btn").click(function() { alert("Hi!");});});
Maybe charge a flat rate for ranges of people. That way you don't need to be exact. Charge the hotel $100 if 5-10 people booked and $250 if 11-20 booked, or whatever. Just make the math work out to be roughly what you'd make if things were exact. Maybe you can earn even more like this.
How do you pronounce yandex?
Is it ee-an-deks? or jandeks?
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Looks fine here (FF, Windows): http://screencast.com/t/LS2S6mMzi8
Well, there are two Great Britains - the Kingdom that was created by the Acts of Union in 1707 and lasted for about a century until Ireland joined, and the island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Britain

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
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I don't, really. I do system software for high performance and distributed computing. The scientific applications are given to me, and are largely benchmarks. (Although, now, I don't do much actual HPC, but high-throughput, low-latency stream processing.)

I have a friend who has a galaxy simulation that uses OpenMP but not MPI. The reason is simple: she doesn't have the expertise to make it distributed. Slapping a few OpenMP directives on the most expensive loops is easier than figuring out how to make it distributed using message passing. How much parallelism you extract out of a program is often a function of how much time and effort you can invest into it. Some people get "good enough" performance improvements by scaling on a single node.
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Happy Birthday Slashdot! It still has some of the best discussions in tech world.
The difference with Instagram is that it's only to share photos, you don't need to communicate using it.

If you don't launch it multi-platform, I see near dead to it. Sorry, I'm an iPhone user, but I see a lot of messenger apps in the AppStore and the only ones that survives are the ones you can use with ALL your friends, not only the ones that uses specific brand.

It's like invite to your party only people driving BMWs.

Focus on feature more platforms.
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Wow - it's now older than most of the people who were commenting on it the last time I went there.
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Having read the article it refers to how Oracle in the early days of Cloud said it was was crap in far different words and now offer a cloud solution.

"Ellison has come a long way in a short time on cloud computing. In 2008, when cloud hype was rapidly inflating, Oracle's chief rightly highlighted the term's relativity and meaninglessness, skewering Silicon Valley's mindless recategorising of everything as "cloud".

Saliant part being:
"At that time, Ellison reckoned he couldn't see how Oracle could change what it was making or selling in order to capitalise on cloud: "I don't understand what we have to do different, other than change the wording on some our ads," he said (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0)."

Having heard that original insight on youtube I don't blame him/Oracle, he does make some good points back then and now for a `database` vendors perspective. Now they have got the head around there hardware Sun purchase things have changed.
Interesting how this will actually happen, given as all the popular Japanese p2p networks are encrypted - of recent their efforts have not been on downloaders but on uploaders since Perfect Dark is apparently leaking information on the latter.
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Isn't it easier to "sleep with" a laptop than a tablet?

A laptop holds the screen in a vertical orientation that you can watch while lying down. How do you do this with a tablet?

I ask as someone who has "slept with" a laptop more or less every night for five or six years.
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Problem fixed!
...says the idiot who has clearly not read or comprehends HN discourse etiquittes.
Congratulations on making through your first month of teaching...now what?
Seems to be a lot of money grabbing going on recently with .xxx and the new GTLDS.

If this is seriously a problem (which I honestly feel it isn't, considering we have gov.uk, nhs.uk, and sch.uk to name a few so .co.uk seems well places for companies within the uk) then why not just allow them to come in tandem? so when you purchase a .co.uk you automatically get the .uk variant as well included in the price.

Controlling a GTLD seems like a really good idea at the moment considering you can effectively just create a market for yourself based on other peoples desired to protect there brand. If you care about your brand your going to have to stump up another yearly registration fee when someones else decides to sell your brand name variant under there GTLD to the highest bidder
It seems that the high levels of radiation could make it much less than the ideal storage environment
I don't understand why this is better than just using a public/private key to represent identity. Why involve the email operator? Why can't I log in by having my browser sign a certificate, without involving a third party at all?
That link won't work without a Google referrer.
I can imagine that one could melt the surface a bit and then rewrite it.
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I also have a five digit UID over there, but stopped going for the most part five or six years ago. The UI of reddit and then HN was so superior that it almost makes the quality argument moot.

Also, reading at +5 meant, at the time, that I mostly got highly-rated replies to questions or points I didn't see, which meant I then had to do a lot of clicking just to understand what was being said. Combine that with the constant clicking to get more comments or get rid of "helpful" bars that hang out in the middle of the screen, and I gave up, and would have even if I'd had no where else to go.
They didn't even need to manipulate the results. The MIT study is extremely flawed. They used aluminum foil instead of tin foil. These metals aren't even in the same group or period on the periodic table.

Keep wearing those tin foil hats!
My first thought is that completely depends on browser uptake. Persona/BrowserID works whether the browser supports it or not.
Geeklist releases API that allows developers to monetize achievements.
A good idea. They should be charging for it.
It's easy to allow this 15 year anniversary to shock the system by number alone.

The real testament is to consider how visually similar slashdot is from iteration 1.

http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.or...

How fascinating is it for something to work as well as it has, for so long.
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Thanks for posting. This is the sort of fun, lighthearted stuff that geeks around the world can appreciate.

And if you guys like this, there's a whole subreddit devoted to this (in fact, as you'll see from the top, there's a whole network of SFW "porn" subreddits for everything from astronomy to history pictures to natural disasters:

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The iPad, at least, has a slide switch on the side which allows you to hold the screen in either orientation.
We had that, it didn't work.

> Why involve the email operator?

We involved CAs.
Yandex search launched in 1997, a year before Google. It was the only search engine that could understand Russian morphology.
It's weird to realise that site you were on as a teenager has been around for literally half your life time.
I know that you're joking, but I think the concern is more about writing thoughts rather than reading them.. essentially being programmed.

It's an interesting phenomenon because doctors find many people with paranoid schizophrenia who line the inside of their hats with tinfoil (not like the pictures in the article), and they all seem to develop this same method of thought-control-prevention seemingly on their own.
I didn't really take a lot out of this, but the 'teacher as coach' analogy struck me as something novel. In this day of technology and information, the teacher is more of a tour guide than a professor, but the idea of coaching students through the curriculum is enticing.
Because my mother doesn't give two shits about public/private key. She just wants to authenticate and the easiest way both logistically and mentally to do that is to just sign into her email.

I fully support this idea from Mozilla and I hope it kills OpenID, as even that's a pain in the ass sometimes.
My account there is five digits as well (I probably didn't sign up straight away). The ironic thing is that I was probably about 15 years old myself when I started visiting Slashdot.
Abso-f'ing-lutely.

When I cannot find the interesting bit in what I need to do, I start to crave. Its like reading - I think certain people find having your brain stimulated, by reading, ideas, games, is a real fix.
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I don't get your point. The FDA approval system is not the problem. It is scientific and one of the toughest approval processes worldwide. It has improved dramatically in the last 15 years.

Speeding up the process would be dangerous as it is about human health and side effects take time to surface. You want to be really sure before you approve a new molecule. Contergan showed what can go wrong.

And the FDA process being public is a good thing too. Transparency is important. Just like openly documented patent claims.
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This just beats OpenID hands down. And I will be very interested to see how fast Google et al support it.

I think they may be a bit evil.
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1. Well, not H1B, but we'll take care of the Dutch equivalent.
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