skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Romney: ‘Master Financial Speculator,’ Deceptive
Can Romney really create jobs and fix the economy? He says he can. Ronald Reagan’s budget director, David Stockman, says Romney’s did not build business the old-fashioned way but on financial speculation. The real question is can you trust Mitt Romney?
done :) thought of just displaying it in "easy"-mode so beginners can get a feeling for the dimensions
You can run Linux VMs on Azure.... http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenar...
> imagine an app that has more than a dozen settings

I'm surprised that there's that few. Even WordPress has tens of configuration options out of the box, and individual templates might have tens more.
That actually sounds kind of awesome. It's easy to get sick of the same Rails news over and over. Plus Ruby has such a vibrant and exciting world beyond Rails.
Elevated Indoor Carbon Dioxide Impairs Decision-Making Performance
I think there's value in that kind of person, but probably not as your direct manager.

If it was a mentor relationship then the unvarnished truth is pretty much what you need to hear.
I think there are many, many better places to donate than a profitable company who had to do a little hard labor because they didn't have a second datacenter like everyone suggests.
Whether minimalist or not, what I want is beauty. Although beauty exists in both minimalist and non-minimalist designs, the minimalist one are refreshingly lighter and make reading (the main point of content) a nicer experience. This blog is as minimal as they come, but (to me) makes for a nice reading experience:

http://thegentlymad.com/2012/10/26/you-get-what-you-price-fo...

Consider also that some people just wanna get their shingle out on the web. Better to whip up a minimal blog and begin posting than to delay because you've gotta have a more intricate, pixel-perfect design that exemplifies your creativity.
I think in particular, I would/could have benefited more from the increased number of opportunities for free time and flexibility:

* No longer have seasonal breaks outside of the odd vacation time.

* Can't cram work into only a couple days a week as I am expected to show up every day.

* In college, you can skip classes that you already know the material for and only show up for tests (i.e. do the minimum possible to maintain a good grade). With work, you are expected to be 100% productive every single day. There is no chance to get ahead: If you run out of work to do, you are given more, or more will be created for you.

This mostly assumes that you're already very smart and while in college you are financially supported via loans or scholarships, but if you're attending Stanford, MIT, or Harvard, you probably meet both criteria.

It's not that I want a college degree. I want to be financially supported while having (more) time to work on the cool things I want to work on, which is actually the same reason I want to run my own company. College is one such example that provides that opportunity.
Let's get serious, this is not "engineering" in any sense. It sounds like pretty basic web development, with a very mild amount of back-end development.

The situation described here sounds more like assembling a prefabbed shed from Home Depot. Yeah, something was built, but it doesn't make the builder an "engineer".
Well, I will say Google+ is pretty good, but for me it came too late. I already had social network fatigue and too much content already in facebook to do much useful with Google+ or to spend any real time with it. I kinda wish Google+ had come first.
That's actually really clever, I love it, especially the colour changing. It might be a good idea to display a hint to resize the browser to the displayed resolution on the first play, since Hackers tend not to read instructions.
From the description:

"Origami is a new way of thinking about panes in Sublime Text: you tell Sublime Text where you want a new pane, and it makes one for you.

Ordinarily one uses the commands under View>Layout, or if one is quite intrepid a custom keyboard shortcut can be made to give a specific layout, but both of these solutions were unsatisfactory to me. Perhaps they were to you too! That's what this plugin is for."
Check out the icons at http://www.glyphish.com. There's a free set, but I think the Pro version is a great deal.
"Let us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing."
That's all fine and dandy, but what about his Midi-chlorians levels? Shouldn't they focus on what's important?
Asus says Nexus 7 sales are close to 1 million per month
Right but you were arguing against that?
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Actually they should mostly wait. The firehose of SO is largely filled with stupidity, lazyness, and people too lazy to learn or google what they need.

SO has become the tit to feed the stupid calf, and the milk has run dry because noone in their right mind should spend any time answering the questions of lazy, good for nothing idiots who think they could program someday, by merely posting every idiotic problem they encounter including syntax errors to SO.

If that was SO's mission. Mission accomplished. I and any other person who respects their own time and value will not spend 5 minutes on monkeys typing shakespeare.
A new Music-tech start-up in Dogpatch Labs Dublin
big respect to this guy and he seems to make awesome software. But using a 5 year old netbook with very low resolution and 2gigs of ram, no external Screen and dialup modems for internet doesnt seem like a very productive working enviroment...but if it works for him, why not, but this is clearly is too minimal for my taste ;)
Great idea. This would be a good opportunity to experience and experiment in other technologies that don't get much spotlight. Will definitely try to get there this year!
The former. I want to see relevant ads.
close some fucking tabs sometime

christ
Yeah, I just tried a sample search and it returned mostly the same results, no matter how many sites I removed. They were just in a different order.
Why? I argued that big resolutions are good and interfaces will soon catch up. Browsers are ready, operating systems are ready. Some legacy software might become tiny, but you can live with it by changing resolution when you need to use it.
This is the second time I've seen astro-turfing on HN in as many weeks. On the following thread there were hilariously bad (registered within the hour, first comment on the product "wow great!") fake accounts.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682896
Hmm.
I'm beginning to suspect that you're right. We'll be looking into implementing this. Thanks
Hi, this is Jon (the tired looking one in the video) from Pimoroni :)

We were the first campaign to launch on Kickstarter in the UK. We brought forward our plans for Picade to align with the launch because we felt the interest it would generate was worth it!
I believe, author is trying to compare not very sophisticated voice request based recognition feature (Siri) and service, which continuously analyzes your behaviour and makes suggestions based on results (Google Now). Apples and oranges, really.
Already happened in Japan.
I second this. There are also qualified people asking the questions, which is also a good indicator (e.g. I recently saw questions from Edward Yang and Brent Yorgey).
Clarifying: illegal in Spain.

Copied from the 'general conditions' of an ADSL contract in Spain (Telefónica):

"Queda expresamente prohibida la [...] compartición de recursos fuera del domicilio"

(The sharing of resources out of the domicile is expressively forbidden).

The link is here: http://www.movistar.es/rpmm/estaticos/residencial/fijo/banda...
Won't do this in Spain.
I think those guides are awesome. It's not a straight up competition, but I believe if two similar startups are doing something very cool but one is more polished, it will make the other one look less impressive.

Sort of like that line of George Costanza: "If you're funny and he's funny, then what am I? A short bald guy with glasses who suddenly doesn't seem so funny."
@FooBarWidget, an obvious Phusion Passenger troll (look at his posts)

> "Javascript is so much easier to program for than C"

G-WAN offers both. And 13 other languages.

> if you have 2 million users then switching to G-WAN does not give you a lot of added advantage

Node.js will never survive 2 million users if it faints at 1 thousand users.

> "Why is G-WAN faster?"

For the same reason that makes Nginx faster than Apache: better coding.

> "What's the difference between Node and G-WAN's Javascript engine?"

None. You criticize without reading. It is said that "G-WAN runs node.js as a script engine (which results in testing V8)".

> "Where is the source code for the benchmark?"

On the site that you claim that you have read.

> "G-WAN is a very interesting product but it would have so much more potential if the author behaves more professionally."

Hmmm... you probably mean, like you?

You "moderated" this Hackers News entry to:

- spread FUD about G-WAN
and
- promote Phusion Passenger (your product)

Phusion Passenger is not censored on Wikipedia because, like Node.js, it is much slower than G-WAN.

Maybe that's why you ask how G-WAN manages to be so much faster?
I'd rather it stay the same thickness and put more power inside.

It's not like I ever see the back anyway
One thing that I didn't see explicitly mentioned in the article: I really, really hope they don't segment the marketplaces. In other words, I really hope it's possible to log into Kickstarter UK with your Kickstarter US details and use the same payment details to support UK projects. I also hope the set up transparent currency conversion. Otherwise, the value proposition of Kickstarter to UK startups is radically lower.

I do a little bit of work than involves some ad networks and affiliate programs, and I find it astonishing how segmented commercial networks still can be.

For example, Amazon referrals only track to the country TLD you sent the traffic to. Refer someone to Amazon.com and the buy the product from Amazon UK after following the link prompt that appears on the landing page? You get nothing.
Well, quite simply, you can anonymously[1] discuss things with your Facebook friends (or the whole world, if you'd like).

[1]: That is, apart from the login and pulling in your list of friends so as to populate your "Friends' feed", we don't use Facebook IDs or names at all.
this is flawed: the presence of an answer post does not mean that the author actually got an answer...
How do you filter my "own" posts without correlating my Facebook id with a post-author id?
There is a great new article on the folyo.com blog, that provides some great places to look based on budget

http://blog.folyo.me/the-startups-guide-to-budget-design/
i prefer macbookair 13' 1440x900 more vertical space. but yes, retina -> standard is the way to go.
Power and heat distribution are more valuable in a desktop than how it looks.

I love the look of the last iMac, no idea why they did this stupid design and removed ram upgradability for the sake of it looking thinner (from some angles).

I predict it will fatten up again when they go retina
Way to go, I am sure some crass go getter is staking this concept out as we speak.
I get 0 points if I have it wrong. Is this is a bug or is that just how the algorithm works? It would be better to have a maximum score for each round and then basing the score depending on your browser size compared to the target.
Same here .. so how is this a problem, then?
No, that was a big confusion about it. It's actually transflective LCD. Nothing to do with e-ink.
4chan with facebook login?
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A quick talk with the Co-Founder of Infogr.am
I think of passion as some degree of obsession. You pour over content about your craft in an effort to learn the subtleties not because you're striving to better your position but for the love of the work. You could say you have an affection toward your subject matter.

A good sign of someone who is passionate is that they often speak with great conviction when sharing some debatable viewpoint.
I was pleasantly surprised by Colin's rationale for asking the first question. (That was the one about MESI cache coherence; Colin hoped that many people wouldn't know the answer offhand but would work out what it had to be. And, in fact, many people did just that.)

Not so convinced by the fourth. That was the one about why pthread_cond_wait takes a locked mutex as a parameter, and here's what Colin says: "I think this was the most important question on this part of the exam: [...] if you don't understand race conditions, you will can end up writing code which is broken [...] And before anyone objects that this is only relevant to multi-threaded programming: Race conditions are also responsible for many security bugs where a program races against an attacker".

If the most important thing on this part of the exam was to find out whether people understand race conditions because race conditions are important even when not writing multithreaded code, testing their familiarity with one particular bit of one particular threading API seems like an eccentric way to find that out. And it's not like the MESI cache coherence question: just knowing the name pthread_cond_wait doesn't give much hope of deducing what's going on from general principles.

(Full disclosure: I got full marks on Q1 by exactly the method Colin was hoping for, and no marks on Q4 because I have never used pthreads and wasn't smart enough to deduce the answer from general principles. You may wish to apply an appropriate discount to my guarded approval of Q1 and disapproval of Q4. For the avoidance of doubt, giving me no marks for Q4 was exactly right, and I think Q4 would be fine as a sort of proxy for being familiar with multithreaded programming. I just don't think it's a good question given what Colin says it's aiming to get at.)
Microsoft rips a page from Spotify's playbook to take on iTunes
It sounds like the new Chromebook is a pretty good solution for him. Or maybe wait a year more for the next-gen one, which hopefully will have a 4 cell battery.
Your first statement is afaik not correct. 1) It would create a serious issue for the BT Openzone network which turns all BT "homehubs" (a glorified wireless router) into open access points for any other BT subscriber and 2) there have been a number of court cases around downloading of pirated content which have hinged on whether or not the subscriber was responsible.
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$4.95 converts better than $5.

We think $5 is the right amount.
In regards to the original question, Yes. Contrary to some peoples' beliefs, experiencing new perspectives is good for learning, problem solving, living. Francis Crick supposedly discovered the DNA helix while in the alternate universe that is an LSD trip.
I stopped abusing Facebook about a year ago, and really haven't missed it at all.

The reason I stopped using is because I realised that quantity of posts was increasing while the quality was decreasing. My news feed just to be app activity, ads, and other chaff I am not interested in - not just my friends, but also friends of friends.
Type error: "everyday" is an adjective, adverb expected in this context ;)

The examples you cite would be detected by a type checker. The attribute errors wouldn't even need a complicated one. (I've never had an attribute error in C.) It's fine to complain that these things are due to bad architecture, in whatever way that might be, but if there were a type checker involved then the code wouldn't even build if there were a type problem. It's fine to rail against poor design, or systems that are hard to use for no good reason, but in the mean time the code usually has to actually work.

(And if there were no type problems, it would run fine without one, bad architecture or no.)
Could this be used in image/video compression?
I find it fascinating how Linus gets away and is actually awarded for flaming and bashing other users their opinions.
What if our social media becomes biased? - Facebook censors Navy SEALs page
Yes. I just found ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9535809/best-cms-support-... ) that one of my questions recently voted up was closed. Beyond discussing if it was correctly closed or not, this situation reminds me of Wikipedia rules where you don't only contribute but lose your time arguing in favor of your changes.

For me, it is much more productive to write a blog article than waste time arguing in favor of your contributions.
The hiDPI thing should only be meant as a transition. What we ultimately want, is for pages to look the same on the web, and the UI to look the same on the apps, but just have higher PPI. The hiDPI thing just enlarges them because Windows 8 and Mac OS are not resolution independent. What I want is for everything to work on 2560x1600 by default, with the same sizes we have today - not enlarged, and not smaller either.
If I understand corectly this is basically the same concept as BT Openzone http://www.btwifi.com/. 3.5m "hotspots" now apparently, most of them domestically hosted via their "homehub" router.
Going back and readding friends on a new network is a great way to shed the years of non-friend buildup that has occurred without hurting any feelings.
All user associated data uses our own user ids, not facebook's ids. That includes post author ids.
Oh fuck; I forgot the infernal nuisance that is "LIKE IF YOU ENJOY ICE CREAM IN THE SUN! :D".
It's diesel. You'd have to heat it before you would be able to ignite it.

But yes :)
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Does this actually seriously work? I've never tried coding while intoxicated, let alone heard of the Ballmer peak till now.

Wonder what variables you would track? Type of drink, percentage alcohol in it, how long since you last ate, how quickly you drink the alcohol, your height and weight? Should there be a variable for being Irish (high tolerance) ;-) Last one was a joke btw!
177 trillion transistors in total.
I thought for a minute they had unlocked the reason all that meditation never truly helped Bruce Banner...
>• You have a UK address, UK bank account, and government-issued ID (driver's license or passport).

So as a Spanish guy working in the UK I could use kickstarter as well?
This comment caught my eye: "...I have learned that most content inside of Facebook is real crap. 'Ouch, I broke my toe' is one of the more interesting posts." This and other anecdotal evidence suggests Facebook is slowly turning into an online public square -- a place where it's in one's best interest never to do, say, or share anything private of real significance, because sooner or later the whole town will find out about it.
No need to post a link to the Google cache. The original source [1] contains the same text. I don't think that there is much risk that they might ninja-edit the five year-old announcement to change the claim about redundancy.

My guess is that the second data centre was there, but failover didn't work for some reason. It would be good to know the reason, though.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/07/09.html

Edit: Politeness
It's not so implausible:

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/AtMovieIndyJones4.HTM
It can be done. Ask StackExchange. And it has grown much MUCH better/easier from 2k8 R2 onwards.

Don't mistake me for a Windows fan, just pointing out that Windows's gotten a lot better than it used to be.
They probably (only) need a couple of gallons per hour.

If they can't tie into their existing fuel infrastructure, hauling it up the ~150 to 200 feet of stairs bit by bit is probably easier than trying to source and install something temporary.
thanks! We're looking forward to the next steps as well!
I don't like how the pitch and the implementation instructions diverge. The pitch uses technology that read 'pop our Considerable Use policy when they connect', 'firewall users so they can't see each other', 'use a separate network so yours doesn't get slower'.

There's an assumption that if you name your SSID openwireless.org that it somehow ties them to the Considerable Use guidelines. Which means that people searching for free wifi will find the SSID, after they connect will go to the website, and then find the little yellow bar and click on it, scroll down, and read a decent sized paragraph that politely asks them not to stream HD movies.

Yet on the page there is only 1 with a setting for QoS (which won't prevent the types of problems you want it to), and one with 'firewalling users' (which doesn't shield users from each other, only prevents them from routing into your subnets). Not to say that it's their fault - most routers don't have the features available to actually segment and properly prioritize different sets of users.

I read the FAQ and thought they figured out how to solve these difficult problems on simple platforms, only to be disappointed with the tutorials that simply opened networks up.
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The difference is iOS has been sold on hundreds of millions of phones. Windows Phone 8 has sold zero.
Its pretty easy to ignore ads...
Legend has it that Bill Joy created Vi while on LSD, or at least came up the the idea...
What about virthualenv (virtualenv for Haskell)? Does that help alleviate some of the cabal issues?
Thanks. What is the identity that shows up on the friend's feed? Is it a constant one so that it can be blocked if needed? If one of your friends goes 'rogue' and starts to spam/harrass you through this will you have to systematically unfriend everyone till you find the culprit?

Why would you want to have an anonymous conversation on facebook anyway? Sorry, don't get it.
Totally bored of it, nothing really interesting, just a marketing machine...
Storytelling as a presentation tool
+1 on this. I came very close on 3 different tries, but getting some points would have kept me hooked to get the perfect score.
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Does your app only work on a smart phone, or can it work on a macbook?
While a lot of people talk about privacy or content relevancy issues, which I agree are important, there is a good thread on Reddit discussing why Facebook can be bad for your mental health.

One user writes, "I started to compare my life to others, hating people based off of their status...All it brought me was anger and a lower self-confidence. Almost immediately after deleting it, I felt better. I'm mostly ok with how I live my life and I don't need to compare my life to that of others."

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/11wm5w/to_those_w...
Hey, I've never looked at it from the perspective of stimulating diversity. Thanks.
I don't know how you can call Windows an "unproven platform". Even what was considered a disaster, Vista, sold more copies in the first few months than OSX had sold in its entire lifespan (at that point). So internet opinions of Windows 8 aside, it's going to sell a lot of copies, and all of those people will have a tile labeled "Store" staring them in the face every time they get back on their computers or launch a different app.
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In my opinion, the most fascinating and progressive areas of study are the ones that aren't studied, due to a multitude of political reasons. It makes me feel quite bad for people that can't fully entertain an idea if it hasn't been through a randomized, double-blind placebo study.
Microsoft has already announced at the Windows Phone 8 roll out event this week that MS is building the Facebook app.