skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not obvious that there is a demo behind the logo. I didn't find it and I would have never found it. It would be better if there was a message mentioning it, like:

"Curious? Check out our demo to learn more"
http://demo.says.do/
Let me ask a related and unpopular question: what purpose does marriage serve in today's world?

For people with religious convictions, I understand: your god(s) hate you if you have relationships not sanctioned by your religious authorities. I am specifically asking about secular people in the US and Europe, who choose to enter a contract with the government about their personal lives.

Is it taxes? It seems much easier to me to just make more money than to make "till death do us part" work.

For health insurance, domestic partnerships work closely enough. (This is a US-specific problem.)

It seems to me that most marriages occur because the wedding industry has done a phenomenal job of marketing itself. Many girls grow up dreaming about their weddings. Men, assuming that women want this, go along. With predictable results in the divorce rate.

Companionship and love have nothing to do with a piece of paper filed with the local government.
Very cool, just submitted a proposal for a talk on RethinkDB!
Toyota Testing Smart Cars That Communicate with Each Other
It's interesting that the IEA is also projecting 90% of Middle Eastern oil exports will go to Asia by 2035.

http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2012/nove...
I already see virtually no ads. My setup is Firefox with AdBlock Plus, NoScript, and RequestPolicy, proxied through privoxy.

There are really only two cases where I'd regularly see ads. One was Google text ads. But now that I've quit using Google in favor of DuckDuckGo, I don't see even those (DDG lets you turn ads off).

The other case is seeing some text ads through my email provider, which serves them over SSL -- so they are not subject to being filtered out through privoxy. This is a problem, and I've considered learning javascript just so that I can feed decrypted SSL content through privoxy to filter out the few remaining ads I get through SSL. But so far it's been such a minor problem that I haven't bothered to do so.
Now you can vote on ads in StackOverflow
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Great feedback. Thx. The Subdomain is to see who could become a paying customer. We thought Matt.says.do and matt@says.do could be simple way to communicate "on this channel (says.do) I need your help for these tasks".
The Big Swipe
To put their money in a bank. But there are no secure Bitcoin banks.
Show HN: A stopwatch for the iPhone with the option to disable screen auto-lock
I've always been annoyed at the fact that there's no way to disable screen auto-lock while using the built in stopwatch app so I finally got around to building my own. Some of you may find this helpful so here you go!

There are some edge cases that I need to fix but for the most part it should be fine for basic needs.

http://thestopwatchapp.com
It's a bad habit (I can't think of a situation when 100 tabs would be necessary) but it's still pain if browser can't handle that.
Einstein's Brain Goes Digital With iPad App
"That wasn't your fault - at least your wallet wasn't somehow accessible from the Internet, heh heh..."
Github for 3d models and 2d plans
Just something I was wondering in bed last night. Since Github is mainly aimed at code, it'd be cool to see an equivelant for 3d models and 2d plans. Couldn't find anything while doing a quick search. Might be a hole in the market, or maybe just a plain bad idea. What are your thoughts?
at first i interpreted it as "megacunts" - a nasty joke i wouldn't put past kom dotcom.

then i realization sunk in.
Odd mobile site repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4772481 where there is discussion
I'm sorry if this isn't accurate assessment. I based it on the ACM column: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2090149
AdAway works like a charm on Android. it is open source and combines multiple lists.

Opera Mobile allows you to use urlfilter.ini if you need more sophisticated blocking on websites.
Windows internals are very different than Linux and 32bit DLL files are not SO files. 32bit DLLs are typically relocatable (as opposed to .so files being position independent), which means they are compiled with a with a preferred load address they must be loaded at. If that address is not available at link time, the code must be moved to a different address and jumps must be fixed up to compensate. Because of that, in practice, loaded libraries are often not able to be shared between processes in memory. The reason for this decision is that pic code requires an indirect jump through an offset table which adds extra processing overhead. 64bit Windows is implemented closer to Linux style .so files due to the addition of new pointer relative addressing.
A while back I moved, and my Mom asked me if I felt at home yet. I told her, "I felt at home the moment I plugged in the first ethernet cable."
Techonomy 2012: Geo-engineering — Who Decides, and Who Benefits?
Is this site hacked?
Could be, though if they need to do that it probably suggests the same thing. Also, there would be little guarantee of it being leaked by the same person, considering the rather ridiculous nature of it.
Let her use her browser with AdBlock installed for a few months, then remove it. I'd bet she'd notice the return of all those ads.
What's your granularity (data)
>if I had to guess I would say it was a 'feel good' piece about Fracking to try to offset the ever growing evidence that the dangers of hydraulic fracturing require much more oversight and regulation if we want to do it safely

Fracking is indeed extremely dangerous:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/09... and many hard to believe promises of jobs and cost reductions in energy have come from the companies and even government. Check out the gasland documentary.
I have forum threads, stackoverflow tags, manuals, ... opened. Not exactly a read later list, although I do use tabs for that as well. I use bookmarks for things I want to save for later. Usually something I've already read (at least partially) to know it's worth saving. (I know a bookmark folder/tag would be enough)
Interesting memo. The folks at Google were livid when early pictures of the Android G1 leaked, the contractor responsible got fired over it. I knew of a few other cases as well, Google kept pretty tight tabs on what was going on (aka surveillance) so leaks were identified pretty quickly.

That people don't take confidentiality seriously enough to not send it out to the world is a problem. The response though seems a bit over the top. I suspect it would have been more productive to acknowledge the angst which results in this sort of behavior than go all 'black helicopter.'
As we speak it is used in production by many companies. Click this link to see them all:

https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/wiki/Production-Deployme...

Shopitome is a very fresh deployment using emberjs based on this tweet sent today:

http://twitter.com/inkredabull/status/268017623428657153

http://www.shopittome.com/threads/signup

A few non trivial companies using emberjs in production are:

www.zendesk.com

http://www.squareup.com/

http://livingsocial.com/

http://www.groupon.com

http://www.desk.com/

http://basho.com/

http://travis-ci.org/

http://www.gooddata.com/
Simple idea but I can imagine that this could be very handy for people that use the stopwatch functionality a lot!
I used to live in Central Pennsylvania and have a number of Facebook friends from the region. I saw a large number of 'closeted racists' came out of that closet in the 24 hours before and after the election was called - not my conservative friends, so much as their conservative friends.

The stereotypical liberal as seen by the stereotypical conservative, however, is a complete fantasy - in line with the fantasy that Romney had a chance of winning the election.
Actually, it's terrible and nothing like the Buffer email. This one is impersonal and it's all me, me, me... all about the project and the company, not the customer. And "I think you signed up a couple weeks ago now..." sounds bizarrely vague. I mean, do they know I'm a customer or not? Have they paid any attention to me? Apparently not. And then they expect feedback about their product. This could've been phrased much better so the focus was on improving the customer's experience or resolving their problems.

@neebz: I understand why you didn't like that email, although I wouldn't equate it with the Buffer one
P.S. albertzeyer is on Gittip:

https://www.gittip.com/albertz/

and Flattr:

http://flattr.com/thing/49143/Projects-artworks-writings-of-...

Consider supporting him financially, if you like his work.
There is no porn company worth more than a billion dollars.
Samsung Galaxy S3 overtakes iPhone
systemd is not better than init for any use right now. My guess is that it is unlikely to ever be, but predictions are hard, especially about the future. As far as pulseaudio, it's basically a bloated version of esd, which was another project trying to solve the same problems that also sucked.

I'm taking a "wait and see" approach to Wayland. Clearly X needs to die. Many times before people have tried to kill it and it's still here; Wayland seems to have a lot of backing though.
Is it any more hacky than meta-programming in LISP?

It's not elegant. Well some of it is, but most isn't. But it's well understood, matches the philosophy of the operating system and doesn't introduce any new tools or mechanisms which have a learning curve on them.
I'd trust it more on my own computer than on any of the bitcoin exchanges. There have been a number of pretty giant security and backup lapses, and they haven't been around long enough for me to trust any of their reputations.

My own computer on the other hand, is pretty definitely secure. And I can encrypt the wallet if I'm extra paranoid.

This doesn't really extend to your average computer user, and I don't think BTC will take off in any meaningful sense until we have a user friendly and secure architecture for it. But the current state of being a currency for the tech-savvy isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Context switching isn't that big a deal, it's actually pretty good for responsiveness since everything isn't being serialised through a single thread. Compare/contrast animgifs on a busy Opera vs a busy Chrome - Opera will regularly freeze momentarily, presumably because of stop-the-world GC.

The bigger problem is having that many tabs open without burning through enormous amounts of memory. Chrome's at least 10x less memory-efficient than Opera in this regard, which isn't great when my Opera sessions regularly run to well over 4GB :)
Windows 9.
There are plenty of things that were popular at some point and on the brink of exploding, but have faded over time.

(just because yesterday I saw some hReview microformat now obsoleted by latest and grandest schema.org stuff)
The long history of Internet memes turned indie video games
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Yes, I can certainly appreciate that, but I think there is a minimum you can aim for without going too far out of your way. I could go into detail, but I think I'd be listing off things you already know.
Based on the last quarter's filing Amazon isn't making any money at all, they are losing money.
And yet, I do not see how a media player can do anything about it.
Defer ALL The Things
Chrome also has a cap on the number of processes. The process grouping per origin is not really intended as an optimization; it's required by JavaScript semantics.
I was confused. There should be a clearly visible video explaining it in 30 seconds.

Explaining why it exists, how it works and what it does; the problem, the solution.

The WHY is missing
- WHY do you offer it? Why does it exist?
- WHY should I care?
- WHY should I be a part of what you do?
- WHY do I need it?

Related: "Start With Why"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4

Besides that I wish your project all the best. It looks very interesting!
@atomical, the link to trek's article above puts it more succintly:

Ember applications start out with a complexity rating of 4/10 but never get much higher than 6/10, regardless of how sophisticated your application becomes. Backbone starts out at 1/10 but complexity grows linearly. This is a natural side effect of the types of applications the two frameworks were specifically created for.
from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act) it seems that whistleblower law is a federal law that protects federal whistleblowers.... IANAL.
Indeed, but the specification for unmanned planes carrying 300+ people will probably be much harsher than the spec for military drones... I think that first thing we will witness is freight done by huge drones.
After reading the PDF file and comments here I still don’t get the advantage, except having the task management functionality as a cool URL . Isn’t this a function of project management tools? Can’t I even perform this function using generic tools such as twitter? Would you mind to provide a use case or a scenario to clarify? Thanks.
i wonder if invokedynamic was introduced before they started moving their stack and staff to Java - would jruby save them in that case?
I doubt it. Facebook often describe their open-source projects in a jokey manner, for example, from http://phabricator.org/:

Facebook engineers rave about Phabricator, describing it with glowing terms like "okay" and "mandatory".
The legal meeting's going to be even better.
watchdog is pretty buggy on linux at least.
>I think the correct response is asking how they would get back their money if cash was stolen from their house.

But stealing Bitcoins doesn't require physical access to your property. That seems like a pretty big distinction to me.

Edit: And if Bitcoins are like cash, why should I bother using them? I already have cash (that I don't use very often) available to me readily. And since I get paid in dollars, what advantage do I have to use a separate currency solely for rare and unimportant transactions?
Love this. I can name a company or two that follows this to the T.
FBX and Dynamic Creatives: Crushing It
I've done enough kernel work to feel that it's a safe assumption in general, but that there may be some exceptions.

For example, I wouldn't be completely shocked if somebody said, "We really need to support a particular version of an old OS that had unusually high per-process overhead in some particular corner case."

If anybody knows how much kernel memory a basic process needs in, say, modern-day Linux, please chime in. I tried looking it up, but didn't find it. Probably it's just sizeof(task_struct), which I can't be bothered to check right now, plus a few KB for stack stuff.
This is useful information, which is not known by programmers.
Didn't you know? HN is serious business.
Thee article seems to skip pretty quickly over what, to me, is the important point:

>Will transform the U.S. into the largest producer for about five years starting in 2020

So the us is going to start pulling it's oil out of the ground a lot faster. And then it's going to run out of oil. I think it might be better to just keep buying from the Saudis and keep a little bit in the ground.
I too browse this way, and it's not about processing all the content at once. It's about utilizing the browser's ability to remember things you can't, and establishing a workflow as you move through the tabs.
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Experimenting with sweet.js macros
For RIM to have any chance at being the market leader once again they must do what the iPhone did to the mobile industry back when it was first introduced. Anything under that just means a slower death.

What could it be? I believe making a phone itself is useless at this point. Why not look in to Pranav Mistry's SixthSense? Something of this caliber is what is needed to make the 'next big thing'. Competing in Apple/Google playing field is futile, a new field is needed.

Although I had high hopes for RIM (ex bb user), I highly doubt their execs are even in this mindset^^^.
Apple to pay Samsung's legal fees due to a "lack of integrity"
No Battle Plan Survives, but Your Startup Still Needs Development/Planning
List of Logical Fallacies
They might not know NOW who did it, but now there will be increased scrutiny, and it's attracted top-level scrutiny. They'll have Top Men on this. I imagine that the VP's past experience will help inform him of ways to trip up the leaker, and also influences the diligence of his pursuit.
I would observe the hyperbole is usually coming from the consumer side, where it is histrionic. The consumer always has the option to simply not consume, one I use quite frequently when the DRM deal is not in my favor.

This is an author, realizing he's being enticed into the car trunk with pretty candy, and that he got taken awfully far in before he noticed. I think a bit of hyperbole is a bit more justified, so as to warn the others.
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Icomoon is awesome. I've been using it with the current product design cycle I'm in, and the ability to build a custom font subset and persist the settings in my Git repo so I can track how the font has changed over time is wonderful.
Show HN: Social profiles wiki-style, without the ephemeral social component
So...a firewall?
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I can't downvote yet so SAGE.
The statement itself seemed pretty innocuous. It feels like more hype than anything else.
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Terms, terms, terms.

Also, ask yourself (and perhaps the investor) what would happen if in three years, that money's gone, your product tanks, and have to get yourself a job. There are many investors who get emotional and make it their life's work to torment you when things go south, no matter what they sign or what they promise. Some are even accredited, but making sure they're accredited will limit your exposure to this eventuality. (They should have forms they can fill out and give you to prove it).

If the investor passes that test, then as long as you can live with the terms (convertible notes are always best if you can get them versus straight equity), close 'em and get building!
7 Success Secrets you Can Learn from Breaking Bad
They didn't - because it wouldn't be cool to do so :)
Show HN: Letterpress App clone
Facts can obscure the truth, or if the right facts are chosen a completely false story can be told. The author is trying to convey the state of Mexican political economy, not compile a list of facts about Mexican political economy. That some details may be stretched or erroneous is inconsequential so long as the thesis remains strong. Nitpicking over who killed who and why is entirely beside the point.
Not having to install an ad blocker for every browser and every device on your network seems to be the value here.
The why is to give the internet muscles! Make us do stuff, rather than "retweet" & like...
HTC Will Pay Apple $6-$8 Per Android Phone As Part of Patent Settlement
JavaScript is useful for some things; it can be used for all things, but that doesn't mean it should be.
Callbacks are the new gotos
That mugging is a terrible analogy, considering these Bitcoin owners are giving their money willingly to their muggers.
Pot farming is like any other farming (photos)
Larry said to Gaga, ‘Do you ever a/b test your music?’
Amazon not only uses DRM but it uses a non-standard ebook format and its hardware does not support vanilla ePub (out of the box, you can download third party viewers to the Fire devices

Amazon uses the MobiPocket format, which was the standard eBook format before ebooks became popular. The Topaz and Azul formats are only used for books which are converted by publishers to ebook by scanning them and OCR'ing the text. These formats appear to be based on the PDF format but the DRM mechanism is non-standard.

Amazon Kindle hardware does support ePub. The software does not. That is a major difference--if the hardware did nto support ePub, it would not be meaningfully possible to add support in via hardware.
Most of these do more to underscore the lack of creativity in the candidate than it does to emphasize it.
Simpler than project management (no calendar, very few options) and less verbose than email: yes/no task accepted or rejected.
I interpreted the opposite; that (s)he is opposed to anything that makes fuel prices cheaper. This is the viewpoint that I personally hold. I would like fuel prices to go up and match the rest of the world as that would create a huge push towards much more efficient transportation technologies.

Of course it isn't that black and white as prices of commodities would increase, possibly decrease sales, etc, but it is an interesting thought that has been in the back of my mind.
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For years RIM has mistreated their customers. They real "customers" are the businesses who buy phones for their employees and not the employee themselves. That is what has hurt them the most.

BB10 is their last hope of survival. So far I have not see anything ground breaking with this phone and being the first model it is likely to be far from perfect. If their latest BB10 phone does not match Samsung Galaxy S3 in specs I would say it is pretty useless.
I'm really surprised nobody has mentioned Coinbase, which is YC funded, as an answer to this question.

Coinbase is a hosted bitcoin wallet.

In terms of security, I'd certainly be happy trusting them with several hundred dollars worth of bitcoins at a time, which more than enables e-commerce using bitcoins.
This needs to be formalized and taught in EVERY CS/IS program. It still won't help though ... I've seen it in every large organization I've worked with.
The same thing I'd tell someone if they left their wallet on a coffee table in public and it were stolen.

Why is this being downvoted? What am I supposed to say? I'd say the same thing as if they were hacked and malware stole their credit card. Computers aren't magic; there is an expectation that you know what you're doing with them. If you don't know how to secure a wallet, don't use Bitcoins. If you don't know how to keep malware from stealing your credit card, don't download virus-infested porn or go buy an iDevice.

I'm assuming I was being seen as cynical but as with "the command line" and "Git", I'm not sure what people want. A magic, easy, secure solution? Sure, we'll just ignore the fact that identity management, authentication and security aren't complex issues that are still evolving today.

If we're just rehashing "Centralized currency is easier to use" then by all means, whatever, yes, Bitcoins are currently harder to use than cash both because they're more complicated and because there is almost no infrastructure to support their use. But frankly, that's really a completely separate issue from whether or not they can be used securely. I can give you tens of security and usability problems that cash has day-to-day that Bitcoins are unaffected by.
If sh allows Pythonic idioms to call Posix functions, then its implementation on a Posix system such as Linux or Mac is probably very different than on non-Posix Windows.
my mind already blocks out 90% of ads and selectively takes in 10% of useful ads. i find it amusing people would go to such great lengths to achieve what your mind can do already.
I'm willing to bet that I have more protection securing the contents of my Bitcoin Wallet than Wells Fargo has protecting my account at any level.
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Since restrictions were removed on commodity speculation, a great deal (I'd argue the majority of the big spikes) of the price fluctuation in gas has very little to do with the oil producers and an awful lot to do with speculators. They would not be happy to watch the price drop so far and I expect they'd do something about it.
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