skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - I really appreciate the feedback. In my mind, I had meant "Hickeysian" in a tongue-in-cheek way, and I had considered jokingly mentioning that the post was a kind of hagiography. Now I really see how this could appear to someone else, and I have to admit this realization has made me shudder a little myself. This will definitely help my writing.

As for cataloging his unique viewpoint - hopefully as I progress I'll do a better job. I think that some of his later talks like "The value of values" and the one on place may be more uniquely his.
TBH we don't use AV on the server. Tend do do it on the client machines or not at all if it's a Linux machine (mutt).
If someone posts a URL to a G+ post, you can most certainly view it without being logged-in. (Try it: go to your G+ stream, and then for a post, select "Link to this post" on the drop-down menu, then past that into a Incognito window --- you'll be able to view the post.) You can also view a user's G+ profile, and view all of their public posts, without being logged in.

Yes, you won't be able to create a stream and follow a set of users without creating a G+ account --- but without a G+ account, there's no place to actually store the set of users / G+ pages / G+ communities that you're interested in....
July said they were over, and June under. If anything, the July information is less specific (assuming there can't be negative page views) as it is operating in a less constrained number space.
Maybe it's because these soldiers were on Afghani terrain without Afghan people permission?
There is also the "let's jump on the Metro UI train". Which is the current style. But I preferred some of the screenshots to the actual result.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of a company that has been working on solving the problems that you have described for the last year.

Having developed internal tools for large enterprise environments with over 50,000 developers with massive code bases (think linux kernel times 10), it has always baffled me why GitHub and others seem to think stuffing all the changes on a single page is a good idea.

Sure it's great when the changes are small but having to deal with large changes is not an unusual edge case. Especially in the enterprise environment where process and politics tends to create backlogs in merging which forces us to have to deal with large changes at once.

Below are some sample screen shots with how we deal with changes.

Viewing pull request detail

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

If the changes are really massive, we offer the ability to navigate the changes as a code churn tree. We call this the divide and conquer way of managing large diffs.

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

We also make it possible for you to break apart the commits that are included in the pull request with our commits browser. Note the revisions tree on the left that shows you all the revisions.

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

As for the diff issue. We have the ability for you to create your own custom diff views. See the following screen shot.

http://6b507fb6377c7b2ce0ed-f6f6a52addfcf546a4b633fce1dd247e...

With the custom diff view, we make it very easy for you to manipulate the diff output.
I'm a little surprised at how accepting people are here relating to the Amazon feature in Ubuntu. I would assume that there are a lot of critical thinkers here as comp sci people tend to have that mentality. Possibly not!

The usual excuses are "we can turn it off etc" or just shrug it off and carry on.

Have you thought long term? If you don't make a stand with this feature, one will eventually be added which can't be turned off or is far more invasive.
It still totally depends on the car, I've seen a few that still sound like the world is ending (Reventon for one), it's just often they're bowing to putting smaller, more efficient engines into them, and complying with more regulations about sound proofing and not annoying wildlife.

I get what you mean though, I heard a Ford RS200 being ragged around a track last year and it sounded amazing.
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About 10 years ago, I was watching a show on Discovery (back when they had shows about science and tech) talking about innovations in AI and in cars. They had a segment on technology Mercedes was testing for their trucking fleet geared towards creating large, automated convoys of 18 wheelers. This was way before anyone was talking about Google self driving cars, and was built around close proximity driving to increase efficiency and speed.

It looks like some of that work is starting to make it's way into consumer cars. I'd be curious to see how much of the tech that Mercedes develops for it's fairly massive commercial/industrial fleet ends up improving the consumer side and vice versa.
Correction: I should have said 'literate programming' instead of 'reproducible research', since I'm not in a position to follow all components of RR.
The article gets one fact wrong-- George W. Bush called for a manned mission to the moon in 2020 and Mars thereafter, but was widely ridiculed, and unsupported in Congress.

http://articles.cnn.com/2004-01-14/tech/bush.space_1_space-e...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-still-working-on-manne...
I think localisation makes sense for the docs. Maybe we can branch off from here and coordinate the efforts. I myself am ready to work on Arabic and would love to have people join me.
"Say you go on this quest to find the best city to live in. You find a good one, and you're not unhappy. But you'll always have that doubt: "What if I had quested just a little more? Would I have found an even better city?" And that'll bum you out. It becomes the anxiety of "what if"."

I actually have 10 years experience with this. I've somewhat settled in one city (Rio) after all those years searching and moving. It's the best fit I've found but not the best in all categories. I think that's the best one can hope for, without turning it into a 20-yr quest...
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I would like to hear about the larger process:

* Evaluating an interfaces usability quantitatively.
* The ROI profile for good design. What's the sweet spot, and when do you start yack shaving?
* How do 'cool looking', 'compelling' and 'usable' relate to value.
* Which of the above fall are squarely in the domain of UI designer?
* What does a UI team look like? What skills? How are decisions made?
* From a Designers perspective, how should a software product begin its life?
Didn't GitHub have localization at some point in the past? If I remember correctly, the footer had a world map background with links to other languages.
I can see something like this hitting the IDEs shelves in a few years. Need to use an unknown API for this very specific part of your project? Don't worry about the documentation, suggestions are going to tell you what you'll want to write.
Its hard. One possible thing could be to share the source code of the agent with the customers. Before installing they can view the source of the agent.
The three people that use G+ will be so excited when they hear about this!
"You just had to know that the executives in Redmond looked at their own experience and also thought of the Gateway stores and laughed to themselves."

I got so tired of hearing the "Gateway already tried retail stores!" 'insight' back when Apple first opened stores. You could not buy a computer and take it home that day from a Gateway store. It wasn't a retail store - it was a showroom - there's a massive difference, and it was lost on pretty much every pundit at the time.

As for MS using retail stores as a big focus group, good on them. I would desperately like to see MS get more involved in creating better total end to end experiences for users; if that means by passing previous hardware partners and doing it themselves, so be it. I don't pretend MS wants to get more in to hardware, but we've seen with MS and with Android, when you let anyone put out your software on any hardware they want, you end up with a lot of bad experiences which ends up tarnishing the software brand more than the hardware brand.

I remember reading somewhere (here?) that Asus (or Acer?) wasn't too happy about MS getting in to the hardware tablet game. So what? What is Asus going to do? Stop selling Windows? They're not doing a great job in the tablet space anyway - 'lost sales' in that area won't be a big deal. And where are they going to go for an OS? Linux? Great! Let Asus/Acer/others start investing in Linux on laptops/desktops (finally).
I wonder how, or if, these metrics will be affected by their recent change of free business accounts; It's a gamble for Google, as it may take a few years for numbers to de-stabilize.
Slashdot used to have x-fry and x-bender (Futurama) but it looks like even those headers are gone from slashdot now.
What and you think Kim is a great guy?

It's really important to separate the work from the person. I doubt many of us would have wanted to be friends with Steve Jobs but man I'm glad he existed and did the (professional) things he did.
* Correction for your sake: I have not used Google in a long time...
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It is only natural that expectant mothers should want the very best for their babies and to that end,
On mine there is a scroll bar for the menu bar and title... Only half is viewable at once.

using Chrome, Win7
https://www.fastmail.fm/ is probably the closest thing to it
"...it's a nice revenue stream for those that use it..."

I'm not entirely convinced that this is going to make a lot of money for Canonical. It will be interesting to see figures in a couple of releases if Canonical (which is a private company) decide to tell us.

What do we think the value to Amazon is of my random desktop searches for files & stuff on my desktop?

The 'slow typing' problem is real: search is dynamic and can, as a result of network latency and fat fingering show results of unfortunately shortened search terms. There is no content filtering on the results. That is actually why I switched it off.
Oh nevermind, "ip" works. It used to be "ip address" I think, and that doesn't work anymore. Still gotta be on google.com, the .nl version doesn't do it. And of course, google.com redirects to .nl without /ncr...
Only Euro deposits are insured. It's like a trading account for stocks. You cash is safe, but if your investments in stocks loose value then that's your problem.
Doesn't chrome have translation capabilities? I don't know if the translation capabilities can avoid translating code but if it could somehow (a do not translate tag or something) then localization could be done, locally...
The Dirac dilemma - communication skills vs. intellectual horsepower
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There's already 260+ people in the group, and about 20 quality posts :) Youre welcome to join as well
You know what, you are right.

I think the only reason I felt that way was because of how they told us what they were doing. Like they were doing us some kind of favor instead of the exact opposite.
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I can personally vouch for Kevin and his team's work here in Berlin. It has already improved my quality of life!
Ask HN: Cloud Email with Strong Privacy
HELP! A client of mine is looking for an easy-to-use cloud-based email solution with strong privacy protection.

They've got four requirements:

1) no cleartext is stored in the cloud

The only way to read the mail is to enter a secret at the beginning of each session.

2) email is encrypted instantly upon receipt by the service

e.g. an SMTP daemon is running that encrypts each email using a public key and stores only the encrypted copy

3) email can only be read by the person who holds the secret

4) the mailbox should be easily accessible using a client application

And one non-requirement:

The solution doesn't have to protect plaintext emails from intercept in transit.

I'm not talking about encrypting emails between parties; I'm just talking about storing them securely while preserving ease of access
Right. Because large companies are paragons of efficiency? I'm really getting tired of the "governments are corrupt/inefficient/lazy" meme. There is a contingent of people on the right living in anecdotal evidence found in government, and ignoring anecdotal evidence in business. It's the hypocrisy that is most bothersome.
I think you're correct, that internal happiness is incredibly important but being recognized by others is a basic human need. In fact, it's listed in the Esteem portion of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. Esteem is one of the primary layers, and within it are both self-esteem and respect from external parties. It's a basic human desire to be accepted and valued by others. If you've gotten over the need to have acceptance by others, that's awesome. However, that doesn't mean it isn't a basic desire.
So what are you saying then? That the US is "top" in growth of GDP from the manufacturing sector? Because I suspect that's not true either.
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Another great place for job adverts is deep inside your minified JS code or binary packages.
Yes, but you know, instead of building a moon base to get to the planets so that you can build colonies or extract resources, you could spend that same money on Earth, be it on resource extraction (for the profit motive) or something else that the species finds valuable (for the betterment of humanity angle... e.g. there are sub-saharan african villages without clean water or sanitation, etc).

The economists call it "Opportunity Cost" and all that. The opportunity cost of space exploration is kinda high, and humanity's resources are limited. I like space probes and space bases at least as much as the next citizen of the world, but they're not my priority.
Consider the source - Sen. Joseph Lieberman - a republican shill wearing Independent (once Democrat) sheep's cloth.
To be clear, my 'not fully accurate' was in response to your "Local searches do not remain private". Local searches do remain private, and there are several ways of doing them. But the default search is not a local-only search.

I agree with you: I expect the default search to be local-only, and I've turned off remote results. But it's not as though it hides the fact that it's searching remotely. So I stand by my words: it's not fully accurate to say that local searches are exposed.
I've always read at the center of the page while scrolling. It's what I've noticed most everyone my age doing. Maybe it's generational, I've only been at this since windows ME.
Wubi-like: http://goodbye-microsoft.com/
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> By giving visitors a $5 coupon or some trinket, it could pull aside potential customers and ask them questions about the store, the products, and the experience.

So, yeah, they could do that. Thanks for the insight John C. Dvorak, though there's no indication at all Microsoft is actually even considering this 'alternative agenda'!
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Yes they did: https://github.com/blog/679-github-in-your-language
Would be nice to have a mega refactor function that could check for duplicate all over the public repos. So, for instance, my "capitalize function" could be tagged as duplicate and I could see multiple projects having a better one.
Can you elaborate on data.table being 'a game changer'. I am inclined to agree, but I'm am just starting to get a handle on it. I am still hesitant and switching between sqldf, reshape2, base::merge and data.table more than I would like. Do you think it could become a dominant method for data preparation?
This has puzzled me as well, surely there must be a better reason than convenience to the operators? Though I guess more severe security naivetes have happened.
I agree but don't forget that Stuxnet gained access through sneakernet.
Well the cultural domination is a real phenomenon. We use forkea (no tilde, accent on the o) in Perú. Even when playing Warcraft as a child, I used to say "construye más farmas" to my brother, using the inflection of the Spanish Language. But we use the same alphabet. I think Japanese and Russian folks are not as comfortable using English as a common language.
Agree, but this is business. They need more customers.
A few items I'd like to see:

- Attachments in the issue tracker. Pictures tell a thousand words and it would be infinitely easier for user submitted issues to have screenshots.

- Better code search.

- More granularity in the notifications. For instance, I'd love the ability to toggle email for my own repos but leave it to web notifications for my watches. I've missed pull requests because of the deluge of messages.

- Better reliability.

It's a great tool. I really enjoy using it, but with a few additions it would be near perfect.
There is local search - either by turning off remote results, or using the files/application lenses (Super+F/A). But the default search box does a global search.
Amazon postage is prohibitively expensive for those outside the US (except perhaps for those who live in another country where Amazon is based?) The only time I'd ever use Amazon is if I'm after an old rare book which is out of print and Amazon is the only place I can find a second hand copy. And in those times I'd actually be deliberately searching for it, checking many sites in my browser, not casually using Unity!
>> A computer on the other hand is utterly intractable

I'm sure several people on here would disagree with that, as there are plenty of people good at "convincing" computers to do things they shouldn't be doing, or to do things that their owners don't want them to. You just have to be more of a black hat, less of a schmmoozer....
So....we shouldn't have animal and human trials of drugs before bringing them to market? Those are incredibly expensive regulations that I guess we could remove. Do you realize how many years it takes to bring a drug to market, and the kind of salary that the researchers require? Not even counting the hundreds of study participants for the various human trials. The last phase is massive involving multiple hospitals and thousands of hospital visits for the patients.

If another company could just start making that same drug as soon as it is proved safe and effective they could bypass over a decade of development costs that the other company ate(typically for many drugs since most fail so more like 4+ man-decades of development and trial costs). They could sell the drug for purely the manufacturing costs and have an equivalent product.

No one with capitalistic motivations would privately fund drug research in a market like this because it would make no sense.
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Usually true, but I've seen an errant "Reply" cause misunderstandings too (due to lack of communication rather than inappropriate communication).

You're courting disaster anyways by replying off a mass email chain to one person on it.
I found it merely confusing. In the context of computers, "burning" means "saving to disk" (as in "rip, mix, burn" or "we burn the documents as a secondary cache"), which is exactly something that Kindle tries to make harder.
> Have there really always been bars that didn't allow smoking? I never saw any in Ireland before the smoking ban. It's not a viable business model.

I dont know about irland but in Switzerland I was in a Non-Smoking Irish bars for years befor the smokingban came.

Also if it is not a viable buissness model it seams that most people just dont care. Why then do we need to regulate it?

As far as your argument goes for utility, it seems that most non-smokers simple do not really care but the smokers care a lot. Thats why the market is the way it is (or was). Also explain this, lots of resturants where non-smoking only partly smoking befor the smoking bans, so the market does not generally seam to have a problem with banning smoking where people dont want it.

My rational is that I dislick smoking in restaurants but I dont really care in bars that much.

It seams to me that the total utility is much better matched if you let the market do what it does. Also the market is able to change if utility changes much faster then the goverment can change law.
I know I'm late to the party, but...

Life: Believing Jesus actually said "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." http://esv.to/john+14

Programming: Leaving a Megacorp to work for a small development shop to do Python work.
I agree, that's where the localisation should go. Github has many things and for a first timer the docs are invaluable, but if you're a non-native speaker having them in your own language is going to help you ramp up to speed on using it that much quicker.
I set this one up a while ago. The header is on most of our sites.

curl -I webmaster.appstate.edu

X-Robot-3: Which of the following would you most prefer? A: a puppy, B: a pretty flower from your sweetie, or C: a large properly formatted data file?
I think new pricing strategy could make github better.
Yes! This would allow developers to set up premium branches: http://premium-branch.org
This is a great way to get people used to the fact that the car is getting better than them at driving. For now the system forces you to do things yourself, but when people get convinced that the car does a good job, they'll want the car to drive for them.
"a State is a specific value for an identity at a point in time." That just did a little something for my noggin as well. Cool post. Now I have another Hickey video to watch that's probably going to send me off on some crazy tangent for months :)
I am running 12.10 and disabled this right away in the privacy settings.

Why not have it opt in instead of the ninja mode opt out? Explicitly prompt the user to enable this when first using Dash but disable by default.
Python, django and bootstrap -- http://joseph.by/post/22651010430/simple-bootstrap-python-de...
Totally. I am Italian, and seriously, most of the blog posts, tutorials and such written in my native language are so bad that only bad programmers can grow out of them.

Also, an open source project maintained in, say, Spanish is one I and others can't easily contribute to. That would be a disaster.
Just because there may be things to learn on the moon doesn't mean we have to send humans there to learn them. Robots would work just as well in most cases. And since sending robots is cheaper than sending people, we could send more robots for the same amount of money, thus increasing the amount we learn.
Google Maps has started trying to monetize, and I don't think that has positively impacted their sales or service.
> comically awful managers who watch terrorist attacks on TV and then think, "I'd like to do that to a company!"

I didn't know which side of this argument to give credence to, but that quote just helped me make up my mind.
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I dont mean public in the sence that goverment (witch ones the land) has to clean the land.

Im totally ok for example with giving fines to people who do make a lot of shit around.

I just kind of think that a park where you can not sit around drink and smoke with your friends is kind of pointless.