skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using this a lot. I must have gotten over 40 reviews. One thing someone mentioned is the screenshot. I for one barely look at the screenshot but always click the link to the website instead. Maybe add focus to the link?

Love the site.
"I'm sorry, my wife must have ordered it, I don't remember ordering that book at all." next.

As long as fraud is sufficiently low, it's worth it for Amazon to be as open as possible.
I don't really have a lot of guidance to offer you, OP, but I sympathize with your situation and hope that someone else is able to help you in the way that you need. Best of luck.
I suspect so too.

But all this said, millions coped with "blackletter" for hundreds of years. Check out the caps: http://www.identifont.com/samples/monotype-imaging/LucidaBla... (especially N, P, Y and G - and T and C look almost identical).
Reading this I could not help but think of humans as fish, other mammals or some other organism being "tagged" and "tracked", without their consent (but with some purported benefit to the organism, agreed upon by the researchers). Often researchers tag organisms in an effort to help them survive in a world where humans threaten their continued health or existence. But not always.

It is the idea of "without their consent" that is most intriguing.

It's arguable that sometimes organisms can survive on their own, with the adaptions evolution has provided them with, and without tagging, tracking and human intervention.
The comment was still incredibly pointless.
Introducing a gun insurance?
An fb friend (or should I say a social neighbor) just posted a comment with what I think is a brilliant idea (I won't mention his name since I'm not sure he wants to be quoted).

He suggested we introduce a gun insurance very similar to the car insurance. I think this is a brillant idea for many reasons. What do you think?
The issue is you don't want to raise an exception when returning a property.
Windows RT (Run Time) - it's the best product name since Windows NT (New Technology). While all those other bad software companies waste your time with OT (Old Technology) and CT (Compile Time), Microsoft gives you the NRTT (New Run Time Technology) you deserve.
Is Firebase open source?

It states so on the sites/GH pages, but could not find pointers to repo [after 2 circle through 5 different pages poiting to each other].
Oh, I was just poking fun at the guy that responded. He has a testimonial on the requests homepage:

http://docs.python-requests.org/en/v1.0.0/

> I’m going to get @kennethreitz’s Python requests module tattooed on my body, somehow. The whole thing. — Matt DeBoard
Well yeah, NASA is a research agency and SpaceX is a company trying to commercialize space technology. That's like saying the Human Genome Project cost billions of dollars but you can get your genome sequenced for $99 from 23andMe, so obviously the Human Genome Project was a waste of money.
Confused isn't strong enough. I see utter bewilderment as I try to explain to my peers what they difference between RT and the bog standard Windows 8. Usually they get bored and wish they hadn't asked the question.

If it runs office and IE in the desktop, why can't I install games? What application store? What's ARM? What does RT stand for? Why would anyone want that?
I am a very happy railscasts (http://railscasts.com/) customer. It is nice to watch a 5-10 minute episode while having coffee. I would total recommend this to any rails devs. For 9/month how can you go wrong?! Some of the things that I like:

- explains the problem, give you the solutions out there, then shows how to implement the solution he likes, also overviews and gotchas

- sometimes a topic is totally new but you might find it useful later! This is what I actually find most useful, since it puts new ideas on your radar that are in your domain.

- if i want to implement a new feature, I'll often check railscasts. Watch the episode while programming, it is like having someone walk you through the process before you do it yourself.
Is this a smart way to find a good sysadmin?
Yeah. This scales really well. Especially because there are no other browsers but from Mozilla and Google (Opera? Smaller ones?)

Also, you'd have to tell all makers of email clients and every other network connected application to mark external data as such - how likely do you think this is going to be?
NASA's mission is not to efficiently commercialize space technology. That's the sort of thing best left to the private sector.
If You're Not Paying For It, You Become The Product
This page on LayerVault is a lot of subconscious work to know what's a button and what's a form field.

https://layervault.com/payments?plancode=small_team&sign...
Apple kills Microsoft here. My bias:

They deprecated every major Mac hardware and software transition into a virtual machine.

* Mac OS 9 to Classic Environment

* PowerPC to Rosetta

Apple brands, changes brands, and moves forward. Microsoft makes Windows proper compatible with the new. They have done an amazing job both from the tech and marketing front.

And yet, computing is now the rest of us, not the "enterprise". We have amazing computers in our pockets. The enterprise changed, allowing and adapting to iPhone and Android devices.

Our phones do more interesting things than our Windows desktops.
This has to be considered an overall win for Samsung. The fine hurts a bit but an indefinite ban on those products would be a disaster.

Maybe Apple will take a hint and focus their energies on doing something interesting in iOS 7 instead of barking through the fence at every competitor that walks by.
I might suggest looking in a startup space that your Mech Engineering background would prove to be a valuable asset. Not sure if that would be a startup with a physical product.
4Chan's 'Moot' Laments The Death Of Internet Culture
I remember the 90s before Google existed. There were search engines without ads. Search engines added ads after gaining an audience, just like Google did. Text ads were invented by Overture, another search company, before Google existed.
Office Copy Protection: Word/Powerpoint/Excel Copy Protection on Windows
That's not stupid, that's what is asked and for a long time it was not a problem. Times have changed, that's it.
Don't get discouraged by nasty replies.

Unfortunately, I observe the same trend - the whole generation of current 15-20 are shortcutting as a life style. Instead of engineering/making things, I observe this in other areas - finance, economics, accounting, math, stats... Sad to say my son is a good example here.
That has nothing to do with Scratchpad, it's in the spec for HTML frames: "Infinite recursion is prevented. Any frame that attempts to assign as its SRC a URL used by any of its ancestors is treated as if it has no SRC URL at all (basically a blank frame)."

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331
Saying that HTML is nothing but a technology created for hyperlinked text is like saying the mobile device you're using all the time was created to pass phone calls. While this is true, it is a truly weak statement.

You make it sound like learning the native will magically lead to create better working apps. This is just not true.

I'm not saying going native doesn't have to potential to help developers create faster apps, but when making something like this feed, HTML5 would not seriously be a bottleneck.

And you're claiming to be a "very experienced web developer"? Dunning-Kruger much?
Even if something was first published in 1969, some of us are seeing it for the first time. Anyhow, no one was claiming that this was a "new development".
Can you explain further -- do you mean liability insurance, ie for accidents or injuries to others? Would it be required?
In case anyone is unfamiliar with the consequences of Paypal's customer service: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/04/paypal-shreds-ostensibly-ra...
Morgan Stanley fined $5mn over Facebook IPO
Perhaps they draw fixed salaries from the business as a whole, and since they'd intended to donate the proceeds of this particular project to charity anyway, they didn't see any point in allocating any portion of their sunk fixed costs to it. Note that they didn't include rent, electricity, etc. either.
+ the $114K to the mayor
Which is exactly why this is so stupid. If someone stole my identity and/or posted nude pics of myself it would be next to impossible for me bring the person to court and get a conviction, let alone put them in jail for 10 years.
They have some way of detecting long running ssh proxies. Your connection will degrade and then disconnect. No idea how they do it. For all I know, they break your key and figure out it's just a proxy.

They've recently launched a major upgrade that is also taking down most of the major VPNs popular with expats, and warning expats that unauthorized VPNs are illegal and encouraging the use of "local" providers.

It's a little ridiculous. Expats would be severely hampered without access to man of the sites that are blocked.
An online community I used to frequent had a Christmas card exchange every year, with roughly 200 people participating. One year, someone's cards made it to almost nobody, because apparently the envelopes that came with the cards were garbage. I got a swell torn-up front of an envelope in a plastic bag in the mail, and so did most everyone else on the list.
The word "affordance" was mentioned in this thread a lot and for a reason: it is not a thing of fashion, it is essential for good UI design. If you want to engage user in interaction you must make it pretty clear what can be interacted with.
WIFI Bluetooth Wireless Video Spy Camera Signal Jammer
Write the President, your two Senators, and your Representative, telling them what you want them to do. The simplest way to find their contact page: Google "contact <person's name>". That's what I did, and here's my message (if you want to crib from it):

-- begin --
I strongly support you doing whatever you feel best about to increase Americans' safety against gun violence. I would be in favor of:

* limiting access to guns (especially assault weapons)

* increasing access to mental health care

* increasing gun owners' legal liability for actions performed using guns registered to them

Thank you so much for your leadership and work on this.

Respectfully,
<your name here

-- end --
Last year I had a few weeks between real internet connections at my house, and it really drove home how bad an idea these systems are. Even Steam, which ostensibly has an "Offline Mode" did not do as well as I'd have liked because one of the residents didn't have it set to log in automatically.

So now we're in a situation where all of her games refuse to open and we won't be back online for a while. But you'd think Steam would have no problem authenticating through a tethered EDGE connection. It's not a ton of data, and it doesn't need low latency. But it didn't work. Even if webpages loaded (albeit not quickly), Steam would not log in.

So it strikes me as incredibly arrogant for companies like EA and Ubi to come along and tell me that these always online systems aren't a problem. They are. And it sucks how many users accept them. Even when we're not talking about days/weeks like I discussed above, small Comcast outages here are not uncommon, and it's crazy that games will quit or entirely refuse to run when they happen.

I absolutely agree that they should have seen the reaction coming. The same kind of systems have been in place with games like StarCraft 2 and Assassins Creed, and they've all gotten similar receptions on sites like Reddit.
http://blog.foursquare.com/2012/02/29/foursquare-is-joining-...
So 4Square has moved on to OpenStreet instead of Google Maps.

Apple is pretty sad. They bought the map and data from GPS company. But what did they get? Inaccurate data. That sounds ridiculous. GPS companies claim they have really good data, but even for major city like NY, Apple Maps has lots of issues too. Either Apple didn't pay enough to get all the data they need, or GPS map collector isn't doing the proper job, which means when I drive I am going to trust my Google Maps more than my GPS device.

On the other hand, now Apple have to rely on 4^2 data to put in missing business. Apple Maps is like running with agile method.
If you write an HTML/JS, it will always run on all architectures.

If you write a .NET/XAML app, by default it will be compiled to a CPU neutral IL that runs on all architectures (you can disable this and target a specific CPU architecture).

If you write a C++/XAML app, by default Visual Studio will compile different versions of the app for each architecture.

For the vast majority of Win8 apps, "converting" to ARM is just a cross-compile. It is only when you are doing very specialized things that you actually need to worry about the CPU architecture your app will be running on.
How did this Chris Cardinal guy find out about the original camera order, if he didn't have access to htmlist@gmail.com?
For the PC world, I'm happy with a 13" ultrabook running Windows 7 (Asus Zenbook UX31A).

At least I can get work done on it from the recliner and plug it in to an external 24" monitor and keyboard for more serious work.

In my opinion the greatest thing about Windows 7 (other than general stability and being less annoying than Vista) is its window key + arrow hot keys to move application windows around super fast on multi-monitor setups. (and to do exact right/left splits on single monitors)

There is nothing appealing to me about Windows RT/Surface or Windows 8 for laptop/desktop, they both look like they will just get in the way of creating or working on anything.
I can't see a comparison to Sergeant Pepper. Sergeant Pepper was both mass culture, and genuinely innovative through the use of sampling techniques that ultimately changed the nature of pop. And it did progressions between movements which was not new but still unusual in pop.

What innovations were new to OS X? In several cases it copied features from other systems and then did a worse job of implementing them than the original. GUI search was copied from BeOS and less powerful and more cumbersome. Workspaces were copied from unix UIs, and feel roughly bolted-on because the system is application centric not window centric. The strength in OSX was in bread and butter stuff like consistent UI and drivers that work.

The only thing that was mildly new was the traffic light and horizontal stripes. We'll have to see if people still respect that in a few decades. I suspect we will instead look back at it as influential in the way in the way that flares or the Ford Anglia 105E were influential, perhaps asking "what was wrong with the world that so many people thought this kitsch to be a good idea".
Yes, the idea would be to mandate all gun owners to pay for liability insurance the same way we do for cars and let the private insurance industry assess risks and calculate premiums.
Au contraire, I quite liked the font's look and feel. It would definitely look lovely on poster titles and the like.

As much as I liked the font, I also liked the approach behind building the font. Algorithm is not the first word one associates with fonts (aesthetics is the word that comes to mind first) and I was pleasantly surprised to read the algorithmic approach behind the design too. :-)

Thanks for sharing it with us.
Immediate family? Yes. That is where I would draw the line. Better to experiment than not try.
That doesn't explain why other companies still have much more expensive rockets, though. As far as I know, SpaceX has the cheapest ones by far.
>In my opinion the greatest thing about Windows 7 (other than general stability and being less annoying than Vista) is its window key + arrow hot keys to move application windows around super fast on multi-monitor setups. (and to do exact right/left splits on single monitors)

As an Xmonad user I am simultaneously aghast and amused.

Also, this is available on Mac OS X and I use a utility to make available the same behavior.
The source: http://blog.500friends.com/2012/12/17/how-big-is-amazon/
Cython is helpful, but you have to spell out a lot of type-information that is not specifically necessary. You might also try Numba --- easiest way to get it is via Anaconda CE or Wakari. Both at http://continuum.io
> Pixels are flat. Screens are flat.

Pixels are also RGB. Does it mean that designs should use only those three colors?

> Flat design is here to stay.

Total non sequitur.
How about MatrixSSL?

I've given up on the SSL libraries in favor of simpler, non-IETF offerings from a seemingly maverik yet brillliant crytographer who is very focused on performance, but I'd be curious what you think of MatrixSSL.
It's interesting that you had issues launching Steam games without an Internet connection. I've never had a problem with it, although I've got a MBP and so my library of games is quite limited. Might the issue have not been Steam, but rather something the game publishers had included that caused it not to work?
If they were bailed out, that would mean the company was in a risky financial position and needed assistance from the government. What happened with GS was that AIG owed them money (legitimately), and AIG was bailed out. The reason AIG needed to be bailed out (in part) was that they owed a lot of money to a lot of people; when that went through, they paid their creditors.

Claiming that GS was bailed out is like claiming that Microsoft was bailed out -- AIG gave them money after the bailout too, I'm sure.
And for more fun:
-- C:\Windows\System32 contains 64 bit binaries, while
-- C:\Windows\SysWow64 contains the 32 bit ones
(that is on a 64 bit version of Windows)

Then the naming of $(Platform) $(PlatformShort) in MSVC IDE.. Explore for yourself - it's fun, it's even more fun when the windows sdk, dxsdk, and other ms's sdk's use different naming conventions for the same things.

Or the WinDir vs SystemRoot

it's something about Microsoft creating too much confusion with their naming
with Modern ui
You have no clue what you are talking about.

Human Genome project is an example of complete DNA sequencing while 23andMe only tests for specific variations at specific loci. 23andMe and similar companies use commercially available solutions like DNA microarrays [1] with probes preprogrammed [2] for specific target variations and they cannot "read" arbitrary DNAs.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybridization_probe
I'll be over here, seething with jealousy.

(Right until they open their new office-slash-cattleyard, then I will be glad to be right where I am).
The First Twenty-Five Years of Perl
Interesting in-depth review of the history of Perl.
What an horrible font they use to write the "that's"... So horrible I cannot even decipher the "???" word in "that's ??? 51 million Apple iPAD 4s"

oler? der? def.? excl.?
Why It Doesn't Matter If You Pay for Software, Sparrow Edition

http://mattgemmell.com/2012/07/21/entitlement-and-acquisitio...
I think mips might also be supported, but not sure
There's a perverse irony in staging hunger strikes to protest cheap food.
No she didn't. What she said is that the statements Samsung used in its motion were inadmissible. She did not express any opinion on whether those statements would have constituted jury misconduct if they were admissible.

"In sum, the integrity of the jury system and the Federal Rules of Evidence demand that the Court not consider Mr. Hogan’s post-verdict statements concerning the jury’s decision-making process. None of the cases Samsung cites suggests otherwise. Because the Court cannot consider these inadmissible statements in determining whether to hold an evidentiary hearing, there is no evidence properly before the Court to require such a hearing. Instead, the Court must apply the well established presumption that the jury followed the law."
The quote you cited was about the term "flat design", not the thing itself. Seems unfair to dismiss it and then not refute what it actually said.

But those historical references are interesting and stand on their own.
Perhaps I'm spoiled but there are two very good camera shops nearby. They are more expensive than Amazon, but they are also the hubs of the local photographer community, and the people that run them are neighbors. They also have consignment, used gear, etc. and for those time when I shoot film they do a great job of developing.

The inconvenience of going there is far outweighed by the benefits. Perhaps that's why they have survived in the era of Amazon and Best Buy! But I really really encourage people to actively search for local independent photog places (I mean, not Scammy's, er I mean Sammy's) if you take photography seriously at all, the premium is worth it.
Count normal tax rate of up to 45% and value added tax of up to 20% for normal workers in many European countries. That's what many engineers do pay, and most are ok with that and would gain nothing by going to Belgium, because Belgium has only nice taxes for rich people.
I figure he's talking about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4931027. Not sure where the downvoting comes in...
Does it matter that I don't do something that really matters?
I'm a developer at a small young tech company. I love to go in to work every day, and each day I solve little problems. But looking at the big picture - no matter how good I get at my current job - I will never really do anything "important." In other words, I don't do something that really "matters." Should I care about more than the fact that I love the details of what I do?
Linux for ARM supports legacy x86 apps. And I don't think there's any major performance penalty there. Sure, it's not very fast on pre-Cortex A15 hardware, but that can be said about Windows RT, too. Windows RT is actually a lot slower when processing stuff (up to 3x slower) than Android and iOS (not talking about animations, which are pretty simple and handled by the GPU).

Also in the Linux world they are working on improving the performance and battery efficiency with kernels 3.7 and 3.8, and they will keep improving them in future versions, as they are only at very early stages of ARM support. I think the 64 bit ARMv8 chips will get great support for Linux from day one, when they come out in 2014, as support for them it's already being baked into the kernels right now.
While at it, is "2.8 million bottles of 1966 Dom Perginon[sic]" supposed to be easier to understand than something as abstract as 5.6 billion dollars?
Changing the discussion from conceptual to technical making assumptions in the latter just to win an argument. I like that.
Alas, it is possible to strip too much and I think Google is guilty of that.

> aspects of UI design: spacing, grids, and typography

I'd say these are more aspects of content design, albeit still very important in UI, but less so, for a simple reason: typically there is less content.
You still have to have some visual hierarchy, make important things prominent and less important less so, mark interactive elements as such. When you strip too much you are forced to use whatever left for that and it can be a stretch, like excessive use of white space.
I was actually considering adding "sad but true" to the end of that line... because... it is.

=)

Also what app do you have to use in Mac OS X for sane window management? One thing that bugged me about giving a 15" MBP a chance was how "maximizing" windows doesn't actually maximize them and that sort of thing. I guess I thought window management was supposed to be built into the OS out of the box.
My point is that any drone that can stay up in the air for long periods of time and is controlled via a real-time satellite network is going to be expensive. And that type of drone is just not available commercially.
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NASA sent men to the moon, robots to Mars, and space stations into orbit. SpaceX sends unmanned rockets to low earth orbit. So there you go.

For what it's worth, whole genome sequencing is also commercially available for much less than the Human Genome Project cost.