skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this! Hopefully it gains momentum because it'd be really neat to have [a tool that can be used as] a crowd-sourced recipe-optimiser.

On a different note, I'm on a slow internet connection and it's very noticeable that the page is huge and not optimised for bandwidth (some thumbnailing and gzip-ing would be good to add at some point, to make the site as snappy as possible! :) ).
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...
Exact same problem, can't click it.
We sure do. The human race will be just fine resource wise.

And that's just accounting for the existing base of resources and knowledge we have today. What we'll have in just another 50 years will be astounding, and further ensure that we won't have a resource problem. :)
Great idea! It seems obvious in hindsight, at least to people who understand forking and dvcs. Which is great.

Let's see how non-tech people are able to understand and use such concepts.
I like the part where the malthusians have never once been right.
I think it's interesting to discuss it here, the zenith of technocopian optimism and futurism. There's a host of intelligent people frequenting Hacker News, but few have any idea what sort of trouble we are in. No conscious thought at all about the value chain that's involved for them to fill up their car in the awesome Bay area with amazing people doing fantastic work to "change" the world. Why aren't you guys picking up on these things? You are SMART, so WHY aren't you?
Considering the content of chatroulette, I think it's a wise decision not to use a name that conjures up those images.
I noticed you handle images, but do you scrub the EXIF data?
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Feedback and data related to your actual goals is key to achieving anything, and of course education and health should be targeted, but a bigger underlying problem is the structural inequality causing a constant lack of resources for many countries and communities.

The fact that Mr. Gates ignores this leads me to believe that he thinks that the grossly unequal distribution of resources is the result of some process that has a sound basis. Our current 'economic' models, since they do not take into account equality, health, education, or any other important scientific data, are fundamentally unsound, and that is why we have the problems of gross inequality and inadequate distribution of resources.

We should frame this as less exploitation and more fairness rather than more charity.
Defer the problem to Vine, surely?
How is this better or different than incremental search? Incremental search means it jumps to the first match as soon as you start typing after '/': you don't need to press enter.

Try this combination of options to get functionality similar to emacs's C-s:

:set ignorecase
:set smartcase
:set incsearch
$24 more and you can get a Nexus 4 with Quad-core, 720p display, 2GB ram...
As I stated in a previous comment, it's called "incremental search" and you can do it in vim. Look here for how: http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/smart-case-insensi...
Just like a 140 character messaging system, it has no future.
This is beautiful. It fulfills the promise of worldwide webcams (being able to easily peer into different parts of the world) with better quality, better interface, and mobile.

I tend to get overly moony about things like this, but I think this is one of the things that makes the Internet really great. It's a window to the world, the world seen by people not sitting at their computers but walking, talking, participating.

I really really like this, great job.
Yikes, there are a lot of sleezy ads on that picknzip page. Like the "installIQ" version of 7-zip.
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The problem with ; is that it doesn't work with t. It just leaves the cursor in the same place, because that's exactly what your t command would do if you typed it again.

It's now some years since I used vim regularly but I recall this regularly annoying me when trying to create visual selections. For example, I'd do "vt," (or whatever) expecting the selection to extend to a given point, and then find myself stuck at a , that I hadn't noticed. And then I'd have to move the cursor by hand to fix things, just like you would in some ordinary text editor.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm actually working on making the main page use thumbnails right now.
I think maybe you just need to bring a different perspective/expectation to it? I mean, I couldn't have imagined three years ago that I would choose to spend time browsing 140-character missives...why do that when I can read blog posts? And before that, why read blog posts when there are newspaper and magazine articles (online and off)?

Maybe the medium, which is just a couple days old, has rough content now, but its format and contraints will likely create a new field of creativity. I personally don't like watching video streams because they're...boring. With Vine, and vinepeek, the banality only last six seconds. And some people are already mindful of the creative process they can apply (I saw a pretty cool taxi cruising down Tokyo in the night, as interesting as any movie scene).

But frankly, I like the banality. Sure, I see banality through my own eyes every day...but seeing "normal" as it exists for a Midwest mom getting ready to go shopping, a 20-yr-old dude wrapping up a joint, a 50-year-old guy watching Saturday morning cartoons....I dunno, this is just a few steps from being a very cool (if pretentious) modern art presentation.

As a photographer, I'll admit, I've never understood the appeal of video snippets (outside of those that show earthsattering news events, such as the snippets from the Arab Spring) over what can be conveyed in a split-second, defined image. But for the first time, I'm kind of seeing how much more potential expressiveness there is in six seconds of "moving" pictures.
In addition to that, they do some good for the larger community, such as starting the Open Compute Project (http://www.opencompute.org/). That effort is what has me considering Facebook as a next career step (I would love to work on that stuff).

Now, this is not an attempt to defend Facebook's actions here or in their other recent efforts. I am merely providing another point of evidence to support MichaelGG's point that Facebook is not flat-out evil, and provide a reason someone might want to work for them despite their recent behavior.
Oh, societies less complex than the status quo haven't collapsed before? I see. We're more people than ever, far more intricate/complex/high level than ever, and the key resources we're basing this paradigm on are dwindling. Is there anything I'm missing? The ingenuity of man? Would there have been an industrial revolution without hydrocarbons? Would we be having overpopulation without Borlaug's green revolution, which in fact was a solution that only created even more dire problems? Nai.
Wow, it's a good thing that no one has trademarked the door as distinctive trade dress, or no one would be able to get into an Apple store, not even geniuses.
> You can zoom in, if you want, of course,

It's pleasing to be in a situation where I can say (about ALA5.0) "you can zoom out, if you want, of course" :p
Soon they'll ask for a blood sample, and perhaps your genome.
It's laughable how privacy is not taken seriously anymore.
Is it weird that I am fascinated by the fact that people are experiencing completely different realities in different parts of the world while I am experiencing mine?
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Mr. Gates writes, "I have been struck by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve incredible progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal — in a feedback loop ... This may seem basic, but it is amazing how often it is not done and how hard it is to get right."

He's talking from experience. Between the late 1990's and early 2000's, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wasted around $1.7 billion on a broad-ranging, intensive, national effort to study small schools... based on a flawed measurement of Bayesian probabilities!

The foundation looked only at the probability that a school would be small given high school performance, and seemingly forgot to look at the probability that a school would be high-performing given a small school size. The two are not the same. $1.7 billion, poof!

The following analysis, by a professor of statistics, explains in more detail how the foundation got it wrong: http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8863.pdf
Well, i was responding to the notion that there is nobility in this particular use of the shield of anonymity.

I just happen to disagree that this is a noble use of anonymity.

And, yeah, if you're going to break the law in an act of intentional protest, yeah, i hope they have the strength of conviction to own up to what it is that they're doing. Otherwise it is sort of a cowardly act of opportunity.

The thing that distinguishes aaron swartz's case is that every one thinks it is insane that he was being threatened with jail time, and it isn't reasonable for him, or anyone else (save for the prosecutors) to consider 35 years in prison a proportional response for his circumstances and actions.

Attacking government websites solely for the purpose of defacing them, out of protest or not, is moving out of the grey area that aaron swartz was operating in (this information is supposed to be public anyway, and he had a means to scrape them), into intentional vandalism (even if you think they are a legit cause).

Anonymity in such a circumstance, again, is just a shield for people who are breaking the law. I'm not saying anonymity is a bad thing, or that we shouldn't have it, but imo, this is more an abuse of anonymity than a use.

P.S. Aaron Swartz is a lamentable and reprehensible aberration, but it is an aberration. Larry Lessig certainly agrees with Swartz's objectives (just not the means). Nobody is leading a crusade against Lessig, or trying to murder, injure or incarcerate him for what he believes, or the actions he takes to further his aims. That's persecution. Abortion providers are persecuted. Information activists are not persecuted.
...But it wasn't those things. That's the whole point, isn't it?
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that doesn't sound too great; unless I'm missing something, it doesn't involve git.
And don't forget that Opera also has an integrated IRC Client (admittedly, it's not the most pretty one out there, but hey, it's something).

Plus, Dragonfly is nothing short of awesome.
So far as I'm aware, the Gates Foundation does nothing in regard to the world's biggest problem, which is aging. Aging kills the most people, causes the greatest amount of suffering, causes the greatest loss of wealth and capital, falls most heavily on the poor without access to palliative medical technologies, etc, etc.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2002/12/death-is-an-outra...

You'll see a number of mainstream foundations in the Methuselah Foundation lists, and those also support the SENS Research Foundation, working on the basis for ways to reverse the cellular and molecular damage that causes aging. The Gates foundation isn't there:

http://mfoundation.org/?pn=donors

But that's not entirely surprising: from the beginning, the Gates Foundation has been a very traditional Big Philanthropy operation. Wealth does not grant vision. Where there is innovation or stepping away from the norms it is of the incremental type, with none of what Peter Thiel calls "radical philanthropy". Is this is a criticism of Gates? Sure. But it's equally a criticism of everyone else. The Gates Foundation is doing what most people think Big Philanthropy should do. The blind spot for aging is near universal.
I find it waaaay too geeky for a cooking website. The idea could be useful but as it is right now, it's very hard to understand how it's supposed to work. (Revision 2, what?)
Why on earth would they do something like this? The people at FB aren't insane, there must be some sort of reasoning for their decision to ask for ID
The problem is that a wireless (802.11) interface can only join one SSID, and work in one of the modes (ad-hoc, wifi, AP) at one time. If like current phones on which there's only one wireless interface, when people are connected to Wifi, they won't be able to use ad-hoc.

I've been hoping there's a company coming out with a phone/tablet with two 802.11 interfaces, so I can stay on Wifi and at the same time join an ad-hoc network :-)

EDIT: typo
I'll answer this, but, honestly, there are a lot of ways. Here's two paths.

//-- //

1. The traditional path

Product management is generally a role that you should take after you have some professional development under you belt. The best product managers I've met were at one time in the engineering/development pit.

That said, the simplest way is to get a job doing design/programming and make sure your employer knows that you'd like to move in that direction and agree that you'll be there in X years. Shadow and work with the PM's at the company.

If they don't move you in to a PM in the time, you can look elsewhere and with a few years of development under your belt you'd have a better chance of getting the management hire.

The key is that you make sure whatever you do, you show leadership and the fact that you're a self-starter.

//--//

2. The startup path

Go work (found) a startup and basically act as the project manager. If the org grows (which is a big if) you'll slowly become that role and hire people around you. If not, you'll have to try again. It's more risky but potentially could get you to a PM role faster.

In the end, I'd recommend you pick up Marty Cagan's "Inspired" http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Lov... -- it discusses product management in much more detail.
Also there's a consumer-perception / branding effect going on with too-cheap pricing too. If I know I can call the local Four Seasons at the last minute and get a room for $75 then I'm going to be much less willing to pay $500 the next time - even if I "know" I got a special deal ("Well can't you make me a special deal again?").

That's where services like HotelTonight make the properties very happy - they fill the rooms at deep discounts but HotelTonight takes the "brand hit", not the hotel itself. The Four Seasons can plausibly say "Well sir we didn't give you the $75 rate - that other service did" even if they full well approved it :)
I'm fairly sure that most people could get a fake government ID without any significant trouble. A Facebook account it hard, because you've got to make up a lot of history and back story.

Don't worry, they'll get there.
\o/ I asked for this 16 days ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5033978) and now it exists. God I love HackerNews :D

Probably not related, though still cool.

What I'd like to see though, is for all the pictures to be of food. There's a lot of happy faces, but the point of a cook book is to make me feel hungry when looking at the pictures. Not sure how to achieve that though.
I went from using a webapp exclusively for email, back to a traditional client. The reason was that the webapp didn't expose enough functionality, and I couldn't change the top-posting default value. Joining several email lists where bottom-posting was the norm, it made sense to adapt to that, and I ended up adopting Thunderbird. Prior to that, I hadn't used a "traditional" email client since pine and Pegasus Mail in the late 90s.
It fixes the issue that you still aren't as valuable to advertisers as facebook and instagram would like you to be.

Follow the money. Always.
You mean, they needed something other than your birth date, birth place, real name, current residence, work history, current job, name of your parents, cousins, grandparents, not to mention the rest of your graph, to correlate you to a database somewhere?
Were you paying attention during the 2012 US Presidential elections? Do those count?
I just keep being shocked by scenes of winter.
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I started something similar[1] last Christmas (but lost interest as I never documented my own experiments). It's a great idea and there's need for a de facto standard source for recipes and cooking instructions.

My "next step" was to contact sous chefs of famous restaurants.

[1] http://palatelab.com/

Edit: rephrased.
Cucumbertown does this very well. They allow you to take a recipe and fork it – called “Write a variation” (on the left) [1]. IIRC quite a few recipes there are created this way.

[1] http://www.cucumbertown.com/recipes/55228/baked-mac-cheese
Ask HN: Review my Android mod Startup
Frontpage lets you browse your favourite news and social feeds from your Android Lock Screen. No inputting passwords or fumbling through multiple apps.

It is very much a minimum viable product right now - it has minimal functionality and a lot of work still to be done.

Once installed, simply activate Frontpage from Frontpage's settings tab, turn the screen off, and when you turn it back on you can begin browsing content.

We'd love to hear what you think!

http://www.frontpageapp.com
Except, the population in the first world will be hit as well. Do you think 315 million Americans makes the USA not overpopulated?
Thanks for the clarification, Matt. Cheers!
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Having looked at some of the recipes, it might be nice to take the job of layout/formatting away from the recipe submitter and offer some differnt layout options to the person viewing it.

For example, some recipes include the accompanying photos inline, while others collect the photos at the end. If instead, the submitter merely tagged the photos according to what step they accompanied, then the website code can lay them out beatifully in a number of different ways to suit different viewers.

I think I'm thinking something along the lines of LaTeX philosophy: You provide the content and leave the layout to the experts/computer. So you don't write that "Zest of 2 lemons" should be part of a bulleted list, you write that it is an ingredient and leave it to the layout to put it in a suitably formatted ingredient list.

Another advantage is you reduce the ability of less savvy users to make parts of your site look ugly.
I think trhaynes meant, Why not build this on the Github API?
True, I don't advocate being completely blindsided about defining tangible results. Though, it is useful to ignore it, when one wants to make a drastic change. In my case (and perhaps OP's case), to take the plunge. Once the change has been made, I think it is important as you say. It takes a lot of hard work to stay focused and something I am still learning.
The cool thing about hacking government sites. No one will be in the office on the weekend.
The price is free!

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Your feelings are extremely common. In fact, most men especially will likely experience these thoughts in their 30s and 40s to varying degrees. I know I have.

I can tell you that ultimately what you have to do is forgive yourself, not only for past mistakes but for letting yourself waste time on regret. Then, the next and most important step is to take responsibility: no one else but you is responsible for how you are feeling, and what you will do in the future. Taking responsibility is one of the most liberating things people can do for themselves, and yet is one of the hardest for most of us.

Do not worry about it being too late; it is not. I have known plenty of people that have come back or joined engineering, or something else, very late in their life (you're still a young pup compared to them!) and have been successful. You have to set goals for yourself, execute against them, and continue to remind yourself that you are responsible for what happens.

Don't look around at people who became billionaires in their mid-20s and decide you haven't done enough or aren't talented enough. There are so many factors that go into huge successes like that. Hustle and hard-work are indeed a huge part of it, but so is timing, luck, and their placement in the universe.

I would also ask you to think hard on if a good school, etc. is what you need versus hard work. Think hard on what your goals are and the steps you need to get there. Don't spend time on something that isn't really going to help you.
I believe the phrase is: "live by the sword, die by the sword".
I'd like to second this, and also say that you should really work hard to establish "fork" and "forking" in contexts that make sense to non-developers. They're second nature for us, but non-technical cooks will probably either read it as "fucking recipes", or conflate fork (to diverge) with fork (eating utensil).

That said, awesome idea.
I find it hard to believe you're seeing any kind of "xyz also visits this page" message. Are you perhaps confusing it with "xyz explicitly chose to endorse this page with a +1"?
I think it would make sense to have web based nodes to make it more useful before internet access is cut in order to increase adaptation.
Isn't that basically the strategy behind DRACO?
Anymore? When was it ever?
User experience still needs a lot of improvement, but I love it. congratulations.
Asking from ignorance here, is there a common protocol in use to communicate with printers e.g. find, interact with (print) and query (ask for toner level for instance) them?

Seems it would make a valuable tool for managing a larger number of printers, to know when to switch the toner for instance.
Hotel yield management is about a decade or so behind the airlines, but they're catching up, so this is probably going to get a bit harder from the OTA's/customer's perspectives before it gets easier. (Yield management means the art/science of room pricing such that you sell out nearly all of your inventory while maximizing profits. It has gotten radically more sophisticated over the years -- loyalty programs, for example, are only about 30 years old, and they virtually transformed the industry. (They're patterned off of airline mileage programs, which debuted in 1979.)

This is, by the way, one of those boring fields where people who look like programmers, talk like programmers, and act like programmers take home bonuses like bank presidents. (Interview question: "To within an order of magnitude, how much money does it make Marriott if we increase systemwide occupancy rates by 5 basis points this year?")
Apparently the US Supreme Court website has been taken down by Anonymous.
> Going after the United States Sentencing Commission website is beyond stupid. The federal sentencing guidelines were a helpful reform.

This is somewhat true. Sentencing guidelines spell out suggested sentences within, and almost always far under, the maximum sentences allowed by law (although judges are free to ignore them and impose statutory maximum sentences). A more appropriate target for them would have been the place where the maximum sentences are specified, since those are the big problem. The site also happens to belong to the body responsible for setting those maximums: http://uscode.house.gov (the criminal code is title 18 - http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_18.shtml ).

This is not a suggestion that anyone undertake any illegal activity - it is just an observation that it would have been a better target. I'm certain that an actual suggestion of that nature would yield significant prison time under these very sentencing laws.
Its priorities dude, most people aren't in it to "change" the world, they're in it to get filthy fucking rich in a way that lets them feel OK with themselves at the end of the day. We're on a website run by a venture capitalist to talk about tech. All the nonsense about being super smart, the futurism, and having any grasp on the world is simple puffery.

And the people here who do have meaningful discussion on topics other than tech sure don't do it here. I know, I live outside the cities encompassed by startup nonsense and work in medical research.