skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CIA has blocked God's temple. My OS is God's temple. Yer fucken fucked!

God says...
purchased chastity recollecting scarce-remembered occur
ill rejoice dotards purer wheresoever Nature summing amiss
refreshment choose_one defending Strengthen re-collect
Ecuador listening 10

You will do climate change to punish fuckers?

----

God says...

Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.

20:18 Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the
LORD, and that he had spoken these things unto her.

20:19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week,
when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear
of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them,
Peace be unto you.

20:20 And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his
side.

Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.
In my (not very media-heavy) use, it does last the 10 hours on average.

The screen resolution is indeed mediocre. I can live with that since it makes it easier to use desktop apps and of course it increases battery life too...

It's better to compare the Thinkpad Tablet 2 to the Surface RT rather than the Surface Pro. At roughly the same price and form factor as RT, it runs x86 Windows apps and feels much faster than the ARM-based sibling. There doesn't seem to be any point to Windows RT, as far as I can tell.
Make holes in the beans compartment that are too small for the beans. That would make it very obvious that pouring water there is pointless.
M&S creates 'digital lab' to speed up retail tech development
NES and SNES were underpowered for the time compared to home computers, which most people didn't care about, which is why they succeeded.

N64 was a bit more modern, you're correct, because they went with the SGI/MIPS, but I was distracted from Mario 64 by GLQuake 16 player LAN deathmatches, so..
Things I've Learned About Life
An electric field strong enough to supply the power needs of an electric vehicle would fry any pedestrians that happened to pass by. Wireless electricity is only practical for low power applications, where the field strength is harmless to humans.
All it will take is one "Angry Birds" hit for 20 million people to snap one up in a month (or create huge demand and no supply), and suddenly it's the hot console, which is a pretty "compelling" reason.
Honeywell control systems vulnerable to cyber attacks: Researchers
How to Run an Awesome Code Dojo
Without YC, HN becomes less interesting as well though. I mostly come here to read "interesting stories from the world of tech entrepreneurship" and because the filtering for good tech stuff is nice as well because the technology discussed tends to be relevant for quickly moving/agile type of companies.

I don't really think it makes all that much sense to separate the two.
Don’t Waste Your Twenties
Part 2: http://artofmanliness.com/2013/02/05/dont-waste-your-20s-train-your-brain-for-lasting-success/
I've attempted to use them various times and every single time they've failed to be of use to me. The whole gtalk + video being combined with google+ hangouts has not worked well at all for me so far.
I think it's more a matter of most people writing about the Tesla in 2009 were automotive enthusiasts. They could not conceive of somebody wanting something that did not appeal to them, and concentrated only on the negative. This is the foolishness of enthusiasts. The wisdom of crowds was revealed by the purchasers.
People don't use computers anymore. They use tablets. This is a tablet, which can double as a computer for reading .doc files, and running .exe programs.

Remember when people used to buy laptops, and people like us used to say "don't be stupid, just buy a powerful white-box for half the price; it's going to spend 90% of its time on your desk anyway ... and if you really need portability just buy a cheap laptop as a second computer."? It's all happening again, and Microsoft has just realised it got left behind.
Remember when they changed everyones default email to be username@facebook.com? Yeah, thats pretty much all you're going to get from the API.
Discourse (the name) sounds an awful lot like Disqus. Enough at least to confuse me initially.
I agree that it's exciting, and I really hope it's successful. I like the SE model.

But the great things about SE are

i) strict moderation

ii) limited, clear, scope

iii) separated meta

Some of that can be helped by the software, but most of it comes from human involvement.

I'm still not sure how the new software will ease the problems that forums face.

i) Web searching a problem returns a hit for a forum. I visit the forum, to see someone asking my question, and someone else saying "Search the web, noob".

ii) People just love feeding trolls. It's trivially easy for trolls to disrupt forums.

iii) Vested_Contributors - forums have rules. New users get punished for not following the rules; long term users have people making excuses for them ("It's Bob! Everyone knows Bob! And he makes great posts normally, so let him off this time!").

iv) Signal : Noise - and this is made worse by having limited number of posts per page. A 29 page thread, with many people saying "Wow, great!!!" is a sucky experience. Especially since most forum search software really sucks.
> We made it as minimal as we could, but discussion is kind of a noisy activity by its nature.

Only if you choose to make it so (and you have).

Hacker News demonstrates that it need not be.
It's a greasemonkey userscript running in Chromes Tampermonkey extension. It uses https://github.com/hgwr/identicon to generate data uri's for the avatars. I also have a hard coded map of usernames to icons. In the image above codinghorror has his own avatar as well as the stackexchange icon (I'll have to add one for discourse now). I've added many many more from icons for other users so I can remember their current and previous affiliations (which appear with 50% opacity).

To make it quick to add new icons I have a bunch of bookmarklets for finding the favicon for a site, doing a flood fill of the alpha channel from the corners and resize it to 16x16 if it is a newer larger favicon. So adding a icon generally takes less the 30 seconds.
The guide is good but doesn't include Bitcoinary https://www.bitcoinary.com/

With Bitcoinary you buy from bitcoin miners and traders directly. More currencies, more ways to trade and deal directly with real people.
True. The point I was trying to make was that Microsoft pays for the development of .net using revenue from other activities. Why can't Oracle do the same?
I am sure IA would be helpful if old data is needed in a court.
JQuery UK Conference - Oxford 2013
if you have a core group which is caring about the health of the community then you might have not this problem. but if the community gets overuned by trolls the admin should take some steps to prevent it. (kick the trolls, close registration temporaly, etc.) (sorry, if my english is broken. i'm a german guy)
I agree with all of your paragraph but the first and the last sentence.

HN could do very well without the YC bias. (Not saying it necessarily should)

HN has build it's own credibility and community.
Show HN: Information Extraction as a Service
Go guys! Fantastic job so far! Looking forward to the next cycle! :D
When bad code happens because the language is a security minefield, blame the language.
Hence me saying that a automatic machine isn't the worst thing in the world . . .
Just make a post about BBC micros, VIC-20's, tape drives, punch cards, Commodore-64's, PDP-11's et al and watch the old farts crawl out of the woodwork ... :)

I started out with a breadboard jury rigged Commodore PET and progressed to optimising symbolic math routines for group theory calculations on a Cyber-205 .. it got better after that.

The GOTO debate raged hot until at least the early 80's and seems to have remained on simmer ever since.
Acme::Pythonic - Python whitespace conventions for Perl
In another post, I'm also trying to compare the similarities of the two.

The problem I see is that they both, especially when used 'improperly', prevent people from innovate.

To me it looks like software improves also by recycling and improving existing concepts so, when it comes to software, patent owners eventually manage to raise some money, but that's all.

They cause much greater damage to the rest of us by stopping other people from reusing the concept.

The thing is that from my perspective, the same happens with most of the grants given to copyrights holders.

Again, when speaking about software, to give a copyright holder the right to be credited for the work is perfectly fine, but what about the right to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it?

How different is that from a patent?
Oh, it sounds like a fly (insect). I just want to squash it =) Just kidding. It looks really cool.
1000x more productive when charged with the right tasks.

Can't be 1000x more productive building CRUD forms.
Yes. DMCA had for example a real impact on the TPB case in Sweden. Any work that would start implying that DMCA notices should stop at the border, would run into the lobbyists.

(I guess I should consider Poe's law a bit more in the future.)
Nobody suggests AAA.
Awesome. The closest thing before this was ninite.

Windows really needs a good, clean (and usable for the average computer user) solution similar to apt-get that isn't controlled by someone like Microsoft.
Of course, there are inefficiencies in charging/using a battery. Apparently when the source is coal, electric vehicles can have a carbon footprint comparable to some gas vehicles: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/automobiles/how-green-are-...

But replace that coal with nuclear...
This. Programming is a lot like sex - everyone is in the select few at the top. Just ask 'em.
Idiot-proofing is for Idiots
Doing something the first time is a challenge. I have 2 young kids, and I watch them struggle with the most rudimentary things. Eventually they figure it out. Usually it comes with tears and pleading. But that’s how they’ll learn to do the next thing.
Too bad windows cmd is so fantastically horrible. This looks like a good project though.
What if the user installs VLC (which is horribly outdated there) and then, installed VLC, using internal update mechanisms, gets updated? How will that "system" behave then?
Writing A Technical Book: Is It Worthwhile?
Still our brain is, for all practical purposes, a classical machine. No quantum effects are observed at the neuron level. So we can't use indeterminism to save free will.
That dodge? Really? "Oh, the single lone sprightly soul no longer draws a paycheck from them! Woe, woe, they deserve nothing! Take it for free!"

The companies that bankrolled the entire thing are still there (or--shocker--have been subsumed into another company, which spent money to acquire its assets). Your excuses are poor ones designed to paper over that you want something for free and can take it so you will. At least the guy who says "fuck 'em, I can take it and nobody will stop me" is honest.
When you see the same kind of restlessness in routine jobs, for one wants to do something of their own, that you experienced.
Kenya Gets Solar Powered Broadband and Phones from Microsoft
Use Powershell and ConEmu
TL;DR: after establishing an almost undisputed OS monopoly through OEMs in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, Microsoft is now looking forward to also trap most users from Africa on their first computing experiences by selling them refurbished cheap smartphones and PCs running an insecure and patchy OS under the umbrella of pushing development forward for their own good.

I wouldn't like to play a game of Risk with those executives.
DOS != cmd.exe or running command.com in windows.

DOS is the whole OS you boot in to.
Just a quick calculation leaves:

$45M * 380 * 7% = $1.2B split 4 ways?

Congratulations for creating so much value and giving so many of us a great community.
How about an affordable smartphone for America?
The interface is a to cluttered for me. Too much noise compared to the signal. The interface of Hacker News is much better in this respect.
How about affordable food and water in Africa first?
Show HN : How to Fake/Migrate django database with South
VFX studio likely to win the Oscar this year for 'Life of Pi' is going bankrupt.
Do drones have to follow FAA rules? Quadcopters?
As far as Chocolatey is concerned, you still have the originally installed version.
> ... a full suite of well-rounded knowledge, along with the tools and confidence to derive more knowledge, can cure most social ills

> You know enough to read a book, but not enough to know why you shouldn't take its contents at face value.

Exactly my position - you can be literate (able to read, write and master a subject enough to be employed) but either are unwilling or unable to understand the implications/meaning of what you have read.

Educated people, the way I've seen it, can apply and use what they know to make the world as a whole better, or at the very least not encourage or allow assaults on the societal contract.

I think for a while, people assumed that there was a strong correlation between education and being able to think for yourself. Especially after seeing people like yourselves who used education as a way to actually be people who have a moral compass and excel in society.

What people didn't want is the legions of excellent workers who can value a firm from its financials in their heads, but turn around and promote intolerance, racism and corruption.

Perhaps its got a lot more to do with the role models you saw. As you said you had someone who became a thief, but from the way you write, it seems that path just didn't make sense to you.
Don't forget that some clients value face time. Sometimes I wonder if a client is just paying me to be around him...
I find it ridiculous that so many sites use FB as main login method, this is a critical part and relying on something that you have no control over, which is also probably collecting data about users that use your site, is a big red flag. Sure, it's more conveniant for many users to just click 'Login with FB', but I find it short-sighted.
They will have a "store" of sorts. Just wait and see. And I'm not talking about Debian.
Projectitis: an example from apple
Android runtime for BlackBerry 10 will support Android 4.1
The best discussion platform I use is one semi-private one (it's closed), where you have unlimited tree structure and every node is equal whether it's a comment, category or "forum". You can differentiate a bit by using a template (which is just another node in the tree). For example you can view the discussion in 1D if you want.. but there's really no point.

Example: HN in that setting would be just one node, called Hacker News. Each submission would be a post/comment and all the comments from here would be just subcomments under that parent post. If someone posted here about new language for example, that post along with all discussion under it can be become a new "forum". If you move it away from under HN, you can still leave a hardlink there so it won't be lost.

Is the discussion there civilized though? Mostly not.
You should be aware however that Mongo's failover incurs downtime.

A Postgres bouncer + WAL replication achieves a similar result: There is no downtime on failover, but there is a single slave.
Tweetmap - Animated maps of real-time tweets using contiguous cartograms
Because people may only want to carry a single device instead of two.

Obviously with the poor battery life and weight the Pro doesn't quite get there, but it's clear this is the evolutionary path Microsoft is headed for.

Things should get really interesting with each iteration of the device.

For now, the device will be considered a flop though.
Not to be glib. But it is _meant_ to replace both presumably. Now hear me out cuz I am no Microsoft fanboy, I haven't used Windows in years but I have to credit Microsoft for innovating. We always heap praise on Apple for the iPad, iPhone, and Macbook Air so I think we should praise Microsoft when they innovate too. Ok, fair enough, ne must innovate and hit the mark, have Microsoft hit the mark?

Because it has touch and is the size of a tablet (like an iPad) and the power and form-factor of an ultra-book (like a Macbook Air) it seems obvious to me that it meant to replace both devices with one device. Why is this hard for folks to see? Now, is it a drop-in replacement? The battery (as Anand says) lets it down, so the answer is negative in this respect but you are saving on the cost of having to buy an iPad and a Macbook Air so the answer is positive in that respect. Comes with a pen for precision drawing input, positive. Runs Windows, negative (joke! ok, you can see the Linux guy coming out in me). Um, so on balance I'd have to say, intriguing device - has its plusses and minuses. If they up the battery life significantly with Surface Pro 2 and shrink it some more they are on to a definite winner and game changer. It'll _never_ be as portable as an iPad (because it has the guts of an ultrabook) so we need to get that out of our heads, all Microsoft needs to do is make it svelte _enough_.

That's my take on the whole thing. Now back to me Gentoo server ...
The problem that I have with chocolatey is: It's all about the installs. You'd hope that the people doing it would know how installs work.

But the default place where chocolatey installs is "C:\chocolatey", and "C:\" is where people who don't understand windows file system layout put things.

The docs ( https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey/wiki/DefaultChocola... ) make a plausible case that this option might be justified sometimes. Saying "we'll always put it somewhere nonstandard because some people might sometimes want to install it when they don't have permissions to put programs where they belong" is unconvincing.

The other argument put forward "It's not installed through the registry" (so?) and "it's a Special core component tool" (it's not special to anyone who hasn't installed it yet) are equally weak.

This choice of install folder should arguably be allowed. But it's a rubbish default, a poor first impression and undermines confidence that they know what they're doing. It is inexcusable that "C:\Chocolatey" is default and "C:\Program Files\Chocolatey" is a set-up that one does manually.
I don't think they store three hashes, but just try to validate password with three hashes.

Something inline this:
https://github.com/bungle/web.php/blob/master/password.php#L...
Yes. For an example, compare the underlying XML of http://globestroller.com/maps/US_48.svg with the original at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Blank_US_...

In the original the states already had IDs (except, for some reason, Virginia), so it was simply a matter of moving the inline styling to a CSS section at the top.

The CSS can also be in a different file, which could be dynamically generated for different users if you wanted to build a simple "make a pretty map of which states you've visisted" app.
I can't think about one person I know that use tablet for any serious stuff, me included, it's just used for checking mails, reading ebooks and playing games. Even then I think everyone prefers surfing on the web using computer rather than on a small screen, not to mention playing more advanced games or using office suites, which are widely used even by 'common' users. So saying that people don't use computers anymore is in my opinion a bit over the top.
I know you mean well, but this sort of calculation makes my hair stand on end. I'd rather leave unhatched chickens uncounted. It also doesn't account for dilution; that 7% should be more like 2-3%. Plus we had LPs for a while, who will get some of the returns. (Also we've funded 511 startups, not 380.)
I don't understand why PayPal should be a standard. I'm kind of the opposite of you, as requiring payments through PayPal annoys me greatly.
Seems to me like having the infrastructure in place is only a first step. It's only as valuable as the packages available within the infrastructure. And having a useful set of up-to-date packages is a huge amount of continuous (!) work. You need a lot of volunteers for that, or, ideally, the cooperation of the upstream developers.

It works very well for Ubuntu (and mostly, I think, plain Debian), as the Debian package archives are very good in the first place, and beyond those there is an ecosystem of volunteer or developer maintained PPAs, and beyond those there are individual .debs released by volunteers or devs that you can plug in, sidestepping the server requirement.

It's a cultural difference. It took me quite a while to adapt to it when I switched from Windows to Ubuntu; I was extremely sceptical at first, though now I love it.
What could a geek in his forties learn in 1000 hours for a more exciting career?
This is my particular case, but I think this thread could be very valuable for a lot of people:

I'm a 42 year old computer engineer, with a lovely family, a nice mortgage, a stable but boring job,...a common guy... but I've been presented a unique opportunity: I could take a paid break for some months, one thousand available hours I've calculated, so I've decided to do something really impactful for my professional career: I'm going to try to learn in deep a valuable technical skill I could use for a further job, as a freelancer or running a new exciting startup.

I'm really fascinated with everything about Internet, the startups world, new technologies and I would like to re-think my professional future. But I feel like the ugliest model in a beauty contest, a computer engineer with +15 years of experience whose career has been gradually and inevitably oriented towards managing and planning competences instead of technical skills. I have some Java, SAP and PHP background, but nothing with an in deep knowledge. I'm fully convinced that the world is for doers!, people able to make things instead of tie wearing planners.

In my spare time I've been doing some experiments, even I have two little websites running: a subscription based form builder and a little social network for creatives, both using LAMP but I don't fancy these technologies, I think there are already a lot of Java / Javascript / PHP / Python ... developers out there! and I think that amaizing new technologies help to build amaizing new things.

In my list there are things like:

- Learn a functional language like Erlang, Haskell, Scala... for the highly-concurrent future world

- Learn a technology stack targeting towards Big Data: Scala+Hadoop i.e.

- Learn Node.js

...

What should you do in my case? Are you in a similar situation?

Thank you in advance to this amazing community.

(Sorry for my English, I am not a native English speaker)
I guess they're just late - http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/10/50-android-smartphones-are-...