skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Non-shitty" is a pretty low bar though. When you have a wide variety of choices, you may as well hold out for "good" or "great", even if it means learning a new language, some new technologies or even a new mindset. Having to learn something or spend some time setting things up is a trivial cost for any non-trivial project: increasing your productivity when programming or maintaining code is a very good return on investment.
Printed Reinforced AR Lower Review
Great points. We've tried to build trust by showing that we're real people (e.g. here's what we look like!), but I agree we could do more. Great feedback.

The app is—of course—on SSL.
You can find an example in an old comment of mine http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4075879
Housing is expensive. In a lot of areas, it's cheaper to rent a house or apartment than to pay a mortgage on one of similar square footage, but occasionally you can find good deals.

There is a lot of theft. Not trying to scare you, but three of my friends' cars have been broken into or stolen. King County seems to break up theft rings every few months, posting online pictures of stolen property to be reclaimed.

While there are a lot of ethnic food restaurants, they are average to poor compared to ones in other metropolitan areas, and are often Americanized. So if you like authentic spicy Tamil South Indian, Indonesian, or Thai cuisine, you may be disappointed as compared to San Francisco, Houston, or Chicago. American food and sushi, however, is plentiful and good. BBQ is rare, and finding good BBQ is often a topic of casual conversation, and it becomes a big deal whenever a BBQ restaurant opens or closes.

If you have sinus problems like non-allergic rhinitis, the stagnant damp air and the lack of frequent sunshine as a disinfectant often leads to sinus infections. Having lived in three different regions (Midwest, South, and Seattle), I've had far more sinus problems in Seattle than in the other regions. Many people have told me they started having allergies only after they moved to Seattle.

As others have said, there's traffic.
"Microsoft isn't offering anything new or compelling, they are playing catch up"

This assumes the market only wants new and not catch up. On the contrary, I think Android is where it is because Android caught up and delivered an iPhone-esque experience faster and better than competitors.

WP7 was newer and more original but flopped in the market against Android because of the above, among other reasons.
This might be because of - February 2013 Breaking Changes Now Live
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/02/06/platfor...

And, they are surely breaking.
Better make a plastic crossbow and bolts. Which is scary enough.
Thanks! buying your book :)
Sure LaunchPad kinda looks like iOS, but it's not really the same thing.
No offense... you can't walk a bullet through a metal detector.

Unless you're getting into caseless ammunition, which has never been popular.
Alternately, we have this market. Apple went ex-dividend today, which would (ordinarily) result in their opening price being adjusted to 2.65 below yesterday's closing (457.26). In this (real) market, it opened up somewhere between $2 and $5 (459-463). (google's data isn't very fine grained here).
Yes. It especially helps to get you back on track. You know those urges to check email and Facebook, it has helped me to ignore those and remain focused on my task until my Pomodoro time is up. It also helps with my own self awareness. I feel I am much more aware of my body now than before. This helps me to recognize when a break would help me solve a problem rather than pushing on.

Another big benefit is just having time to relax. I don't know about other developers but I always feel I have to be doing something. With smartphones and high speed internet, there is always something I could be doing. But boredom is a good thing. It helps your body and mind to heal. Meditation has helped me to reduce my anxiety a lot and to just slow down and not feel so pressured.
It's only a terrible idea if you don't have a kill switch. It's also only a terrible idea if the benefits do not outweigh the costs of something like this happening (and you being unable to respond to it.)

Adding the JS file is simple and up until now has always worked. If it ends up driving tons of traffic back to your site it seems worth it.
There are three things to learn from this story:

1. The advertising-supported media model is broken.

2. People on the internet are distressingly credulous.

3. There is a huge pent-up demand in the US for a next-generation communications network at reasonable cost. Somehow we can do long distance phone service for a low monthly flat rate, and have done for ~20 years, but you can't get moderate speed consumer internet service in a major metro for less than about $65/month.
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Why You Should Never Have More Than Nine Browser Tabs Open
The last attempt, from the same group, to print the regulated parts of a AR-15, that are under mechanical stress, lasted 6 shots [0].

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/12/03/heres-w...
What the Washington Post lacks in understanding the facts it makes up for with a lack of journalistic integrity.

No surprise here.

Notice that the "old media" in the article are the ones that refuse to correct incorrect reporting. At this point, the only people continuing to subscribe to their publications can't be driven off with a stick. Their revenue will finally go dry when their subscribers succumb to old age.
A magazine is essentially a box, with a spring in the bottom. It's really not the hard part of weapons manufacturing. And, the spring can't even be 3-d printed currently.
... And 190 million people feel not special :(
So how long do you need - 12 more years? Because that's how long MS has so far been trying and failing to get a decent market share of the smartphone market. They started with Windows Mobile back in April, 2000 and have always been playing catchup.
Is the progress supposed to not go back when you go back? It's kind of odd.
Website to check domain availability for all tlds?
You're not wrong, but this doesn't seem to relate to the topic at-hand, except peripherally. I get it, PHP sucks. We all know PHP sucks. We've been talking about how much PHP sucks on HN for probably years.

How about we talk about something new, such as the library this fucking post is actually about. If you really want to grind your ax against PHP (which we all generally agree is terrible), please make this its own post and submit it separately, so that we can actually talk about the submission.
SpiderOak: Encrypting the cloud and foiling corporate hackers
Wow - it's asking me to re-auth the developer app. This is a big bug and we've been very badly bitten by it. Not going to make the same mistake again.
So having "proven" Windows 8 has no advertising (by somehow claiming the apps with ads weren't really part of Windows 8) Ed Bott turns to proving the 128GB Surface has more storage space than the Macbook Air by deleting tons of stuff from the Surface and nearly freeing up as much space as the latter has by default.
Barrels and chambers can't be made from any plastic I know of. Typically they are made of machined/forged steel.
You can do that on the MBA as well.
> What the Washington Post lacks in understanding the facts it makes up for with a lack of journalistic integrity.

It took me about three passes to understand this sentence. A comma would have helped.
Based on Shodan there are at least 87,494,410 web servers [1] on port 80 now. For port 443 there are currently 14,918,407 servers listed [2], and for port 8080 there are 7,570,586 [3].

[1]: http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A80

[2]: http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A443

[3]:http://www.shodanhq.com/search?q=port%3A8080
I don't think this is a project that I would see being used anywhere, but I do think it introduces an interesting idea for the language's evolution. I am glad to see it here.
Absolutely! As in anything in life, experiment! Give it a try for a week and see how it changes you.
Interesting stuff. The data would be a lot easier to read if they only reported a couple of significant figures, though. Having nine decimal digits actually obscures easy interpretation by humans.
It says its related to opening a word document with embedded flash, so luckily its not a true 'drive by' and would require some social engineering to work since the user has to download and open a .doc
define "full-blown computer"
Most people do not want that consistent experience and do not care about it.

My girlfriend is working in a SME where they rely on a desktop app essential to their business which only runs on Windows... So they're forced to used Windows. Yet no one there buys Windows phones or tablet: they don't want to hear about it. A person there is perfectly happy buying a MacBook or MacBook Air (despite being forced to work on Windows), a Samsung smartphone "because it's cheaper than an iPhone" and an iPad or an Android tablet. They don't care about having "all iOS" or "all Windows" or "all Android". Nada. Zero. People don't want that. The only thing they do care about is being able to run their webapp from everywhere.

Best sentence heard today? "The company selling us the software (previously Windows-only) we need has now put the application in the cloud and we can use from any browser. We'll at last be able to use our Mac to work and get rid of Windows!".

The webapp revolution is under way and it's changing the way SMEs (the real backbone of the economy btw, representing more money than the corporate world) are using computers. They know they've been stuck in the Windows and Office milking cycle and they don't like it. People in SMEs are starting to realize that there's a way out and Microsoft-shops throughout the world who previously could survive by selling Windows-only software are now forced to move "to the cloud" or become irrelevant. Because the demand from the users is there.

Karma is a bitch. And it's coming right into Microsoft's face.
Because those can't be made "at home" either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handloading
TL;DR:

Author seeks advice from consultant.

Consultant says they are going to fail.

Author ignores advice, fails, blames consultant for giving bad advice.
LO Impress has been a pain recently. Saving a presentation and re-opening it would yield garbage.

I've been testing LO 4 for a few weeks now, and it seems that the problem has gone. Apart from this, LO does the job, we use it for automatically generating API doc in HTML from specs we write with it, and this is great. Not that there is any other viable option on Linux (that I know of).

I wish I could have a Keynote-like on Linux. In the meantime, beamer does the job for quick & safe slide decks.
You are probably within 10 miles of a machine shop full of machinery that can, in the hands of a skilled person, make guns.

I know people who make guns as a hobby. This is moral, legal, and fun.
Say I'm on Twitter's web site. Most of the time, I just want to browse tweets. So don't pollute the site with a new tweet from that I rarely need. Sometimes I want to send a tweet though. Refresh the whole page (with a trip the server), just to pop up a new tweet form? I want to get back to my Twitter stream after this tweet. Just put some UI front and center so I can focus on that one new tweet.

Modal dialog boxes have plenty of good uses. But most of all, they're an option. Another tool to use.
You can't nerf the whole world.
There is a really good selection of REH on the Australian version of PG:

http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#letterH
BottleRocket: A clean & extensible web framework built on Bottle & Python.
I must admit I'm surprised RT did not do better out of the gate. I had always assumed there was some segment of the business market for whom "real" office on a real tablet is a "shutup and take my money" proposition. I would have expected some large fortune 500's to just deploy them en-masse as an ultra-manageable office "appliance" for employees who don't need anything else. I would have thought Microsoft would have sewn up such deals in advance, even if they had to virtually give them away for publicity sake. The fact it hasn't happened should be quite worrying, I think.

> Only Samsung and Apple are competing in phones

I get a bit sick of this kind of line. Yes, sure, Samsung is on top now in the Android world. Only a short time ago HTC was on top. Now it's changed to Samsung. That's the very definition of competition. Now Google is shipping Nexus 4's via LG and LG can't make enough of them. To say there is no competition is utterly ridiculous.

The really shocking thing is that in the last quarter Microsoft's smart phone market share actually dropped. Even with the assistance of all the pent up demand of people waiting for Windows 8, it still went down. Even if there was no intrinsic market demand for these products I would have expected an initial surge from the faithful just to try out something new.
The obsession with 3d printing vs more practical methods has everything to do with privileged white nerds and their obsession with the "information economy" over actual knowledge and skills (and physical effort, which they reject as blue-collar). Lathes and machining require refinement of individual workmanship, while refining 3d printing resides entirely in the realm of the printer manufacturers with the end-users reduced to the role of consumers.
I've read more stories denying this was true than the reverse. Actually, I hadn't heard about that rumor before reading all the blogs denying it since yesterday. Am I the only one here?
"Move fast and break things" may work for Facebook.com, but I dunno if souring relationships with important partners will be praised.
Holy cow, 10 years for me and I've never even thought of nesting heredocs.

Some days I wish Matz would formalize the grammar so it is sane.
Oh boy, but are we missing the 'Golden Man' from Phillip K. Dick ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Man
And yet companies still continue to ignore the potential added value from giving the option of women's sizes.
So one day, Mark says to Bill, "Call THAT a monoculture? I got your Central Point of Failure right here!"
"The analytics team didn’t do a bad job crunching all that pageview data either."

I do not do a lot of analytics (ie close to nil). Is it really that hard to have a counter for the number of visits to each person's profile?
Best article I've seen on the Swarz case. David Byrne is a national treasure.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848
That most give-away T's do not have pockets makes them more or less useless to me.

I've become so used to wearing pocket T's (white or charcoal grey) pretty much every day that any T-shirt without a pocket now feels incomplete.
Gotta love that stock photography
This particular bug is just as likely either way; the js must be changing window.location, there's no reason to think the iframe wouldn't change window.top.location.
Madness. I want my clothes to fit me well and look nice, not be a billboard for some goofy Internet dingus. I don't want a tshirt, a hat, a junky backpack, none of that. Put your branding on something useful like a USB stick.
Mobile app security: Always keep the back door locked
The unfortunate thing is that Windows RT is completely un-manageable, in the only way any Windows Sysadmin cares: group policy.

For most sysadmins, the fact that Windows RT cannot join a domain and cannot be managed with GPOs/SCCM makes it a nonstarter.

It's fairly easy to manage iOS devices with any number of MDM tools.
Why startups should hire slow and fire fast
The 787 batteries are built in Japan, which is not at all cheap, and in general has a much better reputation for quality and reliability than the U.S... This is particularly true for high-end specialty products—like airliner batteries.

[Japanese companies outsource all their cheap goods manufacturing to other countries.]
Ask HN: in 2013, is it still worth learning RoR/Django?
Can one skip a generation and say learn backbone instead of jquery, or meteor instead of django?
I wonder if knowing the older technology is still needed to appreciate the new one; The elders of 'server side rendering' frameworks are saying in talks that what they do is virtually obsolete, as more and more gets rendered on the client. But of course there's a large chunck of applications that still are better implemented with RoR/Django. Since we all have a limited time to learn... in 2013, is it still worth learning RoR/Django?
Woooah look at that programmer. A tie and a phone from 1492. Very hip.
I'd love to know the story behind the three responses they received from 10.0.0.0/8.

I am also curious about this: "With the extracted data more interesting analysis can be done,...such as the issue with network and broadcast addresses (.0 and .255)." Why do responses from .0 or .255 have to be an issue? My cable modem sits on a /20. It seems that there are a number of valid ip addresses ending in 0 or 255 in this range:

$ ipcalc XX.XX.57.26/255.255.240.0
Address: XX.XX.57.26 XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.XXXX 1001.00011010
Netmask: 255.255.240.0 = 20 11111111.11111111.1111 0000.00000000
Wildcard: 0.0.15.255 00000000.00000000.0000 1111.11111111

Network: XX.XX.48.0/20 XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.XXXX 0000.00000000
HostMin: XX.XX.48.1 XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.XXXX 0000.00000001
HostMax: XX.XX.63.254 XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.XXXX 1111.11111110
Broadcast: XX.XX.63.255 XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.XXXX 1111.11111111
Hosts/Net: 4094 Class A
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The upshot of Python lambdas is they're really convenient in simple situation. It causes trouble when debugging though. Sometimes, I need to stick breakpoints in places that force me to rewrite a lambda as a regular function. The more that happens, the less I like lambdas.
I note that in your example, it's $7.80, not $5.

There are other companies in the same general space as Uber ("hail a cab with your smartphone") that focus more on the lower end of the market.
What I meant is if your primary concert is identical results it should be using the same target, with no runtime changing based on instructions on one processor or another.

Anyway, K5 was almost two decades ago. If you use recent processors, or even better avoid x87 instructions entirely, are you still going to have different float results?
this was really well put:

> That's the real magic of the human brain; how quickly it rewires itself around a fundamental new tool as soon as you really grok it. Think about it: at some point in your life you didn't understand the concept of "hammer", and then you understood it and the whole world changed in front of your eyes. Now, when you look at the world, you do it with the understanding that hammers exist. Same thing for Skype. One day you're worrying about how you'll pay for that call and the next day you just know that you can talk to anyone at any time. That's what we aspire to build at Evernote. Something fundamentally tool.
This is stupid. This is like asking which car cabin has the most air volume, and finding that Toyota's larger seats mean its cabin can't hold as much air as Honda's.
SO I think we're almost having two separate arguments here.

On the one hand we're talking about Mongo working out of the box and on the other we're talking about developer skill. I'll agree with you that an unskilled developer is going to have a bad time running any Database, but I take issue with the idea that defaults aren't important.

The default settings are the defaults for a reason. Whether that reason is ease of adoption or performance testing, there's a reason. Mongo's default behavior was not sensible and has since been corrected to be more sensible, and I think we both agree on this point.

Mongo is a really cool database with a lot of neat features, but it doesn't get a pass just because it's cool. If the defaults on Mongo could cause data loss, they should change the defaults, right?

I agree you should understand your backend, but I also see a lot of value in having sane default settings. To be honest, the majority of users may never pass beyond the default settings, which is a shame, but true.

So the author's rant is just that, but he's not wrong. He might be mistaken about the potential of Mongo, but he's not really mistaken about Mongo "out-of-the-box".

Does that clarify my position with respect to the author's opinions?
This kind of static analysis is really easy to do with falafel:

https://gist.github.com/substack/4735826

Program:

var falafel = require('falafel');
var fs = require('fs');
var src = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/src.js', 'utf8');

var output = falafel(src, function (node) {
if (node.type === 'IfStatement'
&& node.test.type === 'MemberExpression'
&& node.test.object.name === 'Meteor'
&& node.test.property.name === 'isServer') {
node.update('');
}
});
console.log(output);

Input:

if (Meteor.isClient) {
console.log("I'm the client!");
}

if (Meteor.isServer) {
console.log("I'm the server!");
}

Output:

if (Meteor.isClient) {
console.log("I'm the client!");
}

This won't catch fancy things like Meteor['isServer'] or compound expressions but should be a good place to start.

edit: I had them backwards. Fixed now.
Respect the reader
All IPv4 addresses, presumably.
who cares about storage space when you can keep everything in the cloud. my computer is as commodity as my jeans, friends. Access over dependence.
While this is true, it allows you to circumvent any ban on high cap mags. And I'm sure that is the point.
For example, the support team has internal tools that they use to do their job, and for the most part do all development of that tool themselves. Sometimes other developers help them out with specific features that are in the domain of that developer, but most of the tool grows as the support team needs e.g. better wizards to answer tickets quicker. Several members of the support team are taking programming classes, too, to learn how to do more developmental work along these lines.
Hulu seems to have N-1 redundancy: with Facebook Connect down, I can't even login using my non-facebook Hulu account.
It loaded fairly instantly for me, but it's just another website. Unless I'm missing something.
C (and most C family languages) require you to know the names of types. If that is given, then it is unambiguous. Yes, it's bad design, but it's not the end of the world.
"I actually sleep really well; it's sort of my core competency; I can fall asleep anywhere, at any time, on command. My brain doesn't understand time zones and I don't get jet lag. This is my super power. I go to sleep at random times and wake up at random times, but I probably get about eight hours of sleep on average. I know how incredibly lucky this makes me."

His brain seems pretty unusual regarding sleep. I never heard something like this. We need to study his brain asap!
Does anyone think that having Wi-Fi that's "as free as air" would be a bad thing? If the government was actually doing this, wouldn't everyone react positively?

Excluding lobbying from telcos, is there any reason that the FCC hasn't already done this?
'Absolutely terrible' is a just a wee bit hyperbolic. It is an idea that has positives and negatives, but you only notice it when it does this. And how many times has it done this since they've implemented it?
There probably won't be any more scientific breakthroughs that mess with people's conception of their place in the world the way relativity and quantum mechanics did. That's not the same thing as no more breakthroughs.
Any comments/suggestions let me know
It's pretty common with old people.
It's ~$5 when you add tip to the regular taxi ride.
Er, since when is 11/3 not a valid date?
All SSDs advertised as either 128GB or 120GB come with exactly 128GiB of total NAND, with 5-15% reserved as spare area. If the spare area is chosen to be 6.87%, then that exactly accounts for the difference between a binary gigabyte (GiB) and decimal gigabyte, so a 128GiB SSD can have exactly 128 decimal GB of usable space.