skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between having the best X and living in the best country. A lot of nations have fantastic X but would widely not be considered anywhere close to the best place to live. In theory you could rank at #10 in all things desirable and still be the all-round "best" place.

The US is a good country and the citizens are indeed well off. We're not trending in a good direction on average and a lot of things need to be fixed, but it's still a very good place to live.
Sadly you're almost certainly right. Most of the places I could see wanting to reverse-engineer the displayed HTML into Markdown are actually sites using their own hackish, inconsistently rendered output. You'd end up needing per-site tweaks and that'd kind of render the whole thing unworkable and pointless.
Enjoyed the read, thanks for sharing. The 'decorum' bit made me chuckle, though - checking your watch while someone's talking is hardly the height of etiquette!

I'm not too familiar with Pebble's interactions and content display - can you really just glance at it after your pocket buzzes, or is there any cycling through display modes to see notifications? If notifications take over display, how long do they persist? What default content gets hidden to show the notification? Or does it work a completely different way?

I'm looking forward to playing with one myself but for now am reduced to eager fanboi questions...
> ...look at the mobile web on iOS. Does it matter that WebKit is open source and forkable?

The version of WebKit used on iOS is actually not open source and forkable; even WebCore, which is LGPL, Apple works around: rather than releasing code changes for iOS-specific features, they release the binary .o files users can link in.

Hell: Chrome for Android isn't even open source. People tend to totally forget that "WebKit is open source" is meaningless in the general case, as the BSD license allows specific forks to be closed, and all of the mobile ones hold stuff back.
How ‘Social Intelligence’ Can Guide Decisions
I'm at 4 days with my Pebble.

It's great. It's subtle, it looks nice and I like having a watch.

My only two caveats, I had to give a presentation the other day and it went off during my presentation. Sure, I was the only one who noticed, but it threw me through a loop for a second. A "Watch mode only" switch would be nice.

The other is the watch strap. I ordered a leather strap which I think will make the watch look an order of magnitude better.

edit:

oh. I would also like notifications I clear on the watch to clear on my smartphone.
It's absolutely realistic. Firefox was very, very bloated in 2006, but we still used it because the next best thing was IE.
Note that individual dynos running the Celedon Cedar stack can handle multiple requests concurrently. Here's a guide for rails: http://michaelvanrooijen.com/articles/2011/06/01-more-concur...
Bank of America in NYC is a different entity from B of A in California. Same with Wells Fargo. The accounts are geographically tied to the state in which they were opened. Chase is probably set up the same way.
GST is not relevant. The UK has a 20% VAT tax[1] on many things that are substantially cheaper in the UK than in Australia. Legal software is cheaper in Thailand than Australia (where the market for legal software is smaller). The only reason this is happening is because the companies can, and will. Making a profit is why they exist.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/vat-rates
Semantics. Back ends are coded; it's just boring code. In any case, I can see this being useless for a lot of commercial projects if there is is no way to avoid data travelling outside your network. Or at least, that might make businesses apprehensive about using it.
Any hope of being able to compile this on a modern system? I wonder what it would take...
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You are talkin' loco. That could mean American excellence once again and we have vowed to end that.
You can reach the same insight by doing enough vipassana meditation. I've talked with people who, having gained this insight through LSD, psilocybin, or other methods, gain an interest in meditation.

Either way, it's not so much that it cuts through socialized anxiety. Another insight you gain from this kind of experience is realizing how much you participated in creating the socialized anxiety within you. The anxiety doesn't go away so much as you become less attached to it. Being less attached to it, you see how it no longer serves a purpose in your life, and you're free to pay attention to the stuff that is more important. Like experiencing what time you have left -- and make no mistake, whether you have a terminal cancer, or not (or whether we make it to technology that allows someone to transfer personality into silicon), you too will eventually die.

One day, I hope that we'll have socially sanctioned initiations, not just for treating existential anxiety in people facing terminal illness. It would cut away a lot of teenage adolescent bullshit, and a lot of midlife bullshit. Having experienced that "cosmic force" invites people to really connect with each other, something far more meaningful than our current crop of "social networks." So this isn't just about having a meaningful experience of death. It's about having a meaningful experience of life.
And Gecko uses most of the WebKit api. We're talking about implementations here, not specs.
Vagrant 1.1 will work against AWS
Actually; #livelock

The world doesn't stop because you can't pay your taxes (the fines don't stop either unfortunately!).
Here's perspective: The TSA's budget is on par with what we estimate the CIA and NSA use.

The freaking CIA.
Including the airfare and import tax, it's still cheaper.
That's also a death rate chart, it doesn't take into account how many people got infected and then had to deal with the crippling after effects of a polio infection such as permanent muscle paralysis, disability and deformity.

The death rate for soldiers has likewise been lowered due to the great advances in medicine, but many of these survivors are now living (thankfully) and facing a new set of problems like missing limbs and other body parts.
Then he can't ask for 50 mil. If you are poor(as living on the streets), chances are you are not going to court anyway.

I doubt that person can go against big corporation without money(good lawyers cost). And when one can afford good lawyer who has real chance of winning, then the person usually has also money for paying.

This is only when there is claim or civil suit. You can still go to police if there has been a crime of some sort. Also you can always file complaint to government.
So no, this is not so unequal as it sounds.

In case, one is sure of its winning, he or she can always take loan from the bank. It just keeps nonsense cases away.
The tribe woman was perfectly fine and wasn't worried about death. The aid worker was the person who was anxious and worried.
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Too many people are making too much money from it. Good luck.
I would suggest also reviewing Google Breakpad. They've added iOS support, and while I haven't reviewed it first-hand, the I do know that the Google Breakpad developers don't fool around.

I do not wish to steal the OP's thunder, in that I wouldn't call Crashlytics mediocre myself. They're essentially on par with the other solutions technologically, minus the issue of private API and a tendency to overstate their marketing case.
Not every controller uses ARM. Some use MIPS... :)
1. The API was designed pretty carefully to ensure we wouldn't box ourselves into any corners that would limit our real-time or scalability capabilities. So we've intentionally avoided advanced querying for now. You may see features along these lines in the future, but right now we recommend denormalizing your data during writes to match how you want to consume the data (which is a pretty common nosql practice). Firefeed is a good example of this, actually.

2. RequireJS is on our radar. I don't know too much about it, but if developers want it, we'll likely end up adding it. :-)
Most algo traders try to be as physically close as possible to the exchange. NASDAQ OMX even runs colo in the same datacenter as the nordic exchanges that traders can hire into.
So, when a notification hits your phone, the Pebble immediately buzzes and lights its screen, displaying the content of that notification. It'll sit there for three minutes, then go back to whatever you were doing.

So if you were in the Music controller, you would hit the Pebble's back button to dismiss the notification and you'd see your current track again. If you were on a watch app, you'll see the watch.

Fair point about manners! The fact that the device rather noticeably lights up gives you a bit of cover though.
It's all about the people you meet. Be cool, tell them you're looking to have fun and would love to visit startups and [xyz]. Feel free to email them before you're going there. There's a spot, I don't remember where exactly, where there are literally hundreds of startups. I'm sure there are lots of parties and cool hackaton or events to attend.
If you want to come to Vancouver, I can meet you up and bring you around. You can find my contact info in my profile.
Julian Assange files formal application to run for Australian Senate
I hope they learn that Al Qaeda's next plot involves explosives stuffed up his tukhis. I'm sure people will finally revolt when they insist on anal probes.
This should be more prominent. I want to love Heroku, and am sure that I could.

But really, throwing in the towel at intelligent routing and replacing it with "random routing" is horrific, if true.

It's arguable that the routing mesh and scaling dynamics of Heroku are a large part, if not -the- defining reason for someone to choose Heroku over AWS directly.

Is it a "hard" problem? I'm absolutely sure it is. That's one reason customers are throwing money at you to solve it, Heroku.
Does this apply to free app downloads?
It's pretty simple with LSD. You should buy it in blotter form. A piece of blotter can only contain so much of active material (fractions of a milligram). It's too small a dose for almost any psychoactive substances to have any effect on you. LSD and DOB are rare exceptions to this rule. So if you have something on a blotter, it's either LSD or DOB.

Now, DOB is very bitter, and LSD has no taste. If you put a piece of blotter in your mouth, and it tastes bitter, just spit it out -- that's probably DOB. Otherwise, it's LSD, and it's pure.
Why Animated Heroes are better than real-life heroes
> dislike of Adobe for their complete ownership of the creative software space

So isn't that a perfect opportunity for FOSS and Gimp?
In case it wasn't obvious to anyone else, this post is from fall 2011.
But!... But!... It's a parody! Fair use!

Yeah, right.
Guys I know it's hard to make estimations, but how soon can we expect nginx/unicorn AND digital ocean support ?

My app won't take the load in my current VM unless we run nginx / unicorn.
Pharmaceutical patents do not help the case for patents at all. http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/papers/imbookfinal09.pdf
I keep on meaning to start a blog, but haven't gotten around to it yet :/. I even have some half-finished articles lying around.

One of these days...
such a great post, and love the graphics/visuals
I gently disagree.

Take a look at our blog (dogfooded), and let me know whether you think the editing quality reflects US or international English usage.
> but it's still a very good place to live.

Spend some time looking at the statistics [1] and you'll see that in almost all key areas, America ranks dead-last among developed countries, and is often more comparable to developing countries than developed ones.

Compared to undeveloped countries, you are right, America is a very good place to live for the average Joe on the street. Compared to developed countries, it is not.

[1] http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
We already had a monoculture; Opera not using Webkit wasn't preventing this because as you can see in the comments in this page, most non-Opera users considered its existence silly and never catered for it.

I love Opera. It's been my main browser since I started using the 'net (1996). But developers have always ignored it, always considered it not worth developing for because "there's no users". They didn't hold out against the monoculture, they just did their own thing for a while until they got tired of it.

And I think they are tired. They're talking about finally impacting the future of the web and being able to make widespread contributions. I think as a company they just love the Internet and want to be able to make it as awesome as possible for as many people as possible, and Presto wasn't allowing them to do that.
Why is it that you'll always get the worst posible review by a non-paying customer?

This is a common observation - less the user pay the worse and less objective the feedback is.
But if you were to buy a cheeseburger with a credit card, the person selling the cheeseburger would get this exact same information. I don't know if the price should really be a factor here.
What really blows me away is how comparatively little the interface has changed over the years...not to sound dense, but it looks exactly like you'd expect Photoshop to look.
This is a really sad day, because Valve is known for its culture and it's very hard for a company to have a layoff at this scale (almost 10%) and keep its culture.

That said, layoffs are a fact of life in business. It seems to me that this is an obvious case of a layoff for economic reasons. I have no idea what those reasons are.

It would be interesting to know how the culture there evolves after this happens.
Perhaps they are retreating from the Steam Box?

Preparing for an acquisition of something more in line with their traditional delivery but aimed at more casual gamers? Or planning on building something new along those lines themselves? Threatened by other players in the console space with retaliation?

The possibilities are almost endless.
I think people judging it for the sake of the art are missing the point. To me, the pieces scream of depression. His legs in a still bath? Staring in to a mirror in the shower?

What do you imagine life to be in the waning retirement years of the former president of the most powerful country on earth? What a jarring contrast it must be.
The TSA is there to make people feel secure, not to be secure.

Tourism is a trillion dollar industry; even if you hate jumping through hoops you are infinitely more likely to take a flight if you know everyone is being molested.
Where do you live in America?

I know several Americans who think those are all in fine shape. They tend to be Republicans living in places like Arizona. I don't meet a lot of people like that in Los Angeles, but they really do exist.
You may be able to sue the state of MA in CA court. At least one person did this to California after moving to Nevada:

http://www.hgexperts.com/article.asp?id=5410

Granted, it was the state of Nevada, and Nevadans hate taxes and probably loved sticking it to California more than anything. (which is one reason I moved there from CA).
Loving my Pebble, especially with Light Flow Plus and Pebble Notifier however, I am really hoping for the IFTTT channel to come out soon, although I heard from rumor that IFTTT isn't playing ball, but I don't know for sure.
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What if “watch” is the wrong word?
We know quite a lot about matter, actually. We can describe huge swaths of its properties: we can categorize it into different particles, we know how it acts in various fields, we can tear it apart and build it back up. All in all, quite a lot of knowledge.

Also, the Higgs boson is more interesting for its evidence in spontaneous electroweak symmetry breaking than for its ramifications on matter. Despite what popular science tells you, it actually doesn't give most of what you think of as "matter" its mass, that's quantum chromodynamic interactions.
Google Play is the one sole reason I have a Google account (connected to my Android phone or in general.) I guess I need to start pirating all my apps now, but at least I can delete the account!
WebCore/JSCore for iOS are indeed open source, but yes certain pieces are released as .o's that you just link with it, and additionally it is released as source dumps instead of nicely managed versioning. If you go to http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/ios-61/ and download WebCore you will see plenty of source in there. The point is that you could for example meaningfully edit WebCore (for example adding python scripting support, or perhaps even putting in ogg support, whatever), link it with the .o pieces, and have an interesting new product, but still not be able to release it on iOS due to the rules.
True, it has drawbacks. I am sadly not too familiar with the whole system. I just know people try to leave court as last chance.

But it also means, I wont probably get sued for opening a door to a woman.
Ask HN: I want to organise a conference and I have some questions
This is mainly directed at people who have been involved in the organisation of a tech conference before, but I am open to anyone's opinions on these things:

1. Are/how are speakers usually compensated? I have no idea if or how or how much compensation is normally given to speakers. Also, are all speakers compensated the same? Is this negotiated on a per-speaker basis? Is travel assistance provided?

2. Are at least a few main speakers and sponsors usually organised before the conference is even announced? If so, is it seen as acceptable to just contact people you know of and say something along the lines of "hey, I really look up to you and your work, would you like to do a talk at my conference about X?" if so, is it normal to suggest a subject?

3. (for past organisers only) What are the things which caught you off guard on the day, or things you didn't think of (or brushed off as minor details) which turned out to be a big deal?

Thanks
I think that reforming the system would be harder, more precarious, and not worth the bother. It would be a lot of fuss and hard to interest reformers in, while easily arousing lobbying pushback from trolls. There would be continual pressure to compromise the purity of a well tuned working system into something that still has room for the trolls to continue their trolling. And when the spotlight was off it, it would start to slip back towards the way it was, with extension bills being nodded through.

Honestly it'd be both simpler to rouse interest for, and simpler to argue for, a total repeal. The squawking would be louder, but the final result would throw the ball back into the troll's court - to sneakily extend something is a lot easier than to re-implement it when it has been scrapped entirely.
I'll be following this post, since I'm in the same situation (well, in the middle of a graduate program, having done quant classes with SPSS, which I could never grow to like, and now discovering and learning R for my research). There's a lot of great free resources out there - I've been going on a bit of a resource hunt, and gathered lots of links here: http://reganmian.net/wiki/R. Totally unsorted dump at the moment, I'll eventually sort through it, but might still be useful.

Yesterday I spent the whole day watching a Google tech talk by Hadley Wiggins (creator of GGPlot) talking about exploratory data analysis with ggplot and plyr, and replicating every single step in RStudio with RMarkdown (mix of code and text). I played with every single line, took arguments apart, tried out variations, until I understand what each piece did.

Here are my notes: http://rpubs.com/houshuang/ggplot-notes (RStudio makes it ridiculously easy to publish these kinds of documents online). There's a link to the talk, and the data, there too.

One thing I'm looking for is more information about doing survey analysis - I'd love to see a detailed walkthrough (like the file I posted) of someone designing a survey with Likert items, pilot-testing Likert items and generating scales, importing the whole survey with codebook, testing validity of the scales, doing some analysis of findings etc. I've found bits and pieces, but never a complete walk-through.
it's a jobs program
Obama's speech highlights rise of 3-D printing
It's all open source (although a bitch to install - help or ideas appreciate): http://github.com/houshuang/folders2web
Dementia (Anti-Forensic Tool) Source Released
$200/mo is not "rich," it is what you would spend on a hobby (think a membership to a climbing gym or buying a new gaming computer once a year). Being able to spare $3000+/mo for CloudFlare enterprise is not even close to a comparison.
To be concrete and explicit, my experience with death via vipassana is to notice gaps in experience where there is absolutely zero experience occurring. I've found this especially effective while falling asleep. If you get lucky, you'll be paying attention the exact moment that you fully lose consciousness.

Doing this has made me fully comfortable with death, as there is simply nothing, no experience, no frame of reference, no self, nothing to judge, nothing to suffer.

Highly recommended.
Buying a cheeseburger with a credit card does not give out your suburb or email address.
It's moves like that which mean Opera has dug its own grave of irrelevancy. They should have given you the tools to enable spoofing on a per-domain basis only, not browser-wide.
If we can include the PSP, we can include Windows too. That's a huge gaming platform.
Hi pifflesnort,

Wayne here. We're extremely proud of the work that the team here at Crashlytics has put into our crash reporting solution. There are many flaws in PLCR that we've addressed -- our customers, like Twitter, Vine, Square, Yelp, OpenTable, Hipmunk, Delta, Kayak, and others, enjoy the increased visibility as well as the wider net to catch issues that other solutions cannot.

We look forward to improving our solution even further - stay tuned ;-)
> If free citizens of free countries can't live in freedom because of fear of terrorists, the terrorists have already won

As a dark-skinned man who oftentimes sports a beard, I'm treated like a terrorist every single time I walk through security. To them, I'm a second-class citizen - no question about it.

I avoid flying like the plague; I'd gladly take a 12 hour train ride over a 2 hour flight just to avoid this treatment.

It's been 12 years, and I still haven't gotten used to the degradation. I hope I never do.

> Because I remember the peace and freedom I long enjoyed here to welcome visitors to the United States from around the world, I want the leaders and active participants in terrorist networks to identified through constant surveillance and intelligence, and I want terrorists to be attacked relentlessly where they live, so that they have to hide in caves while people all over the world who renounce their goals get to lead civilized, peaceful lives in the Twenty-First Century.

There's a certain degree of irony in that statement; the Beirut bombing, the (first) World Trade Center bombing attack, and 9/11 were, at least in large part, a response to the destruction that the US has been wreaking on foreign soil for years.

> The people who are destroying diplomatic buildings and killing diplomats are declining to use thoughtful discussion to show that they are anything other than blights on humankind

This same line of reasoning could be applied to the US - we're a little bit better at disguising it, but we've been responsible for terrorism abroad (and domestically!) for decades.
I'm also curious about the facts, at one point he sates that 30mg of LCD was measured out, which is a pretty insane amount of LSD from my understanding.
I remember reading this. Highly recommended but the methodology dogma goes both ways.

My take on it is this. Object-oriented and imperative style is eating with a fork and a spoon. Functional technique gives you a knife. The people I'm most suspicious of are the ones who think I'd be more productive if one of my utensils were taken away.