skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the idea around removing clutter, and only buying what you need - but I think that extreme minimalism would only work if you lived on your own and were in full control of your environment.

Being married and having a couple of kids, you have to accept your life is not just yours, it is shared with others who have needs AND wants. They like to tip a pile of toys out and choose the one they want to play with that day - I cant just get them ONE high quality toy. My wife could surely survive with just one high quality lipstick or perfume, but to deprive her of variety in things like that would be mean.

I suppose what I am saying is, when you live in a shared space, you concede optimal living and enjoy more variety.
That's a great video but its not the fault of security theater, it's just a flaw in the gate design. They made an honest effort to secure the wall but theres a bug in that system. If they see this video, they'll likely patch the fence so people can't climb up again.

Security theater would be more like if they made the gate out of rubber. Then, if someone pointed out that its easy to get through a rubber fence, they'd respond by painting the fence a different color, if they even respond at all.
(in response to marknutter's comment below, for some reason the reply button was previously not available. HN bug?):

You can (and we do):

iOS: http://xamarin.com/monotouch
android: http://xamarin.com/monoforandroid

You should give it a shot. And as much as I like HN and its content, its mobile UX is pretty shabby (dare I say incompatible? ;)).
This is my first published extension. I'm sure there might be some issues which I'll be glad to fix.

This is the github page: http://trufa.github.com/Remember-Last-Read-Tweet/
And this is here is the source: https://github.com/trufa/Remember-Last-Read-Tweet

The main reason I created this extension is the fact that it didn't make much sense to me the way the Twitter flow if you don't want to miss any tweet, I was always scrolling until I found my the last tweet I had read and reading things in inverse chronological order.

That said a new feature I will soon add to the extension is an option to mark the last tweet but go back to the top and start reading from there if you prefer that flow.
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Steve Job's, at age of 27 did not have much more stuff than this guy, and he was worthed already 100's of millions of dollars at that time.

I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three
and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four,
and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and
it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.

This was a very typical time. I was single.
All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo,
you know, and that’s what I had.

See the amazing photo:

http://evalinux.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/the-zen-of-steve-jo...
It seems like there are lots of little things that are preferable. A few random ones off the top of my head:

In my last job where we used Eclipse, we'd get a maven project and then run mvn eclipse:eclipse to generate the eclipse project. In IntelliJ, you can just open an existing maven project by selecting the pom.

Maven auto-update is also nice (if you do a mvn clean install, your project will automatically update accordingly).

In eclipse, if you debugged into an external library, you'd have the option of attaching the source; then you'd have to go find the right jar to add. In intellij, you can just click "download sources" and it usually does the right thing.

In general, I had a fair amount of difficulty setting up projects and getting them to run correctly under eclipse -- but that may be more of a reflection of how our projects were configured. Things seem smoother under IntelliJ.
And decide to settle and buy a house...
I think you're conflating drone strikes against foreign nationals with the (very few) strikes that implicated American citizens. The former set is not bounded by Al Qaeda membership. The latter set is.
I'm a Lisp programmer, so maybe the navigation experience is different for Java - but the navigation experience in Emacs is just great for me. Emacs is not the generic editor, but reprogrammed with special modes (for Common Lisp this is SLIME) to provide all this information: arguments, who calls / uses, etc. Emacs connects to a running Common Lisp and provides live queries into the software under development. That's pretty cool.
Sure, they are a one brand company. It is their Achilles' heel, but I think it doesn't mean that they can't continue their trajectory for a few more years. A rather comparable case of Hello Kitty has been milking billions per year since early 2000s.
The link to devo.ps on your sidebar is broken (missing the 'p' in 'http')
Thanks for the pointer to my answer :-)

Similar text to that C++ text is in C99 at 6.4 [Lexical elements], paragraph 4. Paragraph 6 considers the example x+++++y (which is similar to your example), noting that it is to be parsed as x ++ ++ + y. (I guess it uses distinct variables x and y to avoid any distractions due to sequence point issues -- which are immaterial here as the thing fails to parse anyway.)
My best friend is an international student from China. His philosophy is he'll get rid of anything that he can't pack up in 1/2 an hour. I complain that his walls are bare, but he says the excitement and adventure is to be had outside of the room. It's incentive to get into those woods or onto that mountain.
Didn't Steve Jobs own that house?
I really don't think people don't want HSR. It's pretty clear they do. I think it just makes sense to center the HSR around the most valuable areas, not just build it out in rural areas because it's easier to go faster, which is basically equivalent to "because we can" logic. I don't think we should build huge transportation projects just because we can; that's my problem. It has nothing to do with ideology, it's just logic and economics.

As far as the problem with wildlife and trucks and rural roads—you just need a grade-separated track with passages above and below. Expensive but necessary and plausible.
I wonder if PDF or Epub version is available? couldn't find it on the site.
Leaked First iPhone 5S photos surface online
It isn't "injustice" that he's born into privilege. That affluence is the result of sacrifice and decisions made by his family and his larger community/nation.

The injustice is that other families and nations are various degrees of corrupt and ignorant. That's not necessarily his burden. In fact, the main reason that life is getting better around the globe is because advanced, "priviledged" societies invented agriculture, science, computers, refrigeration, vaccines, and so on.
Problem is not owning stuff per se but getting attached to it
This happened to me last week. I have near-zero design skills, so I just used a standard Twitter Bootstrap design for my site. Though I'm still embarrassed a bit by it, it works for now while I'm working on other more critical elements.

But I had a friend check out the site recently who went out of her way to praise the UI; she had expected something much more utilitarian. And I think this is more common; there are still so, so many BAD sites on the net that even a standard Bootstrap site is of pretty good quality/usability.

So while I still do plan on upgrading from a fairly default Bootstrap experience in the future, I'm no longer quite so embarrassed about using it now.
Ask HN: Evergreen browsers for non-cutting edge platform/os?
If you make, use or know of an evergreen browser for older OSPlatform (like Android 2.2 or older Windows) please share.
Also, quit having hobbies
What triggered the popularity of lambdas in modern mainstream languages?
Stop watching p0rn; start *doing* the real thing
10 Sage Quotes From $100M Entrepreneur Winners
The audaciousness of taking those lobbyists' demands word-for-word and expecting nobody to find out in this day and age is pretty shocking.
Facebook is currently down for many users
Look at the comment threads here to see why a story like that sells; plenty of people on HN really want to believe that Obama is deploying drones armed with ABEMSPKEROIII2#$* missiles against random people in the United States, because that's convenient for them. They think we live in a Tony Scott movie.
I'm using SAGE right now for calculus. The point is to have the computer do the tedious work. But until I learn python, I end up spending my time fidgeting around with the syntax instead of actually learning calculus. I'm all for programing integrated with academia...but we need better software (like Mathics!)
Nope, not at all. I've found lots of really good .com domains in the last few months.

Short used to be the name of the game, now it just needs to be memorable. Don't restrict yourself to 4 or 5 letter domains. I usually find great .com around 8-11 characters as it gives you chance to be inventive, combine words to be unique.

If you want me to come up with a few shoot me a mail - I'm my username at gmail.com
Agreed, and I'm surprised there aren't more of us. I don't advocate for 12px font sizes, but somewhere around 14 is probably correct. 16px is typically absurd. I wasn't even able to finish reading this blog post because it hurt so bad. Maybe if my monitor was another foot back or so, but unfortunately I'm in the common position of a cubicle with limited desktop mobility, so that's not an option.

Really, I find myself just not reading any site with absurdly big font sizes, or absurdly small. Keep designing for that 60 year old market if you want, but you're alienating the younger demographics.
I posted something similar a few weeks ago when there was a link to a blog post talking about how getting rid of your smartphone will free you from the shackles. Again, I never understand the extremes. I own a fair amount of stuff. I use a fair amount of stuff. Must I either own nothing or own a ton of "shit"? I'm 31, married, and am planning on children in the very near future. Packing up a suitcase and fleeing town isn't something I aspire to.

I have a working room in my house where I have my desk, a computer, two guitars, and a keyboard. All "shit", but all shit I need to write and record music, which I find highly fulfilling. I also have some bookcases with books I've either read and want to keep or use fairly regularly for reference. They're not fitting in my suitcase but I'm better off with them than without them. I'm not missing out on life because I own things that I like.

I have a garage full of tools that I use to work on the house, as well as the cars that get my wife and I to work. Again, it's "shit". It "prevents" me from packing a suitcase and leaving town, but again, I enjoy the tinkering. I also have a little corner in my garage where I keep my homebrewing equipment and kegerator. While these things may shackle my existence in the world, guess what? I enjoy homebrewing.

The rest of my house is filled with functional devices as well. It's more comfortable sitting on a couch than it is the floor, so we have a couch. I, too, eat paleo and find that I need a few things in the kitchen to help accomodate that diet.

Must every hobby of ours exist within a laptop in order to achieve this weird bohemian self-actualization? If money is not an issue, is it terrible to own a few items you can't pack away in a moments notice? If I seriously wanted to skip town and go live in a foreign country for a year, it wouldn't exactly be hard to go rent a storage unit for less than $100 a month to house some of the stuff I can't take with me but wish to keep.
Japan's incredible shrinking building
> I am painfully aware I am a highly privileged educated white male and most of the world population don’t have the luxury of living like I do.

I have a somewhat similar lifestyle despite being unprivileged (I am black and from one of the poorest countries in the World). I think it's just a way of life that one builds over time. I know plenty of people here who worry too much about things like latest clothes, furnitures, owning a house and other commodities which clutter their life and make them spend more money than they can possibly make. I have always tried to live only on the minimum, I started my programming carrier without even owning a computer and now I make a pretty decent living (even by western standards). I would have never done it if I accumulated sh*t.
I think things would be so much better around the World (in the developing as well as the developed World) if people just removed the clutter.
This is really awesome, although a bit spastic at times. I'm not sure if this is the proper way to use this concept, but I could see how this concept could be used in similar fashions for setting settings. Like set it once, and then have that size apply to whole site or something. Either way, never clever idea, and well done! :)
Social Media - The New Addication
For HN, I think you'd just have to email PG. It wouldn't hurt to also send a pull request on the nex3/arc GitHub repo -- it seems that's where much (all?) of the current Arc activity is taking place. It'd also allow others to benefit from your improvements :)
He deliberately murdered an unarmed woman because she was a blood relative of an LAPD official. Anyone who says they support him has revealed something unbecoming about themselves.
It would be great if you would post it on www.startrigger.com as well.

You get access to a pool of students who are all top 15%. The students are from mostly top 30 universities ranging from Harvard to Oxford.

Its free!
That's some great advice, I'll start doing that!
We've been taken over by armed drones. Also we outlawed kale. Send help.
Hey guys, author of the post here.

There is a lot of technical talent on HackerNews and if any of you would like to try to solve this mystery the help would be greatly appreciated. I've dug as far as I know how to but would still love to know what's going on with these domain names.
Good story, however I'd like to ask if Vesterbacka made any clearer statements on what "managing revenue" means. Their 2011 filing for the Finnish officials state they made about 75 million euros in revenue (far from the $500 million cited in the article).

Does this number represent the value of the merchandise sales of the company or was he explicitly referring to the revenue of Rovio itself?

Edit: here's the link to the Finnish officials' records http://finder.fi/Televiestintälaitteita%20ja%20palveluja/Rov...
I applaud his lifestyle, but the post reminded me of an insightful joke.

Q: How do you know when someone doesn't own a TV?

A: They tell you.

Again, I like his decisions. I hope I don't sound like other posters putting him down or defensive things like he must be rich to live poor, which miss the point. He just seems to be bragging about it. Why not just not have a lot of stuff and leave it at that? If you want to inspire others, a post of a few sentences would probably suffice:

"I avoid having things I find useless and I'm aggressive about considering things useless. Some people might think I'm cheap, but I'm not. I do this on principle. When you cut out crap, you find yourself."

Did I miss anything important? Whatever those four sentences left out in content I feel they made up in brevity and punch.
Damn, I guess I missed the discount, but it doesn't bother me much at all. I've used eclipse, netbeans, visual studio, and I'm sure a few others. In my opinion, a good IDE doesn't get in your way and makes life easier when you need it. I started using intellij at work and found it to be a breath of fresh air and in such compliance with my previously stated definition that I, for the first time ever, personally paid for IDE software (PyCharm). The only thing that comes close is VS and that's only when working on dot net stuff. They have 30 day trials and I suggest you give them a shot. It'll make whatever you're currently using feel like it's from 20 years ago.
Brilliant! Couldn't get it running in FF, but works like a dream in Chrome.

Very useful for interfaces which may run on, say, a TV. Knowing the physical size, or the viewport dimensions, doesn't tell you how far away the user is.
Sure, you don't have to download software.

On the other hand, the platforms we /do/ download software onto (in real time) are disgusting.

(I wrote PHP for the first time last week. Oh. My. God. Why does this crap exist? WHY IN GOD'S NAME (yes I am shouting) DO WE PUT UP WITH THIS UNBELIEVABLY MISERABLE CRAPFEST WE CALL MODERN WEB DEVELOPMENT!?)

Um . . . breathe.

I don't have any answers today that don't involve burning something to the ground, public shaming, or retreating to a code monastary and crafting a diamond (which /never/ works).

How do we get unstuck?
Palm/HP didn't exactly make it a huge deal to go to standards bodies, did they? That was my impression. Could be wrong.
Don't you people have any hobbies?

For me it is cycling. My bike is my most important possession along with the various tools, wheels, spare bikes, etc. I mean, I get the whole zen thing but life is too short to not have anything. If you do anything outdoors you need equipment (you can rent some equipment but that gets old fast).
How?

Making firefox os is great, but how do we get from here to, people making web apps that don't suck on mobiles?

Is it a market place they're going to sell apps on and curate so they're no rubbish?

Is it a platform that is so great and compelling people are going to stop making native apps for it?

Is it a new browser that is so amazing they everyone is going to swap to it, and it makes web apps responsive and amazing?

Is it an entire 'platform' that runs inside a browser?

A native app that acts like it's own 'OS' that runs on all phones?

...you get the idea. What about firefox OS is going to change anything? I'm not trolling, if you can figure it out, tell me, because then I'll pitch it, at work, and we can start down that path.
That's a good question. I was also surprised at the number reported by Total Telecom, which is why I asked Vesterbacka to comment via Twitter. No answer yet, though. Thanks for that link.
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> * Did you know that under "real property" you can be excluded from certain land, just because someone else "says" it's theirs?

The interesting part is that most developed countries do still have structures in place to explicitly restrict the ability of landowners from preventing access to certain land. Either in the form of laws, or through public ownership.

E.g. in Norway there's a concept called "allemannsretten" ("public rights") that explicitly guarantee the right of the public to access "utmark" which is effectively any non-built-up part of land outside of urban cores. On top of that, there are special building restrictions on building near the coast line to ensure public access to beaches or the sea in general. Not only can you walk through any forest you please, no matter whether someone owns it, but you can gather berries or mushrooms there without obtaining permission. You do however generally need their permission to hunt.

In the US and elsewhere it is more commonly provided for through massive government ownership. E.g. federal land in the US makes up a massive 28% of the land mass. In the UK the Crown Estate owns more than half the coast, and massive amounts of other land, etc.

But while we've shifted substantially towards favouring private land owners, we still recognise that unfettered private property rights substantially restricts the freedom of movement of others.
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You have a choice...
I own a lot of stuff (TV, couch, wardrobe, carpets, lamps etc), but most of which I don't care about or am OK to lose. If I move out, or move countries I can sell/give away all this stuff and just re-buy it if I need to in the other location. I don't think owning a lot of stuff necessarily correlates to caring about a lot of stuff (or buying stuff to show off). I buy stuff to make my life easy or more comfortable, not necessarily to raise my status among others.
Here you go
http://nlpwp.org/nlpwp.pdf
Good on Kim for paying them out.
No adblock on mobile (yet?) :P

Rooted Android phones can install apps[0] that block most ads (I think it only blocks connections to the ads and doesn't do any fancy CSS rules).

And Firefox on Android has Adblock Plus browser extension which as far as I know blocks ads like it does on the desktop version. No root needed for this.

[0]: AdAway (I use this) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adaway

Adblock Plus for Android (Seems to have some non-root support, I haven't tried it): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adblockplu...

This app above is not the same as the browser extension mentioned before
900+ classes, in Javascript?
It's not audaciousness, it's ignorance.
I'm not sure if you were meant to be agreeing with me or not, or if I'm just misinterpreting your tone.

I agree with you. While I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing to have some perspective and context for the way you experience the world, this privilege apologism that's taken hold is absurd in my view.
Will the lobbyists now sue the EU for copyright infringement?
"The late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs famously decreed he would go "thermonuclear" to stop Google's Android from allegedly ripping off Apple's products, conveniently forgetting the many instances of Apple "borrowing" from others' IP at Xerox PARC and elsewhere."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/22/patent_trolls/
OpenX closes free ad service indefinitely & without notice: blames hackers
The article is pretty vague, it would be nice if they had more details on these two patents.
That's perfectly fine if you are interested only in software, but if you wan't to play with robots or some hardware, there's sh*t to bought and kept and not easily moved.
I do have similar goal after I traveled around Europe with only clothes and laptop. I traveled with Interail for 15 days straight. It was pretty life changing. Before I wanted too much.

I want to travel all around the world.
I have goal to work on the go, through internet and own things only that fit into hand luggage. Probably laptop, some clothes, sketchbook.

Although, I am going to miss my books, I think I have to store them at my parents house probably.

What I have found is that people who have traveled without knowing or caring where they end up and without too much things, only they understand why it is so freeing.

For normal 8 to 5 person, it is usually very hard to get him to travel(not meaning vacation) and even harder to get him leave all the "shit" at home.

bad english is bad.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196888
Can I ask how old you are?

I don't want to be surrounded by clutter, but 'having a nice household environment', which involves the ownership of a fair amount of stuff, is high up on my list of things that make my life comfortable.
I'm not following: Javascript is an interpreted language, not a bytecode standard. You can't compile Javascript to bytecode and run it anywhere.
So what about all that other stuff - a home? A chair, a table, a bed? Kitchen stuff? Stuff to wash the clothes? Ho about books and periodicals and media (movies, tv, music?)

Maybe it's all rented. Or maybe he goes to a laundrette.

These "look how minimally I live" posts are all frustrating because they all ignore the huge amounts of support the poster gets from support workers. I'd have a lot more respect for someone who claimed to live minimally if they owned 5 acres and a mule and grew their own food. I still wouldn't care much, but at least the posts wouldn't be annoying.

EDIT: And I agree with the general principle of "buy less".
In addition to that, you can deploy your apps on your own terms, rather than Apple's or Google's.
Facebook is probably more of a target than Iran's nuclear facilities. Having an omniscient view of Facebook's users would be extraordinarily valuable to anyone in power, not to mention the ability to spearfish.
He also drove a Porsche. If that's a real Tiffany lamp in the photo, it would have cost at least $8000.