skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think for #1, there are a number of hosting providers that match this description, such as Dreamhost, that offer a number of open source web apps that you can install with a single click. They manage them, upgrade them, back them up ... all you gotta do is pay them.

That being said, GitHub does indeed match the description, though I think people are thinking about the code they are hosting for other people ... but I think where they fit the description is with the fact that they are hosting Git for you (and making some money through enterprise services).
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Explanation by a russian redditor: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/17ds8h/iama_russian_dr...
Those sounds are absolutely chilling.
I rode my motorcycle to work earlier this week and last week. Could have probably done so in a t-shirt (though I tend to wear a jacket anyways, just for safety) ... this is in February, when much of the northeast was being blasted by snow. A little thermal energy can be a good thing ;)
I can't remember why I stopped using Pocket. I really need to write down reasons why I stop using software/libraries etc; there always comes a time when I need to justify it and I can never remember the reason :D
It is a wiki so I will consider contributing because I have some free time coming up.
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I doubt they orchestrated the original article. Their choice is pick a fight or let the article stand. Picking a fight looks like the better choice to me, though personally I have no interest in reading someone else's bunfight.
I hope you never get cancer. You might feel just as angry. It might not be necessarily logical (but then, maybe it was), but those dying and who know it, I can imagine, feel not only fear by grief. Grief they are leaving behind their loved ones. Grief of no longer being on this earth.

I'd not be so quick to condemn.
haha, very true ... but then, why would any techie want to live anywhere else other than a hub. I don't think you'll be attending many tech meetups in Ocala ;)
And in the enterprise world, everything is managed in the Spring/JMS parts, which handle all the multithreaded stuff for you.
As funny and WTF-ish as it is, I feel it doesn't belong on HN.
This would be a case where the driver would be expected to take over.
Seems unlikely he remained his oncologist.
I guess I don't really get the point. It just automates creating buttons to load the RSS feed into the web-based reader of your choice? What if I actually want the RSS feed?
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I figured someone on HN would have similar anecdotes, and those might start interesting discussions.
Geeks are definitely the new Rockstars
I was wondering why there are so many dashboard cams. Answer: from the NYTimes

"Some of the numerous videos that quickly emerged of the incident highlighted a distinctly Russian phenomenon: the dashboard cam. As Business Insider recently pointed out, they are commonplace in Russia partly because of the dangerous driving conditions that lead to so many accidents, and with an unreliable police force such cameras can provide valuable evidence following a crash."

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/video-captures-f...
So, you were assuming that they weren't making a profit based on some sort of gut feeling that they were "still in start-up mode", but you used quite absolute language suggesting personal knowledge of the state of their books.
I can't speak for other people, but I can offer you insight into how I think about these things.

It's not that I ignore the frequent cunnilingus in porn, it's that I don't see the need to mention it because I don't look at porn as an equation, as in "Well, he's going from ungentle and obviously painful anal directly to rough fellatio, but that's perfectly okay because of the long cunnilingus at the beginning."

I'm not trying to portray all porn as bad and degrading, nor am I denying that there is good (and sometimes even realistic) sex in it. Nor do I claim that it all should be realistic. What concerns me and motivates me to comment on porn are the following things:

1) the prevalence of casual degradation of women in porn.

2) what people learn to expect based on porn.

3) how many people seem to be either unaware of some (or all) of the above or aware but believe it's normal and acceptable.
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Google, can you please change your scrollers?
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It's foolish to think that our current level of scientific knowledge is the ONLY thing worth paying any attention to.

To fight the cancer, there's not really much else. I'm a Christian and prayer is important to me. But honestly, science is the only real tool that we have to fight cancer.
Does Apple really assign engineers to "fake" projects as a loyalty test?
"This call may be recorded for quality and training purposes."
If you drove the distance from Boston to DC in Switzerland, you wouldn't be in Switzerland anymore. The whole country fits inside New York State.
PC gaming comes to Ubuntu Linux with Steam client release
Nationwide pre k would be much more helpful than required coding in HS.
Also, while you're at it: making the link I just looked at more obvious would be nice. Quite often I click a link, read the article, and like it and want to find the comments. So I use the back button and then have to try to scan through the entries to find the one I was on.

EDIT: And if you need a data point: Chromium 20, Ubuntu 12.04.
Broder went in with a preconceived notion, and did everything in his power to make that notion come true.
There are times when that applies and times when it definitely doesn't. It's almost impossible to construct a legal system which recognises that. I'm not sure if quoting people who lived over a century ago is useful when discussing modern patent needs though. In the time since then we've established a much more defined engineering process informed by scientific research. Inventors typically aren't dabbling in new fields, but have spent years understanding the background of the field in which they work.

There are many industrial processes, mechanical and electrical designs and drugs which would have been almost impossible to arrive at without extensive testing and trial and error. It's worth noting that hindsight is key. It's easy to look back at almost any patent and say "it's obvious that that nozzle design or molecule works like it does, because it fits these theories.

Fundamentally, legal protection of innovation is required for investment. The current patent system is certainly flawed, but to argue for the complete abolition of it doesn't recognise the significant investment required to advance many technologies.
Thanks for pointing it out. haven't tested on portrait view and will see how I can align it better.

I am trying different fonts to see which one works better and definitely will put up some screenshots once the product is ready!
I feel unless you are an expert in law, debating the legality of this pointless.

What I am interested in is what the site used to look like. Anyone got screenshots or a cache link?
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The meteor must have exploded 20 miles high, wouldn't a nuclear warhead cause an EMP at that altitude? Or would a lower yield lack that?
‘Objectified’ clip profiles Jony Ive, includes lots of shots of his lab at Apple
I find that most of the "most people" who fall into the category of "working" that many hours but actually only doing 40 hours of work related work are the younger/entitlement generation (I'm 35 fwiw)

When you are at work, do you work. You shouldn't be browsing reddit or checking facebook/twitter or fantasy football/espn. You shouldnt have a chat client open with friends/family (create a work only one)

At our office we are allowed (and encouraged) to read tech blogs such as hackernews, but no one abuses that and reads for hours on end.

We use RescueTime and part of our 8 hours includes email, irc (work #channel), instant message (work only 'friends' screenname), reading rss on top of the actual coding. No one is looked down on for having a high google/stackoverflow time in a week.

Two 4 hour blocks of coding is not that hard (and normally broken up with meetings or some form of communication anyways)

I find people that have to work 10+ hours to get in 8 actual work related hours are the same people who used to "NEED music" to study. Just have some self discipline and focus.
Also in Europe we had common land, and while you can argue about the tragedy of the commons, enclosure destroyed many peoples only source of livelihood.
> Evidently not! I'd rather not do business with liars.

Is the entire startup world this naïve, or just this particular commenter?
In English it would be more correct to say "preliminary bombardment" :) not "Аrtillery preparation"
>> Now, how about you go out there and find someone to replace the art so it's legal? I'd bet there are plenty of Klax fans out there; I follow some of them on Twitter.

I have actually tried looking for a pixel artist to replace the art work, but not had much luck. Seriously I'll replace it if you can point someone in my direction!
I'd like that because it would prevent me from rescanning the homepage over and over again, and eventually reading even the stuff I don't really want to read because I am procrastinating. I'd like to decide once "don't want to read" and be done with it.
+1
yes yes :D
The real problem is Google not throwing them out of the index
Slightly off-topic, what is the typical setup like for a 3D programmer these days? Is it still Windows/Visual Studio?
I'm really confused where people are coming up with the idea that the word "intelligent" is somehow a synonym for "queueing". That doesn't make any sense to me.

The intelligent part of it is that it knows which servers and ports your application is running on as dynos come and go, and the routers is updated in near real time to reflect these changes. Since dynos move about frequently, and there are a great many of them starting and stopping per second, this requires much more intelligence than you probably think.
Tesla sales numbers for Switzerland:

2010 = 44 / 2011 = 51

Source: http://www.auto-i-dat.ch/download/fahrzeugmarkt/Schweizer_Fa...

According to a media release from July 27, 2012, Tesla counted more than 130 Tesla cars in Switzerland:

http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100020821/100722406/tesla-b...
As for what goal you're trying to accomplish - I think it would be worthwhile just to see what sort of software people start writing when the expected level of programming knowledge starts increasing. With text editors, for instance, we already know there is a spectrum of possible solutions, some of which are easy to learn but not very productive, and some of which take a long time to learn but are very efficient (Emacs). What happens when millions more people have enough knowledge to use Emacs effectively? Or what would happen to spreadsheets if most people knew enough to make their own one-off calculating programs? I don't think they'd go away, but they might look different. I will be very interested to see where this goes.

But yes, you're certainly right that problem solving is the most important thing to teach. I think your idea of a comprehensive problem-solving approach is interesting - it sounds like you want to make that a theme across several classes. One of them could be programming, but perhaps other sorts of engineering could use it too.
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Many people have proposed a mechanism to combine the stories into one discussion.

I wonder if removing the karma for those stories would help (if only the first post earned karma from links, I suspect later stories might not be submitted unless they had something to add)
Betteridge's law of headlines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
There is a URL based check but it matches the string in verbatim (so appending a # is treated as a separate link)
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I say this every time this comes up; I think sites like HN should be self-organising. The filter bubble is well worth it!

http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-...
Even when Mozilla supported Gecko-embedding, major devs rejected it time and again over the years, always in favor of WebKit or Presto. Even the Gnome folks had switched away well before embedding was deprecated.

Frankly I think the Mozilla folks learned the wrong lesson from this, but they did learn something.
Amazon Tops Apple and Google as Most Reputable Company in U.S.
That is a very depressing interview. I find it difficult to feel sorry for him since he mentions declining a job offer from John Carmack.
>5. Lisp will be in the top 10 most popular programming languages by 2010. This failed hard.

I don't think it did. Lisp itself didn't become popular, but a lot of functional ideas are being implemented in more mainstream programming languages, and some functional languages are also becoming popular.
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I guess I'm lost. 01033 is the same number as 1033.
Believe it or not, the rest of the world aren't all using smartphones. Opera Mini dominates the less-than-smart phone space.
Irony is when firefox 18.0.2 won't let me connect to the site due to an invalid certificate - apparently it belongs to tbpl.mozilla.org and displaying the usual "I understand the risks" button would be putting too much responsibility in my tiny hands.
Then you realize that all they have to talk about is television or sports teams or LOL cat pictures or the toys they bought on credit.
I am actually doing some research works inluding online survey and interview and we found that many SME (10 - 60 employees) still haven't established a internal vacation tracking system due to high cost implementation. We also spot that SME from creative industry or tech startup are interested in building one as long as it's affordable.

In terms of price range, we are still testing the market reaction and trying to talk to those who signed up. But I guess we probably gonna charge per number of employees.

Totally agree and screenshots will be on soon! Thx so much for your feedback!
>I don't find it childish to strongly defend your product if you believe a journalist

Childish really is the best word for it.

It wasn't a measured, intelligent response. It came across as a "beat the journalist up" because they posted a bad review. Reminds me of the sort of thing you see bad restaurant owners do when they respond to diner's complaints.
No. It doesn't make sense at all.

It comes to me that teaching code in high school is a bad idea. It is a good idea to teach how to solve mathematical problems with a programming language. Just as a mathematical tool.

It's curious how teaching "how to code" is going to greatly devalue the "coding-ability". Here, in Spain, coding is highly undervalue mainly because a lot of mathematician and physics and graduated in politics ( I mean, everybody) learned "how to program" in a one month course. So enterprises tend to think "anyone can code" instead of "I should hire professionals".

And it's true. Those people know how to solve problems with a computer language, but they DON'T produce good software solutions (just generalizing) and you end up having a big ball of mud. This shouldn't be a problem if enterprises would have realized about software quality and maintenance. But they haven't.

The consequence of all this it's clear. Very low salaries and an undervalued profession.

--- Aren't you agree with me?
Just have a look to the web. Most of non CMS web pages full of bells and whistles are clearly a mess. In fact, I really believe that most of web-related technology is a big ball of mud (HTML+php+javascript+css+json+...) because the main users/creators are not computer scientists. Yes, these technologies are a solution but I don't believe they're a good solution. (I'm not saying I could make it better, I'm just talking about the mess involving building a web page against building computer software).

---

Nevertheless, don't take me wrong. It's great to bring programming closer to the people. It's great to have a lot of people improving, creating, developing and designing. But people won't never understand that coding is different than building software.
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standard hindsight bias
Most people go through life on instinct, first impressions and use heuristics to guide them, and the strategies invariably let them down. Computer scientists, the minority, are obsessive compulsive with things like correct answers to problems and procedures.

This is what makes many accomplished computer scientists seem a bit odd. We use massive amounts of energy to pay attention to the tiniest details and making sure an answer resonates with all known available information.

If you are not careful, paying attention to such remote details gets you to miss the point of the exercise, to socialize and have fun. There is no prize for getting the answer right.

What I gather from this is that 10% of people are abnormally obsessed with being right about every statement, and 90% are not. If one who got the right answer worked hard to correct the others, the others would say: "sheesh, what a nerd, I didn't come on facebook to work!". I came to socialize.
Yup, those would be the ones. Nice long convoy of them with APCs and tanks at the head and tail, cruising down the highway.

Seeing this kind of stuff is par for the course out there though. Drove from Rostov na donu to Stalingrad and there were huge (and I mean HUGE) convoys of tanks cruising down to syria's neck of the woods.

This isn't news to the world, it's just known stuff that isn't talked about as it doesn't mesh very well with realpolitik.

Edit: think there was also a satan in the convoy we saw, two massive stages on separate carriers. Proper "oh holy shit what am I seeing pretend I'm not here" stuff.
A few folks have asked me what I think of the news...
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I was particularly thinking about the evils of cold nights
I wrote an extension that does just that - http://swapped.cc/iip

HN thread from 6 months ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4373959

(edit) I should also add that I pitched the idea to pg about a year ago, never heard anything back. I pinged him again when I released the extension and didn't hear anything back either.
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sc is a text based spreadsheet. I don't have much experience with it though.
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I am quite happy to do my filtering manually. Not hard to skip a title if it does not interest.
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You may have established that not many SME's have a system but have you established that they need one?

I'm part of a management team that oversee's approximately 100 people and managing vacation time is insanely low on my priority list simply because is incredibly straightforward and requires little time or effort.
Those scroll bars work the same as is standard on OS X, iOS, and Android.

Windows is the odd one out and it's outnumbered by all the devices that run aforementioned OSes.

http://designyoutrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/small_t...
> I'm not sure what you mean with that one, what kind of alternative?

I'm guessing one which better handles layouting and modularization.

I'm not hopeful though, CSS is way too "good enough", it's probably there to stay and actual layouting features will slowly get (awkwardly) fitted into it[0], meanwhile modularization will likely be left to components.

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/ http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/ the first two are at least partially supported in all modern browsers, the latter is only supported by IE10.
Car Voice: Yebat! There's a freaking asteroid heading down the road. On the wrong side! Bloody Thrun never had a test case for this. Sod it. You drive ....

:-)

Thank you, I needed a good laugh

Edit: I have real work I should be doing: http://i.imgur.com/usRX31z.jpg
I like this idea. I think it might also get more eyes on interesting topics that otherwise would just miss the front page. Once you've hidden a few stories, others would presume move up to fill in the gaps. So someone who uses the hide feature will see slightly lesser ranked stories on their front page, and thus be more likely to read them, more likely to vote for them, and more likely to get them to the real front page.
I think anytime you poll people and ask if they want an optional feature to do X, you will get mostly "yes" answers. Not sure that means it should be implemented.
He knows very well it is a pejorative term, that is why he used it.
Crazy to see someone talking about PG in 2004 that way (see comments section). I assumed that comment must have come from an HR'er in 2004, but nope. Apparently it was just someone talking about PG and LISP on the Stevey's blog in 2004. Weird.
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Prediction #6 is not very ambitious. The only way several new "internet hangouts" would not emerge would be if the internet suddenly had ceased to exist.
> A tautology if I ever heard one.

Consider this set of programmer "skill levels" where most (80%!) are above average: {10, 10, 10, 10, 1}
I was thinking more of StackOverflow as an answer to this one.
More completely:

A few folks have asked me what I think of the news
yesterday that Opera is moving away from their own
technology stack to build on top of WebKit going
forward.

For those who click on comments here before going to the article and really don't care, that may save you a few seconds.
Did they just say that they have no plans to return to intelligent routing, just making naive routing more visible to you?
I'm impressed that car runs as good as it does. Maybe there's hope after oil! Go Elon!
Well that's positively terrifying.
How we managed the task of implementing trial mode in the PVS-Studio
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As a merchant, it could hypothetically be easier or cheaper to deal with Bitcoin than other currencies online. (For example, note how aggravating/risky PayPal is.)

It's not. Given the volatility of bitcoin you're taking on a lot of currency risk since the value of the bitcoins you just got for your widget can change a lot in a few days. The extra cost of conversion and/or hedging is not worth it.

Especially when you consider all the other problems that bitcoin has.
Facebook didn't launch 'til February 2004. Initially it was only available at US Ivy League colleges and, then, in 2005 at some international universities, but it was not "unavoidable" in 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook
Well Clojure is actually a lisp dialect, more generally speaking, functional programming languages get more attention nowadays than back in 2004. Since 2004, we have F# Clojure, Scala was released in 2003....
Considering how hard it is to predict the future, I would say it is a pretty accurate prediction.
Because, out of the miniscule market segment of geeks and techs, the tablet fills much of the requirements that people were purchasing laptops for 8 year ago.
This is because people who aren't interested in the idea simply move on and look at the next link on the page. It's an enormous selection bias and it makes the results of this poll absolutely meaningless.