skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this has changed recently, but when the FB Platform launched, Facebook was notorious for constantly breaking publicly documented APIs. In fact, an unmaintained wiki was their official documentation.

I'm surprised anybody is still surprised when Facebook changes its rules without warning.
Or develop a ChromeOS tablet!

"We're pushing computing forward. It'll definitely make the
ecosystem rethink touch," Pichai said. "I think people will
take the first step toward building tablets with this." [1]

Are the inmates running the asylum over there?

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57570520-93/googles-chromeb...
Apple Store has a refurbed MacBook Pro for $1,269:

Originally released October 2012
13.3-inch (diagonal) Retina display; 2560-by-1600 (227 dpi)
8GB of 1600MHz DDR3L SDRAM
128GB Flash Storage
Yeah, I hate to be that guy

There seems to be quite a crowd of you saying the same thing every time the subject of a petition comes up. Perhaps you could club together and have a support group.
I'm also a Musketeer.

I think the company as a whole executes brilliantly, but I decided to allocate a good chunk of my (measly) portfolio to TSLA as a result of Elon's track record and vision.

I wonder if we'll soon see a prospectus for the "Musk Fund" containing only companies that he's been involved in...
It depends what you're working on. If you're doing heavy client-side work (e.g. WebGL) then a beefy client is preferable to a beefy server.

I agree though that I probably wouldn't buy this for development work. But I do think that browser's are still better on beefy hardware than on gimped hardware.
From an insurance company perspective, preventative care might make sense, but if premiums were lower as a result, it might be counter-productive.

I'm sure there's a Nash Equilibrium here where people need to be "optimally sick" and this is a point some distance from "perfectly healthy".
One year ago today, Pussy Riot made a video.
But I can (and will) ignore you, and I spend over a thousand a year on domains for myself and clients.
$200 less than a macbook retina 13" with 2560x1600. Up until now there have been no competitors even near this resolution.
Next, we should see a map with the worst traffic. Who funds these studies? Are they really necessary? Especially with the bias towards craigslist users?
I just laughed so hard. Agreed with @redspark political campaigns, PAC's, and grass roots could benefit greatly.
My first thought for this was, wow cool looking site. I then played around with the responsive nature of it.
This promo video http://youtu.be/j-XTpdDDXiU looks and sounds like Apple's, apart from white backgrounds. Speech writing is the same, uses the same words like delightful, great, blah blah. Weird.
Why people shouldn’t love you for who you are
I bet you don't have any children to have such a badly twisted mind.
I think the sad refers to people how tried to find someone through craigslist.
I wonder if we will ever figure a way to resume improving clock cycles instead of adding more parallelism.

Parallelism has two major issues:

First, not all applications need it, in many cases you want to do just a series of operations in a single starting number, and you don't need anything else, like if you are for example calculating a factorial, if you need only one factorial, it is useless to make it more parallel.

Second, it is absurdly hard to code stuff for heavily parallelised hardware, most coders will make crap code that don't work, no matter how good we become in making helper libraries, it is totally another way of thinking.

Yes, for some things, like servers, where you can throw a user into each core, it is nice... But for many other uses, even simple single-core parallelism, like SIMD, is not much useful.
Facebook is in business for Facebook.

They're willing (and smart) to leverage independent efforts where they assist this. But... only so long as they do.

Look at it from this perspective: If a functionality becomes important, would they not be "derelict" in their duty not to attempt to bring it under their control? In-house, acquisition, whatever.

If you choose to help them out, they're not going to say no. But you should keep the balance of power in such a relationship in mind.
By watching all of these videos and practicing a bit on my own, do you believe I will gain the appropriate knowledge base to create a solid web application?
This is why Obamacare is bad. Now we will be taxed to pay for this.

Edit: I worked for 5 years at a HMO in data analytics.
I work on a government contract. I've seen how much money the government can waste in general and I think this is the wrong solution.

If we do go to a government based system we need a way to make the government accountable for KEEPING costs down while still providing the best care they can to everyone. I don't think that just saying "let the government handle it" is the right mentality. We must first establish a mission for that (emerging) department of the government and keep them to it.

Also, how can we switch to a national health service, while we are over budget by about 40%? Sure, let's do it, but that would mean a reduction of government elsewhere by 40% first and THEN we could being to take other parts away while adding a national health service...
What about them ?

I honestly don't think of them as IDEs more as text editors with syntax highlighting.
the question was "How do we know LivingSocial is the truthful one?" which is different than "how do I know PrivCo is the one being dishonest?".
Domai.nr rules. I love the service. Sometimes I'll go on the site just to mess around with various word configurations.
Google Store //
Play Store //
Google Phone //
Chromebook Pixel

Apple Store //
App Store //
iPhone //
Macbook Pro

Microsoft Store (http://content.microsoftstore.com/Home.aspx ) //
Windows Store //
Windows Phone //
Microsoft Surface RT

ok, very innovative strategies I'd say..
I have to say, concise doesn't necessarily imply "idiomatic" or "expressive". I have to take your word for that example being concise, because that looks like jumble code to me (specially with the weird indentation and long method names that plague the library.)
Actually here in Quebec, Canada, some grocery stores do have a fee, but not all of them. They decide whether they charge for plastic bags or not.
What I don't get is the states where it's at a bar. I can understand how it's weird to talk to people in some of those other places but a bar is an explicitly social environment. If people didn't want to talk to others, they'd be drinking at home for far less money. As cliche as it is, "hey, can I buy you a drink" still works as an ice breaker.
There should be a requirement that doctors post all prices like car mechanics.
On Building Friendly Software
I use reusable Costco bags everywhere.

Question: What do most people do with plastic grocery bags? I think most, like me, use them to line our under the sink garbage bins. So without those grocery store bags what happens? You buy "under the sink" plastic name brand trash bags to line with. So where is the savings? You can't use paper bags for obvious reasons.

So are we really saving anything? Are people just buying trash more trash bags? I think this movement is largely for show and has yielded minor plastic savings at best.
I was going to reply to this with a reasoned response, but below you've gotten silly and abusive, so enjoy yourself.
Give http://codeschool.com or http://teamtreehouse.com a try. They should put you well on your way.
Why do you assume you're in the majority?

I heartily support the freedom to unlock one's own phone and so forth, but I'd bet $5 that the majority of people haven't thought about it that much and think carrier lockin is an acceptable price to pay for 'cheap' phones. Just because everyone you know agrees with you doesn't mean you form a majority; it just means you're part of a clique.
Look at this completely disproportionate response over one lousy icon. As someone else mentioned, this is likely the result of a lazy graphic designer, not corporate malice.

How many KDE users have pirated Sony content anyway, hmm?
The JVM has plenty of non-blocking IO available - what do you think Play's support of it is built on top of? See Netty, for example.
Interactive essay/tool on proportions in web typography
On a 13" display, those specs are a gimmick, MAYBE useful for examining professional photos.
My problem with the "I'm betting on Elon" approach is that the market is clearly already betting on Elon, to the point of somewhere between 10-40x a sensible company valuation. If you buy now, you're betting on a clearly ridiculously-optimistic valuation being not quite ridiculously-optimistic enough. You're not the first person to have considered that the company might be successful and grow exponentially in the future -- that's already priced in to the stock!

Talking about long-term bets, it would be interesting to read about how the electric car future might tie into the driverless car future. My understanding is that we'll have many fewer cars around in the driverless future, even if the cars that we do have are electric.
I endorse that. Wanted something lightweight to service some lage number of static pages on android and jQuery M performed just too bad.
You should run Play with "~run" which recompiles on file-change. Running with just "run" doesn't recompile until you hit refresh in your browser. This provides a noticeable difference in the "effective" compile time.
I'll give you $50 for it!
A product making a buyer happy is not a condition for whether a purchase is rational or not. If you have a family, then suddenly you decide to buy a ticket to Amsterdam and burn your kids college money on hookers and blow, being 'happy' doesn't suddenly make all of that rational.
This is not to mention the constant horse trading that is the norm in congress. i.e. You vote for my bill and I'll vote for yours.
Nobody is debating whether LivingSocial has a world of problems.

We're debating the veracity of all of the non-public details that made your report interesting. Well, in theory we are. Only one side of the debate seems to have showed up.
The CNN article has been updated again:

"That same source insists LivingSocial was not days or weeks away from a bankruptcy filing, adding that it had around $28 million in cash at its February low point and was on plan to steadily increase that number even without the new financing. Had that figure not increased, and had no new investment been forthcoming, it still could have survived for several more months."

Regardless of Privco, not exactly encouraging for employees and prospective merchants. I also wonder how much of the $110 million will actually be used for growing the business versus covering current liabilities, such as those due to existing merchants.
Yeah, it will make sense once they expand their servers to cover that area.
One of my favorite pieces of wordplay. Right up there with "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
Ask HN:  If you could master one technology this year, what would it be?
If someone had a gun to your head and asked you to choose one thing to learn that you thought would bear the most fruit which framework, language, software would you choose. Only one.
…from 33-MHz to 3-GHz, a thousand-fold increase…

There had to be a better way to write that. I suppose more work per clock cycle and increased number of cores contributes the other x10 of raw performance. But then the author goes on to say they are stuck, which isn't true of performance, only clock rate. In any event, putting an "up is down" in your sentence should generally be avoided.

Edit: The >>>proscribed<<< method for resolving this is a “lock”, where… Sigh.

The article covers a lot of ground lightly. It talks about the new Haswell transactional memory instructions, the way Linux shards network counters, and a way to make Linux not use a core so you can schedule a process on it that will never be preempted.
I have many absurd notions, but you're mistaken about what they might be. As far as I'm concerned, ideas are cosmic birds.
in my memories they were more registers/index than free text search engines.
and besides that, some engines seemed in comparison to the clear interface cluttered, since they also were portals.

Voting one down for describing another experience bothers me. The internet in a non-US country might have even been more different than nowaddays.
The FACTS speak for themselves. Look at the sales and Apple's advertising.
Paying an extra thousand dollars for a much improved experience of a device that you'll look at 5-10 hours a day for several years, doesn't seem to me to be out of line, even if it does act as a dumb terminal.

The real answer is: depends on what $1000 means to you.

We have an idea what $1000 means to most people
Who uses 1TB of storage?
The comparison I'm thinking is that google is trying to be more Intel than Microsoft.

Intel did the whole 'intel inside' thing, and people recognized the brand, without really understanding what it was for or caring, they just knew that is what they wanted.

People thought they understood what Microsoft did (and maybe they do), but I think intel was just this thing you absolutely had to have. Nobody could compete with it, because they'd need to explain what it does, and that would likely put people to sleep and they wouldn't understand anyway.
Religious organizations have the bonus of being able to coerce not only through threat of firing and social ostracization, but also through the threat of eternal damnation.

Tax-exempt religious organizations such as churches can (but often don't) have their tax-exempt status revoked for urging their congregation to vote for specific political candidates already.
It's interesting when this comes up. Having grown up in a medical family I think there are some interesting misunderstandings about medicine between laymen (see fancy words here).

1. The treatment outcome between the standard treatment and the deluxe treatment is more often than not statistically insignificant. Basically medicine is still a barbarically primitive science where we barely understand what happens in a body. Thus trials take years and years and yet even if new drugs are approved they end up hurting people.

2. The medical "market" will never be a perfect, due to information asymmetry between the doctor and you the patient. Even if you think you know it's unlikely you are able to understand if option A is better than option B for your treatment.

3. If you have a heart attack you are in no position to negotiate what is a fair price or not, nor are you able to take a rational decision about what treatment is the best cost/benefit for your acute condition. Thus the "provider" has all negotiation power and can charge you what they want (you can of course refuse treatment but that's unlikely to happen).

4. Throw in a boondoggle of more or less serious insurance providers that creates what amounts to hundreds of "distinct" overstaffed administrative systems and you've got the recipe for a dysfunctional expensive non sustainable health care system where more and more "non-poor" people will outside any sensible coverage for themselves and their families.

Any solution to this problem will be drastic both for the industry as a whole and for society.

That said there are some possible good things happening over the next decade. Having a dad that works on cancer vaccines I can tell you that for certain cancers in the next decade the treatment will be as easy as a shot in the arm every week and the prognosis will be much better than the "literal" clubbing of people half to death with inaccurate drugs and chemotherapy.
These questions and more are adresssed in the FAQ: http://shop.highsoft.com/faq
I just submitted a fix for one of the issues I found. It's actually just as easy as reporting the issue to them directly. Thanks 'fork & edit'!
*modern CCD and CMOS image sensors perceive the color as smooth colorless gray noise (also called a low noise)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_Attribute_Language is the most widespread example. We ended up switching to haskell and using heist, which is the same type of deal. The "view first" thing was certainly very irritating, but minor overall compared to other weaknesses in the framework.
I'd say building a business that improves these issues is close to the best we can do to help those directly affected by the system.

I can imagine an app that would help the uninsured to survive a hospital without going bankrupt could do quite well. You would have a very clear distribution channel (hospitals and word-of-mouth while at the hospital) and a strong need with a quantifiable upside.

You could probably make an app that's just an e-book that's already worth $20, let alone when you add things like a TrueCar.com for hospital charges.
Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview: A First Look for the Nexus 7
Citing both the article and my personal experience, it would take more than that to make that deal worth taking.
> That doesn't mean they actually have insight into why products fail.

I think it's gut reaction: I wouldn't use this product or recommend it to my friends. I think most of the time, that gut reaction is on point. Sometimes it's wrong, like the iPad, because you don't see the use for it until you try it, but that's the exception.
My main problem with this is that Spotify utilizes the full upstream bandwidth, causing the latency to go up dramatically on connections where the upstream is limited. If they were just a little bit intelligent and limited the streaming to 90% of the available bandwidth I'd be okay with it since that wouldn't affect the latency.

Question: What is the best way to traffic shape all upstream connections on OS X? I've tried ipfw but I can't figure out a good way to e.g. limit the upload on all apps except for e.g. SSH.
It's an i5 processor, 2 cores at 1.8ghz. New generation arm processors, for example the tegra 4, is quad core at 1.9ghz.

Wouldn't it be both more powerful and have more battery life, if it had waited for the tegra 4? Or am I missing something?
The absolute best way to buy stocks is to wait until something happens in the market that seems to be based on emotions and then bet the other way. 2 best examples I can remember where I noticed this was when Citi was at $1 despite the fact we knew the bailout was coming (I bought, but not enough) and when Facebook was at $17 because investors kept getting hammered with "Facebook hasn't figured out mobile" shit over and over. Didn't buy then because I was super broke (http://tommy.authpad.com/the-one-year-anniversary-of-sleepin...)
^^ this summarizes what I;m trying to say probably better than anything I actually wrote.
Regarding the idea of using an old laptop as a dev server, have you run into any issues as a result of having the laptop on all the time (such as overheating)?

Also, how would you set it up so that you can log in to your laptop from outside your LAN? I have a few old machines lying around and it would be great if I could put them to use as servers.
> so much for keeping your nationality secret

Being accused of being a spy is much worse than a normal soldier.

(Well, mostly, before these times of insurgent/asymmetrical/guerilla warfare)
And to be specific, vaccums work by creating a low pressure locality inside of a gas. Same principle behind a backwards fan. Push the gas one way, you create a small low pressure point that other gas then fills. In a vaccume-cleaner the region of gas that can rush in to fill the low pressure point is at the end of a nozzle.

Really, you're not vacuuming up objects, they're just along for the ride in their immediate atmosphere.

(...And in space, you have no atmosphere to manipulate.)
Mine were from DARPA. The docs I was requesting should have been rather large (~100 pages x 15), so I was willing to pay up to $500 for 'em. Instead, they sent a curt reply (1 page or so) and a bill for $80. I'm not willing to post 'em publicly... but my email is in my profile.
Have you tried increasing text size? Or is it not just text but also images?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/60044/how-do-i-change-the-fon...
You can also store it in the holes that you took natural gas out of. I'm not aware of it being done on any large scale, but it's been talked about a lot.
The cybercrime challenge
First Engineer at Early-Stage VC Funded Startup with Revenue
Pathjoy is a platform for connecting homeowners with high-quality, trustworthy, affordable home service providers - starting with home cleaning. Started by Aaron and Adora - a brother and sister hacker duo - Pathjoy rose out of Y Combinator and is now funded by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Max Levchin, First Round Capital, and Paul Buchheit. Our goal is to bring affordable, safe and convenient services to every home - and out of the category of a luxury service - while treating our contractors exceptionally well. We've got a proven business model that’s already expanded to 5 cities while maintaining high customer satisfaction. Now we’re looking for a self-motivated individual to lead engineering and solve our problems with code.

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Here’s what we’re looking for:

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* Your peers describe you as a rockstar, but the term embarrasses you. Pathjoy has a culture that revolves entirely around our customers and cleaners, not our egos.

* You’ve built significant web applications in Python and can show us what you shipped and how you made critical product decisions (let’s talk if you don’t know Python but have 5+ years of exceptional web experience)

* You’ve got a Computer Science degree

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That page is in an eternal redirect loop (FF19/Win7). With a redirect to self every three seconds it is not easy to read.
Designer News, what's the deal?
There has been a lot of speculation whether designer news will be forever-closed or is just running a temp test pilot. What's the true story? Is it going to be like dribbble? Will it be another exclusive club for designers? Or are they going to let the crowd decide what is worth reading and what is worthy of the design community's praise? My vote is for the latter.

#WeNeedAnswers
The i5 is hardly a gratuitous CPU. It's a fairly mid-range CPU. The phrasing of the first comment sounds like it's talking about some completely over the top system, like a 12 core Mac Pro.