skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the part where you quoted me out of context to make me seem unreasonable.

I don't know what you mean. I'm trying to show you why people perceive you as having an unreasonable sense of entitlement: it's the things you say that makes people think that. If your own words strike you as unreasonable, you may be close to understanding why other people see them that way.

I don't know what context you want me to have included. The reasons you give (e.g. "I want it", "it's available" and "it's fucking simple to do") don't make you seem any less like you have an unreasonable sense of entitlement. It's like saying "I eat because I'm hungry and there is food." Those things are obvious. But neither of them explain why you feel justified in taking from somebody else's plate.

The difference stands out even more without the analogy: Hunger is an actual human need, whereas watching Game of Thrones the night it's first broadcast in another hemisphere is actually very far from being a need.
One article with a meaningful use-case and i am very tempted to buy the the Surface Pro.

I think this is where Apple's marketing Excels over Microsoft's.

Apple will show you use-cases like this all day long, showing you how their products are a better tool to get your job done.

Microsoft on the other hand -"it has more memory", "USB", "its Powerful", "hd screen", "it runs excel", "side by side apps", "YAWN".

Great article; VERY TEMPTING.
Locatestreet: the random location game
People are surprisingly incompetent when it comes self identifying and describe symptoms as well as self monitoring disease progression (people here includes doctors). That's precisely why the placebo effect exists.

For example, what would you bet that most people describing improvement on a glutenfree diet are merely experiencing the benefits of an overall healthier diet that has little to nothing to do with their gluten intake and has everything to do with them not eating half a pizza twice a week.
How so?

The modern take on China-Taiwan relations is free trade and cross-strait economic cooperation. The Chinese have a not-very-hidden goal of having this lead to eventual political reunification. The Taiwanese are much more ambivalent about this concept, but are embracing whatever option leads to continued de facto independence. The Taiwanese-independence issue is no longer the hot button topic it once was.

In short, so long as Taiwan makes no overtures towards actual independence, this relationship is stable, with lifting trade interference being a publicly stated goal on both sides.

Source: I'm a Taiwanese expat.
Another niche would be journalists (and of course bloggers). I visit trade shows a lot and every gramm i can could down is nice. I tried the iPad, but it didn't realy work, mostly because I was unable to connect the camera in a decent way (the camera connection kit is a joke).
France scores pretty poorly in terms of breast-friendliness. I have the feeling it comes a lot from formula-making companies capitalizing on feminist movements back then.

The marketing terms are way more pervasive in France than in the US (Where I have most of my experience). This is biased, of course, but most often I heard about "Formula" here, but in France I heard: "Lait de croissance (growing up milk)", "Lait Maternise (`maternalized` milk)", "lait infantile (infantile milk)", etc...
IANAL, but I think the short version is: if you're not handling money, it probably doesn't matter. If you are handling money, you need a lawyer.
This is very beta/alpha an should be treated as such.

The dev is focused on depth of gameplay before all else.
Wait, so which direction did you go in real life?
Specifically, these lines: http://jsfiddle.net/Kerrick/ZLGtn/

Works in browsers that support CSS Filters.
Isn't it obvious? When you have your stuff stored digitally it

(a) takes care of the organizational aspects of note taking and

(b) makes notes reusable.

The payoff as a student is exam prep: Now you sit at a powerful desktop computer with, say, 2x 21 inch screen estate at your disposal. You have a file explorer, a layout document editor (I use Pages and/or Keynote for this) and a good pdf viewer open (with your exported notes). Now it's a matter of copy & pasting all the information from your notes, the official class notes, literature, etc. onto your layout document which then becomes your summary.

This is of course doable by hand but it's a lot more work and it's not as easy to extend it - you can't just make room for new information on a full piece of paper (and summaries, especially the ones you can take to exams, tend to be very full).
Thank you for trying.
What script `pidigits.rb' do you use?
I'm not sure why Python has to be backwards compatible with Java, given that Python is a totally different language released four years before Java.
Startups in San Quentin
Sounds like an atheist, more so in the KJV version. I thought the bible was pro-heaven? http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3...

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work,
nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
From the article:

> I sent the following message to github support on 24 Feb but have not yet received a reply.

So the author reported that issue yesterday, on Sunday, and didn't receive any reply today, on Monday in the morning.

That sounds like complaining on a very high level.
Give the time frame (600 million to 2 billion years since it sank) are there likely to be interesting fossils on the sea bed? What about oil?
#HTML5 - Page scrolling using device orientation event
"is just as poor an assumption as your accusing others of"

you + are = YOU'RE
What if everything you know is wrong?
My latest crash under the snow
Some of the weird-but-essential moves such as castling and en passant will not be apparent to you even after hours of playing like that.
I _almost_ added support to linguist once, but something stopped me. I can't quite remember what it was... I _think_ it was that only edge pygments supported Rust.
Interestingly enough, TOML is somewhat similar to valid CoffeeScript hash/array syntax, apart from the auto-vivifying hashes bit (and native dates, natch). Here's the top of that highlighted document:

# This is not a TOML document. Boom.

title: "TOML Example"

owner:
name: "Tom Preston-Werner"
organization: "GitHub"
bio: "GitHub Cofounder & CEO\nLikes tater tots and beer."
dob: "1979-05-27T07:32:00Z" # First class dates? 'Fraid not.

database:
server: "192.168.1.1"
ports: [ 8001, 8001, 8002 ]
connection_max: 5000
enabled: true

servers:

# Indentation matters. Tabs or spaces. CS don't care.
alpha:
ip: "10.0.0.1"
dc: "eqdc10"

beta:
ip: "10.0.0.2"
dc: "eqdc10"

Proof: http://goo.gl/3xV4P
But Chess is a game that you're already familiar with - unless you're going to be changing the absolute foundation of the game with these altered rules, your familiarity with the original game is what allows you to come up with an altered set of rules.

Compare that to Dwarf Fortress, short of 'Sim City' (which is a dubious comparison at best), there is nothing out there that remotely comes close to the myriad of gameplay concepts that have been shoved into this single, mildly coherent package.
The first two are required for Java compatibility, the latest probably can be mitigated by compiling it to native using LLVM (http://greedy.github.com/scala-llvm/) (I haven't used it).
Four years of stomach trouble. Dropped gluten on the suggestion of a friend with celiac. In 2 days the problem was gone. After four years. I honestly couldn't believe it.

Sure, I miss pizza and beer to a certain extent, but, as you rightly point out, it's a small price to pay for feeling normal and healthy.

jm2c, not a doctor, etc etc.
Paid subscription code found in youtube app update
Become a Graphics Pro for Free During Photoshop Week
What is the difference between that and sudo bash
A Review Of Two Python Books
I like Javascript. It took me some time to fully understand it, but it is rewarding.

Coffeescript feels to me like the icing on the cake for anyone who understands what the resulting JS will function like.
How is this different than Koding? http://koding.com
You're funny! An absolutely unqualified categorical refutation of tiresome internet quackery.

Any qualifications in the area?
Fixed in chrome beta, but yeah you're right; many android users won't be able to use this.
It's not entirely gluten-free. I can drink a little, but not a ton of it, which sucks because I miss real beer. Here's the disclaimer on their website:

Product fermented from grains containing
gluten and crafted to remove gluten. The
gluten content of this product cannot be
verified, and this product may contain
gluten.

I've found it at nearly every co-op and Whole Foods in Seattle, btw.
No it preserves information by not losing any pixel, instead it pad extra pixel
Will start using very soon!
Actually, I signed up for the free FT subscription to read the article, it is excellent.
Sadly it basically says there are a lot of connections between Washington power, including Obama fund raisers and Comcast's lobbyists, and it calls in question whether Washington has the incentives and interest to increase competition in high-speed Internet arena.

I recommend reading, in spite of the free registration requirement.
> the iPhone 5 (the only electronic device Foxconn is assembling)

What do you mean?

"Notable products that the company manufactures include the iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, PlayStation 3 and Wii U."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
Flagged as blog spam. Entire post is literally three sentences long and links to a much better article from the journal Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/long-lost-continent-found-under-t...

See also other "lost" "continents": Zealandia [0] in the Pacific (near New Zealand, obviously), Sundaland [1] near the Malay islands, and the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian west of Australia [2]. Interesting how these three are all very close to one another.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealandia_(continent)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundaland

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Plateau
I was overly subtle, because that was my point.

As a data-disposed person, my first response to practicing physician's regular resistance to "evidence-based" medicine has often been one of astonishment. Those on the ground with patients are very careful, and also figure out how to manage incomplete information pretty well.

You may especially have missed my points that tonsils are rarely, if ever, removed anymore, and appendices are removed less often, too. I don't know if anyone knows why we need these organs, yet currently practicing physicians just choose to assume that we shouldn't remove stuff without a very grave reason.
I have to admit, I'm a little confused about the value proposition here. Yes, managing dev environments is indeed a pain. So the answer is...ditch local development entirely and code in the cloud? I'd argue that the better solution is to create a makefile for dev environments and distribute that to your team. You might even call it "Boxen" and release it on Github a few days ago.

Call me crazy, but I'm really reluctant to throw away the thousands of hours I have invested in my dev tools to use some web-based dev tools that may not be around in 6 months. It's good that you have web-based vim and emacs emulators/clones/etc but I don't use vim or emacs.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but it would also worry me to trust another company with, well, basically my entire programming stack from dev tools to code to runtime. Especially if the HQ is not in the US (and it looks like your main HQ is in Singapore, so if you do steal something the barrier-to-justice is even higher than normal. OTOH you might get caned for stealing code, which makes things interesting.)

The thing that might be somewhat successful is a kind of CPanel for developers, where you can host your own web-enabled dev tools, and pay a subscription fee to a company to keep your stuff up-to-date. Hey, that's a good idea!
Three Common Email Marketing Failures
This is old news, already heavily discussed ~2 months ago here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4935623
We need more of these tl;dr, circa(http://cir.ca/) style news content
Learn everything you can from your job -- but sooner or later you will exhaust its learning potential. When that happens, invest all your energy NOT in the job but in getting a better one, or in lieu of that, building skills to open up opportunities.
Turns out that I'm wrong on the municipal monopoly, that was changed in 1992 [1], and I was mistakenly perpetuating a common misconception.

[1] http://www.muninetworks.org/content/cable-monopoly-result-pr...
As near as I can tell, the author doesn't seem to understand the import of Chinese New Year. Happens ever year. No news here.
Automatic blinds controller + Electric Imp
What do you guys think about the design?
Spoiler alert: doesn't work on iOS. Tapping just reveals it.
This is interesting. I think have the opposite of this but no idea what that would be called. I can eat all the white bread, pasta, dough and other gluten rich foot but the moment I eat a (mildly) spicy curry, 5 mins. later it's running for the toilet...

It's seems to have gotten worse now I'm a little older (40). Sounds familiar to anyone?
>> I regret nothing and I don't see how college could have possibly made my situation any better.

Yes that was your situation then and that doesn't apply to others.

>> I simply rejected the notion that college is necessary and found employers who were willing to look at my skills rather than pieces of paper which anyone with enough cash can now attain.

Can you say the same to accountants, doctors, etc.?
Can someone explain exactly what these commands do? IPFW is deprecated, and PF is the replacement. I found a GUI front-end for PF (http://www.hanynet.com/icefloor/index.html ) but it shows that all inbound connections are already blocked. Thus I don't know what the equivalent settings are. Thanks.
These are probably off-net cache servers for Google, which means that to save money on transit costs, Time Warner has installed special servers and Youtube references them directly for Comcast subscribers (lot's of things give this away, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was DNS based and they know based upon your resolver. Try switching over to a global but not eDNS based resolver and see what happens).

If that is the case, it's not unlikely that the off-net boxes are simply overloaded for people in this guy's usage area.
My beard is rather short as of yet, but I've always read 'su' as an acronym for 'setuid' (because that's what it does).
What is your best/worst decision of your life?
What's this fragmentation you speak of? Surely you won't be forced to use one particular format you don't like. An API usually supports multiple formats.
Uplink with real (virtualized) servers? Count me in!
I also enjoyed the review. A lot of reviews on devices with a stylus, especially wacom enabled devices, never really go into any detail about the feature. It's generally glossed over with short paragraph about how it works fine and their test was just to scribble a few words.

Most of the reviewers never seem to consider the idea that using a stylus would be a remotely useful feature and never put any thought using examining it. As a result, the review is mostly useless for someone who does want to use the feature.
Most of the stated advantages are advantages over brain-dead protocols (such as FTP) or brain-dead implementations (not using the advanced IO possibilities of modern OS kernels).

So, what's the advantage over e.g. simply using Rsync?
Ecclesiastes is in the Old Testament. The possibility of eternal life in heaven was only offered by Christ.
Hi Kenneth,

I first wanted to say thanks for putting up this essay on product management. I don't think quality pieces on the subject are easy to come by, and I think you give a lot of valuable and tangible insight on it.

Second, it looks like you favor past experience as a PM --- but what about college grads? Do you think it's usually a better idea for someone just beginning their career in the "real world" to start out as an engineer first? Maybe this sounds obvious as I've stated it, but I have a few friends that started their careers as PMs and have been successful. Interviewing a college grad might be a little trickier, no?

Lastly, I definitely agree that a big part of being a good PM, or maybe a good manager in general, is making good, or even just reasonable, decisions on a regular basis. There are seemingly endless small choices that need to be made that add up to a lot, and many of these choices (I've found) aren't going to be dead obvious. A decision, however, needs to be made and it's important that to make a decent one without dedicating too much time to it based off of your understanding of the goals of the project, your experience, and your gut instinct.
When you see a giant screenshot of a video at the top of an article you are looking at a website that is treating you like a fucking idiot.
How do you know their issues are somatic, or that the relief they experience is a placebo effect?
Lessig on "Aaron's Laws - Law and Justice in a Digital Age"
Your Next Video Game Will Be Set In The UK
This is outstanding.

"Lawrence Lessig marked his appointment as Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School with a lecture titled "Aaron's Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age." The lecture honored the memory and work of Aaron Swartz, the programmer and activist who took his own life on Jan. 11, 2013 at the age of 26."
Vilnius-Based CGTrader Raises €185K From Practica Capital
Fortran 77 Function Call Tree Generator
Yeah, a link to an apple help doc that shows a dialog of Battlefield 3
Good point, I didn't notice that one. Certainly an interesting case. The ones that exist that shouldn't I don't think are as big of issues but it is certainly not an easy problem to solve here.
I think `joshguthrie` means something along the lines of this:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/

I think `su` is pretty good as-is, but sudo has a bit of feature creep. For example, I don't think these belong in sudo (taken from Linux):

-e: edit something

-l: list allowed/forbidden commands

-p: change prompt

Ideally, sudo would just run as root and su would just switch users. Then instead of:

sudo -u some_user cmd

You'd do this instead:

sudo su -c "cmd" some_user

Su only does one thing (switch users, -c for one-off cmd) and sudo only does one thing (change to root). Currently, both "sudo -u some_user cmd" and "sudo su -c some_user cmd" accomplish basically the same thing, which is a sign of feature creep.
Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies
Do you need a django admin theme compatible with django-cms and satchmo?
Using a macro language was already bad in the 90ies (autoconf/automake using m4), but using one in 2000 is just tragic.

It is also impossible to debug, partly because of the abomination the cmake language is: even understanding where a variable is defined is hard, and because the language is so unexpressive, the Find*.cmake modules are often in the 1000s lines count.

For all its suckiness, I take autoconf/automake over cmake.
Are you using mobile safari or a third party browser?
Is it even better than random?

This anti-portfolio is so impressive it seems to suggest a strategy of investing a small amount in all but the stupidest rather than even trying to pick winners
Whoah, celiac doesn't cause your small intestine to necrotise. And it doesn't put you in the ER if you eat a little gluten. For one thing, every celiac has a different set of symptoms. Many many people go there whole life not knowing they have celiac until they come down with a very specific type of cancer later in life, when they find out they were celiac.
I find myself trying desperately to return to utter boredom.
It was the featured article in Reddit Today I Learned subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/

Probably the author just got the idea from there and shared it here.
There is a wonderful talk from 9 years ago for the Stanford EE380 class by Bob Colwell titled "Things CPU Architects Need To Think About" which remains relevant today. Bob was leader of the Pentium Pro through Pentium 4 projects at Intel. There are fascinating tidbits in there including things like at most 4 people actually understood the processor as a whole, how you have to introduce random delays in order to improve performance, complexity, and even how the Itanium was accepted. He also mentions what happened with the Pentium FDIV bug.

Go to http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay0304.html find 18 February 2004 and then click on the icon on the right - it goes to http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/040218-ee3... which can be played with VLC on Linux.

What this highlights is how complexity is creeping in everywhere - the CPU that looks like a deterministic black box to software developers is actually extremely complex. Heck even a "network card" these days isn't something that just shovels packets to/from the wire. Many even have an ARM processor on them. The same is true for storage controllers.
Playstation Mobile
http://www.playstation.com/psm/index_e.html

No devkit, just download the SDK and run on your PC. It's free to try and costs $100 year to deploy to devices and actually self publish your game.
"Product management is a weird discipline full of oddballs and rejects that never quite fit in anywhere else. For my part, I loved the technical challenges of engineering but despised the coding. I liked solving problems, but I hated having other people tell me what to do. I wanted to be a part of the strategic decisions, I wanted to own the product. Marketing appealed to my creativity, but I knew I'd dislike being too far away from the technology. Engineers respected me, but knew my heart was elsewhere and generally thought I was too "marketing-ish." People like me naturally gravitate to product management."

I've been toying with the idea that I'm cut out to be a product manager and this just convinced me.

Also this:

"In fact, that's the first test - how do they react when I say 'I'd like to pose some theoretical problems, is that okay?' The best of the bunch are usually bouncing out of their chairs with excitement. The super smart sometimes counter with questions of their own."

Asking me this alone would make me substantially more interested in the job.
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I'm going to admit that I haven't had the chance to read the review in its entirety, but I wanted to reply to this comment anyway. I have a similar issue where I feel as if I am not getting a lot out of many of the reviews I read for products online.

For one, I think it's really hard to convey succinctly how well a product works. Many reviews will put up charts and graphs with benchmarks. But what exactly does a score of (for example) 11,204 mean? The answer, to me, is VERY LITTLE. You can compare it to another phone, but if another phone has a score of, say, 10,000, does that mean this phone is \approx 10% better? Is it 10% faster in what I am going to use it for? No, of course not --- you can't measure how good a device is with a single number, nor even if you single out just its graphics capabilities or whatever slightly more specific metric you choose.

Otherwise, articles might throw more subjective descriptions in the picture. "The experience was very smooth". Maybe reading it through quickly that sounds all well and good, but how much does that tell you? It's still a very vague term simply because many of these products have so many things going on it's hard to encapsulate them in a review in a useful way.

Anyway, in this case, the article pinpoints a very particular task and examines how good the device was at that one task. I think that is already a great sign that you can get a lot more out of this than a much more general review.