skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hold down Alt while clicking the Go menu to see your Library folder.

or

(sudo??) chflags nohidden /Library
chflags nohidden ~/Library

in Terminal (to make it visible all the time)
If you quit while you still have passion, it's too early. If you spend your life following a passion, and never achieve "success", was that a life wasted? What is the alternative?
There's a difference when you're giving an addict drugs, it's not longer a nice gesture. Think of it like offering a drink to someone at AA - you're going to send them back into the dark hole.
Nature has always been one of the more innovative publishing houses when it comes to new technology and models. By that, I mean they don't have completely allergic reactions to words like altmetrics. Though other publishing groups are still lagging far behind Nature, I'm actually quite alright with that.
Ask HN:What is the future of Detroit?
Every now and again I get this feeling that something that is pretty universally "not worth anyone's time" has become so uncool, that it just sort of feels cool. I'll never forget the first time I got this feeling. I was in high school, and despite the fact that everyone I knew was wearing super baggy jeans, I felt like it might be interesting to try slim fitting ones. Needless to say, times have changed.
I realize that's somewhat of an unrelated circumstance, but it's the same exact feeling I got when I decided to buy an apple computer in 2005 (I took some heat for that one at the time), and the same feeling that provoked me to buy into Facebook when all the journalists were hating on it ($19, woo!).

Now I'm getting that feeling about Detroit. I'm hearing bits and pieces about artists moving there, which is always the first sign of gentrification, and it's just sort of made me curious as to how everyone else feels about the future city.

Thoughts?
"elif" just doesn't sound good :P
I wrote this technique up in detail a few weeks ago - about how to do this on the internal storage, another guide on doing it from SD... etc etc, all here: http://craigerrington.com/blog/
SEO is a misnomer. They don't aid search engines, and they certainly don't optimise them in any way.

Goggle doesn't need your optimisation "help". Just create compelling content. That means you need to be open, informative, interesting and innovative.
In my opinion, the recommendation of not going above #222 is not because it's illegible per se (that would depend on font weight indeed), but because you have to take into account external uncertainties like poorly calibrated displays, ambient light, bad backlights, etc.

Better be safe and go with a darker text.
In seattle we have a ton of missions and shelters in the downtown area. Most have a one night limit, or a weekly one night limit. But Seattle is also very walkable and there is enough shelters to round-robin and have somewhere to stay/get a meal every night of the week.

We also had a downtown "free ride" with our bus system which let you take the bus within the downtown area free of charge to promote downtown living/working. But this ended up being dominated with loitering homeless. Luckily, they finally got rid of this last summer.
"For legal reasons" doesn't mean "because what they're doing is legal", it means "for reasons related to the law" (i.e., what they're doing is against it). That wasn't doublespeak, it was pretty clear.
It's very possible I'm off base here. I'm going purely on observation and anecdotal things. Do you happen to have any hard stats off hand?

Edit:

I looked it up. You're right in that Latinos hold the second highest percentage of homelessness at 33%, but when you consider population size, it sort of becomes irrelevant. Latinos make up 47% of the total population in LA. Blacks make up only 9% however they're a full 50% of the homeless population. This means that per capita, Latinos are 5 times less likely to be homeless than blacks.
Measure the community's appreciation on the upvotes your submissions get. No upvotes? Don't post articles like those, since the community doesn't want them. Lots of upvotes? Post more like those, since the community wants them.
That's a little facetious, isn't it? The fact that there is a fad around this diet has nothing to do with it's provenance. It's a fad diet for most people because they adopted it because of the fad and they will drop it just as quickly. That doesn't mean it's a bad diet, just that fashion is fickle.
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One word: deflationary.
Not sure if this is true in Canada, but in the US at least, employers are required to pay you in USD (at least up to the minimum wage). And, if someone offers to pay you in CND for your work in Canada, you can't refuse them, even if you'd rather be paid in BTC.

Sure, you can exchange USD, CND and BTC as much as you wish, but the point is that, within Canada, you can be certain that you can always pay and be paid in CND -- which can't be said for any other currency.
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Yeah same here, only replace "OS X" with "Windows".
I'm impressed that people on an online forum with visitors from all around the world think that abbreviating the name of some far out small town makes sense.

I get NY and SF, but "Wyo" for anything other than Wyoming?
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+1 for Spectacle, I only use like 3 simple configurations, and Spectacle is simple and free.
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The rate of propagation of new treatments is an issue, certainly. However, it is something that a good primary care physician is able to (or rather, should) look-up in an instant if the first line treatment isn't effective. There are no secret treatments being withheld from anyone. Any really cutting-edge research is also of uncertain benefit, simply because it hasn't been tested often enough.
I absolutely agree with other comments here. This is not a software startup, is a service and nobody cares about the software that supports it. You should concentrate you efforts on provide the best support you can and not the technical details.
Nominet not proceeding (yet) with offering second-level .uk domain names
If you're demonstrating or introducing a CSS library/tool, I'd recommend not minifying the CSS on the page.

A few places I inspected the elements to see how it was working in the real world - i.e. this site - and it's a bit of a pain to work out which bit of line 29 a particular rule is on.
Heh, yeah, but I didn't claim it to be the worst thing.

It was the first thing that annoyed me enough to sort of start questioning "why am I reading this?". Then I sort of re-realized the source (a site with "tech" in its name) and got annoyed, so I quit reading and went back here to ... whine. :)
That doesn't make PHP unique. AWK already did that.

By extension, a pitfall of interview questions: you can't always assume you actually know the correct answer or even that there is a correct answer. Which may cause interviewees to start secondguessing themselves and make them appear worse than they are. You can basically send them into an infinite loop by an illformed question. "Does he mean that they aren't actually arrays? Well, he can't mean that, because there are other languages whose arrays are actually hash tables. And they aren't called 'associative arrays' for nothing. So what does he mean?"
I bought my laptop in September, popped out the HD and swapped in an SSD, and installed Linux Mint. No hassle, everything except my secondary videocard worked out of the box.

Following a few straightforward and well-documented steps, the second video card worked as well. Haven't had to change anything since, and I haven't experienced any breakage.

The wasted time and hacks that are required to get and keep a laptop running Linux have plummeted over the past 3 years, and your argument is rapidly losing its value. To me, it has reached the point of being irrelevant.
How does Firefox determine if something is a domain or a subdomain? Obviously the term subdomain is relative, so domain.com is already a subdomain of .com. But what about countries like the UK or South Africa where domains are commonly subdomains of .co.uk and .co.za?

Is there some generic way to know when a domain should be treated as a subdomain or do they basically hardcode the exceptions?

Example: does domain1.co.uk and domain2.co.uk share the same limit in Firefox? Probably not, but how does it know to treat them as separate?
So, what do we actually see on the photo? Is the black dot a shadow of the nucleus or a shadow of the electron shell? And these ripples are effects or the wave properties of light?
I'm not saying she's ugly, but Susan Boyles made a huge impact at the "Britain's Got Talent" show when she was nearly 50. Today, her voice makes her millions. Even women can be successful at any point in their life. I don't know what it takes to be successful (different people have different definitions of that term), but being pretty is not a necessity.
This service makes so much more sense than Outbox. Easy to scale, allow you to mask your real address, relatively cost-efficient, allows people outside of the US to have a US address...
I was also confused by this line. Thick blocks of color appear darker than thin blocks, so a heading would need to be slightly lighter in order to appear the same color as the body copy.
I'm actually aware of a very significant user impacting bug in Windows 8 (hint: It can cause every process in your startup/autorun list to not start consistently). But have no way to report it to them...

Has impacted my system multiple times since upgrading to Windows 8. Fortunately I know a work-around (eject the optical disc in the optical drive) but still -- annoying that I cannot even report it.
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This is just an appeal to worse fallacy. Just because others have it bad doesn't mean we shouldn't improve our own situation.
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Design process: optimize for the scarcest resource
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This is not your fault. Not really. And it's galling that the company blamed the incident on the workings of a 'junior engineer'. There was NO DATABASE BACKUP! For Christ's sake. This is live commercial production data. No disaster recovery plan at all. Zilch. And to make matters worse, you were expected to work with a production database when doing development work. This company has not done nearly enough to mitigate serious risks. I don't blame you for quitting. I would. I hope you have found or manage to find a good replacement role.
This is an amazing blog about naming http://www.thenameinspector.com/
I know nothing about scientific computing, but I am sure you took a look at this,right? http://sciruby.com/
It goes like: " Ruby has for some time had no equivalent to the beautifully constructed NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib libraries for Python. We believe that the time for a Ruby science and visualization package has come..."
But status is pre-alpha, last commit 7 months ago... so dunno how much it can help...
In Python, bool is a subclass of int. The constants True and False have the values 1 and 0 respectively, and it's legal to do arithmetic with them :)
I think you've lost your credibility on Apple's design goals, sorry.
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Panhandlers and the homeless are two totally different things. Of course one doesnt have to be homeless to panhandle.

By scamming, the parent poster was probably referring to stuff like "hey can I get a few bucks for a bus ticket" or "hey can I get some money for gas". That's pretty much always a scam.
we're here, artists and all. drop by any time.
> I know what you're saying though. I think this project was conceived long before the pi became a reality.

You're correct in that. Raspberry Pi was not around back then. Eben Moglen had a talk in the beginning of 2011, if I'm not mistaken that seems to have set this effort off.
There's a hardcoded list of TLDs in the browser's source code. They update it from time to time whenever there's a new .co.uk style TLD to add.
Limit how much can be placed in localstorage regardless of site based on time. (Or perhaps prompt whenever that limit is reached, in case there is a legit reason for it.)

This isn't perfect in that your localstorage could still be filled up slowly if you leave a page open in the background, but I think this solution is robust to many different techniques.
Sounds completely possible to me - I have worked in a lot of environments and at some places I've seen decisions that make cancelling backups look like an act of genius.

One interesting observation I can make: no correlation between excellence in operations and commercial success!
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I have just one question: where to sign against the SHIELD?

If you are judging on something you are to consider both options. And it is not about software/hardware producers and p-trolls. The law is to protect authors. In some way the law is to embrace innovation and progress (despite it is not the main value).

Producers want do use the law to create monopoly. To eliminate minor innovators and use they innovations for free. What about scientists? What about research groups? Does they innovations "practical"? Mostly not, but still these people might understand the direction of technology and take actions that are two steps ahead of producers. Our society is called "postindustrial" not because the great development of IT but of lack of development "industrial" things. Progress became extensive and not moving forward. Science became servant of production, faith by itself. Science loosing criticism -- the approach that leads to better models of the world.

Author of innovation is nobody, a pawn in the hands of mighty producers, and we, the consumers is to worship great producers, ought to sacrifice all this minor and unworthy author. Who even dares to remember the authors?

Also, consider rights of "real" innovation authors -- in-company engineers. Are they any protected? Do they really have author right's at some moment? They are the authors! Many of them are quite unique in special areas. Did they have a voice?

SHIELD act protect producers to create monopolies. It is uncertain that the act will decrease possibilities of pure trolls.
The origin of author's rights is not about the areas where it is applied now, current approach is outdated. But even complete rejection of author's rights is better than the SHIELD law.
It's certainly "fancy", but... as someone who has been forced to go down this road more than a few times for desktop and mobile platforms please do NOT encourage this. The level of manipulation and monitoring of key events necessary to get even close to parity of normal input behavior and accessibility, which this example unfortunately doesn't do very well, is enough to drive one into voluntary retirement.

It's fun to look at and play with, and I know it has some useful applications, but it quickly becomes incredibly fragile and is guaranteed to waste time and effort that can, and should, be spent on other stuff. Unless of course there is nothing left to do and you're just looking for ways to torture some poor soul hopped up on Red Bull or Mountain Dew.

That said, I definitely do encourage anyone interested to explore how this stuff works. My experience has been that design pretty much overlooks input behavior in general, but there are some pretty impressive things that can be done now without painting yourself into a corner and exploring stuff like this is probably one of the fastest ways to figure out where the boundaries are.
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Create and manage all your forms from a single interface
I wonder if this type of approach might push programming language developers to integrate databases into the language itself beyond just giving the programmers a interface for the database.
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Well, depending how you configure your cascade clearing the user table could have cleared all the other tables also :)

"on delete cascade"!
Prompt is the best solution to this. There's a prompt with flash.
Seattle also has 6 or 8 tent cities, each literally about 200 people camping in a church parking lot or city park for a 2-week span.

This part of the planet is mild enough to support human life with a minimum of shelter. Areas with this attribute will always have humans trying to survive on fewer resources than average.
That's the one you use to get focus follows mouse on MacOS X.
I read the story. It is very touching. That said, I think stories like this send a very dangerous message. The reality of the matter is that for every person who stuck to their passion and ultimately "succeeded," there are thousands who lived the rest of their lives in obscurity and never "made it."

When I was reading the story and Ang Le said he started taking computer science classes at the local college, I though, "that's great - he finally came to grips with reality ad went from being a daydreamer to being a harsh pragmatist." I was therefore dismayed when he then said he tore up his class schedule and went back to his passion.

A lot of people glamorize his choice with things like "his dedication and commitment paid off" but what if t had not? Would we hear about Ang Le today?

In hindsight his choice was the right one. But hindsight is 20/20. If you really want to maximize your chances of success in life, be flexible and ready to change course often.
Random question I know, but I've never been to Detroit so everything I know about it is hearsay. Can I ask what part you live in, and what it's like?
Seattle has about 8 "tent cities", plus the massive Pioneer Square and Belltown homeless mobs.
I don't know exactly what a valuable programmer is, but I'll give you numbers regarding my situation, so that we talk about concrete things.

I do Python/Django work and I have 3 years of experience. I have a GitHub profile which I show when applying for jobs and my profile shows that I've made 359 contributions in the last year. I have a LinkedIn profile through which details the technologies I use and the experience I have.

Since the start of the year, I think I've been contacted by 10 recruiters with job proposals. I chose to work remotely though, with clients outside of my country.
Implement input type=number - Bugzilla issue from 2006
I see there's a list online: http://publicsuffix.org/
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Cool, another GWT game. Here's mine:

http://www.gangsta-game.com
Wait, haven't I heard this song before?

It's the one about cookies, and .co.uk (i.e. every commercial site in the UK) sites all sharing the same cookies, because they all look like subdomains. Or was it all .friendly-hosting-company.com sites?

The fundamental problem is, there's no easy way to distinguish domains and subdomains.
Eventually, but not any time soon.
Can you provide an example of this?
The paper at arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5280
The Einstein reference was actually to preserve the notion that atom bombs have a hugely negative side, even if they had positive effects so far.
> Though I can't quite imagine why anyone would want to do this to some random stranger.

You must be new to the internet?

> Unless you knew the visitor or had some means of personally identifying him/her, there are more devastating ways of filling up a remote HD with just an IP and hostname (nmap and friends come to mind).

There's a few things:

This works by sending someone a link. So you can target people without knowing their IP. It's also so easy a kid could do it. Therefore, kids will do it, just to "fuck with eachother's shit". Not to mention, they'll do it to the school and the library, etc etc. There's also enough people doing things "for the lulz". Spam this link to a thousand people, crash a few PCs, hur hur hur. Again, the fact that it's browser-based and not IP-based allows for different types of attacks. They can spam specific communities and fora they don't like or are at odds with.

..

By the way, when I ran that site in Opera, it asked me whether I wanted to grant the site extra storage space, which I declined. I didn't feel like testing it in Chrome and crashing my things right now, but am I correct in assuming Chrome would not ask for this extra storage space, but simply take it, without any kind of upper limit?
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People absolutely do complain when they click a bit.ly link that redirects to a YouTube video page.
For the record, a friend of mine ordered one and was told he was roughly number 9500. (Basically 10,000, but I thought I would put in my 2 cents)
I immediately tried to input Chinese, and it stopped working.
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This doesn't actually work. After allowing the popup, it just confirmed whatever username I put into the text box.
It seems like that recently everbody need to post their daily amount of ruby|rails hate. Just saying.
You can avoid those problems if you stick to certified hardware:

http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/

(I imagine the Red Hat ecosystem has something similar)
I like a lot your blog post. Very concise and structured. Today's marketing is more about science than art
I disagree slightly. If you're a game company, your most critical part of the business is the game.

Even if you have a rock-solid database management, backup, auditing etc process, if your game is not playable, you won't have any data that you could lose by having a DB admin mis-click.

Still, not handling your next-most-critical data properly is monumentally stupid and a collective failure of everyone who should have known.
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Have you ever heard of AppScale?
Well, Adele apparently got a lot of money for being dumped as well. (she also probably dumped a couple, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to be profitable for the men)
There are already hardcoded lists for this that's used to limit the scope of cookies (so nobody can try to read all the cookies on *.uk).

I imagine these lists will become a real headache when the recent TLD auction is over. Is there any work being done on a more dynamic system (DNS TXT fields?)
The same is true for the lottery, if you don't buy a lottery ticket, you're guaranteed not to win. But that doesn't prove you should spend all your money on lottery tickets.
This seems like a great starting point for anyone who is interested in designing a website with a strong emphasis on text content (think blogs, online magazines, etc). If you've ever tried to formally study typography, it can be pretty overwhelming. I'm a web developer with an interest in design, and type is one of those things that seems simple until you realize you have to understand it intimately at multiple abstraction levels (individual letterforms, lines, and blocks of text). Glad to see there's a resource out there that uses typography best practices and makes them sensible defaults.
Nuclear plants and coal-powered plants also require environmentally-unfriendly material to build and maintain, no?
I would definitely tell someone just visiting SF (especially from a foreign country) that the TL is a "no-go". I've been there many times, but it's not the kind of place I'd want to be lost and disoriented.
So Haskell is damned with C++'s brush despite being safer than Java...
Anything that crashes the browser in a predictable way is pretty worrying.

The approach to runaway scripts would work quite well here..

This Page is filling up your hard drive, do you want to a) crash, b) clear all data from this domain
Not trying to be rude, but you might wanna take a second look at the frontpage of Task Messenger – not the greatest advert for Bootstrap :)

http://i.imgur.com/7H0dGnI.png?1

Safari 6 on OSX by the way.
You could simply fill up your subdomain's local storage and then do a javascript redirect to another subdomain.
Prompt is a horrible solution from a UX perspective. Essentially you're asking the user a question you, as a developer, couldn't or didn't want to answer. But the user has no idea either. Heck, she doesn't even know that there are limits in place or what DOM local storage even is.