skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are not going the low quality route, we are headed for direct competition with Medium and blogging networks/platforms like it (we are keeping pace with them on traffic to our articles and plan to continue doing so). There is an undeniable groundswell around this kind of company right now, and even established companies like Quora are starting to offer much better tools for long-form content. It is going to be very hard, and potentially very rewarding. This new direction isn't just about pivoting away from something that didn't work, it is also about doing something we are much more passionate about.

I absolutely agree that our branding is wrong now, and it is likely to change but we haven't decided on a new brand yet. It would have been smoother and more clean PR to annoucne the new brand at the same time as discontinuing rewards, but I didn't want to wait any longer to let users know about the changes that were coming.

As to scalability I don't know, maybe it is harder, but it is a fight I am personally much happier to take on. Filling my day with talking to writers, readers, and producing/editing/reviewing/reading content to keep the quality bar high sounds like heaven. I'm so happy not to be carrying this secret around anymore, and to be working on something I love (again, I really did love Referly and it was a thesis I held for 4 years so letting go of it isn't as easy as my email makes it sound).
Volvo uses radars and cameras on cars to detect bikes and auto brake
I never said anything about changing the world, only people. Forget the word "religion" in my original post, it was only an example; what I'm alluding to is the set of fundamental assumptions, intuitions, and instincts that affect our perception of and reasoning about the world on an unconscious level; the thought processes that occur before we're consciously aware of them (as demonstrated by fMRI).

As one example, study of color perception has shown that children have to shift color processing from the right to the left hemisphere of the brain as they are educated, and that language has an influence on the shades of colors we are able to distinguish with ease. I'm suggesting that there is a similar fundamental process at work in the brains of people who use computers and the Internet from a young age that makes lifelong users think and feel differently about the Internet in a way that very few older users will understand or experience. It is difficult to imagine that most older lawmakers who lack this understanding will make effective, future-proof decisions about the Internet.
> You want content. You are not owed content.

Then put it behind a paywall.

It's my browser, my choice to display what I want, how I want. You don't come into the equation, even if you are the content owner. Either charge for it, or stop whining.
English must not be your first language. Read for comprehension and post something that's actually responsive to my post.
How to mass-unsubscribe from junk mail in Gmail
Maybe, if there weren't many wealthy people out in the world buying worthless shit with their money, power and influence.
But only one method, only one underlying design. That's the point here.

> Yet here, we have designers trying to claim ownership of a particular set of colours and a vague notion of style.

Exactly my point.
I e-mailed you directly, same e-mail name. Hope you give it a read and get back to me, :D Thanks.
Introducing JBake - open source static site/blog generator developed in Java
Thanks for all your hard work, CentOS-volunteers!
> Simple living and minimizing material possessions

Not the same thing, which is my point.
>Almost entirely C++/OpenGL with platform specific code only as necessary.

Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you in the next Humble Bundle, then. :-)

Could you elaborate on your use of analytics: how did you handle pre-release testing and what were you most surprised to learn from the data?
IBM Wipes Watson After It Learns to Swear
That’s cheap? Wow. If it’s close to Versailles it’s well outside Paris.

I’m now moving into a 17sqft mini apartment (just for four months), one metro station from the center of Hamburg (20 min to my very central workplace, including a ten minute bus ride to the next metro station plus walking and waiting times). I will pay 270 euro/month for it, including heat and electricity.

You can get more spacious apartments in similar places in Hamburg for about 500 Euro/month. If you share an apartment with roommates you might even pay less than 400 Euro.

Is Paris really so much more expensive, even well outside the city? I mean, Hamburg (and Munich and now also Berlin) are already making headlines for their crazy expensive rents.
How do people manage to live like this?
>The Court didn't hear the "kill list" case because what the President does against enemy combatants off U.S. soil is indeed a political question, since the Constitution invests the President with primacy in international affairs.

The Court DID hear this case and they ruled on it. It just happens SCOTUS ruled SCOTUS does not have the power to review the constitutionality of the law in question.

Even during the heights of the Cold War when US citizens were working for the KGB and Soviets, including offering hand drawings of top secrete nuclear designs, the US citizens were NOT killed extra-judiciously, they were arrested and tried criminally.

There is no doubt that the Constitution invests the President power over international affairs - but you appear to suggest the President can just kill who ever he pleases outside the US (Citizen or Foreign National) as long as they are deemed "enemy combatants", is that correct? Keep in mind this is not a published Kill List, and the criteria to get on the Kill List in unknown.

Instead of me maintaining my position that the President being able to add anyone to a Kill List is a degradation of civil liberties and you maintaining it is not, is there a prior point the President maintained a Kill List of US citizens or as I content is this unprecedented in US history?
Refer.ly to discontinue cash rewards.
Would you consider that an inconsistency if you weren't coming from the C paradigm of 0 == false?
> Only if you wrongly assume that poor people don't work.

Fiscal conservatives must assume this or their philosophy does not work.
Adam Smith himself was highly critical of corporations. I've read that the idea of granting corporations the rights of immortal people had been bandied about in his time, and his opinion of this was that it would be "barbarism".

I can't find a citation for this now, but it's completely consistent with what I know of him.
You can link to certain slides this way. I would consider this a good thing.
I'm assuming the blog will be updated later, but for now:

"Referly Will Discontinue Cash Rewards March 31, 2013

If you currently have rewards in your account, even if you did not reach the $10 minimum, you can claim them here.

You will continue to accrue rewards on existing product links through March 31st, and effective immediately all new links to products will not be eligible to earn rewards. Your rewards will remain in your account until you claim them, their is no deadline for cashing out."
CentOS / RHEL comes with a working SELinux setup out of the box, which is something that Debian lacks.
For some, SELinux is just another pain in the arse to be disabled as soon as you run into a permission problem, for others, it comes with a really nice set of features to further lock down your system ( including disabling ptrace, which has been a great cause of concern security wise ).

Otherwise, things are somewhat different. No update-alternatives, vi is vim rather than nvi, Apache configuration is drastically different.

The packaging system is a lot stricter, packages may not touch each others files, checksums & permissions are stored in the package DB and used to verify on both install, uninstall and upgrades. there's no "recommends" system, there's no interactive upgrade packages. ( No offers to "merge your samba config" or anything like that ) as the installer system is made to be usable headless.

In "Enterprise" solutions, there's also support for Satellite ( http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/rhn-satellit... ) which is quite nifty.

RHEL has older kernels, with a lot of features&fixes backported from newer development, causing them to be very strange beasts.

Overall, I've used both, both have their place, but I really can't stand the fact that .deb archives need extra plugins to simply verify that nothing has fucked with permissions or file contents.
Its because the standard of living of many bankers is disgustingly lavish compared to the people they exploit.
How is this different from objects in javascript?

(Tangentially, I don't agree that conflation of array and object is a good thing)
I see this site is read mainly by dumb ignorant children.

Screw this 'community'. It sucks ass.

Also, the design of this site is awful. And the engineering skills of the Mr. PG The Greatest apparently suck as well.
Update: Code is here https://github.com/mntmn/tern-coffeescript
Making a big city move to pursue the startup dream
Go with a name that will work even if you end up pivoting 10 more times, because you will if your company is still around in 100 years.

Blog post I did on buying premium domains you might find helpful in your search - feel free to email me if you need help: http://franceschine.com/post/19837401405/how-to-buy-domains-...
The Magic of Aloe Vera
And skimlinks, 123linkit, etc. The basic idea (aggregate affiliate program memberships, have an algorithm to turn site/product mentions into referral links, take a cut of the commission) wasn't new. Referly was more consumer-oriented than publisher-oriented though, IIRC.

http://skimlinks.com/ http://www.123linkit.com/
In 1668, Wilkins proposed using Christopher Wren's suggestion of a pendulum with a half-period of one second to measure a standard length that Christiaan Huygens had observed to be 38 Rijnland inches or 39 1⁄4 English inches (997 mm) in length.[3] In the 18th century, there were two favoured approaches to the definition of the standard unit of length. One approach followed Wilkins in defining the metre as the length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second, a 'seconds pendulum'.

In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences selected the meridional definition over the pendular definition because the force of gravity varies slightly over the surface of the Earth, which affects the period of a pendulum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Meridional_definition
Hong Kong is unique. Even if China was truly communist, HK has operated differently.
Absolutely agree with everything you've said. If you can achieve this without using any tools then that is ideal - I'm not sure long-term if using auto styling tools is a good idea, but it is definitely working well for me at the moment.
That was what I was referencing, I was just on a phone at the time and didn't have the time or will to write it all out.

I didn't know about the latter example, though, thanks for tracking that all down.
Yea, they do
There are TONS of great open fonts available at http://www.google.com/webfonts . The main purpose is for embedding into websites (as obvious from the name), but it is also possible to download the source files directly.

I am occasionally doing graphic design and I found Google Web Fonts a very useful resource for open fonts.
The other big difference is in regards to upgrades - I've upgraded Debian servers in-place for years. Even in the announcement this post links to the upgrade instructions are "reinstall".

The differences in packaging systems, and similar are largely something you can learn about. But the idea of reinstalling to upgrade has always struck me as something I'd rather avoid.
You think we can discover nothing about the past? You think falsifying is not possible?

What weird believes.

Of course all of that is possible. It’s not easy, it‘s not perfect, obviously. But it‘s possible.
It's worth noting that Hong Kong was under British control till 1997, and largely retains its independence from mainland China. It has its own constitution, and the existing capitalist system was left intact, as part of the transfer agreement between the UK and China.

Not that China isn't chock full of disparities between better and worse off people despite the putative ideals of the communist state, but Hong Kong isn't a good example of such.
>Not using "restrict" properly can lead to extremely hard-to-diagnose errors

But "restrict" is a low-level micro-optimization, those tend to be tricky. I don't think a sane C programmer would sprinkle that keyword all across the source base, because as you have pointed out it can cause hard-to-diagnose errors.

In contrast, the automatic conversions in JavaScript and PHP are an "always on" feature you cannot avoid.
Bitbucket supports private repos aswell and works with mercury and Git afaik. The main reason GitHub is popular is because it is popular; it just happened.
For HN: Hacker's Help Network
Due to this year's unfortunate events and the increasing number of depressed hackers, me and a couple of friends decided to start a community not only for HN but for anyone seeking help.

I am very sad to hear the stories on HN like far_far_away's and others like him.Not to mention the death of Aaron Swartz which definitely changed the mood for many hackers.I've been through this situation (depression) 5 years ago and it was a living hell.Feeling trapped and no way out.

I want to help these people or at least try and I'm sure many of us want the same thing.This is not about money or business!It is about us.We are humans before anything else, and we have feelings.Judging by the current trend we are not on the right path and some of us don't even know it yet.

So starting from today, I decided to dedicate some of my time specifically for this cause.I am sick of seeing people suffering here when I know I can do something about it.If I can improve someone's life by at least 5% I am happy.

If anyone is interested in joining this cause, I am open to any suggestion.This is not about me and you, it's about all of us.

For anyone interested the mail is this: hackershelp2013@gmail.com

I had no time to prepare something special but I believe this is the first step in the right direction.

More updates coming soon...

Thank you all.
Funny thing is, Apache can't even merge the changes back into OpenOffice, because their projects use Apache license, while LibreOffice is (I think) GPL.
> The Court DID hear this case and they ruled on it.

Right, but either way they punted.

> It just happens SCOTUS ruled SCOTUS does not have the power to review the constitutionality of the law in question.

Well political question doctrine also has a big prudential element.

> Even during the heights of the Cold War when US citizens were working for the KGB and Soviets, including offering hand drawings of top secrete nuclear designs, the US citizens were NOT killed extra-judiciously, they were arrested and tried criminally.

Those citizens were in a framework where it was possible to subject them to process. They could be arrested, extradited and tried.

> You appear to suggest the President can just kill who ever he pleases outside the US (Citizen or Foreign National) as long as they are deemed "enemy combatants", is that correct?

That's not the power the President is claiming. It's much narrower than that.
This technique does indeed work very well. I wrote about it last year, describing how we use it at FastMail to share a single push events connection between all open tabs: http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/11/26/inter-tab-communication-u...
The Observer Pattern in Spring
Ethics involves some judgement of "right" and "wrong".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that torturing people so that they worship your "loving and forgiving God" is unethical.
Hey moxie, your write-up about how you built your switching network was fascinating. Thank you for continuing to be an inspiration.

p.s. you have a broken link to https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Signaling-Pr... in the writeup for the text "write our own".
"It's developed to work well responsive sites, supporting all large mobile browsers"

So how does it perform on Opera Mini or the most widely used stock Android browsers? I didn't see them in the list of browsers this was tested on.
No Sleep 'Til Fairbanks
I love /r/askhistorians because the questions are as fascinating as the answers. I wish I'd been exposed to such riveting discussions during my own history classes. I really enjoy the 'cross-cutting concerns' style questions that span historical periods.

During your time period of expertise, an unwed woman finds out she's pregnant. What are her options?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/165dyt/during...

It's year XXXX of your specialty. A dead body is discovered in the middle of a well populated area and the overwhelming evidence suggests he was murdered. Is anyone in charge of finding the killer? What is the attitude of the public and is there an expectation of justice?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1247fn/its_ye...

How common was casual sex throughout history?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17zztg/how_co...

What is an example of humour from your period?

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/yus78/what_is...

I think these types of questions would make great introductory history classes for students, rather than the linear blocks of 'for the next 10 weeks we learn about Ancient Egypt, then we learn Ancient Greece for 10 week' that was the structure of my first history classes.
The corporate veil protects shareholders from being personally liable for the debts and obligations incurred by the corporation. Speech does not create debts or obligations, so the veil is not an issue.

Corporate speech is subject to some regulation, just like personal speech. Corporations can be sued for slander and libel, advertisements must meet certain standards of truthfulness, etc.
It's a negotiating tactic called "higher authority" http://www.negotiationdynamics.com/Authlim.asp
it's even likely that they see higher rates of ad blocking than IGN, because they are a bit more niche among gaming blogs.
Not surprised at all. One could argue it was the API that attracted so many people to Twitter in the first place. It seemed really smart to me at first to create such a great ecosystem, but maybe there's more behind that scenes that I don't know about?

Either way it's sad to see this service go. The guy seems nice and provided a good service, but clearly he's not going to spend a bunch of his own time and money if it's not rewarding anymore.
It would also cost an insane amount of money, as well as inevitably only being for the very wealthy. You might make things better for yourself but definitely not all of mankind.
Codename ‘Seven’ webfont – Playing with Metafont and Metapost
Gmreader - listen to your emails from the command-line
This makes sense. Most non-"enterprise" distributions have moved on to OpenJDK 7; however, some enterprise applications, or web applets, actually do depend on JDK 6, so someone needs to continue maintaining the OpenJDK-based version of that.
Watching the video is so much nicer directly on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/61059530
This is true - there is a definite distinction that should be made between style and code quality. Good code could be ofuscated and it would still be good code. I don't think converting bad quality code to good quality code is something that can be automated. It should be something that is caught by code review and be flagged for discussion with the whole team if it is a general anti-pattern which is emerging in the codebase.

When patterns / anti-patterns are observed, I think they should be called out and documented for future reference. This over time will lead to general coding guidelines, which are way more important than consistent syntax, as they should mitigate the hair pulling sessions you describe.
Thank you - that is great advice. I guess I should also making waves for the family/friend investing.

Is there a rule-of-thumb on the number of sign-ups to realistically validate an idea and move into the development phase?
> I would like to see Kozinski in SCOTUS, but I'm pretty sure he'll receive The Mother of All Borkings if ever nominated.

I'm not a citizen of the United States, but as a recent admirer of judge Kozinski (because of his libertarian views and because he was born in the city I now live in, Bucharest, Romania) I'm curious why people in power wouldn't want him joining the Supreme Court.
Simcity's senior producer finally releases a statement
Who is wealthy enough to live on a 20 acre ranch anyways? This is not a real issue.
They can't block ads on the ipad, you mean. It's one of the reasons I don't like browsing on the ipad.

I thought of something, might the growth of mobile ad revenue be offset by the lack of ad blockers on the platforms?
I look forward to that write-up.
Someone also submitted the TF coverage of this story, so there's an HN thread with a few comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5349690

Ars has good coverage as well: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/top-prenda-offici...
What country are you from? That'd be some mighty smart first-graders...
A witty essay from 1908 observes that "success" is a ridiculously vague idea and that "success" books/articles of the day are vague useless drivel. Also, people should stop worshiping rich guys and mainly just try to be good at what they do.