skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe no one realizes the obvious:

Gandalf's "Summon Eagles" spell has a very long cooldown, many decades in length. It was still on cooldown from his use in the Hobbit.

The One Ring melting resets all cooldowns, so he decided to use it to pick the hobbits up for a return ride.

Obviously.
This is pretty awesome - I would use it for very quick brainstorming to get the ball rolling since it's not extremely accurate, but still useful for ten words!

For more keyword suggestions I like ubersuggest.org a lot.
Just something silly I did in my spare time:

NoContextIpsum: http://www.nocontextipsum.com/

It generates lorem-ipsum style random text using quotes from Reddit's NoContext subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/nocontext/.
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I care about calories very much, I have found it an effective way to manage my weight.

Calories, Carbs, Protein, Fat (Saturated vs. unsaturated & Trans).

Maybe marking
high-sodium foods,
foods containing nuts,
foods containing Phenylalanine
(ie major/common/severe allergens)

A simple one might be avg serving size (weight)
This was a nice very timely page sitting with my private repo in mercurial, and the other one at github…

I discovered help <builtin> some months ago, and that was a great boon really. Like help "test" so I didn't have to go the rather large bash man page.

Here is a little shellscript for displaying a man page on Mac Os X (gman). (If you then click on on of the links on the man-page, it may pop up in your default browser).

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
echo "gman takes a man page, if found and formats it into html."
echo "Usage: gman [manfile]"
exit 2
fi
a=`man -aw $* |head -1`
if test x$a = x ; then
echo "Can't find $1"
exit 1
fi
# Figures out if it is a normal man page or something else (gz).
b=`man -aw $* |head -1 |grep "gz"`
echo $b
if test x$b = x ; then
groff -man $a -Thtml >|/tmp/tmp.html
else
gzcat $b |groff -man -Thtml >|/tmp/tmp.html
fi
qlmanage -p /tmp/tmp.html >/dev/null 2&>1
Don't mind Alex, he made a fuss about the guy on the right jacking his design on the left a few months ago - http://cl.ly/image/1g3q372r1c2F/shot.jpg. Information designers would have a chuckle at that.
This point is addressed in the article.
Here is also URL to QR Bookmarklet: http://www.vcarrer.com/2012/06/url-to-qr-bookmarklet.html
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Google Glasses presumably have more CPU power, the ability to transcribe conversation on the fly, and enhance our reality, use your smartphone for more CPU, and also upload on the fly.

A pen camera, while useful as a sousveillance tool, isn't just as useful as a google glass.
The whole point of an opinion piece is to rigorously argue a position. How else can you convince people of something. And note how the author of this piece failed in that task. This is what the NY Times says in their writing guide for high school students.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/weblines/48...

--
It is a common mistake to believe that columns and editorials, unlike news articles, do not need to be thoughtful and measured. In truth, writing a column or editorial takes more reporting, not less. While the reporting for a news article needs to continue until all reasonable sides can be adequately represented, the reporting for an opinion piece needs to continue until the writer can judge reasonably which side has the strongest case. That takes more work, not less.
How high are Ered Lithui? Can the eagles fly that high? Even if they can, there's still the question of whether a hobbit can survive at that altitude?
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Pragmatic view on TDD
Your privacy is already gone! In almost all of the places you'll be filmed with Glass, you're already on camera.

Many of your private conversations are already in email and chat, with full logs, on servers that include Google's. That isn't a change either.

The changes that happened when people started carrying cell-phone cameras were dramatic, too, but we aren't worried about that anymore.
As the article points out, it's a question of stealth versus speed, but speed is not necessarily preferable. The powers of Sauron, especially deep within his own domain, are indeed unknown. With even an hour to react, it is quite possible he would be able to conjure up something that would end up in the whole endeavor delivering the ring to him, instead of destroying it. On the other hand, the stealthiness of hobbits is well familiar to Gandalf from his previous experience with having Bilbo as a "burglar", and there are various things that the allied forces can do to further distract Sauron's attention. The power of the eagles is also something that Sauron knows and fears, and that he probably took precautions against; whereas hobbits are creatures that he most likely underestimates.
Finer grained control of hyphenation with CSS4 Text
It's obvious that the training process for drone pilots is much less rigorous than that for normal pilots.

I haven't dug into the numbers, but I guarantee you that all else being equal, a drone is much, much less expensive than a piloted plane of similar capabilities. That much is also obvious.

Is this reddit or hackernews?
It's a form of bulimia.
Last I heard it was: "Python where we can, C++ where we must"
That's how it's written in French and maybe some other languages as well. I guess people writing this way are not native English speakers.
Just to toss down what's worked for me in case it helps someone else:

I was on the brink of RSI (numbness in the fingers) until I changed to a Kinesis Advantage keyboard, and a trackball mouse (thumb movement). Some lingering issues were cleared up with exercise -- mostly wrist rollers and grip training. I still use a flat keyboard & normal mouse occasionally without issue.

Back pain is a little battle, but a good chair (Steelcase Think) is night & day if you're sitting for more than a few hours at a time. Generally I do the best here when I'm not being lazy about my exercise. Squats, deadlifts, weighted sit-ups, etc. all help a ton.
Kudos to your friend but to me this seems to be an outlier rather than an indication of people not being willing to put the time in to build a business. The point about search being broken is surely that while success is always a big part luck, not having proper search makes discoverability of high quality products harder and so increases the luck factor?
Well, RMS has said that its perfectly okay to pay for the creation of software. Generally I think its fine but it gets distasteful if the person paying doesn't want their change/code to be part of the main body of work. That is the whole 'contribute back' issue.

It can be particularly touchy around the whole "person Y pays people X to add features you want, send the features upstream in a pull, maintainer declines, customers of Y's product argue that Y is violating the GPL because their features aren't in the product, Y says 'hey they don't want them', then customers start yelling at maintainer to take them, and then maintainer feels bushwhacked."
What if you don't tell the eagles on the mission what's up? Even if corruptible, it would take at least some time for them to figure out what's going on and which of the hobbitses they are carrying has the ring.
How to dramatically fail your product launch.
How is the algorithm that generates the digits of pi a compressed form of pi? It gives me all the information about the number in finite amount of time.

In randomness theory, the definition of the most compressed form of a sequence S is, given a computer C, the shortest program with output S in C.

So the program that generates the output of the simulation of the pendulums is a compression of it's output. Since it's and infinite sequence that can be compressed into a finite program, it is not random from the perspective of information theory or randomness theory.
There is another argument about due process ...but what's the difference btwn a drone and an officer on the ground when confronted with a suspect. Say there is a suspect. The FBI could send in a drone or could send in officers on the ground. Drone or officers could find the suspect dangerous and have to take him out. In either case there is no due process procedure. I think this line of argument is a dead end. Actually, as noted elsewhere, you probably have more chance at surviving this confrontation with a drone than with people --people, if they feel threatened could find it justifiable to shoot more quickly than a remote pilot.
It's a concern about Iran's (their leadership's) willingness to commit suicide to destroy Israel. And particularly about the belief in self-fulfilling prophecies in religious doctrine (whether Christianity, Islam, or Judaism). Communists don't generally believe in an afterlife, and I would argue also aren't viewed as being as likely to be suicide bombers. It is thus Iran presents a different kind of fear: namely that the world is afraid they're willing to die to kill their enemy; that Iran is actually crazier than North Korea, despite the bluffing on North Korea's part.
You should use {{#each item in controller}}, otherwise you won't get things like sorting of filtering right. Yes, content is an underlying array, but controller may present it differently (filter out, sort, paginate etc.).
"In a statically-typed language like C# or Java I can ask objects (and in C#, primitives) what they are all day long."

Which shows that Java and C# are a hybrid of static and dynamic features. Using reflection and introspection to invoke behavior at run time is dynamic-language behavior. More strongly typed languages such as Haskell won't allow you to do this, as far as I know.
I think I'll design a new language called 'computer'
FWIW, my biggest wrist and arm problems came from using a "sticky" mouse. As the mouse and pad gets "old" and dirty, there's often a lot of friction when moving the mouse.

The mouse should move very easily. (try lightly touching it with you little finger)
That's why I love *nix ... options!
Those letters you link to are fantastic. A book of letters by Tolkien was, indeed, published. I read it 25 years ago, but it seems to still be in print: http://www.amazon.com/Letters-J-R-R-Tolkien-J-R/dp/061805699...

I don't recall much of the letters now, but they did leave a lasting impression of a mind that was both powerful and deeply concerned with ethical questions. I'm not sure I'd have liked Tolkien, but the letters were a great read.
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It has happened, so the probability is non-null:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20037554-93.html

Some Gmail users complained yesterday of suddenly and mysteriously losing e-mails, contacts, and folders. Google originally said 0.29 percent of the user base was affected by the issue but has since revised that figure to less than 0.02 percent, or about 40,000 of the service's 200 million accounts.

They do say that the data would be restored, but I couldn't find a confirmation of how much was not restored. They say that they keep copies of data in multiple data centers as well as on tape.
Testing a similar crystal, the scientists proved that by rotation it was possible to find the point where the two beams converge - indicating the direction of the Sun.

They say it works on cloudy days, and when the Sun has set.

Hard to see how it could work when the Sun has set.
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon, a 17th century social network
Care to elaborate? That possibility is discussed in the article, why do you think OP is wrong?
Not only software developers sit in desks. Most employees in my company aren't software developers. I'm glad this article is one about the physical problems of sitting incorrectly all day, as oppose to the increasing "this isn't good for your health articles", describing software development as a deadly stressfull depressing job that isn't for everyone. If your health is deteriorating due to software development, YOUR DOING IT WRONG! :)
Sure we have it pretty easy but you are making a wrong comparison here. You can't compare the life and health standards of the early 1900 with our health and life standards (at least in the developed world). Things moved for the better not only for Software developers.

The right comparison is between you and someone who has achieved the same education/social level in the same period of time.
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Incidentally, this exact topic is now under discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5337099
...agree, there has to be a way to do Drupal "properly", otherwise it wouldn't be so popular. But you have to agree that Drupal does need quite a lot of "special care", too much for my taste, in the way of planning and doing things its way and knowing that stuff will start randomly falling apart once you start working "against it". Things that are either "just a blog engine / just a CMS" (Wordpress) or "just a framework" (pick your fav here) are much harder to misuse and turn into a total mess. For me the whole point of using PHP is "fail fast, fail cheap, be 80% idiot-proof", and I just use Drupal as an example of outlier PHP project that went very, very far away from this mantra, but then again, maybe going away from this mindset is what you need for your projects.
This doesn't work for me. I tried putting "chianti" and "merlot" in just like the little video, and after dragging across the cells I just got "chianti" and "merlot" repeating.
Do you mean it is the essence of what is wrong with trademark law?
You might want try `ack` then. (http://betterthangrep.com/).

On Ubuntu/Debian systems, it is packaged as `ack-grep`.
Why HTC's Settlement is a Game Changer for Secure Development
Agree++ - I'll simplify even more: you could buy a cheap startup at Wal Mart, but you want a good startup, right?
what's wrong with making the oauth_callback parameter not override whatever you put in Twitter? wouldn't this fix the problem?
I can't understand the point behind this article. There are already so many (more) invisible ways of recording a person in public than Google's Glasses.

"But I don't want to be recorded!"; Fine, that's a valid point to make, but 99,9% of cases no one even wants to record you.

"But someone might hack in my Glasses and then record without me knowing"; Again valid concern, but no one wants to hack into your Glasses to see what's happening around you.

I'm not saying we should just ignore security completely, but saying that Glass are just bad for privacy is kind a over kill in my opinion.
I'm not connecting the point between that question and my position on whether being irrational or having a temper is advantageous.

If you were just asking to be nice, I have a few old friends in South Korea (in the military, teaching, and local) but no family.
This is based on the now defunct Google Sets, a Google labs experiment. It looks at ordered and unordered lists in HTML to find related items.

Here's the official blog post covering this: http://googlesystem.blogspot.be/2012/11/google-sets-still-av...
ok - my bad. you have to hold down the ctrl/command key when you are dragging.
How to Think Like Google
so this is kind of like facebooks graph?
At that point it time I would definitely consider you a choir singer, and rightly so.

And at THIS point in time, they DO file the DMCA thing.
Incorrect. The consumer-secret and access-token-secret are not transmitted from client to the server during oauth. They are only used to sign requests.
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Birth rate is a bad number to look at because it's not taking in purely economic effects, it's racial and historical effects.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db09.htm#arethere

http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0080.p...

Had America not been founded on slavery and a history of inequality afterwards our numbers would be much closer to the EU stats.
Fast-growing HealthTap prepares for rush of Obamacare patients in 2014
Is it just me, or is it weird that this brand new blog (really just an advert for a writing company) has had 3 blog posts, all 3 have been submitted to HN (2 by the same person), and all 3 have gotten pretty high scores?

The other 2 stories being:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304317
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5292431

They must be good writers!
I got a Nexus 7 yesterday and I've already noticed this phenomenon :\
I think this is the most valid response, as it doesn't even require that the head eagle necessarily be so easily corruptible. The whole plan could have been ruled out by Gandalf simply because he was worried the head eagle might be tempted by the ring.
Thing is, Python is becoming rapidly the language of choice for scientists, statisticians, and other knowledge workers who only do a bit of development.
Consider the implications of this with improving facial recognition techniques. Everyone's face is, or will be, tagged, either by facebook and its ilk or governments, and will be readily recognized when streamed into the cloud from someone's wearable device. Just walking down the street wearing these goggles could potentially reveal the location of anyone you see.

I can foresee publicly acceptable disguises and clever obfuscation devices becoming popular. Perhaps burqas will become in vogue ;)
Thank you for this link, I had never heard of them!
For the second time you treat me like an idiot and assume that I'm missing the obvious and excluding the income aspect. I'm not. Let me come out and state it triple explicitly so it's clear to you:

I see the income aspect. I realize that a loss of income is costly. I realize that income performance is correlated to the industry it's in and hence correlated with stocks in the same industry. That's the whole basis for the discussion and I see that. Jesus!

I see that, and I still disagree.

This is where both approaches can be right and this is the whole point I have been trying to make. For the sake of argument, suppose you have a trillion dollars in the bank and therefore infinite risk tolerance. Suppose also that your income is 100k. At this point, temporary loss of your income, which can also be reduced by unemployment pay, is wholly inconsequential compared to maximizing your gains in the stock market. If the tech sector pays back at 20% y/y (average) and the next best sector only pays back 5%, absolutely it's better to be in the tech sector even though your income comes from that. My example is unrealistic, but it serves a point: mathematically, it works. So the question is then how much risk (i.e. volatility) can you take in pursuit of maximizing returns? If you have a lot of assets, plenty. If you have no assets and therefore no risk tolerance, obviously diversifying your income from your investments is a good idea. But crucially, whether or not same-sector income/investment is a good idea all depends on how much risk (i.e. volatility) you can take.

Would you suggest Steve Jobs shouldn't have held Apple stock? I think it worked out pretty well for him.
I would be very leery of hosting any serious business on Digital Ocean. Their terms of service are simply too strict.

For example, you can't send email to your users without double opt-in.

Yikes!

Not to mention the ambiguous language banning 'offensive' and 'inappropriate' content.
"Is this really something that needs testing?"

Yes. Running tests to validate your assumptions is a big part of robust software engineering. In this case the results were unsurprising but not uninteresting.
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Why not use Unicorn on Heroku?
This made me sad :-( I was dissapointed with my recent pay rise (+3%, 18months after the last rise). Maybe I didn't negotiate well but I was open and honest. I don't care if I'm paid more than my peers, or that there's no more money in the pot, it's still a shitty deal with no sweeteners. I guess that is what you get for being someone else's employee.
income top-ups via food stamps, tax credits, whatever, where someone is employed, form an unofficial subsidy to employers

Spell that out for me. When I hire Bob at $8/hour, what difference does it make to me whether the government is giving him a tax credit for being poor, or owning a home, or buying an electric car?

How am I being "subsidized"?
It'll be great to see this built into iOS as well. But they probably wont, cause that would just kill their iCloud storage sales.

I've run out of my iCloud free plan and will need to buy some memory soon even though I've got gigs of Dropbox that I'd much better prefer to use !
Wow, I'd never have thought to try that. I do remember using Google Sets but did not know it made it into Google Drive.

I wonder what other neat features are hidden in there.
This is one of the coolest things I have seen. I hope that this is the direction that user interfaces goes in down the road, it is much more exciting than 2D.
Theoretically impossible? Please explain. Even the Christian god is not "theoretically impossible."
Not at all.

It doesn't matter if you sang for 10 minutes or for 100 hours. There is no magic threshold number. If you identify yourself as a singer, you can claim to be one legitimately.

You would only be dishonest if you claimed to be a professional singer or a regular singer.
They can't just download and install Chrome or Firefox?
"Interfaces are dictated by functionality they provide and not size. They can have hundreds of methods. This is how it looks: DocumentService - put every document related method in here, FinancialInstrumentService - put every instrument related method in here"

Then what is the point of having interfaces at all?

There is no way multiple implementations will be created for such interfaces, so just make it a single class and be done with it. Otherwise, you are missing the whole point of an interface.

I guess the exceptions are proxy objects and other such patterns, but Java makes it difficult to implement such patterns without explicitly implementing each method to forward the exact same call to the delegate.
I found the opposite. For example, I find it extraordinarily frustrating not to be able to know what kind of object something is by looking at the point in code where it is created; something like

variable = somefunction(inputParameter)

where variable did not exist before leaves me having to look up the documentation of somefunction to know what kind of object it is returning.
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