skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what? Improving HN is a waste of time. Why can't we just migrate to a better link aggregator, such as Reddit? It would basically fix everything (including design, mobile friendliness, lack of good apps, lack of API, etc), at no cost.

I'm sure it would be easier to convince Reddit to let subreddits behave like HN than trying to keep HN up to date with the modern world.

Just my two cents.
Depends on why you quit your job. Need more details.
I think the OP meant automatic inlining. I.e. by a compiler.
Show HN: A bash script to easily traverse directories
PulseAudio is good now. It was a different story for me back in 2007/2008 though.
That's like asking for tutorials that show you how not to use shadows, gradients, and highlights.

It's a bit of a contradiction…
any other useful tools like this?
HTTPS requests via Tor from Node.JS
Top universities by reputation 2013
Not that it really matters.
Any ideas on what prevents them from getting the rest of the data?
I think you're accepting B without giving it enough thought.

Very few wireless carrier issues are legislated by congress - that falls on the regulator, the FCC. If you want to let customers switch carriers that's who will make it happen. If the president told Genachowski to make it happen for real, it's very likely he would. At worst it would end up on terms on upcoming wireless auctions, but that wouldn't be too bad given that they're going in to converged networks.

If someone tells you to go to congress to get a bill passed to amend the DMCA they may not hate you but they're certainly not helping you. Anything altering the DMCA will attract amendments like crazy, and anything anti-carrier will get tons of lobbyist attention. And then even if you win you've still left me with a phone that the existing people who are perfectly happy to break the law and unlock your phones for a fee have no idea how to unlock - so I'll still be tied to my carrier anyway.
And some interesting reads on his blog: http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/zahas-aquatic-c...
"I’m starting another content company, and I plan to make a fortune"
Visual Studio Single Step Performance Fixes
I see all this as a huge waste of effort, unnecessary complications and increasing confusion. The main drive behind this seems to be desire of Canonical to control the development (they can't do that with Wayland), rather than any valid technical reason. Quite disappointing.

Here is what Wayland / X.org / Mesa developers have to say on this:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMxN...
If you want to build a personal computer, you'll probably need to make it Windows compatible. If not for other reasons, because users actually want Windows software. With that restriction in place, it's very hard to be really innovative.

Multiprocessors only became mainstream when Windows XP became mainstream. I've used two and four CPU machines under NT and Unixes, but they would hardly be mainstream (even if they were not much more expensive than top-of-the-line single-processor PCs). And, under Windows, a dual 200 MHz machine was much smoother than a single 400 MHz one.

The same goes for 64-bit machines. On the Unix side of the fence (which was also the RISC side), 64 bits were useful mostly for the extra memory. Having more than 4 gigs of RAM was outrageous until relatively recent times and the demand for larger address spaces was somewhat smaller than the one for more processing power but, again, it wasn't until Windows XP started supporting them that AMD64 processors became common. And the only reason it didn't follow the Itanium family is because it could pretend to be a 32-bit x86 well enough to fool Windows-based software.

Before we get innovative computers like we did in the 80's and early 90's, we need to get rid of the assumption a PC is a machine that runs Windows.
I can understand the removing non-readers can decrease your spam reports because I have seen numbers where a significant number of non-openers hit the spam button. However, do you have any evidence that an increased open rate helps your deliverability? There seem to be lots of people claiming unopened emails are bad for you but I have not heard anything like that from someone on the inside like someone at Gmail?
Again, should any opinion posted here that is not widely held be prefixed with "in my opinion?" Does that make it more acceptable?
>anti-science

Is debate allowed about in science anymore? It seems that everyone who disagrees with the status quo is branded as anti-science, therefore destroying all chances for a constructive discussion.
Maybe the haskell libraries that exist are fantastic, but a non esoteric language like java will also have really solid libraries and tool chains(likely more solid) plus have lots more available libraries so you spend less time reinventing the wheel.

Theirs very few haskell programmers that are interested in doing boring work. At some point though, boring work is necessary for a business, and at that time you want to be able to hire someone to do it, which will be very difficult if the codebase is in haskell.
Gardener killed me. :(
:)

You going to NAB? We'll be there, so stop by!
I've seen marketing blog articles that claim unopened emails affect inbox rates but I've never seen any numerical evidence nor heard it from someone who worked at a large ISP. Do you have any of those resources?
What do you think about Late Labs? Would you use it as a developer?
First somehow this broke my history so when I hit back I got to the same page.

Second and far more importantly your use of "Big Buck Bunny" is in violation of its copyright. While "Big Buck Bunny" is Creative Commons you either have to provide attribution or show the video in its entirety including its credits.
> However small the chemical difference, there is an enormous practical difference. Meth can produce an intense high. Adderall, not so much.

This just isn't true. Adderall is several amphetamines and the drug definitely produces a high. The medical application of the drug is this rush of dopamine and seratonin allows users to focus and ignore distractions.

The high is an amphetamine high, much like meth, actually. You've noticed that tolerance diminishes these effects; so have many meth users.
Looks like a simple triage to me. I don't see an issue unless they're making it publicly visible to your coworkers.
There's this: http://ihackernews.com/
However, I'd really like an official responsive version.
How much are you taking at once that you space it by several months?
The Art of Asking
Ah a GDS romantic. GDS systems suck at search. Tell me? Why can't you even do these type of searches on the Amadeus flight search page? http://www.amadeus.net Maybe you would be kind enough to do a search from somewhere to 'anywhere' or 'Europe' from 'any date' to 'any date' on sabre and post the video. Bet you can't. Great flight search only happened when ITA liberated search from the GDS dinosaurs.
While I've heard good things about LYAH, I personally found its approach to be too wordy with too many not-illustrative-enough examples for each concept, and ultimately confusing. I felt like I gained a much better understanding from 2 hours spent reading "Learn Haskell Fast And Hard"(1) which is more concise, pragmatic, and presents a better logical build up of explanation and examples.

1.) http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way...
Every person is different, and meth is definitely abused in higher proportions more than prescription adderall — I am not contesting that, or attempting to compare adderall users to meth users.

I am trying to highlight the similarities between the drugs themselves.
I really like the fact that your site seems to work well even with my reduced window width.

If you're looking to seed your site with other ideas there are many existing add-ons and clients and etc.

Searching Github for ["hacker news"] returns something like 700 hits. Obviously, most of those are not relevant, but different searches for ["hacker news" client] or ["hacker news" extensions] return over 100 projects where people have implemented features that they feel improve HN.

The Chrome webstore, and the Firefox add-ons page, also have many projects that people feel improve HN.

There's also the userscripts site, and userstyles site, also having many changes to HN.
While this is an op-ed being run by a web tabloid, there's no superstition or anti-science on display that I can sense.

So let's find some quieter common ground:

A class of prescription psychoactive drugs are increasingly being used by tens of millions. They substantially alter the motivation systems of the human brain, have a poorly understood method of action, are extremely easily and inexpensively sourced from the graymarket, and are being issued to children as young as five. Off-label use is increasing to the point where it's omnipresent in high-pressure social arenas.

There are no social rituals or consumption contexts that retard use of these amphetamines - they're privately consumed as "medication" (therefore perceived as "undangerous" and "acceptable") in a way that street drugs would never be considered.

But the results are the same. They're the same for ADHD folks, they're the same for non-ADHD folks, they're the same for the habitual user, and they're the same for the occasional user. Ferocious forever focus! ...for a while... with a comedown. And then: more?

The end-game for every single one of these users is potentially the same. Five years old with ADHD, 24 years old trying to make it in NYC, whatever. It's habit forming, excessive use comes with a boatload of major side effects, and it's directly monkeying with a core part of the human psyche for a sprawling number of reasons, all of them social in nature.

We're doing something new and big here as a society, and it's worth discussing.
No, they went off down a path, and then found that their approach didn't work on one of their target devices.

If they had known about this hard wall in one of their target devices, before making and implementing their code design choices, would they have taken the same approach?

What they did is neat, why they did, given their journey, is understandable, how they frame what they did and how they did it is masturbatory.
104-Year-Old Woman Forced to Lie about Her Age on Facebook
It also means the internet is vulnerable to simple sysadmin errors. For eg. the only time Google went down world-wide was a BGP error:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/11/06/2040226/why-google-w...

Syria being taken offline was also via BGP

http://www.cert.at/services/blog/20121129184048-616.html
Yes, he added a second part

https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-f...
I suspect that video was an internal tech demo and had nothing to do with there marketing department.
What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?
It sounds like that person was on a much higher dose than most ADHD patients are prescribed to take.
No, it's a bit like asking for tutorials on good typography, use of color and negative space, and effective hierarchies.
The color scheme of the icon makes me think of Dropbox...
Having PG as a commenter, mod, and admin is a tremendous asset. HN also benefits from the close ties to YC in general--it'd be a bit tricky to tell all the YC folks that they need to post not on news.ycombinator.com but over at reddit.com/r/therealhackernews or whatever.
XML Transformation with RSLT
Also, if the community is moving away from you (as is happening to me here), don't fight it; don't whinge; find the good discussions you still feel like contributing to, and let it go. Internet discussion sites and their communities are ephemeral, and to deny that is futile.
I'm here on LI: www.linkedin.com/in/davidbaggett

And try to ignore the negative trolls in this thread. Travel search is hard, but worth working on.
I disagree. Stick with typical input boxes. Go to Kayak.com. Type 2 or 3 letters and you find the airport you're looking for in the search box. It's less typing than the Adioso search, and you know the input is correct. The first search I did on Adioso picked the wrong city and date range, even though I was quite specific. Also, images of the location and food are completely unnecessary. People want to find the best flight, at the cheapest price, and that's it. Unless you're trying to sell vacation packages, you're just losing focus.
I tried Amadeus.net's search, and adioso was better. It lets me search flights to a country instead of max. 4 airports, and it's a lot easier and simpler to use on the whole.
so glad you guys finished this!
Go and tenderpreneur in South Africa ;)
BGPSec
There's nothing like good old plain text. :)

Nowadays I'm downright spoiled and use org-mode[1] to keep my systems journals. Org files are plain text as well, and org-mode takes care of setting up the tree by date. I can also add a journal entry from anywhere in Emacs with just a couple keystrokes, which makes it incredibly low-friction to use.

Like I said, the most important thing is to TAKE NOTES. Even pen and paper. It's one of Limoncelli's big points in Time Management for System Administrators.

Tooling doesn't really matter, the important part is being able to remember what the heck I did and when I did it. Invaluable for troubleshooting.

[1]: http://orgmode.org
First, pick a CM package.

This depends entirely upon your level of masochism and the kind of language youlike scripting in, as literally anything will do. Even shell scripts. Even Makefiles. Whatever you're most comfortable with, just start writing out configs. (you will eventually come to hate your job if you allow non-programmers to script/program in your CM, but blah blah keep shipping blah blah) Break it all out intoa wide hirearchy so you can reuse some bits in other bits.

Hey look, I wrote a crappy one! https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/si...

Next we implement the OP's comments.

Hey look, I already implemented it in my crappy CM tool! https://github.com/psypete/public-bin/tree/public-bin/src/si...

First push your CM tool and configs to the host:

scp -r simplecfm-0.2 remote-host:

Then run the main config file which calls the others:

ssh remote-host "cd simplecfm-0.2/ ; perl simplecfm examples/first-five-minutes/main.scfm"

Aaaaand you're done. Of course I haven't tested these configs and something will probably break (most likely my crappy code) but you'll get the idea from looking at the examples.
HN doesn't benefit from close ties to YC. YC benefits from close ties to HN.

YC folks will post to whatever is considered the de rigeur nerd/startup news site, which over the last couple of years has become HN - having migrated from reddit (and slashdot, before).

There will be another one, in due time.
Sure, but there are sucky jobs in any field. For the most part, I've had very positive experiences in my 8 years as a software professional, with the exception of when I wrote J2ME ports on 64kb phones. There are tons of interesting problems in the field and in general, my coworkers have been very smart people.
abusing unprescribed drugs makes you a "complete moron", but abusing unprescribed drugs in moderation makes you well informed. note taken.
Rory Stewart's analysis that we both never could have accomplished the "nation building" mission in Afghanistan, and never needed to, is absolutely correct.

I am still amazed that after accomplishing the objectives of largely disrupting and destroying AQ in late 2001, at a cost of at most hundreds of millions of dollars, we continued on for another 11 years (and likely to be at least 13, and possibly more), accomplishing essentially nothing more. The CIA (led by Gary Schroen, who wrote about his mission in First In http://www.amazon.com/First-Insiders-Account-Spearheaded-Afg...) and 2 ODAs, combined with air power and some ground controllers, essentially accomplished all of the world's critical policy objectives before the end of 2001.

The primary security risk from Afghanistan is our presence there, exposing forces to attack. The secondary risk is corruption and terrorist groups funded directly or indirectly by us or enemies funding due to our presence there. There is essentially no external threat from Afghanistan, even to Pakistan, and there hasn't been since 2002.

I think in retrospect, one of the greatest faults with the Obama presidency was deciding to "double down" in Afghanistan in 2009, rather than an accelerated withdrawal. It's hard to believe Obama actually wanted to remain there, so it's primarily that he didn't feel strongly either way and relied on the advice of others, for either domestic-political or military reasons.
http://hnwishlist.com/posts/54520ba4-f32e-473a-8590-365e893f...

("Implement a real name policy")

Seriously? Why does anyone think this is a good idea? Can't we just stomp this one out for good?

I really miss noms de guerre. It saddens me that we moved away from handles and pseudoanonymity being a default.

Says the guy using his real name.
They offer systems to 3rd parties, they are not an actual travel company, that's probably why their website is so bad. In an 'API' level, all those system are somewhat similar.

My point is that those websites are just wrappers to ITA/Amadeus/Sabre and that is inherently unprofitable. Companies like Qatar Airlines are offering ZERO incentives to those kind of websites.
I really love reading recounts like this. Seeing other developers try, fail, and try again to come up with creative solutions for difficult problems, and then finally arriving at a solution, is so satisfying. It really demonstrates how creativity is manifested in programming, and is truly inspiring.

A favourite of mine is Jari Komppa's article on his process of porting Death Rally from DOS to Windows: http://sol.gfxile.net/dr_gdm.html.

Does anyone have any other articles along the same lines? I'd love to read them!
Or give them something to watch while the magic happens. A mesmerising animation, for example. The most important thing is to convey that nothing is broken, and progress is being made.
> It is almost certainly being used for phishing attacks now.

And the solution is to teach users about phishing. That's the only sane route, it's what everybody is doing and, by the way, and it mostly works (despite some ISPs, governments and banks trying hard to teach people that they must click on every unreliable warning).

> An attacker might give the user the idea that a message was digitally signed by using HTML mail.

That's a bug in your reader.
In theory this makes sense: you cross the border...or live near the border...blah blah...keep US secure...blah blah...
In reality, this is the latest attack and restrictions on our freedoms. Their tactic is brilliant, they pass xx laws that are unconstitutional and overwhelm the courts. Courts try to be reasonable and in many cases give half to one side and half to the other, every year.

I wouldn't be surprised if you still have quite a few rights down the line but only inside your home and a few decades after that only in the bathroom.
Node.js + Socket.io + Express Chat Application
This is all fantasy. PG runs this in his spare time off a single server. Every feature I saw on the list has viable workarounds. Yes, it'd be nice if they were supported out of the box. But I don't think the lack of native features is negatively impacting the content of HN, which is the most important part.

So what's the argument of the site? "Hey PG, we know you're busy funding startups and stuff, but we're mildly inconvenienced by some UX decisions you've made with that experimental site you run on the side, and were hoping that you could take the time to implement these seemingly-minor features that've been discussed on HN for years. In exchange our happiness while using the site will be somewhat increased, and we will instead whine about HN's lack of modern CSS and Twitter Bootstrappiness and what have you."?
Pictures seems far-fetched, but what about a radio signal of an old broadcast?
Bookmarklet for word counts on your YC application
javascript: (function() { var wordCount = function() { if (!window.jQuery) { return setTimeout(wordCount, 100); } var $ = jQuery; $('.wc').remove(); $('textarea').each(function(idx,elem) { var wc = $(elem).text().split(/[ \n]+/).length; $(elem).after('<div class="wc"'+( (wc>120) ? ' style="color: red"':'')+'>'+wc+'</div>'); }); }; if (!window.jQuery) { var c=document.createElement("script"); c.type="text/javascript"; c.src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"; document.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(c); } wordCount(); })();

https://gist.github.com/kstinchcombe/5087397/raw/6c6d6d852970a5b629a83f9ac6d55d701e0a3926/gistfile1.js

doesn't update live, that would be super annoying. click again to update.
ITA is even more expensive than those 'dinosaurs' and offer pretty much the same functionality.

You missed my point (on purpose, but anyway...), which is profitability. As I commented before most airlines are not even offering incentives to those travel websites anymore. In fact, some companies are CHARGING websites to make automated reservations into their systems.
This is a simple chat I hacked up using Node, Express and Socket.io. If you have questions I'll be in the lobby under the name Kris.
I love the shit out of this site. I use it all the time. Happy to see it's from HNers.

I have nothing constructive to add, other than I prefer this to HipMunk.
>I use hnnotify, which works really well but relies on scraping. I'd love to see official functionality that works pretty much identically to hnnotify.

If it's working "really well", why do you care about the fact that its implementation is a kludge? It seems like we already have a good-enough solution.
Agreed. Perhaps replace the unchecked box with the current disabled checked, then use a darker center to signify "disabled".
There's the problem exactly. You've got rights with that constitution thingee and all, but the system's now set up so that (even successfully) exercising those rights will cost you everything you have (and increasingly everything you're ever going to have).
I suggest you read the "About" section, it should answer your doubts.
I don't have an account there, but it's worth pointing out that alternative sites like https://lobste.rs do exist.
Your body acclimates itself to just about anything - the weather, sugar, MSG, even frequent shampooing or Chap-Stick usage. That doesn't mean those things are comparable to meth.

Nobody I know feels that Adderall provides much of a high. Anecdotal, sure, but it seems like a heck of a statistical anomaly.

Then again, I don't know anybody that's experimented with unsafe doses of Adderall. I'm sure that at dangerously high doses, the effect isn't unlike meth.

Then again, that's true of just about anything even remotely psychoactive when you talk about large doses. Heck, 500-1000mg of pure caffeine will probably get you meth-like results.
Yes, PG would have to do all of this himself, because there's no way a hundred developers would leap at the chance to contribute to the HN source and make fellow developers happy.
It's a fantasy image that would be good to photograph, if it happened.

A Sachertorte is a chocolate cake famous from Hotel Sacher in Vienna. It has lots of chocolate and eggs, some apricot jam, and only a little flour. The cake is chocolate, and there is a covering of a soft candy-like chocolate over the whole cake. As is common with coffee and deserts in Vienna, it is commonly eaten with whipped cream.

If you are having a romantic candle lit dinner with a pretty girl wearing a pretty cocktail dress and for desert she goes to the kitchen and comes out wearing a frilly apron over her dress and carrying a tray with that cake and whipped cream, that she made herself just for you, then you have lots of symbols, worth photographing, of a potential of a very happy marriage and home life (although some women would say would be happy mostly only for you) which, of course, is one of the main reasons to take pictures.
When I tried it, it crashed a lot. I mostly just use iTunes in the Cloud or hook up my computer to the TV nowadays though.
The early 2013 retina MBP 15” have faulty firmware/hardware