skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds as though we need a decision tree app to write the scripts for us. It asks questions such as, "Do you have your own IP block?" and explains the question thoroughly for those who don't understand it, explains the answers offered (for questions such as, "Which of the following types of logins would you like to allow (check all that apply)? Password, public key, ...").

It would offer you explanations, deeper explanations, defaults, recommendations for when you would override the defaults, etc. for each item. It would be smart enough to prevent incompatible or contradictory settings.

Once this process was complete, it would generate the needed puppet / ansible / whatever script, which the admin would run and store for future reference and use. When installing another machine, the original script could be read in by the decision tree and the new script could be generated by modifying the original rather than starting from scratch.
While I would agree that some segments of the population have increased in societal freedoms to a degree, the general spirit of the Constitution has been severely eroded and is being destroyed.

The beauty of the Constitution was that it limited the powers of the Federal Government, allowing people to make more decisions for themselves at the individual, local, and state levels.

One needs only to look at the legislative and judicial history to see that the Tenth Amendment has been largely nullified in favor of increasing Federal power.

One needs only to look at the budget of the Federal government which is up around 24% of the GDP to realize that it is rather unconstrained by the narrow scope of the Constitution.

The Founding Fathers were deeply paranoid of an overbearing government and an very powerful political class. That's why the Constitution was written the way it was. It was a good idea, but the best set of rules in the world can't constrain people who refuse to live by them.
Whoa there buddy, no need to stress. Just don't use it.

The only reason why `cake` exists is because at the time that CoffeeScript was first released, there wasn't a "standard" JavaScript build tool, and we wanted the "coffee-script" project to have as few dependencies as possible. Adding a simple way to expose functions to the command line made it possible for CoffeeScript to build itself, without relying on "make" (Windows), "jake" (very rare), or "rake" (a Ruby dependency).

Regarding your comment below -- it's definitely not going to grow. All it does is expose functions to the command-line. See a litany of "closed wontfix" tickets if you don't believe me ;)

Also -- and perhaps mainly -- releasing "coffee" and "cake" binaries together was too cute to resist.
I really love the flat design trend. Does anyone know of any good photoshop/illustrator tutorials that teach this new trend?
I think the cell phone was bigger. The iphone was just an evolution of the concept. Processors became powerful enough and efficient enough to run a full OS in a phone, Apple jumped on it, the rest is history.
That would be the "HN Effect," which is the result of having your site linked to on page one of THN.
As if children never had friends before schools were invented.
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tl;dr: Every time this comes up I wish the writer would start with a personal "taxonomy of big problems" to better frame the discussion.

At very least, I wish these writers would preface with a few examples of what kind of "big problem" they think corporate R&D should be working on, but isn't. OP's example falls flat to me:

> Private businesses seem remarkably uninterested in tackling serious problems such as energy despite soaring prices and evident problems.

They may not be interested in solving energy problems in the way OP wants them to, but there is certainly massive industry R&D in the energy space (Siemens and Schlumberger come to mind, many others). Just look at the ever-increasing yields from fracking and (ever deeper) deep-sea drilling. That requires huge R&D investments (down-bore sonar and NMR, anyone?)

If you consider the sorts of problems that are presently somewhat tractable modulo engineering {to pick a few: energy, cancer, food, genetics} I would argue that there is probably a lot more industry R&D work than the author realizes. It may not happen in the software industry, but realistically, for many "big problems", software is auxiliary at-best.

If you are considering the sorts of problems that are presently only tractable modulo magic {fusion, life extension, interstellar travel} then of course corporate R&D is not working on those.
I'm surprised she didn't get Xanax or another benzo to help come off of the stimulants. Using alcohol for that effect seems like a strange choice.
Very nice looking.

Bootstrap 3 is actually headed towards a flatter look (a little like this), so buttons and the nav-bar don't have gradients in the newest version of Bootstrap by default.
Choose some nice colors, and avoid layer styles entirely ;)
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You need to qualify your question a bit more. People with ADHD experience it differently than people without ADHD generally.

For me, withdrawals after long term use (continuously taking it for 2-3 weeks or more) are generally over a three day period. The end of the first day you really start feeling it. The second day you will be dragging, all day. The third day is similar to the first. After that, you're back to yourself, more or less.

Short term (day to day) withdrawals are a bit different. The "zombie" effect doesn't really occur until later in the day. It goes down with long term use. Often times, the zombie effect is actually due to a bad sleep schedule versus the drug, at least in my experience. Short term withdrawals are more pronounced in the first 2-3 weeks of taking it.

The apetite thing is true and false. Long term, it goes away a bit. I lost weight the first 5 months, gained it back slowly. It took about a year and a bit of consciousness to normalize.

Withdrawal symptoms are similar if using Adderall XR, except they are over a longer period of time. Adderall XR is much harder to dose right, and leads to much worse sleeping habits IMO.

For it to be effective with my ADHD, I had to take large doses. 40mg/day (instant release) was the minimum, 60 mg the usual. I've taken over 160mg in a two day period more than a few times.

Adderrall gave me headaches though at useful dosages. At first, I realized part of this was because of a decreased apetite, but even after mitigation of that (remembering to eat), I still had them.

I took Adderall over a 4 year period. Experiments with purely non-stimulant medicinces was over about 6 months. The latest combination I've been using for about a year.
yeah, its true. There are some gives people keep pointing out. Climates, Building styles, road quality... etc. First time round i didnt have names on the flags - that was insanely hard :)
> Good thing I'm a tad extroverted.

Lucky bastard. I'm always jealous, being a deep introvert, of how others can engage with others so openly.
Thanks.. i have no idea what to do with it/ how to grow it now though
If you read TFA, they bent over backwards to attempt app-only methods... but ultimately hit a hard wall on the LinearAlloc buffer size in Android 2.x. So, off to extraordinary measures land they went.
Content Economics
I have taken Adderall now for about a year, and while I have reduced appetite it is not all that bad, I still eat the necessary amount of food, in reality it has been helping me lose weight healthily since I stopped eating while bored ... since I am bored less and can focus on the task at hand. I take 10 mg twice daily.

I can go on and off Adderall with minor issues. The only issue when I go off Adderall for a day or two (they call them holidays, doctor recommended) is that I lose the effects it gives me (ability to focus) and it makes me feel slightly depressed (it helps regulate dopamine). Besides that no ill-effects, and I am aware after going off the Adderall that I will feel slightly depressed.

I've also gone entire weeks to a month without, when I am not required to focus then I can choose not to take it.

Although I do understand where the addictiveness comes in, that feeling of slight depression after going off it can be enough for most people to want to continue taking more, but I don't have an addictive personality (I've been able to start/quit smoking/drinking/soda (sugar/caffeine)/gambling/gaming (WoW) without issues). There are definitely people I know that do have addictive personalities that wouldn't be able to stop themselves.

Without it I simply wouldn't be able to function as well as I do now and I am pretty sure that I would have lost my job. It has given me a way out of the brain fog, a clarity of mind. I feel free from my mind at the end of the day and no longer have trouble falling asleep. I sleep better, much better. I worry less, and am able to prioritize and put less important things to the back of my head to process or deal with another time. With my ADHD that would always be problematic, I wouldn't be able to pay attention in meetings or conversations because I'd be working on two or three other things. I'm more aware when I am not paying attention or elsewhere and am able to voice it, something my friends/colleagues appreciate since it means they don't have to repeat the same thing over and over to me =).

Yes, Adderall gives me an energy boost as well, but it is actually less of an energy boost than from all the coffee and soda I used to drink while I was in college.

I am not saying Adderall is the end all be all drug, I wouldn't even recommend it for most people, I won't sell or give away the drugs I have, not only for the penalties it carries, but also because I know how drugs can be addictive and how those can destroy a person. If I could function properly in society without it, I would drop it in a heartbeat.
Sgr A is the black hole Sagittarius A* as far as I know. The black hole itself isn't bright. As far as I understand, the swirling gas around it (outside the event horizon) is what's sending out all the light.

What do you mean by inactive?
bitter, party of one.

Actually, the OP had it right the first time. We've made progress on some fronts even as the government has been growing and trying to circumvent others. Women and blacks can now vote, something which was not true in the start of this great experiment.

You seem to forget (or never knew) that there is a constant tension between a government and it's citizens: the government wants more power, and the people usually want more freedom. Although if you look at the majority today, they'd rather have big brother take care of them. caveat emptor
:) true, but I always tend to learn from the way people work going from nothing to a finished something (even if it's small). Maybe I'm thinking about it too much and I just need to do it!
Feature set of Linux 3.9 has been established
Not bad! I've seen people hit 2k though. I need to think of a low cost way (in terms of for the users effort) of a score table across all of the apps (iphone, web and android)
Someone very close to me had been on it since she was 12. She's 23 now and stopped last fall.

Due to her tolerance, she'd been on very high doses for basically a decade.

After stopping, sleeping for 16-18 hours a day was the norm for about a month- but just getting to that point, first she had to cope with a weeklong psychotic break.

It causes some serious dopamine desensitization after extended use. Depression is common among withdrawl symptoms.
This is the kind of website that wows those of us on HN, because it is a very well executed site.

But it does not solve a need, from what I can tell, that Kayak or other meta-searches solve. And at first glance, it seems slower than Kayak and has fewer options.

Visually, I think some people would debate whether your layout is more useful than the clutter of Kayak/Priceline/etc. It certainly meets the guidelines of attractive typography and whitespace but it took me some time to interpret what's going on.

In one real sense, I think the width of your site is a real problem. There's a reason why content sites, like blogs, usually fix their content width to 600-700 pixels: because it's hard to go from left to right and back to left across a wide width. Your current layout forces this upon the user in a way that's not very easy to read. Most people might say that Kayak is ugly and cluttered but it is much much easier to figure at a glance. Sometimes, ugly/cluttered is better...kind of like the debate between HackerNews and DesignerNews.

I'm sounding too harsh here...but only to be helpful. This was a site I showed all my coworkers because I thought it was pretty cool. But "cool" or different isn't enough in the travel space, unfortunately.
> "I just got off the phone with the White House"

How badass did you feel writing that? I feel badass for you.

Good job. Well done.
The Japanese American Internment was the result of Roosevelt's extra-Constitutional power grab. The Founders had no intention for Congress to ever abdicate so much power to the Executive.
The history of cake.coffee[1] suggests otherwise. It's been edited relatively few times since the initial checkin, mostly to make it compatible with node.js API changes, and sometimes to pare it down and simplify it. It was hardly touched at all in 2012. It is small and mindful of feature creep.

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/commits/master/sr...
> including myriads of small applications we take for granted

As someone who runs Arch with KDE and an intentionally different Gnome theme just so I can notice the apps I use running Gnome, there aren't too many. In Ubuntu-space, definitely, since their entire ecosystem was built on gnome, but in general you can easily get a gnome-less Linux.
that mar on our history should be a warning to everyone that wants the government to provide (whether it be retirement, medical, food, whatever) - the government giveth, and the government taketh away, as long as we are unresisting.
Really beautiful design. However, I'm not really sure what this is trying to be. Is it a fork of Bootstrap or do they see themselves as a separate entity. Because if this is indeed a fork of Bootstrap I do have a few grievances:

- Why are there no fixed to top navbars?
- What about lists or stacked navs?
- I don't see any responsive behaviour
- It seems to be missing almost all of js from Bootstrap and doesn't have equivalent implementations in most cases.
- Hover based dropdown menu is a bit irritating, much rather have click based events. But that's a personal preference.

On the whole it's beautifully designed but it's missing so much in comparison to Bootstrap that it becomes useless for building apps.

Also, maybe mention Bootstrap somewhere on the page.
Explaining it doesn't help your users deal with it ;)

I'd suggest making it a bit more asynchronous, or returning whatever results you can first. Allow people to save searches, perhaps, and come back to them in a few minutes.
Re: maintainability... does this add to bootstrap, or do you use their modified copy of it?
I just checked the site in question and it is not responsive. Being able to conform to screenreaders and older browsers is not difficult by any means and certainly shouldn't cost anywhere near even 1% of what we're talking about here. In my humble opinion.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.NETM

It's called "voting with your feet".
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We will fix it soon. Thanks for the comment!
> Yeah, I rank governments that murder millions of their own people pretty low on the scale of "human rights". Sorry.

You seem only interested in comparing the US to undeveloped and developing countries, which is not a useful comparison.

Why not compare the US to developed countries?
Adioso: have you talked to ITA Software (now part of Google) about licensing QPX? We solved the data issue, very painfully, over a 10-year period, by working directly with the airlines. (This was, in fact, one of my major contributions to the company as COO, and many people were involved.) Using QPX, you could implement exactly what you envision with stuff ITA already has running.

I'm a cofounder of ITA but am no longer affiliated with the company. But if you want to talk to people there, I can connect you. Just reply here with some way for me to contact you.
What preschooler drew up this idea? Path of Rome, here we come!
Read some books about Swiss design :)

http://www.richardhollis.com/books-as-author-and-designer/sw...
Yeah, I'm not saying Ubuntu is horrible by any means, but I have better luck with distros taking another direction, for the reasons mentioned
yes but the collapsing features are not applicable i.e. navbars won't collapse or elements won't auto hide, etc.
TrialPay is also hiring UI engineers:
http://www.trialpay.com/about/jobs/eng/#product-designer-ui-...
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Explaining it doesn't help your users deal with it

Didn't say it did :) We just know it's a problem - by far our biggest problem - and the one we're most determined to fix.
It appears that running `cake` doesn't check to see if there have been changes since the previous build. I wouldn't use a build system that didn't at least have this essential feature.
Can you make the audioso logo link to audioso.com, and the world blog link to the blog?
Really nice. I get a very Soviet feel from it. Bright colors, round corners, very monumental.
I did not mean to. I didn't see much if any consideration about schools in the article and maybe jumped the gun assuming the schools selection is better in SF.
Although not as flashy, the peninsula is a great compromise.
It's figurative, not literal. I am very much aware of desoxyn and that adderall is actually composed of four amphetamine salts, none of them literally meth. However, the amphetamine family of drugs have very similar effects — meth is very similar to adderall is very similar to vyvanse.
This is add-on, which modify bootstrap default skin. So if your site is on bootstrap - you can easily change design in one line of code. But we change not each elements, only defaults. More features will be in pro version.
It's a pretty new redesign. I use Chrome myself, but shoot me a screenshot? hello at article_domain
How I made contracts.ruby faster
Cool game I like it, plays well on the iPad screen size, can't say for iPhone I don't have one atm
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Sigh, this comment makes me kind of sad. It shows a lack of understanding of the tinkerer/hacker mindset.

People enjoy doing what they're told not to. Half the fun of owning an Android phone is overhauling the UI, flashing a completely different ROM, and over clocking it to test its limits. Sure, you could just buy a phone and be done with it, but why? Isn't it fun to which your tech speed up, be altered, and even sometimes break? It's the feeling that you're making it YOURS. Not to mention that you learn so, so much in the process.

Remember, hacking isn't about making something that everyone will use. If so, then why aren't hackers making Angry Birds or Microsoft Word? Hacking is about pushing the boundaries, sharpening your skills, and hopefully learning in the process. If I were to make an AppleTV app(liance) that I really liked and put it online for 3 people to download then I would be happy. That's 3 people's AppleTV's who are better due to my hobby; isn't that great?

Also, please note that I never meant to "act like you're an idiot." I disagree with your viewpoints but I'm sure you're intelligent; you come to HN, don't you? :) I'm just tired of people who complain about Apple's "closed ecosystem" and then turn around and suggest an Android system which usually involves rooting (Android's "jailbreak") and flashing a custom ROM. Android actually is more involved than jailbreaking an iPhone is as far as time, energy, and scope go. I apologize if I took my frustration out on you but this whole "anti-tinkering mentality" that's being spread solely because people dislike Apple is getting to me. Technology should be about having fun using and abusing your systems!
Yeah, it does sound tough and kudos for pushing through. You should really dissect Skyscanner though.

I've just done a search for London to Denmark in April on both your site and Skyscanner.

Skyscanner: I'm shown all available cities and their best price in < 2 seconds.

Click through to the entire month grid where I can play around with out and in flight dates in a nice compact chart.

Best price Copenhagen £26 on the 24th.

Adioso: The search snaps to Denmark, AU (can you weight destinations by population?). The correction option you offer is nice though.

It takes around 10 seconds to start returning prices and 30 seconds until complete.

Once I select a destination I'm not a fan of your results. The slider to see more than 7 days really gets on my nerves. Having to wait again after I thought I was done with waiting is exhausting.

When I want to select a return flight I then have to decide from three options: I have to think too much. With the Skyscanner grid I can play and see 'okay Wednesday to Sunday seems to be cheapest, I was going to go Friday to Monday but I'll stay longer'.

Best price Copenhagen £26 on the 16th.

I'm impatient especially when shopping around for the best price. I really think unless you achieve the performance comparable to the Skyscanner guys you'll be dead in the water.

You have something here and have clearly achieved a lot. But essentially I think you've overstretched and sacrificed a very important quality: speed and UX.
where/how do we add the breakpoint? plunker looks awesome btw.
That's the point. There have been extra-constitutional things going on from day one.
Event data vs entity data
Yes...I know the "do you really have ADHD?" question is not an easy or clear one. I was more interested in the side effects of continual use of the drug...Nearly all of the media mentions of the drug deal with people who use it periodically or who are prescribed the drug during a significant volatile period in their life (i.e. college).

Of course, selection bias would also indicate that media mentions of Adderall would come from people who've faced drastic side effects. But I've rarely read from people who've taken the drug 20+ years. And I'm interested in not just what happens if you decide to quit...but if you haven't ever quit, what side effects you tolerate day-to-day?
Schneier talks about NAT and 2004 windows laptops (ie, with winxp). I actually asked Peter Gutmann during an IETF meeting around 2005, and he confirmed that nat had improved the situation around and win98/win2k/winxp windows machines and bot nets. If I recall right, the gist of it was that windows machines needed something, and while nat is wrong and bad, it "worked" in this aspect.

This is about as far from a server installed with ubuntu in 2012 that one can get. You are not going to find any such article by Schneier promoting default firewall installations. I suggest here to check out Secrets and Lies by Schneier, as it is rather clear that a firewall need to be configured against the specific threats one can identify. If you fail at identifying threats, the firewall is likely not be useful at all, or will simply work identical to NAT. At worst, it will give a sense of false security.
> Adderall / Vyvanse is prescription meth (something I've heard from several of my AD(H)D friends).

No, that's Desoxyn[0].

What you may be referring to is that Adderall, methamphetamine, and MDMA have remarkably similar effects, which is true - the active ingredients in all three are metabolized in a similar manner, and the main differences are the means of ingestion, the bioavailability, and set/setting. In methamphetamine, for example, the extra methyl group simply ensures that it can cross the blood-brain barrier more easily, but it doesn't change the actual effect of the drug in itself.

[0]http://www.rxlist.com/desoxyn-drug.htm