skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I wrote in another comment[1] I simply don't want my name connected through Google to that blog (not yet).

I have all the information you mention and it comes out if you Google my real name. I'll send you that info by email.

Still, on HN I never managed to generate any lead. I've participated in many posts about freelancers looking for jobs, for example, but never worked. Now I logged out of my account to create this one and I can't even log back into it.

This blog is now attracting some attention, but only because I'm not in an easy position at the moment and not on the merits of my skills. I didn't even expect it, I just thought to throw the link here to get a couple of readers to start with.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5361546
This is why i prefer the reddit model that a vote can be retracted/changed, it allows for a change in vote as the circumstances change. Which would also solve 'accidental downvote' occurrences.
I also disagree. Although not the rule, there are occasionally interesting articles who's comment threads have been hijacked, and are misguided, politically movitivated, wrong and/or the conversation is broken in some other way.

I'm up voting the articles, not their comment thread. (And as such I have no obligation to read the comments at all.)
Methane is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide so you really need to burn it rather than just let it escape. Of course it just might be better to leave it frozen at the bottom of the ocean.
Posts like the bacterial fossils spark all kinds of interesting discussion, and are obviously of interest to HNers. Asking people not to vote for interesting articles that will prompt discussion seems counter-intuitive.

Plus, the Bad Astronomy post that is also on the front page probably wouldn't have made it there without the original post. I really enjoyed the follow-up, so I think the whole thing was worth it.
Wearable smart cards.

I guess, in a sense, I wear the keys to my car basically everywhere I go.
They are already planing for that in the UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/8917633/A-dead-heat-...
Greater Boston is mostly non-barrier cabs, but I don't recall the specifics for Boston proper vs Cambridge, etc.

I was referring to the idea that the medallion in Boston is a safety feature rather than a monopoly piece.
Do you really see any sort of market for providing operations that can be implemented very easily using python itself?
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but that comment feels like you've read the title of this submission, but not actually read the chapter. This isn't just about chopping and slicing strings, this is an entry point into a comprehensive book about Natural Language Processing, and its associated techniques as exemplified in Python.
The purpose of government is to preserve liberty. For example, government should protect citizens from mafia-style extortion where people are forced to pay protection money in order to practice a certain occupation. But when government becomes the mafia, when it extorts money from people in who want to practice an occupation, as it does with taxi services in boston, then government is acting illegitimately.
IMO, seeing 0.10.0 makes it appear like something that's worked on very carefully, in a professional manner, that's being nice and honest and realistic in what it promises. A version like "10.0" would lead me to think completely the opposite (that it was written by people more concerned with marketing than the quality of the product) and therefore put me off. It's funny how equally irrational we can be, in completely opposite directions :)
What simpler use cases do you see? In my case, I'm the language guy this is targeted at and have no clue what most web devs would want this stuff for. Spam and text classification of some kind maybe? MAYBE certain kinds of named entity recognition?
Radical options for the UK economy
I'm not sure how someone can read past

...press Ctrl + Shift + L (if you are following along on your Mac, just press squiggle squoggle shift Home)

and not pick up that this is satire, or perhaps just plain humo(u)r.
I'd like to add to this. One thing Jack Dorsey said (paraphrasing here) in his interview with Kevin Rose (in Foundation series), is that he wishes he is fortunate to realise an opportunity when it presents itself.

To me that means 2 things: seeking out and creating opportunities. Build stuff, meet people, take risks and chances. This increases the chances of opportunities (luck) happening: Meeting that perfect co-founder, stumbling onto a brilliant idea, finding the right investors, etc.

Then secondly, you have to practice to be open-minded enough to realise that when an opportunity actually arrives, you know it is one! You might seek and create opportunities as much you want, as most of it ends up being luck, but if you don't realise that luck, you've missed the boat.
Ironically, I felt inclined to upvote this from the main page, but upon reading the comments no longer do
I can't agree with this- HN is absolutely a discussion forum, that revolves around the user submitted 'news' (which is often blog opinion). I have gained much more from reading the comments here than the articles submitted.
To put it a little less cynically (those who take care of their image at the office are not always 'yes men'), look at making sure that your accomplishments are recognized as part of your job.

If you write a bunch of code but don't test it before shipping, it doesn't matter how hard you worked on it -- if it's got a ton of bugs, you can't really expect a pat on the back.

Similarly, if you accomplish stuff for the company and nobody knows, what credit can you expect for it?
I must say this isn't nearly as funny as much of the Verity Stob posts, but no problem.

Mostly I was amazed to see that the same horrible bug in Notepad++ that seriously bit me once (the text replacement buffer silently truncated... aargh!) is the one mentioned here.
That's sort of socialist, isn't it?
I appreciate the idea but couldn't disagree more, this would only influence group think, 'hivemind' like voting on articles even more. It is better to read the article, formulate your own opinion, vote, and then read the comments/discuss with others.
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This write up, and the previous ones on the same site, are better than any TV drama. Mostly because a real-life troll is actually getting what's coming to them. Many thanks for the extensive coverage. I can't wait to see just how hard the judge slaps them in the season finale!
https://twitter.com/simcity/status/310490053803646976

"Hey, this is on Maxis. EA does not force design upon us. We own it, we are working 24/7 to fix it, and we are making progress"
You're assuming that I am not capable of making my own judgement on how credible it sounds. For example, I just upvoted the Bad Astronomy takedown of that article based entirely on reading the first page - I think it should be upvoted independent of what other people think.

Now, sometimes I will check the comments before upvoting. But not always.
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That is crony-capitalism. Capitalism without government intervention/regulation = free market. Of course I will always advocate for private property protections etc. base protections.
Honestly, it's a pity to see my idea sink deeper and deeper into HN news black hole. I really hoped to discuss it. Not the first time though :-)
Yup. I guess the differenece is no dependency on angular-UI and it cuts straight to the bootstrap part.
wow, this is pretty awesome. very welcome extension.
Wish there was some more to see (how archives, pagination, multiple posts look, etc.).
I had to read Zen for a operations research course in college. I hated that book, but I do remember the professor beating over our heads this idea of gumption.
"I'm pretty sure the jobs everyone's freaking out about are never coming back"

There's nothing wrong with that. In 1900 something like 40% of all employment was in agriculture, but improvements in technology have reduced that to 2-3% now (all the while increasing crop yields), but we don't have 40% unemployment because of all those jobs that never came back.
Despite the lack of sources, some people on reddit provided a more realistic analysis of this story : http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/18tsda/til_th...
China’s next-generation Internet is a world-beater
> right-thinking reader

This should have been your cue; "right-thinking" as a term is right up there with "modest proposal."
In this house, we obey Poe's law!
Genericons - a free, GPL, flexible icon font for blogs
It works just fine for that purpose. Just include angular.js and add an ng-app and ng-controller directive to a div you want angular to be concerned about and you're on your way. We are going to transitioning our javascriptMVC app over to an angular.js app piecemeal by following the same strategy.
Out of interest, what is the attitude in Austria (and Germany) towards hiring programmers without degrees?
Tuning Phusion Passenger’s concurrency settings
We have been using it quite successfully for a interactive application. Independent of Angular Bootstrap we have made our own reusable widgets for common and generic components such as modals.

I actually haven't thought of using it for static pages but that poses an interesting experiment to try with my blog. It could bridge the gap often seen with non-interactive pages - mainly caching on S3+CF and yet wanting to pull in a Twitter feed.

Some things to mull on for sure.
"Unfair playing field" is exactly what taxi companies have built for themselves erecting government hurdles to keep out competition. Why are medallions necessary to protect the public? They are not. They are necessary to protect the above-market rates charged by the taxi companies.
HTML5 Elements: Audio, SVG, Canvas, MathML and Webworkers
The point here is that he was successful recognizing valuable vectors of attack. Red did a great job using his most valuable resources.
They claimed there was no evolutionary differences, so either it started it's space journey at the same time our ancestor did, or it evolved in the exact same way...

However the stating of, "zero chance" is rather un scientific.
Despite what Google says, I think there's a need for people to have multiple online personas. The ring concept is very cool (I remember those rings, wish I had one), but the physical dimensions of the iButton are too large to have multiple of them on a ring. Say, one for home or family, and another for work. If you're a freelancer, then possibly several for your work customers.

Who knows, watches may return, only with the bands as the holder for your key storage devices.
I was thinking about this earlier and I have to agree. I sometimes jump the gun and upvote before reading the comments.
Good feedback; I think a couple of example backtraces would help to illuminate what's going on. Not sure if I'll edit this post, but I shall take it to heart for future ones. Thanks!
The Era of Symbol Fonts
For what it’s worth the Timepiece ligature demo appears to have been hacked - I’ve let ALA know and submitted it to Google’s malware checker. Would probably avoid visiting that link for the time being.
Maybe you should think in terms of "interesting" instead of "upvote".

But a fix might be that an item can only be marked interesting on the item page, not on the overview pages.
we're in berlin now, we'll leave on march 30th
Fixing the Turn-based Strategy genre
Nice theme, but the name made me think it was a fork of Jekyll (Jekyll does blogging so why is that the name of the theme?) rather than a new theme.
Fan clubs. The desire to have them, the desire to participate easily in them. The ability to create new ones, and to connect with other similar clubs.

Humans gotta do things to each other, or individually they go mad.
What is Business Intelligence?
I'm Arch Linux and I've never been on /r/linux, and I'm on Reddit everyday ;)
And the most obvious title in the world is ...?
An interesting discussion about the difference between

<a ng-click="modal.saved=true;dismiss()">...</a>

and

<a onClick="thisIsAnAntiPattern()">...</a>

and why context / scope matters could be found here: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2439-My-Experience-With-Angular...
Mobile apps will only be considered once core web service works well on mobile
The inside story Zynga's Boston studio shutdown, & the startup that grew from it
Is that really what you expected?
Interesting (maybe?) tidbit, in the days of coining 1st/3rd world nomenclature, the then USSR was in fact the 2nd world. But it is fair to say they have slipped a bit since those days.
Or just use an IronKey (http://www.ironkey.com/). I have an older device with > 130 unique login and password combinations and VeriSign VIP (RSA token) authentication. Works very well for me although the Linux support isn't great.

It looks like the Workspace versions support Windows To Go for a managed portable OS scenario. I wonder at how robust that can be against a malicious host.
A lot of Linux distros don't expose the distro name to the browser these days, for security reasons. Ubuntu still does, though. That's why "Linux Other" is so high now (double Ubuntu) when it wasn't a couple years ago http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2011-03/Squ... .
The Python examples given in the book are very very rudimentary. The service behind our API is "real" machine learning (e.g. SVMs, RBMs, deep neural networks & the like). This is all transparent to the user - you just submit your data via our API.
The chapter contains HTML processing but that's a small subset of what this chapter covers. You don't need to learn word stems to do really interesting things with structured HTML. Also, web scraping involves more than text processing, but the programmatic navigation of websites, which does add some complexity but is pretty manageable with the libraries out there.

Edit: I'm obviously not saying NLP isn't useful, just that web scraping is more immediately useful. With NLP, besides learning the concepts, you have to find a source of raw text that's been unprocessed and yet contains something of real world value. With web text, you just have to collect what someone already thought was valuable to publish and find insights through the aggregation. It seems to me that the latter scenario is easier to grasp, with NLP being useful for going beyond what others have gathered and published.
I still prefer firebug over the firefox dev tools. The built in tools look pretty but they aren't that useful to me. I just figured out how to show the style window, but there doesn't seem to be any javascript tools. Where is the console?

edit: After I posted this I figured I should dig deeper before I get all kinds of negative comments. I found the console and also some other useful tools that I didn't know existed. Things like the responsive view and scratch pad are pretty cool.
Extracted from a comment of <someperson>: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752611

> But a fully reusable rocket could change the equation dramatically. Musk illustrated the point by citing SpaceX's Falcon 9, which costs between $50 million to $60 million per launch in its current configuration.

> "But the cost of the fuel and oxygen and so forth is only about $200,000," Musk said."So obviously, if we can reuse the rocket, say, a thousand times, then that would make the capital cost of the rocket for launch only about $50,000."

Direct link: http://www.space.com/13140-spacex-private-reusable-rocket-el...
Methane unlike CO2 is unstable and breaks down fairly quickly producing CO2. So, it's really a short term problem.
I do, and I am still waiting for my personalized coffee machine - supposedly they had that at one of the early Java conferences (machine recognizes you by your ring and brews your preferred coffee for you).
What's using a yubikey like? I've got LastPass premium account and seen it being promoted... How would it work with the password manager on your mobile?

Ahh - just seen it's got NFC build in.
I use Arch for my laptop (just recently) and Arch and Ubuntu on my servers.

I was forced into Ubuntu, but I was very pleasantly surprised at the methodologies and documentation available to implement the services and processes I needed. Arch is very much the same - not afraid to make changes if it has a benefit in the long run.

As for setting up Xorg and a window manager/desktop manager/login manager on my laptop was finally super easy. Looks like it has come a long way in the past couple of years...surprised Linux Mint is still giving me troubles.
>However the stating of, "zero chance" is rather un scientific.

Not really. It's just rounding. Of course nothing has literally zero chance, but sometimes the chances are so low that the epsilon isn't worth mentioning.
Track Fuel Economy, Kill Check-Engine Lights With the Fitbit
It's easy to fall prey to the idea that the ideal is that there is no authorities anywhere, but that's not the goal. The point is that you can choose your authority freely, and if enough people decide a given authority is no longer worthwhile, they can choose a new one freely.

Open source works the same way. Of course there are authorities for a given project who can choose what the final release is, but if they get too full of themselves or something it's easy enough to bypass them. It's happened quite frequently, so it's not an idle threat, either. You can't prevent authority from developing, that's wouldn't even be a good thing, but you can prevent it from abusing its current position of authority to lock in future authority.
"one ring to rule them all..." ?
I feel that's only PR correctness. They possibly have to claim that it's their own fault.

But well, I may be wrong, and Maxis is simply no longer the company that it used to be.
And the infamous reboot?
Hm, I already have a smartphone with Google Authenticator App and NFC, why would I want to carry a ring?

Having recently married and struggling a lot with the ring issue (basically lots of money for a useless piece of metal), the idea of a wedding ring with some badass electronic capabilities has crossed my mind, though.
probably one of the better lists of concrete "here is where android is innovating better than apple" examples i have seen yet. well put together.
The fog of war
Hi rwalling, if you're reading this, have you got an update planned for this book?
"Technological improvement actually did lead to widespread unemployment once: the Great Depression."

Economists argue about the causes of the Great Depression, but the idea that the Great Depression was caused by improvements in technology is not one I've ever heard.
When you are talking about large markets 1% is not a short term goal

This is where you are precisely wrong. A VC wants to cash out within 3 years.

Finally 1% is never a good metric to aim for. If you wouldn't accept it for retention rate, conversion rate, profit margin etc why is it ok for market share?

Because your short term market share goal is in this context a proxy for your ambitions for your burn rate. So it is the exact opposite. You want your conversion rate to go up while you want to keep your burn rate down. 1% is an excellent number in this context.

Basing your math for a pitch based on this arbitrary number kind of renders the rest of the pitch worthless.

You will find that whatever numbers you target in your pitch are arbitrary, absent a crystal ball that can actually tell you the future. The comical term for this is Scientific Wild-Ass Guess.
Harder to test, of course.
"Sure, we can’t destroy all the non-Job Destroyer jobs… yet. Burger King and Starbucks still need human subjects employees to make Whoppers and skinny lattes, but how long before these jobs are deskilled to the point they can be done by machines — i.e., by software?"

Actually it's already being done http://singularityhub.com/2013/01/22/robot-serves-up-340-ham...
Exactly. If red were a real country, it would fear nuclear retaliation. There's a limit to asymmetric warfare.
"The one with hearts is 944 bytes (css file), 232 bytes gzipped (with 7zip)"

Did you measure the compressed size on its own or as a delta inside a larger CSS file? The pattern is going to share at least a part of its dictionary with the rest of the CSS file if sent deflated.
It's hard to beat her history of computing, "8086 and all that"

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/22/verity_stob_8086_and...
The top story on HN as of this comment is a Slate article debunking the bacteria claim, validating not only the newsworthiness of the original story, but also highlighting the full-arc drama HNers got to follow by seeing both stories featured prominently on the front page.

On the other hand, let's consider scenarios where your concern might be totally valid -- say, if the same article was simply link-bait to a spammer's penny stock advertisement. In that case the article might pop fast to the top of HN, but likely just as quickly flagged and removed. So, flagging of articles that are crass advertising, flaming link-bait or just plain inappropriate for HN is the remedy there.

The question is -- is there a case where a story is appropriate for HN and not likely to get flagged, but also is not nearly as worthy or compelling as the title suggests?

I'm having a hard time coming up with that scenario, but in true HN-form I'm willing to be corrected. While I disagree with your statement that "It would be a very interesting result IF it were confirmed to be true," (and that seems to be the emerging consensus), I pose the question back to you and HNers -- what would be the scenario where reading the comments prior to upvoting would help improve the quality of story on HN page one, where flagging is also not the appropriate remedy?
Ask HN: what have you learned in the last 12 months that help you make money?
Last week I started wondering what I had learned over the last 12 months. What did I learn that actually make a difference on my bank account?
Of course I learned many small things (tricks in PHP, javascript, css, http server optimization, etc.) But these things didn't really make a difference.
Still there were a couple of things that truly were "breakthroughs" for me, even though there might seem trivial to many.

Here are two things I learned in the last 12 months that "moved the needle" for me because they both helped me improve my conversion rate to a point where I can see the possibility of a positive Adwords ROI:

-> Adwords / I can track conversion by keywords, and associate values to conversions depending on user input

-> Website speed / Cloudflare has a free CDN that works well (using the full performance optimization gives me a 95 score on Chrome Page speed, and Google Analytics seem to report page load under 2 seconds - although it is a bit early to tell for sure)

What breakthroughs have you made in the last 12 months? What significant lesson have you learned?
This won't fix the past, but it's not a bad idea to go to: https://www.linkedin.com/settings/ and 'Turn off activity broadcasts'.
You'd be surprised. Sometimes it just happens for no reason whatsoever. One of my sites, for example, has a curse of forum spam bots from China clearly intended to spam a different site. They're using the wrong paths and everything. It's like I'm being constantly invaded by a hoard of blind dumb chickens trying to peck my eyes out by hitting their heads against a fence. It's sad, really.
Similar concept but the Google proposal is better for a number of reasons (I'm assuming Google's is based of public key cryptography). Yubikeys have to be verified by yubico so you have to trust them. This also means it can be safely used by any untrustworthy source. It also means anyone could produce these. The Google one isn't vulnerable a phishing site with a valid SSL certificate between you and the target site. Lastly, the yubikey is really implemented as just a hack it just pretends to be a keyboard that types the code when you press the button I think a more specific protocol would be better although understandably the yubico one is more compatible.