skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was about to graduate high school, I knew one thing: I couldn't be an adult and live with my folks (who are wonderful), or depend on them, period. Just the way I'm wired, I guess. I knew HTML and CSS really well (this was when A List Apart was huge), but that was about it. I had no right to a web designer/frontend developer job, let alone a leading one.

But there I was in Fairfax at my first real interview just a handful of days before graduation, nervous as hell. The business was document management and tax preparation web applications. My portfolio consisted of a single website I created to accompany my resume a week before this interview, with some made-up content about Herndon, deployed to a free webhost. I talked a good game about <table>-less CSS-driven layouts, accessibility, all the stuff his departing designer had been pushing for (thanks again, ALA).

The guy thought I was sharp and took a chance on me. He offered a small salary that seemed like a pot of gold to 18-year old me, and it was enough to be able to get my own place, not even with roommates. I was ecstatic, and I'll never forget the excitement of that summer.

In the rare event that you read Hacker News, thanks Arnold :^) ... Who knows where I'd be today if you hadn't taken that risk.
Wild runs are typically- not by requirement, but typically- indicative of a crash in the near future. This is because speculation is usually the main driving force behind very steep ramps.
They never merge. But each should want to (and be able to) subsume all non-conflicting transactions from the sibling chain, so it's only a small number of 'double-spends' that wouldn't live in both. Eventually one history will win, and only the conflicting transactions from the losing history lose out.

Unless...

Perhaps an enduring, permanent split, under the right conditions, with people motivated to keep both chains alive indefinitely, could be a good thing. Among other things, it might solve the deflation problem, or allow a runt network to continue if the mother network were compromised by technical or legal attacks. (Or depending on your perspective, allow the mother network to continue if a runt network is created by certain attacks.)
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Ah, thanks. Working on some design that will fix that (edit: CDN will improve this, too - images are presently hosted directly from S3). Part of it will be to prefetch the next image, part will be a comment drawer with rate buttons and a "social bar" that will remain in the same position between image change.
There has been talks of directwrite coming to Chrome for nearly a year now. We have to suffer the poorly hinted fonts looking terrible for a while longer.
Is anyone else having styling issues?
Any chance this service covers Delaware-C registration internationally?
yeah. I am getting 'insecure content' warnings, and styling is not loading properly.
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yeah just happened a minute ago
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The business case for IE is to hold back the progress of the web, ...

Right? We would have had AJAX and DHTML so much sooner if it wasn't for Microsoft holding things back.
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You don't specify when you are sampling the market. It often wouldn't be surprising, or useful, that a market correctly predicts an event the day before it occurs.
Try "Reset Firefox" -- it helps lots of problems like this. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi....
Points for originality with "vuala", though. Usually it's just "viola" or "wallah"
Definitely! You'll have to look into any potential tax consequences and any paperwork you need to do for the country you're in, but there is nothing on the Delaware side that would prohibit you from incorporating. Let us know if you have any questions!
this css man, this css.
Yes, font changed, links are now blue underlined. Happened about two minutes ago.
No, because in order to use DDG you had to change the default away from Google. That default is the entirety of what Google is paying for, and I'm sure it actually gets them a lot of traffic from people who don't care enough to switch (or who just don't care at all).
Personally I'm thankful my first employers/managers didn't fire me for being consistently late at work. Took me a while to figure out that being punctual is actually perceived as a big deal.
"Is there a sensible fashion by which two robust blockchain forks might merge?"

They will not merge, but transactions will homogeneize.

I have simulated this scenario, forking the Bitcoin chain on a private network 2 years ago. What happens is that if the chain is forked, and if a client unexpectedly sees that another chain (say chain B) suddenly replaces the chain it was following (say chain A), thereby reverting a bunch of transactions, then the client will automatically retransmits its transactions that it had saved in chain A, to have them saved again in chain B.

That is how a non-malicious client operates.

Of course, if you are a malicious person, you can actually kill the client and manually wipe out its cache of transactions before it has time to retransmit transactions for chain B (therefore recovering coins that you had spent on chain A).
wow, the new css is awesome!
You can use it for your needs until the stock market crashes. ;)
Oh no! A font tag must be misplaced!

Remember those days? CSS is for the birds.
I was a bit shocked to see this printed in Wired. They're claiming that "analyze," "determine," "leader," "competitive" and "dominant" are masculine code speak. Am I insensitive for feeling these are gender neutral words?

Full paper at http://www.fortefoundation.org/site/DocServer/gendered_wordi...
Weird bug with Hacker News CSS
Their neighbors are slightly worse off, and 20 people have a place to live.

That is what happens when only one landowner chooses "defect". If all of them do it, then 20 people times the number of lots might find a place to live, except it's no longer the kind of place where they want to live.

Or put another way, there is already a lot of places where you can live cheaply, it's just that a lot of people would rather live in Palo Alto than in those places. But if you turn Palo Alto into a housing project, then the reason why they want to live there might stop existing, because all the rich people, who are the reason the rest of us want to be in the Silicon Valley, likely prefer not to live in close vicinity to "bigger buildings filled with tinier apartments."

Of course I don't have a glass ball and cannot know for a fact that's what would happen, but it doesn't seem far fetched and at least personally I find it no less believable than many other tragedy of the commons situations which are posited to justify this regulation or that.
me too. I have to confirm with my browser about secure content before getting the stylesheet to work
What is a good way to follow updates on this situation?
http://imgur.com/ByxfC21
Chrome users - don't panik if the site looks ugly with https; It's supposed to look like this ;)
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Does anyone know what the little vent/flare thing is on the side of the engine?
This is a 24/7 production issue need to be dealt right away. Anyone knows PG's beeper? :)
>Drowning kills 100% of people who drown, so it's certainly more dangerous than guns. //

Being shot to death kills 100% of people who are shot to death. I don't think you have a valid point.
The css is coming from a non-secure link and is blocked by default. You can see this in like Chrome tools.
Though less prevalent, even people in developed countries do this (short course). Slightly off-topic, but with the "complete" and "short" courses now available (e.g., a complete lasts only 2-3 days), how is resistance affected? Is it better, worse, or the same? Better, since people are more likely to complete a course?
Another Linkedin Virus feature:

the default setting on group discussion is that whenever someone replies to a discussion, all the people who replied before get email notifications.

At one time, I thought Linkedin is nothing but a huge email spam machine.
THe error I get in developer tools is

SEC7111: HTTPS security is compromised by http://ycombinator.com/images/grayarrow.gif

SEC7111: HTTPS security is compromised by http://ycombinator.com/images/s.gif

etc....
hn has always had styling issues for me. I've always just attributed them to something mysterious in the thick jungle of my current linux install... It is particularly nasty right now though.
IMHO, bitcoin appeals for various reasons that compare favorably with national currencies such as the USD. Those reasons being: anonymity, ease of use, and freedom to send my money any where in the world.
You may want to delete this, it has been posted a couple times
For me the speed-up I liked in Chrome was the UI responsiveness, and start-up time. And it seemed to just load pages faster. My current browser of choice is surf from suckless.org (although it's pretty limited) because it somehow just manages to load pages in a quarter the time of Chrome/Firefox (on my computer/internet connection, anyway). I'm sure it'd lose in js benchmarks though.
Why did it take so long to support comment with https though?
If you want it to load the css/images, click the shield icon on the right side of the address bar and click the load button.
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Apparently pg has been rolling out new features, mostly to combat "abusive crawlers": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5315252<p>HN is a pretty popular site, and probably has high costs for hosting. I wonder if deployment of new spam-detection features is related to this.<p>I have no problem donating some amount to help offset that cost as I really like HN. Put up a donation page and I'll go.
a protocol-relative URL to the stylesheet would be handy right about now

http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
I think this was in response to comments not working on the http (insecure) protocol.
> Comments are not working?

I'm... Ron Burgundy?
It's not all that mysterious - their CSS is just pretty bad for Linux users. For example, they specify Verdana with no fallbacks (not even sans-serif) so we get a nice unreadable (at their font size) serif font. :(
Pffft, smoothest http->https transition ever.
Looks like a CSS link,

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ycombinator.com/news.css">

is using http rather than https from an https page.

Chrome (25.0.1364.152 m) refuses[1] to retrieve; FF 19.0.2 does retrieve; IE 8 warns of insecure content.

[1] Chrome can be told to load anyway at the end of its URL entry box.
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Better yet, the daily mail quotes the uk chief medical adviser describing organ transplants in the same terms!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2291314/Superbugs-...
is HN being defaulted to https now but due to some links still referring to http, we are getting these security errors ?
Dude, spacer gifs? My time machine works!
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It's because HN is on https but the css file isn't. If you're on chrome you can click the shield icon to manually load it (not sure about other browsers).
i saw this video:
a couple of puppies were greedily eating from a saucer full of dog food, when one of those doggies, while attempting to dig through the glorious food, toppled over his head right into the saucer. It was a damn funny scene! But none of the other puppies seemed to react, and they all (including our clown) continued to devour :)

whenever i'm thoughtful on the 'meta-humor' discussion, i'm reminded of this scene, because it seems like strong reminder of people's perception of a lighter vein in a scenario in contrast to a puppy's ignorance thereof.
I was so sure this was going to link to the beer.
exactly, the tooling and skillset for interface design/dev is extremely mature these days, and it probably isn't economical to move people onto custom solutions.
I'm going to make a wild guess that it's a bad 74LS00 NAND gate.
Will there be a mobile app to manage your site and view stats ?
Quoting from "The Comedy Bible" which I read a long time ago.

Basic joke structure is:

Setup + Punchline

Setup = Attitude + Topic + Premise

Example: Robin Williams

Attitude: Parenting is hard

Topic + Premise: "When you have a baby, you have to clean up your act."

Punchline: "You can't come in drunk and go, 'Hey here's a little switch. Daddy's going to throw up on you'"
Because "intrinsic value" is not as important than just "value". Bitcoin has a value in the sense that people can use it as a currency that has features that are desirable and useful.
My problem was that everything you need on that page is along the left-hand side. The number of contacts pre-selected is pretty small, and off to the right. I was breezing through this, trying to find old friends (and it worked! The first contact suggested was someone I've known for ten years), and I just missed that little number line on the upper right.

Ideally, it should throw up a warning for trying to add anything over maybe 50-100 accounts, like a simple "Are you sure Y/N?" before allowing you to continue adding that many.
And the styles aren't working for me. Everything is user agent default styles...

[Edit] But only in chrome. FF seems to show them fine. Could just be me...
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My thoughts exactly. So we've come full circle on user interfaces as well?
It is the exhaust of the gas generator. You can see a good view of it here: http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=37

You can read about the Gas-Generator Cycle for rockets here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-generator_cycle_%28rocket%2...

Basically, a small amount of fuel and oxidizer are bled off into a gas generator and used to power the turbines that feed the fuel and oxidizer into the rocket engine.
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I'm guessing, just guessing, that HN being down was to install the security cert. Maybe had to do with that, and some minor assets still being served of of http as opposed to https which is why we are getting the errors and css problems. Should be an easy fix hopefully. Good luck HN.
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It's unfortunate that there aren't more jobs in lower-cost areas that the poorer people could move to. Then the poor and unemployed would have jobs and shelter- just as important - the rich would be forced to pay their service workers living wages. And yes, this is simplistic and there are the sociological/ issues of why people dont move. . .and the impact of the increased service wages on the economy. . .and the fact that the curret economy sucks so we can't have a mass migration to the land of the jobs.
Go to conceptart.org, establish an account, enter the job listings and employment forum, read the stickies so you know how they want ads structures, and then post accordingly. There are quite a few amazing artists on that site looking for a chance to work on a real project. Some of them are amateurs trying to break into the industry, some are seasoned veterans that have worked for major game publishers. I'm sure you will find something within your budget.

Deviant art has some talented artists, but conceptart.org is where most of it's serious members end up.

There are a few other similar forums, but I can't remember what they are. Maybe there's some other artists on HN that can name them.

http://www.conceptart.org
Well, nerds can find interesting discussions in almost anything. :)
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Canada's internet speeds are hilariously bad. That's probably why they're not on the list.
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Information is funny if, when revealed to us, it is either obviously true or obviously false.
Does it support websockets? Pretty important feature for node.js.
yup. They need to use protocol-relative URLs for the CSS files in order for it to work properly.
There's lots of instances like

if (something....)
return !0;
else
return !1;

is there any reason why they aren't simply using `true` and `false`?

(because !1 is defined to return literally `false` and !0 to return `true`)
Verdana.

Verdana everywhere.
It is astonishing how oblivious HTC is to the fact that battery life is crucial part of a smartphone experience. I own HTC Rezound and it has so agonizing battery life that it overshadows otherwise a finely packaged phone.
I think it was just poor scalability engineering. They didn't expect that many users on launch and they didn't implement a system that could scale upwards.
What are some of the downsides?
seems like it was just fixed
Likely was "true" in the original source (and the source in separate files) and was replaced by some minifier. Not clear if these are the files verbatim or if it was automatically formatted from minified js.
Doesn't a service like AnyPerk ensure that all startups offer about the same perks, thereby defeating the purpose of having unique perks?

Also, their perks remind me of what you would typically find in a coupon book, with the exception of Getaround and iCracked.
So the solution from MtGox is to downgrade, wait a bit, then upgrade. What a currency of the future!
nice. They just replaced the URLs. Now it is just s.gif etc.
What the Hell did I do before this? (thoughts on bower)
That logo has some major (anti aliasing?) issues on the edges of its letters.
CSS is still being linked from non HTTPS location.
Is HN having SSL problems? Firefox is complaining that HN's SSL cert has not been verified. A screenshot can be seen here: [1]

It used to be fine up to today.

[1] - http://img1.imagilive.com/0313/hn-cert-130311.png
Ok, here's what happened and what it means. Bitcoin is built on a chain of blocks, each of which contains a set of transactions, the hash of the previous block, and a cryptographic proof-of-work which takes a lot of computing power to construct. Whichever block-chain is highest (that is, has the most total computing power invested in it) is considered valid, and has more blocks added to it by miners. People "mine" by taking outstanding transactions, writing them into a block together with the hash of the current highest-numbered block, performing cryptographic proof-of-work and publishing their new block.

A block was mined (by the Slush mining pool) which is accepted as valid by 0.8 clients, but rejected by 0.7 clients. More than half of the mining power was on 0.8, so the longest chain includes this block - but the 0.7 clients reject it, and have built a side-chain. The developers have asked all miners and mining pools to switch from 0.8 to 0.7, so that the 0.7 chain will grow to be longer than the 0.8 chain; once this happens, all Bitcoin clients will agree that it is the real one. In the meantime, however, merchants running Bitcoin 0.8 may be targeted by double-spend attacks: if they receive money in a transaction that exists only in the 0.8 blockchain, the same money is spent in a different way on the 0.7 blockchain so the transaction can't just be copied over, and they act on the receipt of money by sending goods before the situation is resolved, then they could lose money. This is why MtGox has suspended Bitcoin deposits. (This can only happen if the coins were sent by someone who is using malicious, nonstandard software; transactions made by honest users will be copied to the 0.7 fork and mined without any issue.)

The height of the two chains can be monitored at https://coinbase.com/network/blocks . Currently the 0.7 chain is 13 blocks behind, which (since the normal mining rate is 6 blocks per hour) sets a lower bound of about two hours on resolution - assuming everyone switches their mining power immediately - but realistically it will probably be more like 6-12 hours.
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Well, India has a real cultural issue with regard to education. There's just something odd about the idea that a child or young teenager that does not get the very top grades in sort of a "scary" educational system being basically a loser at life. There seems to be very little room for people to either reinvent themselves at, even, 16, let alone in their 20s.
HN: Now http is forwarded to https by default. So no more http?
But how would it be proven that the file being hosted is the Copyrighted file?
For example, say there are 100 files on a hosting site, and when they are XORed together they create a copyrighted file. Is this illegal? What about if there are only 99/100 files? Would it be considered illegal based on intent?
fixed - you guys are fast...
Similar story here. I spent a year out of college unemployed, listlessly sending out job applications in an awful market and stewing in depression. When I finally got a break it was at a company full of old-hand COBOL and RPG-IV programmers... and they wanted to hire me to lead a huge web-based modernization effort! Me, a scraggly-looking kid, decades younger than the rest of the team, with no real evidence of my talents or experience. And likewise the pay was a pittance compared to what the programmers in SV were allegedly making. But the degree of freedom to do basically whatever I wanted, however I wanted, more than made up for it. To this day they're delighted with the work that I produce, and it's done absolute wonders for my self-confidence. And even though I could strike out for greener pastures at this point, the fact that they took such a chance on me is the reason that I stick by them.
Things seem to be working now. news.css now loads, and grayarrow.gif is loaded insecurely but still displays.
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Awesomeness. We are making great headway on Blaze and the new persistence format to supplant HDF5/PyTables (Although, Blaze will always work great with carray, NumPy, and Pytables), and the Numba compiler project is working out great.

Wakari (http://wakari.io) is nearing 1.0 and we're about to turn on paid monthly plans for beefier nodes and GPU nodes, and we have also been in talks with several companies about in-house private deployments.

Give us a shout or shoot me an email at pwang (at) continuum.io! :-)
What's up with HN?
I'll provide more details in a full writeup later.

We suffered a DDOS. The volume of traffic was sufficient to keep us from handling it in Arc like we always have before. Simply accepting and dropping all requests not from our office required 45% CPU utilization.

Now nginx is helping with some of the work. Ironically the transition was planned for today anyway, except it was meant to happen at night with no downtime. So it goes.

I'm fixing things as I find they're broken. Please let me know if I've missed anything.

Edit: Yes, I know about and will fix all the SSL resources. Like yours, my Chrome window was also a portal to the '90s for a bit.

Edit Again: Your SSL resources should now be happy. Let me know if I missed any.
This is the first large occurrence of an issue that has always been known to be possible to people who are reasonably familiar with BitCoin, due inherently to it's design. This could be bad for BitCoin because now a much large portion of BitCoin users/investors are also aware of this risk.
DevOps Dave, a comic (cos I didn't feel like blogging)
You have to use their base AMI. Which was really bad because for a while it suffered from a kernel deadlock on disk write bug(this should be fixed by now). There's very little configuration options - when I was using it you couldn't setup logrotate for instance. It worked pretty well, for java at least, until the server started locking up every couple hours.

When it integrates with opsworks, I'll be excited about it.