skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many devs actually use Firefox's dev tools? I see all of that praise "looks awesome, looks amazing, etc" But do people really use those amazing things? I just find the Chrome dev tools orders of magnitude more usable than Firefox's. It's mostly a large amount of what you could call details but it makes all the difference. It all flows better, reduces the amount of thinking you have to do as well as the number of clicks and keypresses. I think Mozilla should start by fixing all of these little problems before jumping into huge stuff like they seem to like to do with the cli, python library etc.
Installing and configuring is time-consuming, but it doesn't have to be.

A teenager can set up and run a minecraft server in 10 min. Calibre and Plex have built-in servers on my home machine to serve ebooks and movies.

Running your own RSS reader server could be as simple as opening an app on your home machine.
>Life expectancy FROM BIRTH has risen dramatically, but if you rule out those who died before they reached 5 years old, and rule out violent deaths and/or viral/bacterial plagues, you begin to realize that life expectancy is not much higher today.

That is a myth. Life expectancy is much higher at all ages. In ancient Rome, the life expectancy for a 15 year old was 52. In modern first world nations, life expectancy at birth is 80. That is a huge extension of adult lifespan. Just because infant mortality was part of the reason lifespans were lower in ancient times, doesn't mean it was the whole reason.
The graphic design is funny and cartoony. Not usual in a job site, but I it's good stuff!

No need for any changes.

I registered at FiveYearItch a while ago, and it is doing quite well for me. So, keep it up!
"The human body was not evolved from some random processes for us to reverse engineer, rather there is an inherent design and ayurveda explains it."

Hooray, you've admitted you're peddling religion, and creationism at that. Well done.
Not entirely true!

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption for more.
What this project does really wasn't clear to me until I tried reidrac's canvas-raycasting URL, so here is a (hopefully more clear) explanation:

If a github repo has an index.html file and you click on it, github will show you the source instead of the webpage. 5minfork shows you the webpage so that you can have an idea of what the repo is about.
This is great! I've been using HW2 screens as backgrounds for my computers since I was a teenager... still hasn't been bettered.
Adding nothing to this conversation but this is awesome. What an amazing response.

Humblebrag: Psyched to see two out of three of my main points addressed. I'm impressed. Meat Loaf* would be, too.

* - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Out_of_Three_Aint_Bad
> there is currently nothing that beats the chrome devtools.

That's the point of this post. It's that pretty soon, Firefox is going to have much improved devtools. They include some features that interest us greatly.
You are totally right, and it seems non-trivial to work around this. One approach would be to whitelist an IP upon successful logon. Perhaps by modifying /etc/ssh/sshrc to invoke iptables (though this is not executed as root...). An alternative would be to use pam_exec and have that invoke iptables to whitelist the IP (assuming it can find out the IP). But I don't think PAM is even used if SSH private key authentication is used...
Recommended usage:

git clone https://github.com/shichuan/javascript-patterns.git
cd javascript-patterns/
cd design-patterns/
ls
You wear the same clothing everyday so you are more recognisable?

That's not normal and is certainly not required.
I've tried the arrow icon, and I already tried the "Posts Order" option on settings, but my feeds' items are still not ordered according to the dates. So unless I'm missing something...

Here is an image to shed some more clarity on what I really meant. http://i.imgur.com/1Zb18cc.jpg
> You really seem to want to turn it into an X vs Y thing where there has to be one winner.

The only X versus Y here is scrutiny. Read my posts a little more carefully: my criticism of herbal remedies is not about the fact that they are herbal, but the fact that they are understood little and regulated poorly. That's not a problem with the remedies themselves, but with the laws and systems of incentives driving scientific research.
The lack of a trial gives Fever a big barrier I think. And from what I've seen in the video it has no way to list feeds in a minimalistic way.
A quick CTRL+F didn't find anything, so I might actually be the first to point out that "RAM memory" is a case of the RAS Syndrome :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
Big data startup Hadapt combines unstructured and structured data with Hadoop
Are there any plans to implement an instrumenting profiler in addition to the existing one? Not having call count is a huge minus for me. Devtools has a sampling profiler like Chrome (which also doesnt provide call counts). So the only instrumenting profilers remaining for JS on Windows are Firebug and an outdated, abandoned version of Safari :(
Ask HN: awesome web-based documentation?
Take a look at http://help.zanox.com and/or http://help.voxeo.com. Both have been created with helpserver.eu
How would someone know what the trio of "min, max, close" buttons do on Windows?

The smartphone market has reached a level of maturity and ubiquity that we can start setting down a baseline for knowledge, and build on top of it.

It happened to the PC before, and it's happening to smartphones now. The original iPhone was criticized (especially in demographics like ours) for being insultingly shallow and toy-like. This is the smartphone becoming more complex now that (nearly) everyone has had a go.
This is the part of your comment where I thought you were implying a more general irrationality of women:

>It feels like a big gaping hole in everything we achieved with women's rights and education. [. . .] It's like a large part of our women went to a parallel universe "girls school", whereas the men in the mean time learned about science and reasoning.

If you're not implying that a large portion of women are less rational than men, what does this section of your comment mean? That is how I interpret it. I guess I interpreted it differently than you intended.

Edit: Note that I am not saying you implied that women are inherently less rational than men, which is what I think you countered in another comment. Just that you said they are currently, due to some as-yet unknown reason. I'm trying to dispute this assumption.
Absolutely nobody (for all reasonable definitions of nobody) believes that turning the lights off for one hour has any quantitative impact on energy usage. What it does is remind us that for the other 364 days of the years, we need to be thinking about energy policy. Efficiency, conservation, and low carbon/low polluting energy sources are important as we grow to 10 Billion on this planet, AND the third world starts to consume energy closer to the levels of the developed nations on a per capita basis.
Can you explain how we're doing that? I'm not aware of any of our tools that are Mac only.
The only thing that prevents Microsoft from suing you is their belief you do not harm their business.

And by scraping Google search results you are using their servers.
It isn't even a loose correlation. It is no better than random.

It depends what you mean by natural, I guess. Please read this in context, I am mostly talking about early adopting radical lifestyle changes vs. sticking to the status quo your ancestors followed, and the effects of doing so when employing exclusively one or the other strategy to all the choices.

That has not become clear at all, that is something people like to repeat, but is simply a misinterpretation of the recommendation that people "eat mainly unprocessed foods" to maintain a healthy weight. The recommendation is not due to some magical pixie dust inherent in unprocessed food, it is because processed foods are often very high in calories.

Oh yes, ridicule what I said to make your point, introduce the pixie dust despite me basing most of what I say on at least some evidence, this will make your reply so much more valuable. You are also actually only partially right, it is the amount of calories and the absence of fiber and vitamins and micronutrients (while those are used up during digestation) that makes processed foods unhealthy. I don't see how any of this has to do with what I said.

Except the article had no such attitude, and said nothing like what you are suggesting it says.
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It isn't ignored. It is studied, and if it is found to actually be effective, it is used. If it is found not to be effective, it is not used. The quack/fraud "medicine" crowd really need to grow out of lying about this. Scientists do not ignore old herbal remedies, they study them.

I didn't say any of this, this was a comment on the general attitude of some people.
You are quite right. It's also a good strategy to stay in business, "Buy your games from us to insure we stay in business so you can continue playing the games you bought from us."
A testament to how beautiful it was is that it is still beautiful. Relics designers have a real good eye for what matters.

The engine trails in Homeworld 1 are a really good example of design that is cheap (to compute), communicates something (speed, trajectory, size and amount of ships) and helps in identification (team color).

Company of Heroes and Dawn of War have similar things, like weapons that are not necessarily realistic, but show an immediate visual and audible "feel" of what they do.
The timeline needs to show protocol. Btw this already exists in Firebug. Why duplicate effort? I'm sure this hass been asked before. But why have devtools instead of improving firebug? (Performance?) What will happen to firebug in the long run ?

Edit:

* In inspect view, can we have a search HTML function like firebug?

* Also in inspect view, a way to disable the display of PATH.

* Increase the font size of html/css rules etc
I agree. But likewise, your doctor will not tell you that the psych meds they're prescribing for you may be no better than placebo for most users:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3085/do-antidepress...

I really wonder what percentage of all medicine -- alternative, complimentary, mainstream, scientific, pseudo-scientific, and so on -- is placebo.
I've found http://htmlpreview.github.com to be pretty useful as well. Any notable differences?
How long will the special launch pricing be available?
Specialize or Generalize a firm?
I've been tossing around the idea of expanding from single contracting/freelance to a consulting firm. I'm curious what HN thinks of a firm specializing in one particular language/framework. Would that narrow the playing field too much?

I know specializing as a freelancer has been profitable, so I'm thinking the same concept will apply.
Does anybody actually think that turning off the lights for an hour makes any kind of difference? Seems like this author is attacking a straw man.
For me it was slow enough to be annoying. Though I only installed it local (Windows) on XAMPP and not on my VPS. But considering that my machine isn't too weak (i3, 16gb ram, SSD) I expected more. Pretty much every click took 1-2 seconds.
FYI, right side docking is available in Chrome. I had no idea for a very long time.
Open source is more than just open information. It's accessible information, accessible tools, and accessible discourse.

Also: most of the replies on this thread have misunderstood my original post. I was not arguing for homeopathy or alt-med at all, and I do think quite a bit of it is baloney. I was explaining why people are into it, from a sociological point of view.
Google Drive was down
Everything else seems OK http://www.google.com/appsstatus
I've personally internalized the downdown for going to things I've gone to before.

However, I do brand new searches constantly. Often 20+ a day, that often look similar to older searches, but aren't quite.

Now, whether I've developed that behavior because of Chrome, or because it works well for me, is a question for itself.

Also, since I'm here- anyone get frequent fuckups lately in the Chrome omnibar, not searching what you put in, to instead search something you HAVE searched before?

For example, before, I've searched "javascript array"

But this time, I am wanting to search "javascript string concatenation". I type that into Chrome, hit enter...

...up pops the search results for "javascript array". It started about a month ago, and is really annoying.
"If someone has control of the DOM the game is already over"

http://www.frameloss.org/2012/10/28/hover-fail/
"She's drawn to alternative medicine because it's open source. Like many nerds, she hates closed proprietary systems and loathes bureaucracy."

Granted, the same can be said for truthers, UFO and Bigfoot aficionados. They're all nerds, but it doesn't take a great deal of skill to be any of the above.
Right, I signed up after trying out the quiz. It was the cute idea that brought me in, not the graphic design (though that's pretty good).

I'd say that FiveYearItch exists to get people job offers. So, the graphic design is not core, and you don't need to sweat it.
Measuring Dark Social Using Google Analytics
Show HN: nodenv - Node version management, based on rbenv
The "spirit of the plant" wasn't a straw man?

What I mean is that _in cases where plants could have advantage over modern medicine_, they often do so because of their complex chemical constitution that can produce those kinds of synergies, where modern medicines are most often based on at most 2-3 active substances because we have trouble analyzing more complex interactions.
"Some things do work and are not yet accepted in medicine. Herbal medicine etc."

Herbal medicine is medicine. "Alt-med" is reserved for treatments that are not and will not ever be evidence-based.
Welcome back to my heart Firefox.
>> The reason you're stuck is because you're too
>> focused on yourself.
>> Remember, it's not about you. It's about others.

This single line is worth the price of attendance.

When i asked famous spiritual teacher a while ago about "me being depressed and how to solve it" - that exactly the answer I was given:
"Depression is focusing on too much me, and very little on others." Hence the solution would be to find and help others - and inevitably help comes back to you.
Yes and no, I did that in my most recent designs, but a touch grip is a skeuomorphic affordance -- which is fine as long as the control bar is always skeuomorphic as well. As you move more into a flat design, the 3 bars as a grip makes less sense.
The good thing about Lua is that you can sandbox it entirely and set hard limits on memory/CPU time, after which the process exits. You can just give an error message if RAM grows over a limit or if it takes longer than a few secs to execute. It's pretty safe.
>And I say that as someone who has come to regret registering a first-initial-last-name gmail address. And it's not even a particularly common last name.

It is amazing how common this problem is. I assumed it was incredibly rare, but I have 23 different people who have given my email address to someone thinking it was theirs somehow. Not like "I am just signing up for some forum" kind of stuff, logins to government websites, banks, car dealerships sending me stuff about someone else's financing, etc, etc. It is crazy how many places don't verify the owner of an email address before sending it sensitive info.
A couple of report from users (We use Drive for remote sales people) is that it's coming back slowly. Two reports in SoCal that it's back, and one in Austin Tx. Regional colo problem maybe?
apparently it means downvote me
Firstly, it is possible to go out and inform people. Best to get off HN and out of the house, because only a tiny number of pretty intelligent people use HN and all of us have similar backgrounds and beliefs.

Secondly, although I think HN-readers would make great voters on subjects we care about, eg. how the Internet should be regulated, yet I'm sure we'd be mostly stupid and ill-informed about things that we don't know or care about, eg. farming regulations, or sickness benefits for elderly mentally-ill patients, or a thousand other specialized subjects.
Checkboxes that kill your product
Off Topic: I met the founders at SXSW, and was wondering what you guys thought of their product? $5/month for a simple ssd vps seems like a good deal (was thinking of running a single wordpress site off of it).
SICP: A must read if you're interested in Functional Programming
They need to implement SSL. There's no excuse for not using SSL for user account signups and logins with cheap/free certificates.
Yes, Oprah and Dr Oz etc. are all failures of science education, they have far too much control over public understanding of health.
You can't really put F# in that category. It's shipped with Visual Studio since 2010, and has a significant userbase.
Why High Fructose Corn Syrup Will Kill You
You might find this quite interesting:

http://programinplacebostudies.org/

http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/01/the-placebo-phenomenon

His studies comparing fakes strike me as the most innovative thing I've heard about in medicine in years.

A big problem with "conventional" medicine is this: the mind is off limits. This legacy I think goes back to the suppression of deep mind research following the psychedelics moral panic in the late 1960s/early 1970s. They were doing really interesting stuff back then, but the societal effects of probing deep into the mind caused the entire academy to purge itself of really challenging, imaginative research in these areas. Our society is really terrified of that stuff. We like our doors of perception safely nailed shut.

I also think this comes from the mind/body dichotomy. The mind and body are not disconnected entities. The mind is a part of the body. As such, the mind is going to have a profound influence over the body. The placebo effect itself proves this, as do the studies you cite and numerous others.
Google Drive is Down
I like the look and feel, but it's not why I signed up. I appreciate the message of being open to opportunities all the time, so I decided to give it a try.
p.s. great job on the quiz on the front page.
That's true, the heuristic approach is the one that's been more successful in practice. I think it can still be interesting (even if only theoretically) whether an non-approximation algorithm with worst-case running time guaranteed better than brute-force is possible for a given problem. There might even be some practical applications of having a guaranteed running time.

Nonetheless I would use the heuristic approach on most problems. And it's a little misleading when texts like the one linked here emphasize the need for "exact" solutions over those given by approximation algorithms, when heuristic algorithms also give exact solutions (just not with any particular guaranteed worst-case running time, which is a different issue from exactness).

Some of the issue, I think, comes from the fact that these classes of problems may be too "big" and heterogenous: we say that "SAT" is NP-complete, but it's only really a subset of SAT problems that are hard, amidst huge swathes of trivial SAT problems. Heuristic approaches are just very good at finding those, which happen to be quite common in a lot of real-world situations. If you narrowed it down to some kind of "hard SAT" (like the research on "phase-change" SAT problems is trying to do), then these algorithms may have more of a reason for existence, because you've pruned out all the stuff heuristics can solve well, leaving only the still-hard stuff. That feature, that NP-complete problems, without further restriction, typically have a lot of instances that are easily heuristically solvable, is also a main reason NP-complete problems haven't been historically successful as a building block for crypto [1].

[1] http://www.kmjn.org/notes/nphard_not_always_hard.html
OP is a middlebrow dismissal, but I'll bite. She went through 500startups, so it's pretty likely she wants to go through the VC path. Looking at the site and the product (sample food monthly subscription like birchbox but for food), the challenge is not do people like this or does the business model work, but how can I scale from 500 subscribers to 50,000 subscribers to get economies of scale and become profitable. Focusing on getting money to acquire new customers over focusing on improving design/product makes a lot of sense in this specific case.
It failed, I hadn't heard about it until this HN story.
It looks very "hallmark holiday".
If you haven't added any feeds to your favorites then viewing 'My Favorites' shows all feeds by default.

Still working on the UI to show the article content and links to attached files.
As a full-time mobile developer, I have to call bullshit on your claims. The vast majority of mobile devs I've met are only semi-competent on design, if not entirely incompetent.

Sure, the perfect mobile person is someone who has a deep understanding of the code and incredible design skills and taste - but what you're talking about is a unicorn. I'd be surprised if there were more than a few dozen of these people in existence.

Here in the real world your choices are:

- Mediocre-to-shitty engineer with solid design skills. He/she will shit all over your codebase and mask a boatload of technical debt by how beautiful the app is (until your crash reports roll in, or it's time to add features).

- Good-to-great engineer with mediocre-to-shitty design skills. He/she will create a solid, stable, extensible codebase but the app will range somewhere between "buttons goes in right places" and "buttons WTF".

On the other hand, there is an increasing demographic of designers who do understand the ecosystem. I'm lucky enough to work with some of them, who understand the nuances of touch target sizes, gesture-based control, etc. They're a little harder to find than your typical web designer, but they're a hell of a lot more common than your unicorn engineer-designer-fused-archon-deity.

A good engineer pairing with a good mobile designer is a combination far easier to achieve than hunting a near-mythical figure.
The jsfiddle style looks good, but how does that work with multiple files on the page? Do you select the files you want to work with?

Not sure if it's possible, but I think it'd be cool to highlight which lines have been live edited.

One bit of feedback about editing CSS: it'd be great if, when editing a property, using the arrow keys cycled through the default properties. I.e. border-style goes through solid, dotted, none, etc.

Looking great!