skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I plead with anyone reading this to not be overly dogmatic with streamlining away all options and configuration. I find this irksome on my mobile devices and as the religion of simplification leaks into the desktop space, I find it outright frustrating.

Firefox has about:config as a saving grace, so if options were removed from its user interface, I would be able to make do. In fact, I'd pay money to see about:config or similar in every application. For example, I set slider.snapMultiplier to zero to remove that annoying snap-back on the scrollbar thumb when you drift too far in the perpendicular. Good luck describing that one in a dialog box.

But unfortunately, in other products, hiding options is often just straight-up removing options.

While I appreciate reducing confusion by hiding options that are difficult to describe, I would prefer an "advanced settings" section. Perhaps consider three tiers, as with Firefox (options, advanced, and about:config).
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own
Ticket To Ride and the success that comes from nailing game mechanics
So there are images on the blog post? I don't see anything, just text, even from different browsers.
Ten minutes of negotiation could get you 10k, easily. I don't come across more high leverage uses of my time than that. And with more money, you can do cool things like start a scholarship or otherwise give your money away. It's money you almost didn't have anyway, right?
Homeworld assets are on the block still from the THQ fallout. If you want to save this game (and see a brand new sequel), go to the Kickstarter campaign:

Homeworld Touch (iOS/Android) and Homeworld 3 (PC/Mac/Linux)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teampix/homeworld-touch-...
Probably because someone has the power to block any website they feel like, same as every other country. There is very little reason needed and there may not even be one - I spent an hour the other week in Turkey trying to fix my ssl certificates on heroku before realizing their api had been blocked.
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I don't really need a definition of success, but I'd say a society that has a high chance of survival, has minimal suffering, and creates beauty.

Given all those things being equal, certainly a higher population would be more successful. However fast population growth is likely to work against most of those goals.
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Weev gets 41 months followed by 3 years supervised release
This was just released at the NJ federal court. They used his Reddit IAMA and other things against him.
I'm sorry, I've been turned off of pharo and smalltalk completely. Mostly due to the fact that I had it forced upon me for my Advanced Algorithms class. I don't like pharo, and I don't like smalltalk
>> VisualWorks ... but it's not even free-as-in-beer for hobby projects anymore. <<

Nonsense.

"3. License Fees. This license is granted to you for your personal use only. Therefore, no license fees are involved, unless you breach the terms and conditions of this Agreement."

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/developer-community/tryi...

>> Dolphin ... I'm not entirely sure I'd feel comfortable spending money on it. <<

So don't -- "Dolphin Community Edition is our Smalltalk development environment that is FREE for personal/educational use."

http://www.object-arts.com/products/dce.html
Thanks for the interest!

We are using Twitter's streaming api, tracking hashtags like #ruby, #rails. Yep Twitter sign in seems to be broken, will fix it asap. Signed in users can reply/retweet.

If you need any help please email me "girish at cuberoot dot in"
Looks interesting, but the music is mixed waaaay too high. I have to really strain to hear his voice over the background music.
It can't. that just ridiculous reason. Google Drive can handle pretty much all what reddit can handle.Currently, it's got around 3000 points. it still not reaching the reddit frontpage yet. i don't think that that kind of traffic can make Google Drive down. that just silly. We are talking about google. not just random start up on HN.
I'll start with the criticism, because that's what you want, but all in all I think you have a good start here. :-)

My main point of feedback would be: why would I want to meet the 'right' people in my neighbourhood? What is 'right' anyway?

It is a question you answer further down the page, but I just barely got to that point. The design mostly focuses on how you try to solve a problem when to me as a visitor I don't even know the problem I'm having.

Furthermore, I am not entirely sure what you want me to do here. I think you want me to sign-up for an invite, but the call to action to do that is down below and not clearly visible.

The "Say YO!" button near the bottom of the page looks like an illustration due to the previous content blocks and I wouldn't have expected it to be the desired call to action. Perhaps even rephrase it to just say "Request an invite" and drop the "Have ideas?" part as that just gives someone another reason not to spend 30 seconds and not to complete the process.

Add a call to action to the lightbox showing the video. Else you're asking me to close the lightbox first and then look for whatever you're trying me to do.

I would reorganize the left hand side navigation as I think it greatly takes the attention away from the main pitch.

Remove the poll. Surely number of sign-ups is a good indication of people thinking your service is going to be useful?

Remove the cat and the text below it. Nobody is going to read that.

Hope that helps a bit. Good luck!
The same way you and I learned how to use it, I think. I don't really recall being trained on it. One day my refresh button was gone, and I was just scrolling and dragging around, and "Oh what's this do?"

If this hypothetical person has never used a touch device before, they'll be stuck on the "scrolling and dragging around" step, but it won't be long 'til they stumble upon the pull-down.
"yet I'm sure we'd be mostly stupid and ill-informed about things that we don't know or care about"

That is not the issue. The issue is whether or not we are expected to follow laws that we know nothing about, particularly since ignorance of the law is not considered a valid defense in this country. If you are not running a farm, you are not expected to adhere to farming regulations and you could not violate those regulations. On the other hand, if you use a computer -- and the majority of US citizens do -- you are expected to abide by computer laws.

Right now, there are a lot of laws that everyone is expected to follow but that few people are aware of. Most Virginia residents had no idea that opposite-sex cohabitation was illegal when that law was repealed -- millions of people in that state could have faced prosecution for a law they were never aware of (and in the 90s a woman was threatened with prosecution as part of an attempt to shut down her business). Typically, the police are unaware of these laws and so most people will never be arrested even if they are in violation. On the other hand, when the government wants to prosecute someone (e.g. Alexander Shulgin), all they need to do is look hard enough to find a law the person violated. Sometimes the government seeks nothing more than to set a precedent (Aaron Swartz) that would allow them to prosecute others. That is where the real danger lies: the government is limited not by the lack of criminal laws but by its own inefficiency in searching the legal code.

Most people are entirely unaware of this situation and believe that as long as they are not harming anyone they are safe. It is hard to raise awareness, because most people do not see anyone being prosecuted in this way, and even when they see it they usually have a hard time feeling sympathy for the defendant (e.g. Lori Drew). After all, who can feel sorry for someone who collects this sort of artwork:

http://www.japanator.com/man-arrested-for-manga-collection-t...
I didn't believe you so I flipped to airplane mode and opened Drive. It crashed.

Then the crash reporter hung, so I had to Force Quit from the App manager in order to try again after enabling WiFi.

Then I opened and "offline" doc amd found that "offline" mode is "read only" mode (taps cause zoom instead of highlight/edit) even though the UI says that nowhere.
Windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth, Australian study finds
Thanks for putting this together. Running TVMOBILI on the rev. 2 pi after some head scratching not free and by no means perfect. I'm very interested in this project and will be watching carefully. I'm thinking to pair this with an SSD, clearly that would soak up much of the 'lag'.
Good luck. I hope it will be a really positive thing for you. :-)
Looking for a YC company (gaming) that posted a job here
I remember having seen a job post for a YC company but I can't find it anymore. The company was working on some kind of browser-based game where you can build whatever you want using elementary blocks. Sort of like Minecraft. I can remember reading that one of their advisor was one of the lead directors of The Sims or a similar game. Does anyone know what company I'm talking about?

thank you!
> Newsblur comes closest for me so far

Newsblur is the opposite of what I want. I want consistent typography, and much less interface, and a google reader API compatible service so I can continue to use things like Reeder. Newsblur highlights everything but the text.

I really hope the people behind Reeder build a backend and web frontend before Google Reader goes away.
So - Firefox exposes a tcp-based protocol (not enabled by default. The user will need to go to a special tool to start the server). It will expose feature like adding break points, exploring the DOM and the CSS rules, and editing content (CSS/HTML/JS).

So external tools can connect to Firefox. But this protocol is not accessible from a page. But we could imagine using a websocket instead of a normal tcp socket, and let the web page connect to ws://localhost.
Either that or 1.6, but yeah, they did.
The focus of the article is almost entirely on electricity. It's fairly misleading to quote those statistics in terms of total energy consumption when the rest of the article only discusses electricity production.
If shot happens less frequently than the SLA's limits, it is a fine excuse.
I like this a lot. I hate dealing with the gh-pages orphan branch, so this is definitely something I'll look at implementing.
I don't see how it fails to support my argument that by reducing a plant to one or a handful of alkaloids that represent a fraction of the body of the plants chemical makeup, we risk losing out on some of what the plant has to offer. I don't disagree that sometimes, that can be a good thing. However, it's not always; in the case of Marinol "While there has never been a documented human fatality from overdosing on tetrahydrocannabinol or cannabis in its natural form,[86] Marinol can lead to death"

Additionally, the process of isolating and combining the individual components of a plant in order to reproduce observed health benefits of the plant consumed as a whole can be a long and tedious process. Marinol's failure as a good substitute for most people who desire the effects of marijuana is a pretty good example of why, even in this age of science, it is still sometimes better to go back to the source. Green tea extracts, which I also mentioned, frequently consist of Green Tea Catechins, without including, or mentioning whether they contain, L-Theanine, an amino acid in Green tea that has been observed to have nootropic and mood-elevating effects. For someone who wants to reproduce the documented benefits of GTC, by all means go ahead and take the extract. But the benefits of green tea consumed in the traditional way have been enjoyed and observed both in studies over the last few decades, as well as by millions of people over the last thousands of years. Until we've rigorously studied every alkaloid contained in the plant individually, as well as the countless combinations and permutations of those alkaloids (also taking into account the innumerable relative concentrations in which they can be delivered and balanced), it will be hard for science to say whether the components of green tea are present in the most optimal way for X Y Z desired effects
About the only thing I agree with in the article is that Schiller going on the record of criticizing Samsung the day before their announcement was an error. It seems to me that the day before the cards are set, just let hand play out and then go and update your messaging.
Your logical fallacy is: argument from fallacy.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy
Will the bottom billion always be with us?
To paraphrase Reddit's developers, the web doesn't work particularly well with HTML turned off either.
There was a popular story a while back about a guy who submitted a link to the announcement of a new version of node.js before the @izs could switch tabs from clicking publish to posting on HN.
I'm on my phone, so I can't watch the video.

My problem with keyboards that rely too heavily on autocomplete is that it makes it too hard to use the web. Email addresses, domain names, and passwords aren't going to be in the autocomplete dictionary.
I'm running a 6 year old fork of tt-rss on a machine w/ specs that are too embarrassing to post and I get reasonable performance. I use a Postgres back-end and I spent some time tweaking indexes to get it to perform better. I haven't kept up with the mainline tt-rss distribution-- perhaps it's become crufted-up. The older releases definitely could work well even on modest hardware.
Seems like even scientists don't have a good understanding of diet. I just watched a show that mentioned Henry VIII's diet. They mentioned how it made him fat because of all the meat he ate. I thought "that doesn't sound right" and looked it up. He didn't eat vegetables (considered peasant food at the time) and ate a lot of meat. What probably made him fat though was all the bread, desserts, ale, and wine mixed with sugar. If he stuck to meat and added some vegetables, he would have been fine.
Is that why Google is invested in AI? To figure out which documents will be important tomorrow, before I board a plane or the servers go down?
> In contrast to all the "there's not enough developers!" and "everything happens in the valley - you have to move here"

I see these phrases most commonly come from people who work with makers, not the makers themselves -- they're probably busy making, and not paying attention to sweeping statements of "truth".
Then you fall back to needing to send some kind of login token to the user when they forget how to log in to the HTTPS site.

Onerous security policies can make things worse as people work around them behind your back. You can require certificates but there's nothing you can do to make sure that people don't put their keys in their dropbox for "safety" because they don't want to get yelled at for losing their keys when a machine crashes.

People shop for VPSs partially based on convenience of management. If you make your system secure but inconvenient, you can lose the people who would would most benefit from a "good enough to stop the automated SSH bot" policy.
Singling out Firefox isn't particularly fair: Chrome has the Content Settings panel (which allows you to disable images and javascript), Safari lets you disable javascript, and IE certainly did both, at least historically. This article just reads like beating up everybody's favourite browser punching bag to me.

Every feature has its place, and when you start pandering to the lowest common denominator of users is when you've decided that you know better than everybody else.
That is why the decision has not been made yet, they are discussing. Every user has different preferences, and maybe you will get to have both the options :)
It's not just TLDs. Machine aliases are also perfectly valid in e-mail addresses, e.g. "root@localhost", "fred@finance" etc.

This might not be practical in a majority of applications (you're hardly going to sign up to 3rd party services using an alias to a machine on your local network) but if you're building a generic e-mail address validation library, it's an edge case you cannot ignore.
Thanks for the explanation! Makes a lot of sense.
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That's a true statement--infant mortality has declined and average age at death has also increased, but the increases in average life expectancy are much more greatly attributable to the former than to the latter.

The fallacy is "{disease} is a disease of old age, and people didn't used to live past {average caveman life expectancy}. Therefore humans almost never experienced {disease} until modern times." This is very far from the truth, and is usually delivered as part of a sales pitch. I was surprised to see it repeated in the OP almost verbatim. The article debunks several other fallacies but, disappointingly, perpetuates this one.
I couldn't disagree more, until I moved in to my own house I was using a £15/month wireless internet dongle for my main daily browsing. Most websites would inundate my browser with constant AJAX requests, draining my internet at a ridiculous rate (Facebook was a pretty nasty one for this) and the ability to turn off my javascript at the click of a button probably saved me somewhere in the region of £30 per month, not a major gain, but when you're homeless it makes all the difference.

(Although, this says more about the state of wireless internet fees, 15GB for £15, then £100 per GB after that, ridiculous!)
He certainly did himself no favors in repeatedly trolling the court, and was probably the "least sympathetic defendant" ever to take the stand for computer crime, but 41 months for incrementing a number in a URL and giving the results to the news media to publish is utter bullshit.
Which, as we know, is a rock-solid protection mechanism against these types of exploits. Everyone reads modal messages.
RFC 1149 has been implemented: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

Ping times were rather atrocious.
Google Keep debuts then changes its mind
The 'get rid of all the options' philosophy is probably the single biggest reason when Gnome seems to have fragmented and was for several years a constant source of friction and hate between devs and certain corners of the community. However, it didn't have a robust support for plugins and behind-the-scenes configurability was sometimes limited and often overly arcane.

That said, while it's true that many of the options you mention are likely used be a very small % of users, and some are even dangerous for regular users to touch, they are also options that people who do use them will find critical, and they are options that people who do use them will be suspicious of in 3rd party extensions -- I mean who wants to install some random extensions named 'powerCert' or 'sslMan' with the purpose and powers of playing with certs on your behalf?

To a certain extent I think some of the options discussed could indeed be rolled into configure via about:config, I find the idea that it makes sense for others to be rolled into '3rd party extensions' a little troubling.

And some I think should remain, but could use some better 'branding.'
To me, it's not a question of black/gray/white hat. This was as much a "hack" as grabbing a handful of business cards out of the free-lunch-for-your-office drawing bowl at Chipotle. Regardless of what nefarious purposes someone had for snatching those business cards, almost everyone would see it as ludicrous to suggest a 10 year sentence for the act of grabbing that unguarded data alone.

Even though this guy is no role model, it makes me deeply uneasy to see AT&T get away so easily with reframing their own incompetence as innocent victimization.
Better to use one primary sync service and one secondary backup service , and during a primary outage, revert to hand management of edits.
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Google expected to unify chat under the name Babble
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Good. Only issue I have so far is that in links to modal windows the bootstro-title takes over the title causing: a) the mouse-over tooltip (with original title) disappears and b) the bootstro pop-over title is the original "title".
Or use any commercial backup system.
What's the best pattern to use for a rails app? I've been name-spacing my js so that objects get instantiated based on controller/action using the Garber-Irish Technique. I've found this a great technique, however, I still need a way to organize my js objects into modules/submodules for example. have anyone looked into this?
But then please for the love of god make about:config something that can be used without trawling mozilla.org discussion threads or random about.com 'articles'.

I think one of the reasons that about:config is not easy to use is because it shouldn't be easy to use.

If it was a nice window with checkboxes and dropdowns and tabs for groups of related options, then it would become a de facto settings dialog a thousand times more problematic than the legitimate settings dialog.
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Thanks for the feedback. I will experiment and see if I can come up with some hide/show JavaScript.

Update: DONE!
You're the 2% who needs to install add-ons.
"Auernheimer crossed a line"

The problem is where the line is drawn, not whether he crossed it.
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You guys should build it if you think it is worth building, why do you need backing for software keyboard ?!

I am not backing this and it is getting ridiculous. And video, there should be Bootstrap for Kickstarter videos, a template you can just add to.

I would be happy to try this out when it comes out. I expect it will not work for me as I am bilingual and those keyboards only work well for english. But good luck, don't spend all the money at one place.
Google's hate for the desktop is extremely well advertised, and is their core value proposition.
More from Tim Pool https://twitter.com/Timcast right now:

1m
Judge stated the sentence she administered would help weev down a "positive path" and give him "respect for the law"

1m
Judge said one word came to mind after reading about weev "disappointment"

2m
Weev was remanded to custody following his sentencing.

3m
Prosecutors referred to weev as a special person who shouldn't have anything over people based on his skills.

2m
I felt like I was watching a witch trial as prosecutors admitted they didnt understand computers.

4m
Weev's restitution is $73,000 split between him and Spitler

6m Federal Prosecutors cited @rabite's Reddit AMA three times in their justification for sentencing.

7m
Weev was returned to courtroom in shackles 5 minutes after the struggle.

8m
BREAKING: Weev sentenced to 41 months followed by three years of supervised release.

31m
Agents asked @rabite for his phone, he handed it to Tot Eckland and was quickly grabbed, pinned, and cuffed.

33m
Federal prosecutors have cited @rabite's Reddit AMA as justification for his sentencing. cc @alexisohanian

33m
Five minute recess declared in response to the incident

34m
BREAKING: Court agents just cuffed weev in a struggle over his tabletBREAKING: Court agents just cuffed weev in a struggle over his tablet
But 'Load images automatically' and Enable Javascript should not be those that are moved. I remember how a few years back I had to regularly uncheck the 'load images automatically' box just to get my slow like death internet load things that mattered. I'm sure there are many places in the world where people have to still deal with that regularly. Same goes with javascript - security, privacy for those who know how it might affect their normal browsing.
HN, here I am. My name is Stefan Kueng, I'm 30 years old, based in Switzerland. For better or for worse. This is my last chance to get my life back on track. If anyone else reads this, wish me good luck.
You'll have plenty of chances my young friend :), but get to work!