skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with most of your post. I prefer calmer writing, even when they're destroying stupid claims. I often find calmer writing to be more powerful. Someone yelling "HEY LOOK! THIS IS STUPID!!!" is less effective than just telling me that something is wrong, why it's wrong, and giving me links to real scientists who show it's wrong.

But I strongly disagree with your last paragraph.

> I don't know why scientists just can't keep an open mind.

This little sentence is evil, and I don't say that lightly. Creationism is taught in school science lessons alongside evolution because "we need to teach both sides", we need to 'keep an open mind' - even though evolution is a very strong theory and creationism is bollocks. There are many other similar examples of truth being harmed in the name of 'open mindedness'.

But it's important to realise that scientists do keep an open mind. Any belief will change if the evidence is strong enough. For some things we have some math to predict something and some weak experimental research showing it - for those things you'd just need better math and better experimental evidence and a nice description of how it fits in with everything else.

> Maybe life comes from outer space. Maybe it doesn't. Maybe diatoms are in meteorites. Maybe they aren't. No one really knows, do they?

You're right, no-one really knows. But that's an excellent reason to be very very cautious when making claims. Start small and build the case, don't just announce that extra-terrestrial life has been found.
Yes, it is "THAI CHARACTER KO KAI" (U+0E01), plus 20 occurrences of the non-spacing mark "THAI CHARACTER THAI CHARACTER MAITAIKHU" (U+0E47).
Indeed, pasting from the google input and investigating it's a single U+0E01 ก (THAI CHARACTER KO KAI) with 20 U+0E47 ็ (THAI CHARACTER MAITAIKHU), a diacritic.
I wouldn't say it was needless. As far as I'm concerned, it is the KDE and Wayland guys who have come out screaming in a very public, very vitriolic attack against Ubuntu. No matter what side of the argument you stand on, you can't deny that they have been taking a shit on the Ubuntu brand (although a lot of the worst comments have been deleted it appears). It is no wonder Mark is reacting in a caustic manner in my opinion.
To me, these are amazing in the same way fingernails on chalkboard are amazing. Every time someone nicked the chalkboard with their fingernail in school, I felt as if someone was ripping my spine out. And every time I clicked one of those circles, I felt like someone was ripping my eyes out.
I don't think the article meant that linkedin grows virally though. I think it was trying to compare linkedin to a virus that spreads by hijacking your address book.

At least that's how I read it.
You should try another IDE. Eclipse isn't maintained by Google. Xamarin Studio is very nice. http://xamarin.com/studio
But you need specific skills to customize your Jeep. On Android it takes 30 seconds and no skill to install the keyboard you want.

It's not a very hard thing to do, I'm sure as a mobile developer you don't mind installing apps other than the ones that come with your phone. A different keyboard is just another app to fulfil a need, go to the Store, click install, new keyboard. Done.
BitTorrent Live P2P Streaming Protocol hits Open Beta
Absolutely. I need my phone to work, be simple and reliable, not require much/any maintenance. Similarly, I prefer a nice car with a warranty that I don't have to worry about or have any hassle with. A jeep might be cheaper, and when it runs slow I could install something to fix it, or if I don't like the steering wheel I could personalize it easily... but, for something I use every day and depend on, I just want it to be there and not have to deal with any complications. I'm ok with the one-size fits all steering wheel, the research driven interface on my stock radio, etc etc.
It's 2 characters.
What to do when your Amazon EBS fails
looks like this is the unicode in html

&#3585; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655; &#3655;
Or just put all your music on Google Music and select the songs/albums/artists that you want to keep on the device instead of stream.
Thanks! We're super excited about that aspect too - it's amazing how many different types of lawyers have said they need a Clerky in their practice area. Unfortunately there's quite a few more features we need before we can really serve that market well. We'll get there though! Feel free to shoot us an email and we'll put you on our list of lawyers to reach out to when we're ready!
Siri is not "voice search". Siri was very much an innovation when it was originally released as a standalone app, and was still ahead of the game when Apple bought it and integrated it.

Google certainly may be ahead now, but to compare Siri to plunking what you say into a Google search box is just wrong.
Would they need to start a rival block chain? Or do they just need 51% of the current community to run their clients to take over the current block chain? (as suggested by a comment above)
Neither does Android. But for both Android and iOS there are libs that can convert SVG into usable objects.
For example: https://github.com/SVGKit/SVGKit
Data point- I never have hit the limit on the $30 T-Mobile plan and use about ~3gb during an average month. I'm connected to wifi at work, home or friend's place ~18hrs a day.

Most iPhone users are limited to 2Gb right?
IntelliJ Idea is vastly superior and when developing on Android it is very easy to use Idea as first class IDE.

Compare this with iOS development. IntelliJ's AppCoder is nice, but because quite a lot of things can be only done from XCode, Appcoder is second class citizen. Let me re-iterate, if you haven't used Appcoder, it is a vastly superior IDE compared to Xcode any given day.
I think it boils down to people being upset because Canonical through Ubuntu actually has the power to make Mir a real contender just like that, and it may very well leave Wayland in the dust due to internal discussions in Canonical rather than gaining acceptance by the community first

Everything else seems like excuses to me. And while I use Ubuntu, and Mir sounds appealing, especially given my experience with other Ubuntu projects (including Unity, which I love), I don't particularly like this approach either. Though I have no reason to think I won't stick with Ubuntu.
Testing and Securing Your Finance APIs
A quite good check list/advice on server trubleshooting. The ones I am mostly missing in the list is network tools such as telnet/dig/ip/fping/mtr.
I believe posting the ROM would be ilegal. To share ROM mods, people usually share patches that can be applied with a certain program (like a binary diff, I'd assume).
Not really. Parts are cheap and most are bolt on. It's just a matter of preference, which is why all of these droid vs apple discussions are circle jerks.
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That would be zalgo: http://eeemo.net/
>Saying "you're increasing desktop fragmentation" is silly and implies that writing Mir is somehow worse than writing no code at all.

Nope. The logical option to writing Mir is not "no code at all" but contributing code and influence to supporting Wayland.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is also very effective in many cases (and can work on its own without medication, depending on the situation).
Life. I am here. Sentient, mobile, and mentally able. That's all I need.
Education: Think inside the box
Individual SVG files take more bandwidth and requests than a single "iconic font" (SVG fragments are pretty much unsupported), and fonts can be hinted (though I've seen pretty little hinting for now) in order to alter the detail level as the font size increases.

Pretty much the only drawback of iconic font is that they're uniform-color (or bicolor if you play with the background)
Interactive Python Books
I'm skeptical that most websites would see a performance improvement in switching from images to symbol fonts. Github is doing it close to optimally:

- custom webfont that has exactly what they need (26k)

- loaded in js to minimize downloads (only one of woff and eot)

- served with very long cache lifetime

- served via cdn

But even then they have the problem that all text display has to wait for the font to download.

Most sites are going to skip some of these, so I expect the change to symbol fonts to hurt most websites that try it.

If you do try it, definitely A/B test it to make sure it really is speeding up pageloads for your users.
the "Evangelist" bit about this post irks me. So you've found the light, stop trying "Evangelize" saying things like "I’d like you to switch too".

I've used the ipod since the beginning, but i've also used windows until it made more sense to me to start using OSX. today i still use the ipod touch and an android, and windows. each has it's upsides (love the battery life on the touch) and downsides (there is a ton on Android). I'm not in any "camp" or going around telling people why they should switch to my phone. definitely hate the "apple way" even though i love my macbook pro.
If You Like Jennifer Aniston, You Won’t Like This Article About Reverb
I was curious about this as this is how other keyfobs/SecureID cards work. But the article seems to imply that there would be no password at all to use with this device.
Skype may face criminal charges if it doesn’t let French Police listen in
Thanks! I should be able to make it responsive pretty quickly. I'm pretty much using Bootstrap with minimal customization.
I don't know if I get more or less done when I work from home, but I do know that when I have down time at home, I find myself doing things I needed to do anyways (e.g. laundry, dishes, etc.) and that makes me feel better. While at work, I end up reading a bunch of Hacker News articles I don't really care about just because I'm stuck or bored. I also find myself working a little later when at home since I don't need to worry about commuting.
My mother kept asking me why I made her pay for "a device which can't replace a floppy disk". I'm an android user but I thought the limitations of the iPhone were actually a plus for my mother. It took me some time (and some fiddling with some "approved apps" to make things "work" for her) to understand that those small things could be real deal-breakers when not available.
The Naked Truth: Why Humans Have No Hair
Actually if your using Google Music, there's an option right next to the album to keep it on the device. I use it all the time, very nice.
> "but whether "the government should also be investing heavily in mobile apps?""

And that depends entirely on use case. A generalized "web first before native" seems misguided. If this was, for example, a schedule app for the tube, a weather service, or any such thing that users would can be expected to use daily, then an app IMO makes more sense than a website.
> Except me. Or my girlfriend. Or my parents. Or my sister. Or in fact, everyone I know with one.

Yet Astro file manager has 35 million downloads. Perhaps you and your peers are not a representative sample.
Thanks! It's super minimal but I'll work on improving it.
A Guide on UISS, style sheets for iOS Apps
Kinect for Windows Sample Code
Once had this dude sign up for our page management... we had a lot of assumptions about plain or at least sane text that had to get updated. https://www.facebook.com/glitchr
I sympathize with them. I'm still seeing mistruths about Wayland all over the Internet as a result of that highly inaccurate (at least initially, they've editted it) MirSpec document.
Use of nuclear weapons against primary (i.e. military) targets that are isolated from civilian populations would not be an atrocity in this case. If e.g. Iran were to manage to sink a US aircraft carrier, I have no doubt that they would see the business end of some W80s, and justifiably so.
That doesn't render 100% for me, lots of square boxes.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zalgo
I would suggest going with straighttalk. $45 a month unlimited everything and it uses AT&T networks. I always have a signal. I would suggest going with a good unlocked smartphone to take advantage of it (I went with the Nexus 4). In fact, you can buy a whole years worth of service at a time and it averages out to like $42 a month... not a huge savings but I just like having my phone taken care of for the whole year. No bills or anything to deal with. It just works.
A look at Microsoft’s top-secret Surface prototypes
it never occurred to me that a discussion on an internet bulletin board about whether space aliens are likely to be hostile was a 'technical or scientific discussion'.
Why Apple should sidestep the ’phablet'
Sure, it was innovative back before Apple bought it, but what Apple did to Siri was basically dumbing it down to the level of plunking things into a Google Search box.

Google Now really has improved things a lot.
It's odd, but I think the HN title has only 5 of those marks. Does HN code limit the stacking?
I believe he was referring to Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence[1].

Edit:
Though it's been a while since I read it last, I remember finding it very informative and insightful. I don't think you need to be a psychologist or neuroscience expert to read it and benefit.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Intelligence-Matter-More-Tha...
Ask PG: The 10x programmer: What linux util, and what about people?
Spent the morning in #ubuntu asking about the idea of a "10x programmer". I've got some rather benign and uninteresting answers. Is this a very domain-specific thing? And what role to people play in this? Inspiring people is a very powerful thing ( this coming from a programmer nonetheless )
A colleague will say, “Well, it’s nice, but you’re just not as productive as if you were in the office.” Something about the argument never sat well with me, and I’ve finally nailed down what it is: it treats productivity as if it’s the only thing that matters.

Frankly, I don’t really care if I am less productive working from home than in the office. Productivity is only one variable in a complex equation.

It seems like a bad idea to argue with a person (the colleague) who makes claims without any evidence. Are they measuring productivity with some metric, or just guessing?
Kind of bummed out over this news to be honest. Well, we still have deep sea exploration - I'm sure there's something down there that we haven't found yet.
iPhone users watch far more online video than Android users
I dropped out of school but my brother got me to move out of my hometown and start working for a small web host where the boss took a chance on me.

Turns out I was so hard working, so dedicated, that years later when I was stuck in a callcenter because I didn't have any grades from school, that same boss recommended me to a big consulting firm, who took a chance on me. And it payed off, for both of us. Now I have a career in IT and I never graduated what Americans would equal to High school. :)
I do a lot of iOS development in Xcode, and a lot of Android development in IntelliJ. The IDE experience is vastly better in IntelliJ. Xcode is garbage. Maybe Eclipse is worse, I don't know, it's been a long time since I used it, but that's irrelevant. That something is even more garbage doesn't somehow make Xcode better.

The only thing I really miss about iOS development when doing Android work is not having blocks in Java, and it's still generally Good Enough if I squint and pretend that anonymous inner classes are equivalent. (IntelliJ helps to reinforce this illusion with automatic folding, too.) The iOS simulator is a bit better, but I don't generally find myself really missing it, especially since developing on a real device is much better in Android land.

Xcode is way behind the times in terms of automated assistance while coding. Every time I have to stop in the middle of writing some code to go up and add an #import that the IDE could easily add itself, I hate Xcode a little more. And that's really the tip of the iceberg.

I'm really hoping that AppCode 2.0 can give me the IntelliJ experience for iOS coding, because Xcode 4 has been a disaster from day one and is not getting better fast enough.

Your opinion may differ, but please don't act like disagreement can only be due to ignorance.
HN Behind Varnish Cache. Page Load Benchmark.
A Simplified Query Interface for Relationships in Active Record 4
WireOver is hiring 2, solving xkcd.com/949
Google should just buy Swiftkey. It's pretty great, and I love its Flow (Swype-like) feature, too.
Autocorrect is one of the most common complaints I see about the iPhone. Whether it's professional reviewers or normal users, there seems to be a consensus that the stock Android keyboard and autocorrect have now surpassed their iOS counterparts.

I'm not sure what your friends were doing or which phones they had, but as others have said, Android at least offers you the ability to switch keyboards if the stock keyboard doesn't fit your personal typing style. If the stock iOS keyboard doesn't work for you, tough luck. No keyboard will work for 100% of the population, so the ability to customize it is a clear winner in this situation.
The Adderall analogy really drives the point home. This is well put, and a powerful message more people (especially those in a position to effect policy) ought to read.
No, it's a bit like saying "yes, but you can go around it using this free four-lane highway that works great."

It's still a shame that your Google GPS told you to take the dirt road though.
http://books.google.com/books?id=45EEAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA171&...
So, this is a really bad analogy that tries to force the bad connotations of drug use onto working in the office. And it's kind of ridiculous that this is almost a reasonable logical step from the previous arguments for working from home. That aside, I'll say this: maybe Adderall isn't the drug for you. If the office you work at makes you personally unhappy, it doesn't prove that working from home is better, but that your office sucks.

Find a new office and stop comparing personal preferences to actually addictive drugs.
Google Now notified me that it had determined where I live, where I work and where I make regular visits, and asked me to confirm that it had the locations correctly (it did). Now it tells me when I need to leave to get to an appointment, depending on how I'm getting there and what the traffic is like. I didn't have to set up or configure any of it - it just worked.
It allows people who go more in depth into things (i.e. writing long articles, producing complex content) to use the more shallow masses to broadcast (retweet, comment, like, follow) their stuff. So everyone can can participate.
Readymag — Demo Issue
You are right. I should have clarified that price point is important when competing technologies are somewhat good enough. The GameCube was competing with ps2 and Xbox at the time. Hardly equivalent. Think a about it this way: A 33Mhz processor for $5, a 2.6Ghz processor for $199, a 2.8Ghz processor for $299, a 3.8Ghz processor for $1000. If those were your only options for a gift, which one would you pick? At the time, let me remind you, that the GameCube was that 33Mhz like experience while people were playing Halo on the Xbox
There's a twitter account, glitchr which posts lots of these things: https://twitter.com/glitchr_

glitchr's tweets may cause other twitter clients to crash too, eg this one (you have been warned!)
https://twitter.com/joshlogan42/status/303975029698342912
"no one would actually do such a thing in this day and age"

You'd think!

http://www.cardiffcontemporary.co.uk/content.asp (Do try the 'Accessibility' link)

Also: http://explore.bfi.org.uk/ (Keep scrolling...)
That is hilarious. Can't scroll down without it crashing the tab.
You are missing out.
http://i.imgur.com/8pPNeKh.png
Of course, "Bread and Circuses" is a pejorative describing the fall of Rome:
...Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions - everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses
Google Glass Pre-Banned at Seattle Establishment
Switch the page encoding to Thai.
I'm definitely doing something wrong if given the advice I get and the connections I have I still fail to find clients.

Your advice is definitely spot on, this is something I'm reading in other business books and I have to reframe my thinking in this way.
Boxer Curtis Woodhouse Deals With A Twitter Troll By Tracking Him Down
I found it surprising that he thought his android was better at audio-on-the-go, as this is the very thing that has been keeping me on iOS. Maybe its because my car doesn't have built in bluetooth, but the ability to buy an FM transmitter, iPod dock, etc. and just know that my iPhone will work with it is a huge plus. In talking with my Android using friends, I've also never run across anyone who thought that they could find a better music player for Android than the built in iOS music player. Has the music experience on Android been significantly updated in the most recent OS versions?
> writing passwords down and putting it in a drawer at home is so much more vulnerable than stealing the one thing with which you secure all of your accounts and take with you.

People should be doing a risk analysis of their online services, so they can decide what kind of password security is useful to them.

I'm a big fan of writing passwords down and keeping that list in a secure place. But some people (eg, in offices) don't have a suitably secure place to keep those passwords. This device would be handy for them.
General (U.S. Cyber Command) says detection deters major cyberattacks
The CTO who hired me, a college dropout and former construction worker, to my first startup. It was a menial data entry job but he took a chance when he let me start coding 2 months later, and lead the web team to the launch a year after that.

By then I had the chance to pay it forward by mentoring employees with design and liberal arts background to become decent web devs. Coding for the web isn't really that hard to learn if you're motivated, which is why it pains me to see the bullshit "our hiring process" posts.

As a child in Israel, I'd hear about the American ideals of giving someone a chance and taking a risk. Many years later, when I lived in NYC, I was disappointed to find employers so risk averse they can barely make a decision on hiring a junior PHP coder without an Ivy League degree, 4 references and a 6 hour interview process. I had enough experience for degrees not to matter, but I feel for kids in the US who are now where I was when I started out.
Have form, will post...
Well let's broaden this, there is no concept of files on the iPhone, and yes, you DO need them.

Example: try attaching an excel sheet you received from a friend to another email.

Example: the powerful Android "share" mechanism --the sole reason I have several iPads but switched to Android for real work (ie on my phone). Share is not limited to a bunch of "friend-aware" apps, but every app can register themselves as a "handler" for particular data objects (files), e.g. "picture" "pdf document" etc, and when you hit "share" all of these are shown in a list. No more circuitous nonsense where you have to open a file in goodreader or save it to dropbox first, so you can access it with another app, which speeds up things tremendously.

I think it's pretty safe to say that moving data from one app to the next is something everyone needs.
This was written in 1994. True today.