skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should lock that "dorito" that follows your mouse. It allows you to adjust the currently selected story. It's an indicator line. Maybe I should lock it by default and allow you to click on it to have it follow your mouse...
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Agrees on this. Sometimes you don't want the tutorial or book, you just want the reference guide of one liners saying what the thing is, at least for the proficient programmer. If I come back to Python from a few months on some C++ project and have to spend 15 minutes looking up how to use their JSON api because I have to dig 90% of the time to find callables the docs fail.

The lack of a Javadoc / Qt ref / cppreference (I love that wiki) module / function list makes just searching for something you know exists and just need the method name a pain in the butt.
The problem is that even when people vote nationally against Europe, their corrupted lawyers/politicians still do only what they want: the french voted against entering the eurozone. Yet their leaders decided France would enter the eurozone.

That's totally un-democratic just like what's happening in Cyprus is anti-democratic. Note that this shouldn't come as a surprise: Europe is mostly socialists and socialist only believe in democracy ("social democracy") as a mean to get in power and, once in power, to act in non-democratic ways. This is precisely what's happening: non-democratic confiscation of citizens' money to fund the state (please spare me the propaganda about the banks: it's about saving the european governments).

(I digress but I so wish they weren't in it, because France is f^cked: people unwilling to work more than 32 hours/week, super high sense of entitlement, uncontrollable state debt exploding and they're going to default in a few years, just like Greece).

I do really hope that the U.K. massively vote to get out of the European Union when the referendum shall take place.

Of course they're wagging the dog with "rich russians" and whatnots: later on they'll blame the working people (who have economies) has being responsible of all the evil in Europe.

Not a single time are you going to see socialists do some introspection.

Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and France are all going to state default (Greece will indeed default again).

Oh, and Cyprus shall never have a state debt of 100% of their GDP in 2020 as stated for this measure.

There are way too many public servants, way too many state benefits, in all these countries for them to ever be able to repay their state debt.

Socialism inevitably leads to state default and that's what we'll witness soon (we already witnessed it with Greece).
It doesn't go full-fullscreen on widescreen, which ususally isn't bad, but I know on the old python (and at least the docs site) having the vertical fixed sidebar list was handy, and much more useful than one horizontal navbar (or 3, in this case... maybe cut down on the nav bars).

Personal taste, I prefer my sites with a fixed vertical navigation pane to the side when you get ultra-widescreen.
>I'm a full-time developer .

So I take it you must be used to reading documentation and picking up new languages pretty quickly? If you must keep going to the documentation to remember a function, copy it out. I don't see how needing to dig through out of order lists is any more useful than digging through long winded documentation. The point of a cheat sheet is not just remembering the thing, but finding it quickly.
What if they didn't want to? What if someone, most everyone in fact, who buys anything Chanel/Hermes/Vulgari on Ebay actually wants to buy a knock-off? That would explain why these things are so cheap over there.
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Quick, someone make a search engine!
It's not simply limited to media manipulation. Loby and special interest groups are also using reddit to sway political discourse.

This is no better seen than when Israel/Palestine articles hit the front page. You can nearly watch in real time where a critical mass is reached and suddenly pro israeli comments start flooding in. It's a thing of beauty to watch.

If you look at the /r/videos subreddit you can see videos uploaded showing clips from the official ellen page which arn't particularly interested but have been boosted to the top and are full of comments talking about how great ellen is.

Even subreddits that have failed to reach the large member volumes other subreddits have are not immune to this manipulation.

It's unfortunate because it stiffles original dialogue.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if reddit got rid of the upvote button and only allowed posts to be down votted. Articles and comments which survived the war of attrition might be a little more inciteful.
I'm more interested in teaching computers lateral thinking, and thus the beginning of creativity - what I believe to be the real hallmark of human thought.

Can a computer be "processing" water pipes, analyzing the construction of pipes for the best flow, then jump to half-pipes and building a new half-pipe so skateboarders can flow better and produce better tricks, get more air, etc. Albeit a kind of lame example, but that jump is crucial, and something we do flawlessly. There's no hard guideline to what triggers our brains to jump. It could be audible, visual, or tangentially related to the task at hand. It could be body language of someone talking to us, that reminds us of somebody else, that reminds us of... Logical thought isn't that beautiful to me. It's predictable. Lateral thinking is though, and that's where all of the good inventions/discoveries begin anyways.
It started off as "shortcuts to services you use" and morphed gradually into "shortcuts to services we want you to use".
I briefly tried both.

* Feedly has a simple interface which is much more like Google Reader. But it depends on a plugin (or an app) rather than being an allwhere accessible website. Their Kindle Fire app seemed to load content extremely slowly, and its interface wasn't a simple list. And it's free, so I can't be a customer and I don't know how they earn money.

* NewsBlur is complicated and unresponsive. There are a lot of inscrutable unlabeled icons, and I don't understand why an arrow follows the mouse. It's a paid service - I can be a customer - but I don't know how sustainable NewsBlur will be with its current issues and with subscription as its only source of funding.

If NewsBlur seems solid by May, I'll gladly pay them. If Feedly seems less like a faceless data-miner by May, I'll use them.
Feed readers can send If-Modified-Since or If-None-Match as part of the request so the server only sends back the full feed if there's something new (Otherwise a 304 Not Modified)
The first one it showed me was "slippery slope", and I don't think that's a fallacy. It may be an invalid argument or prediction depending on the evidence, but it's not structurally invalid the way ad hominem and tu quoque are. Why is it there?
Looks good, but the demo is broken if you access it over HTTPS in Chrome

[blocked] The page at https://leselys.herokuapp.com/ ran insecure content from http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js.
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After all the hoopla following the announcement of google reader's eol, I was thinking about possible replacements. As a very regular user, I use it on multiple computers and devices during the day. Any replacement would either have to be hosted remotely (like GR) to provide synchronization, or leverage something like dropbox for the synchronization. I assumed the latter would be straightforward and something that someone had already done but found this article when I did some googling. It's obviously a pretty complex problem to solve. My thinking now is that it should be possible to maintain a filesystem database using something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir to avoid the locking issues.
'Twas only a flesh wound.
Aussie duo's song creation app wows SXSW crowd
I kind of feel like i'm in the same boat you are and I have the same fears. That the trajectory of my life has already reached its inevitable apex and can't fail to land somewhere, predictably, in failure and regret. But in my opinion (which won't even buy you a cup of coffee) you can't waste time on fear. Even if it is true, and rational. All you can do is live in the world until they shovel the dirt onto you. You and I are never gonna be 20 again. I'm sure that sounds trite but I don't mean it to be. We only get to be the old guys, or the older guys, or the even older still guys, but we're not dead yet at least, so good luck.
Sorry about that.

Next week I'll post a succinct article about switching to OpenBSD, and I'll title it, "Long interview about life and travel."

:-)
Will you be adding a Google Reader compatible API?

(So existing Google Reader apps can quickly switch to NewsBlur)
We can manufacture oil.

I expect in 50 years we will still have personal cars, but I'm split on whether they will be running on batteries, or running on some liquid fuel that we manufactured from environmental carbon.
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Once you make the mental transition from "mysql" to "SQL" and actually treat it as a language, it gets interesting.
Cyprus won't collapse (and even if, that's not the end, they'll stand up again and as an EU member state they'll receive help as they did before). Their banking sector is overblown and the intention is to reduce it to EU average by 2018. They tried to copy Luxembourg, but screwed it up. Now they have to come up with something different.

Anyway, that's far away from your "death spiral of the entire worldwide financial system." :)
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Just sent you a gtalk connect request - from my username at gmail dot com
Id be happy to show you what my little bootstrapped team is building, though actually, we need mysql and backend php.
Robert Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Read it.
When I was signing in, I removed the contacts scope from the auth URL and The Old Reader didn't appear to care that it couldn't access my contacts.
You've got me. I've only ever tested up to 49 dynamic forms, and only 42 insertion points.
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golf clap

(did actually lol)
Questionable re-dating in Marcott et al (2013)
Attacking competitors, pointing to their weaknesses, and trumpeting one’s achievements is better done by hired media assassins.

If you read Gruber's blog it is very hard to dispel that this is mostly what he does.
Here's a way to download the archive of all your starred items, 1000 at a time, straight to XML: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/reader/fMLNWm-s...
I assume, and Australia, but the point is that no-one likes living in what Balkan turned out to be, not only in Croatia, others as well have similar situation, Bosnia probably has even worse, I happen to remember this number from recent study which is shocking.

My point is that those conflicts were stirred by industrial lobby's, not by genuine need to protect or save anyone.
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Which is why the checked bag fee never made any sense to me. They should be charging a carry-on fee instead. Carry-ons are a PITA for the airlines, with all the time the stowage adds to the boarding process.
That's the strongest anti-Malthus/population-or-resource-bomb argument. I'm not sure if I ultimately agree with it myself (mainly because of the middle-income trap; I think having marginal SFBA-engineer level people would help advance science, but it's unclear if taking 500mm people from dirt-poor to $5k/yr income helps science, if it stops there, which it often does.)
That was surprisingly clueful of PayPal. Usually that part of the story is way more dramatic and ends up with alternate payment options.
Although I haven't tried it personally, http://www.internmatch.com/ looks quite good.

Good luck!
Next they could maybe cut down on the UI of Google Books.

http://i.imgur.com/BXvRdwq.png

It is often convenient to have the browser window small when working at something else beside it.
Paywall work-around link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732439280457835...

I really enjoy seeing the rise of designers in the popular media, an awaking of design consciousness if you will.
hey, site owner here. the idea for the site was to show the most common fallacies in clear language and pretty visuals. For a comprehensive list i highly recommend the fallacy files' taxonomy: www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonomy.html
I'm assuming it's there because it's a popular bad argument.

Well, it's an argument that's often bad. Slippery slopes can actually happen in the real world. But I suppose anyone making a slippery slope argument has the burden of showing that the slipping is likely to occur.
This recent piece in Time (surprise?) did some very interesting case-studies around tracing the line-items in several hospital bills:

http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medica...
Hahaha.

Well I mean too long for me at the moment. I'll certainly give it a good read later when I have time.
That's true, I've had one myself :) But still, in some countries, the difference between 10 and 20 dollars could actually be significant. It's easy to forget that with so many smart phones in the US.
The good news is the track you want to put your life on doesn't really exist, so chill out.
To some extent, they are right...if only by accident. Marketplaces are terribly tough businesses to start quickly. They either need a TON of venture capital to be able to build a userbase quickly...or they need none at all and build their userbase slowly (and profitably).

Lollipuff can do it, but it is an uphill battle with dim revenue prospects in the short and mid term.
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Old news is so exciting! (And, yes, two days in this day and age is an eternity as far as the news cycle is concerned)

http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-update-straight-answers-from-...
For anyone else not familiar, OOTB == out of the box.

Thank you urban dictionary...
informal fallacies are somewhat less absolute than formal fallacies in terms of their applicability, however the function itself is logically incoherent. i.e. if someone says that A will necessarily result in Z, then they're committing a fallacy. Z may well occur, but you need to provide reason/evidence for the intermediate steps.
I go with direct download over Mac App Store every time when it's available. This story illustrates the reason pretty well.
> Feedly turned me off because it has no open web implementation, it runs through the Chrome web store

Seriously, going to the feedly website, the first thing you're confronted with is a list of platform-specific apps you have to download, and "this website wants to install something, ok?"

There seems little reason for this with today's browsers, and it seems like a very good way to make a large proportion of potential users say "no thanks" before even trying it. I know it made me immediately toss feedly into the discard pile in my reader-replacement search...
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Apple has done very well so what else are they going to say on the earnings calls? They could consult a thesaurus and come up with some less commonly used words but that comes off as snobby and unnecessary.
Love that it's responsive! I like it!
"I had been preparing for a black swan event like this for the last four years since I began NewsBlur."

And then the black swan event comes.

And then fire everywhere.
I wasn't aware you could do this. Locking it by default seems like it would make more sense.

Also while I've got you, two issues I've noticed.

1. When I click "All Stories" to refresh my feeds it defaults to listing everything, even though I have it set so I only view one item at a time. As soon as I click the button/arrow to go to the next unread item it shows the first item as it should and everything works fine after that.

2. I seem to run out of items after I've viewed ~20ish and I have to click "All Stories" again to fetch a new bunch

I'm using the dev site if that matters (Issues happen on both sites though). So far these are the only things annoying me and otherwise newsblur is pretty good.
As long as you're not doing pure mathematics, you can't always speak on purely logical ground. Aristotle himself, who invented logic and whose picture is on this poster, wrote a different book called The Art of Rhetoric in which he fully approves of deploying e.g. appeals to emotion or authority. Most of these "fallacies" are actually good heuristics within normal discourse: even if they don't produce full logical confidence, they are still very useful in ambiguous or time-sensitive contexts (a.k.a. everyday life).
About time! I logged into Google+ the other week and was frustrated how much of the top header was "position:fixed;" as you scroll down. What a waste of screen real estate.

Example:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/liv1rjcqojvblg8/Screen%20Shot%2020...
> Visit NY for a week or two.

I can also agree to this. I was more or less in the same boat (possibly a bit worse at times). I had my idea for a startup and decided to use it as an objective to get me moving forward again. The first step for me was going to London and checking out the startup scene there (Techhub). It in a way, it gave me a boost and energy to flesh out my ideas and plans.

Sometimes, a change of atmosphere helps give you the initial push that one needs to move forward.
Isn't the point to hire the most qualified irregardless of gender or ancestry?
There are many reasons to buy and enjoy luxury goods. You have only found one possible reason.
I want to buy! Take my money! But your site errors out after CC deets. :(
Google. Once the ultra-lean, to-the-point search site alternative (remember Yahoo, and the others, crammed with links and icons?). Now this once simple search page is becoming more and more unusable for those of us who still use perfectly good older hardware. The amount of "intelligence" now built into the search bar, the pre-fetching, the guessing what you're searching for before you even finish typing it... VERY frustrating.

Yes you can disable JavaScript and that helps some things but breaks a lot of other things.

I don't really care if gMail or their other "apps" are loaded down with bling and scripts that fire on every keystroke or mouse movement, because I don't use any of those things. But please, leave it off of the search page. I just want to find what I'm looking for.
Think of success like a staircase.

You can't reach the top in a single bound.

You have to take small steps and lots of them all the while measuring your progress or lack thereof.

I'm like you. I've dabbled in things and made some small successes here and there and am constantly learning.

I'm in my late 30s now and will never give up. That's the guaranteed way to fail.
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I see what you mean by that, but open-sourcing all your software instead of just having an export function seems risky to me.

In our area of business, our features get copied really quickly.
I'm not really sure how useful this kind of thinking is, but I understand what you mean.
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Can I possibly buy a month or two at a time? I want to try it out without buying a whole year. I know that's cheap of me, but I'll probably be trying a few RSS readers in the near future.
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This application is temporarily over its serving quota. Please try again later. "

Well then.
> just know that the paywall is extremely leaky on porpoise...

This is my new favorite typo.
'But that feeling kind of scares me, because it’s like that thing when people get to a certain age and say “This is who I am. This is how I like my eggs. This is where I live.”'

This how I've been trying to live my life for the past seven or eight years, by tackling the fear head on.

Sometimes I've been successful and other times, not so much.

Never settle and never get comfortable. Thanks for the inspiring interview.
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Now in a pushback led by the meat and poultry industries, state legislators across the country are introducing laws making it harder for animal welfare advocates to investigate cruelty and food safety cases.
1. Intentional. Otherwise you'd stare at a blank screen until you click a story.

2. That's an unfortunate bug, but one that will probably get sussed out when I work on scaling over the next month.

Dev is largely just a re-skin. They share a backend.
Sexual jokes during presentations are tacky no matter who is in attendance.
Except that it's already been modded and aside from being unable to save (for obvious reasons), it works fine offline.
Google is exactly "the overwhelming hegemon in the industry" that is "search".

If you think that's enough of a reason to constraint Apple, surely it should also be enough to constrain Google by the same logic.
I think a lot of you are underestimating (what I read so far in comments) how much risk would people be ready to take.

I would totally take this serious, it isn't convenient to go now for me, but in 10 yrs time, or less, I think this would be something I would really like to do. And I wouldn't be bothered by being confined in small space. However, I already can think of ways to expand that space, so this assumptions are not quite correct. I would probably not live super long due to radiation, but I would accept this for chance to go somewhere no-one had gone before.

I am fairly confident that living on Mars would bring significant discoveries.
This is high in the running for the dumbest article I've ever seen on HN. Send that U-Verse internet connection back to 1983 and you'd get the same response - "this speed is cool, but it doesn't really let me do anything NEW". We need technology that serves for the things we might do in the future, not merely for the things we want to do today. Because we never know what technology from today we'll be stuck with deep into the future.
Hi Alex,

Had a look and some quick comments:

* If you want to work as a UX Designer, then I think you need more UX portfolio pieces, showcasing your design thinking and how you solved various design problems. Most of your work seems to be campaign or brochureware related, I couldn't see anything transactional or application related for example, so try to get more experience in that area too.

* If you've done anything in the mobile or app space include it in your portfolio. If not find a sideproject you can work on and create a case study which you can include in your portfolio, similar to http://www.repeattimerapp.com/how/

* One of your designs (under construction) looks like it's a Wordpress template - try to avoid showing unfinished work

* Lorem ipsum is verboten, try to avoid it http://37signals.com/svn/archives/001083.php

You might also want to review the following pages, to give you an idea what companies like Google, Apple, etc expect.

http://www.cooper.com/careers/interaction-designer.html

http://www.cooper.com/careers/visual-designer.html

http://www.quora.com/What-do-clients-employers-recruiters-lo...

http://www.quora.com/User-Experience/What-are-the-best-UX-De...

A great blog by Simon Pan - also from Australia - http://www.simonpan.com/how-ux-found-me/ - maybe email him, I'm sure he's got other tips...

In summary, judging from your portfolio only, I think you need to get more experience (agency / startup) before applying as a UX Designer at Google & Co.

Nice cookie rendering btw ;)
Three DBs? I don't suppose you have a blog post or something that explains your architecture decisions? Not criticising - I'm sure you had good reasons - but I'm rather curious as to what they were :)