skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is down just after I uploaded a file...
Is it related to the news of the shut down by the beloved Reader..?
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I was expecting that clicking on the darker areas would exit the intro, consider to do that.
Ask HN: Programmers, are you still excited about programming?
I love programming and I think I have the talent to do it professionally. But I'm scared. Based on what I see on HN and elsewhere, the workplace seems to be where the excitement of programming goes to die. Is it true? Does the joy of solving difficult problems with elegant code get buried where you work? Is your workplace special because it's not like this? How to find a place where coding still rocks?
Dropbox and your choice of editing program
When less is more in Machine Learning
Do you see the first example image in the story? The idea was you could have ships interacting with structures of that size.

My guess is the guys at relic realized they had to deal with fully three dimensional path finding and ran away screaming in terror.
What your argument ignores is the key component of the link in question: the animals were too sick to be consumed. While you are correct in that factory farming allows lower income people access to meat, you overlook the fact that the meat they have access to is poor quality, unhealthy and often contaminated. You wouldn't answer the claim that X group of people doesn't have access to clean water by saying 'well at least they have access to water.'
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"One thing Singaporeans love to talk about is FOOD and I made sure our conversation was filled with that."

Isn't your company called LOVE WITH FOOD?
Aren't you supposed to talk about food regardless?
Why and how does jimu generate human-readable Android source code
I've been on the paleo diet for about a year.

Besides the fantastic results I've had with it, the main reason why I'm confident in it is the fact that what is known to be true in nutritional science changes all the time. Meanwhile, I'm very confident we know what our paleo ancestors ate for hundreds of thousands of years prior to the introduction of agriculture. Even if it is eventually proven that grains do not cause a problem with our diet, we should be confident that avoiding them should not be detrimental to our health given the fact that we didnt eat them for a huge span of human existence
The fact that two feed clients, Superfeedr and Guzzle, implement PuSH wrong in no way leads to the conclusion that, when creating a feed reader, you can avoid polling for every content source that does support PuSH.
Dropbox, Skydrive, Box.net and Amazon Cloud Drive are some of the bigger alternatives. But as with any cloud service, downtime is always a risk.
Perhaps https://github.com/InternetCensus2012/InternetCensus2012/blo...
If that were the case, then the OP would have no argument because that's the only external tool being shown right now.
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> I'm new to web development, and have worked for two months creating iteration after iteration of my personal portfolio ...

The problem is obvious -- when you have spent as much time creating successful Web content as you have spent writing your CV, job offers will start pouring in.

> I really love writing code and dream to become amazing at it.

Someday you will be able to say, "I've spent years honing my Web development skills, and I'm objectively very good at it -- here is a list of my successful projects." When that happens, you will have to disconnect your phone in order to get any work done.

Employers don't want to hear how passionate you are about eventually learning how to code. They want to hear how passionate you are about repeating your many past successes.

If necessary, take volunteer assignments that will wind up on display on the Web with your name attached to them. Then when you rewrite your CV, you can include evidence of your abilities.
Being a contributor in the open source world is a no brainer :
- you fork
- you edit / change / improve
- you send a pull request
- done.

When contributing to small projects (with presumably smaller teams or solo dev), I think exchanging a few emails with the dev is a nice way to get how they envision thing and make sure your thoughts go along theirs.

I lead a few modest projects and I really prefer discussing options first, rather than having to decline a patch that came out of the blue for whatever reason.
I buy computers, because I want programmable tools that I can use for my purposes. I don't buy game consoles. As Apple pursues the game consolization of the Mac, many of us who are "experiencing the transition" are finding the Mac less and less appealing, but Apple is after the general consumer electronics market. They're making it clear that they can happily do without people like me--there just aren't enough of us to matter.

And ironically, despite caring less and less about users like me, they still get my business, because the other computer makers are degrading so badly.

If only someone were interested in making a computer for the rest of us [sigh...]
"Bitcoin-style block-chain consensus"

Majority rule not consensus. Given a mere majority rule protocol, I think your virtual world idea could work.
SD videos should be fine after caching is complete. See FAQ

I have a better solution for caching being cooked up but it's at least a few weeks away.
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I did not mean to accuse you of saying that women are predisposed for less rationality than men. Sorry for the confusion.

With that said, you still, to me, seem to be saying that women are currently employing less rationality than men, due to failure in education, culture, or something else. This is what I want to dispute. I disagree that alternative medicine being more popular with women means that women as a whole have been given less critical thinking skills. I think it's just because some things are more popular with women, and some with men. Alternative medicine appears to me to be something that is more popular with women, and it also happens to be irrational.
I don't fear the cloud, because I remember a world where most computers were mainframes and minicomputers, and you had a terminal, not a personal computer.

The difference, of course, is that in the 1970s and '80s, one machine going down affected dozens or maybe hundreds of people. Now, if Google Drive goes down, millions of people are stranded until it comes back online.

I like the return to the terminal/server model. It's convenient and familiar. That being said, monolithic services like Google Drive, iTunes Match, Dropbox, EA's game servers, etc., should really be more distributed and resistant to failure.

Could someone more knowledgable than myself explain how cloud services could be less vulnerable to universal failures?
Actually, anyone that knows how turning off a large load unevenly and turning a large load back on affects the electricity grid knows perfectly well that doing that necessitates increasing energy production.

The short explanation is that large simultaneous changes in the electricity grid will create shocks which make it difficult to maintain the voltage at every point of the grid. Changing electricity distribution is not actually that fast country-wide, so the electricity company must put the largest possible load into the grid. When it is randomly reducing that is the load that was on the grid before the reduction, when the load is increasing that is a certain percentage above the point it's increasing to, generally ~20% more. Get it wrong and large amounts of electrical equipment will be confronted with a way too low, or way too high voltage on the sockets. Low is bad (stuff doesn't start, washers get "stuck", ...), equipment gets damaged because it can't be kept operating, which may cause fast on-off cycles that destroy electrical motors pretty quickly. Too high is VERY bad, for obvious reasons. The way to compensate for that is to put more energy in the grid so that every distribution box is capable of getting the local lines up to 240V, and destroy the excess at local distribution stations. If the load is very predictable that energy destruction can be kept to very low values, if it's not, you have to raise them.

So to make the farce of earth hour complete, electricity companies prepare for earth hour in Australia (earth hour's home turf) by ... increasing the output of local coal power plants, the worst offender for global warming ... Granted, the difference is probably small, but earth hour is definitely making things worse, not better.

You just can't make this up. Earth hour is a publicity stunt, meant to channel money and attention into it's parent publication, nothing more. It should be treated like any other pop-up ad.
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Ok..I did it in the early 90s. In my case, It was nothing but a slave labor. What I meant is, while I was doing the same kind of work that I currently do for corporations, I got paid a pittance while the school and the project sponsor gained much. Having said that, I would do it all over again. I really enjoyed the campus life 5 more years! :)
Google, You Can Keep “Keep” - I’ll Stick to Evernote
That was to develop one of their iterations, it was a team of 20 working for three or four years. I can't find the source, it may well have been a talk at GDC.
It just seems the list page is slow. I can open up documents directly and they load instantly as normal.

shrug
What was interesting to me in this piece is that he lives in Philadelphia, not Silicon Valley. In contrast to all the "there's not enough developers!" and "everything happens in the valley - you have to move here", there's someone who is universally recognized as a leader in this industry, and he lives in Philly. Perhaps more companies expanding their views beyond who lives in a few square miles on the planet might discover, nurture and benefit from more "outside" talent.
Show HN: I ported danmaz74 "HN: Mark All Read" to Firefox
I can't for the life of me figure out what the right-hand side of this is doing (from https://github.com/shichuan/javascript-patterns/blob/master/...):

var global = (function () {
return this || (1, eval)('this');
}());

Why not just use 'this'?
While I appreciate that your comments are intended to promote Pharo, you seem to be saying that other Smalltalk implementations don't provide support for command-line applications, C FFI, a fast JIT, usable for real applications.

That doesn't seem right to me.
"I can resize my width too", that is really cool of you, but it would be nice if you also didn't go beyond my screen edge. Especially if the Next button is there.

Also consider adding push history support or whatever that's called. I'd like to click back in my browser to go back in the intro.

This is mostly because the back/forth touchpad gesture added in some version of MacOS or another, combined with the back/forth buttons on the mouse I use on the linux machine, have made me big users of the Back functionality. Something I would never click on "manually" and wouldn't even consider exists otherwise[1].

[1] Before those two developments I spent 5+ years convinced that nobody ever clicks Back in a browser.
Any feedback appreciated, particularly if you would like additional functionality.

Code is on GitHub : https://github.com/GMouron/HNMarkAllRead

Original code by Daniele is here : https://github.com/danmaz74/HNMarkAllRead
3/18/13 7:47 PM
We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Drive. We will provide more information shortly.

This is what it says. Where can you see the 30-60 minute recovery time frame?
I decided to go with Liferea desktop RSS reader and I like it so far.
I have to agree, Homeworld and Homeworld 2 were Amazing, Gorgeous, Epic games. The only game that ever came close to having that kind of a visual effect on me was Half Life 2 and the crazy stuff they did with their engine...
This is not what I thought, but it was just as awesome. Great job!
Eight hours for work, eight hours for reading and learning, eight hours for sleep and commute. I relax on the weekends - sleep a bit more, play some games, go out with friends, etc. I guess I'm just a boring person...
Dropbox _is_ distributed and resistant to failure by design.

edit:

Not sure why I'm getting downvoted, maybe a link to a source will help.

"Everything in your Dropbox folder is always on your hard drive and merely synced with our online service, so you have access to your files even if you're offline. If you have multiple linked computers on your local area network, we'll even sync from those computers rather than via the Dropbox service whenever it can."

https://www.dropbox.com/help/42/en
I agree with the author that turning lights off for an hour, once a year, has negligible (if any) impact on the environment or global warming, but I see Earth Hour as a symbolic action that raises awareness of an important issue and is a very nice international gesture of solidarity.
Your response might be technically correct, but it's not really what the reader was asking or what is interesting to ask. Not to mention that the winning answer addresses that in the very top of his reply.
Good luck with your stack traces.
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Like sergiotapia, I'm very close to switching back to FireFox /because/ of the Awesomebar. However, for me, it's because it matches my search history better. Let's say I'm working on a page call /editor/?id=1234, in FireFox, typing 1234 will show that page as the first match, whereas Chrome doesn't even match it unless I start typing /editor/, and sometimes even the root domain. It's very frustrating.
You are right... what I have done so far is send messages stating my intent to possible employers with a link to my site. This has proven futile. I will do as you suggest, Thank you!
Life Expectancy for U.S. Women Heading Down
Drive isn't down for me. Just a bit slow.
Since a number of other people have already mentioned Dropbox, I'l mention something slightly different: git-annex (http://git-annex.branchable.com/)

It's a more general piece of software, but combined with git-annex assistant and your choice of hosting provider(s), it lets you create your own cloud storage, so you have potentially no concerns over privacy[0].

If you're looking for fault-tolerance, git-annex lets you distribute this storage over an arbitrary number of providers easily, so you can get redundancy between an array of cloud hosting providers.

I've been using git-annex for several months now, and while it's still a work in progress, I haven't had any issues at all with it. It seems to be very reliable and bug-free; the main things being developed now are additional advanced features and an improved GUI interface, etc. For people already accustomed to using git on the command line, though, it should be a seamless experience.

[0] This depends on how much you trust Amazon/Rackspace/your colo/etc., but that's a separate level of trust altogether.
> Every Wikipedia article is now, effectively, an interactive application.

I don't think that's quite true. MediaWiki templates are now more powerful, but I'm not sure even that counts as interactive. This makes editing easier, but the reader isn't going to interact with a Wikipedia page any more than they did last week.
There's probably one or two people who may believe that, but I think most of us see it as a symbolic gesture. Yeah, he is attacking a straw man.
I like Dropbox because it has a great & simple UI that masks some clever engineering. Does SkyDrive opportunistically do P2P LAN transfers?

(More cynically, their reputation on "the internet" may be slightly inflated due to a very clever referral link scheme)
Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays.
I feel like I should do something like this:

~/Dropbox/Google Drive/Skydrive/[ALL MY ACTUAL FILES HERE]

That way I'm syncing with three different providers and if two go down my data is still available.

I pay for dropbox so I can fit all my ISOs in dropbox, but the high priority docs (which total under 2gb) would be synced to all three (with the confidential stuff in a TrueCrypt file of course).
That's not comparable: one is subsidy, one is spending. US spends money in New Mexico by maintaining military bases and hiring New Mexico residents to work for them [1]. They serve the entire country, not just New Mexico. In contrast, the EU sending checks to Greece or forgiving its debt is pure subsidy. Only Greece directly benefits from it.

It's one thing to spend money in exchange for goods and services, and another thing to give it away in exchange for nothing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico#Federal_government
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

I agree that the mind's contribution has been shut out of things. I don't think it's right but I do think there has been sound reason not to: we just don't understand enough about how the interaction works.

We are entering into a really interesting new era as investigation into these areas begins again
Skydrive, and most of Microsoft's online services, went down for hours last week.
Any good Google Drive x Dropbox Sync Tools available? I guess, I need one such tool.
1. Did you contact any recruiters on LinkedIn?

2. Did you call up any companies in your city even if they don't have any jobs listed?

3. Have you tried applying for jobs that might sound "too hard"? Often recruiters up the level in the job applications but when it's in fact not really needed.

4. Open-source your CV/the website you made and show possible companies how awesome your coding is.

5. Call recruiters, e-mail recruiters, knock on their doors, call companies and e-mail them even if they don't have any jobs listed.

6. Build up your brand in social media (LinkedIn, Twitter, etc) I get contacted on LinkedIn a lot and I know a lot of my friends do too.

Good luck!
Pretty simple, really. (The following is fairly cynical, and a hyperbole. Most of it isn't actually good advice, but I've seen all of these methods work).

Try to post when the post the the bottom of /newest is close to an hour old.

Avoid posting during times of big events (e.g.: not when Google kills off Google Reader).

Have a linkbait title. Don't worry, it gets edited by friendly neighborhood moderators later, so you don't look like a jackass.

Need to re-post an article that didn't gain traction before? Add #SOMETHING to the end of the URL. The matching algorithm will think it's a new link.

Create a voting ring. Make sure to do some actual posting/upvoting, as there is voting ring detection. The simplest prevention is that upvotes from the same IP don't seem to count.

Have a short article, instead of a long one. By my estimate 90% of people upvote based on title alone, 9% upvote based on the first paragraph of the article, and 1% actually reads it.

Post something as "Show HN: please review my X". These seem to gain a lot of favor. Brag about how it was a weekend project, took you 2 hours, etc.

Have high karma and lots of fans.

Post "What I learned from building my tetris clone" article

Talk about how Paleo diet changed your life

Promise to teach us how to stop eating/sleeping/wasting time/driving/having stuff.

Write an article about how your work environment is different and how it makes you productive.

Do something that is otherwise trivial using only CSS. Apply the same approach to Haskell to get a PhD in Computer Science (I literally saw a thesis a while ago about memoization techniques in Haskell.)

Post a short angry rant or make a wild claim. This is especially helpful if you are a mildly popular blogger. Accuse Google/Apple of doing something that will ruin their business. Make a wild prediction about how the Entire Google empire is based on a dozen bloggers using Google Reader.

Read: http://jacquesmattheij.com/How+to+make+the+Hacker+News+homep...
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While I'm not happy about the idea, I submit that we've tipped over a scale within technical surveillance - the same irresistible forces that are reshaping the content industries are hard at work reshaping our concepts of available privacy. It's just too cheap & easy, and getting much easier, and people want to do it (badly).
Well things seem more comfortable now :)

A.
1. Yes, you caught me there. I did say information, and then moved on to genetic information. Your point is valid against "information" in general. So I shall admit to that and move onto the important parts.

2. Evolution is the process of continual genetic diversity - natural selection is the process of eliminating the unfit. So you can't flip this.

B.
Sperms, no. Zygote potential, yes. Therefore I would find it ideal to generate every combination, and play it out. This is not absurd at all - it is Evolution. No?

"Death" see (2)

I'd also like to point out that smart people come from fat people, skinny people come from stupid people, and skinny from fat and smart from stupid.

--> And zow! I believe we've hit the crux of our disagreement. Maximal evolution.

Well, I find the perspective of not protecting the young / killing of babies as an avoidable option, since we are the dominant species, we can manipulate our environment to restrain natural selection in favor of our own.

It appears, that you favor natural selection's brutality against us, and encouraging upon zygotes in unfavorable circumstances, thus diminishing their life.

I would argue against your assertion that "they'd grow up violent and suffering anyways" -- but that appears now to be pointless, since we've found our fundamental (and unfortunate) disagreement.

Thank you for sharing, I'm going to sleep now, it was interesting learning your perspective! (Feel free to reply, just don't bait me to respond back! lol.)
Advice needed: requirements for building in mobile
Hi all. I'm new to this group and really like the vibe. A few years ago I started working on a project to build a mobile based MMO, basically letting people play cops and robbers using GPS enabled devices but with character dev, leveling and questing like you'd find in something like WoW. I was the plot and (amateur) UX guy, and I teamed up with a group of coders to build a beta in return for equity. We had a great concept and a good sized group of people who were really excited about seeing the product launch and playing the game. The coding company I teamed up with required $ to code, however, and after a kickstarter campaign that didn't make it, we parted ways. I'm really disappointed that I wasn't able to deliver the product to the people that wanted to use it. So here's where I am now.

If I had known how to program myself, I wouldn't have had to rely on a team to build the product. I've come to the conclusion that if I really want to innovate in this field I'd better damn well know how to code. I'd like your opinions on the best preparation for someone who wants to build front and back end in mobile. I am considering doing a CS post bacc BS degree, but I know there are other ways to learn as well. My background and education are in marketing and international relations, so this will be new territory for me, but I'm excited to dive in. Anyway, what do you guys think? Do a 2 year BS in CS from Oregon State, learn to code with something like Codecademy, or something else? Thanks in advance for your feedback.