skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope over the course of this next year you become jobless and blacklisted. I do not even know this guy, but YOU ruined his life, not the people that fired him. You acknowledged it yourself that a twitter firestorm erupted demonizing this man. THAT firestorm was started and fueled by you.

Facts are this:You are a joke, you will amount to nothing historically, your mark on history will be as a woman that ruined the lives of three children supported by their hardworking father, you are a social media tool, dongles-computers-n' forking-oh my!

I honestly hope the tone of this story begins demonizing YOU over the next few days and weeks. Furthermore, I wish Hank the best, you have learned that there are @$$h@t$ like Adria in this world and to avoid them at all costs. I wish you luck Hank. Adria, well you already destroyed your reputation, LOL, you do not need my help.
$.remember (a new fork of the popular $.cookie plugin)
I like that design style very much. But I agree that "flat" is not the thing that makes these great.

The design looks modern, is a old-fashioned 1920ies style. For me it looks Bauhausish.
I think you guys will pull through in the end, but your communication is honesty bewildering.

You guys are still:

* Waiting until the last minute (after they've been waiting a week!) to tell people their accounts have been flagged as 'high risk'

* Not updating your blog with problems as they arise

* Being completely untransparent about the obviously-a-lie "24 hour rolling limit".

* Letting emails about people's already confirmed bitcoins being locked into your "wallet" go unanswered.

* Generally being completely opaque about both what is going on, and why people are getting flagged at the last minute.

My recommendation: charge more for your services and fucking hire some people to do some damage control--AND BE TRANSPARENT. It's great that you are in the reddit threads, and now on here.. but for the love of god, you are pissing EVERYONE off. There are people falling over each other to be your "customer support specialist" or whatever you were hiring for the other day; have them do some friggin' support.
Google is a data company. They stand to gain very little from offering a "passive" service like RSS - there just isn't much interesting data in the user experience for them.
> These companies are now turning against those who made them what thu are. Worst is that they turned against us, the hackers.

All your examples are in the past, except for Takeout, and I would no more put much money on that surviving in a full-strength form (if at all) for the next 10 years than I would Blogger or Keep staying up and active.
Google's Flawgic Strategy
because it's mnml you know ... minimal my a\\ . Same thing happened in Techno a few years ago , now everybody's back to loud hot Electro. Skeuo. will be hot again soon.
Wait a minute. Y Combinator funded a fucking BitCoin startup?

f is Fonz/YCombinator, w* is water, and S is a fucking vicious shark.

Frame 1 (before funding a BitCoin startup):

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Frame 2 (decision to fund a BitCoin startup):

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Frame 3 (after funding a BitCoin startup):

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That's because they have more money. You have to pay for the necessities, and then you can save. If you're making near minimum wage, you won't be able to save much.

Also, those investments, like stocks and rental properties, transfer wealth from the poor to the rich, generally.
Ubuntu to become the official OS of China
The files on my Google drive are actual files, which I proved to myself by disconnecting from the internet and viewing them. Maybe there is a problem with a specific Google app?
"Many others would like to see it". It is the question of our times.

The question of our times, by the way, is answerable with the search box at the bottom of the page.
Still, most people are not going to know what the heck a "feed" is. They know what Twitter and Facebook are, but they don't understand finding an RSS reader and using it to follow somebody's "feed".
Those are all launch-like announcements. Is that what you were trying to show.
It's not the RSS reader. It's the open publishing ecosystem.

Most clients point to Reader as the central feed aggregator. Most publishers point to Feedburner as the central publisher.

Google seized the commanding heights with Feedburner and Google Reader and captured all the publishers and the clients, and now they're killing the ecosystem.

http://www.zdnet.com/embrace-extend-extinguish-how-google-cr...

I don't see why they couldn't have integrated Reader into Plus without killing the ecosystem. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn are moving into news aggregation, and Google is killing a successful news aggregation system.

I don't understand their strategy, but it's seems sort of like, we want everyone on G+ and we don't care how heavy-handed we look or how early adopters feel, and we don't want an open ecosystem that people can use to pipe content into Twitter and Facebook.
Why alias commands to sl? The point is for it to be triggered on bad typing.

Also, the man page is worth a look -- http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man6/sl.6.html
Pull to refresh with a twist
Out of interest, is that better or worse than you were expecting? You don't say when in 2013 you started, but since the start of the year the S&P is up around 6%, the NASDAQ composite is up 4.5%, and the FTSE All Share is up a similar amount.

Assuming you did put the money in in January you would have probably made more profit by simply investing in an index tracker.
The NYT tends to have really good articles, but some of their columnists are so off the wall I can't figure out how they keep their jobs. Being a columnists gives the writer a self reinforcing celebrity factor then they just stick around way longer than they should.
Well, it wouldn't be much of a joke since this patent makes it predictable.
I'm no fan of Google. But what could be a thousand times worse than Google?

Oh I know. Search as a public utility.
I'm on a gigabit fiber connection and these images still took forever to load. If you're going to use large images, at least use a server that can serve them in a timely manner.
Seriously? Australian here; longest interview I've had is two, but they're usually an hour long at most. There may be two rounds of single hour interviews sometimes.

(How are you supposed to take five hours out? Ask for leave in advance and hope the company doesn't mind waiting a fortnight for you to be able to show up? I usually interview before or after work.)
HDD vs SDD performance difference on Ubuntu
How does that attempt at snark even make sense? In frame 1, before YC funds a Bitcoin startup, the Fonz is already on a trajectory that requires him to jump over a shark.

Try harder next time, nascent evil 'edw519.
In a very sarcastic turn of events, I cannot access the article. Instead it shows: "This website is offline. No cached version is available"
the clock
- shows the time of the events in the list.
- doubles as a loading bar.
- "Pulls" to refresh.
Because people are squatting on all the best vowels.
Krugman is such a faux-expert, that is way overhyped. He clearly doesn't understand the technology very well, and he seems to be confusing RSS, the protocol, with Google Reader the app. And even then, RSS is not a "critical public infrastructure" that the government should maintain or whatever. It seems like he's just fishing for (more) fame/hits here, as there was no reason for him to write about this.
"Not stand in the way" works for me.
I can't figure out what you mean about the benefits of syncing being lost, because the data is clearly synced. However, I can explain the "shortcuts" you're referring to. Those are for native Google Docs, which don't have a universal representation in other applications (they're tied to remote or locally stored web state) unless you explicitly chose to export to another format. Whereas Microsoft's SkyDrive is just raw MS Office Documents.

The tradeoff between the two is that with Docs you get real-time editing and collaboration, but if you want a real local copy you'll need to target a specific export format. Whereas SkyDrive always keeps a local copy, but it requires you to explicitly save and resolve conflicts if you want to collaborate with another user.

Of course, if you want to you can just use Google Drive as a dumb file syncing mechanism without real-time collaboration or online editing. You just don't use Google Docs and tell Drive not to convert files to Docs on upload.
Well, this forces you to type 'ls' again, giving you another chance to see the awesome locomotive! ;)
Google would buy them, like they've bought many such companies before (YouTube, DoubleClick, AdMob, DejaNews, Zagat, Frommer's, etc).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
If you'd rather run a script than a vm, check out:

https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahoomessages-grab
FYI: Krugman is a Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who is quite otherwise famous.
Clojure - Hosting Dependencies on S3
But the claim is the butter also makes it predictable, since "toast always lands buttered side down".
Using machine learning to predict March Madness
I assumed that was for using Google's web apps offline. Did you verify the files on your hard drive contain something more than a link?
Just because Cypress is going to shit doesn't mean that moving your money into BTC is an awesome idea.
My Galaxy Nexus has fallen around 10 times now, it doesn't even have scratches. It does fly apart every time, though.
One could use a shell alias, a function or something similar for that.
Tuning Ruby and Rails for Discourse
I just installed it on my Raspberry Pi. It's in the Raspian repository too!
Show HN: Use your phone to present slides on any screen
I've also made the image available in all regions, for those who want to run in additional regions:

N. Virginia: ami-2400984d
Ireland: ami-d8d2d8ac
Tokyo: ami-a361e1a2
Singapore: ami-6e703c3c
Sydney: ami-4e0e9f74
Sao Paolo: ami-9d7aa180
N. California: ami-94f6dbd1
Oregon: ami-cf9206ff
> since I could have edited it myself.

You can limit the potential damage by publishing a hash precommitment of the archive; then later if you need it, you can provide the archive itself, let others verify that the hash matches the archive, and then any 'edits' could only have been made before the hash was made (which might have been many years ago, whenever an issue or scandal pops up which motivates a look into the archive).
3310 were amazingly durable, I remember them surviving the worst abuse, like throwing across the room or from the 1st floor. then they released a marketed as shock-dust-water-proof 5510 (? or sth like that) which I promptly bought and it got broken the first time it slipped out of my jumper hitting the wall.
DrawMusic connects drawing with music
It's a rewarding way for children to learn drawing, numbers and create the music as a result.
Meant for young children but entertaining for anyone who's into creating on multiple levels.

Core team consists of Estonians, German and Italian. We all met each other first time just on Friday and working around the clock to deliver the app by Sunday afternoon.
I'm cynical, not evil.

I like what Paul Graham is trying to do, and I don't actually think one obvious bad call constitutes "jumping the shark". If terrible, stupid decisions constitute shark-jumping, then I shouldn't have any limbs left.

However, I strongly dislike Bitcoin (obvious scam) and don't know why YC would gamble its reputation in such a degenerate way as to associate with it. Also, I felt the world could use some crude ASCII art.
Much of that traffic of course, is people searching for solutions to problems with the database they already have.

So rather than showing popularity, I suspect that chart actually ranks databii in terms of suckitude.
Why Legal Experts Say It's Okay To Kill A Civilian Hacker In Cyber Warfare
This has got to be a joke. Just because one company decided to shut their RSS client, the 'RSS industry' is now abandoned ? Tell that to feedly who just welcomed 500k users [1]. These were users that relied on google reader. RSS as a standard / service is not on square 1. It is inadequate in some ways and ATOM was supposed to fix that and was never really adopted as well as RSS. There are tons of aggregators out there that use RSS (and ATOM) to get all your news in one place. Use another client and move on.

1 - http://mashable.com/2013/03/18/500000-google-reader-users-mi...
Silk Road (eBay for anything illegal) & how it's disrupting the drugs trade
Based on some of the things I read on her blog and here, it seems like a mix between "developer advocate" and "forward sales". She mentions something about listening to developers talk about ridiculous hours, demands, etc.

It's a clever position for a company selling to other technology companies. First they send a person who cares about your time, who speaks your language, who advocates for you - no, who evangelizes you. This person is trying to unite the developer community, bring in fresh faces, embrace unrecognized communities... this person cares about developers. Next they tell you that, although the industry really needs to change, product x can ease your life in the meantime.

My last position was at a education startup. They used the same tactic, only instead of "evangelists", we sent former professors and teachers who were simply consultants. Their ability to gain traction in schools depended on their importance in the community -- hence, they give talks, blog about the educational issues, etc.
I know what it looks like, I coded it. Both buttons exit the game immediately.
Several groups tried to salvage as much of Geocities as possible before Yahoo killed it. They got most of it (about 1 terabyte) and you can fix most geocities.com links by changing them to point at reocities.com instead. The main reason is that it's user data and deleting it is rude. Second is that you can do interesting analysis on a terabyte of user accounts during the boom of the internet. http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/3297 The third is that it's history! NSFW example from geocities http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/2736
He has an interesting point, but he assumes the outrage by the high intensity users is proportional to the perceived value. In fact, they're just making news; they need to generate content, and this is something that requires no research, just a vitriolic rant. I suspect if we had a good way to measure 'willingness to pay', many of the loud complainers would suddenly end up in the 'low intensity' bucket. Less high intensity users means less network externalities, which comes back to my original point that the whole phenomenon is all smoke and no fire - lots of people complaining about the loss of a service that isn't terribly unique or widely used.

He does describe interesting models/theories, but I don't actually think they're relevant. It seems cheap and link-baity.
Well, the people the shutdown affects are also the people most likely to write articles. Everyday people may not get much out of Google Reader, but neither do they follow hundreds of sites looking for a good story to write like journalists do.
I just heard the show on TAL, and while it was interesting, some aspects grated, particularly the one about learning disabilities. That part of the show is going to end up as a proxy for all kinds of mental disabilities, making it sound like these things not only don't exist, but when they exist, they don't matter.

I know some people on disability who have mental issues. Some had developmental problems, and some had strokes, and some have mental illness, and there are other situations in between. They aren't employable, at least not easily and full time. The reason is that as the economy has shifted to a service economy, the service jobs, which used to be considered "kick back" or basically low stress, have become high stress. When the profits of the business depend on the service workers, the stress falls on the service workers.

That stress is either around increasing production of mentally produced product (I'm sure programmers here know this), or of producing a positive psychological experience for someone else. For example, the people working in retail have to be nice. They can't be grouchy and talk shit to each other like people used to when they worked in factories.

Maybe Joffe-Walt hasn't really thought about this, but within the class of sit-down jobs, the ones she has are not the common kind. There's variety in the work, and a huge need to "think outside the box". Even the stressors have some variety to them.

Most service jobs are about forcing your mind into the box, and handling the same stressors over and over. These are easy on the muscles, but rough on the mind, and the mind, as we sometimes forget, is a manifestation of the brain, an organ in the body, subject to being overworked and injured.
Oh! I have a suggestion for Wordpress users: Try WPSocialite.[1] I put a slightly modified version at mightygodking.com. I should send that mod upstream...

[1] http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wpsocialite/
IIRC, Coinbase has a founder and an engineer, which doesn't excuse non-responsiveness, but is probably the reason. They're probably hard at work trying to deal with this problem, and haven't prioritized support or notification of affected customers. That might have been a good choice if the fix only took a few hours, but as it's dragging on a bit, it's probably better to take some time out from fixing it and communicate with customers.
One of the issues in the multi-device world is that you want to have some kind of sync across those devices. From what I can gather, this was one of the most useful features of using Reader as the backend and I can't see how to replicate it without having some kind of central server.

This is a more general problem and (I believe) it will become more important in the coming years.
Software glitch wipes out listings of 10,000 eBay sellers
One thing that strikes me about the piece is that it reads like actual Journalism. Yes there is opinion and point-of-view, but it is mixed with historical context, real comparables and quotes from actual industry people.

A lot of the so-called journalism I see today is fact-free, thinly-sourced advocacy posing as news. Its nice when writers do a bit of legwork and put some meat on their reporting.

Disclosure: not associated with ZDNet or Ed Bott. :-)
Google Docs IS way more convenient, way less setup and feels faster... also, most of the world does not use LibreOffice
Wait, what? Is the Fonz heading towards the shark or not, Michael? I and many others demand to know.

I don't like that YC blessed a Bitcoin startup either, but I like fatuous snark even less.
http://www.puppygames.net/blog/?p=1307
Sure, no one is disputing the fact that rich people have more money than poor people. For many reasons the rich get richer at the expense of the poor, the OP was noting one of the reasons.

Another is that the tax code incentivizes making your income through investments, something unattainable for people who aren't rich.
If your money is in Cypriot banks it's already too late, but it turns out in retrospect that it would have been an awesome idea a couple of weeks ago. Arguably nobody could have known that.
I had the same experience multiple with my Blackberry curve, back in the day.

Using a conservative estimate, it survived over 30 break-apart falls. Granted, I was exceptionally cavalier with it since it was even at that time (2009) a relatively old piece of hardware the company just couldn't wait to get rid of. I would literally play catch with it, toss it around and spin it on my desk like a top. Every time it shattered, I would re-assemble it like humpty dumpty and it would boot without issue.

That thing was indestructible.
The "Dark Knight" quote of "You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" seems apt here to be honest.
Thanks. Didn't bother watching the video either and was slightly annoyed they never mentioned in the text. (Again, sensationalist title, and probably a cheesy video. But maybe I just woke up with a bad mood :))
Someone who (most likely) isn't a developer but works to get developers who don't work for the evangelist's company to like said company.
>Nobody relies on it to get to work so they can feed their children

I don't think anyone uses that as the criteria of what should be made public. People rely on car companies and grocery stores to get home and feed their children, but economists aren't fighting to make those public. And federal parks are hardly critical infrastructure but I don't know many people who complain that they are public.

The article is written from a purely theoretical economic perspective, it's not a real proposal, so it's worth addressing it from that perspective. Krugman's argument is basically that there are certain products that add global value but cannot exist without people being forced to pay for it. Many economists - not all - agree this is a good criteria of what should be made public (infrastructure and research would fall in this category). It's hard to imagine that web services could fall under this, but I suspect a lot of people forget that the internet is still in its infancy and companies like google have been able to subsidize loss-creators through insanely high profits. That won't last, google is already scaling back, and the result may be a global destruction in value.

(To be clear I don't want to see things like google reader made public for idealogical reasons, and I think you and most people are the same way, but I think that's out of the scope of addressing Krugman's point)
I love this stuff. Programmers at my office had a Robocode melee competition that ran every week for a month. Grand prize was an extra vacation day. It was so much fun I started working on a JS version thinking it would be a good learning tool for JavaScript. I dropped the idea about a year ago but now I want to pick that back up again. Here's an example view of where I left off. The battling javascript even had a function for taunting and responding to hits. http://www.jellyrobotics.com/2013/01/16/code-wars/
Accessible webs sites do not just help a small subset of users.

Accessibility helps all users.
Haha, yes that could be a nice way to rephrase it. Even though this would mean DB2 should then probably be first on the list :-)
I don't think it's fair to call Google "evil", but maybe I'm cynical because I spend a lot of time reading about banks, insurance companies, the mainstream media, walmart, lobbyists, drug companies, private prisons, garment factories, weapons manufacturers, gun dealers, patent trolls, the recording industry, and so on.
He's not just a columnist at the Times, he's the only columinst at the Times ;-)

http://krugmantimes.com/
That convention is for company names that appear in headlines of stories.

HN is a news site, not a customer support forum for companies funded by YC, and in fact the site guidelines explicitly ask that it not be used that way:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Strictly speaking I should have killed the post entirely, but that would just have inflamed conspiracy theorists further.
Academia actually shot itself in the foot when most of its luminaries decided that teaching was commodity grunt work, with research being the real stuff that determined a person's career.

Research is important, but if you don't go out and teach people how to use what you discovered, they'll write it off as irrelevant, abstract wankery.

This led (among other things) to society's reduced investment in academia/R&D, and MOOCs are throwing their "teaching is just a commodity" ideology right back in their collective face.