skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Well, I go to a lot of the same pages every day, so I very much want to continue whee I left off, but not necessarily to start playing media at once.

you know what I'd love (all you enterprising Chrome plugin developers): let me view and manage my open tabs through the same sort of large icon interface that appears on the New Tab page. I wouldn't mind being able to organize my bookmarks that way either. I can't understand why nobody has attempted to do anything different with the bookmark interface for years now.
Thanks! I didn't see that there were more pages at first (Page 1 out of 16). It could be highlighter better.
Also: https://www.khanacademy.org/ (don't know how I forgot this one!)
Three words: Stack Overflow Paywall
No it's not a stretch. It's accurate.

Everything from basic cancer therapies to stem cells to the human genome were invented / discovered / cracked by US money. And it's a very, very long list that covers most types of advanced drugs and therapies in some form or another. Growing organs? Pioneered by US research. Robotic surgery? US money.

It is however true that a lot of US medical costs are tied up in labor, namely healthcare workers and administration. Nobody wants to talk about what happens when you cut costs there however (unemployment, lower wages, et al.).
Here's the thing that gets me. It's not the media describing things this way. It's us. We're the ones blowing this all out of proportion. The New York Times didn't describe it as "like nuclear bombs," the CEO of Cloudfare did. They're just quoting him.

And I hate to say it but you're doing the same thing. Where did "millions in property damages or service disruptions" come from?

A DDoS is an irritating annoyance. It rises to the level of a bunch of jerks who decide to climb up and rewire the traffic lights to be continuously red and cause a traffic jam. You can certainly arrest them when they do something illegal, but why does that require us to make them out to be a bunch of evil masterminds hellbent on causing a nuclear holocaust or financial Armageddon?
Going through a similar thing (except I was a former founder of the startup). Grellas is my lawyer, highly recommend him as a thoughtful attorney who is not just a rubber stamp.

You can email me at mraiqensame@dunflimblag.mailexpire.com which is a temporary address that expires in 24 hours.
>> "by only loading tabs" and then "the only tab"

So, Firefox opens tabs or tab (as in juts one tab or many/all tabs)?

Because in my case it opens all the tabs and if there were 20, it opens all. Even though the last time I opened them was 3-4 hours before the browser was closed/crashed.

update: I had missed the point. Thanks @thirtian for clearing up.
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Good bug to address but who allows Windows to power itself up and install updates unsupervised?

Not a good idea.
I think that the lack of patience refers more to dislike of redundancy - to an experienced programmer (including present-day OP), the repetition in that code seems absurd; there simply must be a way to refactor it into something simpler. We go out of our way to make tools that automate repetitive processes, we have principles like DRY, etc. Once a problem is solved it should stay solved.
My real regret after reading this post: my early code is lost. Git didn't exist. Maybe SVN did but I wouldn't have had a clue.

To my genuine amazement, the company I worked for immediately after leaving college is still using a program I wrote for them seven years after I wrote it. When I left, they said that every company operation was going to be covered by SAP- weird how that didn't work out...

But still, it was written in VB.NET (!) and was a horrible, horrible mess. I would love to take a look at that code now, but I'm afraid that if I contact them they'll hold me responsible for updating it.
"I love Github and Stack Overflow – for code."

I've been starting to question this recently for Github. Github does let anyone put up code, but there's little curation (the stars give you a rough idea but don't let you really drill down to what is really useful and what was starred because someone did a show HN), which means there are plenty of not-so-useful projects and projects with questionable licenses (no license specified = trap)
Then Stack Overflow would be the Expertsexchange of 2013
I switch off my computer before going to bed. Never wakes me up.
Why reasonwell's is a strawman argument
https://coderwall.com/p/f43tyq
For better or worse, the former is what HN usually seems to be. I remember when I started using the site, I spent several weeks learning to write in the fashion of the former to avoid all the negative reactions.
DNS reflected attacks need to be addressed NOW.

The problem is getting worse every day. You can rent botnets that exploit this for as low as $5 on places like hackforums.

Authorities won't deal with your problem unless you are as big as Mastercard.

Your host will likely ask you for protection money (ddos protection is incredibly expensive) or just kick you out to protect their other customers.

The sad thing is that when people talk about it on a hosting forum, the number one response is "who did you piss off"?
I don't see what the benefit is. I do see a drawback, which is that it insists on showing me what's trending right now. Barring a very small number of major news events, I would much rather not see that. Suppose I'm watching some opera or a tech talk or searching for some new music, why would I want to be bothered by by a list of what's currently obsessing the Twitterverse?
The pitch could be shorter, but it got me to sign up.

Democratic debate seems to nuanced to be classified as For/Against. Dialog takes a back seat here as you have to drill down to another layer of for or against.

Is there some inspiration to be found in http://www.justiceharvard.org/ that might be integrated into the next iteration?

Thanks for the work.
Giving context to text (introduction)
In most cases, paying a tax-preparer to do the annoyance for you is far less hassle than dealing with both trying to get rid of citizenship, and trying to attain citizenship in another country where you would like living.

Perhaps some European country would like to start offering citizenship to anyone that renounces US citizenship, as a way to encourage immigration of skilled and high net worth individuals.
Shame he has not made the code openly available.

Also, I wonder what dependencies are required so that it does not work on Excel 2003?
"And then accepting that status quo"

Less Wrong is a place where folks try to discuss things with a high degree of technical accuracy. For example, if a respondent were to disagree with the linked article, they would try to avoid making an outrageously stupid claim such as "Implicit in this statement...[is] accepting the status quo"--which is in NO WAY implied by the article--and then smugly toppling the argument that no one made. Derailing conversations like that is a waste of everyone's time.

I imagine a world, the world I would like to live in, where people didn't attempt to manipulate disagreements or indeed policy discussions by appeals to emotion. I want to live in a world where it's taken for granted that you can advocate for a position through a calm meeting of minds. I'm an extremely emotional person and can reconcile the search for unbiased truth--which includes my actions and the polices of my communities coming to reflect that truth--with living an emotional life just fine, since emotion is not the opposite of reason that many people try to claim it is. Mainly the people I see making this claim are those who would like to substitute emotional manipulation for making a rational case.
You're getting a ..:14 because Chrome is looking for the SASS files but is unable to, due to the lack of media query in the CSS file.

Here's a prefix example your css should output:
@media -sass-debug-info{filename{font-family:file\:\/\/\/Users\/kai\/Play\/live\/screen\.scss}line{font-family:\0000311}}
.box {
..
}

Hope this helps other understand why this occurs! :)
Well...it seems like Eric Z. and the UC Berkeley Hackers@Berkeley club really can easily vote their way up on HackerNews. It's happened more than once and its not a coincidence :\
Still, amazing article and learned a lot in 5 minutes :)
This is a potential copyright/privacy nightmare in the making. Cool idea though.
Yeah. Couldn't agree more. I am interested in this topic. Since learning about the European government testing Github for policy revisions I was thinking about what it'd take to build something very similar to this. So I am sympathetic here. As someone who studied philosophy and still has a more than passing interest I could get behind something like this. But it was painful to wade through a long poorly structured rambling introduction.

For a site that wants to boil ideas down to small chunks we can fork and follow this was a really poor introduction.

And the text was borderline unreadable.
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I can't see this working in practice:

Here is how I see this system playing out in the reality of today. People will go to the main page, and they will see an argument that does not agree with their biases. They will then view the claims for that argument, and they will upvote all claims that agree with their outcome, and downvote all claims that does not. They will not actually verify each claim, they will vote based on the their desired outcome for the argument at large. This effect will completely dwarf the reasoned voting approach for any contentious issue - to believe otherwise has been to never view an argument on the internet.

The premise of this system is invalid: it relies on people being rational and logical when debating issues that they are passionate about - people are neither rational nor logical in these situations.
Wrong tools for democracy? Damn that is a very broad stroke.

Git is perfect for storing and versioning written legislation.

Unfortunately it needs:

* A beginner friendly, focused (leglisation only), interface

* (lets face it) users who are not luddites (Yes, there are some people who cannot understand even simple branchless versioning no matter how many times you explain and demonstra it).

* Legislation to be written differently (Since most leglisation in countries I am familiar with are basically very wordy plain language diff files already).

The last one is probably the biggest hitch legally and because it is probably written by people who fall into the second point.
Yeah. Great points both - don't go taking the two wrong features not the two right ones.
Bullshit. You have to understand things, and particularly understand how things work, if you want to change them without making a hash of everything. Any programmer should know that by now.

There's a very important distinction between "ought" statements and "is" statements. Getting offended is a fallacy if it causes you to miss that distinction.

In practice, if you're blinded by outrage, you won't even be able to judge what to be outraged at, and then you'll be played for a fool.
If you support a minority or unpopular viewpoint you should never, ever get offended. It's counter-productive and convinces nobody.

Getting offended only works to win an argument if a large enough group of people already agrees with you.
Why GitTip use Aspen instead of Django/Rails
Uav is still immature - customising implies a standard, whereas most customising of low level stuff is still "getting it working right"

Big new field very open

I would put more money on dirigibles than planes myself
You could also choose to make your plugins "click to play": chrome://settings/content#plug
Firefox displays the tabs in the tab-bar, but it doesn't bother loading the page until the first time you switch to the tab.

Also, pinned tabs are always loaded at startup.
I like this quote:

"I gathered from these exchanges that programmers have a perpetual competition to see who can claim the most things as 'simple.'"
I may have been a little harsh on Twitter :). I do think quite a few high school / college students use Twitter. But here's a handy metric: look at the # of people someone is following, and then look at the # of friends they have. The difference is usually 7-8x. I'd wager there is a similar differential in activity.
"Solar Wind Energy has said... that each tower would require a permanent workforce of 1,000 people." Doing what, exactly? That has to be a bogus number.
Programming IS hard. You can ask the PhD. Computer Science students at any decent college and they will tell you that they are humbled because the field of programming is so vast and wonderful and full of mystery. I think we can admit that we have discovered .000000000000000001% of the things that can be discovered at this point in the field of programming.
My first thought was "oh god this better not be random Twitter users." But it looks like you (or whoever) gets the faces with permission from the users, so it all seems okay.

All I know is I'd never give away my avatar to use on ANY site. "Hey Mitchell you were a user on a porn site?" "What?" "Yeah, blahblah.com" "Oh jesus they're just using random avatars to make the comments look real. They're fake, that's not me."

Nightmare.
Missed some haskell books, if that's your site

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1af3iw/9_best_free_...

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20130316105209238/BestFree...

and scala staircase 1st ed http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/
I make my own indexes. Example:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/41758452@N00/sets/7215763232553...
> The US taxes the poor / middle class much lower than the rest of the OECD, but the rich more

I would love a citation for this, because I believe it's untrue.
conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud

Doesn't this just mean that he submitted his fake tax return via the US Postal Service and he paid his (falsely computed) taxes electronically?
Agreed.

The reason why democracy works is because of the illusion of power - The people at the top give you the illusion of freedom - The freedom of speech, to do what you want, etc. while you have nothing of those in reality.

Ideally, you had all those right from the early man days, then someone at the top curbed you of these and gave it back to you so you would feel 'powerful'. While we all are slaves in one way or the other - We all pay taxes most of which is pocketed by the politicians (in most corrupt countries) and we read the media everyday without knowing that they sell us like a bag of chips to their advertisers and we all think we can say whatever we want on Facebook/Twitter/etc. while all of it is being actually monitored by unknown agencies, etc.

Likewise, Stackoverflow has these so called 'moderators' who somehow magically are considered superior to the average users who go on a rampage to close as many threads as possible as not constructive based on their will. If you noticed carefully, Stackoverflow doesn't have an option for the average user to report moderator abuse. Atleast not easily anyway. If some dude marks a question as not constructive, you have to deal with it. That's a poor example of democracy and unfortunately, it exactly depicts the current model of democracy lives in. If you have some politician who isn't doing his job properly, you are left powerless - You can't throw him out of power easily. The laws are modulated to sustain his power as much as possible - You need many people to support your opinion, get together as a group, pass bills, etc. which needs to be approved by another set of corrupt committees which will most likely rule in favor of the politician himself..etc.

What we need is a more open world - Yes, more open than what we're living in right now. If someone does something wrong, then they must be served justice without any delay. The current scenario involves so much paperwork and hassles that it makes it worthless getting someone to be delivered justice in time. I wish we had a system like Hackernews, but for the real world, except without the mods (who are harmless here anyway) so we can have constructive decisions directly with one another without much effort to set right what's right and to pull off/flag something that's wrong ourselves without having to have someone at the top of us like a 'moderator' so you don't live at the mercy of his bias.
Are American Nurses 50% better than those in other rich countries?

Do American Doctors cause 3 times better outcomes than others?
Okay so this is a repeat of a point others are making but this is just not a good intro. The passage is way too long and unstructured. There's no visualization. The design makes it hard to read. When I sign up you want to debate with me what password I use - look you're new, you're getting my throwaway email address, you're getting what password I give you or you've lost my attention.

But mostly - you are a site that wants to tell people - quite boldly - that you're the right way to get ideas across and facilitate debate. However this introduction is a terrible way to get an idea across - the idea being: "We have a solution for debating points in a simple fashion. That solution follows XYZ format. Why not try it and let us explain it to you as you go?"

So to the actual approach insofar as I can glean it for as much of your post as I digested - I am not convinced trying to boil everything down to true/false is that useful an approach to debating complex issues. The level of granularity you have to get to in order to break things down to a series of binary choices is just too small, leaving the big picture disconnected from the minutiae.

I was and am optimistic hearing about that European country and Github recently - first thing I thought of was something to make that process go better. I am your target audience for this. I want something like this to succeed. Genuinely. We desperately need to open up new channels for debate in democratic countries where we're currently suffering some kind of fatigue that's making everything seem out of control (and in many ways it is because our ability to debate is broken).

So, good luck with this, but at least take a fresh look at your opening pitch. It's kinda weak.
Why did you find that strange? Here in the UK I paid a similar amount for my flu vaccination
"This is serious. Though it never occurred on my computer because I use neither Windows nor Chrome but I support this anyway in the name of humanity."

In the name of humanity, wouldn't it be nice if people were in the habit of shutting their computers down, rather than letting them burn through electricity all night long?
And how is this different in other countries?
Is it possible to bring in your own data sets? It seems the more interesting algorithms would be those that merge the pure financial volume data with outside sources like news, social data, weather patterns, or other predictors relevant to individual stock prices.

I do data mining work (not in finance) and often the best signal is the one missing. Often more prediction value is gained from additional feature construction and the layering of more interesting data sources onto the problem than simply a better algorithm on the data at hand.
Someone should build a meshnet!
The key part in the article which would imply this is not a direct quote nor can I find this online message they refer to. Both of which smell of potentially dodgy journalism to me and in any case is pure speculation without an official statement from cyberbunker.
Yeah well, we don't!
Once your "user submitted" images get past a certain point, it's probably better to just get random images from Google images and crop them.

As far as placeholder avatars go, I've been a huge fan of new Basecamp's avatars[1]. Now if only there was a way to procedurally generate seemingly abstract images that form face-like structures (and make an avatar out of it).

[1] https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3104-behind-the-scenes-reinv...
So many people like this quote that I wish I had structured the sentence less awkwardly.
Some thoughts:

1. I haven't looked but I bet there's already a WordPress plugin that counts feed download stats. Or just use tracking links (redirect with a counter) in your feed--lots of services (Budurl) do that if you're not a coder.

2. It's disgusting that Feedburner feeds do not anywhere reveal the original URL of the source material. I'm glad this is getting attention finally.

3. As a user, I don't want the middleman Feedburner between me and the source material. 80% of the time you can just add /feed/ to the blog's URL and WordPress will have the original feed there for you. Even if it's not advertised--it's still there :-)
Make your own magazines in Flipboard 2.0
Well they are in stealth... so commenting on them on hacker news or in public forums would go against the whole stealth mode concept PG put in place.
Cool! I like this a lot.
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I'm not sure whether it's a good idea, but it's the default.
8. Security Considerations

To be done.

:-(
I run into similar situations whenever I restart my browser. All of the YouTube tabs I had open from before start playing simultaneously (at any given time I often have some tabs with videos paused, ready for me to watch later). It's quite distracting and takes some effort to find and stop them all.

I think a good solution for both of our problems would be to not load any of the Flash content in a particular tab if the tab hasn't received focus since the application was restarted. Once I open that tab, the plugin can load at that point and then the video can start playing.
This has happened to me multiple times.
Right. I think you're addressing a fundamental problem with all of the pleas for more reasoned debate in the US and the West as a whole - societies free enough for debate to take place in theory. As someone who ends up with way too much NPR on in the background I hear this stuff all the time with all kinds of worthy never-gonna-happen simplistic answers to what'll make debate better in society (if only Obama has lunch with Senator X then everything will be find and dandy).

The core issue - certainly in the United States, perhaps to a lesser degree in some European countries with better education systems - is that our schools are turning out people by the million with severely crippled critical thinking skills. Sure we are in the rarified atmosphere of people who are self selecting for better than average critical thinking skills, here on Hacker News. But out there in the real world, folks struggle to comprehend simple argument structures and logical flows.

It doesn't matter how many smart appealing mechanisms we provide for letting ordinary folks debate complex issues, most are simply not armed with the tools for the job.

Sure, that's an elitist argument and we can all mumble platitudes about how it's unfair to people, and come up with anecdotes about how my great uncle bob didn't graduate high school and is super smart etc. That doesn't make it wrong. Just a highly regrettable situation.
It's not only Feedburner what will be shut down, blogger will shutdown because G+ team already working on the alternative

Introducing their own blogging platform:

http://gplusproject.appspot.com/new-apps-iphone-android
Is Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain?
People make fun of this remark all the time, but the Internet is a series of tubes filled with glass...
You're assuming Google would reveal the source feed with a redirect. They could give us that information now, right in the feed, but they don't--I checked. So why would they change their policy after closing down the product?
There are a lot of people who are economically marginal but potentially rising with the tide, who suffer a medical ailment or other specific setback, and then end up essentially doomed (along with their kids, etc.). I mean, look at the...50% (? I forget the real number) of bankruptcies caused by medical bills in the US, where even poor people are essentially rich.

Solving someone's one-time problem for $500-1000 and letting him and his family get back to growing along with the rest of their economy seems anything but futile.