skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By merely signing in on the Linux beta you got a tux hat for TF2. Adoption would have been pretty heavily affected by this.
You guys know that you can unfollow people while staying friends on FB, right? I personally enjoy 90-100% of the updates on my wall thanks to unfollowing everyone who regularly post rubbish. I wish Twitter would allow it too!
Both GitHub and Google signins failed for me and I lost progress in the first section. May just be the work network; I'll try it at home.
Practicing journalism in its most authentic form
To be pedantic, he lost a lot of weight before he lost his ability to eat. After his initial cancer diagnosis (and treatment), he went on the Pritikin diet and lost almost 90 pounds between the diet and weight loss from treatment.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2004-08-29/online-extra-...
Facebook is some form of advertising. So don't be skeptical, be certain.
I haven't looked at AppEngine lately but I believe you cannot run Rails on it. It has its own proprietary service and API that you have to write against. It's not like EC2 where you pretty much can install anything and do whatever.
I'll be honest FB is blocked at work so I couldn't read the OP.

That being said, I would imagine this is an optional thing..
A lot of young people look at his scathing wit and try with varying degrees to emulate that. His hallmark, and one of the fundamental sources of his scathing wit was his integrity. If you're careful about writing/saying what's true, and if you're doing it because writing/saying what's the truth is your motivation, then you can be great like he was.

If you're just after attention and want to be known as a scathing wit, please sit down, pipe down, and refrain from adding to the noise.

Basically, if you do it, do it because you have something to say.
I have to disagree with you. This will make standardized testing worse, not better. With human grading, the humanities managed to avoid (to an extent) the extreme standardization of what should and should not be taught. There was still room for creativity. Now the type of writing that cannot be graded by an algorithm will get even less room in our curricula. Goodbye to poetry, satire, and other creative endeavors.
"(Although resetting a default once you've chosen it could be made a lot easier)"

I imagine most customers reset the default simply by uninstalling the new launcher. The way through the app settings is really well hidden.
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A snarky description would be travis-ci is to jenkins what github is to sourceforge.

Travis-ci definitely has limitations (no windows support, limitation to 15 mins for build time, very difficult to have it installed on a local network), but if it can do what you need it to, it is the best solution I have seen.
Now you're just trying to make me look silly!
Maybe this is a very stupid question, but how do you convert bitcoins to cash? Sure there are people/sites that will accept bitcoins for domains, pizza, etc. But lets say you have 100k in bitcoins, how do you get 100k in cash?

There must be a way. "Man Tries to Sell House for Bitcoins" [1], how is he ever going to get his money back?!

[1] http://mashable.com/2013/03/22/house-bitcoins/
Install lxc package and you have pretty much everything you need to creat Linux Containers. Check out this part: https://help.ubuntu.com/12.10/serverguide/lxc.html#lxc-admin
My manager is one of the best human beings I've ever met.
I have a great manager.
I like my manager.
I feel completely neutral towards my manager.
I don't like my manager.
I have an awful manager.
My manager is one of the worst human beings I've ever met.
I don't want to comment about my manager in a public forum.
I have no manager.
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The great thing about him, to me, was his unabashed love of movies; and all he wanted to do was share this with his readers. He introduced me to the work of Werner Herzog, and through that, a whole huge world of movies that I might not otherwise have seen. Thanks, Robert, and RIP.
You can't hide an inner element, or completely change the way it acts just by making something "fluid". Making things fluid and using that to make bulletproof modules is a good first step, but it doesn't do everything we need it to do.
Change the sqrt call to use the sqrtf32() intrinsic. That's the modification we made to make nbody fast.
Well, there's still a pain point there. To change it back to the old way you have to go to settings, then hit "Apps", then scroll to find the home screen app you no longer want, then hit its "Clear Defaults" button.

There's never any text that explains "this will let you choose a homescreen again", or really anything that will help you know to look for the Clear Defaults button.
Hmmm, I am a big fan of Addison-Lee cabs, a firm that runs its own fleet, and well, just turns up. You can have an account or pay cash, they turn up, will drive my dad 30 miles into town or me 2 miles across.

They basically have been a severe competitive threat to local mini cab firms in London, and, well, no-one sued, they just upped the game or got out. I have not got into a cab recently that I did not book on the phone and where cabbies have a sat nav, a smartphone and never use the radio, just get jobs from their dashboard.

Is it just me being a bit astonished that it seems only one firm in the continental USA has thought "I know lets be better"

P.S.

An (ex-) Londoners perspective on your other points are amusing - every cabbie wants to be paid in cash, they are famous for racisim and and you will never get a taxi south of the river at this time on a Friday mate)

But the system works. As an infrequent New Yorker it seemed to work there.
"How about the thousands of jobs they also created ?"
-> This was true in the past with big corporations,huge number of jobs were also created. But, now a days, even this is not true. Eg. Amazon Warehouse Automation, Automation in industries, etc. People are losing their jobs. In developing countries, as simple jobs are getting replaced by machines, many lower class are finding it even difficult to survive. The big enterprises are doing much more harm than the value they are creating. And yet I see people dreaming of making it big just because of our greed. What is good about big?
Looking for recommendations to add to my home gym, which currently only consists of an elliptical, mat, pull up bar, push up grips, a couple of exercise balls, 3 and 5lb barbells.

What is safe to have at home? I want to avoid a resistance machine or similar, mostly because they look ghastly, and secondly seeing so many on CL leads to believe they are more hype than health.
Yep, I use it a lot, actually.
What would be the purpose of "following" someone on Twitter if you don't want to read what they say? Genuinely curious; i'm not a Twitter user, but AFAIK the "following" relation there is unidirectional (i.e. you don't have to follow people that follow you).
PS, one more: for those of you who know Jay Mariotti (sports "commentator - all around ass), Ebert's note on his way out was brilliant:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20...
This is awesome! On the flip side it looks like this release comes with zero documentation.
Ask HN: What's it like to fire someone at a startup?
Can someone who's fired or been fired talk about the experience? Do these scenes often turn ugly? What's the best way to go about it? What does it feel like for both sides?
Ah, interesting.

File system access isn't blocked completely:

__import__("os").listdir("/evaluate")

open("/evaluate/test.py").readlines()
it looks like you get one year from announcement of deprecation: https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/terms (see 7.3)

Compute Engine also isn't really in the same realm of worry as App Engine, for some, at least. Most of what you're getting is immediately migrateable if it's going to be shut down, as opposed to app engine, where there are some migration paths to similar stacks, but no flip-a-switch path to converting existing code and data to a "standard" stack (at least from my understanding. I haven't tried compute engine).
I've been running and getting lunch with a LinkedIn employee lately, I definitely know what you're talking about. The thing is, those people are all out on Shoreline and more or less isolated. What bothers me is that most of the younger startup people like me are usually in PA or head up to the city first chance they get.
"This future is going to happen – and it is too late to debate. However, the problem is that Facebook is going to use all this data — not to improve our lives — but to target better marketing and advertising messages at us."

A little sensationalized? It's most definitely a strong mix of both sides, not everyone at Facebook is "evil". Honestly I think most of us can agree Facebook on average is useful service that has improved our lives. So yes it will probably help target us, the product, better to marketing/advertising.

As more and more promising services get absorbed or shutdown maybe it'll get clearer and clearer that if you dont want your data to be the product itself then we should start paying for the services we care about.
An interesting article on exactly how they do it, since machines are not quite ready to make these sorts of decisions:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9118778/The-d...
Gmail outage
Did any one else just experience a miniature gmail outage? or was it just me?
there's nothing experimental about Python 3. its a stable release version and I think its already up to sub version 3.3.

HOWEVER, there are many important 3rd party libraries that have not yet been migrated to be fully compatible with Python 3. these libraries are far more important to writing real applications than the ability to use some newer syntactic constructs in Python 3.
I don't think it's a matter of insecurity. In the decades since vim was released, we've made drastic improvements in UX design that have made computing much more accessible and intuitive. (And we're still moving forward at a rapid rate — just look at the stuff that people like Bret Victor and Chris Granger doing!) And yet, so many programmers are adamant on sticking to 20th century editors and obscure key commands, even sometimes (sometimes!) at the expense of usability. I don't think it's particularly offensive to wonder why such old tools are still so popular, especially when for most people the thinking part of programming is what takes the most time.

Additionally, your tools shouldn't define you as a programmer, and yet I often see people getting shamed for using an IDE instead of vim/emacs/whatever.
The Android issue is entirely caused by shitty drivers. Pretty much all mobile hardware after the original iPhone fully supports OpenGL ES 2.0 shaders which haven't changed since inception.
He's referring to Facebook-- there's a feature where you can still be friends with someone and not see anything (or just some things) they post. It's good for obsessive Farmville/Words with Friends types to hide that activity.
you need to think about this more. If at one end, some industries are getting automated due to technological advancements, it is also creating a new set of industry where you need to hire. Sure if there aren't enough warehouse jobs, people will find something they can fit in. Like I said, don't look at it as a zero sum game.
It is awesome to see a company put their money where their mouth is, the good will with the dev community they are building with this will easily exceed the costs of fighting a troll in court.
I've been digging through talk show clips with the duo on Youtube. There are some good ones, but really, if you have a similar impulse, save yourself some time. Just watch Red Coat Black Coat's retrospective, a little commentary, but a lot of just clips of their interaction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFPMlnc2Zm8

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXk3N8EvnWc&feature=youtu...
"If your workplace is one that you wouldn't feel comfortable with a quick flash of anything that might be on Facebook, you shouldn't be on Facebook."

Quite a few people use Facebook at work. Theoretically Facebook wants to keep them as customers.
How solving a real pain makes us already $1000/month, even before the big launch
Sigh... I have to agree with you. I should mention that I will be looking for work as a media composer. Copyright and royalties come into play, adding complexity to the contract.
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I say no need to overcome your philosophy, and you can be highly successful without the rather silly idea people have around the need for competition.

Cooperation, symbiosis, or whatever you want to call it, is a higher good than competition.
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Ebert and Siskel did a show on gay cinema back in the early 80's that treated the issue seriously, without snark or contempt. I saw a video of that episode a few years ago and my respect for both men increased dramatically.

http://www.ebertpresents.com/episodes/episode-208/videos/269
Can anyone explain if it's possible for this patents to just go from one company to another? Like what's is stopping IP Nav and Parallel Iron from just creating a new corporation and transferring their IP if Rackspace succeeds in this lawsuit?

Seems like they can just start shell companies in order to avoid being counter-sued.
I like that this is a first world problem.
Thanks for all the great feedback. It's awesome to see how much everyone likes the site.

I was the designer and Nick Kwiatek (http://nkwiatek.com) built it. Elisabeth Carr wrote the content, Peter Jordan and Nate Salciccioli made the videos. It was definitely a team effort and feels great to be able to share it with everyone.
http://mtgox.com (currently being DDOS'd)
or https://btc-e.com/

These exchanges will convert your currency to/from BTC
How do we as customers know whether a pricing posted by a company is viable or not? What is the criteria for viability? Someone didn't get his bonus because of growth not meeting target? Or the engineering budget has blown up passed expectation?

It doesn't mean those will not happen again.
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Right, cause pre-Home Facebook was so respectful of people's private lives...
Me too. For me it would be called 'Facebook Homely'.
How is that cynical? Facebook's primary product is data mining. You are what they're selling. Not your content (directly, at least.)
> In actuality, it is a bit more complicated. Our dealings with this particular troll reach back to December 2010 when IP Navigation Group (IP Nav), as agent for a supposedly secret patent owner, now known as Parallel Iron, accused Rackspace of patent infringement. IP Nav told us that they could not divulge the details of their infringement claims – not even the patent numbers or the patent owner – unless we entered into a “forbearance agreement” – basically, an agreement that we would not sue them. IP Nav was worried that as soon as we found out what their patents and claims actually were, Rackspace would sue to invalidate their patents or for a declaration that Rackspace does not infringe. We were unwilling to enter into such a one-sided agreement, so we negotiated a mutual forbearance agreement that required either party to give 30 days’ notice before bringing suit.

That's some shady shit right there.
Thank you for your reply!

I had written one vaguely similar to yours but ended up not posting it because i was seething with anger.

I just don't understand how so much vitriol continues to bubble up on HN posts like these.
It's basically a Facebook branded home screen. Instead of the regular home screen with a bunch of icons to launch different applications, the home screen is now essentially a Facebook application. There's also some stuff to access Facebook functionality (chat, etc.) while using other applications.
It's pretty easy to state that on Hacker News. It just takes a few keypresses.
I train on a fingerboard mostly, and climb outside quite a lot during the season (which around here is basically April-October). If you are a relatively experienced climber with good movement, then fingerboarding is the secret sauce.

Some other training ideas: your finger extensors are extremely important and making them stronger will improve your contact strength (somewhat paradoxically). There are many exercises to improve them.

Also, work your entire hand, not just contact strength. I strongly (haha) recommend Captains of Crush grippers. They don't directly translate to climbing, but they will make you stronger and balance everything out.

As for a specific fingerboarding plan: google "Eva Lopez".
Bug Report: I'm afraid this crashed between the Moon and Mars, just as some "you are travelling" text came in on the LHS and then it just went to whitescreen. Firefox 19.0.2 on Win7-64Home. In case you can catch it. (yeah ok so my laptop's not Linux, sue me!)
I think you're confusing social interactions and socializing, which are quite different in intent. While socializing requires social interaction, it's not the other way around, and social media feeds off of socializing.

Perhaps I'm not in the demographic either, since a majority of my call and email usage is not based in any form of socializing. Texting, somewhat more, but I do little texting, and when I do it's usually just for logistical purposes -- "meet you at 6pm at FooBar" -- which also isn't socializing.
Interactive: Stash Your Cash
The choice for 99.99% of Apple users is not iMessage vs. Cryptocat. It's iMessage vs. unencrypted SMS transmitted and in some cases retained by carriers with close relationships with FedGov.
You'll see no argument from me there. Understanding underlying mechanisms requires a degree of systemic knowledge far beyond that needed for an observational study, which is one reason we see far fewer of them. The other reason is funding. We are just beginning to understand how the brain works, and for one of the most promising and important areas of research it's remarkably poorly funded.
4% seems underwhelming given regular double digit reductions from amazon
In my opinion, this is a huge win for Heroku users, and is one (of many) reasons to use Heroku Postgres.

Not only does the Heroku Postgres service have a set of amazing features (easy provisioning, read slave creation, duplicate master creation, free backups), but their uptime is amazing and they're constantly looking out for their users.

Bringing down all databases for 60 seconds to make an enormous security patch is admirable, and it's great to see these guys helping all their customers out.

I've been using Heroku Postgres for close to 2 years now, and wouldn't look back at all. It's been one of the most valuable services we've used, +1.
Wouldn't it then be hard to be the joker du jour for long?
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The branch I'm on has already updated shootout-nbody.rs for the new intrinsics, which is the reason that it takes just 7 seconds instead of 11. :)
That seems like a somewhat poor example. When people first saw the iPad, it was quite rightly explained as "basically a big iPhone", which was completely sufficient to get an idea of the product.
There's an Apple-tastic motto for you:

All your privacy is gone. Again.
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You have a typo 'freinds' in the third paragraph
ICIJ have a nice and useful (cough) "Interactive: Stash Your Cash" too (http://www.icij.org/offshore/interactive-stash-your-cash)
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Ok, you may have point, but it also is plausible what has been said, that being an app store (like Google Play is) what you are actually looking for is not an ad profile, but a developer profile.

If I would be running an app store, I would certainly be interested in the new games/apps that are going to come out and see if I can convince the developers to list it on my store first, given certain incentives (because if I have apps I make money, so my actual target as an app store are the developers).

Notice that GetJar does not describe itself as an add network but an app store of some sort. If they are indeed an ad network, this behavior is somewhat expected, otherwise...
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Oh yeah, it's not a question of "user that doesn't want to be social", I'm sure their stories are more centered around "how to enforce social behavior and destroy the concept of temporary isolation and privacy in this particular demographic".
It's called humblebragging. Without the millions of people looking to find unique experiences to "humble brag" about Facebook would be very boring and wouldn't be as successful.
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The problem is that you're triggering the media query off the window's width still, and not the parent element's width. So it runs into the same problem mentioned in the article.
If this is a problem for you, then don't use it.
Makes me think they implemented a password logger on login. Not just a database leak but a complete compromise.
It would be awesome to see this trend continue; I wouldn't mind seeing big companies suing patent trolls for every possible misstep available.
While we're complaining about the faults of media queries, allow me to add my largest perturbation with them: As a user, I sometimes want the "full" site when I'm on my phone/tablet.

With media queries, it's essentially impossible to let users choose their format experience.
One problem: Essay quality, and that of writing in general, is subjective.

It's possible to assess objective properties of writing, but it cuts off the top end of the spectrum.

Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he has not got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark.

Grade? F. Author: Joyce. Importance: Inspired Gell-Mann's naming of the quark [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark
Interesting, patent trolls have reached the level of public relations foil. I think its great that Rackspace is suing these guys but I found the press release made me feel like I do when somebody is trying to impress me with all of the charities they've donated money to. Mutual forbearance agreement? Seriously? Why not sue them right then and there when they foisted that bit of "strategy" on you and charged them with criminal extortion?

My reasoning is like this, either you infringe or you don't. So the patent holder can say "We believe you infringe claims x, y, and z on patents q, r, and s." Or they can't. So if someone tells you infringe but they won't tell you the patent or the claims, and they are threatening to sue anyway, that is a protection racket and actionable under the RICO statutes as far as I can tell.
I like to have my friends on Twitter so I can shoot them @ messages but as soon as the number of people I follow goes above around 100 the signal to noise ratio turns me off. I don't have the time or the interest to read all of that to find couple of good tweets. I'm a light Twitter user due to this; I assume creating lists can help.
I just want an app that actually makes me the person I appear to be on Facebook.
And I'll bet if you were around thousands of years ago and invented fire you'd have forseen guns and rockets and given up on fire....
Thanks, pushing a fix.
Didn't the Microsoft Kin also integrate as such?