skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>fuck getting paid; I'm doing this (making music) because I love doing this. It shows passion, commitment to their craft, and a true level of artistry.

And it also shows that they're either already successful, already rich, or somehow able to avoid any kind of steady expenses. I'd love to do research in software. I don't care about making CRUD apps over and over, there are tons of things I'd like to experiment on and I bet at least one of them would end up benefiting others. But I'll likely never get to do any of this stuff because work demands the monopoly of my time and my wife and kids fight over what's left.
Nothing... probably those votes are from older guys just clicking in everything.
Your response seems credible, and I'm glad you brought this to everyone's attention. It's just one more reason I think we should get the hell out of Afghanistan. But please don't submit misleading titles.
I hate to be that person, but I'd have liked some of those testimonials to include music students and teachers.
Biggest problem that I wish someone would address is usability for mobile. About 1/3 of my time on the site is with my phone. Trying to select the Comments link instead of the article link is like playing Operation. Same for upvoting.
I added "may" to try to make the headline more accurate, but this isn't just a paperwork deficiency.

There are many other contractual clauses which aren't always correctly documented (no sex trafficking, DBA coverage, etc.), none of which people really make much of an issue about, because they generally don't happen even when the documentation is absent. Deficiencies clauses to prevent money going to Taliban is an issue due to the numerous cases of this before the 2012 NDAA; deficient paperwork in these contracts is much more likely an indicator of pre-NDAA operations continuing, and those were shown to be contributing materially to the Taliban.
I've used a minimum font size of 16 for years in Safari, and boy does it break most layouts, mostly because of the size mismatch with images.

Hardly anything remains usable - I had to install this extension to go along with it: http://www.cerimorgan.com/products/zoombysite/
Ironically, Mt. Gox appears to process vastly more transactions far more reliably than Magic: the Gathering Online itself, with its infamous lag and regular reboots. But hey, if Bitcoin crashes again, Magic is a great platform for speculators:

http://ark42.com/mtg/pricehistory.php?q=Sphinx%27s+Revelatio...
on the ipad text that is too long for one line is displayed partly in the next line, intercepting with new line text, and it is making me sad
Possibly these 15% are the ones who really care.

One of my professors told us on the first lecture: "I'm not holding anyone here. The course I'm teaching [information theory] will be practically important to few of you. I don't need anyone here who does not really care. Don't distract and slow down those who do care. Go now." About 50% of audience walked away.

I didn't. It was a good, fast, thick course. Those who did not attend used books and mostly ended up with B's.
Requires JavaScript while the current site doesn't which is an automatic black mark in my book.

Also having the comments link on the exact opposite side to the story link is annoying for me since I usually middle click the link and the comments link in succession
It was mostly that the stupid title "Contracting with the Enemy" is itself relatively context-free when linked from outside, and figuring out a useful title for the remaining characters is non-trivial. I hate sites that use anything but bland and descriptive titles for articles; the subtitle can be "cute" if they want it to be. Traditional print publications presume you're reading their articles in context within their publication.
Love it :) One minor nitpick is that the upvote arrows aren't in the same place when the post number is a bit bigger (i.e. hover over the arrow for post 9 then 10).
Quebec's case is rather their laws regarding contests, lotteries etc.

Basically any contest from outside Canada won't give a damn about working all of those rules in (if it's even possible at all), so they are simply banned from essentially all international competitions of this kind :)
This is a redesign of the front page, not a functional clone.
Gmail > Settings > Accounts and Import > Send mail as > Edit info

Then untick 'Treat as an alias'.
I remember having the same issue with 'via ...' and I think doing this did the trick.
84 people over 90 and 68 less than 10 at HN, shows honesty :|
Header? It's because it's Arial Narrow. It's one of those differences that's fairly subtle (like not a completely different font family) but different enough that it completely stands out, so obviously, the worst.
I'm 24, and come to think of it. I haven't really achieved much that I hoped to achieve by now when I was younger.

I wish I could turn back the clock to the last 7 years and get right to what I really could do instead of wasting my time at College[1] and chasing useless dreams.

All the best youngsters and to those that made it cheers. And for others like me, stay at it. We'll never know when lady luck will smile upon us.

[1] Went to an Engineering college in India. While the syllabus was pretty good for a CS student, the teachers sadly were the worst. This is one of the biggest reasons why I believe innovation in Education is long due.

By contrast, the US Higher Education system is pretty decent compared to what I experienced in India (vicariously, i.e.,).
On small pc screens the number of comments for long rows overlaps the number of comments in the following row.
I mostly agree with you about segregated infrastructure. But something going over 50KM/h belongs on the highway with cars and not in the bicycle lane.

Sure, it's dangerous, but how much worse is a velomobile with a flag than a motorcycle or scooter? Lots of people drive those. (And lots of people die on them too...)
That only proves that the domain was used for something else in the past. So what?
Well, in magic circles the game is often abbreviated as MtG, the t usually being lowercase because many people don't capitalise "the" when writing out "Magic the Gathering". (even though the WotC themselves do capitalise it on the cards). Whether this proves anything I leave up to the reader.
I'm not that surprised , this is still a relatively new industry. Ask this question again in 20 years and I expect you will see a much higher mean/median. (48)
>There is no capital nor wealth creation to speak of; only as much money as was put in. While somebody may buy a bitcoin for $1 and then sell it for $200, no value was added in this process, so it is simply a transfer of wealth.

So like 90%+ of what the stock market does then?
Total coincidence: I registered zeroco.in last week. I was planning to use it for a lightweight bitcoin client I'm developing. What should I do?
Is mailto down?
Myself and a friend sitting next to me are unable to open any mailto links on our computers. Is it just us!?? Or is mailto down?
Add some deep cycle batteries and you have a nightmare.
Link before edit: http://archive.is/3i48g
Mails forwarded to gmail.com are still on Google's servers, isn't it? And they can use it for their data mining if they want. So, I decided against forwarding.
No one has beaten http://hckrnews.com/ in my mind.
At least they acknowledge the problem these days and claim to take care.
Yup. Luckily there are good methods for choosing the bandwidth:

http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/labs/cvl/pirl/vikas/Software/optim...
Actually, that's not a bad price, considering that they get to use the outlier every time they need to justify not providing service to remote customers.
Spamassassin does quite a good job at spam detection. And you can configure its aggressiveness to fit what you prefer.
A few criticisms:

- Zero-indexing the post list is cute, but I don't think it helps with clarity.

- On a similar note, you've made the ranking a lot more visible, whereas before it was information I largely ignored. I'm not convinced it's actually important information

- I prefer chunky triangles to thin arrows to signify upvotes.

- By moving the secondary post information (points, author) to the side, it's become less clear that it's not part of the title. I'd increase the typographic contrast here.

- Number of comments is probably the 2nd thing I look at after the title, having it over on the right makes it harder to visually associate the comments count + link with its submission. Zebra-striping could help, but I'm not convinced having it on the right is a good choice.

- You've dropped the ability to flag posts, is this deliberate or an oversight?

Overall I like what you're trying to do here, but obviously any changes to the design are going to be a hard sell.
I've been using the Hipster News chrome extension to make it look different and it's been quite good so far.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hipsternews/midncc...
It looks similar to the DesignerNews website,
This looks like it would break completely on mobile — http://luz.lu/nhnm.png.
Secret chamber under Old Faithful drives eruptions
You want to call it Mount, because otherwise people will say 'em tee' which sounds close to 'empty', and that has negative connotations when talking about money.
Which JVMs support proper tail calls? Doesn't this violate requirements of the JRE?
mailto is implemented by the client side application (typically browsers). So whatever app you're clicking them in may have a bug, or the mailto link may be malformed, or your mail client is ignoring the call.
Do I answer Yes because it's hosted by gmail.com or No because I'm using my own domain name?
In my 20's I've done a lot of web design for about 5 years. After 2, maybe 3, years I could "see" the colors and their nuances in the hex codes. More interesting was the reverse lookup, seeing a color and visualizing the hex for it. Fun times. Not sure I still can do it...besides the most obvious ones. But then I was not bad, about 90-95% accuracy ( measured on the deviation of the light/color wavelength ).
Don't forget the disappearing a the reply button does in chrome.
forever in sign in page
Ditto. Unread comments count is a godsend.
Some straight-to-the-point feedback on the design:

The font could be bigger/wider; the white on orange on the "top-bar" (what do you call this?) looks weird.

Also, on a wide screen and with the browser window maximized, the number of comments information is very far apart from the title-author-time. I have to move by eyes from the left to the right part of the screen to see this information. I noticed that that distance is adjusted by the browser window width; I would recommend to set a cap on this distance.
My initial impressions are:

1) it's harder to visually skim down the page looking for interesting links because the row spacing is too high. The background being white and the text black also doesn't help this. Softening either the font color or the background is a common trick to making things feel more comfortable.

2) clicking into the comments being way over the right is something of an anti-pattern, infact all the information placed to the right of the post title/link is far less useful than the link to the comments to the point where the user that posted it and when it was posted is entirely irrelevant to me yet logically due to the position has higher priority.

3) points should be on the left as the up arrow and points are implicitly linked in a functionality -> data relationship.

4) the margin between the left border and the index number and the other margins is jarringly inequal. I'm guessing it's double due to the way you've specified margins.

Similarly the margins that create the leading between the rows on the first (and bottom margin on the last) and subsequent rows has an unpleasant inequality.

5) the uneven baseline (the HN in the logotype and the K) in the header over-emphasises the height of the font used for the title and links in the header and gives the impression that it might not all quite line up when it does.

6) also in the heading the kerning is too tight for the size and color choices of the font which makes it feel more blurry and rough than needed/intended.
I'm imagining a preprocessor now that requires you to prefix all language keywords with their French equivalents in a larger font.
A Year Later, Instagram Hasn’t Made a Dime. Was it Worth $1 Billion?
It's open-source, man.
I did not changed any copyrights or licenses.

Btw, I was impressed with what I saw today morning and just wanted to share my impression with other guys.
I meant his request specifically. To make it public, or have a public alternative.

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So? All governments routinely seize domain names belonging to their respective ccTLDs. ThePirateBay just got .gl seized, and I believe .se will be seized soon too.

In any case, there will be someone having jurisdiction over the domain name. The TLD will fall under, most likely, the US' jurisdiction, so they'd still have seizing power. If it doesn't, then whatever organization, and, through that, country it's based in, will have their own laws, and their own seizure policies. And the laws will most likely conflict with some other country's laws.

This is completely beside the original point that was made, though. Nowhere in the original comment I replied to did the author mention jurisdiction or seizures.
I don't really care about a redesign, but my god I'd like collapsible comments.
Russia to spend $50 billion on space research
> Sure, they could and they should, however I think TSoD might have dampened the community's efforts of improving and updating the free and more official 'Django Book' when it really needed the work.

TSoD was the effort of two individuals: they can spend their time how they like. I also can't blame them for wanting to make some money back on their time, given that writing a technical book is a non-trivial exercise.

It also takes a completely different set of skills to write a "beginner's book", which is really what the Django Book is.
FWIW, the nickname of Mark Karpeles (the CEO) is MagicalTux, and we used to call him "MT".
I remember a friend making a similar comment about EVE online: you set people loose in this anarchistic, libertarian blank state, give them a few years, and... turns out they'll band together into gangs with leaders, that develop into communities with formal governance processes; neighbours helping each other out grows into insurance syndicates....

We've already seen people wanting an authority to compensate them when their bitcoins are stolen; bitcoins are meant to behave like cash, but an FDICed bank account is much more useful than cash for most people. That said, as long as the full feed remains open to anyone who has the spare compute power/disk space and wants to connect up to it, there's still a big difference from the existing financial system.
The OP spends a lot of time on the licensing issue. They complain that they cannot be licensed as an electrically-assisted bicycle and in some places cannot even be licensed as a moped.

Not licensing as a bicycle means that it must use the road and cannot use bicycle lanes and also means that a driver's license is required to use it.

Which seems totally reasonable. These things move at 50km/h+. They would be a menace on the bicycle paths and belong on the road. I also have no qualms limiting them to people old enough to get a driver's license.

Electric velomobiles have a speed and safety profile similar to a scooter -- they should be licensed as one, and be required to follow the same laws as one.
Thanks. I'm on chrome with gmail - and (I think) my mailto links used to work!!
"RSS was just not that good of a technology"

What was wrong with it? I mean there were problems with the twenty slightly different versions, or whatever, but they were solved by Atom. What do you want in open content syndication that wouldn't naturally build on Atom?
Yes but I keep trying to slip tormail in.
I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.
I remember my Motorola StarTac phone, which I fancied as Capt. Kirk's "communicator," and it's follow up a few years later - the Razr - was a definite improvement, so I fully expect a Star Trek type computer in the not-too-distant future.
You're in for a treat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a6xtg0auyk
Kohl confesses to euro's undemocratic beginnings
Since the competition is being held by a company outside of Quebec, do they need to abide to these laws at all?
I'd like the following in HN:
1) Keep not requiring JS
2) White background; the low-contrast design of HN is one of the things I hate secondmost
3) Move upvote/downvote arrows, article title, submitter, flag, etc. apart, so someone using an iPhone/iPad never hits the wrong thing.

Ideally, also make actions like voting revocable, and show my current vote for confirmation (e.g. if I've upvoted something show me a highlighted upvote arrow which I can select again to remove; don't just disappear the arrow.

You also would ideally support the "special" HN functions -- e.g. when YC sends out questions to an applicant, it might not be seen if you never use the "real" hn site, so a reskin might be an issue.
Trading platforms evolve depending on the needs of the marketplace. It is not like there are plenty of existing trading platforms that stand in line to trade bitcoins. It is not as if there hasn't been similar issues with other trading platforms. Remember the Facebook IPO issues, for example..

If anything, MtGox should be congratulated for executing a wildly successful pivot.
Presagio di una III Guerra Mondiale. Nel frattempo noi aspettiamo…
A beginner’s guide to building botnets—with little assembly required
No it's not. a) I lived in a society that did precisely that, and still does it to an extent, and b) go watch Persepolis.
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Ditch patterns and show spontaneity
Whether we are aware or not, most of our actions follow well-defined patterns. In most of the situations we already know how to. . .
Does deleting a Google account also remove non-public data that you haven't openly shared, such as search records and Android-related GPS data?
Projects, projects, projects. In my opinion people need to have successes to get going. "Hello Worlds" and theoretical stuff is useful of course (well, not just useful, you need that!), but I saw many people learning to code without actually solving problems. People, who knew how to do things but never had a real success other than some smaller homeworks. These people could never meet with problems they need to face when developing real applications (version managements, logging, or even getting answers from the Internet).

I would suggest the same as the others wrote before - teach some theory, create a few simple stuff with them, and let them learn :-)
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Email isn't private unless it's encrypted :)
Failure Is Always An Option
In a few decades, the majority of accounts on facebook or g+ would belong to dead people, if they were not cleaned up. A strange thought.
I'm 45, and started programming professionally only 15 years ago or so. Am I counted among the old ones? ;-)
AppSurfer now support native code and Google Maps
Or LastPass. Or if you're in the Apple ecosystem, 1Password.
That would have been rather ironic
As Eastern European I am a little bit satisfied that even reasonable Canadians do stupid things.

Still I hope they will reconsider this law.
I think the non flashy design of HN is a feature. eg. hilariously unstyled login page. It means people need to use their brains to realize why all these people congregate here : for the content and discussion.

If the site is altered to make it easier to post and comment faster then I am guessing the quality of conversation would go down. Currently you are aware that the comment needs to be well written and not frivolous. Anything about the interface that makes it faster to read and comment will move the usage in the direction of frivolity.
Nice graphs. It would be nice if the categories had the same colors across graphs, to enable comparisons.
I think the problem is going to be visibility. You're going to be really low to the ground and somebody looking over their shoulder/looking in the mirror might miss seeing you. At which point you are sideswiped and dead.
Too bright?

A little off-topic, but I've just discovered Hacker News 2 [1] for Android, and I love pretty much everything about it (except its icon perhaps). I love its sidebar menu, that some of Google's apps use, too, and I hope it becomes a default way to do menus in Android. And I also prefer its "greyish" background, which I think is much better for the eyes than simply a white background. I strongly recommend everyone with Android tries it. It even has a "night mode":

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
So if one person is worthless, his garbage would be called garbage-ception!!
It goes the same for websites. I used to have my blog on a tumblr subdomain until I wanted to move it to my own domain and hosting. You just can't do a 301 on a tumblr post.
If they transfer $500 over to buy some computer hardware parts on newegg but can only get a mouse pad by the time the transaction takes I think they'll care less.

BTW, it's "could not care less" as in "I could not possibly care less than I actually do". If you could care less that would mean that you do care. Sorry, personal pet peeve.
Amusing that the pattern isn't perfect because of his legitimate git commits adds noise.
In their interactions with Quebec residents, apparently yes.
If I never heard of Amazon before and then saw this page, I'd think it was a scam without ever looking back. It looks like another Get Rich Quick-scheme with the obvious gold "Tens of millions of dollars" as first words on the page. That text color also has a goldish tint.
Seems like a ton of new accounts would represent increased demand, sending the price up, not down.

What am I missing?
I'm 13!
Sex and Our Psychological Needs
I'd love to read a PR piece mentioning "yeah, google does some shitty things. Google+ is obnoxious. Some of the stuff happening with youtube is obnoxious".
Even more annoying is that Mt is one colour and GOX is another. To me this implies there are two shortened words in the name: Mt and GOX.
And Mt can easily be thought of as Mountain.
Not really true. A quick hack that does two things (evade moons and kill queen) provides already some interesting chaos. Look at my Ripoffs (only 1 match in ladder right now, but wins with the #6 pretty consistently). As people develop some better bots, evading moons will be less and less noticeable part of their behavior. Especially if some of those will be open sourced too.
I recently moved to Hushmail. In fact, the only thing I use Google for anymore is search.
I enjoy stories like this that capture the mindset of the era. It was a different time, and very close to the iron.
True. I need a good API to hook into in order for it to be functional. Maybe that could be another project, if anyone wants to help with that. :)
Freelancers: any wishes?
My team and I have been working as freelancers for over 10 years now, and we have now formed a startup to create a software that will help the workflow of the freelancers. There is a little teaser video on www.powerlancer.com which can give you an idea on what we are working on.

Our goal is to build a software that can help the freelancers in every aspect of their work, help them become much more productive and save them a lot of time.

However we are very curious about your opinion and feedback! What are the main challenges you face as a freelancer? What do you think is holding you back the most? Is it finding new clients? Or dealing with the current ones? Not getting payed on time (or at all) after the job has been done? Or is it something else?

We want to create a software that really makes the life of the freelancers easier, so any feedback is much appreciated!

Thanks!
That matches my experience as well. I've never gotten more than a 3x speed up by doing a straight numpy->C rewrite on actual real world code (actually doing one right now, and I've gotten a 2x speed up after my first pass).