skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there's a bias against funny and amusing comments, and I think it's appropriate. The internet is an inexhaustible source of mildly amusing, even fairly funny stuff. There's a limited amount of room on the HN front page, and it shouldn't be wasted on humor of the quality that can be found in vast quantities all over the internet.
The rider list is the only missing feature that I had expected to find.

Seems that there are two areas to cover: who's on Twitter and what are they saying. As for who, definitely add more information but consider grouping the riders for context (by nationality, team, specialty, recent/upcoming races, etc.). Consider adding a text box to suggest another rider.

And as for what they're saying, a sort of "mute" button would be nice; Burke Swindlehurst is funny but a little too prolific. Perhaps allow the posts to be grouped by rider. That way Dave Z fans won't miss his infrequent posts, such as "Raced through a town called Bonar today..."
is there a cliff's notes version?
Anti Aging - Get Rid of Wrinkles and Laugh Marks Within 30 Days 
There was a time when Wrinkles were all over on my Forehead, Neck and Under Eye dark circles.
That was the first time when I realized, why there was so much of buzz regarding anti aging in the recent times. At that time, I had no Clue about the Resveratrol and Dermapril.
You know how it feels, when you see yourself with those deep laugh marks and a forehead with very fine yet deepening wrinkles? Then I saw Dr. OZ explaining about Resveratrol and Dermapril on CNN.
I was impressed with his words and decided to give it a try.
Yes, Facebook has refreshed their design at least once (and I'm pretty sure twice) since this.

"We're not cool enough" is a pretty awesome customer service position to take, if only because they later added IE6 compatibility. It would come across as dishonest and passive-aggressive if they were using it to badger their customers into upgrading to a better browser.
It is not just geeks who need to have a lot of abs open in their browser. There are a lot of jobs that involve gathering lots of information, and a lot of that (intranet as well as internet) is accessed through browsers there days. Add to that personal and work usage, amusement etc.
Ha thanks, I probably didn't but that's a nice touch :-)
Oh yeah? Your mom.
What's wrong with denying access to private and undocumented API calls? They're private and undocumented for a reason - if there is something you need to do that the SDK does not support, that's Apple's problem and they need to fix it. Using private API calls to hack around the problem just causes problems later when the implementation inevitably changes.

Hell, this is the whole problem with Windows and why it's so screwed - it's gone through years of lazy hackery with people invoking undocumented APIs, to the point where removing these functions is causing high profile software to break in nasty ways. If anything I think they need to add deprecated API calls to the list of banned things in new software - that's another thing that's holding Windows back, the fact that perfectly recent software is still calling ancient, long-deprecated API.
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For buying food check out local salvage food stores. I've worked a tiny bit at one, and my mom uses them a lot. You can save a lot on high quality food.

Don't let the name scare you off, salvage just means that other shipments are better suited to retail. The reasons the retail grocery store sent back the shipment range from cans being dented to one jar being in the same box as a broken jar and getting water damage on the label. Or the food could be nearing its expiration date.

Since the food is being returned to the warehouse, some bad food occasionally slips through. But most stores are very good about checking for expired or bad food, and nearly all problems with food quality are very obvious as long as you check the date.

Food quality can be very good. If it is being run as a health food store, you'll basically be getting some of the food from places like Trader Joe's and Wild Oats for bargain prices. The stores are also good if you want to buy bulk ingredients. Variety is usually good, but selection isn't. Since the stores are at the mercy of other stores for their produce, you can't expect to find a specific brand in a store at a specific time. And you also can't really expect to find a product in the store just because you had previously bought it.

Salvage stores might not be for everyone, but they can save you a lot of money on high quality food. Some food may be selling at or below wholesale. So it is at least worth checking out.

Here's a list of stores by state. I have no idea how accurate the list is, but I recognize about half of the stores in my state.http://www.frugalvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97055

Or you could get involved with an farm coop. I have no idea how it is price wise, but I think it is cheaper than a grocery store. The food is locally grown, and can be organic, so it is usually high quality. How a coop usually works is that you pay them a flat fee every month and they send you seasonal produce as they harvest it.
Sounds to me like the product of many years of evolution with many developers working on it, and all that at a large company. Working at a large company myself, I see how these messed up pieces of code / specifications come into being every day.
If you're in California, salary NDAs aren't binding, mostly because they're totally illegal.

A lot of people make a lot of noise about California being very business-unfriendly due to taxes, etc, but it's very employee-friendly due to things like disallowing most non-compete clauses[0], disallowing salary NDAs, etc. To balance that, we are an at-will employment state.

[0] Unless you, yourself, are a trade secret. Which is pretty rare.
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They won't put out a netbook....

I'm wondering if this same argument wouldn't have been used if Apple's results were to go the other side?
Exactly. What version of Photoshop dear HN reader was your first? Think about all the features that have been added since then and how hard it must be to maintain even a modicum of backwards compatibility.
How much does Regsoft charge you?
>> "but I just don't see why you are so focused on headcount as the measure of business growth."

Because that's the commonly held definition of "Not a lifestyle business" :/
It works for me in Google Chrome (though you hope it would). I'm continually astounded at what can be achieved in Javascript... Will have to have a look at the source tonight and see what I can learn.
Details Of The New OAuth Security Vulnerability
It is primarily about the taste, not about the cost. You are to understand that she willingly spends lots of time in the kitchen and would get satisfaction out of making better tasting bagels, that just happen to be cheaper. I'm rather happy with the fact that my girlfriend insists on baking our breakfast cereals herself.
Continuing your musical analogy, a "discussion" without disagreement would be like a musical piece in which every instrument played precisely the same notes and every singer sang precisely the same words at the same time. In such a circumstance, the presence of additional people is largely irrelevant.

A sequence of arguments going back and forth between two people, on the other hand, are essentially the back and forth of a duet playing separate themes (that, ideally, mix at the end). While certain sorts of arguments are non- or counter-productive (analogous to internally discordant themes), the possibility of such things occurring does not imply that this mode is not superior to single-view discourse.

The fact that discussions center on points of disagreement is not an accident, and does not imply that there is not agreement regarding most things. Disagreements are simply the portion of a topic around which someone believes that there is more information that an outside observer should consider when formulating their beliefs, whereas when there is agreement no further information is necessary, so there is no value in transmitting more signal.
Motorola A3100 Unlocked
The Motorola A3100 known as the MOTOSURF is a gorgeous and elegant mobile phone with a curved edge design. This simply stunning handset comprises a large 2.8 inch TFT touch-screen displaying up to 65k colours with screen resolutions of 240 x 320 pixels.
Rate my startup: TeamPages.com
I've been running TeamPages for a little while now, but I'm a recent Hacker News convert, and would love a little feedback on the site. TeamPages brings the web to amateur sports teams. We've built a platform that allows sports administrators to manage and connect parents, players, and the teams they play on.

TeamPages recently released a few features around statistics hoping to get our members more engaged, I'd love to hear other ways to get our members even more active on the site.
the advisory is up now

http://oauth.net/advisories/2009-1
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is on top of numerous search results, so I do think facebook.com/... is viable.
A Comprehensive Guide on Anti-Wrinkle Creams
Aging is a natural process, but the aging of the skin can be delayed. Anti aging products and treatments are plenty in the market which promise a youthful skin. You have many food supplements, medicines and the huge range of anti wrinkle creams. The Anti wrinkle cream has taken the market by storm.
Can I correctly summarize your comment as: "in Python, tail recursion can be considered premature optimization"? In which case I would agree, but wouldn't it be nice if you could 'annotate' specific functions/methods as 'this one is tail recursive, please optimize'?
Come on. If you disagree, comment. Don't just blindly downmod. I'm not even saying one is good, one is bad. I'm explaining the commonly held definition of 'lifestyle business'.
Is Modern Society Ruining Childhood?
Eff wrote a couple good articles on taxing music.

Collective Licensing Good, ISP tax bad: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/monetizing-file-sharin...

A Better Way:http://www.eff.org/wp/better-way-forward-voluntary-collectiv...

Their opinion is basically to create collecting societies. Listeners would pay a monthly fee and get the legal right to use all works by member artists, irrespective of format or distribution method. Artists could choose whether to join or not.

They are saying it would work because it has precedence, and most users would be willing to pay a fair price. The society will be encouraged to charge a fair price by the fact that not doing so will encourage piracy. Fines and legal action will help the societies from non-members.

I think that the general idea is good. I might be willing to pay a monthly fee if I got unrestricted access to music.
I think you're talking about exceptions rather than the rule.

>> "unless the added body brings in far more money than they cost."

Basic common sense. I never said hiring people who cost more than they produce was a good idea. Obviously it's not.
I get the same thing with the text version. I refreshed 20 times and only got 1 that was faster (and only 7ms to boot).

But if you try this in a non-IE browser:
http://demos.digg.com/stream/imageDemo.html

The image demo performs amazingly well! I wish there was a timer for that one but its extremely fast.
I doubt that there can be serious (programming) discussions in reddit anymore

There still are discussions I consider worth my time to read, for example: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8dsxr/is_there_...
CORRECTION TO THIS BY AUTHOR: There is a timer, it just waits until all the normal images load (and I was too lazy to wait). Upon refreshing, the MXHR stream was 10.3x faster on my FF.
"Session fixation" is an old web vulnerability. This is a very slight twist on it.

Session fixation vulnerabilities happen when web applications (most often J2EE applications) honor session IDs presented prior to login. After login completes successfully, the app mistakenly recycles the session ID, instead of generating a new one and discarding the old one.

Attackers exploit the vulnerability by creating landmine pages that coerce users into logging in to sites with predictable session IDs (like "000000"). Once the trap is set, the attacker simply probes the vulnerable application waiting for session "000000" to become valid.

The attack here simply substitutes "OAuth Request Token" for "Session ID". It's otherwise almost identical.

You have a Twitter account, and use Tipjoy. You trust both Tipjoy and Twitter. You want Tipjoy to send a message as you over Twitter. But Twitter doesn't fully trust Tipjoy.

OAuth solves that by creating a weak relationship between Twitter and Tipjoy. When you ask Tipjoy to act on your behalf, Tipjoy can ask Twitter for a "Request Token", which is the moral equivalent of a session ID. Tipjoy passes the token to you, and asks you to take it to Twitter. You present the token to Twitter and authenticate. The Request Token is now hot; Twitter will honor it (specifically, Twitter will allow Tipjoy to "upgrade" it to an Action Token, which is like a logged-in session ID).

The fixation attack is simple; Alice is the good guy, Mallory is the bad guy. Mallory gets a Tipjoy account. Mallory gets Tipjoy to give her a Twitter request token. She then creates a landmine page that gets Alice to present the token to Twitter. Eventually Alice (or someone like her) does. Mallory now owns a hot token.
I'd like to work in a tent along the beach within laptop, wifi and a counter then in the evening turn it to an cocktail bar
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Or to prove the poster's point.

It's not like your choice is either upvote or downvote, you can just leave it alone.
This is probably happening because the same point of fact is being repeated multiple times and you seem to be skipping over the point.

As a rephrase of the statement I was originally going to put:

Why do you not seem to believe that headcount is merely a side-effect of business growth?
CW11 ran false story without research, files copyright claim to save face
Pirate Bay's judge biased: Member of copyright organisations.
Lazy loading seems more efficient to me for this particular use.
The Maturing of the Implicit Web
If you find something that can fly and it has feathers, while everything else that can't fly does not have feathers, then you should give feathers slightly more plausibility as the causal reason for flight.
I'm not sure that it will settle anything. Even if you built a brain that functioned identically to a human brain, one can never prove that the brain is experiencing/creating consciousness. It could always be argued that the brain is just mimicking function but lacks subjective awareness. Since we have no way of measuring consciousness even in a human brain, how will be prove that a man-made brain is conscious.
It was not a statement of direct equivalence and I stand by the comparison. Do you believe that animals have a lesser capacity for feeling than children? Their is intellectual capacity is at a similar level. Doesn't it make sense that they have the same capacity to feel pain as a child? Where do you draw the line at being OK with causing extreme pain to other beings?

We where surprised to find that we shared so much DNA with other animals and it seems likely that we will find that the neural processes have a lot in common as well. My guess is that we will find that animal consciousness is much like our own with an obviously reduced inferential capacity.

The comparison with slavery is valid in the sense something that was once considered normal (or more likely 'unpleasant but convenient/necessary') can become abhorrent. There were probably a lot of people who knew deep down that it wasn't right but it was so convenient. In the history books those that promoted slavery don't tend to come off so well. The difference now is that the pace of change is faster and our lifespan may also grow considerably.

As for the term 'torturepreneur', I thought was an apt response to the title.
Paint Fence, Cut Wood, Pull Weed - Finding Geek Balance Outside My Comfort Zone
I understand the rationale behind such things, but my feeling tends to be that salary NDAs are basically unfair; they boil down to a way to reward people who are better at negotiating. The promise a salary NDA makes is basically

"you & I have cooked up an agreement to increase your salary more than those around you, and this NDA will let us avoid the social awkwardness that would otherwise result."

(and the implicit message is always "more than", whatever the facts) Meanwhile, of course, you'll always be looking at your colleagues, wondering how much more than you they might be making.

Unless you're working in an environment where negotiation is a part of the job, then I don't see why rewarding it makes any sense.

Of course, there's nothing to stop your better negotiators going and finding a better deal elsewhere - but I see no reason why "better negotiatiors" equates to "better programmers", and there's always going to be some reason why some of your employees might want to move on.
This article is another approach to the same idea expressed in this article from a day or two ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569131

These kinds of comments about how our technology is "good enough" and will thus slow its evolutionary pace seem eerily similar to proclamations from a few decades ago that there would only be need for a few computers in the world, no computer would ever need more than a few kilobytes of memory, etc.

Do you need a 50-core CPU with 512GB of memory to run Firefox? No. However, it's a mistake to assume that tomorrow's technology will be used for the same applications as today's technology. Faster, cheaper, smaller, cooler, more efficient hardware will enable entirely new uses for computing that we can't really see right now.
Personally, where humorous posts are concerned, I upvote those that also have content (regardless of whether it is actually funny), leave alone those that are funny without content, and downvote those that do not have content and aren't funny. Sometimes, though rarely, I also upvote posts not relevant to the topic but which I find hilariously funny/clever, because a good joke is a hack all by itself.
Scott, chill, it was tic. I'm sure that you have a sense of humor, but you didn't get my joke, apparently. You see, the thread is asking why HNers have no sense of humor, and... ah, screw it, it loses it if you have to explain it.

The erlang articles were mostly very interesting, and seeing a HN meme flare up and go away just as quickly, especially one that is self-deprecating in poking fun at the stereotype of the HN reader doing everything pg says, was very fun. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it.

The only kind of noise that I really hate on HN is the "hacker news sucks" crap. If you think it's too noisy, get better filters, or help out by flagging the articles that violate the TOS, up-voting the articles that are good, and ignoring the rest.

Complaining about HN in an HN comment is frankly just humorless.
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If it turns out to really be slow and you want to/have to stick with PHP, you could speed it up with the Strassen algorithm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm
YouTube - Using Influence in Understanding Complex Systems
The modern solution to that is RSTP, or somtimes, similar proprietary protocols. It also works on arbitrary networks, not just ring topologies. We use RSTP for failover in tunnel control and emergency systems here in Norway, usually arranged into hierarchial ring-like structures.
That's a tricky one isn't it? I think the same things that make for smart and creative give one a good sense of humor, but you have to actively self-censor yourself to make sure you're really limiting yourself to things you really find funny and not just 'hah hah'. Of course, tastes differ too.
I did, thanks. Their engineering blog seems important enough to them that they care how much traffic it gets from StumbleUpon. They are getting hurt and they are doing the blocking.

Imagine I said "Why Genius.com's Blog's Blocking of IE6 is Hurting Genius.com's Blog", if you like.
IBM puts Oracle to the sword with EnterpriseDB | The Open Road - CNET News
It didn't change the whole world just a little bit (which is what most people mean by "change the world"); it changed one tiny segment of the world—webapp programming—a lot. I think that's even more laudable.
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So your hypothesis is:

* Company grows profits
* Company decides to spend profit on head count
* Profit goes down

Why do you believe that's the case? Any hard data?

I'd say it's more usually

* Company makes profit
* Company invests in more people
* Profits rise, company grows.
MySpace had "vanity" URLs from day one. For free.
This doesn't seem very special. Where I live, you could put a pay-as-you-go SIM card from O2 (the iPhone's network, so no unlocking needed) into your phone and add "unlimited" internet access for about £7 a month.

I don't have an iPhone, but I buy a £10 (~$15) top-up monthly, which gives me 300 free SMS messages. Then I use £7 of that top-up to pay for the monthly internet add-on. I have £3 left for calls and other random usage and if I need more, I just add more that month.
I hate to pile on here,but...
I think the parallax here is that axod may be equating headcount with income diversification. i.e. More people mean your company must be expanding its interests or avenues.
Income diversification, and the headcount increase usually (necessarily?) associated with it is probably a better metric for the "Lifestyle" moniker.
Chat rooms for Free Fun
People spend thousands of dollars to amuse themselves through various fun activities, bars, discos, movies, picnics, etc. However, people’s life style is changing drastically or it is being forced to change by the unviable economic environment across the globe. We are not able to spend as much money as we were used to on amusement activities because while we try to cutback even on our essential expenses. Layoffs, job loss, job insecurity etc., put us through tremendous stress and at the same time leaving us with very little or no money. During such stressful times, we look more for outlets that will relieve our stress. So this situation puts all of us in a kind of fix.
The long answer involves a lot of talk about how it degrades the site.

The short answer is that since people, last I checked, were animals who joked, and computers were made for people, not the other way around, the site should support joking and flag/hide jokes appropriately depending on user preferences.

I'm okay with it either way. I don't think of the humorless nature of HN as being some huge asset. In fact, it makes the place stuffy and overly earnest. Dare I say artificially boring. But I understand the reasoning behind the community's standards. I just think like everything else there is a proper mix in life. Finding the right mix for a social site seems to be a critical factor.

By the way, humor doesn't completely go away. People still sneak it in here or there. You're just forced to follow it with something of value to the conversation. This eliminates the hit-and-run snarky one-liners found on so many other sites.
I, for one, do not notice the number of votes next to a story. As long as it's in the top 150, if it looks interesting, I'll read it, if not, I'll skip it.
Arghhh man
u just ruined the moment for me.... I thought finally we were one step closer to a better world.