skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my late 30s and I hack for 10 hours a day in a director's chair from the '60s at the kitchen table.

I'd suggest getting enough exercise and standing up at least once an hour. And of course paying some attention to the basic ergonomics of where you work. But spending ludicrous amounts of money on a chair seems, well, silly.

- From the directors chair.
I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet.
New chip delivers DNA results within an hour
There's no database.

EDIT: to all the people arguing with me. Read the source code to Hacker News.

(= fns* (table) fnids* nil timed-fnids* nil)

; count on huge (expt 64 10) size of fnid space to avoid clashes

(def new-fnid ()
(check (sym (rand-string 10)) ~fns* (new-fnid)))

(def fnid (f)
(atlet key (new-fnid)
(= (fns* key) f)
(push key fnids*)
key))

(mac afnid (f)
`(atlet it (new-fnid)
(= (fns* it) ,f)
(push it fnids*)
it))

They are in memory. Which is why they expire randomly when the HN process is restarted.
Sometimes, sometimes not. You can often compress a lot of

&parameter=value
into a simple
/value/

rewrite. This - by most accounts - makes it more SEO friendly. Granted, putting full sentences that match an article title is never necessary, but there are a lot of SEO tricks that can make a url not only "nicer" looking but also shorter.
That is the (excellent) 2012 Microconf talk. This link is the 2013 slideshow.
Who’s tracking the trackers?
I'm just going to leave this right here: http://shetland.gov.uk
Secure Multiparty Communication
You'd have to be pretty shallow to think that aesthetics are the be-all and end-all of improving peoples lives (and particularly in the case of government websites where they're just a tool; people just use them as a means to an end).

Usability should be the most important factor of a government website. If it can be pretty and usable, then that's a bonus.
And to continue on this tangent, if your code is multiplying by the constant 2 (e.g. "x = z * 2") the compiler's probably going to optimize that into a shift anyway, so just keep the "* 2" to keep future human readers of the code happy.
People who try to accuse a society with generalized claims like "male privilege" get down voted because they are non-specific, non-discussable "facts", negative, and non-constructive in nature. Comments with those attributes are in direct contrast to a discussion board or for that matter, a scientific mind.

Comments that are specific, who's facts is discussable, are constructive in both identifying with facts what is wrong, and suggest solution in a scientific manner will be up voted.

It doesn't matter if its male or female voice doing this.
There's only one logical outcome: we need to introduce the !really-important marker.
A thousand times this. Yeah a great chair helps, but all too often people throw posture and simple stretches/breaks out the window.
Intel Announces Brian Krzanich as Next CEO
I completely agree with you. For this exact reason I've made this plugin modular. Which means that you can include only parts that actually use, both from JS part (thanks to Grunt) and from CSS part (thanks to Sass).
Although it's a US Territory it's pretty far from what you'd get in 'the states'. It's an island, they don't have the same kind of providers or infrastructure, something like only half the households in PR have a computer and only a little over half of those have broadband.

It's just nothing like you would have in say Florida, Texas, or another state.
That aspect often escape people. If this was too serious they probably wouldn't be writing articles about it, as that just tells others (say enemies) more information. This is looking like buttering up for a contract or new legislation.
Hmm I should read up more about the legal obligations. Thanks.

However by that definition it seems to be that if they are operating in the best interests of the shareholders they can't act in anyones elses interests if that causes any expenditure.

Obviously I'm not saying they can't act in the interests of others, but only incidentally and when it coincides with the interests of the shareholders.
Be sure to click on the embedded video. The segment by Conan O'Brien is particularly insightful.
All my ebooks have been free. I did because I like writing, it's a great way to learn and a great way to teach.

Most popular were Foundations of Programming, The Little MongoDB Book and The Litte Redis Book. Most recent is Scaling Viki.
I think THOMAS (http://thomas.loc.gov/), the search engine provided by the US Library of Congress for searching federal legislation, has the worst URLs I've seen. Here's a random one:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d113:1:./temp/~bdGqLa:@@@T|/home/LegislativeData.php|

And here's a link I got to the Patriot Act (HR 3162):

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c107:44:./temp/~c107DgA33R::
Una “Manna dal nostro tetto”. Storia di un’imprenditrice giovane
Does dropping packets matter if you're looking for hot keys?

As long as you manage to be fair in what you drop, surely all you really need is a representative sample (even 1-in-100 or whatever would do).
Most 64-bit systems have a 64-bit time_t, so this won't affect them. Some 32-bit systems have also shifted to a 64-bit time_t. But it will be an issue that'll require a lot of recompiling and patching of ancient legacy stuff.
Depends on what state you live in, and what provider you have. Two neighboring towns can have two different providers with very different rates and speeds.

I pay $45 for 30Mb/s from Charter but if I lived in the next city to the south, I'd have Comcast.
The way you end up with URL's like http://www.tsa.gov/TSA-Pre✓™ is a CMS system that replaces spaces with dashes in the title to make the URL. No skill required.
You can have a public URL for linkedin in the format /in/CustomName

E.g.:www.linkedin.com/in/barackobama
Yep there is a list of unique features on plugin homepage:

http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/

Also, be sure to check my article on the Smashing Magazine that explains how this plugin was made - http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/05/02/truly-responsi...
See also:
"Oberon Influences, Conspiration Theories" :)
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OberonOperatingSystem
Eclipse -- The titanic of IDEs.
Is Your Email Making You Sick?
What is IGP?

For example HD4000 can drive a 2550x1440 display, but it doesn't work over DVI, only DisplayPort on the integrated mobos. I've never understood if that's related to a mobo limitation (that is just present on all Sandy Bridge mobos) or if the CPU can't pinout to Dual Link DVI but can to DisplayPort?
> There's nothing more irritating....

There are lots of things way more irritating than that.
The 13" Retina MBP uses integrated graphics only.
Very neat. I wonder if Office online does the same using Bing's predictive features. It's still not the same as filling in "are ruining America" if you type "black men" though, Google docs doesn't do prediction like that. It's 'just' a way more clever spell checker. My point is that comparing Google search to Office isn't a sensible comparison to make, and the fact that Google's version of Office behaves similarly to Office, and Microsoft's search works similarly to Google in prediction/spell checking is pretty much exactly what I was getting at.

It would be neat to see prediction as a feature in Office/Docs etc. though, there's a pretty huge corpus of essays available, it'd be interesting to see how accurately a new one can be predicted.
>>This is the perfect example of everything wrong with modern web design. Instead of thinking, "What can we NOT add to this site design" designers seem to be thinking, "How many full screen images, rounded corners, parallax effects, CSS animations, Javascript effects and large amounts of custom fonts can we cram into this site?"

I think this site from Milwaukee's police department takes the cake:
http://www.milwaukeepolicenews.com

(Although that's only the news page. The actual gov site for the police department is much plainer.)
That's because engineers don't construct this image, and cultural preconceptions nowadays don't come from reality but get constructed in TV studios.
I didn't see this article the first time it was on HN, so thank you for posting the follow-up.

This is an interesting concept. We'll have to try using it for some of our forms.
Okay thank you for that, I am still getting used to putting high-quality replies and posts because I am used to short posts from social networks etc.
Men and women in the office: Are compliments taboo?
OT: Attended patio11 and Colins email bootcamp, was excellent. Had to share this.
You should've treated those incidents of assault as exactly that: assault. When adults physically assault other adults that is a crime and not reporting it doesn't make it any less of a crime. Just "taking it" means that an attacker can move on uncorrected to assault another person possibly making you complicit in another criminal act.
I haven't dug too much into it, but I met the guys from [Nutribu](http://nutribu.com/) about a month ago. They are doing some cool stuff with collecting nutritional information and supplying an API. It might be worth it to check it out and see if it's something that could be useful to you or not.
Your Body Does Not Want To Be An Interface
As someone already pointed out above this smells like a PR piece for a new 'cyber-security' enhancement project (read: hand-out) and/or legislation.
I feel like it's a step improvement, and will help people use the site.

However, what I'd have really liked to see is machine readable minutes of the council.

This is something that's a bit of a bug bear having ended up setting up a project awhile back to try and bring-out the minutes etc of the council meetings. We called it MCC Work For You: https://code.google.com/p/mcc-work-for-you/
Sadly within the confines of a hackday we couldn't get as much progress as we'd have liked.
However, as a proof of concept it was useful, and did inspire @CountCulture to go forward with his site: http://openlylocal.com/

I'd really like to see progress in this area, and the encouragement of councils to make progress with making the minutes readable. Definitely helpful for investigative journalists, as well exposing the good work of councillors.

I wonder if there's a plan somewhere for this? I couldn't find it on the site.....
You've got to go green by conserving bits. You can use up to a radix of 30 I believe in JS, so why use those pesky base 10 values when you can go base 30 with no additional overhead? Heck, use base 62 for the easily url passable values too. Just 4 chars to encode your 14M WP articles.

Think of the bits!
The site tries too hard to be eye-catching, and like other commenters have already stated, looks like the latest, trendiest WordPress theme.

Gov't sites should maybe be the opposite of this: as little art as possible and squeaky clean navigation getting you to your desired municipal information as possible so you can do what you came to do then get on with your day.

Anything else is _distracting_.

The designer and developers behind this are talented, of course, and to sell a redesign often involves these sort of hero shots and contemporary flourishes. But a bigger accomplishment would have been to pitch and win a design that is minimally invasive and efficient.
We have two in my office, and we make software completely unrelated to the domain of design or manufacturing. We recognize the value in curiosity and in engaging with new technologies, so we foster a workplace where experimentation and play are valued as part of the creative process.
Depends on what you consider a database.
It's purely a rational option. You can't blame them. It's a dog-eat-dog, zero-sum world. One person's rational action benefits them and hurts someone else.
Hey App Maker – Your Settings Menu Is All Full of Crazy
Making sense of that in linear time would be a great interview question.
I used to use a bank with a similar bug. It would send you a new password (in plain text) but any special characters would be shown in unicode. So even though the password might be:

sdi*74s)

It would be in the email as:

sdi\u002A74S\u0029

which of course wouldn't work.
But why do you want to grow fines instead of imposing appropriate (i.e. high-enough) fines on the first offence?
Maybe it would make things more confusing, but I've never understood why you can't just add extra !'s to !important and make it more important, like a z-index of importance. I can never see it getting very many levels deep, it's only REALLY for using other peoples code and overriding it where you can't get to it.
Awesome plugin! But what's up with yundex.ru?
CEO Pay nearly 1000 to 1 of average worker at many US businesses
Interesting read. Although I don't agree with all the points, it does shed light on the realities faced by recent college graduates.

Looking back on my own experience a decade after my graduation, point one is definitely true. The relationships you build in college are very important and I wish someone told me this when I was in college. I have lost touch with most of my fraternity friends and other colleagues which was not wise. However, I did meet my wife in college which was a great success (point four)! She remained in contact with all her friends and has benefited greatly from it.

As a parent, I can relate to point five. There is definitely constant pressure placed on you by peers to push your children into all sorts of activities (this also ties in to point seven). Just be cognizant of the volume of activities you place you child into -- children do experience burn-out, but it manifests itself in different ways (such as behavior in the classroom). There is nothing wrong with just playing in the park or pick-up games -- not everything has to be structured.
I remember you from your Royal Slider Plugin which is just gorgeous. Your plugins are so much more responsive than other scripts which use too many sluggish transitions. I'm sold on the progressive loading. And I still can't believe you're not charging for this. Or perhaps you're the type that just gets joy from seeing your work all over the internet. In that case, include a donation box.

(Responsive as in "responds quickly"... Is it to late to ask the internet to stop saying Responsive when talking about Adjustive design that scales according to window size or device?)
Deep-seated attitudes to women have roots in ancient agriculture
I think those are the people that work for a bank. In urban parts of GB probably more than 7%.
I guess when you get up to the scale of Tumblr, you need any measure of performance. I wish I knew what was going on there. Anyone care to elaborate?
Behind the Scenes with Chicken Scheme
> The bit of bandwidth required for a small image and the CPU time to render it and run any associated little bits of script, is not all that significant compared to what is going on to transfer and render the content that has actually been requested.

I strongly remember people doing tests on news sites. What they find was several MB of bandwidth, for each few lines of sent content. Ads was around 2500 times bigger in bandwidth, and I would not even try to imaging how much javascript run-time is spent on ads/tracking vs the graphical interface.

Sure, some sites are better and less intrusive, but is that the norm?
Looking forward to try this out - I've also used the author's Royal Slider plugin[1], and it works great.

1: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider/
Interesting: in terms of visual quality, I would rank those in order of decreasing preference as OS X, Windows 7, Ubuntu.
Top 250 offenders: http://go.bloomberg.com/multimedia/ceo-pay-ratio/
Wow, I feel very ignorant for how quickly I over looked that text on your example page, just to see the demos. Thanks for politely reminding me they were already on there. Doh! Thanks! Keep up the great work! :)
Twitter chooses Drupal for their official blog
Good call, I was also going to mention this until I saw your comment.

It appears there are many UK city sites that are trying to implement these principles. Given that the principles include accessibility guidelines [0] and transparency of intent [1], I'd prefer to see more city sites designed this way. (That is if the sites in question faithfully implement the design principles)

Regarding the site OP linked, even if a little glossy, it's certainly not a disaster of usability. In fact, I tend to believe in the aesthetic-usability effect [2] in the case of not-so-design-savvy users, the added sheen might actually motivate them to use the city portal more often.

[0]https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples#sixth
[1]https://www.gov.uk/designprinciples#tenth
[2]http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/emotion_design_at.html
Show HN:  show a loading animation on your button while an ajax runs
No, no, no. I did use the word "natural" as intended. I did mean that there are natural roles in the society for men and for women. As the proof I provided that the natural roles are still there in the courts of law. Apparently in the eyes of courts males are not as good parents as females. That's the law. Because apparently that's natural. And you seem to be fine with that natural.

If the natural order of things works in women advantage, you're fine with it not being changed in the past 100 years or so. Let the courts rule in favor of women to have right to the kids. You seem to have a problem only and only when female sex is at disadvantage.

Let me be cynical here to get my point accross: I strongly believe that it is natural for men to be income providers. As you seem to strongly agree that it is natural that women are the ones getting rights to the children in over 90% of divorce cases. So, isn't that dishonest to laugh at me that I believe in natural sex roles in the society when you obviously do believe in them as well?

You see, why don't we talk about this that it is 19th Century mentality to give kids to mother in over 90% of the divorce cases? How came it works only one way?

That's the point I wanted to get across, not to argue about single words semantics.
Why should you use Evernote? Because it will change your life
Lots of pdfs with no alternatives here: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/meetings_index.php
Why? Surely you'd have to go out of your way to make it that unnecessarily complicated.
IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin
Because that's how humans work?

bookoutlines.pbworks.com/w/page/14422685/Predictably%20Irrational

One more variation: Nina, On, and Ariely conducted a similar experiment. But, one group was asked to write down 10 books they had read in high school, and the other group was asked to try to recall and write down the 10 Commandments.
When cheating was not possible, the average score was 3.1
When cheating was possible, the book group reported a score of 4.1 (33% cheating)
When cheating was possible, the 10 Commandments group scored 3.1 (0% cheating)
And most of the subjects couldn't even recall all of the commandments! Even those who could only remember 1 or 2 commandments were nearly as honest. "This indicated that it was not the Commandments themselves that encouraged honesty, but the mere contemplation of a moral benchmark of some kind."
Perhaps we can have people sign secular statements--similar to a professional oath--to remind us of our commitment to honesty. So Ariely had students sign a statement on the answer sheet: "I understand that this study falls under the MIT honor system."
Those who signed didn't cheat. Those who didn't see the statement showed 84% cheating.
"The effect of signing a statement about an honor code is particularly amazing because MIT doesn't even have an honor code."
Thanks for featuring BucketListly on your list! :) I'm honored.
I would like to get one, but I would probably never use it around people.

The main use case for me would be exercising, going for a run with my phone in my hand, having to unlock it to change music or check my distance is a pain.

I remember when I got my first smart phone I had this cool feeling of living in "the future". I had the same feeling when I got my first tablet. This would definitely blow my mind enough that it might be worth the price.
The Supporto chair, while more expensive than others is incredibly comfortable and & good looking.
I have both an Aeron and a Supporto. The difference between the two is like Photoshop vs Acorn on Mac. With the Aeron it sometimes feels like the designer chose not to choose… which I disagree with!
I agree. I believe in free economy and freedom of action. However, it just seems that if employers do something like this, they will be immediately vilified.
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I bank at a credit union [1]. I specifically remember one year where they sent a letter saying roughly "We made too much money. Your account has been credited with your share of the excess." Of course, that's what a credit union implies but they're a bank to me so I'd be in the 7%.

[1] https://www.deltacommunitycu.com/
I'm sure it all depends on what info you're after. But the site here have the typical info that people are after regarding the gouvernment on the front page. Most of the links there are related to the reasons we have government at all.

That's not how most government sites are structured in my experience, though I'm not from the UK.
Missing "the glaringly obvious" -- custard is actual comfort food not just a yearning for past childhood.
yes, men had natural advantage in the workforce because of the stereotype that they are income providers for the family. The natural advantage is gone, the stereotype still functions in all of society including courts. Yes, that's a shame to talk about it. That's a shame nobody does.
replying here since I can't figure out how to PM.. On the food scale under How-To Guide you spelled 'suspicion' incorrectly. BTW, love the idea! Plan on digging into it when I get home this evening! Just wanted to give you a heads up on that spelling :)
Yes, but the way hn works, the continuations map uri's to browser sessions so they can be expired on a more granular basis than all at once or lru or what have you. I'm guessing here, though, I've not looked through the code.

[addendum] I Reread your comment and realized that wasn't what you meant at all. What would be the benefit of path based uris over query string params in hn's case? I only see how they be equal, not better.
You're right; there's nothing more irritating than people taking figures of speech literally.
Umm, that could more accurately have been phrased "email accounts".
16 year old arrested and charged for making simple science experiment
I think you're both talking about the same thing.
Basically, if you realize you had a typo somewhere in an early commit, or some other random easily fixable error that you simply overlooked and thus isn't part of the evolution of development, you should use rebase -i to squash the fix commit together with the one that introduced the error.

It's not about squashing together the entire history of development.
i have often thought that the THOMAS system was an overt attempt to obfuscating government activities. it's such a pain to use.
You didn't finish your sentence. You mean if you're a straight , white, western, non-geek, that enjoys only conventional hobbies and interests and holds down a conventional job etc etc etc. I would argue that geeks and punks and other "minorities" often have a very up close and personal look at violent discrimination. I've been hospitalized personally and have friends that have been as well despite belonging to the straight white western male demographic.
I think one of the reasons that the tech world tends to react so harshly to criticism is a large portion of it's members are outcasts that have finally found a home. When a disenfranchised people find a place they belong they will react violently against any perceived threat to it.
Yes many other minorities have it far worse. Yes there is still a great deal of privileged in comparison to the rest of the world. However there's always a sliding scale.
If you're in a decently sized city, craigslist is your friend. The going rate on used Aeron/Chadwick/Life/Leap/Think/Liberty/Freedom/etc. is about $200-300.