skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to be as memorable as kangaroo, it has to be more memorable than the equivalent (in entropy) number of random characters, which I think is basically any word.

$ wc -l /usr/share/dict/words

99171 /usr/share/dict/words

$ rl -c 4 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs -d\\n

contortionists mocking Alphard soling

$ rl -c 4 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs -d\\n

Toni's dish's mauled spillages

$ rl -c 4 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs -d\\n

expedited tireless interneships tranquiller

$ rl -c 4 /usr/share/dict/words | xargs -d\\n

bohemian rogering unkindliest ayes
How was the music industry losing its audience in the 80s?
Some of them even let more than one person watch the same screen !
Correct me if I'm wrong: But anything you make with a 3d printer, ignoring super-high-precision work, you can make out of a block of wood and time, correct?

The only real benefit to a 3d printer is it idiot-proofs the task and provides for greater precision. It'll be easier to create 10,000 cheap plastic guns but if you only need 1 because you're in the middle of a Tom Clancy novel then you may as well assemble it from pvc and other store-bought stuff.

3D printed guns will make great fodder for spy novels, but I don't really see them as a threat.
>A lot of people signed up, watched House of Cards for 2 weeks and then cancelled the subscription.

Nope.

Hastings also says that almost no one signed up — for free, for a month-long trial — to watch the show and then left Netflix afterward. “There was very little free-trial gaming — less than 8,000 people did this, out of millions of free trials in the quarter.” [1]

1: http://allthingsd.com/20130422/netflix-says-its-house-of-car...
Time for the government to fund startups directly. Say a million startups for a start. It's our tax money after all.
Metal detectors obsolete?
https://twitter.com/breakingnews
Except that using a mail client kills the main advantage of Gmail and why I started using it in the first place; consistent, clean interface and ubiquitous presence on all my devices.

Yeah I can install mail clients on all of my computers for Gmail, but if I'm gonna bother with a mail client I'd just use mail set up through one of my own domains on one of my own servers.
Consider even task to "open the contacts list". Who would guess it is hidden under "Gmail logo with dropdown arrow"? [0] Yes, after such recall it is single 'clickdrag' operation, but still, recognition just passed out.

[0] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1571982/shots/gmail-open...
I emptied out the entire science building by reducing DMSO. You've smelled nothing until you've smelled DMS.
Yes, but Photoshop has a totally different target market from Gmail, which is why the article's comparison is nonsensical if not entirely wrong.

Gmail is designed for everyone and has to support the full spectrum of users, in particular the new ones (because they're the ones picking new email accounts - consider that they're partially trying to target people who still don't have email). Photoshop is designed for a very select set of power users. Saying Gmail's interface is becoming less like Photoshop and that's bad makes no sense at all.

You probably wouldn't recommend Photoshop to your Grandma - you'd tell her to use Picasa or iPhoto, both of which I suspect have far more users.
I remember reading an article about how Jay Leno uses 3-D printing to replace hard-to-find parts for his car collection a couple of years ago.
No. You cannot taste great software. You cannot even know it's great through your senses (the product may be great but the software could be crap). You cannot take someone out on a date and enjoy great software. You don't occasionally splurge and enjoy an evening of great software that you later remember as a happy time.

I'd go on, but this is one of the most farfetched similes I've seen on this site.
Thanks - I didn't notice that. After having mistakenly sent a few embarrassing half e-mails I've stopped using tab altogether in gmail for fear of doing it again. When I indent text it's spaces instead of tab - unlike anywhere else.

This proves the point that it's terrible UI though...
Not as impressive (well, not to me) as how unnervingly clean the bottom of that car is. The roof of my car would be dirtier than that about 1 day after washing it.

I suppose this must be what owning a car in California is like.
Hey this is awesome! Though the admin/moderator changed the title for some unknown reason from the title of the blogpost to their own.
I wonder if someone might be more likely to donate actual money/time to a given cause after "liking" a sufficient number of items related to that cause. If so, then FB likes could be a completely valid fundraising strategy.

This is a valid strategy in sales, wherein the salesperson gets a prospect to engage in cheap/free sales affirmative behavior.

Perhaps I'm groggy, but it seems like non-profits ought to rigorously test for optimal sequences of social media likes that lead to actual real-world donations.
This title and the article's title don't quite match...
There Are Only Four Jobs in the Whole World – Are You in the Right One?
Don't misrepresent yourself - That's actually an incredibly good and concise guideline for avoiding trouble.
OT: "on board", not "on bored".
Is it really needed to have a 1226 x 515 px header image for a blog? I understand that some of the readers are using the latest "retina" Macbooks or 52-inch displays, but on my couple year old Macbook I can just see the top of the title when loading this page.
As bad as/worse than ammonia?
Interestingly, my friend who was interviewing with Tesla said that their HR was among the worst he ever talked to. Specifically, they didn't return emails and were quite inefficient.
I wish the race card wouldn't be played as much in all of this, and that it's a conversation about schooling, science, and the risks that we should be willing to accept in a free country.
s/nots/nuts/
I am surprised to see this happening in the USA, I thought that UK had the title sewn up for "Unbelievably Stupid Jobsworths"
If all of your comments are this impressive, I guess I'm going to have to go with "untog = auto downvote" from now on.
It's an eventuality we're all going to have to accept. The technology juggernaut doesn't care about its own ramifications.

Unfortunately the price we pay for having convenience is people with nefarious purposes also have that convenience.
It's not that large in it's first incarnation and within a few years it will probably become small enough to fit in many designer glasses.

TBH This article reads like blogspam to get views. Write something polemic, opinionated and devoid of content and wait for the bikeshedding to begin. Flagged.
Can you name a large startup that hasn't taken investment?

I thought that's how "startup" is defined, and if you don't take outside investment your business is called something else.
Wow. A schtick. Not a good one, but a real schtick poster has arrived.

I generally hate when people compare HN to Reddit but you seem to be trying for Xoxohth/Autoadmit.
Pretty much yes. There are some shapes that aren't easily manufactured using traditional methods (enclosed holes, organic shapes) but those won't be needed for a gun.

The fact is, someone with a few days of metal shop training and a lathe and milling machine can make a functional gun. They're not complicated things.
That's impossible. You have two options:

1) Have central control, central management. Facebook has this in their messaging app, and still spend millions of dollars fighting spam on it every year.
2) Have whitelist only email - basically get pre-approval for who can message you. Instant Messaging has this and people still get spammed on it. Plus you lose so much under this model - how many times a year do you email someone you've never emailed before? For me it is in the hundreds.
Of course because of snobbery. NH visitors should be protected from words, which starts from "p" and ends with "orn".
This starts turning into a semantics problem. GHC is a compiler that modifies the code it has compiled to add "synchronization points" that are used under a cooperative threading model, allowing it to know with certainty that certain kinds of operations or even functions it detects to have certain properties will not be pre-empted. Given that the overall language semantics are then pure functional, the costs associated with pre-emptive scheduling are removed, but again this is only because they "cheated" and didn't build a real "preemptive" scheduler: tasks must cooperate.

In fact, there are trivial kinds of operations you can perform (such as involving FFI) that simply will never pre-empt. The primitive the operating system provides, which I maintain is a fundamentally different primitive than what people are building in these user-space modifications, is "no matter what you do, whether on accident or on purpose, whether with benign or malicious intent, you will be time-sliced; your time-slicing will thereby happen at the discretion of the system, and you will not be trusted to request or demand excessive modifications to your time". GHC is not some magic exception: it is still cooperative multitasking.
A less painful way to manage JavaScript and CSS libraries in Django
The to: field is always the last one I fill out to prevent half-baked thoughts from escaping.
>The aggregated bandwidth of the clusters was around 50 Gbps, from which they used around 10 Gbps while at peak load.

Now that is a lot a porn.

Also, the illustrations look really good! How did you make them?
I pay and don't watch for months, then suddenly i want to watch something on the bus back home while wife is watching something on the tv
I'm not saying this is the OP's case, but when I worked for a small dev shop, almost all my co-workers would grumble and complain whenever a client asked us to do more work for them. I'm not talking about scope creep or unpaid additions. I'm not talking about requests that were impossible or incoherent or outside our expertise. Clients would ask us to give an estimate for adding feature X, and everyone would complain! I've noticed the same thing in other developers many times since then, so I've tried to practice saying instead, "We'd be happy to do that for you! It'll be $X." (or more realistically, "I'll get you an estimate by tomorrow/Friday/next week.")

My other favorite technique is to put a price tag on things that are technically hard or "impossible." I like to say that nothing is impossible, but some things are expensive. I think edw gives a similar response to client inquiries.
Why an Internet of Everything Event? “It’s the world waking up”
But you can run private versions of reddit pretty easily. Any reason you wrote your own instead of just installing the opensource(and somewhat prepackaged) version of reddit?
From zero to Web programmer in nine weeks
One easy solution to this (and many other general email mishaps) is to enable Gmail's undo button for sending email: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1284885?hl=en
> Tricking people for profit is the definition of fraud.

This would make 90% of all applications/websites fraud. Most free(gratis) Windows software tricks you into installing spyware & toolbars. Almost every app on your phone tricks you into giving away personal data. Almost every website tricks you into being tracked across multiple websites.
That's not actually true. 3D printers are additive manufacturing, i.e. you build up from nothing. Most hobbyist tools are generally subtractive manufacturing, i.e. you start with a block of raw material and remove sections with the tool. Additive manufacturing allows you to make some parts that are impossible with subtractive manufacturing.

That said, you can make an entire gun using subtractive manufacturing, pretty standard metal, and a CNC mill. If we had a standardized library of CNC mill instructions you could just as easily share that as a STP file for 3D printing a gun.
You pay me $100 for every 10 people I get to fill out a card with their mailing address asking for a catalogue from your company.

I take 1000 of the cards and put random people's names and addresses on them and send them in, once a week every week.

Fraud.
trigger-happy, i guess. Given that "Porn" definitely implies a much larger scale than merely "video streaming", I think the title change does a disservice
I for one tend to open the link I'm about to send just to be sure I got the right one and it shows what I intend to communicate... So there it is, ready for drag and drop :)
Show hn: realtime redis dashboard
Google cant ban apps. They do not have the ability. Sure, they can prevent it from going on their market, but nothing is stopping you from downloading an apk from anywhere (or making your own) and installing it.
I like to view it as in the beginning do as much as you can get to get open-ended discussion with prospective customers. Later on use that learning to build a more scalable/product-focused approach optimized for acquisition/growth.
This just shows that "hackathon" is becoming more popularized.

Today, everything is a "hackathon" which is rather annoying, IMO. In the past year or so, we've seen legal hackathons [1], marketing hackathons [2] and more.

Now, more and more corporations are starting to get into the hackathon game - eg. Campbell's disaster a few months back [3].

With popularity comes consequence, but perhaps the "spirit" of a hackathon is what matters: getting people to GTFO of their element, come together and create something in a short period of time.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/legal-hackathon-law...

[2] http://atdc.org/2012/07/atlanta-hosts-worlds-first-marketing...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5086013
not unless they start printing plastic bullets and casings too.
I feel like an old person when I think it's a sign of the apocalypse when employees are playing WoW, surfing (do people even use that anymore?) non-work-related sites, and texting/tweeting/whatever on their mobiles AND missing dates.

I also pull 'confused puppy' when they complain about content filters blocking reddit, etc. Sure, there's the occasional gem there, but it's rarely a primary source for solving a work-related problem, and I am highly suspicious of claims that it is needed for work. (Unless you're in a very narrow niche.)
How much would Google self-driving car equipment reduce the time between charges? I imagine that such a system would mean fewer accidents.
Too late to edit; what I meant to say was not that "Liking" is doing; but rather, that if someone does something real, they're no longer a "slacktivist". Continue to "Like" away and salve those troubled consciences, Youth of Today.
Canon N Takes On Phone Cameras
Regulate 3D printers.
I highly recommend turning on the "Undo Send" extension in the Labs part of settings. It lets you choose to undo settings for ~5 seconds after you press send. It has saved my bacon countless times, not because I hit send accidentally, but because I realize I want to add one more thing or recipient to an email.
I believe they still do. I think there are over 200 of them now.
Nope. Was't referring to Airbnb. You say you think fraud is vaguely defined. Which might be true (I don't know enough). But this seems like it crosses a pretty bright line.
One Day Projet: Kerbal Space Station, a FOSS mod community
I really appreciate what Cody is doing for exactly that misconception.

Reasonable regulations on firearms protect us from criminal lowlifes that want to make an easy dollar. However, when it comes down to it, a crazy person can take a knife and go on a mass stabbing (see recent events Apr 9, 2013). That is the point Cody is trying to make, is that we can't put our heads in the sand and pretend violence is never going to happen. Humans have fought each other since the age of written communication, so it is absurd to think removing weapons will decrease violence.

I hate to sound like a hippie but what _will_ decrease violence is being less judgmental, compromise, reaching out to others, tolerance of those who are different, but most importantly: education.
I agree. But maybe race is a part of it. Would there be felony charges if she was a white girl from the rich burbs?
I put a little salt water in a 3 liter bottle (remember those... Shasta, baby) and melted 2 wires through the cap. I connected those to a 12 volt battery and let that cook until it was good and bulging, flipped it over and then used the firing coil from a motocycle to make a spark between the wires.

It made a much bigger boom than we had expected. I believe the hole in the ground it left was nearly 2 feet deep. I think I was 13.
Nice project! My suggestion would be adding JSON editor or JSON syntax validator for JSON responses saved.
What service do you use for flowcharts?
I "invited" the LAPD Bomb Squad to my High School Graduation when some punk kid crawling on a roof he was not authorized to be on found a little science demonstration a friend and I had set up for the time of graduation and told a gym teacher who took the science demonstration from where it had been safely installed and placed it in his enclosed office and called the LAPD Bomb Squad (on my behalf.)

I was uh, fingered by our Physics professor who ran into me before graduation, and said, "Jerry, what did you do?"

Was pulled off the grad night school bus just before it left for a talk with Nick the Narc, Principal, and LAPD.

We talked for a bit, I explained I hadn't done anything terribly unique, pissed them off by telling them I copied my designs from the Rockford Files (google it), and then they sent me off to Disneyland with the rest of my graduating class.

(Had I known how popular that made me on the bus that night, I would have done it sooner.)

Went to college, found one other engineering student in my small class of engineering students that had done practically the same thing I had done the same week within the same state.

This was back before zero tolerance of course, and back before GWOT, and back before we decided we had to burn down our own village in order to save our village.

Back when folks grew a sense of humor.

So Kiera, I think what is being done to you is a gross abuse.
Are you serious??

What you were doing is the equivalent of living your wallet in a public place unattended, and then shouting and screaming it got stolen. You are putting your bitcoin wallet on a public accessible server, you should know the risks of this by now.

Don't leave your wallet in a public place unattended, that includes your bitcoin wallet.

Let me guess, you didn't bother to encrypt your wallet either, didn't you?

Don't blame others for lack of security, if you can't even figure out your own security best practices...
How specifically did he recruit them? Did he just show up at the factory one day? (I'm really interested in the detailed logistical steps of how one starts a brand new car company)
Misses the point I think. There might be a large class of people out there who believe that liking/sharing without any donation is sufficent to help.
You already have a light Json editor. The Syntax validation is a very good idea, thanks!
Appoint a Cabinet-level position for the War on "3-D Printers" and fund it.
Yeah. At one point I was seeing pop-up ads on some sites that were simply random searches on Amazon - I assume they were trying to take advantage of Amazon's affiliate scheme.
Where is the source? I would love to learn how they did this
Step 1: Find amazing talent

Step 2: Remove all barriers stopping them from being awesome at what they do. Pay them well. Appreciate them.

Step 3: Profit
Murray Rothbard thought that the first users should be the owners. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard157.html So under his scheme, the downstream owners would have to buy the river from the upstream owners to prevent them from polluting.

I think that there's something wrong with an upstream owner polluting the river and causing damage to people downstream. The situation is analogous to burning poisonous chemicals on land and letting the wind currents carry the chemicals onto neighboring property. In this case the burner would be liable.

The overall point is that pollution can and should be handled as a property-rights matter and that the state need not and should not "regulate" pollution.
Are any of the porn sites larger than youtube?
That's because Outlook uses MS Word internally for email composition and rendering.

Earlier (Outlook 2003), it used to be obvious and also configurable. Now you're stuck using it with all its quirks and annoyances. (Yes, I'm not a fan..)
I also tend to believe that these companies sanctioned this activity until they were against it. A year after they claim to have started investigating it, they invite one of the guys to a private dinner where he is the only non-eBay employee in attendance, and treat him like a king. Its a contradiction.

Very interesting stuff. That must have been a fun forum at the time, when easy money was to be made like this. Thanks for the insight.
The analog of a block of wood and time (or at least a chisel) would be a milling machine (e.g. CNC) since both are subtractive fabrication (you start with a solid pieces and remove material to get the result). 3D printing is additive (you start with nothing and add material to get the result). There are some things that would be possible in one but not the other. For example, creating a fully-enclosed hollow region is only possible in an additive process (though still challenging).
What he describes in the article as a UI Developer is much more than markup, it frequently has javascript flavor for interaction with the user.

Also, interfaces are designed in Markup for the time being only, not as a rule for eternity.
It was kinda link-baity and vague...
I suspect this was 1x1 image pixel similar to what is routine practice in online advertising to track site visits.
I caused a small brush fire playing with an Estes rocket. Fire department told me "try to be more careful."
Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com) - Boston, MA

Carbonite leads the consumer cloud backup category with nearly 1.5 million paying customers and 85% retention rates.

We are looking for engineers to join our Labs team, a small team that ships MVP apps to test viability and explore new possibilities for the company. We have a startup feel, with the financial backing of an established company.

We are looking for people excited about new technologies and working full-stack. We write a lot of services in Python, so if you love Python you'll fit right in. Some of the other stuff we work with: AWS (EC2, CloudFormation, S3, etc), Cassandra, AngularJS, Chef, and many more. We write clients for Windows/Mac/iOS/Android.

We work in Scrum, release every 2 weeks, and iterate based on user feedback.

If you're interested in the position, send me an email with some info about yourself, a resume and your Github (if you have one).

My name is Dustin and I am an engineer on the Labs team. I look forward to hearing from you!

dcollins@carbonite.com
The first discussion thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1dcddf/i...
The latest thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1dluwt/u...

Total cost (outside of time) to me so far: $0.
Octopus: The Footed Void
This assumes the other 4 are PG quality. Not saying they're not, of course.
My wife represented someone busted for being an Amazon cookie stuffer.

He was essentially a script kiddie who paid for the script. He wasn't as successful. I think Amazon devotes more resources to tracking this kind of fraud.
Except that there are numerous cases of white kids doing similar things and not, you know, having their lives ruined by felony charges.
- We have a plan to replace current infrastructure that will make it impossible for spam even occur.

- True. There needs to be both. How email works today is laughable.

- Parsing receipts or anything that is possible to and will make life easier is something we all want.

We fully understand the difficulty of all this to happen but we will start lean. All this is just the future, not so distant though.