skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are also not complaining about Apples implementation of Retina, whereas they just double pixels, instead of properly interpolating. They then go around and complain your website looks crap on Retina.
Contextinator: Divide your web browsing into projects
It's a American thing sadly. The difference in culture. Where I'm from every second word is pretty much a swear word.
> But imagine, America coming in to NK, in the name of liberalizing the people, and causing more death, famine, and stuff in the process, which is not avoidable.

Ugh, this dichotomy of America as world police vs. cultures it doesn't really understand is juvenile at best.

The US drone strikes on Pakistani civillians are horrible, but if you want a lesson in brutality towards non-combatants, look no further than Pakistan during partition or the Bangladeshi independence war. The U.S. dropped nukes on Japan, but the atrocities carried out by the Japanese military at Nanking and Unit 731 are about the most terrible you'll read about outside of the Third Reich.

Morality, especially in terms of the actions of nations over time is complex and nuanced. Pointing out that the North Korean regime is fucking insane does not imply that you think the U.S. should roll in guns blazing.

> Organizations like RedCross, UNESCO, and others have to be pressed
upon.

Pressed upon to do what exactly? Provide even more aid to the North Korean regime who will distribute it to citizens it deems fit to eat?

I applaud the sentiment here, but this belies either naivete about the complexities and long-term effects of supplying aid to developing countries (especially dictatorships) or a complete lack of knowledge about the North Korean track record.

The grim western consensus on the North Korean problem has always been to sit-tight and let the country implode and hopefully unify with the South, though whether this is likely to happen soon is anyones guess.
First of all, people, regardless of country, don't start wars, governments do.

This is exactly backwards: There is no such entity as a government. It is a collection of people, appointed in some fashion (whether by others or by themselves), who make decisions on behalf of a larger group of people. It's people all the way down.

It's like a corporation in this respect. Google has never done anything, nor has Microsoft, Citibank, or any of those big earners on Wall Street. There are not bad corporations or good corporations; there are only corporations run by people that make decisions and take actions to which we then assign a moral judgment.

Making the mistake of assigning that judgment to a faceless non-entity and not to the people who are running it is the same as saying "The North Korean people will not nuke anyone, ever." If a nuke is launched by North Korea, it absolutely was launched by North Korean people: Those who gave the order to launch it. This is why different politicians within the same government can continue to hate, disagree with, and rail against each other, and why it's never so simple as "country x did thing y, they're all evil, kill 'em all."

If it were that simple -- or even if many people believed it were -- we'd have all wiped each other out very quickly after the advent of the nuclear bomb (if not before).
So, a politically correct way of saying genetic modification.
> This guys is totally free to make his points colourfully and passionately however he wants to.

I agree. He's created a very good and useful showcase of a specific frustration that many of us would prefer to never implement or deal with. For an exercise in venting, this style makes a lot of sense.

> His word choices are not hate speech or discriminatory so the fact that they may offend your sensibilities has precisely zero relevance to anything.

The language chosen to express his feelings means that I can't reference this site to anyone I work with in the enterprise world. For giving people materials in fighting against implementing these things, it collects a lot of great examples of why this is frustrating. Unfortunately, sharing it with the people who make these kinds of decisions has "career-limiting move" written all over it.

Maybe it will be (is?) licensed in a way that allows for business-friendly adaptation.
I am really looking forward to the phonegap integration.
> it's mostly about the children
> it is not to be used lightly

See: "begging the question".
Yeah, but then the sixth person has a 100% chance of dying, I wouldn't call that biased in their favor.

It's fairer if everyone just always spins.
Did HNPod just fade away? I had forgotten about it and I see there haven't been any episodes in a while.
Well seems like the discussion has moved away from the central thought of the post; let me try and add some of my life into the thread.

Here is how I live today:

Web is good for me. Porn is good for me. Anonymity is good for me. Given that I have an iPad, Galaxy Note 2 and a Chinese tablet with Android on it, the total installed 'app count' of my toys is zero. Zilch.

I have said it a numerous times before, and I'd proudly say it again ... I hate all the native apps on the planet. Keep all that great, smooth and butter-y experience up your garden's ass.
Reminds me of the DHMO hoax:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax

The dihydrogen monoxide FAQ is an entertaining read:

http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
"Btw how did you accumulate your '1 in 10' stats? Off the cuff?"

Yep. Just a rough estimate based on my sense of how many articles I actually bother clicking through to. Having a more accurate estimate of my own click-through rate would not be valuable to me, so I never bothered to try to find out.

"Can you think of a way to measure this?"

If I was interested in gathering such stats for myself, I suppose I could use a browser add-on to measure my HN use.

Alternatively, HN could start using indirect links. But I'm not sure if I'd stay with HN if they started doing that. I hate being spied upon, which is one major reason I stopped using Google, and would probably drop HN as well if they started going down that road. Not that HN really needs to do that, since they already know which HN discussion pages I open and what I write (which are reasons for me to start making myself a bit more anonymous in my HN use).

"Because I don't think 1 in 10 articles 'deserve to be read'. Somebody DID read them, took the time to post them here. So for some audience at least they were meaningful."

It all depends on who the audience is, doesn't it? If you aim for the lowest common denominator, you'll probably get a bigger audience. This is a major reason for much of the mainstream media content being such utter garbage (from my perspective).

Also, just because someone clicked through on an HN link doesn't mean that they liked what they found when they got there. The same goes for tracking of people clicking on "Like" buttons or even sending links to their friends.

People could have all sorts of reasons for clicking "Like" buttons that have nothing to do with them enjoying or even reading the content. And I can't count the number of times I've forwarded unread articles to friends because I thought it might be something they might be interested in, but that I had no interest in myself.
So she's capturing an interaction- thanks. That's the help I was looking for. I didn't know if it was some composition style, or focus effect, or anything else that knowledgeable people may look at and remark, "Wow! This changes things!"
I read dozens of sites on mobile Safari that have wrapped text. There must be a solution. Example

http://m.sfgate.com/sfchron/index.htm
Or had a parent/child relationship or owner/owned relationship across every thread, or installed a journal hook, or... Don't get me started on Window's non-nicety if you want cross thread/process window relationships and want to be able to keep your primary UI thread from locking up if the child thread does.
A cheap netbook of the same price will invariably be worse in some way, since the Windows license cost is included, so they've had to cut corners somewhere, and it might not show in the specs list, but in the build quality of the device, its thinness/lightness, the quality of the display, etc
Maybe it's a "feature" of the tumblr skin, but it took me a few minutes to realize the small and almost invisible arrow to the right at the bottom leads to another page.

Make it bigger, if you can.
Tentex Royal contains natural ingredients
I travel a lot. I usually book through a particular travel agent who manages to book me into top end hotels for comparatively very cheap prices. The only snag is you have to jump on the phone to them because the hotels don't allow them to publish the rates online. The process can be a bit cumbersome if you want to get prices on several hotels but I always find that it's worth it. Email me if you want the company name and telephone number.

The other thing I do that is kind of risky is just rock up to a hotel on the day and try to get a good rate at the front desk. I'm at the Scottish Ruby Conference now and managed to get one of the best class of room here for less than my friend paid for his standard room. As a more extreme example last summer I turned up at the Ace Hotel in NYC hoping to lay my head down in one of their entry rooms for the night. Unfortunately they were fully booked except for the lofts which were ~$1500/night, there was no way I was prepared to pay that, and I talked them down to under $400. I called my friends and some girls and had a massive "house party" in my loft room. It was awesome! (pic - http://instagram.com/p/OdJmamMw2D/)

From the hotel perspective an empty room does not make them any money, they may as well have occupied even if it is deeply discounted.
How is it different from using jQuery Mobile with phonegap(cordova) ,just curious.
I agree with all points. What I'm wondering is, what percentage of mobile users are like me, you and almost everyone that commented here? Does the proverbial "average user" share the sentiment? My guess is no, or else the marketroids that push the app agenda would have gotten the message by now.
Another reason for me to write it then. :)
Google+ struggles to attract brands
At any rate, the English speaking country founded by convicts certainly swears quite a lot.
As an agnostic American, this is pretty much exactly it. There are lots of subtle social stigmas - like cursing - due to the widespread Christian influence.
American here. His colorful use of language sounds exactly like the thoughts in my head when I can't access a mobile site.
Here is how it looks without javascript:

http://postimg.org/image/g5n9ia13l/

Not a good first impression.
Sorry, that's nonsense. Did the people of the US decide to attack Iraq? Nope. A few people in government did. Yes, they are US citizens. Still, it is a ridiculous stretch to say that the people of the US decided to go into Iraq. Nobody asked me. I would have said not to do it.
Yeah, I know that. But I started it with a few images that I had in my computer, so there is no reference. But I will put the source/reference for future images. Thanks
As an American who isn't offended in the slightest by swearing, all of this Brit condescension is much more offensive. We get it. You like to think you're so much more sophisticated. Even a slack-jawed blog proves this.
In the same line as when people over-use the phrase "get shit done"; it just seems like a bunch of try-hard developers trying to appear super edgy. We get it, you're not a "corporate drone" and you can curse, but you're a developer, not a rockstar. Phone-apps aren't that serious.
> Linux is not a community driven effort... 75% of the code being contributed was by paid developers.

Altough, yes, your point was taken, you have a weard definition of community that excludes profit motivated people.
you are guaranteed nothing important is only stored locally.

That's what scares me the most. Unless I have the option of not using Google's infrastructure, and can run my own "ChromeOS Storage/Auth Server" on a computer of my choice, then I'd never trust the OS. Google is expecting a surreal amount of trust that no single corporation should be given.
Ask HN: Any service to draw human body illustrations?
I want an online service where I can draw illustrations of a person in a variety of poses ie. doing certain exercises. It shouldn't be anything elaborate e.g. Stick men or simple anonymous humans. I don't need to animate them but doing so would be a useful feature.
I want to be able to publish on the web so png or gif export would be needed. Thanks.
I believe puritanical is the word you're looking for.
> It's been fairly effective in the US, from what I can tell.

Seems something of a straw man. It's not like we swear in front of our children over here in the UK :) I can count the number of times I heard my parents use profanity, before I turned 18, on one hand. And the lecture I got for using the word 'pissed' in front of my mother, aged 14, still rings with me!

However, during my travels in the US I found people very adverse to profanity even without any children in evidence. And it's not like I am particularly foul mouthed!

Of all the countries I've travelled in, the US is where I'd make a point of not swearing ever. Which is sad; just in general I often feel I have to self-censor lots of my personality/language in the US.
I assume that one of the motivations for this guideline is to prevent submitters from editorializing their submissions by altering the original titles (e.g. "Idiotic developers close perfectly reasonable bug report").
I'm also male, but I know better than to make sweeping generalizations about women, if I ever hope to work with one.

This is the internet. There are Americans here. In fact, most of the sites with these annoying mobile experiences are American companies. Let's assume for a moment that the generalization is accurate... Consider: Successful persuasive writing must be written with a particular audience in mind.
I'd be curious to hear more about installing chrooted Debian/Ubuntu to provide a full GNU userland locally. I'm still not quite sure what this would look like, or what the limitations might be.
I travel a lot. I locate the place I'll be working at on Google Maps, then type 'hotels' in the search box to find nearby hotels. Find one that's part of the Hilton chain (I collect Hilton points), then book it via the Hilton Web site.
It's true, devs can implement a build process. I'm not targeting devs, but web shops who do not want to run a server for their client sites to use $NON_LAMP_TECH. Think of it as nodejs or rails hosting.

A "how it works" page and snippet on the landing page would be something to consider.
I don't know of one, but it sounds like it could be useful for those of us with no artistic talents.

You could have a sort of "click and drag" interface to reposition the limbs arbitrarily, and possibly either another mode, or a set of input boxes, allowing you to change properties of the limbs (e.g. muscle width, muscle length, limb length).

I too would be interested if anyone knows of such a thing.
The Boston Ruby Group (bostonrb.org) and the Python Meetup (meetup.com/bostonpython) both have project nights which are designed for this sort of thing. The Ruby group is regularly on the first Tuesday of the month; the Python project nights aren't quite so regular, but still roughly monthly.

You might also look on meetup.com and bugc.org for local meetups and presentations on topics of interest. I'm not aware of any Javascript project nights, for instance, but the local Javascript and JQuery meetups are well worth being aware of.

And of course, there's also openhack!
As a University student in the States, I can say that, other than academics themselves, this is mostly propagated by a "I slept fewer hours than you so clearly I work harder look at me and feel bad I'm so stressed kbye" mindset. I have seen many times people waiting to tweet or Facebook something right before bed to prove to the world (and elicit responses) that they were up till an ungodly hour.

It's similar to what happens in adulthood when everyone compares how "busy" they are 24/7 and display it as if it's a badge of pride.
Bah - the point is not that it is better to look things up than to have an IDE know things for you, the point is that if your IDE doesn't know those things, you should be able to find them yourself. It is bad to be beholden to intellisense to the point where you actually can't use a language that it doesn't work well for.
Irrelevant for what? This was a debate about whether or not Go can replace C++, remember? So the fact that there is no such implementation for Go has to be relevant.

It is also very relevant for me that there is no Java implementation of a pauseless garbage collector that is even remotely viable for my business model or the business model of 99% of all startups out there.

If all you want to say is that it is possible to solve this problem for garbage collected languages, then we can agree. Unfortunately there is no viable solution available right now.
I don't really see why it matters. If you want to learn, stop trying to get other people to make you feel better about it. Just go do something.
Are you kidding me?! Are you completely devoid of empathy? He's not trying to command that anyone do anything, so drop the indignation. This is what we call a human response to grief; his mother is no longer here, and knowing what a wonderful and life-giving relationship that was, he is imploring the rest of us not to take our relationships with our mothers for granted.
So? NT predates UTF-8. UTF-8 and UTF-16 are both awesome - they provide unicode support.

Windows first shipped with UCS-2 at a time when the rest of the world was stuck with ASCII and various random codepages, then switched over to UTF-16 at around the same time UTF-8 was picking up speed; UTF-16 had the unique advantage of being (mostly) backwards-compatible with UCS-2, whereas UTF-8 would have broken everything. I prefer UTF-8 myself, but that doesn't make UTF-16 a bad choice.

In fact, while for the default ASCII range of characters UTF-16 consumes one extra byte over UTF-8's single-byte encoding, once you get into the "normally-used range" of international characters, UTF-8 quickly jumps to 3 bytes while UTF-16 remains at two.
Booking.com. The UI is very good and you can compare prices very easily. If I want to learn more about the hotel I check it in TripAdvisor.
Spreading DPCs across cores will lead to two possibilities:

- Typical driver dev: Knows nothing about DPC Importance Levels, and sticks with medium (default): IPIs are not sent to idle cores, so device experiences huge latencies as the DPC targeted to core 7 never, ever, gets delivered.

- Typical driver dev 2: Hears about this problem and learns that High/MediumHigh Importance DPCs cause an IPI to be delivered even to idle cores: wakes up every core in your system round-robin as part of his attempt to spread/reduce latencies, killing your battery life and causing IPI pollution.

Now I hear you saying: "But Alex, why not always target the DPC only to non-idle cores?". Yeah, if only the scheduler have you that kind of information in any sort of reliable way.

Really this is clearly the job of the OS. As it stands now, targeting DPCs on your own is a "fcked if you do, fcked if you don't" proposition.

You do get a few more variables you can play with as a user, but changing them will usually lead to worst problems than it would solve. Many drivers take dependencies on the default settings :/
> I know it sounds trite, but it's mostly about the children.

> the less kids hear the word, the more they realize that it is not to be used lightly

I don't agree. The less lightly kids think swear words are to be taken, the more they will use them to prop up their own attempts to be taken seriously by their peers and the adults around them.

Once a kid hears someone who swears every other word, they realize that overusing swear words dilutes their impact until they become effectively meaningless. They come to the natural conclusion that, in order to maximize effect, swear words should be kept in reserve for truly exceptional circumstances.
The Four Power Days
The Daily Fail I found one of the best :) They probably found out that the web is a European Socialist invention. got a laugh from me.
You have to admit that in general Brits are much better than Americans at swearing though. The problem in this case is simply the stylistic choice to rely primarily on "fucking" instead of the usual variety of flowery vituperation.
That's interesting, I'd have no problem linking this to my boss or PM if they were trying to convince us to implement something that resembled a doorslam. I'd probably include some reference to the fact that the language is colorful in the email and suggest this is the kind of passion that the proposed doorslam will raise in our own customers.

I'm a brit living in the US so add that as a datapoint too!

It doesn't even register on my offensive scale... did we have this same hand-wringing over zed shaw's programming motherfucker website? I don't recall it if we did.
http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html
Yes, the number of people trying to solve a problem suggests it might actually exist.
Amazing UIs for IS
Hi HN,

as part of my Bachelorthesis in Computer Science and Media i will create a usability concept for an informationsystem on which you can request and provide productinformations in supply chains. (web)
One of the targets is that it must have the look and feel of a "webapp".

I am very interesting in design and the web, so dont get me wrong. I do not merely want links to UI in general, but rather links to beautiful and efficient webapps in the context of informationsystems!

Thank you,
Miau
Coming from someone working in graph theory code I can tell you that the debugger is invaluable.
So many pointer links :)
Last time I tried VisualD it was pretty good.
Fucking Brilliant.

You should make an app to display this list.
I'm not sure any of us Brits think our ability to swear is "sophisticated".
Ask HN: Is UTA or Rice CS depart too theory based?
I want to learn CS theory, but still have a little more practical application.

I am a highly paid self taught chemical engineer. My job pays more than a high paid SV engineer. In other words, I really want a program that has depth and is worth the time. I could teach myself, but I like to be surrounded with likeminded people.
These are somewhat circular arguments, of course :)

And really the "right" answer depends on the viewpoint of the observer (i.e. whether you approve of profanity or not).
s/DTrace/SystemTap/
They're equivalent to do-notation in the List monad so as long as you don't really need the inline syntax you can just mechanically translate it to do nation and back.

And with -XMonadComprehensions you can have the compiler do that for a whole bunch more Monads.
Most universities refuse to adapt to the changing availability of funding. They use grant funding to build large infrastructures that have large ongoing administrative or other overhead costs. When the grants dry up, they don't downsize, they raise tuition or come up with new fees. As with governments, it's almost impossible to get fired from a university job. Time off and other benefits are lavish, and there's almost no accountability to actually do anything of value when an employes is actually at work. The salaries aren't great, but when you can roll in at 10, take a 90 minute lunch, and go home at 4, and have 6 weeks paid time off, and health insurance at a price so low it is essentially free, nobody complains much.
Show HN: Fork Bomb Teeshirt
FYI to developers:

Apple tried to fix the obtrusiveness of these popups with "smart app banners" in iOS 6:
http://www.macgasm.net/2012/09/19/ios-6-smart-app-banners/

Please use them!