skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I can think would be to create a webpage on a domain like whyfooisabastard.com & start out with a post detailing his campaign against your personal free speech- maybe invite others he's censored to speak up there. Just a first guess off the top of my head.
Somebody should team up with the Better World Shopper folks (http://www.betterworldshopper.org) to make this happen. They do currently have an iOS app, but it's still way more manual work than it sounds like the author of this article is looking for.
I don't understand. You want me to outsource calling my mom on mother's day? Is this for actively deployed troops or something?
> I mean who would ever say "It's the most exciting thing I've done this year" for a site like this?

A typical tech blogger.
Fun with Javascript Functions
Many thanks for posting this.
Handling credit card payments in person is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT problem to being an online payment processor.

Other than paypal, no one offers BOTH services... Paypal seems to have done it, purely as a response to square.

Banks I guess do it, but they don't do any of it well.

So which problem are you refering to that groups In person payment with online payment? Because it feels much harder to frame them together than apart...
It's more akin to suggesting someone interested in play writing to read the modern English version of Shakespeare instead of the original.
> until you get to 1/1 at least

Possibly even more!
I'm really interested in functional programming, and here I explore some of the features of the javascript library underscore-contrib. I'd be happy for feedback / discussion.
You can't really cheat unless there are rules.

As for not feeling guilty, maybe you should give something back to the community? Work on an open-source project or something, maybe?

Or maybe you can put it on the same level as something you're happy with. Like working with other programmers in your company, whose code you could probably write.
That they are much bigger than C++, hence Bjarne is being concise.
Go is nice but it's a replacement for Java or Python not for C++. I'm working on an in-memory analytics engine, something that has only become affordable in recent years because memory prices have fallen so much.

In-memory computing is a very important trend and garbage collected languages just don't work. You can't have the system stall for seconds or even tens of seconds unless it's purely a batch workload.

I have to admit that I haven't really researched what can be done in Go to keep in-memory data off-heap so the garbage collector doesn't see it. I have done that research for Java and it's unworkable. It's either slow or extremely unproductive to work with or both.
I assume the main goal is to get onto the front page rather than just maximize views on the /newest page. I am willing to bet that getting on the front page at the least active time is still far better than being on the new page at the busiest time.
That was the first objection they raised. I pointed out gramatical issues and other flaws in the contract that made them have to send it back to the lawyer anyways, and it came back w/o that clause.
When you cook, do you just give people a bowl of nutrient paste, saying "that's all you need to remain functional"? But we'd like something with texture and flavour. "So what, it's not like those things are needed to be functional. You can get by without them."
Don't miss The Double. This was the book that Dostoevsky wrote after his early rock-star debut. It was widely hated at the time, and Dostoevsky found himself in the doghouse as quickly as he had been celebrated before, but it's fabulous—much better than that initial book and one of the best things he ever wrote.
this is really cool. although seeing a bunch of 503s from their geoip service. maybe hitting usage limits?
Link your account to Facebook and list tomorrow as your birthday. All the wall posts should give you a 3-4 point bump.
Inconsequential ole' google
I think it will get worse before it gets better. The momentum behind the security state will wind down through inertia as the economics of maintaining it will prove untenable but before that happens, many large American cities will be under increasing surveillance and more citizens will find themselves in police and prison situations worthy of Kafka.

And you're right. Most aren't paying attention.
Let's do a promotion that will either feel underwhelming or feel like a bait-and-switch, and we'll promote this only to people who are outspoken and influential.

What could go wrong?
The claim about technology moving faster now is absolute garbage. We've had exactly two major pieces of innovation in computer science in the last two decades.

The first was in search and distributed systems, at Google, and the blueprint for their systems was created by two mid-career engineers out of DEC.

The second was the evolution of the smartphone, at Apple, an old company that is known for keeping its engineers for a long ass time.

The most innovative computer language we have was designed in the 50s, and every time I meet an old-time hacker, there's something I can learn from them.

The real lie is that a kid out of college who starts a company is automatically considered an innovator. Rehashing an idea one more time in a slightly more marketable way or creating an app that goes viral has nothing to do with innovation.

In the pop culture age, we constantly confuse the Britney Spears' of the world with real talent, and the Summly's of the world with real innovation.
> Hacker News does not allow submissions to be downvoted.

I thought it does?
Heh, I will, with some effort, resist the urge to debate analogies - my point was: I don't think that, interesting as it is (especially with Sanglard's excellent reviews) is what the threadparent was asking for.
It's worth mentioning that the US dollar is also a "hot potato".
He TLDRed when he should have BLUFed:

"As a user, I complain about things that don't exist (sorry), but I almost never leave a service that is solving one of my needs – no matter how small – well."

In other words, customers don't want features, they have problems, and a product that wholly solves more than zero problems gets sales.
Just use pkill.
Sushi and RFID
My problem is that all of my ideas are too big. It seems that every new idea I think of -- well, if I kept going with it and finished it to the extent that it matches my idea, it would take a year or two. I don't have two years to waste on an idea that may or may not help me. Maybe that's sad but it's real life™.
Nice. I'm happy this loophole exists, if only for the chance to be surrounded by the latter group.
I don't agree with some points. For example, he mentions this to be a good practice

/* Bad */
.widget { }
#sidebar .widget { }

/* Good */
.widget { }
.widget-sidebar { }

In my opinion, it's best to use a "sidebar" class for the widget.

.widget { }
.widget.sidebar { }

Now, you might be worried that the "sidebar" class affects the widget in unwanted ways. Well, it shouldn't. That class should have generic/basic styling that anything in the sidebar should have.

Maybe you want to have special font styling for things in the sidebar. The ".widget.sidebar" is a special selector for a widget in the sidebar. You can also have the following

.separator
.separator.sidebar
.separator.footer

That makes elements easier to maintain and debug. Well, just my opinion.
try calling his office and explain your positions to his staffers
In a recent interview, Chomsky expressed ambivalence about the propaganda model that became so successful with Manufacturing Consent. It seems that he disagrees somewhat with the analysis of media content as a function of corporate interests, but is uncomfortable saying so too bluntly because it was largely the work of his friend Ed Herman. Chomsky's real opinion is that economic interests alone can't explain why intellectuals overwhelmingly serve power, since many intellectuals hold safe positions (e.g. in academia) that aren't subject to corporate bosses. I got the impression that Chomsky sees media propaganda as a special case of this more general pattern which he considers more fundamental. Don't have the link handy but can dig it up if anyone cares.
Yes. And maybe even consider saving some money and then coming over to Silicon Valley for a period of time in order to network and get job introductions by attending meetups and such. SF is the place to be for networking (at least for small-medium-large sized startups), but it is VERY expensive. The networking opportunities in Palo Alto/Mountain View are comparatively fewer. If you do make the decision to move over to SV, be sure to post an Ask HN about recommendations as to where the best and most affordable places to live in SV are.
It can cause depression, doesn't mean it has to cause depression. I'm worried about my health due to the fact that I'm not fit and I smoke a lot - but I'm not depressed about either of those two things.
Nice analysis. I would love to see an analysis of the title changing behavior. E.g., the original title, and the title after being edited by the mods. (Sometimes this happens more than once). In fact, I think I've observed mods apparently fighting (with each other) over the title.
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> So, "lose" should really be spelled "looze", "looz" or some variant of that.

How should "have" be spelled?

Haav?
I learnt JavaScript as my first functional programming language and I fell in love with completely. I started underscore and backbone.js as my first library for some internal project. As coming from Java background, functional looks like magic, really.
Why is Google's source/HTML structure unreadable?
I'm not talking about the homepage, but almost all of their in-house services/products: gmail, google+ etc...

When you inspect element all the classes and ids are short and obscure, changing each time the page is loaded. I'm sure on the developers' end it's all human readable and the server is generating all that mess but my question is why would they do this?

Is there any benefit to making their source (which most bots can't crawl anyway because of JS) obscure and unreadable? Is it to prevent something?
You can only flag submissions. Flagging is meant to be reserved for spam or other egregious violations, as far as I know, though the "rules" on HN are not hard and fast. I'll sometimes flag really egregiously link-baity submissions.
Dabblet: A visual IDE for rapid prototyping
Only comments get downvote arrows. Submissions are pure upvotes.

Check the FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

(Unless ridiculously high karma levels unlock super-secret powers, I suppose.)
Well I assume (depending on where the bottleneck is) spreading execution across cores will reduce DPC latency. Or maybe they could use UMDF.

Though, as a user of badly written drivers, I'm totally fucked. Its too bad the OS design does not allow for the user control any aspect of this (well apart from MaximumDpcQueueDepth).
FPM is stuck with the overhead of latency and IPC delay from its CGI legacy.

Litespeed threw all that out with their approach to PHP, it's far more lightweight and why it's so much faster.

I really hope that someday, someone will sponsor a module for a FPM replacement inside nginx like Automattic did for spdy and CloudBees/Apcera did for websockets.

Given the sheer number of PHP and nginx users, you'd think this would have happened even before spdy or websockets but maybe the impression is php-fpm is "good enough".
You have the right to criticize elected officials.

But the person being criticized doesn't have to allow you to do so in their forum.
>Perhaps the biggest thing non-metric people miss is easy conversions. A litre of water weighs one kilogram and occupies a 10cm cube. This makes it really easy to move amongst volume, weight and dimensions.

Indeed. And while that's very useful for scientists and engineers, it's not really useful for the average person. Most people don't do conversions often enough to justify switching their measuring system to metric, and if one doesn't care about doing conversions, the advantages of the metric system become much less clear. And the American government isn't going to switch the country to metric unless it provides clear advantages to most Americans.
haha, yeah, we noticed freegeoip.net is effectively getting DDoS'd a few hours ago: https://twitter.com/mhashemi/status/333407761993957376

But it seemed to be holding at the time. Hopefully a local copy of the geodata will work better.
Contact the local media? Maybe someone will be interested and run a story about it or try and contact the representative for you.
I think you are severely underestimating the number of people considering the CLI to be a feature.
It’s not “true color”, but it _is_ true-color, as the title says. There’s a difference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True-color#True_color
There are a few reasons I prefer the namespaced modifier approach to what you've described:

1) This approach is more error prone and less predictable. For a one-man job it's probably OK, but on a team it's harder to guarantee someone else isn't going to apply some styles to `.sidebar`, which will cause unwanted styles to be applied to your separator component. The namespaced approach is very intentional, so it's unlikely someone will add styles to that rule without knowing exactly what they're affecting.

2) chaining like this ups the specificity of the CSS rule, which means your other modifier/presenter classes might not work on the element anymore. In CSS specificity is everything, and keeping it nice and low is usually preferable.
Completely pointless ...

BTW capital letters, punctuation marks, etc. are not that expensive and make what you write a lot more readable ;)
Freedom of Expression != Freedom to Express it everywhere.

People are free to put restrictions on expression on things that belong to them. Otherwise the books publishers will have to publish every draft that comes to them and the art gallery will have to exhibit my 2 year old's sketches.
it'd be neat if I could search for start ups by name
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Wait, how'd you get to Pessoa from there?!

Pessoa is fascinating. I believe it was he who wrote:

Poets pretend
They pretend so well
They even pretend
They suffer what they suffer.

... something that lodged itself in my brain years ago and never left. Pessoa wrote under countless pseudonyms. He is like Kierkegaard in that respect. You might like Fear and Trembling, in fact, based on your list.
Hmm... how do posts die then? By flagging?
More like 1984. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
You should be able to get to the URL to the article's comment thread on HN.

It would also be nice to have filters. I particularly want to be able to get a list of only Show HN posts, only Ask HN posts, or only posts that got at least N upvotes.

Also, it would be nice to have an option to see more results per page. I like to set the number to 100-500 so I don't have to open a giant mass of tabs.
Not quite.

http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=3454

When the humanist hand was invented, the prevailing hand for illuminated manuscripts was blackletter. While either is aesthetically pleasing, the humanist hand caught on because it was readable and vastly more ergonomic to write.

Practice some dip pen calligraphy and you'll quickly notice that a humanist hand feels natural, and takes much less effort than blackletter to form beautiful characters.

Blackletter (as an everyday hand) persisted in church manuscripts (and in Germany, perhaps due to a cultural love of precise craftsmanship), but it's not surprising that many monks also adopted humanist: if your job is copying written works by hand, it makes sense to keep your eyes and hands under as little strain as possible.

P.S. What's a "typeface"? ;)
The only stated reason to flag is this:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

I generally understand "flag" to mean "Dear Mods, you should really look at this". /shrug
Correct, they're not exactly the same language, but C can be made to be compatible with C++ compilers (and is sometimes considered a subset of C++, though not exactly true). However, one wouldn't want to assume all bugs, quirks and syntax are 1:1. That would be like saying because you can drive an automatic transmission, you can easily drive a manual without any practice and knowledge beforehand.

Much more info about the compatibility and differences for anyone interested on wikipedia[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B
It depends on what you like. Flannery O'Connor's fiction is extraordinary. I bet you'd like Nabokov based on what you've said so far; I like his earlier Russian novels best (which have excellent English translations), like The Defense, for example. If you want to go whole hog into postmodernism then try Pynchon or Gaddis.

The 19th century Russians from Gogol to Chekhov are pretty much can't-lose. Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is beautiful and captures the spirit of youth.

Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier is a short masterpiece. The Great Gatsby is as good as its reputation says. Read Dickens if you want the essence of the English language and character. Read Kafka for the strangest articulation of modernity. Bruno Schulz is more whimsical. Borges is another whom your list suggests you should try.

If you really want to go down a rabbit hole, find Martin Seymour-Smith's Guide to Modern World Literature and browse through it to blow your mind. It covers everything and seems impossible, except it exists so it can't be.
I actually like it :)
Incredibly simple.
Maybe expectations are changing, but I consider a Facebook page almost akin to a public forum now for better or for worse.
I know the feeling - unlike oo development, functional javascript feels really beautiful.
underscore is a really neat library, and underscore-contrib seems pretty promising too.
Posts don't need upvotes to live, and don't need downvotes to die. I imagine there's some ranking done based on the number of upvotes or comments in the last X period against the amount of time it's been up at all.
AFAIK the site itself, and mods (unknown who they are besides pg really) kill posts at their own whim. Flagging is one signal for that. Of course, you can just wait for the passage of time, which will "kill" any post on the front page eventually.
exactly 5280. Its not absurd. It has always been that number.
Is this set up over twilio?
Klout tells me I'm inside the top 1% and I have a score of 52 - so not a lot of people get this.
>Just write it down.

Cannot agree more. If you don't write it down, you will forget it. Trying to remember a feature, that you knew was good, but cannot remember now because you didn't write it down, can be frustrating.
On the contrary. It aiding the process of merging all of humankind into a single, superior culture.
I had the same reaction to the link.

But, since I've been checking out the Go language, I decided to whip up a little simulation[1] to prove the claimed probability. And indeed, it is true: choosing the moderator's offer wins 2/3 of the time.

[1] http://play.golang.org/p/7ua2ZCSuVD
Write letters first of all. Can't remember where, but I've read those are much more effective than email. Call their office, or better yet, stop by and ask to speak with them.
They're designed to mess around with your shell variables and environment to virtualize an environment for ruby or python. Unfortunately, they're not totally compatible with my customized zsh setup, and I don't have the time to rebuild and test a zshrc from scratch. Launching bash with them would be moot since I'd just have to spend my time in bash anyways, then.
I'll just leave this here :D - http://pandemic3.com/
No real revolution in 3D printing will come from the US government. It is busy trying to chase down CAD files for 3DP guns. It will likewise try to chase down CAD files for medical devices and pharmaceuticals. It will fail, but it will waste a lot of money in the process.

Want to promote 3DP innovation? Rather than blow millions on manufacturing institutes, we should just tell Beth McCormick[1] in DDTC[2] to stand down and stop harassing[3] Defcad, the real innovators in 3D printing. Because heavy-handed enforcement of ITAR by USG will just drive 3DP overseas, just as it has driven satellite manufacturing overseas [4,5].

[1]: http://m.state.gov/md137729.htm

[2]: http://www.pmddtc.state.gov

[3]: http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/5050

[4]: http://www.exportlawblog.com/archives/3837

[5]: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post...
You'd be much better off basing your billing rate on the value that you're providing to the customer, rather than the cost/time that it takes you. This is a very basic business skill, but it's not always apparent to those of us who just like to build things, whether we get paid or not.

Try to get comfortable with the idea that you deserve to be paid very well for your work. (It's something I've had to do.) In my case, it was very uncomfortable to send that first message with my new higher rate. But I spelled out the value of the work I was proposing (which had obvious benefit for the client, but also bolstered my own mental fortitude), and the client happily agreed. And now the client is "educated" as to what this type of thing is actually worth. :)

Good luck!
I'm pretty sure I've seen posts pretty much Dead On Arrival though... I don't think the mods are monitoring the Newest page 24/7?
Awesome UIs
No More Monkeying Around
They have open sourced the tools for this:
https://code.google.com/p/closure-stylesheets/#Renaming

The stated reason is to reduce file size.