skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You like to point fingers, eh? Is my name pg? I have no idea why.

I will take a gander however and assume someone didn't like what was presumably a rhetorical and pretentious response.

I do though agree. As to your first response, a quick right click will show that the site is made with Wordpress. The lack of formatting for the stack grids suggests it MAY be a plugin from which this is being retrieved; nevertheless with the choice of Wordpress, I am doubtful.
The analogy of Emacs learning curve being a fractal is quite appropriate I think if we take each fractal to represent an amount of time required to gain proficiency in modes that introduce significant amounts of features, with the smaller fractals representing modes that require less time to learn.

That sounds like chaos, but it captures Emacs platform nature and diversity of functionality well and seems true thus far as Emacs replaces more and more tools.
A nice resource, however I'd expected to see some actual programming on this page. Perhaps some sample code in a few languages would be nice. You could put tabs on a code box to switch between a python and PHP implementation for example.
The OP didn't say there's no innovation at all in Windows. He just said it's slower than in the Linux kernel, and as a consequence atm Windows lags behind Linux in performance-critical usage scenarios.
Yahoo's board approves $1.1 billion all-cash Tumblr acquisition
Why 'Agile Project Management Controls' Isn't an Oxymoron
You might want to optimize those images (startup logos). Many of them are like 175 KB each.
> Startups change the world
> There is one in every corner
> Like a million stars in the Milky Way
> Let design help you shine

This one doesn't work for me. Just too... marketing-ish.
It is a very common result in cognitive decision-making studies that people don't value what they don't pay for. Whether or not you think the issue is more complex, the fact of it is very well established: in general, absent other measures of utility, price signals are used by purchasers in their initial valuation of a commodity. It's a limit example of the anchoring bias, a cognitive effect to which most humans are ridiculously susceptible.

There is a flow-on effect in the way consumers interact with a service provider, too: per account, you'll receive more complaints from free users than paying ones; vice-versa, more constructive suggestions from paying users than non-paying users. This result is explained as a choice-supportive response [look it up; "the tendency to retroactively ascribe more positive attributes to a choice invested into"], since the opposite behaviour would be a source of cognitive dissonance. It can be a source of frustration to paying users that their suggestions/requests are not then more highly valued by the service provider.
VMWare's scripted or Adobe's brackets, will we code insight our browsers?
What do you think: do we code insight our browsers in the future?
VMWare and Adobe did some work towards this:
https://github.com/scripted-editor/scripted
https://github.com/adobe/brackets

Pros:
- easier pair-programming
- synced dev workspace
- device independent
- ...
Of a sort. It was rewritten in C++ and Perl (http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/m...), but is still an active product in its new form.
Try to wrap your head around Factor: http://factorcode.org/ Possibly it will not break out this year, but I'm sure it will become fairly popular in the future.
The title had the name in it too originally but it seems that a moderator changed it.
Eclipse (not currently an option in the poll except as "other gui")
I recall reading that back in the good old days at HP, they would split a group into two groups once it grew to over 100 people.

This discussion of Dunbar's number gives some useful background:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
Hacker News Kansai: Next Meetup in Kobe, Japan on 31st of May
Asus Google Nexus 7 Tablet LCD|Screen
90s cartoons were brilliant. Dexter's Lab. Alladin, Scooby Doo, Flinstones and some other creative stuff.

Now these shows and senseless Japanese cartoons are flooding the TV. Phineas and Ferb is my only hope.
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Mars is a non-starter? I think you've received some bad information.

Average radiation on the Mars surface is 10-20 rem/year. With a thicker atmosphere it will be less. And for people spending 12-15 hours a day indoors in shielded dwellings it will be a lot less. It's not a showstopper at all.
Deploying a Web app in 14 days, No HTML
Yes it's a good thing. There are other places in the world that don't just use ascii. If you want European style numbers just use [0-9]
Playing games is still passive, non-creative consumption of content.
Asked yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728866
wow. this is interesting.
Yes, this is a very valid point. somehow this is missing.
> Do you have any reason to believe the experts know better what is good for one's health?

Yes. You don't need to look at the effects of a particular diet because you can be reductionist as a proxy. For example, examining the effect of a meat-heavy diet on people is difficult, as you said. But if you know what meat does in a diet (correlates with high cholesterol, e.g.) you can examine the effect of high cholesterol on a diet, and if you find out it's bad you could determine that eating in a way which contributes to high cholesterol is generally a bad idea.
If your looking to make your product "exclusive," to a specific demographic....in the course of your business, someone is going to pay, whether it's you eat the cost, or your users do.

Even when Facebook started, it was hemorrhaging debt in the beginning...and eventually, they went to ads (even with the outcry). User's usually hate change, each product is different, so try to constantly ruminate a method or revenue (maybe even for select users in your demographic).
WIFI 327 WIFI USB OBD2 EOBD Car Scan Auto Scanner Tool
Function:

1. Read diagnostic trouble codes, both generic and manufacturer-specific, and display their meaning (over 3000 generic code definitions in the database).
2. Clear trouble codes and turn off the MIL ("Check Engine" light)
3. Display current sensor data, including: Engine RPM; Calculated Load Value; Coolant Temperature; Fuel System Status; Vehicle Speed; Short Term Fuel Trim; Long Term Fuel Trim; Intake Manifold Pressure; Timing Advance; Intake Air Temperature; Air Flow Rate; Absolute Throttle Position;Oxygen sensor voltages/associated short term fuel trims; Fuel System status;Fuel Pressure.
The link to "how-to-read-an-unlabeled-sales-chart.html" has an extra s after unlabeled.
The way I grokked is that this is the first thing really comparable to slavery since it "officially" ended. It's not a novel opinion; blacks are incarcerated at six times the level of whites (1). http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
Good for you, and I seriously mean that. One of my friends, who actually finished a BA and dropped out of a MA degree (not to say your educational credentials matter, but it will become relevant later in my post) had some really neat ideas on ancient Semitic linguistics, related to a bunch of wall inscriptions he found out about while living in Egypt. He later tried to contact the foremost authority, a Western academic who is one of the few who had any interest or academic weight (with a topic this esoteric, I imagine the former is more important) and present his ideas. Needless to say, that ancient Semitic linguist was not amused. He not only ripped into my friend, but at the suggestion my friend visit the site that inspired him to do said research, the professor mentioned he had an exclusive memorandum of understanding with the Egyptian governmental body in charge of the antiquities, and threatened him if he ever visited without the permission the professor had no intention of providing, he would be arrested. Keep in mind he was not even in the locale, but in the United States. I saw subsequent emails where he refused to even consider my friends theories, and was increasingly dismissive.

So my friend, not easily discouraged, went on to contacting the less than a dozen experts in this field, few with any knowledge on this period. He presented paper drafts to several; many ignored, and those who responded rudely dismissed him without getting into the content.

Maybe it is just because the field is narrow, but I suspect certain academic disciplines believe in some kind of job security, and pouncing on amateurs and pushing them out the door, regardless of their perceived contribution to the field, is paramount. I am glad you have had the opposite experience.

I too a masters degree dropout from an accelerated program, and left with out the masters in the bachelors masters combo. Why? Because despite the money I never had experiences like you in school. All the teachers in my program, despite thinking my knowledge level was quite strong and generally liked me, disliked meeting with me outside of class or pushing me to read or study things we could discuss. I got disheartened, and was disgusted at how many teachers do not belong in academia, and just like the echo chamber of their own ideas. I know I could have made a better effort, but the lack of effort on their end to sit and talk with anyone who had a modicum of interest was shocking to me. To this day, I wish private universities would take the out of class contact more seriously in evaluating professors, because your comment proves no one is too busy to talk on academic subject they are passionate about. My friend's anecdote just shows some cliques are just that, and letting anyone is calculated risk to the group regardless of contribution; some people will never take that risk.

I just wish assholes like that would go somewhere else other than a university setting.

tl;dr I had the opposite experience with academics, and one of my friends tried hard in a very small domain and had even worse results; YMMV and some academics have no interest in spreading knowledge at all. Fuck them.
The problem is to prioritise addition over subtraction and multiplication over division rather than assigning them equal priorities and evaluating the expression left-to-right. In German, there is no ‘PEMDAS’ but only ‘Punkt vor Strich’ (‘Dots before dashes’?), i.e. multiplication/division (·,:) before addition/subtraction (+,-). Parentheses obviously still take precedence.
Bear with me.

The conditioning in this is media is shaping the minds of individuals (intentionally or not), who will most likely not be aware of this going on during consumption. The old way being television or in relation to this posting, Disney and "…stupid adult stereotypes, sarcasm, backstabbing behavior, and contempt…". The new way being "interactive" media, or in relation to this posting, Minecraft and related content consumed where "Bad language is easy to curb…".

The "stupid adult stereotypes, sarcasm, backstabbing behavior, and contempt" is hardly unique Disney or other child TV consumption (or TV for that matter…). One thing people point out with television consumption people have stated time and time again, is that it hardly invites it's viewers to explore ideas outside of the content while viewing. Then it seems like some how, the ability to be able to interact with media with content like Minecraft is some how better (allows children to be more creative, enabling more thinking, or whatever people say the benefits are compared to what people think of television now [though I bet some people were touting the benefits of television not to long ago…]), which I can see/understand the argument being made here for that with the logic being made on surface level.

However, the thing is that it isn't like what the children are doing is outside of the purpose of the game and are very much only able to do things within the constructs the game. At the end of the day, it is still a game. And like Disney shows or the like, it still does not invite the player to explore ideas and concepts that are going within the game at the same time. So to me, it seems like overall the child is no better off with being able to digest things like "Bad language…" and notions of "…stupid adult stereotypes, sarcasm, backstabbing behavior, and contempt"(hardly unique to our times since it is apart of human nature after all) that could be going on in the game or other consumable content related.

It seems to me it would be foolish to think that this "new interactive media" does any more or less compared to the "old way" (TV, or the tech before that like radio and even books) when it comes to addressing the underlying issues being avoided. And apparently, even trying to have a discussion upon such seems to be avoided…
>>you'll receive more complaints from free users than paying ones; vice-versa, more constructive suggestions from paying users than non-paying users

This is SOOOOOO true! It's because monetary value comes with commitment!
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but environment variables and arguments are different things. Environment variables avoid exactly that problem
Everybody else is using Bwaivers. You're not doing short-term work for your clients, you're working for your company in your home country, and visiting clients.
Slavery is legal in prison.

Yes, you should be revolting over this.
More like, because it's happening to someone that is: a) 'one of us' and b) he's someone high profile, that is attempting to remain so even after going to prison. I have a feeling that if Weev was black or Asian it would still be a big deal to us[1]. I don't remember hearing much about Kevin Mitnik's issues with his jailers. I'm sure he had at least some.

[1] Though there is the remote possibility that it would be cared about 'less' because it would be seen as racial discrimination rather than just out right maliciousness, but I'm optimistic that this wouldn't be the case.
1. "Authentication Tokens" are stored only with user permission. Why? So we can seamlessly allow the user who gives us permission to post to FB, Twitter. Its standard industry practice.

2. non-personally-identifiable information is something every app collects and should do so. It helps us understand our how to serve our users better. With respect to 3rd parties - see 'Kontagent' for example. They're a super smart data analysis company. Why re-invent the wheel. Again, a standard industry practice.

Hope that puts your skeptical viewpoints to rest :)
Hello OP! :>

I'd suggest since you have already had a nice amount of links built to the site and with only 1 type of anchor text then just build more links at a steady pace to the site itself with varying anchor texts and link types (hxxp://www.website.com, www.website.com, website.com) and ther variations. Vary dofollow and nofollow too. While doing all of this don't forget to build backlinks similar to he ones that you have built previously. Stopping to build links with a certain combination of anchor text will seem to Google as being very very unnatural.

Also, begin building your own blog network- and then build links to the blogs in the blog network. I like to call those sites "Buffer sites" since they will be taking the load of my linkbuilding efforts. Load these sites up with content, full on blogs with regular posts, privacy policy and the works. Have content that is valuable to visitors and hen funnel the visitors on to your main site. You would then be able to have a bunch of blogs that bring in traffic to the main site itself since the blogs would've been jam-packed with content and would funnel the users into your ecommerce site. This would have a couple of benefits: When you rank the blogs you get them up for your keywords, and since the blogs link to your ecommerce store the store climbs up there too. So basically using this by doing 1 set of linkbuilding you can dominate the whole of page 1 for your keywords.

Would be awesome if we could connect. You seem to be a very interesting person to talk to :>
Hey, I was the lead dev on this, will answer questions.
I must be lucky then or my teacher was a real good one. I even didn't learn something like PEMDAS.
I'm not particularly fond of go, but "correctly handling unicode" can be subjective and case-dependent... I think making only minimal guarantees and punting to the application is often the only sane course.
"s"? "a"? Mind explaining some of these?
Well, they can't vote so it's easy for politicians to use them as fodder to further political goals.
They're suggesting that fashion models get twice as many as devs. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe this is a misunderstanding in how the applications work.

The process is that you apply, and then you get it or you don't. If they run out the same week you applied in, then you get put in a lottery. There's no person or process saying the fashion models are more important or get 2x as many visas as devs.
This is a great idea.

Some suggestions

-Some more links about their destination would be great - links to wikitravel; photos from other travellers, hotel/flight etc.

-Not all photo albums (especially with non-phone cameras) have location information attached as the user has to tag that location. I've noticed many of my friends will name their holiday album with the name of the country or city? Is there some way you would find trips based off photo albums with country names or similar?

I like it a lot, but once I've seen my friends trips in a minute or two; I'm not sure what to do now. Nice work.
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I am Kavin Mittal and you can point all your questions to me.

On Data and Airtel, can't blame you for thinking that way. Most of the industry is filled with those kinds. Airtel and BSB are different companies. No such thing happening.

1. "Authentication Tokens" are stored only with user permission. Why? So we can seamlessly allow the user who gives us permission to post to FB, Twitter. Its standard industry practice.

2. non-personally-identifiable information is something every app collects and should do so. It helps us understand our how to serve our users better. With respect to 3rd parties - see 'Kontagent' for example. They're a super smart data analysis company. Why re-invent the wheel. Again, a standard industry practice.

Have a skim through any other messaging apps terms and I'm sure you'll see nothing different.

Anything else?
Samsung makes really great hardware (speaking in terms of the computing functionality of the machine, not industrial design where I think they are merely average at best), but I've never used Samsung software that didn't make me want to smash something. It is always possible they might someday turn that around, but as of right now their best bet is to stick with the Android ecosystem and let Google do most of the software work.
It's a real shame that they have to come up with such workarounds, simply because Apple won't allow their users to use their preferred browser as default.
I am angry that the law is so flawed, that the authorities are so slow to act, that the accountancy firms employed to write the laws were not impartial, and that companies negotiate special deals with HMRC.

You shouldn't be, because tax avoidance/evasion measures like the Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich are not caused by the flaws in one country's laws, but by multi-national corporations exploiting differences between tax laws in different jurisdictions to avoid paying tax where they generate revenue and instead pay tax in the jurisdiction with the lowest tax rates. This is not something HMRC alone can easily fix, nor is it a flaw in just one set of laws, but a lack of international control governing corporate behaviour, which is unlikely to be resolved soon unless you want to see a world state. The reason for the special deals is that corporations have many ways of pressuring governments (jobs, investment, etc) and the big ones wield more power and influence than the state itself.

Instead perhaps you could try being angry at large corporations for evading their responsibilities as corporate citizens to pay tax, for dissembling about where revenue is generated and how in an attempt to avoid tax, for creating subsidiaries and licensing agreements solely to declare a nominal loss, and for creating complex chains of companies in many different countries in an attempt to evade tax. Despite the apparent clarity of terms like avoidance and evasion, or legal and illegal, which people use to describe these activities and make them appear simple, there is no clear line between avoidance and evasion, only a set of interpretations, and in this case Google have strayed too close to evasion in the opinion of this whistleblower and of HMRC. Given the evidence presented and the lack of convincing answers from Google, I'm inclined to agree.
Please, please increase the contrast on your site. Gray on barely-lighter-gray is really tough to read.
Security is Privacy (Felix "FX" Lindner)
Sorry. This was not clear to me. I thought you were talking about any internet petition. :)
The Article says that HTML is a derivative of XML. IIRC, HTML comes from SGML not from XML. And SGML is definitely made with being written directly by a human in mind.
Good pizza and good squid risotto aren't polar opposites: they are both full of carbs and contain almost the same amount of sodium. Pizza probably has more vitamins due to the tomato sauce.

My contention is that pizza doesn't have to be junk food, it just is most of the time in the US. Choose a better restaurant or make your own.
Why this wasn't implemented at the first time. Doesn't seem hard to do...
This sounds glib on the surface but it's really surprisingly deep. The key is to realize that the problem solving doesn't happen in the second step, but rather in the first. Writing down your problem means you have to structure it in some way, to frame it in a way that at least can be represented on paper. Perhaps it's a formalization, or simply a brief explanation. In any case, step 2 is only possible because of step 1 for most interesting problems. Even for those of us who aren't Feynman.
Thanks, I'll try to make it a bit more readable.
I'm not aware of them outright buying any apps, but they did make a deal with the ITV Player people to make the newest versions of that app Samsung device specific for a pretty substantial period of time.

Of course, I've never even heard of ITV Player until that deal became public and it is a two-star app on the app store, so I'm not sure that matters much in the great scheme of things.
True, perhaps a better description would be that HTML is a sibling to XML.

Whether HTML was intended for humans or not, it isn't in my opinion a particularly nice way to develop applications. Don't get me wrong, I love web applications, but writing them with HTML isn't a requirement.
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Been there, done that.

It is not as glorious as it sounds. I had some very strong intuitions about some obscure computer science problem (maybe 10 people worked on it worldwide, but I think they gave up already). I was thinking about this problem for at least one year, with some periods of very intensive thinking. I could have really used that time more productively, because that was already quite a busy period for me, but the solution seemed so close.

After about one year, I finally had a solution mapped out, which I think would work. However, there were some major implementation problems (memory complexity). That was the time when I was finally able to let it go.

So the advise that I would give to people is: focus on real-world problem, that real people have.
We are working on something similar at StartHQ. In addition to listing which services any given company uses, we've also been thinking of listing the technologies the services themselves use, e.g. https://starthq.com/apps/?technology=mongodb

Is this something you'd find useful?
We should remember that if we have personal dealings with him. This is about humane treatment, which must transcend what we think about him.