skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do the same, and I know a few others who do the same. It is really annoying to see FB buttons (somehow, twitter and google buttons don't annoy as much - not sure why)
Ask HN: Travelling the world while working on projects. Best way to do this?
I've saved up enough money at my day job to hopefully travel the world for a couple of years, but I also want to take this opportunity to grow as a developer and designer as much as possible. I'm probably going to be travelling from hostel to hostel at first (with a few weeks at each), but I'm concerned that I won't be able to find a good place to work. Are there typically quiet areas in hostels where work could be done? Is it acceptable in Europe to bum around in a cafe for half the day, assuming you keep buying coffee at regular intervals? What about hackerspaces -- are those common in Europe? Libraries? Any other options I'm missing? (Apartments are a possibility for later on in my travels, but I still want to have a reasonably active social life, and I'm not sure how easy that is when you're in a foreign country.)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as I've never done anything like this before. Thank you!
No, my reading comprehension is fine. You explicitly endorsed the measure and write not a single word that could be construed to refer to "proof and transparency".

EDIT this response was submitted before "Though I do think my sentences were poorly structured, it did not say what you you seem to think it said." was added.
Non-responsive superiors are a great excuse in business. Stuff can get "stuck" for quite a while if you have enough bureaucratic obfuscation to justify it. When the buck starts and stops in the same place you have nowhere to turn.
I close it immediately when there's no other option to sign up via email. I don't understand the FB lock in. Anyone who wants to sign up via email alternatively, would probably be fine filling out a list of interests. TBH, I'd rather fill out the interests myself instead of having this app pull god knows how many I have saved in FB now.
German regulator has Xbox One privacy concerns
Why not just weighting the value of each like by the number of likes given over a period of time? People who spare the likes will give more value, those who like it all, won´t really add much value with their like.
Hey guys, we actually have a survey after the fb login for that reason (I have few interests on my FB profile). And we WONT write on your wall under any circumstances.

Lastly, for now wanted to dodge anonymous signups. Won't be much fun to set you up with people that are not real.
Hope you give it a shot.
It's actually implemented in a better way (no db required) with most web servers: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSecureLinkModule
Know your chemical weapons
Bret is probably an awesome teacher.

tl;dr: "Right now, today, we can't see the thing, at all, that's going to be the most important 100 years from now...But whatever that thing is -- people will have to think it. And we can, right now, today, prepare powerful ways of thinking for these people. We can build the tools that make it possible to think that thing."
Why? Have they prosecuted the "money-laundering" HSBC bank yet?
Why coffee is called “joe”
is it just me or when you signed up and create a new project, the screen is blank. Then you can't do anything.
This looks like a great start, but there are some missing parts and serious issues with the typography. In many places the text size is just too small, while the typeface they're using here is too light for display. The link text under Michael Peterson is a good example of the problem: http://topcoat.io/topcoat/doc/mobile.html#m-well
It's remarkable testament to the power of greed that so much computing power is being poured into the digital equivalent of manufacturing Beanie Babies. Are there any reliable estimates on the volume of Bitcoins that are actually used as currency, compared to the volume of purely speculative trading?
Looks great, is there a cost involved?

Not sure on the name, though?
I really like the concept, I was thinking on something like this a while ago, but it was around the concept of going out to dinner with someone, sometimes you want to try a new restaurant but your friends are maybe busy or they don't fancy the food, even though you could go on your own, eating alone is not always fun.
I'm not so hopeful about electric cars. The nice version of the Tesla S has an 85kwh battery to accomplish adequate range, and its drivetrain is probably pushing 90% efficiency. It really does take 80-100kwh to drive a midsized sedan for 250+ miles.

Even a doubling of battery power/weight ratio from now is optimistic. And charging times are tied to that massive storage - a 20kw source (the equivalent of a 200 amp circuit at home) would take over four hours to charge it. And that's, say, 20 amps at 1000 volts - enough to jump a spark a few feet and leave a smoking puddle where your shoes used to be if there's a problem. So faster charging requires specialized charging stations that must be carefully managed, a lead Tesla has taken. And even those stations can only do half-full on power. The battery won't take the abuse of high speed charging all the way.

So the car tech is already here. The charging problem, on the other hand, is borderline unsolveable.
Why does Kenya lead the world in mobile money?
Some of the factors behind Kenya's lead cannot be copied; but many of them can, which means it should eventually be possible for other countries to follow Kenya's pioneering example.
Is there no middle ground where we can have political dissent without vicious gossip and other crap newspapers do? After writing I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents, Thomas Jefferson later noted, I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief. http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/ThomasJefferson...
Meanwhile, in the real world people have server bills to worry about.
Chrome not updated for Centos 6.4 Current?
Chrome now thinks that my distro is out of date and won't update itself! So this means that Centos, RHEL and OEL are all unsupported? I know that these are not desktop distro's really, but to be fair many people like to use the same thing in dev that they will be deploying to in live. Surely some mistake mr. google?
Ask HN: What's the best book or website to learn JQuery?
Development Tools & Gems
http://www.hashbackup.com has dedup, compression, encryption, and lets you use your own storage: AWS or compatibles, rsync, ssh, ftp, imap, local dir, mounted remote dir. Disclosure: I'm the author.
It also makes you one dimensional because everyone is like you. This can be bad for your own personal development and coming across ideas in different areas of industry/economy. No wonder you see "herd" startups in SF a lot of times. There is too much noise in SF.
Google recently made an agreement with MPEG-LA, though it can be incompatible with open source licensing:

http://www.h-online.com/news/item/VP8-WebM-cross-licence-inc...

Then there are also attacks on VPx by Nokia, which became a patent troll serving MS interests lately:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Nokia-lines-up-patent...

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Third-Nokia-patent-ta...

See also: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2035/

There is hope that Nokia is just FUDing, and these patents can be invalidated or shown to be irrelevant to VP8. (That's the story with Opus audio codec being attacked by various patent trolls). But all this takes time and these trolls naturally hate the idea of open HTML5 video.
Absolutely right, no idea why I got it wrong.
We're working on it! Pls file issues http://github.com/topcoat/topcoat and we'll get on em. =)
Thanks, we think dinner is a good idea but so are other activities (playing a sport, computer game, or whatever)
There are no pictures, btw, for those a work.
Your sarcastometer needs to be returned to the manufacturer for major overhaul. It has lost calibration. (Actually the last line in my comment should have given it away, it recalls a comment on Seneca the Younger by a French philosopher, can't remember the name. He called him "a man of honour in a time when such did not exist".)

The comment was supposed to make two point: first there is this prevalent opinion here that market forces will invariably guarantee an outcome that is beneficial to society. This would suggest option b) or c) for the OP, dependent on his skills and connections. I dislike both, and so do you.

Also, both of us know that people have gotten into trouble for disclosing vulnerabilities, even when they were disclosed only to the owner/manufacturer. This isn't acceptable, neither to the person who pointed this out, nor to society in general, because it leads to vulnerabilities left unfixed, and unfixed vulnerabilities have a knock-on effect on the wider world.
The claim is that likes are a flawed currency to represent what people like because the cost of clicking a button on a web site trades for an infinitesimal amount of liking, so your representation winds being nearly useless to predict reality. Placing a limit on the "like" action to force people to choose is one potential way to increase the real value of the representation, hopefully extracting a stronger, more usable signal.
Similar problem for me, except it doesn't even open the popup. The page just scrolls to the top and a # gets appended to the URL. Looks like some Javescript listener is failing to fire.

I'm using Safari 6 on Mac OS 10.8 if that helps.
Is there a way to get notified when a linux port is available?
"- they open up to more transparency and would somehow counter most of the bs articles."

Again, it's poorly structured, but not as poorly as missing the entire word "transparency"
Indeed, the most valuable part of flashcards for me has always been distilling a semester into a set of questions that are suitable for the format. Then the flashcard is a marker into a larger corpus of information that is in my head, instead of the sum total of information I have on a topic.
My pleasure!

Just to reduce the mixing of themes, I wanted to comment that amusement is a big part of Huxley's Brave New World, but it really doesn't fit with Orwell's 1984. Postman's thesis is that Huxley, not Orwell, was more prescient in his fears for humanity.
Prove: Phone verification for developers
So to tell if you're dealing with a pre-render request or an actual view you have to stick a load of AJAX in your page to make another whole HTTP connection from the users browser? Am I missing something here? Because that really sucks!
Thoughts on Google I/O 2013
You may try to watch dubbed Tv/Films to spanish, easier to find, and you can find the spanish subtitles http://www.subtitulos.es/ .
Exploring synchronous replication in Redis
Direct link http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/05/24/chemical_wea...
Love the app!!
I use something very similar to your system, but people who know better will tell you that your admin functions should be at a distinct app at admin.example.com, which you'd make only accessible to people VPNing into a gateway box which does nothing but VPN. You can secure them normally after that, independently of the service proper.

This prevents a variety of attacks, such as leaving as XSS anywhere in your application, from causing you to lose th le admin console.
Working with the White House
South Side man pleads guilty in 2011 cyberattacks
A better guess would be that the last new bitcoin will never be mined, because exponential growth in hardware dedicated to it will not last, given that the cost/benefit ratio (in terms of power, hardware, and effort) gets worse the fewer bitcoins you can mine per minute. And when people stop being able to mine them, their value will drop because people aren't making them anymore, which leads to it being even less worthwhile to mine them, until they are being mined too slowly even to hit the adjustment point - in other words, when the bubble pops, the currency will collapse completely.

So from that point of view, the last new bitcoin is likely to be mined earlier than expected - but it won't be the 21 millionth.
feature request.

for software teams.

at EOD write "how you are going to quickly jump back into code". This introduces a business process to enforce a cognitive best practice that leads to much faster "stack load" times.
Why yes, yes I did. Thank you for asking.

This is a way of tracking tasks completion. It appears to have much less structure than even a straightforward tool like Trello. Perhaps my question would have been better phrased as: What value does this provide over a tool like Trello or Basecamp?
At least one aspect of the peer review process should be better now than in 1982, when the paper was published: resubmission detection. Detecting plagiarism seems easy these days, just google for "detect plagiarism". But are reviewers actually using these tools? It would be interesting to repeat the resubmission experiment and see the results.
Digging for Pirate Gold
Having represented these people for 15 years, no. Non-sexual and non violent. Whats left. Some form of theft - worse for a company than violence. Multiple DWIs? Drunk. Drug offenses? No.
During the NATO protests. Black helicopters and all.
> The solution is to keep light gradients, light drop shadows, and some gloss. Just enough to keep a good level of usability, while not adding excessive ornamentation.

I agree intensely with this. I have always preferred designs without excessive ornamentation, but at the same time I like a little gradients and border radius. Border radius gets me especially.. you can have flat design with border radius -- but you don't need a border; just use border radius by itself. The kind of flat design that is all about sharp edges and boxes is so ugly.
Does this chain all the way down? Aka if my prerendered page also contains a link that prerenders a page, does that page get loaded too?

If so, if I prerender a page that prerenders the first page, does this crash the browser?
False statements to the feds carry a 5yr sentence. See: Martha Stewart.

It's pointless to argue this point, because the simple rule is, as you say, never to talk to the police, and have a lawyer and audio recorder if you do.
How does this compare to other PHP frameworks?
Composite GIF of batter Miguel Cabrera's plate coverage
why this instead of bootstrap?
I've already picked this up for a side project of mine. So far, it's been a pleasure working with the UI toolkit. I'm seriously looking forward for 1.0 release of the Desktop flavor.
I agree with this sentiment so much. I know it's a trendy HN thing to hate Facebook, but I seriously feel like the company lacks maturity and moral integrity and that's why I don't have one.

It's too bad since I was at first really excited about the idea of Let's Be Amigos, as it purports to solve a problem I've been having lately, but immediately my attitude did a 180. Facebook is not going to be a good resource to mine interests for people that don't have one.
The summary on Search Engine Roundtable seems to be a bit of a fabrication; I don't see anybody in that forum thread claiming to have been banned from AdSense.
Congratulations on living in a cultural vacuum!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American_Vernacular_Eng...
Good, I say, let this bias come. It may light a fire under scientists' asses to not lock their research behind a journal's paywall.
There is certainly negative pressure on likes. For well meaning users, likes reflect what you like, which means they reflect you. In the case of Facebook, the platform also advertises what you like to others.

People are strongly motivated to look good in the eyes of others, so most people don't like everything, that's just creepy.
Keith Rabois' thoughts on second round investment in Judicata
Humble Indie Bundle 8
Read that page of quotations, the whole one. All the answers are there.

Particularly:

"Since truth and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press confined to truth needs no other legal restraint. The public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions on a full hearing of all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness. If there be still improprieties which this rule would not restrain, its supplement must be sought in the censorship of public opinion." --Thomas Jefferson: 2nd Inaugural Address, 1805. ME 3:381
Glad you like the idea! We are adding more login options soon and a larger response below
10 stupid things smartphone users usually do
Indonesia Struggles with High Maternal Death Rate
your nick doesn't do you justice.
Singapore and China are proof of two things:

1) Freedom is not a necessary condition for economic prosperity (which undermines a lot of American rhetoric of the last 50 years);

2) The global business community doesn't give a shit about democracy, as demonstrated by its rush to embrace China, the Middle East, etc, and the corresponding apologizing about their political systems.

I nearly puked on Metro North the other day (like a drunk Westchester teen after too much fun in Manhattan) reading an article where some commentator with business interests in China tried to downplay the free speech situation in China as "cultural differences."
One good thing about vendor prefixes: easier to "refactor" one's code-base, as in: remove/replace the framework in the future when it is inevitably obsoleted / abandoned, as time marches on and other choices become more agreeable. (Great that all things web evolve so fast, but at the same time somewhat painful to keep on top of things.)
Pissing away chances
I'm rather surprised that not one student published a picture of the survey from a cell phone.
Here's hoping open, post-publication review catches on:

http://futureofscipub.wordpress.com/open-post-publication-pe...
http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/10.338...
http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/brian-deers-...
Scientists develop CO2 sequestration technique that produces hydrogen fuel
A two minute tour of Airfoil: A/B tested landing pages built on Backlift
Hard to detect plagiarism when the original article is behind a paywall of another publisher
http://bfj7.com/posts/2013-04-22-innovation-week-days-1-2.ht... (haven't tried it yet)
Show HN: Backup Tumblr to Evernote (and publish on Postach.io)
We just rolled out Tumblr Import on Postach.io - it will backup all your Tumblr posts into Evernote, and publish the published ones on Postach.io.

http://postach.io
I've tried it and it sort of works, I've had it on some of my sites for a while now. One thing that it doesn't seem to handle is the 'search results prefetching'. I have a dynamic table, and when a person types in their search terms, the table will filter, and if filtering results in 4 or less rows in the table, i'll add a prefetch to each of those links. However, what chrome does is start the request and then immediately cancel it. So the server's cache is warmed up, but the client still has to request the page.

So, Chrome supports prefetch but it seems to cancel the request immediately (you can see this with the network monitoring tool of chrome).

Anyway, here's their take on it, and it makes a lot of sense.

https://developers.google.com/chrome/whitepapers/prerender
Six Examples of Strong Homepage Headlines
No, I don't tell them to start with HTML at all. That's not programming, that's markup/text formatting.

I do in fact tell them to start with Lisp, Scheme more precisely. Best learning language available [1].

Real learning is about understanding the underlying concepts and being able to reapply them in different contexts. That's what Lisp/Scheme (and C for imperative concepts and memory management) does for learning programming, and drawing does for learning design.

[1]: http://www.trollope.org/scheme.html
I for one am really happy when someone decides to develop an alternative to a popular product.
To echo @adambard, I would've given this a shot as well if you hadn't requested my FB login. I'm very protective of using my FB credentials on a site I don't know much about (probably an irrational fear, but I know I'm not alone.)

You will get more signups if you offer alternatives, vs. trying to convince people you won't abuse the FB privileges. Just something to consider.
> Actually, launchd replaces init, inetd, crond, atd, and watchdogd.

That's not a "system daemon". Let's break it down:

- init: start/stop services

- inet: start/stop services

- cron: start jobs on a schedule

- atd: start jobs on a schedule

- watchdogd: restart services

Notice the commonality? launchd launches services, possibly on a schedule.

> I mean where do you think systemd got the idea from? :)

systemd is monolithic and system-invasive in ways that launchd never could be, or that anyone wants it to be. Just take a look at the systemd feature list[1]: Quota handling, swap handling, encrypted disk handling, kernel module loading, graphical UI, syslog replacement, console/keyboard configuration, X11 integration, fsck handling, serial console handling, and more!

Systemd is a crazy kitchen sink of a project. It's no wonder that it's non-portable, and I can't imagine trying to evolve the components of a system that came to rely on it. The minute you want to change how an OS subsystem works (eg, such as the automounter), you'll have to dig into the non-portable/non-abstracted systemd code.

[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/why.html
I also stopped dead in my tracks when I saw FB signup. But I'd appreciate the choice of using FB or filling out a quick survey.

I'm also willing to bet money that, faced with actually filling out a survey, many people otherwise reluctant to sign in with FB will just do it.
Are Microsoft shareholders mad as hell?
Ask HN: How do you set up your dev environment?
Do you use VMs? Do you use Boxen? Or a chef recipe? Or maybe everyone SSH's into machines o.O? What do you use and are you happy with it?
It's very easy to get going with and to learn.

It has good documentation (available here[0] for version four) and the code is filled with comments if the documentation isn't enough.

It uses "Eloquent ORM" which makes it so easy to handle data with Active Record.

RESTful controllers makes it easy to handle the request.

And much more, which is why you need to read the documentation to understand why it's different.

[0] http://four.laravel.com
Hollywood wants Right to use Malware to hack the computers of Pirates
No matter how cheap solar energy becomes, it won't be a complete solution until the energy storage problem is solved. I don't see the same rate of progress on that. If you can't store the energy you'll need a backup that can supply the missing power when the sun isn't shining - you'll need to keep building the old fashioned power plants even if you don't run them as often.

Unfortunately there's no guarantee that prices will rise at the time and pace required for efficient uptake of new technologies. The easiest way to reduce demand is to tank the economy. We got a taste of that in 2008, and I'm not looking forward to it happening again.