skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello!

I like the idea! I hope this is constructive.

I signed up with facebook.

The next page asked me what my location was. I thought that was a bit odd, because what's the point of giving you access to all my FB stuff? So, I drop down the thingy and there are 2 towns, both in California. Well, it's brand new so I kind of expected that. But I have no idea how to enter my location. Do I just put my town name? Or town name, county? Or town name, UK? Or what? So, I guess at town and UK.

The next three boxes ask me for some things I've done recently. Eh, I really don't do much. It might be worth giving people a grid of ideas as suggestions?
You can see an open source, hosted dashboard that we're developing here:

https://github.com/balanced/balanced-dashboard

It's live @ https://dash.balancedpayments.com/

We're currently moving over the old dashboard to the new one, so it's currently a WIP. Happy to field any questions on Github.
First off, congratulations! Not a lot of people have the drive to save up that money for a big goal.

Hostels will give you an active social life but may be difficult to work with:

1. Some have common areas, but it's usually only quiet during off hours
2. Wifi will be a pain (even if a hostel advertises it, it's usually weak/broken)
3. Your laptop might get stolen, not all hostels have lockers.
If they do advertise lockers, it's usually small. Bring your own lock.

Some tips:

1. Working at cafes are totally acceptable as long as you purchase items
from them once in a while.
2. If you do decide to rent apartments, check out Airbnb. People usually
offer discounts for 1-month rentals. It's not so great for durations
shorter than 1 week b/c you'll usually have to meet/greet the owners
(which becomes difficult in a new foreign city, where you don't have a
cell phone and flight/train schedules get delayed a lot)
3. Think about getting a cheap GSM smartphone that can tether. When you
arrive in a new country, get a prepaid SIM card with data. It's usually
slower, but it's useful when wifi is missing.

Once again, congrats and have a lot of fun!
I buy pretty much every Humble Indie Bundle, even though I'm really not a gamer, and have played I think about six games to completion in my life. I do it to support the indie game phenomenon more than anything else. The $10-15 it takes to beat the average a handful of times a year is worth it to me on that basis alone.

Well, that and the fact that I have several dozen games I could futz around with should I find myself suddenly possessed of the "free time" to do so.
Any Singaporeans here? What's preventing you from chatting up the government and ask for free elections? They don't seem that evil to me..?

You know, tell them "thanks, you did a great job developing this country, but we would like to take it from here and control our own future...".

What would happen? Is there any way to do this that would be successful?
Interestingly, the Privacy Policy[1], Terms of Service[2] and Imprint[3] are some of the most clearly worded I've come across anywhere! :)

[1]: https://www.subtask.com/privacy

[2]: https://www.subtask.com/terms

[3]: https://www.subtask.com/imprint
The Hacker News Button
Joint Health Supplement used by NFL Players
I just recently received a review of my paper, and it came with a pdf-report of which text fragments match a database of previous publications and the internet, made by some software called iThenticate. So clearly the journal now has a policy to automatically run this test for every submitted manuscript.

I haven't seen this before, so maybe that is getting more common these years now.
What you're describing is pretty much fundamentally a "single page web app". This is a pretty common pattern for frontend apps.
Learning directives, services, and the scary sounding "transclusion" has not been an issue at all for my team and I who are using angular on a very large project and loving it. Directives are quite simple once you understand the basic principles. Transclusion when actually explained (http://www.egghead.io/video/cjrBTjMvruI) is a trivial and obvious concept. I understand the confusion one may have around services/factories/providers because they are all very similar and in some ways little more than syntactic sugar for a single API, but once their differences are sorted out as in this blog post (http://iffycan.blogspot.com/2013/05/angular-service-or-facto...) they too become very natural.
It was only a matter of time before a Snapchat leaked website went up
Well, the fact that they may be hypocrites doesn't make them wrong, but a look at their arguments for tax breaks on the oil industry could help better understand where they're coming from. Do you have some links to those? Thanks.
Take a look at Nicolas Gallagher's (necolas) Suit toolkit:

https://github.com/necolas/suit
SSL error
Yeah, it makes a lot of sense to never have any sort of stable, widely-accepted solution built over a long period of time. Let's just keep having a new artisanal web framework of the week.

Web developers are an utter fucking embarrassment and shit like this is exactly why.
Looks very Asana-like
Hi Dan,

Well one issue is that you can work in one city and live in another. That may not be reflected in Facebook. We didn't think about town vs. county vs. city.

Suggestions are a great idea. Thanks.
>They haven't dropped. Global temperatures have been flat, though.

That still doesn't seem to hold true. This is the UN WMO's report for 2012, direct; the graphs on pages 6 and 7 are particularly relevant:

http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1108_en.pdf

>I've seen the climate scientists' explanation for this and why it doesn't disagree with global warming and it doesn't set off my BS detectors (i.e., they seem like good explanations, but there are certainly ways they could lie to me and I couldn't detect it).

I'd certainly be willing to take a look if you could provide a source.
78,000 apply for one-way ticket to colonize Mars
Does Not Having a Facebook Page Make You ‘Suspicious’ to Employers?
Experimento de los efectos del wifi en los berros - La salud esta en tu hábitat
Sort-of. If the copies came with a license agreement forbidding you giving a copy to the press, then you might be liable if you did.

Furthermore if members of the press got a copy, they might be forbidden from publishing the test in full. A sample single question from the test (alluding to illegal activity) would likely be fair-use.
Nekopa,

These are all good ideas, that we've of course considered and been pondering for quite a while now. There are various difficulties associated with them, at various degrees. Personally I tend to think that in most cases, ideas are relatively cheap: finding the right way to implement them in a way that's highly scalable really is the hard part.

We can of course chat sometime this week - as a teacher, we'd of course love to hear what you have to say. Could you maybe send us an email (see our contact page) with your availability?
I'm from Northern Europe and the problem with making friends is that you have to have an excuse to make friends - there has to be a pretense. Sure, a lot of sports, volunteer work, hobbies and so on and so forth emphasize that you will get to socialize, but you don't get away from the fact that you have to have some kind of pretext to meet new people.
I think that open ended invitations leave too much room for cancellation / a poor experience. But, perhaps other people might feel this is not an issue. Any feedback?
Self-doubt and launch stats
That's what I said, that I personally find off. Just an opinion.
It doesn't need to change until flexbox is well supported. I've just used skeleton in a project without any problems.
The original interview was claimed to be for a developer position. If you're a developer in most companies, you never have to handle a random broken system, as usually any and all deployment or production maintenance is separated. DevOps is still an exception, not the rule.

You manage your workstation and your dev/test environments or VMs at most - they have the exact editor setup you like. The only interaction between your computers and "foreign" systems is the code version control system. Your editor, no matter how rare or exotic, is guaranteed to be installed on every system you work with - if you work on your systems, not manage systems of other people.

Even the OS doesn't need to match. You can easily code for Linux deployments on a MacOS or Win machine, and never touch any Linux computers. Heck, you even can code for Windows deployments on Linux machines, though sometimes testing that may be a mess and requires a VM - but you certainly can do that.
Singapore is comparable to Nazi Germany?

Get help.
Even worse! Thanks for the clarification.
This Raspberry Pi Just Came Back From Space With Some Incredible Photos
YouNeedMyGuy is trying to do exactly this. They allow each user to recommend one, and only service/guy in each category.
Also silence can be taken for assent if you don't explicitly invoke your right to silence. Just not answering isn't good enough sigh.
This will probably get downvotes, but this is one of those posts that just rubs me the wrong way. Your mileage may vary.

I stopped short at the beginning of the second paragraph:

Every talk is for an audience, and it's the speaker's responsibility to say what the audience needs to hear.

Wait, what? Yes, every talk is for an audience, but that just means you have to know where your audience is coming from in order to communicate. You don't give a talk full of programming jargon to an audience of businesspeople that know nothing about programming except that they often need to hire programmers.

But to me, the second part of that statement sounds like something a con man would say. You say whatever it is you came there to say; whether it's "what the audience needs to hear" is irrelevant. (Of course the audience is presumably interested in what you have to say; otherwise, how did you get the speaking gig in the first place? But to me, a speaker who worries about "what the audience needs to hear" is not a speaker I will put much credence in. I want a speaker who will say what he thinks, regardless of its impact on me.)

Then there's this, later on:

one of the most powerful and important statements you'll ever hear...

Right now, today, we can't see the thing, at all, that's going to be the most important 100 years from now.

100 years? How about 10 years? Our inability to predict the future works on much shorter timescales than he seems to think. Why the emphasis on 100 years?

Oh:

I personally care about mattering 100 years from now.

As another commenter here pointed out, if your work still matters 100 years from now it probably means your field has stagnated. Even getting your tools for thinking to matter 100 years from now is a longshot; are you Einstein? Are you Shannon? Sure, those are ideals to aspire to, but the very nature of large numbers means most of us won't end up there.

I see the writer's general point, and I even agree with it: having better tools to think with can have a far greater impact than building one particular thing. But what's conspicuously missing from this post is any specifics on how to do that, or how to teach young people to do that.

Ok, done ranting. :-)
I realize we're all in our early 20s with 20/15 vision, but this trend of microscopic fonts is really unfriendly to the old guys who sometimes want to read things on the web.
Did it watching cartoons when I was younger...
The oppression is much broader, more random and much more heavy handed in Belarus. There are political prisoners as of right now in Belarus, if there are any in Singapore, they are not known to the public (Yes, I know they have a history, but we're talking about the present). Since everything is state controlled in Belarus, if you fall out of favour with the government, you place the careers of yourself and your family in jeopardy, and university admission and apartment waiting lists etc get a lot more complicated - again, subject to total randomness.

This would be summarily impossible in Belarus: http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2013/05/mayday-protest-at-ho...
6 year old gets detention for Lego gun on bus
The argument is deeply flawed, but not because libertarianism is inconsistent.

Reducing dependency on petroleum is a trillion dollar issue. Tesla has made some major innovations in this area, including the multi-cell floorpan battery, and all the money they have spent buying batteries is used by suppliers to innovate on making them cheaper. Innovation only has to be done once, and right now every car company on the planet has Model S's on racks and are doing engineering tear downs. Tesla's engineering will probably pay dividends to the world in the amount of billions over the next 30 years. A few hundred million in state subsidies seems a small price to pay.

From the article:
> About the only way they can do this (barring some—currently remote—major battery technology improvements) is by cutting the vehicle’s range.

It is completely lost on the author that one reason batteries get better (both directly and indirectly) is because Tesla builds cars.
>If you don't do good work, you won't get any citations

A lot of terrible, and even retracted papers have a high citation count, though.
My theory on this is that the prices adjust to cancel out the benefit from the tax break. The out-of-pocket expense to the buyer is the same and the general taxpayer is subsidizing a higher price for sellers. It's a cash transfer from taxpayers to established landowners cunningly disguised as a legup for the middle class.

I think the prices must adjust in this way since the supply of housing close to the supply of paid work is limited.

If anyone can point me to a decent analysis of this, I'd be grateful. But this is my pet theory.
Changing the Meaning of Money
Agreed. The text in the desktop version is so tiny it makes it unusable. I'd consider using the 'mobile' version for the desktop too.
Saving this to try it out later.
If I recall, if you send someone directly to the discussion page, your vote will not count. It'll register on the counter, but it won't effect your ranking. (I think Reddit does the same thing) This is to protect from mass-voting and spam.
that blog is very very interesting, and eye opening. thank you for the link.
That's pretty much the same conclusion I came to. Wake me up once ember-data is stable and can support things like range queries and pagination, and just generally dealing with a small subset of data.
Looks like it only works for images, is this intended?
You won't increase the value of something worthless by applying arbitrary scarcity.
I also went to FCPS and they did only apply to "in school" but "in school" was very broad (all school-related activities, on the way to/from school).

Other school districts can and have applied their codes of conduct to non-school related activities.
Backlift's analytics dashboard is simple and useful for quick analysis and tuning during a launch. In addition all the code for the dashboard is in the /admin folder, so it can be extended if needed.
It is always delightful when a word seems to take on fresh meaning when deployed literally.
Rails Quick Tips - ActiveRecord::Calculations.pluck - The Hashrocket Blog
Show HN : Animate your Ideas
Yeah, you'd think it would be, but it's also indicative of someone who might be 'too big for their britches', or some other such nonesense. Given how many fakers I've encountered doing crap work for people (not just in software, but any service), I'm sadly inclined to realize that when I say "one of your questions is wrong", I'm very likely to be dismissed.
I'd recommend it either way. I had an absolute blast with it with a keyboard and mouse, and there are some gameplay elements I could see actually being more difficult with a controller given how fast the game moves.
I've posted some comments there explaining a design pattern I've found that pretty much solves the "callback hell". http://www.250bpm.com/blog:24/comments/show#post-1784877

The basic idea is to integrate a LIFO event queue into the event loop, whose events take priority over other events (fds, timers). Then whenever you want to write code something like that:

func() {
call_callback();
do_something();
}

Instead you do:

func() {
push after_callback_event;
return call_callback();
}

after_callback_event() {
do_something();
}

The LIFO nature of the event queue guarantees the expected event processing order, that is, the after_callback_event() is invoked after call_callback(), including any events call_callback() itself pushes, recursively.

The other thing that helps a lot is to reduce coupling in your code. With reduced coupling, the "what can be called back when I call this" problem becomes much simpler. Components can't call other components that they don't know about.

I can say that by applying the LIFO and taking care to decouple my components properly, my event driven code is certainly not suffering from the "callback hell". Quite the opposite, I think it is nice and correct :) I'm talking about the programs in my open source project here, https://code.google.com/p/badvpn/ .
Caterpillar backs eye-tracker to combat driver fatigue
Boxes App for iPhone (http://box.es) (Video)
The other popularly suggested solution is sort-of the opposite: use double-blind reviewing, where the reviewer doesn't know who the authors are, at least formally.
Interested but also stopped dead in my tracks w/ Facebook login.
UPS took a chance on me, and I will always hold them in high regard because of it. They hired me after a checkered highschool (and post) employment record. I was able to work my way up and into IT. And it changed the course of my life.
Learn the digits of Pi
An article about a new dimension in rendering quality, and they're demonstrating that quality with two images the size of a stamp...WAT?
Thanks for pointing this out, I'm a big fan of Kyle Gabler's work on the soundtrack for World of Goo.

He makes them both available for free download here:

http://kylegabler.com/WorldOfGooSoundtrack/
http://tomorrowcorporation.com/little-inferno-soundtrack
Nope I do this too.
Russian here.
AFAIK, there aren't many Russian movies with English subs, although I've seen some, like Russian version of Sherlock Holmes.
At the same time there are loads of (pirated) American and British movies and TV series with both English and Russian audio tracks and subtitles, I could help you find them if you like.
IE 7-9 are still far more prevalent than IE 10. Most IE users will be in a variant without support.
Nazi Germany was a fascist dictatorship, but that does not mean that all fascist dictatorships are comparable to Nazi Germany. The U.S. and Bangladesh are both democracies--that does not mean that Bangladesh is comparable to the U.S...
How long until it gets shut down for hosting images on minors.
One way is to use a generator that.. (who would've guessed that) generates the tan, another one (though no longer in use at most banks) are indexed tans – a list of one time codes that is enumerated. you are then prompted to enter "code 71" or something, you're getting the idea. the third, and currently widely used variant is mobile tan, where the transaction number is sent to your cell phone, along with some additional information like the amount to be transferred. Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_numb...
should be up now, maybe your DNS is taking a bit, try again in a few minutes

i migrated assets to CDN, but still transferring some now, so fonts might now show up yet :)
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Indictment of Liberty Reserve, Accused of Laundering $6 Billion
Open publication and review practices are nearly orthogonal issues.
On iOS? Is there a one-stop tutorial that covers this?
http://www.ppcoin.org/static/ppcoin-paper.pdf
Wow, I had always assumed Pixar was doing GI/ray tracing by now. Looking forward to seeing MU to check out the graphics porn.
Yes, that's the most common usage for this type of thing.
kinda expensive but i guess price will drop since it just got released :)
I like the idea, nice work thanks for sharing! I haven't been able to test it yet but hope it works considering ncasenmare's comment.
Why don't you just use Twilio or something? It doesn't deliver to all mobile phones on US carriers?
The criticism is that they similarly oppose subsidies to oil competitors (such as electric cars). And more significantly, regulation or taxes on CO2.
How do you write something like

"The mining rate has been faster than expected over the last four years. This trend will probably continue as ASICS enter the market."

and then proceed to draw a chart covering the next 130 years!?! This trend might last five.
If there are no comments on the other submission either, there's no point linking to it other than to say "I got it first"
That's what they think, based on their CFD models. Before reading this I was thinking that, since warming has increased overall liquid sea-water volume globally, more CO2 was being dissolved in the sea or something, and that's why despite higher emissions more of it was being dissolved into the sea than going into the atmosphere. But then there is only so much you can dissolve, and that's why the last ten years of minimal warming is just a plateau.
Larger versions:

http://bluraymedia.ign.com/bluray/image/article/104/1044870/...

http://pixartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Monsters-Un...
Since the movie isn't actually out, this is more of a promotional piece. Also the first image is a bit bigger http://pixartimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Monsters-Un... but is fairly low-quality and for some reason is scaled down to stamp-size on the page.
Flat UI Login Form With Horizontal Scroll Effect
This is definitely cool, but it's just one thing that any "social framework" would do. Verifying emails or verifying mobile phones is a basic step in any user signup.
I've been using this HN button on my blog posts for a while..

https://github.com/igrigorik/hackernews-button

This new one seems more extensible though. I may give it a try next time I update my blog.
Million of visitors per day with a super cheap php mysql server
Perhaps you forgot to read the very last section, titled "Almost Flat Design"

>A style more designers tend to agree on is “almost” flat design.

>In almost flat design, the basic theme of the flat style is used but some effects are added to the design scheme. Buttons, for example, may contain slight gradients or drop shadows. Designers typically pick one effect and use it exclusively in an almost flat project.

>This style allows for a little more flexibility than some of the rigidness of the no effects thought behind flat design.
Designers like it because of the added depth and texture. Users like it because the style is a little less sharp and can help guide proper interaction...

It seems that many flat designers would agree with your proposal to keep "just enough" ornamentation.
https://github.com/dmur/Skeleton appears to be a more active fork.
Steve Marron on “Big Data”
"Developers don't pay for stuff!"

(they do)
Stephen Watt keynote at Infiltratecon 2013
Show HN: TopCoat.me - NailArt Startup. Made in San Francisco. Launching Today
placeholder is a native attribute. If you are doing it via javascript for older browsers, your code should handle that case.
Traveling On A Budget Sequestration. NASA style.
hopefully we can help with that!
If there were no transaction fees built into the bitcoin protocol, then that might be true. But the system is designed to slowly and smoothly transition away from funding the mining activities by issuing bitcoins to funding the mining activities by paying transaction fees.
FYI, your lock icon is not showing up for me, you may want to check your encoding.
That's so interesting. This thread totally validates what I have been saying all along for the past several years - that mobile phones are a better platform for building social apps than facebook. That's why my last two years have been spent building this:

http://qbix.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/a-new-kind-of-platfor...