skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an analogy in there for the people that evaluate other peoples' work in a professional capacity.

I do this for a living, and having been on the creative side I'm always very careful to concentrate on giving positive feedback rather than negative feedback. I notice that lots of times the people in my line of work that have never actually created much can be picked out easily by the way in which they relentlessly try to tear everything down, often quite successfully.

It is almost as if they don't realize that to criticize is 100 times easier than to create and they don't give a rat's ass (pun intended) about the consequences.

HN has a lot of that, de-constructive criticism, just to tear everything down that's new to prove the critic is better than the ones that built whatever it is that is on display. And I think that's where the eye of Mordor reference comes from above, it certainly looks like that at times.

Creation, any kind of creation is hard. And to create something perfect the first time out is impossible. So constructive criticism is worth gold, demotivation is lethal.
http://lamernews.com/ although it's quiet.
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I use HackerNode on iOS, It's pretty minimal (in a good way) and works well. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernode/id473882597?mt=8
That hassle can in principle be totally mitigated. When you buy an OV-Chipkaart from a service desk (like an NS desk at a train station), they will not only charge you the 15€ (or whatever) fee, but they will also ask you how much you want to use to load the card. You can pay cash at such a desk.

You could probably also use those desks to reload the OV-Chipkaart with cash, but I've never tried that.
Web 'blackout' in Singapore to protest new online rules
Huh? Programming is basically abstraction taken to the extreme. It's writing repetitive code and then going "you know what would make more sense? If I could abstract this repetitive part into another construct and then reuse it". A programmer who has bad abstraction skills will just copy paste a few times and modify the necessary parts. And forget to change stuff in a few places probably.
iOS: Hackerful - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackerful-ycombinators-hacke...

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rickylaish...
DELIGHT: WebGL Engine
This is the best paper on Chicken scheme that I have ever been able to read.
People who had learned maps to become proper London cabbies tend to be better at memory tests later on. So should we conclude that culture of memorizing stuff they experienced is responsible for their high marks? And somehow that biology determining their physical aptitude isn't involved?

This does not follow. Their brains changed visibly on MRIs over the course of map learning.

Of course that's the culture that makes people more intelligent. But you can't dismiss this gain of IQ as not real or non biological. That's probably the only real IQ gain that we ever got since our animal ancestors decided that it's better to live in groups, and they themselves became their smartest competition. Culture is just a fancy name of all of human interactions.
Not a true alternative, but less noisy: http://lessmeme.com/less.html
Why? If they define an article "A blog of John Ass", I just won't read it and my experience would not degrade.

I still get nuclear physics in "Nuclear Physics" article, amn't I?

I can't see how having more articles will make things worse.
Actually, while I was getting an error, the system actually did subscribe me. I've just tried again and received the 'already subscribed' message, so I guess it works (but kind of still doesn't) haha
Even honest replies that have good intentions have a high probability of adding nothing of valor to the OP. As humans we always try to make people think the same way we do, so even when we know nothing about an issue we are going to give an opinion and try bring people to our side.
It´s not if the opinion is positive or negative that matters (given that it´s not just a rant),you are always going to have more negative opinions of course, but what´s really important is to know if that opinion has any valor and gives you an opportunity to improve.
That was OK, Go (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_Go) . The song is "WTF?"

They're famous for quirky video clips (original for this song is at http://youtu.be/12zJw9varYE). You should watch http://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w . You'll like it. Trust me.
Heh, so you're saying the US is too big to fail? Maybe it should be split up into smaller countries to avoid future problems of that sort...
Antirez' comments on Tcl are also worth reading:

http://antirez.com/articoli/tclmisunderstood.html

I think you appreciate Tcl the more you see how it's built under the hood.

I'm guessing you're using some crufty EDA stuff though, where you're not seeing the good side of the language, and dealing with a lot of accumulated baggage.
I don't actually think voting for judges and sheriffs is a good idea at all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio
I have an hard time with the colors.

input-warning(color = yellow)

Yellow on yellow on my monitor is pretty much impossible to read.

input-success(color = green)

is better but I need to concentrate to read the letters

simple-button

are more similar to tags to me, and the hover effect is not noticeable

Take this as constructive criticism, I just had the time to skim over the project.
I wish you the best luck.
You just need to change your location... http://cl.ly/image/3Z2U0v1H0r3v
Combining a Kinect Sensor with a ‘Giant iPhone'
I think you're on to something with the backdoor.
Backdoors have to be extra secure because if you hack that you have access to all of them.
Hell they shouldn't even exist it's like asking to be exploited.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5828348
I am using http://ihackernews.com/
Criticism, strengthens smart people; enrage idiots. -Napoleon Bonaparte
I agree. When quitting, you have to be positive. Pretend that the workplace was the best you ever worked for and you regret leaving. "I'll miss everyone on this great team and the awesome office".

Think about your old workplace as your ex-husband in a divorce. Why would your ex be happy if you told him he has bad breath and would benefit from regular workouts? He will be offended and angry.

A company may say they want input from ex-employees, but it's a huge risk for the ex-employee to give it and there is no upside. Keep quiet, or lie if you must reply.

My advise is to send only a neutral written notice. If there is any verbal communication, keep it positive.
As a Brit, can I ask:

Why don't I see Fox "News" presenters, and the like, crying daily on screen about the death of the USA over things like this? Unlike the birth certificate of Obama or attempts to being free health care to people, this really is destroying US citizen's basic rights. But no Fox tears and hysterics.

Why is that? I mean, surely this is a fantastic way to attack the "hated" Obama, surely. Aren't they all about "freedom"? Isn't this a huge open goal for the right?

From where I sit it looks like a very weird contradiction. Surely this is more of a threat than say gun controls? Clearly I'm missing something, but what?
Where is this free service? I just clicked through it with a fake email address and whether I chose Home or mobile, they always forced to sell a device, the cheapest was $39.
Is there anything really free here?

They were pretty annoying with checking email addresses BTW.
Markov.sql: Higher Order Markov Chains
The Game Is Rigged

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFGGcX1a5I
There's http://sidebar.io/ for web/mobile design topics.
https://www.eff.org/observatory

"Browsers trust a very large number of these CAs, and unfortunately, the security of HTTPS is only as strong as the practices of the least trustworthy/competent CA. Before publishing this data, we attempted to notify administrators of all sites observed vulnerable to the Debian weak key bug; please let us know if your analysis reveals other classes of vulnerabilities so that we can notify affected parties."
Discouragement for Young Writers
Is it going to replicate the invalid link errors?
Reminds me of the a scene from the '50 first dates' movie where Adam Sandler asked Alexa a question, and replied, "Then again, there are always ways around such things, for example, if I promised a woman's father I would not see her, I would simply shut my eyes while she serviced my manhood.".

Those people are real people not bots and spammers, blocking them are simply an absurd way to do it, or 'shutting your eyes to get around with it'. A quick solution, but you are not solving the root of the problem.
Wow I hope I'll never be on the same party as you
If Facebook is changing it feels like that's happening at a snails pace, people are just getting complacent with how bad it is. Stockholm syndrome is setting in, so many people still refuse to just use better alternatives.

"What alternatives?" like email.
Smarter iOS Metrics
Oh, that guy. He's even know over here. (Journalists like to pick out the most 'interesting' persons). That guy scares me. You also vote for judges? Would it help if there was a maximum someone could get voted for? Like with your president?
A Couple of Use Cases for Calc()
Notifications and emails
Scientists definitely do have a test for the so-called IQ, and it's called the IQ test – but 'Intelligence Quotient' and intelligence are not synonymous. One need only read Mensa magazine to realise that IQ does not constitute intelligence in a meaningful sense.

It's clear that brains vary, of course, but 'intelligence' is too broad a term to say, quantitatively, to what degree a person possesses it. The term encompasses:

- The ability to acquire new knowledge quickly, or to learn difficult things at all.

- The ability to, given time, make nontrivial deductions from given data.

- The ability to make rapid deductions in short periods of time about given data.

- The ability to generate multiple unrelated solutions to a problem.

- A high level of verbal proficiency.

We mean all these things to different degrees at different times when we use the term; and although these are not orthogonal concepts, they clearly do not exist in a one-dimensional space.

Certainly if IQ is taken to mean 'the raw, unchanging potential of a mind', the Flynn effect is inexplicable given that the timescales involved are far too small for our neurobiology to have adapted evolutionarily. Given that it means very little other than 'the ability to pass IQ tests', the Flynn effect is perhaps not surprising at all.
Agreed. Someone just created a bot to fetch all records and plotted nice graphs. Creative but I don't see any reason how this is a security flaw.
IQ, or intelligence quotient, is exactly supposed to be a measure of intelligence (if intelligence is at all measurable). Academic achievement isn't supposed to be related, as ars said in a sibling post (although IMHO there is some correlation between the two).
Well, it still measures relative intelligence for people with similar education, and in our globalized society our educations and exposure to information get more and more similar, so it's very good at what it's suppose to do and my guess would be that is getting even better as "cultural homogenization" in the global village increases... Now, we all know that intelligence is just a variable, it does not singly predict suitability for a certain job and it's very bad at predicting things like "success in life", but it is a useful variable!
I have been using a lot of forums and newsboards for more than a decade and only 1 exists today (except for HN) which is still enjoyable for me for exactly that reason you state in your comment.

These places will always be "noisy" but the noise ratio here is rather small. I don't know how HN managed this but I hope it is here to stay.
IQ correlates nicely with the amount of lead child was exposed to while growing up and the probability such grown up child will be involved in some kind of petty crime activity later on.

Such measure must have some value.
I think it is a best practise.

Surely, moving to another service provider is fully legit. However, a hijack with a rogue certificate (say from an undiscovered Diginotar) would not be visible to users - thereby exposing their credentials. So people use TOFU (trust on first use) mechanisms like Certificate Patrol:

http://staff.science.uva.nl/~delaat/rp/2012-2013/p56/present...

The future is of course DANE with DNSSEC, where you put information about the certificate and/or the CA in the DNS.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698
Well at least it's still possible to buy a prepaid SIM card with cash which includes data for ridiculously cheap. And travel in towns on bikes with huge sunglasses and a hat. And buy tickets for traveling between cities with cash.

I don't really care that they gather the OVkaart data (they can see that I go to work and back when the weather sucks, so what). What makes me steaming with anger is that they don't seem to be using it to IMPROVE the network. People are actually getting off the metro to get on a bus. Have the bus wait for those people, dammit! What's the use of data collection if it's not used?
Very interesting. You are on to something - I am using Europe as shorthand for Western Europe. When I speak of Eastern Europe I always add Eastern. Just like when I speak of [North] America versus South America or [West] Germany vs East Germany.

However I would say this type of shorthand is far more widespread than UK and Scandinavia. My German friends adds Eastern Europe when speaking of Ukraine, too, as does my Italian friends.

The cultural differences in Europe are far more complex than an East-West divide. Saying that Ukraine has a European culture is like saying India and Japan have "Asian" cultures. It sure doesn't make them the same and frankly, it does not even very similar.
The evidence also support that IQ test are really hard to do correctly.

Some IQ test are better done by urban vs rural children and vice versa and it comes to what knowledge does IQ test verify and what method does it use. It's not as easy as saying its environment. Test makers suck at thinking outside their head and disabling their own knowledge expectations and biases.
IMF On Greece: We Screwed Up But It's Really The Eurozone's Fault
List of ad hoc http server one-liners
Yep, tried reading and then gave up because the menu was too obtrusive.
Wow, just wow. I am working there at the moment, and it's even worse than you may think.
I've been there as a consultant for almost 2 months now, and I still don't have my computer.
As a developer.
I've been told it's normal, and nobody seems to be alarmed.

But that's not the worst thing. People actually enjoy it, if you listen to some, they found the perfect "job"! But it's crushing me, I'm a very passionate developer, and I miss coding. I'm done working for big french companies, I started looking for greener pastures a week ago, and I'll probably quit my consultancy firm next week.
You can easily boycott the government without getting locked up: move to another country!
I wonder whether there is an entire school of thought based on the principles (correctly) formulated within this paper.
Agile Leadership in the Real World & For Personal Use
Why do people breed dogs for all kinds of absurd characteristics, but nobody has tried to breed dogs for intelligence?

I've seen reports that some dogs achieve a vocabulary of 400+ words. What would happen if one selected for that? Could you conceivably get a dog you could have a conversation with?
Then you make new versions of said technologies that are harder to track/identify.
Fair enough, that probably explains our very different experiences then. As you suggested, we generally do find clients via networking and referrals one way or another.
Cortado.js - A sans-jQuery View & Event library
Sure, but how much effort would it take to link in libotr if you're making a chat client? Not much, and, if it's popular, the gains are enormous.
> I think parent meant to say "I am from the European Union".

Not really. I don't know of anyone who identifies by EU citizenship. Not even EU top level politicians. We're all nationals, and even 3rd world refugees becomes citizen of a nation rather than EU.

When speaking to people from US, I usually identify by from [country] or "from Europe". The latter seem to be enough for most mericans that think of EU countries as US states.
There are two problems though with this view. As a disclaimer, there are people who I consider much smarter than I am at certain things, and many people regard me the same way. Some of that may be my attention deficit and the effort I have had to put in to being successful despite it. I think the problem though is different, however. I am going to say two things:

1. Intelligence is not definable to the point where it can be tested, and

2. Attitude > innate intelligence.

I expect both these will not be so welcome in the HN community as such, so I am prepared for downvotes, but I also dont think these are wrong either.

On the first, the fact is that people process information differently. Ramanujan processes a number a certain way. Someone else might associate it with a year and immediately make historical connections. Someone else may factor get fascinated and factor it. There are bunches of ways a piece of information can be processed and the weighing of one as better than another is ultimately a cultural judgement and ultimately what proves to be an interesting property depends on what we find fascinating (which brings me to my second point).

On the second, I have found all my life that the smartest people I have known have always been the most humble, and to regard everyone else as being worthy of learning from.

I have consequently come to regard intelligence as a two-fold habit. The first part is the habit of finding everything interesting in life, what I call an unwillingness to be bored (something that really comes through in Feynman's memoires). The second is regarding everyone as someone to learn from (Heisenberg btw comes across this way very much in "Physics and Philosophy"). If you go around learning from everyone, and refuse to be bored, you will quite quickly become smarter than everyone else if they refuse to do the same.
Yep, but at least it's a good reminder to listen to them.
You're describing wedge issues that politicians use to get people to fight red vs blue. Anyone that has ever brought up the subject of privacy and domestic spying has been lambasted as a conspiracy nut.
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

And many other subreddits besides.
:/ Why does it scroll sideways?
True, Rob's jokes can be very dry and subtle. If he ever looks at the golang-nuts Google group [1] (which he evidently does) there's no way this couldn't have been sarcasm. Many questions from newbies touch on the topic of generics.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/golang-nu...
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no, it is, fanfare.., Germany.

I read this above report and can't believe it.
When that this happen?

Our data privacy laws are thorough and sometimes an obstacle, but many projects got stopped because of privacy issues:

e.g. the digital stored medical records on ones health insurance card

The stop of the data retention directive by our beloved Bundesverfassungsgericht (they are awesome) is another milestone.

Core of our privacy law is that every person is entitled to reign over it's own data as the person pleases, thus every personal data processing is forbidden as long as there isn't a law allowing it.

But fear not my fellow neighbors, the EU comission (not so beloved) might overhaul the data privacy laws and you might gain citizen rights back:
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/newsroom/data-protection/news/12...
Why in Iceland ?
It is correlated with all kinds of positive outcomes in life.

I beg to differ, and I have this quote to rationalize it:

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Would I rather be stupid and happy? No! And maybe I'm not of "large intelligence" in the first place, but I'm intelligent enough to often feel very disconnected and alienated from the society around me. I learned how to tell people what they want to hear, but inside I often feel like I'm trapped in some kind of zoo. The heat death of the universe is the only grown up thing I actually get to deal with, and I get to deal with it alone, while most everybody else is either drunk on brain chemistry or not playing in that league. I feel like I'm sitting in some kind of waiting room where there is nothing to do. If it wasn't for things like music, dancing, cats, dogs and toddlers, there is no way I would have made it this far. Flowers and sparrows nourish me, people are a chore. Capitalism? Don't even get me started, unless you're willing to give me an army with which to solve the issue.

And now I'm going to completely contradict myself and say that intelligence is like the horse power of an engine; yeah, it matters, you cannot go anywhere without an engine, and you can't go fast or far with a crappy one. BUT what might matter even more is the steering wheel, and I totally suck at using that. I speed around a lot and end up in ditches, and I think there is something to the "saying" that more intelligence makes bigger mistakes possible; I am a living example of that.

I know I am just whining. My personal inability to enjoy life and other people doesn't have to mean intelligence isn't generally positive; but still, when it comes to society and living and working together, it's all rather relative, and being too smart or too stupid both can easily lead to inefficiencies and heartache. Humanity as a whole might have better outcomes if it was more intelligent as a whole, but individuals being too far ahead cannot do much other than acknowledge all the beautiful things that could and should be but never will.

That said, I would never ever want to swap. I'm sure less intelligent people have things they are sad about as well, while being worse equipped to reflect on them, and I do not envy that at all.
I don't think IQ tests are immune to grade inflation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation), so I am inclined to think of Flynn effect as a special case of it.
https://lobste.rs/ - I am not a member, but it looks very similar
As true as that all may be, there is still no reason to be a dick to people who make "Show HN" posts. One can be critical without being offensive, insulting, rude or belligerent. But too many people seem to think that being obnoxious is The Right Thing To Do for some mysterious reason.

Constructive criticism, preferably actionable feedback, is one thing. Saying "you suck" is quite another.

I'm reminded of an old saying, which goes something like (paraphrasing here): "Everyone has their own battles to fight. Be kind to everyone, for you know not what battle they are fighting".

Besides, it doesn't cost any extra to be polite and reasonable, versus being inflammatory and attacking.