skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for featuring this. Would be great to hear what everyone thinks!
I'd love an invite; gms8994 [at] gmail.com
One would think that if you are taking the time to write something like this in your last 30 days of life, you would do what you can so it wasn't just dismissed as fake since it would have meant that you have wasted some of the last time on Earth.
If your concern is children's expectations being set to unrealistic levels, Disney should be the first to be go. Magazines and advertising should be banned from using Photoshop, too.

Being exposed to a variety of options and ways to have sex isn't bad. Anal sex can be quite fun, and if someone doesn't like it they're quickly going to say no. Rimming has its risks (like everything else) and isn't for everyone (like everything else), but it's pretty common and not horrendously unsafe. If you try to have sex without lube, you're quickly going to discover the problem. I can't speak for straight porn, but most porn that involves penetrative sex features condoms; if you're watching porn that was made in the last 10-20 years, it's really difficult not to see condoms in action.

Just about everybody reading this grew up with porn as teens (and possibly before) and we're not broken or messed up. Before the internet, teens got their hands on magazines and those generations aren't damaged by it either. If anything, I'd suspect teens today are better educated (and having better sex) than any generation before. Porn, together with improved sex education, has had a large role to play.

Saying that porn is bad because it teaches people different ways to have sex doesn't make sense. However, I will concede that the key here is sex education. If someone isn't receiving sex education they're not going to know about safe sex anyway, and restricting access to porn isn't going to make the situation any better. Porn should be supplemented by a decent sex education, and thankfully an adequate sex education is provided in the vast majority of the developed world.

If anything I'm grateful for all the porn I watched as a teen, and I think my sex life today is significantly better because of it. It taught me more than my prudish religious parents would (or could) and combined with my school's sex education classes, I was good to go have fun, figure out what was right for me, and do it without getting diseases along the way!
Native French here, the original is beautifully written and the Google translation does not do justice to this (and sometimes even obscures the meaning). I would presume that people reading the original are more touched by what is said (be it true or fake) just because of the quality of the writing.
Slaughterhouse 5,
Snowcrash,
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
So following along with that eBay comparison, would forcing hosts to be classified in professional (power seller) and private solve this issue sufficiently? Not sure how you'd detect false positives?
Bell Labs creates lensless single-pixel camera
I'm a big fan of Open Government, but what does that have to do with securing data that isn't meant to be public?
Most people I regularly spend time with are aware that I'm bipolar even if they aren't in the "been there" category. This is quite deliberate. When I'm well, I do my best to explain the difficulties I have during an episode to try and avoid people feeling alienated. This is not something I can do effectively whilst ill.

The result of this seems to be that when I become unwell people in this group provide me with the best kind of support that they're equipped to give while others help me talk it out.

Unfortunately this hasn't been so easy to achieve with family members as it has with friends since they're so desperate to see me well, although things are improving. Fortunately (or unfortunately) my wife is also bipolar so I don't have that problem with her.

As to balancing talking it out vs. distraction? I rapid cycle so distraction can be very effective for dealing with short-term mood swings. If I notice that I'm distracting myself a lot then that's a sign that bigger trouble is just around the corner and is when I start to seek help. My wife and I discuss the state of our mental health very frequently so there's always a certain amount of discussion going on as well.
Ask HN: How many Biscuits?
Hackers, somebody has brought in a box of biscuits to be shared between five of us. One of us doesn't like biscuits at all and another doesn't like custard creams (of which there are six). There are probably 30 biscuits of various sorts in the tin. How many should I take? I typically take two. Today I'm hungry and feel like having four but could easily go six to negate those calories I just lost doing a solid workout. What should I do? Stick with 2, go with four, or what the hell, go with six. I suppose I could do some sly ninja slides by the desk and take a couple at a time and hope nobody notices, build a stash in my own desk maybe. Sod it I'll be double greedy and go for eight. Is this too many? Don't forget, it is a rare nice day today and I'm feeling good.
Is Google missing the mark with Dart?
Ask HN: How do you transfer files between Clouds
If you wanted to transfer a file from Dropbox to Google Drive (or vice versa) using web only, how do you go about doing that.

Currently, I do not transfer files between cloud storage on the web, I usually wait until I get to my home computer and transfer files through my desktop.
So if race is fully based on genetics would it be equally correct to say "Barack Obama is white" as it is to say "Barack Obama is black?"

Why or why not? And which matches our social constructs?
Even if it turns out to be fiction, it does make you stop and think at least for a moment how you'd spend your own final 30 days.

I think I'd like to travel. Not sure.
So if metadata is somehow distinct and separate from what it describes, does this mean that the shutdown of sites pointing to copyright-infringing content will stop?
> The Constitution is arguably no longer the governing law for the US Federal Government.

I can't think of a federal action, even this one, that is blatantly unconstitutional. The problem is that you don't like what the Constitution says. You want things like the 4th amendment, which protects you against invasive searches of your home and person, to apply to information like that the NSA is collecting that is not private at all (and indeed is not even in your possession, being collected and stored by an independent third party).

You want to act like the government has turned away from the Constitution, but the case is rather that you want to re-litigate the boundaries of Constitutional protections. There has never been the kind of blanket protection of "privacy" that technologists like to claim applies to the internet. "Privacy" in that sense is a concept that largely post-dates the founding (the 4th amendment is better understood not as a privacy protection, but as a protection against the indignity and invasiveness of illegal searches). If the founders had meant to create a blanket protection of "privacy" they would have done so.
Well, if we take historical trends as any kind of indication, not quite. E.g. according to Google's life expectancy charts, if we take the period 1992 - 2012 (20 years), and take 3 good, developed countries (USA, UK, Canada), life expectancy has gone from mid 70s to low 80s in that period. On average, about 1.9 years added every decade, and that would lead us to something like 84 years by 2032. The very high numbers we're used to hearing are fairly wild extrapolations of this trend for the next 90 or so years, for newborns today.

Of course, the trend could accelerate, but it could also easily plateau (or even reverse in an extreme case, perhaps due to environmental influences). Current trends don't seem to show 100-year average life expectancy before 2100.

* Edit: this was combined stats for men and women. For men, you can subtract a few years, and for women, add a few. Also, I realise I'm just linearly extrapolating the data, but it's not like the data shows some kind of exponential growth; if anything, it's flattening out.
You can now tip Bitcoin to other users across Reddit using a cool new hack
Ah! Taken in context your comment makes more sense. I must admit that while reading the post, my first feeling was of sorrow, but as someone fascinated with technology, I was also thinking a little about someone who speaks a different language being able to communicate their innermost thoughts with people half way around the world.

While posting a comment, stating the story is sad, might be redundant. But, posting a comment about some silver lining might be a common response. My siblings and I laughed at some of the funny events about my dad did while transporting his body to the cemetery. The feeling of grief was overwhelming and that was a coping mechanism.

That being said, given the level of info that was passed on, one might be more enamored by the blog and twitter and translate, as they try to cope with the terror or death. Smells a lot to me like PR company BS. While I suspected it when reading the post, looking thru the HN comments showed that my suspicions weren't unfounded.
SSL can prevent modification mid transit, of course you can still technically be MITMd if your ISP gets issued a cert which is valid for every domain but this would be detectable.

You can circumvent blocking with proxies/VPN, your ISP would have to block all proxy/VPN services to prevent this.
This reaction can vary heavily depending on the traits of the executives, and unfortunately, the kind of personality that gets to the top in embedded corporate hierarchies tends to be people who are excellent at the image of productivity rather than true productivity. To these people, there is nothing more threatening than objective facts. They can manipulate and hide from reality with the subjective. The objective is a new world where they are exposed for the frauds that they are.

The U.S. Federal Government is packed with these types.
Here's What People Are Actually Using That $35 'Raspberry Pi' Computer For
> I moved to Amsterdam from Seattle last November, and have to say that I feel far less vulnerable here, information-wise.

Care to elaborate?
I would argue that terrorism is less abstract than murder. Also, the US "war on terror" is about terror that specifically relates or effects the US making it an even more specific classification.
when the rest of the World lives a completely different story

What does this mean?
(define chicken list)
Net new search terms aren't being added at the rate you think. Try searching for highly generic terms such as "food" or "blue" and it's pretty much flat. While many new terms are being added, old terms are getting obsoleted almost as fast.

The point still stands: share of web interest in RSS has still been displaced by other ways of spending time. Whether it's social media, Netflix, or cat photos, RSS simply hasn't grown with the rest of the web.
You'd still pay for it one way or the other. It's the government, you/we pay for all of it.
News at 10: not all of human thinking and interaction can be analysed by logic. Logic is a limited tool (though powerful when applied properly).
Reddit now enables sitewide bitcoin tipping
Hey wow didn't realize this had been posted on hacker news - I'm the author of roots and here way too late to field comments. Thanks so much for the feedback Ian! No need to assume such a critical tone, I'm open to any and all feedback, so let's keep it friendly.

Let me try to explain why I have that intro paragraph there. Stylus is a very open and flexible language, and the same statement can be written many different ways. In addition, it's not as commonly used as something like sass, so there aren't well-known conventions that have arisen. All I was doing here was trying to establish and explain a couple conventions, to make life easier and more clear for everyone.

In addition, someone randomly posted the documentation page for the css library here rather than the homepage. This might be part of the reason why you were confused about what exactly this is.

Would love to hear more about how I could be 'more compelling' with this - always a great goal and something I hope I am able to do -- of course keeping in mind that this is a documentation page.
Building C/C++: what really happens and why does it take so long
I have a question, which admittedly is based on my experience with paper airplanes. I have noticed that tiny paper airplanes look cool, but are difficult to fly. When I was a kid, I remember making a paper airplane out of a giant piece of butcher paper. I launched it out of my second floor window, expecting it to soar all the way to the street. It rather pathetically pinwheeled to the ground. It seems that, with paper airplanes at least, the most stable designs are in some middle size range.

Is this tiny plane less stable than more traditional "small planes" like Cessnas? I love the concept of this plane, but is it actually a good first plane for new pilots?
Crime and Punishment, Les Miserables, War and Peace
Inbox Bliss
you found that video on the real homepage ; ) the page that had been posted here was the css library documentation
one problem of the 'alias yourcmd to yourcmd | colorize' is dealing with preserving the return code from the actual command, rather than the last in the pipeline.

It can be done with things liek $PIPESTATUS, but some sort of wrapper/function to do it would be nice.
The "gene" you speak of is a desperation to prove relevance when a person has a sneaking suspicion in their heart that they don't add value.

Ever notice how the people who throw around the most buzz words are those who think of, and refer to themselves as "big picture" thinkers? They have conveniently tricked themselves into thinking that focusing on and mastering any true skill is a distraction from understanding the broader landscape in which they operate.
This article made me laugh. As with .COM bubble many people jumped compsci ship and when it sunk left that ship. People who really admired it stayed, now the same story repeats itself. The same with this articles' author who's reaping benefits by learning ROR, and being patient enough to read Manuals and Stack Overflow.

P.S. Also I'm quite sick of people building things which are targeted against huge sale later. Build software/website/app which solves some kind of problem you are passionate about. Also people who are into programming just because it pays well.
This assumes that you care about the project getting done, if you don't, pull a Wally and enjoy all the extra free time. :)

There's a part of me that wants to treat Wally as my role-model! He's definitely my favorite Dilbert character.

Unfortunately, I had the (good|bad) fortune to inherit (or learn) a strong work ethic from my dad when I was a kid, and while I don't mind a bit of goofing off here and there, I could never pull a "full Wally". And now that I have a startup to work on, I have a hard time even letting myself take a day off without feeling guilty. :-(

Obligatory:

http://www.dilbert.com/2013-06-04/

http://www.dilbert.com/2013-05-26/
Seattle's Women in Technology Starts Scholarship Fund for Wanna-be Women Coders
Good question, I don't think there is a webapp that imports files yet. Although I knkow bit torrent has some interesting technologies.
Hey jbm, author of roots here. Really glad that you ended up using this (probably quite a few releases ago), and thanks for the feedback! I don't quite understand what you're getting at here though, because the libraries you are comparing it with are in no way similar.

AngularJS is a client-side javascript MVC framework and roots/axis are a static site compiler and a css library, respectively. It's easy to use roots with a client-side mvc framework if you prefer, I even have built in precompiled templates to make it easier.
Show HN : My weekend 7 Minutes Workout app for iOS
At least with gay porn, this generally isn't the case. (The amount of straight porn I've watched is close to zero, so I can't really comment with respect to this.)
Day 219/220: Onboarding & Illustrated UI Concepts
What do you want to know? It's an area I've been working in for the past year or so.
> It's definitely not the same site it was in 1998

Part of the problem is it's not the same site it was in 1998. The other problem is it is the same site it was in 1998.
tl;dr; Competition between HFTs has reduced margins on market making to near zero.

Wonderful news for consumers of liquidity, bad news for sellers of it.
People with general skills like web development may not be worth much - You need to have advanced knowledge and ability to do large scale systems to be worth something as a technologist. Or you need to have business acumen to make it big.
I think this is a good point and something I've thought about a little bit. My thought was most of the basic features such as scheduling and applicant management would carry over to other non-technical roles. I do need to learn a lot more hiring for sales, marketing, etc. to know if there are any special needs from those types of teams.

Having the developer specific stuff an additional purchase option is an interesting idea I hadn't thought of. Thanks again for the feedback.
Pingdom Pi: Performance notifications using Pingdom and a Raspberry Pi
Those email notification always seemed distraction to me.
Some favorites:

Pale Fire by Nabokov

Ulysses by Joyce

Et Tu, Babe by Leyner

Metamorphosis by Kafka (more a long story)

Things Fall Apart by Achebe

Hamlet and Coriolanus by Shakespeare

The Code of the Woosters by Wodehouse

The Doorbell Rang by Stout
Using best and favorite interchangeably as literature is a pretty subjective subject:

As a kid: Where the Red Fern Grows
As an adult: The Dharma Bums
Running the latest Chrome on Mac OS X. (btw, realized my initial comment probably came off a little snarky. My apologies. From the sounds of the other comments, it's something incredibly cool!)
> Q for those of you with a legal mind: how could one "extend"/reinterpret the US Forth Amendment to make it apply to things like internet logs or credit card receipts?

I don't think its worth a strained interpretation of the 4th amendment to achieve this purpose. If it is desired, it would be better to make it a statutory or common law privilege (e.g. like the kind that applies to confidential communications between clients and their lawyers).

> Why should doing something via a 3rd party business make the information concerning what you do less "intimate"?

Because information that is voluntarily exposed to third parties is almost by definition not "intimate"?

Technologists tend to be fundamentally mistaken about the nature of the information at issue in privacy debates like this. AT&T's logs of your calls are not your information. They're AT&T's information. Romantic notions of internet technology aside, this is the physical nature of things: it's AT&T's data collected by AT&T's routers and wireless base stations, sitting on AT&T's servers. It's not your private information, at least not in the technical sense.

To use an analogy: you can object to the government listening in on a private dinner party at your house. You can't object to the government asking one of your guests what was said at the dinner party. You can't assert your privacy right over information that isn't yours.

> ...and pondering more on it: why should businesses not benefit from the same rights to privacy as individuals do?

They do. They just don't care to assert that right to protect the data they have on individuals.
True. When I was in the US I was weary to approach a police officer. To me they looked rather edgy. A 'don't f*ck with me attitude'. Our police are pussy's compared to yours! My travel agency even warned me for the police in the poorer parts of Missisipy. As a non-american I could not fully understand the English some people over there spoke. (Alabama and in The deep south). Oddly enough people over there thought I was from NY or something when I talked to them.
Never, ever, ever bad-mouth a previous employer during an interview.

Ever.

Even if you worked for Satan himself, and he had Kafka and Joseph Heller design the Waterfall development process, and your team lead had the IQ of a telephone pole and the personality of a Comcast customer service rep.

You can say you weren't a good fit. That you felt the toolchain hurt developer productivity. Talk about how you want to be part of an organization that will let you hit your maximum level of achievement. Talk about how you hate bureaucracy because it puts barriers between you and the work that needs doing.

That's all fine. Show me, the interviewer, how driven you are to create.

But the second you start talking about how miserable you were, or how much of an asshole you thought your boss was, or about how much of an idiot your team lead was, you've basically cost yourself the job.

You might be completely right, but if you start talking about this during an interview, you come across as an antisocial, whiny, needy child. If these problems were so upsetting, why did you stay so long? Why didn't you try to fix things?

I want people in my company that will actively fix problems, not just complain about them.

I, the interviewer, can't change anything about your last job, and complaining to me about it doesn't help either of us. I'm going to wonder how you'll be to work with if you can't put the past behind you. I'm also going to wonder what you'll say about me, and the team, when you leave. Will you paint us in the same light as the job from hell?

If you whine about how much you hated your last job, all you do is turn on every red flag I have regarding personal interaction.
Your rant agrees with the article. What a waste of a rant.
It's not intended to be responsive. The fact that it's somewhat fluid was added as an afterthought. This page is documentation for a css library, which is not something you would be using on a tablet (unless something crazy has happened and people are now coding on tablets).

I do hear this concern, and will try to adjust the responsiveness a little, but it's a much lower priority for me than actually improving the library (which I have been spending nearly full time on), since I assume the docs will never be actually used on a tablet and rather would be used on some sort of desktop that you are coding on.