skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually this has been asked here before and pg himself did answer the question [1] (you may have to scroll a little to see pg's response). pg also argues in one of his essays [2] that tables are the (lisp) lists of html, being very dynamic and flexible which is perfect for explanatory programming despite being unclear (in its purpose/structure) sometimes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100460
[2] http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html
EchoJS is pretty nice for JS stuff
>CMS-style js libraries like Angular JS

CMS as in Content Management Framework?
Twitter is my current favorite way to keep up with the Zeitgeist.
Yes please, email in profile
While i agree that beautiful does come in no small part from the "mechanics of how things work" there's NO WAY TO KNOW that you've done that from the site. It's a static screenshot. To be honest the screenshot's a bit... simple and plain. Not terribly notable. Maybe it is a "beautiful" experience to use it, but I've got no way of knowing that without signing up for it. What's my incentive here? Why should I bother with yours when all i see is a simple screenshot with NO indication of ANY notable functionality or mechanics?
Well, at some point software affects hardware though regarding our brain.

Could Sapir or Chomsky have been great linguists if they only had one native language and learned the other languages at, say, the age of 10?
This is happening in Europe since a while now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...

What makes me really angry is that since that law has passed in Austria, we have to pay a so called "service fee" on all providers - which is 20EUR/year for all internet and mobile contracts. We basically pay for our own surveillance.
I was just thinking about this today. Funny enough, the stuff HN says usually comes up when I talk to people while I'm out or talking to customers. They have the same concerns, but HN will just tell you up front, whereas most people just won't say anything. Would you rather know what people are thinking, or not know anything at all?

I'd say you should just focus on answering people's questions/criticisms as long as they aren't trolling. I did a Show HN today, and while a lot of it was critical, I think most of it was valid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5828480 - we also got some great suggestions on parts that were confusing.

We require Facebook, we have a credit card with up front payment. This is literally as bad as it gets, in terms of HN standards. And we got plenty of people who paid us money up front and Facebook connected (some people are paying us $200 and giving us access to a lot of Facebook information and they've never met us before). When you're dealing with money and identity, I think you should address people's concerns and take it seriously. Difficult to sweep that stuff under the rug and pretend like it's not a big deal to take someone's money or identity and use it in some way.

I'd say expect that HN will be critical, as will most people. At least HN is telling you. Most people won't care enough to take time and comment.

Reminds me of a quote that I really like: "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." - Eli Wiesel
An Entrepreneur’s Take on Building a Great Design Team - 99U
This isn't a pure Chrome Extension, it just takes you to the site: https://suite.websecurify.com/rest

One of the main uses of a rest client in a chrome extension (e.g. postman/advanced REST client) is so you can use it offline. The entire functionality of the webpage is written in JS (https://suite.websecurify.com/rest/script) so it could be easily packaged into a true chrome extension, frankly as it stands this seems to be a bit of a half arsed attempt to get more exposure.
Two words: Rejection Therapy: http://rejectiontherapy.com
Some of my subreddits, with a slight theoretical slant:

coding, cognitivelinguistics, cogsci, compsci, compscipapers, criticalsoftware, crypto, erlang, gamedev, haskell, icfpcontest, MachineLearning, mathpsych, netsec, ReverseEngineering, systems, truegamedev, types
Here's Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe
http://www.crowdsourcing.org/ specialized but hitting all the same themes as HN. Surprising how surprising crowdsourcing still is.
An invite would be appreciated.
Name a conservative Libertarian candidate and I'll point out the socially regressive policies that make me not vote for them.
Experts-Exchange is still alive.
15 brilliantly inventive guerrilla job resumés
NSA collecting phone records of millions of US citizens daily - The Hacker News
How to create and sell your own WordPress theme
One Year Later: An Epic Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User’s Perspective
Accessibility is not about minorities
Well that's a pretty disingenuous thing to say, but hey, if the facts don't happen to support your arguments why not just start trolling?
The only definition of "intelligence" that matters is "whether you seem intelligent to other people". That's what an IQ test attempts to measure, not the raw processing power of your brain
Holy moses that was a long article. I couldn't get to the end to see if the punchline was different than, "Yes, we get paid for hard work, but we also get paid for having rare skills. Some think it's fair, some don't. The folks doing the paying seem to think it's reasonable, otherwise they wouldn't be doing it."
They're not spying on me or they would have corrinated me by now.

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Quantum JavaScript?
Oh, who could possibly have predicted this?

Why is everybody so surprised? I literally do not understand this.
yes, it counts as censorship
Shanghai Hacker News Meetup Reboot
This looks nice, signing up! Hopefully the community will grow over time, it seems a bit quiet at the moment.
Amazon RDS Service Level Agreement
Chicken chicken chicken-chicken chicken chicken Chicken Chicken?

((chicken chicken) (chicken chicken))
He's the guy his constituents want. I personally think voting for sheriffs is a good idea.
sorry I forgot to reply. You are right, and I misinterpreted the article.
You are missing the point. This works in offline mode too. Everything is client-side. As a bonus it also works in Firefox. The reason it is hosted like this is because it provides more flexibility and allow us to deploy more awesome features more rapidly.
Not on Firefox. It doesn't use the pseudo-class :focus{outline} for buttons' dotted line, but the pseudo-element ::-moz-focus-inner on which a border is applied.

Note that the dotted line appears inside the button, around the text, and not around the button like :focus{outline} would do.
He could have used random kanji/hanzi and probably be even more meaningful 胡说八道
Nice to see Echo JS mentioned :)

Here is a link : http://www.echojs.com
LISP version:

(chicken chicken
(chicken chicken chicken))

Can you come up with an implementation of chicken that allows this code to run?
> Methinks it comes down to the old philosophical debate of free will vs. predetermination, and the innate fear many people have of the idea that you can do anything or be anything if you only work at it hard enough.

For the record, I don't think it works that way either. I am largely a fan of the idea that F. M. Cornford reconstructed from Greek myth ("From Religion to Philosophy"), that we have free will within a granted partition of fate, or lot of life, which is limited in various ways and repaid when we die. From this view, fate is a domain we must strive to achieve, and thus not inevitable.

> The IQ "debate" reminds me very much of the race debate, that race "doesn't exist" and is purely a social construct with no genetic basis. I keep waiting for someone to take a black or Asian baby and place it with white parents for it to grow up and have white skin and a pointy nose and blond hair. So far I haven't seen it.

Race is problematic in a number of levels. Yes it is a social construct with no real genetic basis, at least as we have constructed it. This doesn't mean however that you can't identify genetic commonalities among different groups. We could, for example, just as easily say that the racial test is drinking milk as an adult, and therefore Mongolians and Scandinavians are of the Milk-Drinking Race, while Italians and Chinese are of the Cheese-Only race. And before you say "but skin is more visible" it is worth noting that eating together and food taboos are historically much closer to ethnicity than skin color is.

The problem though I think isn't a question of mere egalitarianism. There are people who are for all intents and purposes, greater visionaries, better at recognizing patterns that will change the world, and so forth than others. IQ tests, IMO will never be able to capture that for very fundamental epistemological reasons.

This isn't to say that IQ isn't useful but as long as you are weighing different skills against eachother, assuming the only pattern that works (regarding pattern recognition) is the one the testers think is right, and so forth, what you have is a number which is fundamentally culturally constructed and fails to capture real genius.
Not all web developers are "plumbers". If you are working on websites with heavy traffic, then you need to use complex algorithms to scale. That needs someone who is comfortable with algorithms, and that needs a quite lot of thought.

The author describes simple CRUD websites and then equates all of web development to trivial tasks like that. Even scaling simple CRUD needs a lot skills, intelligence and ingenuity.

And talking of design, there is a reason some pieces of art are valued so much. A designer who designs a great website is an artist too, and deserves as much compensation.
At Nvidia  we write large scale systems in #Perl
It is about time that certain "accidents" are going to convince those bloody Germans how beneficial a stronger surveillance system is!

Conspiracy nut thinking? Not so fast my friend:

http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/3696611-what-...
I though it was grammatically incorrect anyway i.e.

(the) (adj)chicken (name)chicken (verb)chicken

misses an "s" either on the verb or the name.

But it could be an imperative form perhaps?
As in "coward poultry, get out of there"
This was built in just 5 days after I was inspired by the T160K campaign. The goal is to engage younger people and give them a way to contribute by sharing and raising awareness. Check out the source code here: https://github.com/tomgruner/T160K_Game

Raphael.js was chosen to make the game cross browser, but this was much harder than I expected. The game works well on chrome, is ok on ie10, firefox, and safari. It isn't really playable on ie9 or iPad. Maybe with more time I could have optimized the game more for these devices, but the Indiegogo campaign ends in 2 weeks.

It will be interesting to see what impact the game has.
How is this different than having bugs in the C compiler used for the language implementation?
I'd love to get an invite, thanks!
Lightning talk at YAPC::NA: "At Nvidia  we write large scale systems in Perl"
REST does look interesting. Tried to give it a go but it's dependant on also installing the "Websecurify" extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/websecurify/emclbd...).

Websecurify looks interesting in itself but requires "access to your data on all websites" permission which means doing a load of research into what it's actually doing etc etc which seems like a lot of effort just to try out a rest client.

Best of luck to them though, Postman made by workflow testing API's hugely more efficient so if they manage to improve on that it'll be a great tool.
That's a reasonable summary however the comments that will fill this thread will inevitably focus on the "developer == plumber" analogy.
by all means continue giving away your economic freedoms in order to signal your loyalty to social freedoms the president doesn't have control over anyway.
http://www.nu.nl/tech/3493455/hack-ov-chipkaart-met-sticker-...

Not for long ;)
Good points, Jared. My post veers a bit on the negative side, but I just wanted to address the things that are demoralising to people putting up stuff for feedback. You've been around a long time building and shipping stuff, so you probably have a thick skin.

I agree that it's better to get some critical feedback than none, but only if it's on-topic. A lot of times, I see Show HN posts derailed by comments on stuff that doesn't even matter.
Looks really interesting but shame it's dependant on https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/websecurify/emclbd... which requires "access to your data on all websites"
We're putting a TARDIS into orbit - Really [Kickstarter]
This is inspirational. Please share more details if you can. I love stories like this.
This "all new all different" way of "actively consuming news" makes me very nervous. It really sounds like loosing too much control over content.
FWIW: I'm not related to this project, I've only submitted the url. And the video does get a bit annoying.

But...

TARDIS! In SPACE!
Making sacrifices
Signatures in email have merit, especially when correspondents use a client that strips the email addresses from quoted text in replies. The email address will sometimes be replaced with simply the contact name. While referencing such an email, the only way I can decipher which "Mark" or "Joe" sent reply in a thread is by his signature.

Outlook is, at times, guilty of this.
In my experience a nice way to handle HN feedback (or for that matter f/b from anywhere) is to take it all home "as is". Then look at it later, say after a few hours or days or weeks. That depends on how sore the embarrassment was.

One way to help yourself here is to remember the Reid Hoffman's quote:

"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."

I believe calmness and coolness of another time can reveal so much about what people were trying to communicate early on. There is so much to learn about your product/messaging that could have been, and that's where negatively coated feedback comes in handy. Call it shameless or thick skinned but be prepared for all sorts of feedback.
Very well written article, I always enjoy reading stuff from the intersection of writers and coders. What I found startling was how different my experience has been to that of the author's at the start of the article.

I've put up with some horrific jobs paying miserable money in some of the most uninspiring industrial parks you could imagine. I've taken work in dingy Victorian offices so cold that I've had to program through thick gloves. I've accepted commutes taking up to three hours and incorporating four different kinds of transport. More than once I've spent 18 hours on Saturday and Sunday circulating my CV to every job opening and recruiter even slightly relevant to web development.

Reverse interviews? People clamouring to have coffee with me? Beer constantly close to hand?? These are unheard of things. Conditions are definitely better for me now but my skills certainly don't mark me out as a celebrity. Maybe the financial bubble of the dot-com era has been replaced by a cultural bubble, one that I'm definitely not part of.
Yeah, Medium's editor just give us the spark, and kenshin54 said he can make it cooler, and here it is.
I'm not sure what's more disturbing: that this is happening, or that the Obama administration can't keep highly classified documents under wraps. That document was labeled Top Secret and was supposed to remain so until April 12, 2038. This whole episode shows evil on the one hand and dangerous ineptitude on the other.
Same. I tried to install, and saw the dependency and the permission I didn't really like. Once finally installed, I had to guess how to make a request work.

I mean, if I have to fill a full request myself, I'd better directly use a terminal.

Right now, POSTMAN fills all my needs, and the alternative will have to be really good to make me change.

Maybe people not aware of postman would appreciate more.
Simple and also good: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dev-http-client/ae...
That counterargument doesn't work in the Netherlands: http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/2010/11/24/no-8-not-owning-c...
God says...

children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

34:24 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel
the son of Shiphtan.

34:25 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun,
Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

34:26 And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel
the son of Azzan.

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son of Shelomi.

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the son of Ammihud.

34:29 These are they whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance
unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.
SEM Basics And Why To Use It - 101 - Part II
TL;DR version (Taken from the article):

A CFO is paid more than the coal miner because the skills required to be CFO of a Fortune 500 company are scarcer, and more wanted, than the skills required to be a coal miner. It’s the combination of scarcity and wantedness that drives up a salary. Coders (Read web-developers in the authors case) are paid more because of a demand for them which the author tries to understand.
Blueprints: A growing collection of basic and minimal website components
You probably won't motivate me with small amounts. As they say, "I don't get out of bed for less than $10000". :) However if you offer to donate to charity, I'll probably be inclined to help you.
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but space debris is already a sufficiently serious problem that active removal has been seriously considered. (Nobody wants a runaway Kessler scenario!)

Has deorbit of this model TARDIS been considered?
This looks like a very useful tool, thanks.

Which ways are people using to go the other way, i.e. from markdown to a Google Document?
I think the real issue is that there's people with lots of money that are willing to fund a lot of different companies in the hope of stumbling across the next facebook. Result? A whole host of well funded but ultimately useless apps and websites. Meanwhile, the people who can make these websites are making lots of money.

It's probably a bubble to some extent. Eventually, if the return from all these web apps is less than the money spent on them, the money will dry up. (I'd imagine that this will be the case - most of the value of the most-recent crop of high-value tech startups seems to be based on hype and even bigger companies buying them, rather than profitability or revenues). In the mean time, there's still people queuing up to fund things they don't understand. The biggest thing to remember about bubbles is that they always seem to keep growing far longer than any sensible person would expect. Will the money run out eventually? Probably.
I switched to here from Slashdot but I still read it the way I always did: via a newsletter. I just skim over items that I already read on HN. Its also useful if I miss a few days and feel like catching up (Yeah I know about Hacker Newsletter).

The level of discussion though is much better here.
Some things are simply not possible without having access to raw HTTP data. HTTP itself is quite complex protocol.
Hey Cal,

I saw your recent post about asking for feedback. I check the Show HN submissions regularly but I hadn't seen flatnik before. Thought I would drop you some initial points from my first use.

I know London areas reasonably well by name but less so geographically. I guess seasoned commuters would, but not someone new to living in London. I had to keep hovering over the red neighbourhood icons to get the name up. It would be good if each neighbourhood icon was the initial or first letters. That way I'd know MV was Maida Vale, CT would be Camden Town. You will have repeating letters (Kensington, Knightsbridge) but it would make it a lot easier to naturally gravitate to roughly the right area.

When you click on the icons, some of the longer names force the words 'to search' to be orphaned onto the next line of the button. (Whitechapel/Brick Lane & Bethnal Green are two examples) You could take the words 'to search' off.

Also there could be a button for 'Add All' - then folks could filter on commute time at the end. That would really highlight the cost savings by getting people to expand their search. It would be a no brainer if you were considering two flats at 600 & 700 - probably served by the same tube stop, same commute - just a few streets apart. Opening people up to new locations could be really helpful!

Also, when I went through to the results page. They were neither ordered by price or by commute. I think they go by advert age by default. However the option to sort by price/commute would be nice.

Great project, will share it with my friends darn sarf :)
What is a socially regressive policy and why are Libertarian candidates prone to them?
TL;DR

Rap Genius pays $150,000 + $10K signing bonus, dude feels kinda weird about it.
I don't understand. Why is this funny? Are you all 5 year olds or am I missing something?
I, for one, am already looking forward in what ways the Obama administration is going to hunt down the leaker of this document. Because - how should a government function without having a basic level of secrecy? Oh irony...

On the other hand the leak probably came even from the administration itself. After they pretty much got away with intimidating political opponents and spying on unfavorable reporters, why not unload a few other skeletons from the closet.

Worst case scenario Jon Stewart is making a 5 minute skit out of it and with twinkle in his eye moving back to bashing some more convenient subjects.
I often worry that my job is, well, not that hard. The thing is, if it were as easy as it seems, more people would be doing it - or it would be automated - and either way the price will drop pretty soon.

So either what we do really is that hard, and worth that much, or there's a crash coming.