skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You acknowledge that most people probably have similar problems; the stuff their friends are posting isn't interesting, and also acknowledge that you don't follow along with your friends' posts.

You're agreeing with the original post. That is a sign that the site is useless as is, except as an echo chamber for you to post things you are interested in but nobody else cares about.

You're posting running stuff, and there's millions of people who are interested in running stuff, but instead of those running posts finding other runners, they find your friends and family most of whom aren't interested.

That's the problem with Facebook. This is less of an issue on Twitter where it's normal for you to follow whomever you want, not just friends and family.
Does this mean I'll be able to get the same image, which I currently shoot at a shutter speed of 1 second, at 1/1000 of a second?
I use a private group on Facebook to share and talk with my closest friends.
wtf are you talking about? laissez-faire capitalism exists no where on this planet, so "the greatest wealth-producing system known to mankind" isn't just slightly off; it's complete nonsense.

Even if you had left off "laissez-faire", the statement wouldn't have been wrong it would have been rather weak: what other systems have we actually conceived and/or tried?
Short jhat tutorial: diagnosing OutOfMemoryError by example
Graphic content of Cambridge University law exam stuns students
you're right. it's a UI bug
Authentication in Single Page Applications with Angular.js
CNN: Brain memory implants in humans
The USA have to review their patent system for software or VERY soon Europe and the rest of the world are going to ignore ANY patent from USA ..
Do you have a professional nutritionist who designs every meal for you, or do you rely upon restaurants and self-made foods ?

With any diet there's risks, assuming it's not missing any major dietary component it's unlikely to be any unhealthier than your average fast-food diet.
Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy?
That's one way to get to inbox zero. ;)

I would move away from Gmail completely but it's great for the search capabilities and Google Drive is really nice for a good enough doc suite.

One of these days when I get enough time I will download all my messages and just use Gmail / Drive as a container for archived info I want to be able to access from anywhere and use the Gmail search capabilities.

To the other suggestions, I would add that you should get your own domain name for your email to go to. That way you can switch the back-end service at any time.

If I know ahead of time that I might have to use a Windows computer that I don't own, I carry around a USB drive with Portable Apps and everything encrypted with TrueCrypt. I have been able to put together a pretty decent dev environment on a USB stick (except that USB sticks are slow.)

That's probably still asking for trouble though. You never know what someone might have installed on their computer. A separate browser as a portable app won't protect you from key loggers.
Epicurus might disagree with your assertion that the pleasure of eating is only a recent thing or the fare only of the rich.

Although he's much misunderstood upon the layman as meaning luxurious foods and pleasures, it's understood he really meant to enjoy basic foods (usually grown in the communal garden) amongst friends.

Soylent would be great for many reasons; third world, developing world, a trip to Mars. But I also share the thought that food is a pleasure and I won't want to give that up.
The Dreamer’s Dilemma: Prevent Your Dreams from Turning into Nightmares
Go's designers seemed to take a somewhat defeatist approach in this regard. Instead of writing a really good GC, they opted to design the runtime in such a way that more memory sharing is possible, and the pressure on the GC is hopefully reduced. But they've done this at a cost: they've deliberately introduced aliasing, which all but completely precludes the possibility of ever implementing a really good GC for Go. That's why I think Go might be good enough for current multi-core hardware, but will not scale in a many-core world (there are other aspects of Go that are major road blocks for future scaling as well).

I remember seeing a talk by Cliff Click where he explains how a small change to the CPU can greatly assist with developing pauseless GCs (though his former employer, Azul Systems, has moved on to implement the whole thing in software, probably at some cost to performance).

Regardless of the undertaking, the question remains -- as we move into a many-core era -- whether we'll find a programming paradigm good enough to take advantage of many cores. I think that whatever the winning paradigm may be, it will require a "really good" GC.
Food is more than just nutrition, food is a way to share time with friends and family, to connect. To actually chew your food is good, not a waste of time, it also slows you down to the point where you appreciate the taste of it and the work that went into making it. You mess with such mechanisms at your peril.

Eating is not about 'efficiency' unless you're an astronaut or a person doing a round-the-world flight in some exotic aircraft.

I'm sure that in a world where people are all about getting the most out of their day and shaving off a few minutes by reading on their mobiles whilst in the toilet a thing like this might be popular. But I'd rather sit down with my family and/or a bunch of people and share a meal rather than to fuel up.
The first link that search returns is solution architecture from Wikipedia [1]. In "Overview of solutions architect", second paragraph:

A practitioner of Solution Architecture, Systems engineering and Software engineering processes, the Solutions Architect is...

I've been writing code for over 20 years, and have been an architect (I dislike that title as much as I do full-stack dev) for 14 of those. If you tell me you're an architect that doesn't code, you lose credibility (with me).

Network architecture might involve scripting or code but is predominantly about configuration [2]. It's simply an infrastructure stream as opposed to a dev stream.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutions_Architect

[2] http://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=91035731-e5b6-491d...
As I type this I am eating, for breakfast, a sausage biscuit. I am unlikely to switch to Soylent. Now that you know my opinion, should I pretend to believe I have made you smarter? Maybe we can pretend to have made each other smarter together by expressing the same opinion.

Who gives a fuck if I am in the target market segment? The important lessons of Soylent are applicable beyond the specifics. They scratched their own itch, they're shipping, they're gaining the traction needed to build a clear brand, and above all the founders were not so in love with the contents of their own heads that they failed to recognize failure nor seize opportunity.

Sure it's not a product that contains interesting ideas expressed as computer code. Ain't the point. What matters is not the operands but the implementation of the operands.

Good luck to the Soylent team. Maybe you will convince me to be a customer, but no hard feelings if you forego wooing me.
Yes, sure. Those two do not reveal vulnerabilities just from the results, but I have to wonder at not using templates on the first.
Ask HN: what about email is broken?
I've read many posts on HN, as well as blogs linked here, talking about email being broken. I've yet to see a good list as to what about it is broken, however.

In your thoughts, why is email broken?
RIP Atul.
I was hoping your spirit & enthusiasm will help you win the battle over cancer.

Thanks for your pioneering efforts to promote open source in India.

You were far too young to suffer such a tragic death.
My thoughts are with your family & loved ones.
Aaron's words on the same topic - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
I don't really understand how this is news?

It's basically just spitting out official figures that have been both shared by Google and Apple and making some observations without any narrative behind them?

Of course a more popular platform is going to have more application installs, but that's not important to anyone. What everyone (reporters, analysts, developers) should care about is the percentage of dollars spent, which is the market where consumers are willing to spend to most on mobile apps?

The BBC and BSkyB aren't credible sources for proof that Android is important to developers, they make free apps that rely on an existing business. What we should be talking about is platforms that will create healthy businesses.
"Facebook is godsent for people who love to talk, but have nothing to say." - oh the irony.

useless article.. a bad workman always blames his tools.
Soylent isn't necessarily about forcing you to eliminate food and preparation - it's about giving you the option. And like Rob did, you can still enjoy a regular dinner with friends, and just have it for breakfast or lunch.

I love cooking, I love food, but it does take a lot of my time, of which after sleeping and working I only have 7 hours of the day. Other people can't or don't like cooking - what joy is cooking your own food to someone who burns a bowl of cereal?

And for anyone who simply doesn't care about cooking or food, this could be a huge improvement over eating McDonald's or Lean Cuisine every day. Right now, 'not caring' about what you eat has a huge, negative impact on your health. They're trying to eliminate that.
For those requiring a credit card for trials, how are you tracking metrics/conversions? Since the conversion happens when the trial ends, which is an event disconnected from your customer's browsers session, none of the JavaScript/cookie-based 3rd party software will be able to be capture that event. Some do have a backend API you can call if you can identify the user (e.g., KissMetrics & MixPanel both have this), but others do not (e.g., AdWords and Optimizely).
The thing that's going to hurt the most is vacation. In the US it's common to get 1-2 weeks and only after you've already worked a whole year. So that means working an entire year with zero vacation.

The 4-6 weeks you can get in Europe is extremely rare in the US (where I worked, I finally got 3 weeks after 7 years of service).
Can a dislike button improve the quality of Facebook content? That can be used to demote most of the spam users are complaining about.
An even faster way to delete lots of files in a directory
Growing up the muppets came on at the same time as evening news. The muppets always lost. After the news, my parents would answer our questions and then start debating some some relevant topic. As I got older, I'd participate more in this process. As a result, I have an intellectual curiosity for world news and strong critical thinking skills. Something kids today could use more of not less.

Also, by choosing to get his news from Twitter over let's say NPR, this idiot is choosing to be misinformed. Of all the hoax or inaccurate stories that I've come across this year, Twitter take the crown followed by news aggregators and email. The only false NPR story I can think of was the TAL retraction of the story on work conditions in Apple factories. According to my twitter last week "NASA disproved global warming"
A new biological constant?
AWESOME! This is really handy for both mobile and monitor screensizes.
The startup you work for will probably go down no matter what you do. It should be pretty obvious where your loyalties should lie, at least to me.
In every C++ project I've worked on, the vast majority of allocations go immediately into a shared_ptr. This article seems to assert that most C and C++ programs stick to malloc/free or auto_ptr-style semantics. This seems to be a contradiction, so I'm confused. I can see it being true for C, but definitely not for C++.

Am I misunderstanding the thrust of this article?

Edit: deleted comment about cycles, since they are discussed a bit at the end.
Wrapping up a C library for Ruby. It's actually pretty easy
But that obligation doesn't mean anything about what you read. Add them and ignore them if you want.
With most paid services a user could also inadvertently delete their data irretrievably.

So I'm not sure you're drawing the correct conclusion here. It's more about whether there is a flaw in the specific UI around this functionality or insufficient warnings around irreversible actions. Without knowing what the user did it's a difficult call.
To my eyes, it's you and your Rush Limbaugh-esque bullshit that is "invading".
I do keep a stash of ideas. Mainly things that I've noticed about how things could be improved.

Currently in there are things concerning drones, forums, social noise, voice recognition, encryption, new ways of programming, and data synchronisation.

I rarely share my ideas and rarely do anything with them.
What's the deal with all the medium.com spam recently? I sometimes feel like they are thinking each morning "with what made up bs headline can we bait HN users today".
The OP checked the "stay signed in" option when logging in to his or her Google account on another computer and all of the accounts that were logged in were listed in one menu. He thought Google had merged the accounts and ended up deleting his account.

The solution is simple, just click the sign out button and Google signs out all accounts that are configured to "stay signed in." Alternatively, he could have cleared his cookies or waited for them to expire.

Some people have been saying this is because of bad UX on Google's part. Google is kind of in a catch-22 situation here. They want to upgrade how multiple users check their Gmail on one browser but no one wants to learn how use their new system (I got frustrated when they introduced their new UI to compose emails and had to show a tutorial on how to use it.)
How does this get on the front page?
The way you're using the term "contracting" is not the way everyone does.

Different locations refer to contracting differently and this is part of the issue when people talk about contracting and freelancing. You need to work out the location in which they are referring to.

In London and the UK this is indeed how people use the term “contracting”. London has a whole market built around “contracting” the way nicwise describes.
This is an attempt to improve on this recent submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5801903

On my system, this multi-process approach can work 2-3x faster than any of the standard Unix tools (including GNU parallel with rm, which in my testing suffered from too much runtime overhead).
Rspec tests aren't simply named "Thing.validation_test", they are generally full sentence descriptions of what the functionality is (eg. "A User that belongs to a valid and paid account should allow creation of projects").

The only time I've ever run specific tests by line-number is when I am working on making that single test green. In cases like that the line-number hardly ever changes (if it does, its because I've modified before filters or added a new `let`).

edit: for a bit more context: that entire string would not be typed in for the single test, it would be built from contexts.

describe User do
context "belongs to a valid and paid account" do
it "should allow creation of projects" do
end
end
end
replace "facebook" with "HN" in the quote above... How many of us could have said that?

Are we forced to be here?
I wonder if it would be better if it would not get the actual weather, but always assume a sunny day with temperatures in the 70s. When I'm awake enough to realize I've been tricked I'd be out of the bed already ;)

[written after 2 weeks of rain that start drowning everything along the danube ...]
Implementing the Repository Pattern with CakePHP
From my point of view, that was half the fun.
To be fair an Ottoman Sultan banned Ottoman script from being printed, effectively banning the printing press across the Ottoman empire and pretty ending the Ottoman golden age, starting it's descent.

The irony of Tayyip Erdogan's Neo-Ottomanist dreams is not lost on me with this statement.
His tweet from yesterday - https://twitter.com/AtulChitnis/status/341002009794715648
I feel like the odd one around here when it comes to Facebook. To paraphrase the article, "I am signed into Facebook right now. At a quick glance, the entire list of posts on the first screen" consists of:

- Picture of a friend who's traveling and doing volunteer work. Awesome.

- Picture of a family member living abroad that got pregnant. Like.
- Sister making boring comment. Meh.

- Link to this TEDx Talk: http://youtu.be/b5OOOIKtj8w. May be interesting.

- Pictures of some friends/acquaintances' weekend out. Meh.

- A bunch of incredibly beautiful pictures of an old coworker visiting San Francisco. Awesome.

I take Facebook as a way of keeping in touch with people I don't have a lot of face to face contact with, a chat service and a simple way to keep in touch with people I recently met. It seems to work well at that.
Not sure what cursorline is, but relativenumber redraws pretty slowly when scrolling a lot (like jjjjjjjjj) in gVim on a pretty powerful Windows 7 machine. Haven't noticed anything on my linux netbook, but it runs a newer vim version.
First I thought it was a blog from someone who has started up. The link is broken, I reached out to Google see if there was any cache page, then came back to see the comments for any possible solution and I am very disappointed it is a marketing strategy for an app.
Will you release an iOS app?
Foxconn and Mozilla are collaborating to develop 5 devices, including a tablet
Yes, that is a good approach, and it was used in some of the faster implementations of Tim Bray's Wide Finder competition.

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/20/Wide-Finde...
When The Next Moment Matters More: 'The Special One'
Have you ever actually been on call? The issue is, you are not free for one second when you are on call. Maybe you never get called, but you still can't do anything that takes long to disconnect from because you have to be able to get to a computer within a reasonable amount of time because the one time you do is when you finally will get called (and if the company is low enough to ask you to be 24/7 on call then they probably won't mind firing you the first time you're a little late responding to an issue).
I can learn this elsewhere.

Why would I learn here.

Shame on you.
In a Microsoft centered development shop the full stack developer needs to have enough knowledge to install the operating system, on server or desktop, configure the appropriate services (understand most of IIS and be able to troubleshoot it), create applications (web or desktop), create databases and configure/install database server (we are talking SQL here, not Access), and troubleshoot the users desktop at an advanced level. Basic knowledge of networking (can you analyze packets?) is also a plus.

In a non-MS environment just replace the pieces with the appropriate pieces necessary, apache, mysql, or whatever is being ran. As well as ability to install OS, and troubleshoot.

A full-stack developer should know more about the technology in the network/infrastructure/database than the average person who is responsible for those items at a company. (A full stack developer should be able to beat out an average DBA at their job--)
Vim 7.3.918 (the version I have installed here on Arch Linux) shows the absolute number of the current line, along with relative line numbers for the other rows. No need for such toggle functions.
In NITs and other technical institutes there were fixed number of seats for students belonging to SAARC countries and for students from Afghanistan, https://www.dasanit.org/index.php.
Of course the olden days have to be taken with a grain of salt. I am aware that it was (and still is) true only for a small number of privileged people, and I am thankful to fall in that category.

If Soylent plays a part in reducing the hunger in the world, then I am a big fan. I reserve the hypocrisy for me to not be a fan of it in my own diet.
It was Warren Zevon who shortly before his untimely death from cancer said, "Enjoy every sandwich."

Only one aspect of our eating habits should be the nutritional value. Enjoyment of your food and the people you eat with are also very important.

Very interesting post - I know many people will eat this product right up.
A critical examination of the 10,000 hours rule
Ah this is great! I really enjoy the clean interface and the sounds remind me of waking up at the cottage :)
I mention the Microsoft environment, because the biggest problem for web development in that sort of world (mostly enterprise, still I think) is figuring out obscure IIS issues.
Soylent have some fierce competition.

Liquid feeding is not new. Many companies do it already.

Liquid feeding for developing world also isn't new. There are a number of foods developed especially for that market.

Here are some of the competitor products:

(http://ensure.com/) Ensure

(https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//) Fortisip

(http://www.complan.com/) Complan

(http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/abbott-brands) Abbott Nutrition Brands

These are big companies. They have dieticians and nutritionists working for them. They have established manufacturing channels sorted out. They supply a known, quality product to a variety of sources. They have existing contracts with big customers. They have expertise in selling to healthcare markets.

Note also the caution they use when describing their products - they don't claim that these are suitable for anyone. They certainly don't suggest that you stay on a liquid diet if you don't need it. They strongly suggest doctor's supervision.

Soylent claim to be interested in the developing world markets. About 20% of the world live on less than $1.25 per day. (http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/home)) And the main ingredient of Soylent is water, supplied by the user. About one billion people don't have access to clean drinking water. (http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/mdg1/en/index.htm...)

The World Food Program and UNICEF have some information. (https://www.wfp.org/nutrition/special-nutritional-products) -- see how cheap they're aiming for?

It's your body, and what you do with it is up to you. But Soylent are being irresponsible by selling this product as "safe", for everyone, as "tested", when it hasn't had any testing, and we don't know that it is safe, and we do know that it is not safe for everyone.

And this is the company selling most of the ingredients for these various nutri-stuffs (http://www.dsm.com/en_US/foodandbeverages/public/home/pages/...)

Good Luck and everything, but I don't think they have any clue what they're doing, or who the established competitors are.

(Using secondary account because I'd set noprocast a bit too long)
1st thing I would do is take a long hot shower. Also maybe go for a jog.
Sounds like this group could use a private subreddit on reddit.