skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Small rant: I suffer from this affliction.

This year so far: broken iPhones, a no brand android tablet that sucks, a pile of PMRs that don't work, a portable digital tv that was missing a proprietary power supply, an old HP server, a netbook with a nasty case of the clap, a naff 1998 vintage HP Omnibook, clothes that are too small for our children, a car (which instantly cost me £550 in repairs), a crap desktop pc full of spiders. Ugh.

It wasn't stuff i needed or wanted. It was stuff they didn't want and couldn't be bothered to get rid of.

One day I will just say no. No to everything. No gifts, no charity etc.

Get rid of it all.

The only problem is that I've been there. For a while I didn't own much and people thought I was a charity case and gave me more things.

The cycle is impossible to break.

Perhaps I'm too polite.

The problem is that most people think that things are status and people think improving status is how to help a person. Status does not concern me so I'm doomed.
I have mixed feelings about Laravel's use of the facade pattern. On one hand it brings a really simple API, which is great for new users and rapid development. On the other hand, it's hiding away dependencies and making testing slightly more complex. It's seems a bit like hiding behind multiple global service locators.
Obviously, you'd be expecting to win the case, but litigation doesn't always go as planned. If I'm SmallCorp suing BigCorp, I may have one in house lawyer who is handling the litigation. SmallCorp Lawyer charges hourly rate X. BigCorp has a large legal team and put many times as many lawyer man-hours at rate X into the case, and somehow pulls out a litigation victory.

There is always a non-zero risk of losing the suit. BigCorp doesn't have to worry as much existential risk if they lose, since the penalty of paying legal fees may not cripple them.
This is 1953 though, a time when cars were still a very new and sometimes unreliable thing.
I read this interesting submission and the comments to date while I thought about this issue. I see the HN participant posting this story is new here, making his first article submission.

Some of the comments surprised me, as they seem to assume that antibiotics as a category of substances are only a few decades old. In fact, many of the first antibiotics in clinical use were "natural" substances, namely mycotoxins secreted by fungi in an endless chemical warfare arms race for living in a world full of bacteria. The reason that antibiotics are useful for human medicine is that fungi are much more biochemically similar to animals (like us) than bacteria are, being our comparatively near evolutionary cousins as fellow eukaryotes, and as such they are naturally selected to produce antibacterial mycotoxins that may be highly effective against broad groups of bacteria while being largely harmless to most animal tissues. But as the article notes, and as we would expect from evolution by natural selection, various strains of bacteria have been selected by differential survival to be more or less resistant to current antiobiotics.

Silver as an adjuvant for antibiotics may have some clinical usefulness. The research reported in the article here is laboratory rather than clinical research. There are many more steps to take before knowing whether or not this is a useful approach for human medicine, including carefully controlled clinical trials of safety and effectiveness. The reporter who wrote this news brief was careful to interview another scientist who warns that silver is toxic to human tissues as well as too bacteria, so dosage will be a crucial issue.

The obligatory link for any discussion of a preliminary research finding like this article is the essay "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" by Peter Norvig, LISP hacker and director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Check each submission to Hacker News you read for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed in the submission. Here we still need to wait for actual human clinical trials to know if the addition of silver to antibiotic treatments will have adequate safety and effectiveness.

AFTER EDIT: I'm going to an appointment for my children, so I'll be away from the discussion for a while. I'm not sure what the pattern of upvotes and downvotes on this comment means so far, as replies haven't explained yet what other readers think about this comment.
Cmd+++, invert colors and it’s okay.
Brazilians using Trello to organize proposals for government
I'm Brazilian, and I've been invited to ton of facebook events due to the protests in Brazil, one of then caught my attention, they are using trello to organize the proposals for the government. I found this fact very curious since all those protest started on-line, leaving aside if you are pro or against, this is a good example of how the internet/startups/etc enable people to do things.

If you guys aren't aware of what is happening in Brazil:
http://news.yahoo.com/protests-planned-across-brazil-despite-concessions-155413790.html
Its a false duality. It assumes complexity is zero sum, either the user has it or the programmer has it. In my experience this is not true.
Emscripten certainly should benefit from value objects because they are required to deal with 64-bit integers and 32-bit floats efficiently.

Supporting asm.js as a compilation target for managed languages is very much a goal (according to the FAQ anyway), including binary data and somehow garbage collecting the same within asm.js. I think this includes JSIL eventually, but it doesn't really matter whether you call it asm.js or not: those features fall under the general umbrella of things that are only necessary for compiling high performance, statically typed code to JavaScript, which would become a fairly unimportant use case if the "correct way" to run such code was via PNaCl; thus, they can be considered a parallel technology stack to PNaCl. I personally think that since it's still a way smaller stack and for other reasons, JavaScript is the better approach, but I don't agree that this is all stuff that is orthogonal or going to be done anyway.
It's the difference between serving a steak with just a little salt to help complement the steak-ness, vs serving a barbecue sauce dumpling held together with cow protein. It's about whether the added style exists in order to augment the central content, or whether it's trying to be the main attraction in its own right.
You will feel so much better if you get junk and useless shit out of your life. Its a huge life improvement that requires no expenditure of money and may actually net you some.
I would be using Basecamp too if not for the $20 a month fee. Can someone at Trello write a similar post on how Trello can be used at home?
Far Too Much Analysis Of The Alleged New Mac Pro Geekbench Score
I think it is good that it is included in Windows Update, but the failure to import settings is bad.
Hell, we've got a goddam archipelago of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CIA_Secret_Prisons.jpg
Perhaps, but Classical Greek civilization remains startlingly intelligible to us after 2500 years. We stare up at the paintings on the caves at Lascaux having only the vaguest idea what they mean (and that's hardly the most recent example).

One might also imagine how our understanding of, say, the Italian Renaissance might be affected were every painting to disappear, and then to reconsider the same scenario with every bit of writing erased. Both would be devastating, but as a student of human culture, I'd far prefer the former.
The exception that confirms the rule. :)

There was no riots in the sense most people think about them. These were small groups of angry young men starting fires and throwing stones at the police. I don't know of anyone who wasn't dressed in a uniform that was hurt.

I would probably have kept my kids at home those 5(?) nights while it was going on if I was living in Husby myself, but I wouldn't have feared going out myself.

It is because Sweden is considered such a safe place that relatively small events like this get such a huge international coverage. Of course media pounces on anything that looks like a crack in paradise.
I had assumed, in my ignorance, that the Merlin engines were not an important advancement. I don't think that specific impulse is necessarily the important sense of "efficiency" (though I do assume that it correlates with the important sense).

The relevant efficiency, to me, is "awesomeness achieved per human effort and non-renewable resource", and the useful proxy for this is "awesomeness per price". Arguably SpaceX rockets are cheaper (per given mass to given orbit, obviously) that most or arguably all of the competition. I say "arguably cheaper" because it's a little tough to figure out how to price the shoulders of giants on which they stand.

And really I only picked the word "efficiency" in the context of Stephenson's "efficiency or reliability".

Anyway, hopefully this explains why I think that true reusable rockets, Musk's often-stated ambition, qualify as a "very large improvement" in efficiency. Specific impulse is not expected to significantly improve, right?

Also, I apologize in advance for my legion failings in the area of comprehending aerospace engineering.
SaltStack wins Gigaom Structure
I have adblock and ghostery. It still appeared for me.

Perhaps I should use noscript as well :)
Before Gutenberg et al, you had to have someone spend weeks or months to hand copy your book, one at a time.

To me, the web is just the next step in the improvement in the publishing of the written word. I don't see it as different than a book.
Data will help us remember, but will it let us forget?
Facebook Login and What We Learned from our Show HN
You do realize the modern automobile was first made around 1885?
Forcing Microsoft to reverse DRM will harm the games industry
Disclosure: I'm an early employee at SaltStack.
Leading the Way in Cloud Collaboration
I've never worked with better people or software.
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy, but what if we measure "what the web is for" in bandwidth? What do most people use the web "for"? Netflix and YouTube, I'd wager.
I utterly agree in substance, see my cousin-comment.

Do you think think it's unreasonable to call "payload per cost" a relevant "efficiency"?
My bookshelf is 22 years old already :)
Editors which treat indentation spaces as tabs only do that some of the time, which is annoying because it's inconsistent. There's also no need to "experiment with configurations", that's just a load of crap. Just put a line at the top or bottom of every file with the settings needed for that particular file. You don't even need a specific editor, there are plug-ins available for most IDEs and editors to read emacs or vim modelines. Anjuta supports both out of the box.
Yeah... Bummer....
Still needed style. The good point is, we don't need to be extremist.
My anecdote re. BD-R: I got the Verbatim "good" discs (made in Taiwan, good dye technology - sorry I forgot the specifics) a while ago and used them to backup data (that fortunately had backups to other places as well). Months later, tried to read them. No dice. I was shocked as I thought BD-R's were built more robustly than DVD+-R's. BTW, this is true of all 3 discs that I tried, albeit they came from the same 50-pack.
Mobile Devices and Twitter Use - Mapped
I think different industries might need different standards. I notice that after a day of hacking, I'm really productive for at most 5 hours at a time. Given some break times, I think 6-7 hours is about my sweet spot for getting actual, high quality work done.

The other 1-2 hours is lost in confusion, answering questions, being interrupted, forgetting what I was doing, surfing, etc.

One thing I miss about freelance was being able to work whenever I felt I would be most productive. Jumping into a problem from 12 - 4pm can be more effective than working 9 - 5pm.

Unfortunately for us, it really comes down to management, and all they usually see is $ / hour ratios. They don't really understand that productivity (in regards to programming) is not just, "how many bolts can this person tighten per hour." It's a complex problem for sure.
The design looks very elegant, and they manage to avoid using sboxes at all, departing from most known lightweight ciphers. It also has decent performance in 64-bit hardware, without having to recur to bitslicing, which is nice.

The whole round has algebraic degree 2, like Keccak, which makes things easier to analyze when it comes to differential and linear cryptanalysis. Hard to say much more at this point.
Let's kick it up a notch:

What we call unstyled really means that only the browsers
default CSS is applied. To me that feels like the design of 1995, NCSA Mosaic, early Netscape and all that.

To get rid of that I applied Eric Meyer’s Reset CSS 2.0,
it looks like this:

http://img.weinzierlweb.com/wordsr.gif
This website has some information about serious bugs. There are a variety of languages being used, by different industries, with either expensive war machines or expensive civil aeroplanes full of passengers or impossible to service space-craft.

(http://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/bugse.html)
My wife and I use a combination of google calendar and trello.
Seattle-based Code Fellows offers women-only coding bootcamp
Samsung unveils ATIV Book 9 Plus and ATIV Book 9 Lite Windows 8 ultrabooks
But the question is, should we see that as structure or design?
The IAS is sexist
Is latest the greatest? Microsoft did it again
I've interviewed with Google a couple of times over the years and the interview questions are usually of the form "you have X data in such and such format, and we want to answer question Y as efficiently as possible." Then you have to puzzle out the algorithm, answer questions about its asymptotic complexity, and then whiteboard the code.

Sometimes the questions feel a little bit gimmicky in that they aren't really representative of what software developers spend most of their time doing. I understand that one guy at Google had to come up with a clever algorithm to figure out a snippet to use in the search results, but that can't be what the thousands of developers at Google are doing all day.
I thought so too originally, but it's not. It just emits IonMonkey SSA IR directly from parsing asm.js (as far as I could tell fromr reading the code, someone correct me if I'm wrong).
i find this fascinating. tell us more about the stuff you got at the thrift store!

liketwice.com has a program like the OP is suggesting, but they have a short list of requirements for what they accept. they review the stuff and make you an offer that you can accept or reject. i imagine if they get through two or three holey shirts or smelly shoes they just send you a $1 offer (or $0) and move on.
Partially I was reacting to the words saying: "There's not much code on this page at all, just simple markup for paragraphs, hierarchy, and emphasis."
This is basically an ad for Basecamp Personal, which is $25 once. Maybe that would be appropriate for your use case?
Social Mirror
The article is referring to the movie, not the book.
There's no doubt about it. Wish they had stuck to their decision.
Google and privacy: European data regulators round on search giant
Your website is interesting, seems like a good cross between pocket and evernote.
Although 1995 would have had a grey background.
Sounds like a good match with USV.
We're adding other, more anonymous payment options, which is probably the best solution.
We're disrupting education. Looking for hackers. Full-time/Internships
Email blakeapm@gmail.com with questions.
Since your question is serious, here's one serious answer. The article is really two (or three, depending how you count them) pieces of blogspam spliced together with a linkbait title on top. So while it's true that it doesn't draw exclusively on the NYT piece, that doesn't make it original, because everything else is cribbed too. Isn't it?
Hopefully More Controversial Programming Opinions
Cry me a river. They wanted to kill the used game market because publishers didn't like it, and the resultant consumer revolt caused them to back down.
MVC, a personal history
The wiser ones seem to be developers themselves, creative problem solvers - at least at one point.
> The online and DRM policies were designed to drive the industry forward toward a digital future.

If the article attempted to justify this statement, and then attempted to demonstrate that those policies would have the effects they were designed to have, and then finally shown how these effects would benefit the games industry, it would have fulfilled the promise of its title.
Review: If you get into the habit of git diff --cached before every commit, it's a good way to review new changes before they go in, and you don't have to re-read the whole section -- you can just read your changes.

Merges: Git does all the bookkeeping for collaboration -- if you have two people making changes, it's much easier to merge them with VCS. Or an independent contributor can use rebase to, as the manual page succinctly puts it, "forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head."

Discussion: If you use a Web-based product like Github or Gitlab (an open-source, self-hostable GitHub clone), you get an issue tracker and a dedicated discussion thread for individual changes.
If you want to get rid of stuff, for practically zero effort (ok, yes, without the $10) then stick it on http://www.freelywheely.com, my site.

Everything that gets posted gets more than a handful of people requesting it. Someone will come to get it, when it suits you, and take it away.

You get the warm fuzzy feeling of making someone else happy, and you also get the things out from under your feet.
Chip Hazard is a great name, like something out of a 90's PC game, like Duke Nukem or something.
If every page was similar to this one, the web would be plainer and simpler. It seems that you seem to think this is a bad thing by characterizing it as "bleak and characterless." I think it would just be a whole lot less stupid :D.
Only when I'm channeling my inner Thomas Friedman ;)
As another child comment identifies, we should not confuse simple with easy. Clients want easy software, and they have little care or understanding of the complexity. That's OK, on its head, but it is our responsibility to share and teach this side of the software's lifecycle with "management" and "junior" developers. Rich Hickey, author of Clojure, had a great talk on simplicity and easiness of software [0].

[0] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
The changes in technology since then have been dramatic. I can't imagine anyone suggesting a falling-block rifle as a suitable assassin's tool today, and poisoning an alcoholic with morphine seems like it would alert any coroner immediately.
Xkcd-style graphs in Mathematica
No, you are thinking of TCP. This is an article about HTTP. (in terms of bandwidth, HTTP ⊆ TCP)
Could you elaborate about the downsides? It'll be good to have an opinion from somebody living in Berlin.
"What's interesting is that civilization simulators (like Civilization, Europa Universalis, etc) don't take this into account."

That's an AI problem moreso than an economic problem. Modern warfare has elements of both chess and poker (and others of course, but roll with me here). The chess elements come from accumulating threats and counterthreats and so on which are all important, even if they never manifest. For a clear real-world example, look at the North Korea standoff, which has frozen the same basic threat/counter-threat model in place for decades; North Korea can not win a war, but they can cause more damage then its worth before we can destroy their ability to damage South Korea. It's a very "chess" situation, only there's no clear endgame. The problem is that in the context of those games, the computer players aren't smart enough to engage at that level of strategy; at most, if you build up a large force you'll make them "nervous" and they unconditionally attack, and that only for game balance reasons, not realism. The computer players are not able to take in a complicated situation and understand it deeply enough to participate in truly modern power struggles.

Your last suggestion is game unbalancing; in that case, everyone will simply be in a perpetual state of open total warfare, from the instant you start that bonus. That might be a viable game but it certainly would be a different game.
Show HN: Social Mirror
and racist. And if my subjective impression is true, there are some other biases as well. Basically this picture looks like our University math department 25 years ago, may be add a few more very old professors.

to the parent - by now, man, you probably know that a lot of people with downvoting karma here do lack a sense of humor and/or have very low tolerance for sarcasm. The main impact of XML innovation on human civilization is the ability to use <sarcasm> in an environment like this to at least minimize the wrath of the former group. Nothing though can help with the latter.
On a similar note, this bit caught my eye:

It's often subtle or intentionally hidden features that cost the most in the long term. Yammer has long had a feature that allows you to begin a message with "to:" and a username to send a private message to someone, or followed by a group name to post to a group. This probably took me an hour to implement, test and deploy back in early 2008. I have easily spent 40 hours of my time -- and, necessarily, 40 hours of others' time -- over the intervening 5 years explaining this feature and its justification.

One likely reason why an engineer - as opposed to a sales or customer support rep(1) - might end up spending as much as 40 hours explaining and justifying a trivial, implemented and documented feature would be a culture obsessed by removing perceived cruft.

(1) If competent sales or customer support reps spend 40 hours talking about a feature then some conceivable variant of it has some perceived value to someone...
I find it amazing that a company can get over $5 million without yet charging for their product. But then again, they kind of just did get people to pay for their product, just not customers/end users...
Also, https://github.com/spullara
Translated Into Navajo, 'Star Wars' Will Be
Very nice writeup of the original thread and lessons to learn. Also I commend you for listening, learning and improving. I am not in your current markets but I'll be watching for when you expand to other areas.
Why Some Founders Fail
Way back in the 90's, when this new-fangled web thing was just starting to take off (especially the .com side) I was teaching an "Introduction to the Internet" course at my college. I took meticulous care in trying to explain what was happening, why it happened and how to best sort through the voluminous information resources. To me, the web was about information. To my classes (dozens of classes after a while) all that mattered was they could "surf the net". They didn't care about information, they cared about seeing pictures. They were seduced by the flashy images and bored by the banal information resources available. This is when I learned that the web is just TV with a more precise remote control. Who cares if you have (more or less) the sum total of human knowledge at your fingertips? All that matters is "Dancing Baby" and "Peanut Butter Jelly Time".

sigh
Media cross-ownership in the United States
An anthropologist studies bankers in the City of London
By definition, a well manicured lawn is wasteful. Lawns began as a way for nobility to signal that they could afford to take care of land, but not have it _produce_ anything.

I mow my lawn and I seed in the fall to keep erosion problems at bay, but that's about it. One of my neighbors has a putting-green like lawn with an in ground sprinkler system. It's amazing. It's the envy of the neighborhood, and it just makes me shake my head when I actually take the time to think about it.
Some of the examples mentioned in this post are astounding. WTF??
Upvoted. You won't get away that easily.