skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help thinking that the winner of this nouveau publishing spectrum isn't going to be a hosting service, but a linking service.

It's possible you're right, but I would personally guess in the other direction. I think Tumblr is the most successful example of an approach that focuses on the internal ecosystem more (posts can certainly contain links, but linking outward isn't the focus). Tumblr tends to cover smaller things (1/2-paragraph posts, photos), but that model of an internally focused platform seems like it has room to expand. Whereas the link-based model already competes with a million existing ways to organize links, with varying mixes of voting, curation, and algorithms: Reddit, HN, Twitter, Slashdot, Prismatic, BoingBoing, etc.
> There is a growing group of people, who are scared to have conversation with their browser and make any informed decisions.

Why would scared people even open the settings dialog?
> Open actions need to be brought up again, this time with a note that it's a repeat x number of times. The more times it repeats, the higher up in priority it goes. If it doesn't move up in priority, it's probably not real anyway and shouldn't have been an action to start with

Hey, I wish I'd known about this one. I had items that lingered for weeks, sometimes. Maybe a rule like "4 repeats and it gets dropped". That said, a countervailing rule of thumb is that every action belongs to someone. If they get too many repeats, it's time to find out why.

I agree with c), that meeting techniques can have a dark side if you go off the deep end and place means above ends which my glowing description elsewhere did not present. However, lots of people don't realise the utility of the fusty old rules. When they are used as a backstop for judicious chairmanship, they speed things up.

It's a spectrum. At one end is chaos and wasted time and "because I said so". At the other end is stultifying rigidity and Brazil and "it's stupid, but I must adhere to this minute inconsequential rule or I'm pretty sure the universe will stop".

In the middle there is a nice median. That's where people should aim to be.
Repl.it is really quite great. Unfortunately it is beginning to feel its age (2 years, now). I'm looking to get off of it for some of the core languages I support, and I already rely on other services for the other, trickier languages (C++, java et al).
Bruce Schneier: Talks at Google
Also lots of people only play single player games.
How to Write a Critical Analysis Paper?
Critical writing is not just about acquiring data, memorizing facts, or reiterating what someone else thinks, but is a learned skill that involves active participation by the individual to understand the topic well enough to write a balanced and well communicated paper. - See more at: http://blog.editeon.com/#sthash.IU2OlDQE.dpuf
Free trade agreements bring more than just benefits.

A nation/country is a bit like an ecosystem or a company, with its own interests, internal culture, customs, and market. Opening that market up to another country requires trust. If that trust is violated because one party is spying on the others internal negotiations, it makes sense to delay or cancel trade agreements.

You would not want everything you say in boardmeetings to be immediately passed on to competing startups/companies...

Also, trade-agreements do more than bring universal benefits. They also kill off companies due to increased competition. And given that Europe has quite different (labour) regulations, can even lead to unfair competition.

So please stop that anarchist BS about governments being bad, and them ONLY making peoples lives more complicated. Yes I know there are bad governments, but please speak for yourself instead of generalizing. In Western-Europe most people are pretty happy with their governments, because - quess why - these governments do a pretty good job most of the time...
Right. But this can usually be achieved with agenda and well-written minutes. People who are good at the secretarial role are force multipliers for meetings.
Tooling Change - Jarrod Overson
Google Reader still working despite claims to the contrary
This comment is evidence of poor reference citing capabilities on the part of the original commenter, which is why such comments are ubiquitous in Hacker News threads.
Those words are almost literally the gripe to my coworkers that spawned this whole thing.
New PRISM leaks detail ‘live notification’ of email logins, sent messages
Two suggestions from my experience with links to my blog for more extensive descriptions.

Send out a questionnaire before to discover hidden assumptions. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/questionnaire_meeting.html

Use Etherpad to rewrite the agenda into a protocol live and cooperatively. http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/meeting.html
Oh, absolutely. I just wanted to point out that if you're communicating with google, you're communicating with google -- so even if they enable perfect forward secrecy over smtp/tls -- that's not a 100% fix.

It is still better than them not enabling it -- because if we can assume they do not log the data by default, on their own (aka: we can trust google) -- old data won't be accessible once a (theoretical) new warrant arrives.
I use Putty Connection Manager, which has a pretty good tabbed interface.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/putty-extreme-makeover-u...
Agreeing with you 100%.
just in case there's anyone who hasn't seen it before, Xming[0] combined with {putty,kitty,alternative} allows you to `ssh -X host`

[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/
Beware of these lame App Store techniques
I've actually always wondered about that. I often see loads of Mercedes/BMW/Lexus/Porsche cars parked around old buildings where the rent is less than 150$/month. If what you say is true (companies giving Mercedes to their employees), why is this? Or do some Chinese prefer owning an expensive car rather then living in a nice place?
one definition of transparent is, "cannot be seen."
This community truly has amazing people in it. Thank you for the recommendations, I will be using those sources asap.
There are some web sites that use a Javascript to prevent one from right clicking on images to save them; disabling Javascript is a workaround for that. I wouldn't be surprised if that is in common use.
> A reasonably smart person can go from knowing nothing to knowing enough to build things people will pay for in probably under a year.

This is so true. While you won't get to expert status on everything related to programming in one year you can learn enough about a certain language/API to build products.

And running a software business is really more selling and marketing than programming anyways.

> if you have enough time to run a WoW guild ...

Been there, done that. This statement is also incredibly true ... now I'm thinking about suing Blizzard for the three years they robbed me ;)
Nokia buys controlling stake of Nokia Siemens Networks for $2.2b
The Retina Dilemma
Looks wonderful, and far better than just copying the code from a hackpad into ideone. Unfortunately, the real thief of time here is the phone screen itself - although what would have gone on an online collaborative editor now goes in a REPL, the interviewer still has to shepherd the 8 of 10 candidates who can't write Fibonacci. And out of generosity or fear of giving offense, they'll likely sit through it all.

(Which is the beginning of a fascinating discussion about choosing between the Scylla of wasted eng time and the Charybdis of a rigid, non-adaptive auto-screening, but that's for another comment.)

As far as the env itself goes, though, props++.
As long as NoScript still works I don't care.
When you say treatment, do you mean medicine? I am really fearful of taking meds for this. But I do feel like I have to fight every single day just to be. Everything feels impossible, and I am completely overwhelmed and dismal.
I am the author of this post and if anyone have a question I am more than happy to answer it.
React to unpredictable market changes aka nerfs/buffs ...
Also, from Der Spiegel:

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?from=de&to=en&a=h...
"and thus giving them the possibility to track your visitors"

This is an understatement. There's no reason for them not to do it - it's fodder for them.
Baneful mistakes to avoid when dealing with Social Networking Sites
Though Facebook fastly reaching its 10th anniversary, it’s not that social media marketing is a new thing for business owners and webmasters. Instead, there are still quite a few people right there making fatal mistakes that could cost them both followers and sales.
Actually, it's possible to implement in it an unobtrusive way that makes users feel more comfortable. The huge popups usually comes from the same websites that do popover ads (that commonly end up invisible and blocking scrolling with adblock) and auto-play videos.

Most of the time it's a small bar on the top or bottom of the screen. Stop whining.
Announcing TouchDevelop v3.0 for Windows Phone 8
> The built in line out jacks have just horrible quality. (And I'm someone who doesn't believe in gold cables so for 'audiophiles' it must be torture.) Rather get a USB sound card and hook it up to your pi.

The problem is much more likely to be the DAC rather than the audio jack. However using a USB audio adapter may fix that as well as they'd have their own DAC. Earlier in this thread I did discuss another issue with audio on the Pi though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5969424

> Also try out MPD (Music Player Daemon) if you want a juke box. MPD clients are widely available for any platform - you can sit on the couch and control your pi's MPD with a client running on your phone.

Funny enough I did address that in this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5967949
Which title? Anyhow, it's "JavaScript" with a capital 'S'.
Video tutorial on modern erasure codes over Hadoop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPZyW_CnXGQ
Ah yes, we're currently running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
"Trittin said that in response to the latest revelations, the EU should suspend exchanging banking and flight data with the United States."

I wasn't aware the US actually "exchanges" any passenger data with the EU. I thought it's just EU giving them the data. So he probably means "EU needs to stop giving data to US".

Usually, these deals are one-sided, in that they only serve US.
This applies to usage of Google Fonts as well, isn't it? Similarly, Adobe gets the hold of site visitors via use.typekit.com
I am ashamed to admit that the main reason I want this much money is because I have always been treated like I am not good enough by my parents. He is somewhat wealthy, and I feel very unaccomplished and useless compared to him. I guess I haven't given much thought to it, but the fantasy of having 100's of millions, having my own jet, and being able to prove to them and their friends that they were wrong about me, seems to be the central reason for wanting to have this amount of money. I hate it that I can't do anything for them that they can't already do for themselves. I hate it that they treat me like less of a person because I have not been successful. I get a poisonous taste in my mouth just thinking about it. It makes me really angry, but mostly at myself for not figuring something out by now.
Thanks for this, it's helped me gain some perspective about my situation.
Will India make it to an app superpower?
SVG, text, and CSS. Also, try researching some out-of-patent image codecs.
I do appreciate Greek myth. Allow me to respond in kind.

Athena is said to have emerged fully formed and fully armored from her interviewer's head, but what her peer reviewers did not see at the time was the struggle she faced in Zeus' ego. Though newly born, she yearned to wrest the tools of code to her will, yet no matter how she strained at the yoke of her keyboard, she could never quite overcome the compiler.

One day, she happened upon a memento that belonged to Metis. It was CoderPad, and it allowed her to more fully bring her will into reality. Using it, she forged herself a suit of armor - not her best work, but much better than the patchwork stuff she was making before. She banged and clamored with her shield, and eventually, the hiring manager Hephaestus was finally brought around to overrule's the stubborn Zeus' "no hire."
"Do you want to disable JavaScript?" is a stupid question, as you say. "Do you want your browser to tell Google, Facebook, Twitter, Omniture, DoubleClick, and six other companies you have never heard of, that you visited this site?" is not a dumb question. Given that option, 98% of users would say "hell no."

You are absolutely right that configurability is a sign of laziness, the opposite of hard work. But removing configurability is _not_ the sign of hard work. Hard work means addressing the interests of all parties, and Mozilla did not do that.

Why do those 2% of users disable JavaScript? It's in reaction to how JavaScript is used: it enables popups, enables distracting advertisements, lets all sorts of companies track me, makes sites load more slowly, etc. For this 2%, these uses are so odious as to outweigh the beneficial uses of JavaScript. So the hard work would be finding a way to distinguish between the user-friendly and user-hostile uses of JavaScript, and just disable the user-hostile ones, so that the interests of both classes of users would be satisfied.

This would not be new: Firefox's popup blocker is enabled by default, which demonstrates that JavaScript is already disabled for a particular use case, because it proved to be annoying to users. Why not take that a step further? If Mozilla wants to force JavaScript on, they should also address the reasons why that 2% of users go out of their way to disable it today. If those 2% say "I used to disable JavaScript, but now I don't have to" then Mozilla will have done their job.
Not exactly sure, but aren't most journals a rip-off for both the submitting scientists as well as the readers?

As far as I know the submitter has to give all the rights to the journal while the reader pays a shitload of money that doesn't even go to the submitter (the people doing the actual science, you know?)…
It's not supported by science either. You would need at least 100 years to study the effect of GM foods on the long-term well-being of people.
Too true...

I've yet to see a decent and honest 'risks and challenges' section for a project, they all end up talking about how great everything is.

They are far removed from the 'risks' section of a financial prospectus (which still get ignored!) and yet kickstarter backers have fewer rights and safeguards than a real financial investor.
superputty is quite good compare than other putty .
Looks nice, but there seems to be a bug, that after a few seconds, one of the spinners does something it shouldn't do which affects all loaded spinners. The top-left (red bg with 3 white balls) is one of the only ones that still does a part (but now different) animation :)
> I think part of it is the fact that it separates content from its creators

I think it's more due to a 3 second loading delay when you are forced to stare at a blank page with no activity indicators.
OpenStreetMap and MapQuest provide different results for same coordinates?
Hi,

It took me 6 (probably more) years to find a really useful psychiatrisc who dealt with me in a proper fashion (mostly let me decide wether I wanted to take pills or not AND made me conscious the first thing one needs is PATIENCE, the second one is LOVE. In this order: there is no use in love if you do not have patience.)

Patience is hard, hard, hard to acquire (it needs a lot of time) but you have to struggle.

Love depends on your having caring family/friends. You can get a lot of love on the Internet as well, but it is not the same thing as being looked after and dealt with in real life.

However, I would reccomend a real psychiatrist, not just a 'therapist'. And not being afraid of medicines. BUT: you need both, medicines and therapy, not just one or the other.

At the same time, you need to focus, day by day, on something that really engages you. You are right now probably unable to enjoy long periods of work/sports/entertainment. But you need to set definite and realistic aims for each day. Examples:

* Today I am going to write ONE blog post, just one. And that is what I am doing today. If I do, then I shall celebrate it with some whatever (a cup of wine, a film, a good ice-cream, whatever you fancy) but CELEBRATE SUCCESS ALWAYS.

* Today I am going to code for half an hour minutes (if you like coding). Same about celebrating.

* Today I am going to visit so-and-so, whom I know is ill and enjoys my company. CELEBRATE.

* Today I am just going for a walk listening to ....

Of course, a long-term project (with NO OBLIGATIONS, just a project) helps in having daily aims. But no OBLIGATIONS: your pet project which can get all the time in the world.

Celebrate your good actions. You do a lot every day.

Just having got out of bed and having a shower is enough to celebrate. Really.

Go get some help. You will need time, but get it.

I'll pray for you.

(Edit grammar & style.)
Well, I'm in Sweden and my friends, being swedish citizens, have gotten CBT through the swedish healthcare system. That would not apply to you, but should you want to talk to an english-speaking therapist in Sweden I just found this:

http://www.forwardtherapy.se/

I have no affiliation with him whatsoever, and can't know if he'll be better or worse than your previous encounters with therapists. But might be worth a shot to try a therapist not in Texas with another background.
And on the kickstarter updates they state 'We have now sold close to 2,000 Omnis'. Kickstarter pledges aren't sales. They should not be describing them as such.
>> It get's really interesting once you use puppet to install an RVM ruby version.

> Yeah, don't do that.

Why not? Puppet-RVM (https://github.com/blt04/puppet-rvm ) works very well. And puppet is basically a system documentation. Since it's clear what's installed on the machine.
This stuff has been happening since day one on the store, so dont take it too hard.

Two reviews is very minor but clearly just the Glide dev making a few accounts and downloading and then reviewing. But yeah, they're not very clever about it.

Just mark / report the reviews as inappropriate and put the reason for 'Suspect written by competitor' or something to that effect and they're usually removed pretty quickly.
> to save Billions of lives

But not in Europe.
You want to add an option to disable a particular browser plugin in the core browser options? That doesn't seem like a good idea.
So glad someone built this! Well done.
Man creates “invisible headphones” by implanting magnets into his ears
"Articles" like this make me embarrassed to call myself a designer.
Dumb lawers litter my web. Whining is the only thing I can do. Besides, even small bar often becomes huge bar on mobile.
Things Entrepreneurs can learn from Children [SLIDES]
I'm getting the following error:

neotokyo.vg has expired

Please contact your registrar or go to the Registry website

The domain has expired 15887 days ago on 01 January 1970 and is pending renewal or deletion.
SVG, text and CSS is not always the solution, especially for rich images like photographs.
WebP is awesome and I use it where possible, but it needs to adopt much wider browser support. Quickly, pls.
I remember the domain switch, and how previously the guy who actually had altavista.com used to have a little box on his personal website telling people looking for that other altavista search thing to go over here...
Out of interest, how would you go about doing this, especially interested on the inbound?
The site seems to be down (o-tone domain expired since Unix epoch) for me. I'm assuming that's a temporary error?
Would be nice if I could try out all the languages in the local session, just to drop any remaining objections.
Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language
Using Hadoop to cook Big Data in the food-service industry
Government Officials Use Media To Anonymously Make Case Against Snowden
I'm surprised No Starch or PeachPit haven't brought out "Minecraft Modding" books. They'd make a freaking fortune.
Show HN: Subservice creates subscription service companies
Removing options is NOT the way to go. If anything, there should be more options, until computers understand natural language.

To be most intuitive to use, computers should converse like a human. Humans have LOTS of options, and everyone understands that. E.g. if I ask a human to make a sandwich, I can specify all the ingredients I want, how and when I want it, and so on.

The ideal computer, too, would adjust its software to my preference. E.g. if I can, using natural language, explain the computer that I want JavaScript disabled, it can figure out what that means and what in the source code or flags of Firefox it has to change for me to have that disabled. Or if I tell it I want a big refresh button in the center of the screen, it can improvise and render one for me.

Far future of course, but that is the most intuitive end goal of computers: you ask them what you want in natural language, they understand and provide it.

For now, because the above does not yet work, please provide options. Fortunately Firefox provides many options for those who need them: about:config. I find it really awesome if you can adjust an application to your needs at such fine grained level.
I use Ghostery to remove analytics and stupid buttons. I sometimes have to disable it for broken websites, but that's relatively rare.
Here's the Google cache version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp...
That's entirely not true. Postgres has built-in replication and you can even do synchronous replication if you want to pay for the latency - you can't have more redundancy than this.

Doing the failover is trivially done using something like keepalived or heartbeat as Postgres has built-in support for quickly promoting a slave to the master.

What we don't have, however is good load balancing. Also, because load balancing is f'ing hard to get right when you are in a master/slave replication configuration because it's really hard to know what queries you can safely send to the slave. After thinking quickly, here are some cases: use of nextval/currval, use of select after insert/update in a transaction, querying unlogged tables, and probably many more.

A good load balancer knows about all of this.
Love the look. Two things: 1) The author info gets in the way on the left, making it harder to read (remember we reading in F), 2) Those outgoing links, I would rather have you guys grab the content and reformatted nicely within the site for a unified experience.
For further discussion, check this previous posting:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707525

Glad to see you took some of my copy write advice from last time :)

If you don't mind me asking, how many users do you have?