skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I think that's entirely backwards. The celebration (calling it "fetishization" is a little loaded for my tastes) of leisure time across a whole workforce is a very recent phenomenon, and it's limited almost exclusively to post-war western Europe. Everyone else is still cheering for elbow grease.

Hard labor has been the norm in our society since before it was a society. For thousands of years, people who worked harder got more done and were less likely to, y'know, starve.
That's a Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar game. He also co-wrote Defender, Smash TV, and other classics with DeMar. Eugene now teaches at DePaul in Chicago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Jarvis
That doesn't explain why companies killed netbooks though. A lot of the low-end full sized laptops are now running netbook-class hardware at netbook-level prices, with all the performance issues that goes along with it. You just can't get anything smaller than 15" anymore without either shelling out for an Utrabook or Macbook or buying a Chromebook.
What are the traffic rules like in the Netherlands?

Every time there's a bike story on HN, there's always a long side thread about bicycles not stopping at lights, going the wrong way down one way streets, etc etc, so I'm curious what happens in a place with mature infrastructure.
I would expect ML to have been a little bigger. Is the node size calculated by transitive influence or just adjacent influence?

This would be easier to read I think if the graph were directed and indicated it as such.
The "teach kids to code" business is oversold, but she doesn't make much of a case.
So every twenty-two year old I've ever met has told me how boring their entry-level corporate job was and how they just want to get out. Fine. But recognize that your job is boring because entry-level jobs are boring. They just exist to see if you're sane and you'll do work; once you prove yourself you get more interesting jobs.

But most twenty-two year olds check out long before that happens.
Just yesterday this happened in Seattle: http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/07/08/west-seattle-green...
I would not yet attribute that this was intentional (especially if the driver slowed quickly.)

The more likely scenario here is that the driver was distracted, did not realize that there was a cyclist in the lane - perhaps made worse by lanes narrowing - and slowed quickly and swerved to try to avoid the accident.

It seems especially unlikely that this was intentional when he turned himself in the next day.

Of course, yes it does happen that drivers try to scare or even harm cyclists for fun or because they believe that cars should be the only road users. But I don't think that's what happened in this case.
A thought: one way to do this might be having a service diffing the HTML of whatever page guide X is for. For things like Facebook your diff would have to be smart enough to differentiate between 'content' and 'structure'. You could then flag guides based on that. But I imagine most guides are written/maintained in-house so this isn't a problem at this point.

Where do you guys work from?
Consumers know the pattern: over time, technology gets cheaper.

Laptops and desktops are not selling well because, at the same time there have been no huge leaps in actually useful technology, manufacturers are trying to upsell us toward fancier machines that don't actually help us do anything.

At this point, a regular laptop should cost as much as a cell phone and be about as efficient. Instead, we're getting $1400 "ultra-books" that aren't so ultra that anyone actually needs one.
Reading this, from a purely common sense viewpoint, Facebook sounds like an extremely vulnerable and potentially insecure platform. This "throw caution to the wind" philosophy is interesting considering the information Facebook is responsible for protecting.
Most places in US children (and adults on bikes accompanying those children) are allowed to ride on sidewalks by law. I do find it safer to ride on the roads though mainly because of dogs, joints, and car's from driveways and making right turns. But the main concern is that on a sidewalk if I were going as fast as on the road I would be a danger to not only myself but other pedestrians.
Have Marketers Taken Big Data Too Far?
You've pretty well described "communities".

"Tactile Keyboards" doesn't have much kitty pictures or religious quotes... mostly.
Why You Didn't Get The Interview, Part II
The end goal is to package Tor + this + an XMPP server (Prosody) into plugins for clients. It'd be a federated network running through Tor, but any XMPP-capable client will be able to use it.

Sure, you need to rely on Tor, but aside from that anybody could set up their own server easily (no hassle with DNS and SSL certs).
Ruby Markdown Battle - Easily Compare Markdown Gems
Adjacent, obviously. Look at how small is ISWM
Show HN: Stocks+ a 1-for-1 replacement for the Apple Stocks app
This is our take on what the iOS stocks app should be. Would love to hear feedback on it.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/stocks+-alerts-real-time-stock/id667161120?ls=1&mt=8
> The problem with netbooks is that they were full desktop software running on hardware that was far, far short of a full desktop.

I didn't have a problem with my Acer netbook. It's slow, but not horribly slow. The main laggard factor is the 1gb RAM, which is too little for a Windows 7 install.

However, I had to remove all the crapware first. If they didn't ship with those installed, they wouldn't make money from all those juicy contracts.
A fair assessment of the basic OAuth 2.0 impl, but I'm left wondering how to as-simply state the value add for developers to implement an OAuth 2 workflow instead of just relying on SSL.

Is the additional overhead to development worth the gain in security for the straightforward "access my own protected resources" use case?
First off, iMessage isn't open source, and Apple hasn't published details of the protocol either, so we don't know if their statements on the security of iMessage are actually true.

Even without knowing all the details, there are some concerning things we can observe about iMessage:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/06/can-apple-re...
I'm not sure of what you're trying to say here. Is it OK for the police to harass people because they're black, or sport a beard, or wear the wrong T-shirt? That's what you call "preventive policing"?
Yeah, if it's just the culture of the place, then of course there is strong social pressure and guilt-tripping that compels you to stay late like the others do. If you go against an organizational culture of staying late, your coworkers will likely resent you, your boss will think you are lazy or insubordinate, and you are probably going to be the proverbial nail that sticks out and gets hammered down. Better to just put up or leave.

I was referring to cases where it isn't necessarily the norm of the organization to stay late every day, but a few people do it anyway, for their own reasons.

Another possibility--their home life sucks and they would rather be at the office anyway. Sad, but sometimes true.
Phono seems to support any browser, why does this only support Chrome and Firefox?
I think this is actually a pretty good use of a carousel. It's nice looking, and like you said >It's just an aesthetic presentation of non-essential content (random portfolio items).

The only thing I would add is a way for the user to interact with the carousel if they needed to. Most people will ignore it, but if a game does catch someone's eye, it's currently impossible to scroll backwards to check it out.
interview video http://www.twitch.tv/jenesee/c/2488434
That coinage is sweet! 'run a flow'.

The users of the future will not browse anytjing. They will run flows, and it will be natural :-) Content about content! It's so meta.
Have you actually used Clean in production code? Can you share some of the tradeoffs of that approach?

Looking at Clean's documentation it certainly seems nice, but I know of no other language that had adopted Uniqueness typing.

[Clojure's Transients (http://clojure.org/transients) perhaps?]
From Walmart and Hasbro and their shareholder standpoint - not terrible at all. From consumer standpoint, terrible.
Yes, which is why using other metrics to measure performance would be better (specially offline).

Our startup is also currently building a product which will help publishers improve ad performance by using continuous testing, machine learning and optimization.
Toddlers are assholes anyways. I really support this endeavor.
>"just a few generations"

Side question, wouldn't this be in less than a generation? After all most of those born in 1960 are very much alive and kicking.
Just put Xcode in a browser and I am all for Chromebooks and I am sure it will happen one day!
As you pointed, people broke their arms while riding a bike

I had an uncle suffer a fracture as well while riding (or better falling from) a bike. No cars were involved

So I'd say it is dangerous depending on the speed and terrain.
I no longer buy the "under-served" customer concept, unless by "under-served", you mean they're waiting for "I want it delivered exactly when I want, in the format I want, to do with as I want, for free" to be "served" to them. I'm sure there is a some truth to it, but the fact that the "Pay what you want" Humble Indie bundles are pirated, along with thousands of $0.99 mobile apps, indicates that many people won't pay even a pittance for content they clearly want, no matter how convenient the delivery or noble the causes.
Only Chrome and FireFox support WebRTC video. We are working on adding Phono voice support for Safari, IE, and Opera using Phono's Flash and Java Applet capabilities.
It's hard to over-estimate the convenience of a laptop you never fear losing, breaking or seeing die some horrible way. Just take another Chromebook, login, possibly wait a minute for all your apps to sync (if you use large apps) and viola - welcome back to your computer. Viruses? hah.

And all that for half the price of an iPad.

This is the laptop parents can give kids and folks can give their elderly parents without worrying about spending too much time fixing it and removing viruses.
This one thing is why I'm a programmer by profession. I still code almost everyday. Lots of it is just playing around and will never actually be published to the world. It's practice. I've never gone to school for it. It's just something I couldn't stop doing. I'm obsessed. Now I work for google.

People assume I must be epic smart when they hear I work for google. The reality is I'm just obsessed.
Start by eating right, exercising, and forcing yourself. pick a small goal and achieve it. These things can help you establish a pattern of self discipline. Part of it can be fake it till you make it. But getting yourself moving, and the exercise part, can help get yourself into the right frame of mind and help defeat certain kinds of problems that can interfere with finding your drive.
Thank you for working on VLC. It's a great software.

But I have to ask, why it is so important to VLC, or you, that secunia take down their advisory? Does it really affect VLC negatively?
Depends on the state. Some states have lower, or higher speed limits within their borders. For example, I-10 West of San Antonio, in Texas, has a speed limit of 80mph (by necessity, I'll say!), and State 130 between Austin and San Antonio has a speed limit of 85mph. Utah has some highway sections at 80mph, and most states in the central-west region of the US have highway limit at or around 75mph.
I don't know if it's safer but it is still really stupid to use the sidewalk. Not for a kid, your 13-year-old would not be told to use the street.

But I live in Chicago and, like you, used to think that it would be safer to be on the sidewalk because of the really stupid drivers that we tend to have here. A few days after making that decision, I nearly hit a person coming out of their house. There was no way for me to see them and not way for them to see me. As a pedestrian, I've been nearly hit coming around corners and I also barely managed to avoid getting hit from the front by a jackass who wasn't paying attention.

It's just not very safe for the pedestrians. There are so many circumstances where it's impossible to avoid a collision.

Although I will say that I am shitting bricks every time I ride on the street, even if I am on a bike lane. Most drivers are really good and they pay attention, but there are some that are just fucking stupid. They have no idea what the laws are and they think a bike should be on the sidewalk so they drive erratically to get me off the road or they honk and yell at me even though I'm doing everything right.
Coursera Secures $43M in Series B Funding, Plans to Double in Size
It does, but it doesn't heavily rely on this, as the poster was contending. It merely adds some helper methods.
To be fair, OEMs didn't kill netbooks. Microsoft and Intel did - by stopping the OS and processor deals that made netbooks possible in the first place.
Yep, this is true. How many cars does a cyclist travel with on a trip? There's bound to be a couple sadistic drivers in the group.
It's a new header type in the HTTP/2.0 spec.
Makes sense. Thanks. Surespot is open sourced, is there any indication that Hemlis is or will be?
Have you considered what the <3 month stint will appear like on your resume/LinkedIn profile? Will you keep it on there or omit it and accept a gap?
It's all in how you draw the lines: "Sub $300 laptops" is a very distinct (and I would think small) category of total laptop sales.
That's the theory. In practice, your code is clearer if you use Maybe's all along the composition path, otherwise you spend your time unboxing/lifting values.
Obama's 'Insider Threat Program': A Parody of Liberal Faith in Bureaucrats
Aren't all those servers still owned and operated by a US company?
> Germick is onto something with the google doodles.

Who?
> Carousels are effective at being able to tell people in Marketing/Senior Management that their latest idea is on the Home Page. Use them to put content that users will ignore on your Home Page.

That is gold. Pure gold.

The suits will love the flashy new thing that shows the world their 'genius'. Meanwhile you're just using it to balance a layout, knowing that users will gloss over it 99 times out of 100.
Yes, I would go that far. But, as I said, perhaps my area is unrepresentative. There are quite a lot of cyclists in Oxfordshire. If you cycle on the pavement, the cars don't expect you. If you cycle on the road, they usually do.

I suppose I should add the caveat that very young cyclists are better off on the pavement even here. When I take my little sister to the shops, I have her cycle on the pavement. That's because she can't cycle in a straight enough line for the roads to be safe.
Enough babying them--it is time to stop letting their infantile behavior and juvenile antics hurt our civilization. We can't continue to let minor offenses slide.
Seth, you'll be missed.
Netbooks like [1] perhaps?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Acer-AOD270-1375-Netbook-Processor-Esp...
Hive at 55: Still Buzzing After All This Time
The sidewalks in my area can't accommodate pedestrians and bikers at the same time, but I still use sidewalks while biking, and just hop off onto the road when I need to pass a pedestrian. Can't say it has been a problem for me. If I don't deem the road safe enough for the few meters required, I get off my bike and walk until the sidewalk is clear again. This of course doesn't work for everyone's type of bike and/or style of riding, but just thought I'd share my perspective.
Same here. How could you possibly be bored with a week off? When I had a weekend off I basically planned all the fun shit by the hour that I was going to do. Shows, beers with friends, trips, bike riding, tons of stuff to do!
Maybe, but a used Thinkpad might be a better deal overall :
http://lee-phillips.org/x31/
@tedmiston, we will try putting video on landing page directly & measure the improvement.

edit: we added video on landing page.
I think they can target both markets. Honestly, the Pixel seems overpriced for what it's intended to do, but if you plan on installing linux on it, you'll probably get your money's worth.

I think the lower priced chromebooks are a great deal, and they should stay focused on that part of the market. I genuinely never would have purchased a netbook until I saw that the chromebook had the hardware it does at the low price point it has.
Try Hivelocity: http://hivelocity.net/.

They're great and cheap.
Unless I'm mistaken, there is no Hollywood-approved way of getting a movie in such a format that allows to apply your own subtitles to it. Therefore, all the customers of this site are pirates, and annoying pirates is what the Copyright Industry does.

From their point of view, it doesn't hurt their customers in the slightest, because their customers don't need subtitles (and if they did, they wouldn't be able to use them either way).
5 Reasons to Stick with MySQL
>Also, you created an account just to throw this in?

I hate when people do this. I think hacker news accounts should be read-only for the first week.
Not a dataman, I'm the data, man.
Every time there's a bike story on HN, there's always a long side thread about bicycles not stopping at lights, going the wrong way down one way streets, etc etc, so I'm curious what happens in a place with mature infrastructure.

Pretty much the same things. Even as a cyclist I am amazed what other cyclists pull off wrt. to violating traffic rules.

But I think the difference is that most car drivers are or were also cyclists and the law favors cyclists, so car drivers tend to pay attention at intersections.
The printout-and-highlighters method of reverse engineering was indeed common way back then. It became even more well known in 1982, when Don Lancaster wrote a book entitled Enhancing your Apple II. In it was a chapter on "Tearing into Machine-Language Code," in which he explained a method for using a disassembly printout and colored highlighters to quickly reverse-engineer machine code. This method soon spread beyond the Apple II community. For example, from a 1983 book review in Microcomputing Magazine:

Software buffs are likely to vote for the
third chapter ("Tearing Into Machine-
Language Code") as the jewel of the
collection. It is a unique contribution that
applies to all machine languages, of
which Apple is only one. Possibly no
manual anywhere that describes the use
of disassemblers and techniques for ex-
tracting hidden code can equal this
60-page adventure in decryption. Pro-
grammers would do well to look into this
chapter to check on techniques they
might have missed; commercial software
vendors may want to know some things
that hackers do to defeat them.

Source: Microcomputing Magazine (October 1983) [1]

[1] http://archive.org/stream/kilobaudmagazine-1983-10/Microcomp...
A counterpoint: "Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying: 'Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do.' Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told, and acquired a conscience which has kept me working hard down to the present moment."
-Bertran Russel in 1932

see http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html it is a good read
how about the guy who owns a 200 person business who lives in a giant house, has a fleet of vehicles, servants, and doesn't work that hard because he built his business over the course of 20 years?

he's rich too, you've just never heard of him because he didn't work so hard as to become famous
Those changes would benefit regular JavaScript as well, so it's not a divergence. Regular JavaScript developers are already asking for SIMD (and that's why Dart is implementing it, after all). They were asking for more predictable math operations, and Math.imul is good for that. Threading too. Changes made for asm.js lift all boats.

The parent comment said that asm.js was a subset of JavaScript. You said "no", but none of the things you said contradict that. asm.js is, right now, a subset of JavaScript. Which, of course, is its entire raison d'être.
This project wouldn't need $100,000.
You've made this incorrect claim about battery size a bunch of times here, and I've corrected you a bunch of times. At this point I'm starting to think that you aren't just genuinely mistaken, but have some kind of agenda. (Even if I can't figure out what it could be).

So for the Nth time, the ARM ChromeBook has a 30Wh battery. The Nexus 7 has a 16Wh battery. This is not "about the same", it's a factor of 2 difference.

What would be about the same is the 2012 MacBook Air (35Wh) -- a device that incidentally has almost the same form factor as the ChromeBook.

Now, Apple did manage to inch it up to 38 Wh in the latest release. Maybe Samsung will be able to do get similar relative improvements. But if you're genuinely suggesting that a low-end machine 11" super-thin laptop could have a 60Wh battery... Well, I just don't know what to say.
I happened to get a Chromebook for free some time ago. At first I didn't think I'd have much use for it. At the time I did much of my casual browsing on a tablet. For "serious" stuff I had laptops.

I've found that it has displaced the tablet for most casual browsing. I think the main reasons is that while it's slow, it's still faster than a tablet. Having a real keyboard is very nice. It also works well as an SSH terminal.
The Learning Knights of Bell Telephone
Or maybe the author doesn't want to pull something completely out his ass? Isn't this what we criticize journalists for? Especially in social sciences reporting?

There has been a lot of spilled ink regarding why big city crime has been going down with lots of decent theories (abortion access, gentrification, easier access to higher education, smarter policing, larger prison population, etc) and I've never really heard that heavy handed SWAT tactics account for this.
Interestingly enough there was a famous study done by the American Army during WW2 that discovered just how reluctant most people are to kill others:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing:_The_Psychological_C...
Link to the Moleskine pocket notebook?

IMO Moleskine is the Starbucks of notebooks. It's a crowded category, but for me, the Leuchtturm is the clear standout for quality and fit-and-finish, head and shoulders above the Moleskine.
Listen to this advice. There was a guy on Reddit sometime ago who automated lots of his work, and his co-workers hated him for it. Wish I could find the thread.
^^^ This. Making absolute statements about what works and doesn't work in marketing ignores, imho, an important point: each audience is a different audience. So what might work for some will not work for others.

Example: My company tested landing pages using all the best practice rules out there on the web - outcome: lower conversion.

What the lesson should be is that testing is incredibly important - and not prescribing something that may or may not work for a given audience.
I have little doubt that this will accelerate the super-seed trend, wherein small startups avoid VC for extended periods of time.

One thing that struck me: the wefunder guys clearly believe this is going to be a big deal for small-time investors. How will firms accept those "$1000" checks? As far as I know, privately held securities can be issued to only a very small number of investors.

Will Facebook/Goldman style investment vehicles become a common mode of skirting the law? Is the SEC going to loosen that 500 investor limit?
Speed up Heroku deploys
Should Computer Scientists run experiments?
You Are Not an Artisan
You can't break the law just because you think someone else is breaking the law. The judge doesn't have the option of deciding that Apple was not guilty because Amazon deserved it.
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Video sets are really projects, with a different set of lingo that a "PMI-style" project.

So they have to have something like that, otherwise nothing would ever get done. People don't just magically do things.
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