skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The discussion here actually names the site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=434510

There's plenty more of value there. Unsurprisingly, given that it comes from 2009, this has been submitted before. They're all fairly old, though, so if you have anything new to say you'll have to say it here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128300

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2853365

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2812649 (some discussion)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1786879

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1700583 (2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489569
Same boat. I switched recently (when switching feed readers!) and cannot believe how lousy the performance is and inelegant the UI. Very jerky scrolling, flashes to re-render CSS, beachballs, stalls, ancient UI paradigms...

After using chrome and even safari, the UI feels so "thick". I think maybe a release or 3 focused entirely on performance and UI cleaning may be in order.
The first item in the FAQ answers that, yes the panels are removable & an extension cord can be used...

http://solaptop.com/en/faq/#toggle3664
A server that only serves static files. It doesn't enable the use of dynamic content like CGI[1]. Compare this to something like Apache or nginx. Both can serve static files but also support a number of ways of either directly running scripts (ex: mod_perl or mod_php in Apache) or proxying to other servers that handle dynamic content.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
> In my opinion, what's actually needed is to realise that object orientation is a dead end. We need relational programming languages.

The second part is true, the first is not. While certain popular OO programming languages and SQL are limited in incompatible ways (creating the so-called "object-relational impedance mismatch", which is more properly the "certain-OO-languages-to-SQL-impedance-mismatch"), there is no inherent mismatch between the OO and relational models, and there is no reason you can't have both in the same language.

This is pretty central to Date and Darwen's Third Manifesto [1] and the languages that implement the features it requires of "D" [2].

[1] http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/TTM-2013-02-07.pdf

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification)
the openx team has unfortunately a long history for not really caring about bugs in their opensource offering.

a few years ago, i had to maintain an openx installation and found quite a few critical bugs, for which i submitted patches to their then-active jira bugtracking. as far as i know, the bugs are still in the "current" 2.8.10 release.

the opensource version was unofficially abandoned when the Enterprise editions where announced - without really telling the users that they would not maintain it anymore.

i'm not at all surprised about the new problems and their lack of communication.
Which infinite points?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
I agree, these claims seem incredible, I would love to see things like this backed up with a demo.
Former NSA chief warns of cyber-terror attacks if Snowden apprehended
How Gamers Nearly Killed My Business
For server programs that require a lot of RAM, why not just use a concurrent and non-blocking garbage collector, or multiple JVM instances, or find ways to reduce GC pressure?
> politics is not actually affected by the phenomenon.

What makes you think it does not?

It has been now shown that weather patterns in Europe during the middle ages are correlated with both warfare[1] and witch hunts [2]. Theories that explain these phenomena have been proposed.

The thing is, any astrologer during that period would get the correlation part right but the causal mechanism completely wrong. Move forward 500 years and believers in Scientism (not Science) will take the mistaken causal mechanism, confirm that it does not match with their a priori belief system, and wave off the real correlation as "fudge" or "coincidence".

Sometimes the lack of an explanation lies in the observer, for all/most of the obvious stuff has already been discovered. Lazy evaluation will take you a long way in terms of keeping an open mind.

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

[2] http://home.uchicago.edu/eoster/witchec.pdf
"For any issue, there is an objective truth of the matter, and if people care enough to find out the truth, they should eventually find a theory/explanation of the issue that no has an issue with, at least for a while"

This is called Logical positivism [1], well-known in the world of philosophy, and there are many criticisms. I'm not sure the matter is as self-evident as you present it to be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism
> Blaming marketing for meat consumption is somewhat unfair - people love meat - in the past it was reserved for the rich and wealthy

Don't be confused, it still is. The sepparation now just spans continents instead of classes.
I don't see any rational basis for this. If you weren't vetting the code you downloaded before, you don't lose anything by blindly running the commands on one line instead of three. And if you do want to vet the code, you know what to do. Practically no installation instructions include a "vet the code" step, so you aren't losing anything here.

The lack of TLS is worrisome, but that's not so much "becoming a thing" as it is "a bad thing we're just finally starting to get rid of."
Did they look up SOL as an acronym? not entirely good.
Amateur radio can be rewarding. You can build radios/antennas, explore physics, yak with folks around the world without internet/telecom companies or do public service. Current nifty ham technology is SDR, (Software Defined Radio).
The bicycle is an inverted pendulum (and is unstable when still) but similar to an inverted pendulum when it is stabilized through rocking back and forth the bicycle achieves this stability in motion.
Give her Abiword, or one of the many other FLOSS word preocessors. - http://www.abisource.com/
Bezos has what The Washington Post needs: imagination and patience
looks like the bangladeshi government wants to tap new sources of revenue by taking over successful businesses, textbook political corruption.
The gyroscopic theory is incomplete but at 25+ MPH there are significant gyroscopic forces.

Also, while a riderless bike is fairly stable, a rider overpowers the autocrorrective nature when they hold the handlebars. So, really bikes are stable in large part because the rider balances for the bike as seen by your ability to keep a bike upright without moving and it becomes far easer to do so at as you speed up.
Yes, it's a thing, and aside from the lack of HTTPS it's not much worse than your standard "./configure", "make", "make install" install flow of the last 20-whatever years of open source. If you don't trust the developer to serve you a safe install.sh script you shouldn't trust the rest of their code either. If you don't trust them you should audit the code no matter what the install process looks like.

That said, if you're going to do this, you should do the following:

1. HTTPS only. No excuses.

2. No URL shorteners, which make or may not use HTTPS, and introduce another point of failure.

3. Ideally serve directly from Github repo. Eliminate another point of failure. The user can be reasonably confident that the install script is the same one that's in the Github repo.
Indeed, that's how I noticed it.
Dating guru social engineers TS/SCI holders on LinkedIn
How to make friend and influence people:

"If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?" said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to "nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years".
Is this surprising? I'd imagine 3D printing would be capable of replicating the form of nearly any solid object that fits within the bounded volume of a given 3D printer.
I had a similar experience, briefly maintaining an OpenX install until one day we had a security issue. Turns out that nobody had been applying software updates and that software has lots of problems with it. I spent a week getting it up-to-date to be sure I had everything cleaned out from the hack.

At the end of the week I decided that the client wasn't allowed to run OpenX anymore and we found a different solution that worked within their CMS. Less bells and whistles, less problems.
Why on Earth would you not upgrade to at least Windows 7?
... a thoughtful community... (with loads of links to YCombinator startups forced in between)
So we do know how the bikes that actually are 'bikes' work at least to a very large degree (engineering vs math), but we don't know all the possible physics which can enable an arbitrary two wheeled construct to be selfstablize when perturbed while in forward motion.

I completely understand the point your making. However, at when making a technical argument and then generalizing the end results, we can end up in a situation where the truth of the technical argument no longer strictly implies the truth of the generalized/summarized result. I feel the statement 'we do not know how bikes work' has crossed that line.
Well, I am on Windows 7 and it is fine enough but at times, it does get slow. I also keep changing between Chrome and Firefox. Chrome just feels way faster.

Apart from that, Chrome has very nice features that make life easier.

The PDF preview of Chrome is great. It can rival the PDF viewers on desktops easily. Heck, it helped once when I had to get a printout at a shop and they didn't have PDF Reader installed. I just dropped PDF onto Chrome and we had a PDF reader that could print. I know about PDF.js but it is not so good!

Next, the UI could be improved. Firefox has its upsides as well. I love the hidden status bar. I have dropped all my extension icons there. Now, with one shortcut, they are accessible and for normal browsing, don't come in between. But Chrome's way of managing extension icons is great, and one thing that particulary drives mad with FF is that there are no visible zoom controls. I have been using it on and off for a year now but I still don't know how to find if I'm zoomed in or not.

Chrome has really good Flash integration and I didn't know that I did not have Flash Player installed till I started using Firefox. What is stopping them from bundling a plugin like Chrome?
asdfsdfgkjlsdfg!

Streaming your install script directly into computer execution without even giving it a once-over, md5 compare, etc is atrociously insecure.
Or we can KISS (keep it simple stupid):

1. Next time a law surfaces Amazon tax they will have much bigger mallet with which to hit the gong. WaPo has amazing team and journalists.

2. Right now content is king - Amazon lacks much original content. Newspapers are dying, but the market for quality journalism will always be there. And he learned a lesson from Apple books.

3. He could just be Citizen Kane - just for the fun of it and the challenge to bring it to the digital world.
I'd nuance this by saying that often it's more important to just set some kind of goal than to know what you want. Very often, the whole point of a gap year is to figure out "what you're going to do" and figure out "what you want to get out of it."

In those cases, a gap year is better than just plowing ahead with whatever you're doing (and don't want to do).
Suggestion - integrate with https://www.inkfilepicker.com/ so that users can choose images from various sources (picasa, flickr etc) instead of having to upload them only from their local folders?
Just in case you weren't clear on this already: CSRF works just fine against POST endpoints. Think Javascript.
Why not?

The author claims it's 'high-performance and open-source' - sounds good to me. It's not as if we have a hundred web servers all competing as we do static blogging systems, the more web servers the better in my opinion, just as with web browsers.

The zip file is 312KB as linked from here, so it's pretty compact, possibly suitable for embedding in apps, etc:

https://github.com/timothyej/Shortfin
You are right, and I edited me original comment accordingly
The 'upvote funny comments' slashdot's policy did wonders to destroy the quality of comments there.

I don't want my news to be funny, if it means they will be generally dull and full of commonly repeated jokes. As it happened in slashdot.
hm, how can XSS on subdomain: "steal the session, preform a DoS using the size of the cookie"
Cloning on Rescale
I'm curious: how did you detect who was/wasn't a gamer?
By what definition of compulsory?
How do you find out scientifically what people are interested in?
How do you get around heap fragmentation? I know that the JVM (Oracle I believe) is really limited to about 32 GB of RAM before it has real issues. But the nice thing is that the GC will compact the heap for better future performance.

As a possible work around to the JVM limit, a distributed architecture with N JVMs running a portion of the task could solve the small memory space with minimal system overhead. What I mean by this let's say you need to have 64 GB of memory for your app. Given the comment above, Java would not do well with this. But you could have 4 16 GB VMs each handling 1/4 of the work. The GC would prevent fragmentation that you'd see in long running C++ apps and still provide you with operational capacity.
Awesome find. I'll get that fixed.

EDIT: Looks like someone had a pull request for it. Merged.
1. The service has a Twitter login. I could parse bios for certain blacklisted terms.

2. The service asks users to list some terms that are important to their audience. Most gamers list game titles, console names etc.
I'll dig through my boxes to find the one I referred to the most. I have the image of the front cover in my head, but not the name. It was something pretty generic, though.

But I should clarify I went to school in Canada.

All of my style guides were from small publishers and many were written by my instructors/professors.

We/I did use some international ones from time to time (some profs had preferences). These were:

(1) MLA Style Manual or MLA Handbook

(2) AP Stylebook

(3) New York Times Manual of Style and Usage

(4) Chicago Manual of Style

Now that I'm in the United States, I use (4) at work. They have an online version of their entire book (first 30 days free): http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html

But to get back to The Elements of Style, it would almost be easier to look at what S&W recommend and see how writers write today, as you're most likely to find the answer right there in front of you.

Elements of Style was written in 1918. There have been all sorts of stylistic suggestions since then, depending on your field. The reason why we used more than one style guide at school was because neither can be said to be definitive, exhaustive or the 'best'. Some provided better explanations as to why certain styles were preferred.
Brian Beckman's explanation might help shed some light on the concept: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhuHCtR3xq8
I think it's still quite amazing what they're trying to do.
This will also strongly reinforce their perceived value as "secure & legit". I mean, $1M+ Warhol on Amazon?! This is big! http://amzn.to/1ctu0w2
Am I the only one excited/seeing the potential?
Link is broken.

It is great seeing people update fast. I am waiting for the day when IE 6-8 usage goes down to 0.
It could require a lot more effort as there's no glamorous press releases to just copy paste - you'd have to contact people who might not be so willing to advertise their failures, and there might be rules preventing them from saying much.

But oh how it would be interesting! Just aggregate some blogs with a five year delay so there should have been ample time to have developed something.

Or just even write a few longer investigative pieces on why technology X failed to materialize despite immense promises.
Part of me kind of wishes that this had some trivial, totally safe and innocuous consequence that you could still appreciate somehow with a Mr. Wizard type experiment.
It's a lot worse than the standard configure, make and make install.

For one, it's only requiring one simple script to get compromised and replaced to compromise your entire machine. At least when I download the tarball, unpack it, etc. I've got several steps before I even get to the make install that I would run as root. And I might not even do that depending on my install target. If I do, I have ample opportunity to verify the package in question and examine the script I'll be running via sudo before I do so.

With the instructions provided by this site, not only is there no opportunity to verify the script I've received is the one I wanted to (HTTPS alone is not enough for this, the site or domain may have been compromised) but they're instructing me to just run it immediately as root without any examination.

This is a terrible practice, and while yes it has been around for a long time in the past it was something only done and encouraged by idiots, it seems to be gaining popularity.

This is a bad idea, stop doing this people.

Provide an install tarball and provide a checksum of it that we can verify.
or css (shamelessly stolen from http://www.jwz.org/jwz.css):

@keyframes blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
@-webkit-keyframes blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
@-moz-keyframes blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
@-ms-keyframes blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}
@-o-keyframes blink { 0% { opacity:1; } 75% { opacity:1; } 76% { opacity:0; } 100% { opacity:0; }}

blink {
text-decoration: inherit;
animation: blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
-webkit-animation: blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
-moz-animation: blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
-ms-animation: blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
-o-animation: blink 0.75s ease-in infinite alternate;
}
Are you saying that coldtea is a tech hipster desperately signalling for the purpose of self-aggrandizement? How kind. Is a direct insult to a real person more civil than a fantasy assault on an inanimate object? Because I'm not sure of the rules.
It's an interesting story, but doing the math - $300 million/$25 billion in revenue .... Somehow "The 1.2% Button" is not as catchy a title.
Instead of charging by the month or by the total percent billed, it'd be cool to charge a subset of the amount saved.

I've seen this work with other companies. For example, http://www.sourceconsulting.com/ which monitors FedEx and UPS bills for errors and refunds.

There's also a legal company in New York that courier companies use to fight all of their traffic tickets (which really add up). Whenever they lose the appeal, the legal company gets nothing, but if they win, the courier company pays something like half of the ticket price to the legal company. It really makes it a no-brainer to sign up.
The Making of Facebook's Graph Search
Amusing historical comments from 4.5 years ago:

facebook may not be around next year. In fact, given the way things are going for them, I would not be surprised if your site outlived theirs.

and

Facebook covers only a small percentage of people online.
The following quote from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (by Haruki Murakami) pretty much expresses how I see this:

"For the time being, there is no need for either of us to be here. And if that is the case, I feel, it would be better for us not to be here."

I mostly disagree with those who say that you need a plan or purpose for a gap year to be useful. Mostly, because I do think some kind of plan or purpose, however vague, is good, just to provide you with initial and general direction.

A gap year is often exactly the kind of thing that can give you a long-term plan and a purpose, so waiting on these things before you take a year off can be counter-productive.

I used to do a lot of hitchhiking for fun. When I went hitchhiking with absolutely no plan, I wasn't always happy with the aimless results. But when I'd set some initial goal, a random city or country, the result was wonderful. Very often I wouldn't arrive at this initial destination, but see many others instead.

If a gap year is not going to negatively impact you, I see no reason why you wouldn't do it. Even without a plan other than partying!
What's the expression? "Each success is just the entry price to an even greater challenge".
> the air on top indeed move faster, we only don't know why

We know exactly why. The mass of air above the wing is moving into a larger physical volume, so it spreads out to a lower pressure. Bernoulli showed that pressure and flow velocity are always related (for non viscous flows), so where you get a low pressure you'll also get increased velocity.

The "to catch up" part is wrong, as well as the idea that it's the "longer path" that makes the air speed up. A symmetrical airfoil still generates lift as long as it has some angle of attack.

Now, there is one complexity here in that air isn't totally inviscid. It does have some viscosity, and this creates some complex boundary layer effects and turbulence. So the Bernoulli explanation is a bit of an approximation. The "real" math is Navier-Stokes, but that's not useful to most people for understanding flows based on looking at formulas (it's the math that underlies computational simulation of fluids but nearly useless with pen and paper).

A better "highschool textbook" explanation is the concept of circulation, which captures most of the important details without requiring you to understand tensors and vector calc.
Bezos “said people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.” http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/10/19/jeff-be...

funny thing is that there is nothing that contradictory in what Bezos said in that article and his actions in buying the newspaper

“There is one thing I’m certain about: there won’t be printed newspapers in twenty years. Maybe as luxury items in some hotels that want to offer them as an extravagant service. Printed papers won’t be normal in twenty years.”

This seems true, I haven't read a printed paper in almost 10-15 years and the kids coming up today are probably not going to either. So this feels right to me.

“On the Web, people don’t pay for news and it’s too late for that to change”

This is true too, news it commoditized. A story breaks on Twitter or CNN within minutes. And within a day, you've discussed and argued over it with all your friends ... so why would anyone pay for information thats free everywhere else. What they will pay for is exclusive, well written content, that isn't available, for free, anywhere else. That I think, is where the secret of Bezos acquisition lies.
No "vanity" option for the third question? Some people buy domains, others — companies.
You should look again the Atom is even being used in phones now.

http://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_k900-5241.php
I haven't read the child pornography laws, but criminal infringement requires a commercial objective. The prosecution has to prove both intent and an attempt to make money.
I cannot agree more. There will be a lot of so-so, but... there will be some stunners as well. Not sure where all these people end up, but there are some amazingly talented young artists out there... many of whom can and do produce better art than most of what you will purchase at an art auction. They just don't have the name or the history yet!

Often a single collector or gallery will make all the difference for a young artist. One single person that buys enough of their art for them to make it on that part-time coffee house job and still pursue their art.
People aren't always willing to sacrifice performance, ease of use, and beauty of software for the sake of using some secure web browser.
Where is the rest of the story?
Why don't digital prints count as art? I have some lithographs that I got framed, they look amazing.