skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to mention you can't put a roof rack on a car with gullwing doors. This is an SUV that can't have a roof rack and is therefore not useful to a large portion of the people who buy SUV's.
Amazon owns Diapers.com, btw.
Dovecot is super fast and reliable, been using it a lot. It just works.
Floobits works really well from my limited experience. I've used it in Sublime while my friend was in vim and it worked flawlessly. Much better than our experience with attempting something similar with Screenhero. We tried Flooty (live terminal-sharing) as well, and it's in a mostly-working state. If you've ever tried Nitrous.io's shared tmux sessions, it works almost as well. I see Floobits becoming a tool used by many, many developers.

I like Toutpost's idea, but I'm not convinced by their approach at the moment. Though I'm actually in the process of making something pretty similar for a specific audience in Django.

If they were in my area already, I would probably try out SpoonRocket immediately. I already prepare and cook all my meals, but I'm still prone to getting some food near campus once or twice a week. $6 for a delivered "designer" meal is pretty compelling if they manage to maintain that price outside of their current area.
I don't agree with the fact that they were rude, which is what is it to not respond in these cases, but they didn't do anything particularly offensive except for leaving him in the dark. All he needed to do was take a job offer, if Google really wanted him, they could fix their mistake(s) of waiting so long. The comments though for this article are pretty egregious, it's too bad interviewers are that awful.
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Hi, I'm the author of NProgress. Yes! It's intentional.

You can disable this by removing the `cursor: wait` rule in the CSS file.
"Rather than chasing +1s of content, your time is much better spent making great content."

I don't get it... Are +1s not good enough of an indication that content is good? If Google is not looking at social signals how can they justify good from bad content? Natural links are just as easy to manipulate Google with as unnatural. Instead of anchoring an exact match we use a brand.

Without social it makes it way too easy to game the system which some of our competitors are doing and getting away with after penguin, panda, and all the other updates.

We've been finding companies that rank for "ABC" and all they do is build a bunch of blogs ("abc1.com""abc2.com""abcGreen.com""abcBlue.com" etc..) and keep building them on "free platforms" like wordpress/blogger/weebly and the other hundred sites.. Create a bunch of crap links for Google to index and rank. All google needs to see is a "natural link profile", some onsite SEO and viola.

Lately we've been finding some articles that suggest changing published dates of pages/posts to get them reindexed with freshness. Some are consistently gaming Google, and the ones of us who are creating good content and get some +1s (by sharing it in relevant communities otherwise how will it be found) are going to lose to cheaters. Perhaps it's not as easy to game specific SERPs nationally. However, locally its a piece of cake. Just try looking for a locksmith, the way it's set up now the cheaters are still on top.

My question to Matt Cutts is: if you were an internet marketer and you created good content that got a great amount of real interaction, and that awesome content you created is not getting any SERP love because of others who are cheating the system, what would you do? How long would you wait? and what if nothing changes after the next algorithm change?
People have the option of paying people to work on projects. I don't see why this is so complicated. If you want to try to get people to crowd fund your project then go ahead and try. If you don't think someone else's project is worthwhile then don't contribute to it.
What if in 10-20 years, Amazon buys a Universal Factory in a (Large) Box startup, and sets them up at each warehouse? I think it's feasible.
> the standard definition of the term outside of obvious casual adaptations of the term like "office politics."

From my limited reading about the topic, that is not the case. According to wikipedia, politics is the practice and theory of influencing other people on a civic or individual level[1]. I have taken just one, very 101 like course on Governance and the most prominent theories that were discussed used politics in the broader sense (but detailed from a narrower perspective due to the scope of the class). Group theory[2], for instance, calls nearly all interactions between interest groups as political. Elite Theory [3], also used similar connotations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_(political_theory)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_theory
Exactly. When Rise of the Warrior Cop came out, I wanted to pick it up on release day. None of the local bookstores had it in stock, but all were happy to order it for me. It would have taken them all 4-5 business days.

I went to Amazon that night, and with Prime, I got it in 2 days, for about $10 less than the local brick and mortar stores.

How can anyone compete with that? Especially if they build out their same-day service?
I wonder why GraftConcepts didn't go the Kickstarter route.
I cheated on my ACTs/GREs by using prep material and studying really hard. Got really good scores, didn't learn a damn thing.

You can always game a test that you know ahead of time by prepping, it has no correlation on your non-prepping abilities though.
I do this with my favourite T-shirts.

Also, they're simply better quality than the T-shirts I've bought myself.
Sure, if you wanna be a defeatist. But IMO, that viewpoint is lazy, and unacceptable to the hacker.

Governments change, be it to external factors (9/11 -> passage of Patriot Act -> PRISM), or internal factors (Erm... the Civil Rights Movement)

We, the Millennials, have a good shot at becoming the next greatest generation. We grew up during the rise of the internet. We witnessed 9/11. We fought in two oversea wars, we've returned to the greatest economic recession since the great depression. We've elected the first African American President. We've defeated SOPA. We've created Reddit. We've created Google. We've created Wikipedia.

The air of political change is growing... not shrinking. Don't you see? Millenials are beginning to take over the country. Its our time to shine!
That's what confuses me. AJAX loaders are ubiquitous on the web. They're small, easy to use, and a great visual cue. I'm not sure why you would want a percent-based loading bar unless you actually knew how long something would take to load. (e.g. see loading bars for downloads)

Using these super thin bars as a "dumb" loader seems like it would only confuse your users. It's like using an icon other than the floppy disk to convey saving.
You probably want to see this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6241570
If you program your responses in C, you get more boilerplate. Still shouldn't be conceptually difficult to any programmer worth their salt.
The other top-level comments are correct that copyrightable works created by the federal goverment are in the public domain. But federal agencies can and do claim trademark protections:

You cannot use U.S. government trademarks or the logos of U.S. government agencies without permission. For example, you cannot use an agency logo or trademark on your social media page. [0]

In other words, the article's line of speculation, including its title (note the question mark), is obviously incorrect, but it can be made sound merely by substituting "IP" or "trademark" for "copyright". The article would otherwise read substantially the same, as parody is likewise a defense to trademark infringement on First Amendment grounds, just as it is in copyright cases. (The standard is higher for a successful free-speech defense of trademark infringement, though).

0. http://www.usa.gov/copyright.shtml ; this claim isn't entirely correct. Legal protections of government trademarks are mostly limited to uses which could cause confusion about an agency's position or endorsement of a statement or product. Use of logos of a federal agencies in some other common ways is legal. (Think t-shirts emblazoned with the letters "FBI".)
By making the concealment deniable.
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For XMPP I highly recommend Prosody (http://prosody.im/)
Not only are these Mattermark posts becoming quite boring and repetitive, but for the company's sake it's time to move on. Readers of HN aren't going to make a purchase. And if entrepreneurs/hackers are the target market, then it's time to rethink that strategy a bit.
Quite some negativism in the comments below here!

This is a nice implementation of something that we had an exciting discussion about on HN recently: UI pattern observation from UsabilityPost: Website loading bar [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6238482
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> Sorry, by "Congress" I wasn't referring to the version in place 35 years ago in the post-Watergate Era.

I am not sue that the "version" of Congress has changed as much as the attitude of the people toward the government. While abstract anti-government rhetoric is perhaps even more common now than in the post-Watergate Era, specifically directed outrage at particular abuses like the (far more pervasive today than in the Watergate Era) use of national security resources for surveillance of the population (and not just foreign communication) is far more muted.
Short answer: I like it that way.

Long answer: When it's plugged into the external monitor/keyboard/wacom tablet/leap/etc, the laptop is on a shelf beneath the main desk surface. It's completely out of view when I'm standing there working. I've got a 24" monitor on an adjustable arm; I don't need a second screen. Or want one; if I have two screens next to each other I inevitably go crazy if they're not exactly the same color profile.

(Photo of my setup: http://egypt.urnash.com/media/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/08/desk...)
> Basically you're telling it to do something and when it's done it will call your function (callback). This is because Node is single-threaded.

Do you mean multi-threaded?
I want to more closely buy the amount of ingredients required in what I would use them for.

I would love to be able to shop based on meals - where I say "on Wednesday night we are going to serve turkey meatloaf with broccoli and salad for 4 people" and understand the ingredients and proportions that match that.

I wind up having stuff rot because I only use a portion of it for whatever I make, and I don't have a set menu so the food is random/too-often-the-same etc...

I want the entire experience to be optimized.
Yeah, it's onion routing applied to services. I never know how much detail to go into on HN these days.

I should have just said "TOR back ported to UUCP" and saved time. :)
Fresh already delivers a lot more than just groceries. Plenty of common durable goods like dvds and video games, for example.
The point others are trying to make here is that it's completely self-serving to call one's political thought as Non-Politics.

Libertarian/anarcho-capitalist thought and agorism is political in nature, making large (debatable) assumptions about how societal relations ought to be organized.
My guess is they would do pretty well. There is not a rigid engine right under the hood, the wipers mounts seem well protected under the hood, and no other protrusions really in the front. Euro NCAP provided pedestrian safety results, but the site does not work for me from here. You can go see if you want though if there is anything for the Tesla Model S there.
So it just increments at random when you call Start, until Done is called (assuming setX isn't used)?
This is true, and it's the argument I used to predict that Obama would carry on all of Bush's worst policies (which he has).

However, I still think it makes sense to vote for third party candidates, if only to force mainstream parties to realize that some of their positions will lose them significant numbers of votes.

In fact, I'd argue that your argument actually supports voting for 3rd party candidates as long as the expectation is that those votes will impact which issues get focus, and not the expectation that the 3rd party candidate will actually win an election.

It is quite likely that if Obama didn't have so many blind loyalists in his pocket that he'd actually worry about being impeached over his recently revealed abuses. Voting 3rd party tells the major parties that issues matter more than loyalty and that we're not serfs.
"In terms of software, the languages Ada and C have very different attitudes to freedom. Ada introduces restrictions and checks, with the goal of providing freedom from errors. On the other hand C gives the programmer more freedom, making it easier to make errors.

One of the historical guidelines in C was "trust the programmer". This would be fine were it not for the fact that programmers, like all humans, are frail and fallible beings. Experience shows that whatever techniques are used it is hard to write "correct" software. It is good advice therefore to use tools that can help by finding bugs and preventing bugs. Ada was specifically designed to help in this respect."

https://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/gem-30/

(And if even Ada is not restrictive enough, one uses Ada's subset Spark, e.g., http://www.spark-2014.org/ )

Not to say that one should use Ada (though it would often help I guess), but this different approach to software design and maintenance ("Ada culture"[1]) is worth knowing.

[1] http://archive.adaic.com/intro/ada-vs-c/ada-vs-c.html

My personal rule of thumb:

C and Scheme for explorative hacking,
Ada and Haskell for reliable implementation,
Perl for teh recreational lulz.
I'm sure the engineers have thought about that...
Law is certainly not for everyone, and I believe the difficult journey to becoming a practicing attorney would only be compounded by accepting that challenge later in life rather than sooner.

However, my experience in law school was that the best students (the majority of top 20% of our class) were all transitioning their careers later in life. This seemed counter-intuitive, because law school is difficult and time consuming enough to balance that with spouses, children and related expenses while simultaneously giving up your career (and income) to become a full-time student seemed insurmountable, but my experience is those individuals who took it upon themselves did it with grace.

In terms of getting a law job, I believe a programmer turned lawyer would be in a better position because of their prior work experience than say a straight from college to law school graduate with no prior "real world" experience.
Thanks for the clean up :)

I'm not native speaker, but that's of course no excuse for bad grammar.

PS. Did you already sign-up? ;)
Interesting index. One funny note: http://www.hackermeter.com/ and https://onemonthrails.com/ use the same photo. Found that kind of funny
Maybe we should call this type of site the "onboarding try hard." Probably just a sign the product designer hasn't figured out what they want their user to do, so instead decides to show you the entire car lot and hope something sticks.
Are you implying that the author would have better spent his time redesigning HTTP rather than making this library? Because to me, that is even more ridiculous.
Every Medium article I have read via HN (all of which were found on the frontpage) were edgy, self-absorbed and pretentious ramblings. I guess the platform promotes such behaviour by creating this "cool kid bench" and aiding others toward it with a feeling of elitism because they blog on Medium. I wonder when Yahoo (read: Marissa) will buy them!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting

Basically, you check yes or no for everyone, and the winner is the one with the most "yes" votes. Less expressive than IRV, but also simpler to understand and tabulate.
Exactly. This entire thread is an illustration of why, out of all of the things that startup founders have to worry about, the fear of being outcompeted by a megacorporation (OMG! What if Google/Apple/Microsoft is working on the same thing we're working on?) should not be one of them.
I think I have the same problem, but in the opposite way. I live by myself and end up wasting too much food because I don't eat all that I buy, but find it difficult to buy less. For example, I threw out half a lime this morning. I bought it a few days ago only needing a few slices, then didn't use the rest.

In the case of a single lime it isn't really possible to buy less (and at least limes are cheap), but with other items I could benefit from more exact planning.
People seem to think that if you move your domain off GApps you're suddenly going to receive so much spam that your inbox will blow up. This is not so at all.

A decent Postfix configuration + up2date SpamAssassin can do wonders. One of the "secrets" is to train Spamassassin.
What I do for example is to move all the spam I receive in my inbox to a special folder that I later run "sa-learn --spam" on from a cronjob. You don't even need a webmail/interface for this.
Crosswords indirectly affect my performance.

I don't think they make me clever either, but they do calm me down and help me settle into whatever area I'm in. That helps me take the edge off of what I'm about to say/present. It's not quite the same as staring at a flashlight (a la tablet/laptop).

The paper and pencil in my hands have a dramatic effect on my mood. Add a cup of coffee on the side and I'm a completely different person after a crossword. I'd say a noticeably more lucid (even without the added coffee), calm and collected individual.
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No, I have irons in the fire. I won't deny that it got me down, and I know that's coming across.

Thank you for the support, I really appreciate it.
There's also other jvm lisps that you give you natives too. Kawa scheme (native chicken,bigloo,racket). Armed bear common lisp (native sbcl,clisp).
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"inherently novel/theoretic problems or problems you've never seen before"

Some companies have a mythology that every job in their company is like that, even if the actual job being interviewed for is the opposite.

Hardly limited to megacorp CA tech companies. No different than a boring old bank requiring janitor interview candidates to wear a suit and tie.
I find that a positive aspect of Medium. As soon as I see medium.com on a HN story I know I don't have to waste my time reading it.
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You're right. What I was trying to say by Haskell programmer was more like an industry veteran. 10+ years experience in Haskell/etc, zero knowledge of pointer arithmetic.

There seems to be this ineffable force tilting the scales to create more C veterans that don't know monads (I could find you one) than there are Haskell veterans that don't know pointer arithmetic. Age, popularity, libraries, etc all tie into this, but I still think there's significance amidst the noise.
Welp, after a day I can make some minor conclusions (I'm no CSS expert, so take with a grain of salt)

Pros
- I like the design of my site more (subjective)
- Was much easier to grok, I found that working with the grid was very straightforward.

Cons
- Ended up writing a lot more CSS than I would for a bootstrap site.
- Not having a responsive sticky footer was a pain in the ass. I spent a lot of the day working through that.
Yes, I'm sure a complete redesign will be a success. Let's give it a cool name too... how about "Wave"?
You're right that we should all strive to build UI that responds instantly. Unfortunately sometimes, for reasons out of a designers control there might be a legitimate reason for a site to reach that level - for that, adding a subtle progress bar does help.

Think of it as a local optimisation before you reach a global one of instant UI.
as ever, the criminals and terrorists have already solved the problem; they communicate privately using closed community forums (search for "carding/carder forums"). The people left using SMTP e-mail are mostly PETA, EFF and other political groups the government is interested in monitoring.
It looks great, but why should we start promoting this as a UI pattern? This seems like a step in the wrong direction, and just because Youtube does it doesn't mean that others should too.

If you need a visual cue that something is loading on your page, throw up some kind of spinner or other animation that doesn't have a fixed beginning and end. Unless you think you know how to accurately measure the time that http request/response cycle is going to take (you don't).
Use google :-)
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issuer = miner

You bitcoins are accepted because they are recognized by others to be part of a block originally mined by someone.

Really not that different from how money is "printed" by central banks these days (somebody presses the "generate €1.000.000" key and that updates a value in a DB).
It is different in that it creates a key distribution interface for the average person. This interface allows things like decrypting emails in the browser and transparent security. It also allows you to know who has security and who doesnt (this allows people to incrementally start using encryption without the headaches of wondering who else is using it). These are problems that are not solved with any PGP type interface today.

I think that what you are missing is that the server stores encrypted keys, rather than no key.
Fair point - maybe that would allow the necessary flex.

The minimum bend radius they allow for the 300mph segment is 3.67km. If you made a complete circle it would have a circumference of 23km, and comprise 769 30m segments. Each segment would need to contribute 0.46deg of the 360deg curve.

To achieve this over 30m you need to deviate the end of the pipe by 24cm from where it should be... which actually sounds like a hell of a lot to me, especially if it's flexed through this range regularly (as it would be if constantly switching places with a truly straight segment).