skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not charge cyclists for use of the road too? Simply charge a low fee - say £5 a year - and all these arguments would go away.

It actually annoys me more that they don't have to have insurance.
Your monologue on the cost structure of the US military industrial complex is a non-sequitor
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LOL it does?

'HN to show subdomains' is, I think, number 1 requested feature, but it never was officially done. Is there a whitelist of domains somewhere that get their subdomains shown?

EDIT

Except it doesn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136016, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6108151, et al.

Make sure to remember that a) lots of HN plugins fix that, and b) hnsearch is NOT HN, even though it looks similar.
But that's not a road we want to walk down, imagine if every title was meaningless!

The point of titles should be to give an informing mini-summary about the topic.
By fantastic on its own, do you mean pure ethanol? hehe.
The stock dived 10% on the announcement. If this was Wall Street "urging" them, the stock would have risen.

When the stock dives, it's because the market thinks the company management knows something the market doesn't.
That's a pretty fucked up lie.

The americans have a lot of prisoners, because they are a cheap workforce.

Yes, prisoners have to work in prison. They are cheaper there and multinationals use them.

Probably some of them buy off judges just to get long sentences in a particular prison. => employee with no civilian rights is totally awesome if you need 1000's of them, no?
How Much Can CNN Get Wrong About F1 Engines, Physics In One Article?
Heterosexual marriage was (and still is) the cultural norm. Sometimes you gotta ask yourself, does the cultural norm make sense anymore (to adhere to it religiously)?
Posting an entry on HN changes its original context - it is, in itself, a hermeneutic act, performed by posting, upvoting as well as retitling it. Changing the title back to its "original" state is not only naïve, but also counters HN's raison d'être .
That is correct.

You can actually sometimes tell when you drive out of a London borough with good maintenance (Richmond) into one that is crap (Hounslow for example) without even looking at the signs...
YouTube easter egg
1. Go to Youtube.
2. Find a video.
3. Pause it.
4. Type 1980.
5. Press play.
6. You're welcome.
Because it's far easier for a manager to say "no" than to say "yes". By not releasing code, he's running less risk than by releasing code. There might be a chance that he missed something and violated copyright somewhere, accidentally leaked some company secret, or accidentally gave competitors an advantage. Saying "no" is the easier choice.
Then I think you're mistaking HNSearch interface (unofficial search for HN) with the HN itself ;). The former shows subdomains, the latter does not.
Imagine being a cyclist stuck in a pack of roaming wolves.

I'm not saying cyclists can't be asshats (they can, I've seen plenty), and most drivers are perfectly fine around cyclists, but being on a bike on a main road with traffic streaming past you inches away can be pretty terrifying. A lot of drivers slip into auto pilot mode, or don't have the best spatial awareness, or get distracted, or they've had a long day and are slow to react. If you're in a car and a cyclist hits you it's annoying, if you're a cyclist and a car hits you it's life threatening.
Funny thing to do would be to actually reintroduce noticeably high road tax on car owners and channel those funds directly to building bicycle paths.
60 year old Merc man is not an individual case; it's a phenomenon across the UK.

Just ride off the moment they get out.
Sounds like I misunderstood the structure. Thanks.
How is it used for making maps? For models that are imported to Hammer?
Well I have been trying to play around with LLVM on ARM Cortex-M4 micro controllers specifically the STM32F4 series of my controllers there is a github project that tries to use Clang.

Now if I had the time and experience I wanted to try and compile this library called py2llvm. The library that can compile static variables and python syntax into LLVM bitcode with C like performance. I think that is the best of both worlds.
It wouldn't be that bad--being on the front page is itself a prequalification, and being on the front page despite having a meaningless title means it's on the front page for reasons other than being linkbait. Removing titles altogether might make things more meritocratic, actually (if a little more painful for the people who only click things if they're about a certain topic.)
> Switching from one broadly socially acceptable state (drinking socially) to another broadly socially acceptable state (never drinking) does not change the level to which society dictates how you live your life.

It depends. Did you switch because society told you to? You can drink if you want, or not. I'm just saying, if you drink are you doing it because everyone else is doing it or because you want to for good reason?

I made a choice to not drink, and it was based on practical concerns. I decided the negatives outweighed the positives in my case. Simple as that.
Agree 100%.

Devin's post and attitude are part of the problem and why development is still utterly stuck in writing-lines-of-text in an editor mode. As if that's some canonical 'best way' to produce software.

Suggest Devin goes to Bret's site and reads some of his essays about tools. Software engineering is currently being massively held back (primarily in terms of efficiency) by the reluctance to build out and support tools to abstract creation further away from text editors. IMO.
IMHO the new title was clearer than the old one as (a) it doesn't require the reader recognise a vulnerability that was patched 15 years ago; and (b) it notes the problem is IPv6-related. Neither the old nor the new title mentions that it's a Windows-only vulnerability.

I agree there should be some marker to show the title has been edited, but I don't disagree with this particular edit.
To be fair, the Espruino JavaScript interpreter manages this pretty well (in around 8kB of RAM). http://www.espruino.com
this argument always stinks of excessive pedantry, yes the budgets aren't ring fenced, but this doesn't mean fuel using vehicles aren't paying for the roads that cyclists use.

in 2013 the the treasury expects to collect £26B[1] via fuel duty alone (the tax motorists pay on petrol/diesel), and the entire transport budget is £21B[2], so it's accurate to say that the motorist's taxes pay entirely for the roads (and a good chunk of the trains too).

(note the £26B fuel duty figure doesn't include the 20% VAT motorists also pay on petrol, and the money from VED)

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm... page 103

[2]: same document, page 10
"..but the two positive examples of non-advertising companies that Caldwell cited are Dropbox and particularly GitHub, which both offer free services and then charge for additional features."
This thread will probably disappear soon as one of the few rules that is actually enforced on HN is the "no talk about moderation" one. You should instead (per the rules) e-mail info@ycombinator.com with your concerns.
Right up there with the myth that Japan suffered two decades of deflation.
This does not sound right. I would genuinely like to see a source where they use time of flight, a range finding technique, to detect tanks at long range in daylight when you could instead use active radar or passive thermal technology (focal plane array/starring array [0][1] , to detect a tank.

(My experience is with infantry-level night vision and thermal scopes. I don't know anything in depth about how munitions detect tanks)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staring_array
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermographic_camera
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Valgrind supports suppression of reports, if valgrind can't track past ioctl, they should add a suppression file to their repo that supresses these warnings, making valgrind output useful again.
ASK PG: Can we add a viewport meta tag to HN head?
Hi PG,

Myself and I suspect a lot of other viewers on HN use mobile devices to view the site. Currently the design can already crush down to a narrow width, but the way a lot of mobile devices 'scale the site and zoom', this isn't capitalised upon.

This can be solved by adding a line to the head. Mozilla's suggestion of the following might be a good start:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

I wanted to propose that this very small addition to the site head would have negligible if any negative impact but will significantly improve the experience of people viewing the site on a mobile device.

Ali
Ask HN: Alternate Careers for a Software developer
Hi,

I have been serving as a software developer in a middle tier software company in India for the last five years. Coding used be my passion (maybe it still is). I did pretty well in my job and my growth was quite satisfactory. All was going well.

But for the last six months or so, I have been feeling a little down and out of place. I think I have lost the drive to work in software industry. To me it all seems rather pointless now. This is certainly not a sudden change. I started feeling it as an on and off feeling some time ago. Gradually it has increased and has now come to a level where it casts a shadow over every thought I have.

So, I would like to ask for some advice from all my fellow hackers. Are there any alternate careers for a software developer in India. Teaching is the one that comes to mind at once, given the technical aspect of our work. But are there any other avenues I can start exploring?

Thanks in advance.
Money in the bank isn't working and due to inflation is slowly just disappearing - so that is clearly undesirable.

But it doesn't follow that it's a good idea to just spend them on anything, you need to spend them on something with a chance of giving you a return. If you have a division that isn't giving you a return, and you don't see a way of changing that, keeping it around is just a way of making your money disappear faster - which is also clearly undesirable.
So you get back to the start? I don't get the egg.
Don't polygraphs basically do this already?
No worries, glad we agree :)
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I agree with you in that this is pg's site and his to run as he pleases. I also agree with you that the guideline doesn't always produce desirable outcomes.

The issue as I see it is that the sum of parts is more than the whole; if less people of the calibre similar to yourself stop turning up then the site as whole starts to lose its value. Personally it's not enough to turn me away; maybe I have no taste :)

Having said that it is a subjective issue and opinions are like farts; everybody's stinks. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Titles are meaningless. I'm my own boss now. I could call myself CEO or Extra-Senior Architect or something. I just call myself Programmer.
Koding: Chrome App - Software development has finally evolved.
But in this case, the question mark isn't obfuscating the article's lack of content.
Is there a way to enable EMACS style bindings in the iCloud Beta iWorks programs? They work in iCloud Mail.
Yeah it just goes back to the start with me too?
Living in a country with less population than in New York pretty much means you can own a car and won't have to worry about traffic jams and stuff. And in less populated parts of the country you need a car in order to get around to begin with.

Plus some of us enjoy driving as pointed out in a few other comments too
There's a moral to this story that runs deeper than not banking with shitty banks, and that's to always have a backup. Backups aren't only for data, but for key infrastructure (hosting providers, merchant providers, banks, phones, etc) too, in which a failure of one would means a serious hiccup. Having a backup can make for a faster recovery.

Even when it comes to things like a personal bank account, always have another live account with some other bank that's not within the same banking group! Debit get lost, accounts get phished, egregious meltdowns happen[0], or some retailer swipes your card so many times to get an auth on a laptop you're buying that you end up with no available funds!

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/jun/29/natwest-fiasco-...
Absolutely. It doesn't matter much what your reason for the gap is, as long as you make it sound like something you were in control of. Something that you chose, based on your own life priorities. Don't sound like a victim.
Absolutely, personally I dislike how it's the single most powerful figure for decisionmakers. There have been many alternative measurements developed for measuring overall progress of an economy, but unfortunately they haven't taken much foothold.
I really dislike this about HN. Titles are part of the submission, can carry humour and set the tone of discussion, and can be a lot more interesting and meaningful than the article title. And the way it is done in such an autocratic manner makes me want to go back to Reddit.
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http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/vkw/ivs/oeko... suggests that the total cost of cars in the UK are around £50B per year.

Your argument also suggest that all cyclists don't pay taxes at all.
No, he said an hour. See:

> "If not using the bathroom for an hour is an issue "

"An hour". It's right there in his post. I didn't say there was any new problem. I didn't say I objected in any way to the Hyperloop. I specifically addressed his post which said "an hour". OK?
I completely agree with you. I do cycle sometimes as well and since I am an occasional driver as well, I try to anticipate motorists behaviour.

I think it is all about understanding each other ecosystem and mutual respect.
Typical BBC article. It misses the point entirely.

The problems are:

1. Many motorists drive dangerously.

2. Many motorists are aggressive towards cyclists.

3. Many cyclists cycle dangerously.

4. Number 3 fuels number 2.

All of these combined make it dangerous to be a cyclist. It's the fault of both groups (note it's only the majority - a minority are careful drivers/cyclists and non-aggressive).

Changing attitudes is difficult. Segregating the two groups is expensive. I don't see the situation improving in the near future.
Perhaps the original title should still be shown when a mod has changed it?

e.g.

| Vulnerability in ICMPv6 could allow Denial of Service (Ping of Death Reloaded) (microsoft.com) 1 point by vog 9 minutes ago | discuss | edit | delete
Shame on them for hoping people will contribute to an open source project.
Wrong, wrong, wrong and wrong.
"Thought crime" will soon have a much darker and more dangerous meaning. Of course NSA will want to tap everything people are thinking, just like they're already treating all human communications "to keep us safe". I don't think it's a stretch to think they'll want to do that, too, if nothing changes, and people continue to let them do anything they want in the name of "national security".
It's perhaps worth mentioning that there's a pro-cyclist campaign around this issue that's been going for a few years (full disclosure, I have one of their jerseys)
http://ipayroadtax.com/
Crmsh, the cluster management shell
> note it's only the majority - a minority are careful drivers/cyclists and non-aggressive

I would say "note it's only a minority - the majority are careful drivers/cyclists and non-aggressive
Is it just me, but I truly don't understand why App.net is still being touted as 'alpha'? I think for many people this is a put off. I paid up on kickstarter because I liked the initial idea. I've been waiting to actually use it because 'meh, it isn't even in 'beta' yet.

It might be just semantics, but the 'alpha' label suggests that it is generally an MVP that is probably really buggy and annoying to use.

You can imagine my surprise when I read this post and find out about all of the cool things that the app.net team have achieved in the last year.

Somewhere along the line I appear to have missed any marketing messages. That might be my fault with some stringent Gmail filters?

Anyway, well done on the hard works guys, but are you really still truly in alpha? Just change it already.

Edit: I've just realised that 'alpha' isn't the project status: http://support.app.net/customer/portal/articles/761034-what-...

That might be a common user mistake. I don;t think I'm the only one that might make this (wrong) conclusion.
Adding to my last: I asked a banking friend of my acquaintance about your situation.

He says it looks like Commonwealth Bank are in breach of their own terms. Hie thee to the Financial Ombudsman and give them hell: http://www.fos.org.au/
Why does the blog post also suggest /dev/random?

I thought urandom should only be used for crypto.
Wikipedia's Wales Calls Ed Snowden an 'American Hero’
that document assigns a future expected value of £30B for damages due to climate change caused by cars... which to be frank, is a bullshit made up number.

take that out, and motorists still make a profit for the treasury.

my argument is purely based on receipts from purchase of fuel... if there were 0 motor vehicles on the road, the receipts would be many orders of magnitude lower.
> Then, last month, the FBI exploited a vulnerability in Tor to capture the alleged administrator of a child pornography site in Ireland.

Freedom hosting now reduced to being simply a child pornography site.
Why not charge pedestrians for use of the pavement and road crossings?
Why is your software aging
I know, right? Things would be so much better if the dominant OS was a closed platform, and only ran on hardware made by the same company and only ran apps purchased though a tightly controlled store run by the same company. Of course then they could shut out other service providers such as maps and cloud services, and basically wreck the industry for almost everyone except themselves, but at least we would get timely updates.
Agreed... I can be an aggressive cyclist, and I say that with pride.

I'm usually slightly more assertive than the norm. However, on the road in the UK, on a bicycle, you have to be very assertive. If a driver has seriously risked my life, or that of another cyclist (and in London, it happens all the time) - you better believe I'm cycling up to the driver side and shouting at them. The first time my girlfriend saw me doing it, she was extremely shocked... but damn it, that driver (in a big 4x4) almost knocked her off her bike in the middle of an extremely busy junction.

Is that productive? I don't think so. But I'm not going to change my behaviour. If someone walked up to me in the street and threw a punch at my face, and missed by a few centimeters, I'd hope to have them on the floor in a second, restrained, and to be perusing assault charges.
They're not admissible as evidence in court (in the US, as far as I know).
Aha - the UKIP double-whammy - I see Mr Farage firing up the policy word docs already.
"Editorialize" is a very different word than, for example, "modify".

What the current guidelines actually say is: "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

What they SHOULD say is something like "Don't editorialize the titles".
I don't care about karma, and didn't care about it even in my old account. I just don't want my real name next to what someone else wrote. And no, this account is not "fake".

If I have to hide my real identity here on HN because of such behaviour, this could be just a sign of more serious problem with this so called "moderation".
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Would you care to list the one you find relevant ? I'm interested.
or perhaps it is taboo to suggest that feminism is and was simply a propaganda tool used by Capital to increase the supply of labor and thereby increase revenues and profits.
Same goes for multiculturalism, civil rights and mass immigration, and the accompanying propaganda efforts, which are in reality culture-shaping events.
I think most frameworks for JS are opinionated, I mean things like jQuery, Sencha, AngularJS, emberJS, or also various server side frameworks.

Once you specialize on using one of them, you'll probably adopt their conventions.

I myself haven't settled yet, too my own dismay. It's not easy.
I have always thought if I didn't love bytes, I would love teaching people to love bytes.
I cannot see several administrations plus the upper echelons of corporate Tokyo agreeing for two decades to "pull the wool over the world's eyes".

But I also can see that Japan is not a basket case, and indeed is doing well for a world in recession.

So, the question I have is what is the meme - presumably there is some lie that Japan tells itself, that means when a variety of people speak they agree "our economy is in bad shape, we have lost a decade" even if on many measures its not true.

As a Brit, our government would love Japan's growth rates or export levels. But we tell ourselves memes, about a special relationship with US, about European bureaucrats, about recovery being linked to house prices - well, I think we do, but its like a fish trying to describe the colour of water.

Interested in hearing from some Japanese fish, as it were.
I'm surprised this post isn't dead yet, to be honest. That's the usual answer to any attempt to discuss moderation.
This relies on an unsuspecting victim wearing a complicated nonstandard headset and then looking at a series of images / numbers slowly enough to register each of them consciously.

In what world would the victim not become suspicious?

(I appreciate things may change in the future, and if brain control headsets become common then a malware model (ad popups, for example) could provide a plausible vector for this attack.)
Posting news stories on HN is independent of karma. Posts end up on the front page because people upvote them, not because the poster has high karma.
So, no titles but a tag cloud about contents?
It opens a minigame:

Missile command
Blow those missiles out of the sky!
Click to continue

and then

Defend this video from attack
For great justice!

finally the game
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In fact I just discovered that there are Pumped-storage hydroelectricity plants (PSPS) because they were planning to build one also to Finland into a old mine (with mile long shaft). PSPS could solves the power storage problem for wind and solar as long as there is enough suitable locations to use as PSPS reservoirs.
Oh, I'm aware of that, it's the norm.

I had no reason to ride off, I asked for him to apologise for beeping at me since he scared the crap out of me (wide country road, no-one else around) I could've fallen off. His response was, "no-one would see me run over you, now get off of the road."
The world has changed in many ways, and there is plenty of that these exciting shiny things to play with, if you wish. Yet too many great ideas were abandoned because, among other reasons, they were too ahead of their times. I welcome efforts like this, because they let these ideas to be known to the current generation, not just as history, but as something that fits into today's environment, tooling and goals.

How many attempts to create the perfect ide for programming the web, in the web, and yet we keep the distinction of what is source "file" and what is the app being run, and how you debug it. Smalltalk and it's developing environment made blurred this boundary, and might be a great inspiration if not a practical solution.
People must be on vacation.