skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is lame to you, but not lame to many people. You might enjoy your coffee shop wifi but I prefer a super fast fiber connection that allows me to download a 3GB file in less than two minutes because I need that speed to accomplish my work. $200 laptop? You just need $45 to get a RaspberryPi.

We work for a company because we think the company can compensate us fairly and those at Mozilla are usually very happy with what they can do (open source projects most of the time). That's interesting. You like your freenlancer, go-everywhere-style, good, but not me.

Idealized city apartment? Half of the people working for Mozilla are remote and the other half spend half of their week at home as well. That's how we work and we make good product.

I like getting a comfortable chair, some snacks and food on a daily and weekly basis. It's like telling people they should all become a freelancer or become their own boss - why work for anybody?
Thanks! There's a small "Open this route in Google Maps" link that will give directions via the selected location.

I'm playing with ideas to make that more prominent.
THREE.WebGLRenderer 58
three.min.js (line 408)
Error creating WebGL context.

In the console on FF 25 (Linux), no visible error message. WebGL usually works great. Maybe some missing extension?
Except people don't violently mug strangers in broad daylight to get their next caffeine hit ... unless you haven't scored a coffee for a long time :)
Did You Know That A Man That Has Been Late For Everything...
There is no 'gps' in CDR, there is the ID of the tower, which can be mapped to a geolocation. Especially in urban environments, the location of the tower is pretty tightly correlated with the location of the phone. Looking at CDRs over time, you can get an even better idea.

3G is not immune from this. There is a record of which tower the phone was registered at.

The GPs solution is good, but it requires a lot of phones and SIMs, as well as very good discipline, to properly mask your activities.
Enhancing data in your app
7.3 oz is too heavy for you? That's 1.4 oz lighter than your Kindle 3.
There are probably a number of complicated contractual issues to work out with authors even if a publisher is inclined to participate. It's no one's position here that publishers should just choose without consulting the authors, right?
All the other comments are too focused on the front-end Nokia Lumia vs iPhone vs Android.

Microsoft buying Nokia is kind of the same as Google buying Motorola for 12 billion $ :

Nokia has 10k patents in the mobile phone world.

So a 10-year license to its patents has its importance
Maybe people drove after 9/11 to avoid the TSA -- not because they thought planes were riskier.
That link now says "Page Not Found". What happened to it?
I imagine you have never seen one then? The backlight on the paperwhite is actually a frontlight, so it doesn't strain the eyes, I find it a lot better than any old Kindle, or frankly - than reading an actual book.
That is odd. Ya I have Safari 6.0.5 (8536.30.1) and it crashes when viewing this thread. Also Chrome crashes the tab. The string was also crashing other things like Adium
Do you have any anecdotes (or stronger evidence) to show that the sort of behavior lamented by some in our day existed (or was indeed rampant as your suspicions suggest) N years ago? (where N is anywhere between 20 and 200)?
Bitbucket annoying bug with reviewers suggestion
Bitbucket doesn't check the permissions first before suggesting them as a reviewer to the repo.
Pretty awesome on chrome on osx
I want to turn right once in a while!

Great stuff!
Oh stop. Google is limiting access to their Play Services Location API (a feature so obscure that even the technical folks in this very thread don't seem to understand what it does and think it controls access to GPS data) to OEMs willing to license the whole Play Services package.

Are you seriously arguing that that is somehow equivalent to Microsoft using their monopoly position in the market (something Google doesn't even have) force OEMs into bundling their own web browser (the single most important app of the past two decades)? No. Just no.

I'm sorry, but people who want wifi-to-location data in their Android apps or devices can get it. That's simply not anticompetetive in any sane use of the term.

Your last sentence, telling, pivots your argument pretty wildly from "anticompetetive" to "not open". And yes: if you want to complain about Play Services being proprietary software, non-open, non-collaborative and ultimately freedom-denying, I tend to agree. But the idea of this being somehow an antitrust issue is ridiculous.
I believe the general ergonomic advice is to hit the modifier and "normal" key each with a different hand, so you're doing it right. I try to follow that guideline, but I frequently make exceptions. This is especially true since I have caps lock mapped to ctrl, so I favor that left ctrl button regardless of the other keys I'm pressing.
Try array programming in your browser: Try APL
Does anyone know how good the Kindle translation dictionaries are (e.g. Spanish-English, French-English, etc, dictionaries that you can bring up by selecting a word)?

Sony apparently has the reputation for having the best dictionaries, but the PRS-T1 I bought is so buggy it's nearly unusable - if I press a word, it has a one-in-three chance of freezing up for several minutes, and updating the firmware didn't help - so I'm thinking of switching to Kobo or Kindle, but I don't know if they're any better.
Load Testing: An Unexpected Journey
Are you a Bayesian? If so, what's your actual probability estimate? I think people are objecting to "will be" which indicates 100% certainty, and 100% certainty is not a rational position for anything, much less predicting a company's future CEO.

To put it in context, even if this is exactly MS's plan, you're stating that within the next 12 months, there's a 0% probability he'll have any sort of accident. Wikipedia says he's an avid recreational pilot. No one in their right mind would provide a 100% estimate on anything, much less Elop being MS CEO.
Yes, seems to be working now for me as well.
This is a great idea and one that will happen in the near future. To answer your questions:

1. No it wasn't created by pg and it's not associated with him or ycombinator. Of course Arc is definitely associated with pg, Libre News is not.

2. Personally, I created this site because I am interested in Arc and wanted to experiment with it. I also wanted to provide a service for others (one that I was also interested in) and a non-censored news source that encouraged discussion seemed like a good idea.
That's because caffeine is legal and therefore dirt cheap.
thank you, kind sir.
Even worse is the trend at boingboing, over the last 1.5 to 2 years, of putting in an obvious throwaway article just for the affiliate link.

Here's a recent example:

http://boingboing.net/2013/08/24/flash-gordon-1980.html

Add a little color commentary about how you like the Queen soundtrack, a bit about some related context, and then stick in the affiliate link.
Excellent work here. I've been waiting to see more HTML5 games, and I can't wait for the first real AAA game to come out with HTML5 support. While this one isn't a full-length game, it's still smooth and polished, and I'm excited to see what happens next in HTML5 gaming.
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1lnun3/christopher_ambi...
I'm having a harder time telling the natural hits from the ads these days but in mine it's kitkat.com first followed by "news for kitkat", then wikipedia, hershey's, and finally android.
Bitbucket doesn't check the permissions first before suggesting them as a reviewer to the repo.

This can be really annoying when in your company you make all tasks resolution through bitbucket pull request.
The movement isn't sensitive enough. You shouldn't have to lift the mouse at all when playing computer games with bounded motion like this; this game requires me to lift the mouse 3-4 times just to go from the lowest barrier to the highest.

It's not my sensitivity since I can traverse all 1080 pixels in less than a single vertical swipe of my mouse. Is anyone else having the same problem?
Vote for the Docker whale name and Docker tagline
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only reason I checked the site was because the submission included Powered by Arc in the title, but any how found some interesting links and bookmarked the site .
ShowHN: A lua-scriptable mail-client.
Lumail is a console mail-client, with highly integrated Lua scripting support.

It is also the first modal mail-client I'm aware of. These two things make it very unusual and interesting to me.

I've just made a new release so I figured it was time to mention it again:

* http://lumail.org/
Human app - move 30 minutes or more, every day
A lot Brits say 'naff' when they mean 'unfashionable', it sounds ludicrous to me- as if we were still in the 1980's ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s ). Not fly.

(to be more serious about it: different countries use different phrases. So what?)
Also, `we don't know if it exists'.
New Browser Tool Claims to Reveal MEGA Users’ Master Key
You know, I had a Kindle 2 and I loved the buttons, but after a book or two with the Paperwhite I'm pretty much completely used to using the touchscreen. It felt risky, but I'm kind of glad now that I took the plunge and got one without any buttons at all- the bezel around the screen is so incredibly small now compared to my old K2.
Sounds like you need to read-up on the prohibition and what making alcohol illegal did to our country.
Coffee addictions don't lead to more violent crime or robbery, as far as I know.

Does making meth and crack legal make less crime (violent or robbery) than if their usage was nil? I highly doubt it.
Innovation in photography : Sony's lens camera that attaches to the smartphone
From the photos, it looks like it has a lens-mount too.

Youtube video :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKGEEPIAPys
I have only used Android as my primary phone. But, I am still confounded by the back button. For example, I am using twitter and get a notification ( from say Facebook ) and jump in to the app from the notification drawer. I see the photo, like it and want to go back to the twitter app. I hit back expecting to go to Twitter but it takes me to the facebook feed. This is not "wrong" but seems messy.

I wish that Android makes it more clear to app makers what the back button should/can do, and then make them adopt a similar behaviour.
We should call Kindle fanboys Fire-starters.
Top 50 College Startups of 2013
10 years? I wish. Microsoft has relied on idiotic low-margin "partners" like Dell and HP to execute its ideas. Like tablets. I had a Toshiba tablet 10 years ago. Browsing was great, the rest of Windows, not so much. And the hardware wasn't neat. If MS had shipped a tablet 10+ years ago and actually cared about the end-to-end experience instead of just selling Windows licenses, we'd be in a different world.

Or like music players (instead they let Creative license the OS/audio+video software). Or like Media Center: great software, but PITA to setup, no simple OOBE like Apple TV, now it's been EOL'd.

Microsoft had over 80% of the smartphone market before. They are well aware of the Android OEM strategy. But I don't think anyone really LOVED their Windows CE mobile devices, so they know they needed to do better this time around. Just like most of the Android phones are crap and Google is now trying to clean that up.
Travel somewhere & work anywhere
> Message me if you're interested

Are we supposed to message wrath@360pi.com? :P
When you buy a qualifying print-edition book from Amazon you can get the Kindle edition on Matchbook for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.*

* Applies to past, present, and future purchases.
I don't know what the non-paperwhite ones are like, but the paperwhite screen quickly looks like a real mess if you have it set to refresh irregularly.

The paperwhite screen is nice, but whoever signed off on the paperwhite's touch UI exhibited some poor judgement. The onscreen keyboard is fine; the page turning is merely adequate; the book list and web browser scrolling is terrible. (The scrolling uses touch-and-drag, but the software doesn't actually scroll the screen until you release your finger, which makes it very hard to judge what's going on. Touching and dragging requires low latency and a high refresh rate, making it a very bad choice for an e-ink screen.)

A few physical inputs would make this device twice as good. Two buttons and a dpad would do it...
Hit escape to advance. It's a weird UI.
Interesting Recruiting Tactic - Learn Android Dev By Embedding With a Dev Shop
I don't think cloning HN is bad. But has PG open sourced his code, or will the voting algorithm not going to be as good?
Don't sweat it too much. I disagree with that comment too, but I think it's a valid opinion and I bet a lot of people feel that way. The comments immediately below it present an alternate view. Diversity of opinions is a good thing.
How about when you click one of the suggestions, go ahead and open the route in google maps.
No, it's because as a stimulant it has a combination of relatively low addictive properties and is easy to withdraw from when compared to more "hardcore" substances [1]

[1] http://www.drugsense.org/tfy/addictvn.htm
I'm not sure how to state this, but this is the second story I submit in a while which gets a few votes -- more than some on the front page/page two right now -- but is nowhere to be seen other than through /newest. For instance, this story has 5 points after 22 minutes as of this writing, while there's a story with 4 points after 40 minutes on the front page [1].

I don't seem to be hellbanned, but my stories seem to have a very negative score to begin with. Or does anyone know the cause?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6322875
If crack was dirt cheap, people would still rob to get the money for it, because they couldn't hold down a decent job while using it.
Non-affiliate link:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AWH595M/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
It's unusual, but really quick to use with just the keyboard once you get used to it. And the people who are going to do well know how to adjust to new ways of thinking that get certain things done better anyway :P
I'm Not Dead [on progressive enhancement]
Please, please say that you also wrote a simple flight simulator for your OS but you're kind of ashamed at the quality of it ...[1]

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/119424/An-Operating-System-for-Son.... .... "bro i think you can be proud of the flight simulator you wrote for the operating system you also wrote"
Evolution be praised.
CouchCouch is a BIG win for Couch! I hope it gets some well deserved attention after that.
It's not obvious what kind of places you can specify in the "via" field... it would be nice to have autocompletion there. too.
I'm old enough to remember a time when minicomputers and mainframes were where 'serious' computing was done. Microcomputer platforms like Windows and Linux gradually cannibalized their way up until practically nothing was left. It seemed impossible and stupid at the time but it happened.

I'm not predicting that mobile platforms will make the same inadvisable climb, but I'd be a little surprised if they didn't.
It can be powered by Arc but did you have to use the same crappy table-based layout? I'd have to think these kinds of sites would save some bandwidth by simply trimming all that fat.
Are you sure it's all marketing? I mean, what developer wants to target twenty different platforms?
Any search engine experts here? How do people try to find the answer to this question if they know nothing about the subject?

My approach is to bang in various words and do image searches, forcing some and not others, and then try similar words. [weird cocoon] or [weird egg sac peru] and then sometimes including a subject word. (Entomology).

Then I do a TinEye search, or a GoogleImage search to see if I can find other pages talkng about it.

This feels sub-optimal.

What's a better approach?
Limiting syntax to use only ANSI joins also means that you end up with one and only one table as the root table (or view) to select from. I think this makes code much clearer.

I tend to writ my SQL like lisp, very compositional with lots of embedded views, in order to be very explicit on how I want tables and views joined. If the optimizer is good, it will know what parts of your statement it can optimize, and if it's not, it usually follows my code, and I don't have to resort to Optimizer hints in order for Oracle to get its black magic done.
All that and not even a single link to it? Where's the shameless self-promotion slash example?
This is something I'm working on with my next project. If you're interested, ping me -- my email is in my profile.
Progressive enhancement is a luxury, and not everyone can afford it. It vastly increases your test surfaces, and requires multiple designs for every page/feature.

If I'm trying to get a product out and I can reach 99% of my audience by assuming they have JS enabled, then I'm going to do that. I'm not going to spend 2x as long (at least) to reach that extra 1%.
There are places that pay well and don't ask many if any technical questions. If you get to the interviews and are a good cultural fit you are in. Unfortunate but true.
Can you use `km` as units?
This isn't going to happen because a bunch of people in line at an airport isn't a high-value target.

Tell that to the 35 people who died in a bomb-blast at Russia's biggest airport.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/24/us-russia-blast-ai...
Read: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/kindle-swindle-source-cod...

They publish the very minimum the need to publish according to GPL.
It will be interesting to see if they also offer bundles at purchase time. "Buy the book for $12, or the book + ebook for $14."
If you're using Google Maps and are looking at a route from A to B, you can click any point on the path and drag it to anywhere on the map, and the route will update to pass through the point you selected. Example: http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2835/9667570442_4689c021f7_o.p...

The only downside is you can't search for the place to stop at, you have to find it on the map.
What did you just add to this discussion?
I buy my books hardcover now: more cash for the author.

Or you could buy what's cheapest and send the difference directly to the author.

(This doesn't make sense to do because there's too much friction. One way to deal with that would be to pick a random number between 0 and N and if you get 0 then send them N times that much money otherwise nothing.)
To me it reads kind of like the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 4S. Most everyone who had an iPhone 4 didn't upgrade, but it gave the people with the iPhone 3 an extra nudge to upgrade, and also sends the message "hey guys, we're continually improving the device, even if the updates aren't always huge".
Fedora 20 will be named Heisenbug
Neither was Android Honeycomb
I cannot use an Indian fallback SMS number. Wonder, what is behind that.
Maximum theoretical bandwidth may not have increased at the same pace but modern memory controllers are a lot more efficient. I'd wager that the CPUs are kept adequately fed even without extremely fast RAM like on GPUs.
For a human lifetime, paper. For centuries to millenia, stone. For ten or thousands of millenia, perhaps even up to hundred of million years, live DNA. As for file formats, the letter is dead, the spirit is live.
The Economist rants on this every couple of months, and I couldn't agree more.

The war on drugs is a terrible misstep. Drugs should never have been a criminal issue, they should be strictly a public health issue. But we're far too entrenched to make that change now.

Watch "The House I Live In" (streaming on Netflix) for a ridiculously detailed picture of the problem
Great idea. I often like to find something "along the way", especially for long road trips.

Just a datapoint, trying to find a Boston Market along my route gave me lots of results that weren't a Boston Market. You might need to do a little better matching on the via portion of the data.
recent alternative https://github.com/chrisdone/god-mode
"I am going to be mad"

Why? It doesn't cost you anything. You can delete it if it bothers you. It expires after one day (so no "from now on").
It's a question of what does more harm than good. The vast majority of people who drink alcohol can still be sober at work. Whereas a crack addict will tend to be high all day, unable to work, thus needing to rob to feed their addiction.
You said "US government." To most, that would mean federal government. And clearly, BI would be a Federal program, meaning an additional $3.7T in spending. If you think that phasing out local edu, Medicaid, etc is a great plan, or even a tenable one, you're misunderstanding politics.
I didn't mention alcohol - I was talking about caffeine. Alcohol is in a class all by itself in terms of the social issues it can cause.
No, but it still makes me sick, because Microsoft had Skype capabilities a decade before Skype. NetMeeting, then MSN Messenger supported audio/video. Messenger even had telephone integration to call out, but poorly done (some shitty partnership that made you buy an account with MCI). They had SMS integration to a better extend that Skype does today.

But MS's MSN/Live division was so terribly run, they missed out on turning MSN into a social network (FFS, they had everyone with their friend relationships already via Messenger!), and the Messenger software didn't promote audio/voice very well, nor did the session establishment stuff work well. They sat around for over a decade and let other people overtake them for no reason other than having terrible management. (Wave 11(?) had an installer that literally took over 30 minutes, as management wanted to search your entire disk for stuff.)
In my eyes, it's called the "paperwhite" because when the light is on, the page is much closer to white than the unlit Kindles, which have more of a grey background. Not because the background is #FFFFFF and the brightness of the sun.
You can't grep dead trees.
Whether to DRM a particular book is a decision of the publisher; some publishers allow Amazon to sell DRM-free ebooks.
I'd also throw in that comments can also yield a good response. A week ago, I made a comment on a high ranking post, and though it wasn't super high up, it yielded 500 visits to a site of mine that never gets traffic, got 20ish stars on the github project and some valuable user feedback on the problem. It was pretty cool.

Post in question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6247418
Thank you!

Before making the comment I searched around but failed to turn up that info. I knew that the bus stops all have those STOP#'s but had never spotted one for the light rail.
It seems authors too need to opt in (again from keltex's comment).
The ceremonial file tree doesn't 'work' for nearly anybody. All significant apps embed their own structured data inside a big file, effectively implementing their own filesystem. The OS could have done so much to help.

In particular, no single OS can reimplement a distributed object store by themselves - there has to be an ecosystem. Somebody big has to invent that. Then, how to shim that under the file tree without changing the OS? E.g. I want an entire enterprise to get their apps from ... wherever its convenient for them to be stored today. Not from c:\xyz on their local disk. And I want some subset of my users to change to a new version without obsoleting the old, by changing the directory record in my enterprise cloud, NOT by triggering some binary update monstrostrosity, then writing another script to back out the update etc.

I'd say its universities that are letting us down, by continuing to teach the obsolete ideas current in the 1980s.
The explanation that matters is the one offered to people when they're considering the ebook purchase. I bet Amazon will get that one right.