skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this part:

> You should have a table of contents that lists each section of the “hairball”. And then each section should have its own table of contents that lists the sections inside it. A table of contents is a wonderful way to get a birds-eye view of what you’re about to read, to prepare your brain for it. And of course it’s also handy for navigating around.

I think that in the case of the article, that table of contents could have been pinned on the left-hand side, instead of using that space for a cool-for-a-few-seconds effect.
Apple did this with "Mighty Mouse" and VIACOM.
Your time, the difference in the price of a used book and a new book. This is also useful for people with large print libraries that was purchased from amazon before the kindle was on their radar.
I can't repeat myself enough.

TRAMP mode: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

I do plenty of work over ssh, and this saves me the headache of dealing with screens and multiple terminals.
Personally, I feel like KitKat is a better name. I wish it was as simple as naming the version that and then moving along, but with a trademarked it can't be. If Nestle is going to agree to a deal where no money is exchanged, they need to get something out of it. So it seems like it makes sense for a couple of initial publicity things and then it will be just the same as any other name.
So I take it Lollipop is then next?
That is assuming google follows the alphabetic confectionary nomenclature.
Obj-C: Use result of an if statement as a variable
Obviously. This would have been a solid response to dreamfactory's comment.
This is a phenomenally important move; now, being an "ebook reader" or a "traditional reader" doesn't have to be an either/or proposition.
Agreed. The only person I see stereotyping or blaming any biological group is the author of the article.

Not a single example or well articulated point, just diatribe.
I bet his parents drove him everywhere and therefore he has no issues with cars.
When Cyanogenmod closes down, THEN I might consider Android not open source for all intents and purposes. But currently, they're doing fine without the closed Google bits (usually installed as a separate gapps zip file).
Holy crap this is an unpleasant read.
Nokia Could Release Mobile Devices Again By January 2016
>You don't get to define what the baseline correct thing is for a business, profit does that

That's what I am using.

>Progressive enhancement is more work than simply presuming JavaScript is always available; that's just a simple undeniable fact.

I am denying it right now, that is the whole point. Server side templates with simple javascript enhancement has been much faster for us, and much easier to maintain.
Lutefisk.
Invoking the help system by typing C-h b (the command "describe-bindings") will open a new buffer showing all the keybindings in effect in the current buffer. Picking an unused binding to your liking is a matter of scanning the list.

The Emacs help system is a marvel and an astonishment. It's the second thing to explore after running the built-in tutorial. And it's the first thing to master.

Don't neglect the hyperlinked, highly navigable Info Manuals, which you read right within Emacs. They are among the most literate technical documentation I've ever read.
And when the Big Picture is fractured, trust disappears.

I see the anti-vax craze as primarily an issue of trust and control. "I don't trust Those People (the doctors)" or along the lines of "I need to control everything, including my vaccine schedule".
Are you talking about the cloud server (nova) hosts, or the dedicated gear?
Then M&M?
The Smartphone Wars: Nokia gives it up for Microsoft
A huge number are from Japan. Man, they love their KitKats! I've actually tasted the Wasbe KitKat. It was pretty horrible, too.
This is awesome for the consumer, absolutely. And it's only made possible by the recent DOJ trial that effectively allowed Amazon to set prices of ebooks (wholesale vs agency model). Recall that agency model, the publisher sets the price (the same as apps on the app store). But now that Amazon can set any price they want for ebooks (and take a loss on them if they want to, which they have done before), Amazon can do cool stuff like this.

Amazon has already started discounting ebooks - some of the bestsellers are now cheaper on amazon in ebook form than on iBooks. That never happened before in Agency model, where price parity was a rule.

There is nothing inherently wrong with Agency model pricing; indeed it has been the norm since mp3s on iTunes 10 years ago. But Amazon competes on price, and Agency was a big wrench in those plans. Now that they can do anything they want with digital pricing, they're applying the stake in all other ebook retailers hearts. Will be fun to watch.

I speculate publishers will hate this. eBooks were one of the last digital media where value hasn't become completely pulvarized (see: Apps, MP3s). Though, its certainly possible physical book sales could be bolstered by this.
I came away from this confused thinking some Kindle versions of books were now cheaper.

Amazon is horrible at explaining what things are supposed to do. Every product landing page I've seen from them is confusing, especially all of their cloud services.
A strawman can be used to explore their views. That is the point. It is only a fallacy if you create a strawman, then argue against it and claim to have argued against the original point. That has nothing to do with anything that occurred in your conversation.
New plastic becomes stronger when stressed, drop-proof smartphones incoming
the entire history of this comes down to Google launching Android - AT ALL. Before then, strong, positive relationship. Once it happened, Jobs did the "thermonuclear war" thing and the company has been replacing Google components one piece at a time...
Big Increase in Distributed Brute Force Attacks Against Joomla Websites
> You are comparing the reserved price which isn't apples to apples

I would be glad to compare with Rackspace's "reserved" prices if they had one :)

> Also, don't forget that the heavy reservation is billed for every hour in the term, not when you have it turned on.

That's why I compared prices to "medium utilization". Again, Rackspace doesn't have prepaid option similar to "heavy utilization".

And I didn't mention instances reserved for "3 years" which result in even larger discount, if you're interested in long-term solution
Clearly Google saw the Microsoft-Nokia headlines, and decided they had to come up with something even crazier than that...
what about Key Lime Pie??
Where would you raise a child? It's no different in Canada.
First, that conspiracy theory has fucking nothing to do with my point, you just reacted with your ideological hate where USA is worse than WMD using tyrants (oh yeah, you deny the chemical weapons in another comment, assuming France, Israel and US to be in a conspiracy).

Second, ah, no... I have a bit of a life. Go defend the rapers, thieves, mass murderers etc etc to get a rise out of someone else.

(Are you part of the Syrian "50 cent army"?)
Whoops! Thanks, fixed now.
9 Reasons To Choose A Corporate Job over A Startup
So, you want every character that you type to be immediately flushed to your SSD then?

What device does that?
Facebook employees reveal the worst things about working for the social network
Why does the author seem personally offended? Seems very biased.
The Rackspace instance you are referencing has 4 vCPUs in it - the m1.large on Amazon has 2. Also, don't forget the prepay amounts on EC2 reserved instances in your calculations! The prepay for 1 year on the m1.large is $243, making a reserved m1.large $1434 a year (365 days * 24 hours * $0.136/hour + $243).
I think it's worth looking at why more men enter the field.

I think it's also worth looking at why the participation of women in computer science in particular, as opposed to other technical fields, decreased on a relative basis after initial increases.[1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html?_r=0
How much it's worth to be #1 on Hacker News for a day
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but even then, who are you to judge someone or something else? This is the exact problem with the computer ecosystem right now (and more often than not, the Apple cult). I understand that you care how it looks, but to go as far as to care how others might perceive the device you chose to accomplish your work? Why would you care - let alone let it influence your decision - on what to buy, what to wear, or what to use?

Be your own person, because half of your "critiques" are based on how you think other people perceive you.
What is it? I can't find an explanation.
How can a FOSS product have a version name which is linked to a closed source recipe?
Ask HN: Why is my Show HN post not on ask page?
I recently submitted a Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6320373. I don't understand why it is still not on the 'ask' page whereas there are older Show HN posts with less points on that page.

Are the links that are on the ask page managed by the moderators or did I do something wrong while posting?
If they had done just a targeted strike against Al Qaeda, larger in scope but similar to what they did against Bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, we probably could have gotten Bin Laden years earlier and not spent more than a decade trying in the morass that is Afghanistan.

If it were so easy, they would probably have done that anyway as an opener. But it isn't.
Two-factor Authentication
Luck is not a factor.. except when it comes to getting hired by your dream company, getting venture capital, getting acquired, and getting a hot girl to say "Yes".
cloud servers
actually I really loved the preview video. it oozes passion and that's what I want to see in any early-adoption of new and bleeding edge software.
Did Microsoft just pay $7.2 billion for a new boss?
Let's hope this doesn't end in drive-by shootings in LA/Las Vegas.
I had always wondered when a program similar to DVD tiles would arise, where the product came with a coupon to get the electronic version free. I'll take it either way, I love hard bounds but there are many times where they are not best suited for environments the Kindle thrives in.
kitkat?? dafuq man...
what happen to Key Lime Pie.
I've seen a couple projects like this in the last couple years and it always seems like the programmers involved don't realize that they're using a cassette interface, that they've discovered some bizarre hack on the Apple II. I'm guessing these people are pretty young.
Somewhat ironically (compared to the Windows desktop situation), the only people I know who have actually gotten virus-like infections on Android are people advanced enough to be running custom rooted 3rd party roms on their devices.

This isn't to say it can't or hasn't happened on phones running factory stock roms, the Samsung /dev/exynos-mem permission bug on its own was one example of a huge attack vector on a limited set of Android phones, I just haven't seen or directly heard of it happening on a stock phone.
> I'm from a part of the world that is not as lawsuit-happy as the U.S.

This is because the safety net is non-existent here. If something really bad is about to happen, you know you're going to fall all the way down to the bottom. The solution? Sue the hell out of everybody.

> Amongst other things, medical treatment is very cheap here

Yup. Exactly the opposite in the US. When the hospital bill requires a second mortgage, covering the costs via money awarded in a lawsuit might be the only solution.
Agree with kevingadd, and to add a bit more to it:

There is another statement between the lines. "Why are you so angry?" implies "This is too unimportant/trivial/false to get angry about." That's the prescriptive part that I think author is referring to.

This can be extra-infuriating, because not only can you not get your listener to engage on the topic at hand, they're outright dismissing this as a problem worth your/their time. To put a cherry on top, they're laying the blame at your feet for getting worked up about "nothing".

It's a lot of implications and insinuations wrapped up in a neat little package. Fundamentally this statement is objectionable because it demonstrates neither understanding of the issue at hand nor a basic amount of respect for the speaker (that he/she is capable of telling major issues apart from trivialities).

If your goal is to belittle and disrespect someone, use this phrase frequently. If your goal is understanding and genuine engagement with someone who thinks and believes differently than you, don't use this phrase at all.
I guess I'd better stay at work 15 hours a day, to make sure I'm being productive. Heaven forbid I waste time trying to make my own, low-grade fun at home. I'll just buy high-quality fun by the crate on Amazon.

The end result of the photo is not the point here. No one is saying that the results are good quality! But it's fun to make things like this.
Desert names sound too hot. They should stick with dessert names.
This was a great read. Funny timing in that I just announced that I've been writing a book earlier today: http://spencerfry.com/i-m-writing-a-book
> 6 Psychological Issues To Get Over When Starting a Business

No, just one -- an irrational belief in the value of pop-psychology articles.
Apple Inc. (née Apple Computer) has a pattern of willful trademark infringement. After several litigated disputes with the Beatles' Apple Corps, Apple Computer agreed not to enter the music business but reneged when they launched iTunes[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
People have criticized Android codenames for the history of those codenames. Jellybean? Froyo? Eclaire? Donut? How are those better than KitKat?

I don't see anything, whatsoever, embarrassing about it. It sounds like they're having a bit of fun with it, and why not?
back for round two i suppose ? you have my vote.
I'm Writing a Book on Startups and Bootstrapping
Maybe even with a similar corporate collaboration with Eminem
I don't think that gives you native OpenGL and other goodies described....or does it?

node-webkit is great, just wish there were great UI library (FOSS & MIT licensed) that looks exactly like a windows/mac/linux desktop application.
thanks - let me talk to the teams. I can't talk about migrations / upgrades publicly, but I know the teams have been working on this and thinking hard on it.
Tor Is Less Anonymous Than You Think | Motherboard
If you can't relate, that's fine. Don't buy it! But your lack of empathy doesn't mean you get to make fun of people who feel differently from you.
I'm the exact opposite: I prefer paper books for 'binge reading', but eBooks for documentation or sifting through, since I'd take Ctrl+F over leafing through an index/glossary any day.

Which is why I think this (and similar offerings: I know O'Reilly and leanpub do similar things) is such an exciting offer: I don't have to sit back and decide which use case I'd rather prioritize.
Android is not a FOSS product, there's just parts of it that are open source ("AOSP"). There's a big heap of proprietary parts starting from the kernel level going up to Play Services that are required for a functional Android experience.
It appears like for physical books you buy - you will be able to get the digital version cheap or free.

It is an extremely unclear landing page.
I'm aware of it being tied to an implication, but I don't agree with you that "why are you so angry?" is in the same category as the example you gave ("have you stopped beating your wife").

In my view, if I ask you "why are you so angry?" I perceive you as being angry.
So if you yourself admit that you won't voluntarily donate money and help the poor unless you really have some extra, what moral right do you think you have to tell other people they should? Why do you think it's ok to take care of your family and friends less and care about strangers more? And, finally, if somebody forces you to help the poor, are you really becoming a better person?
Trivially falsified (the link):

"Total corporate federal taxes paid fell to 12.1% of profits earned from activities within the U.S. in fiscal 2011, which ended Sept. 30.... And well below the 25.6% companies paid on average from 1987 to 2008."

I wonder just what happened starting in early Federal FY 2009, which started on October 1, 2008. Perhaps this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Recession?

Now, when we're talking about seriously profitable companies I don't deny there are tax breaks to be had, some easy, but does anyone think these companies are better off focusing more on financial engineering or software and electrical engineering?

You might compare the parking of cash offshore to Microsoft's buying a $100K Treasury instrument whenever they had too much cash on hand, as their first CFO was horrified, amazed and delighted to discover.

ADDED: is this double taxation? In another HN item on this, it was commented that this parked money has already been subject to local taxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321925

I know we do that with personal income taxes, absent a tax treaty with the other nation.
Actually, this is a smart move from Google.

They are promoting Google+ with it, as it seems that KitKat is an active user (on G+) and has a lot of members on it.

They are trying to get more bussiness on g+ and refering to the new Android as chocolat. Which probably means they want to create the whole Android experience a lot smoother and unified (judging from the description on http://www.android.com/kitkat/ )
> Word is from Latin - Latin plural is viri.

No, that's the Latin plural of vir; viri means "men" not "poisons" ("virus" means "poison" in Latin.) [1]

http://www.google.com/#q=translate+viri+from+latin+to+englis...
You're right, we should immediately ban kids from playing with crayons because they are incapable of making good art. It's a total waste of our nation's colored wax resources!
It is important to note that this appears to apply to a limited selection of books.
C-_ is undo in Emacs. That's hold Control, and press "underscore". On my keyboard (most keyboards?) this requires holding Shift and pressing the "minus" key. Hopefully that's clear.
"Alphabetic confectionary nomenclature" is a fantastic phrase, and I regret that I will have great difficulty finding another use for it.
damn right, I'm god. And you only exist in my imagination anyway.
Exactly. That's the frightening part. I'm used to needing RSA and a password and there's special bits of the website that ensure it's not phishable.

And if I mistype my password three times I have to personally go to the bank and show government issued ID to get it reset.
Indeed, it's a totally scammy 'click here for your free Nexus' too. Surprised there wasn't a dozen popups shilling penis pills and investment advice
Not complaining that it can get this hard. But for someone who wants to play but goes 20+ without hitting a language you have seen or heard of, it would be nice to be able to dial down the difficulty. Maybe something based on most popular programming languages (beginner only takes top 20-50 or something?)
> maybe you should recalibrate your expectation of what a comment is supposed to say

Please refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6320222 for the reasons I found kyro's comment very PR-like. I expect, and will remain expecting, HN comments to be based on reality.
I always loved the white M&M's.
Ask HN: Should Microsoft's next strategic acquisition be  BlueStacks?
With the news that Microsoft is going all in on hardware by purchasing Nokia's phone division, would it not make sense for them to acquire BlueStacks next? Then they could do native integration of it into the Windows Phone 8 kernel and be able to run both Android and Windows Phone 8 apps. Just my crazy thoughts of how they could come back into this mobile game with a potential winning offering.
Not to repeat myself, see the answer to kevingadd's comment.

EDIT:

"If your goal is to belittle and disrespect someone, use this phrase frequently. If your goal is understanding and genuine engagement with someone who thinks and believes differently than you, don't use this phrase at all."

I didn't know this. Out of curiosity, how do you ask someone who is obviously angry why he/she/it is being angry?
For those worried about Google coming to blows with Nestle (How we still lament the demise of Rowntrees)...

From Wikipedia 'kit kat':

Use of the name "Kit Kat" or "Kit Cat" for a type of food goes back to the 18th century, when mutton pies known as a Kit-Kat were served at meetings of the political Kit-Cat Club in London.

Now a mutton pie doesn't quite sound as sweet a desert.
can't wait!!
why not just go out and get a real enlarger, a real film camera and use real negative film?

Well I can store thousands of photos on a microsd card and decide later which ones I want to put on paper. Film is much less flexible that way.
Really?

>>> For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases will soon allow you to buy the Kindle edition for $2.99, $1.99, $0.99, or free.

That seems pretty clear to me.
I get it - but it could be clearer.

Essentially, if you've ever bought print editions of books from Amazon, many of the Kindle versions of those books you previously purchased will be offered specifically to you for free or a small charge below $3 if you're interested in adding the digital version to your collection.
Apple never had a cross promotional marketing effort with the makers of Mighty Mouse.
The article mentions Salt and Ansible - if you're interested in these new generation config management tools, check out my book which launches tomorrow: "Taste Test: Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible"

http://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-a...

In the book, I implement an identical project with each tool so you can see what each one is like to work with.

I definitely had some big surprises when writing the book. Spoiler: Ansible was by far the simplest, easiest to understand, and quickest to get up and going.

To get a discount for the book release, just sign up on the mailing list: http://devopsu.com/books/taste-test-puppet-chef-salt-stack-a...
Text from my friend: "The new Android version is apparently named Kitkat. HN is distressed."
Steam doesn't prevent any piracy DRM wise. And its success is not related to its DRM. They were just first and grew big before others entered the scene. I personally don't use Steam, precisely because of their proliferation of DRM. For DRM free gaming there are GOG, Humble Bundle and others.

I'd compare Steam to Netflix, yes. Both are widely used, and both cause damage to the industry by DRM proliferation.
Thanks for this article very beneficial, I'm learning about Databases at the moment so this definitely comes in handy while learning SQL.
That would be good - I wrote a blog post on the topic. Rackspace cloud servers CPU performance caps out low and $/CPU value isn't good on large instance types: http://blog.cloudharmony.com/2013/06/value-of-the-cloud-cpu-...
Nice. Wish it integrated with Authy though
...yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, that's why.

Not!
"I'm just a junior copywriter in NYC, and I have no idea what the engineers are actually working on at Mountain View, so I'm going to write something that sounds generic enough that it could apply to any advance in the OS, but still sounds exciting to anyone scrolling through this page."
Regarding Caucasian, why would you get annoyed? Words can and often do have multiple appropriate meanings. One of the wonderful things about natural language is our ability to distinguish among different word meanings based on context.

Anyone who insists upon only a single meaning for each word will have a considerably poorer vocabulary because of it.

Furthermore, if you're going to rule out all words with spurious etymologies, I suspect you're going to have to eliminate quite a lot of words from your vocabulary. For example, stop using "turkey" to refer to the bird eaten in certain parts of the world.