skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say: "Hey that must suck, is there anything I can do to help?" or if you genuinely can't figure it out ask a question about the bit you don't understand: "Let me get this right, someone stole your car and now you're late for a meeting?"

But be careful about asking questions which seem accusatory: "Did you leave your keys in your car? That would be pretty stupid"

Equivalent hypothetical statements in the realm of sexism/discrimination might be: "That sucks, is there anything I can do to help?" or if you're genuinely curious to learn more: "That sounds awful. You've raised some good points, are there any resources I can read so I can further understand?" but don't say: "You weren't wearing those hot-pants were you? That would be pretty stupid"
Is a Career in STEM Really for Me?
This new trend of a kinderocracy is troubling to say the least. If we are not able to accurately assess risk, how will society at large manage social norms and not turn into a police state?

One of the main things that parents fail to realize is that most of the child abusers are actually not pedos in the park with slr cameras. "about 60% of perpetrators are non-relative acquaintances, such as a friend of the family, babysitter, or neighbor. About 30% of those who sexually abuse children are relatives of the child, such as fathers, uncles, or cousins. Strangers are perpetrators in only about 10% of child sexual abuse cases." -VA.gov http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/pages/child_sexual_abuse...

My guess why society at large has actively been ignoring the reality of child is abuse is that we as humans and families obviously want to be able to "do something" to protect their children. Saying that non-relative acquaintances are the most likely to be abusers is not going to go over well, but hell I could be wrong.
Unfortunately it doesn't support tab-completion... which would be nice given that there's oodles of ec2 commands.
Ask HN: Visiting Singapore next week. Coffee?
I'm visiting Singapore next week. I'm into Hadoop, Scala and data/analytics. Wondering if any local hackers would like to meet up for coffee. If you're free, drop me an email (email in profile)!
If you're going to be so belligerent, at least use an example of something that wasn't developed while Jobs was disengaged and on his deathbed.

More importantly, though, I love that you read 2 paragraphs and then blew your top ("what a load of crap" -- really?) over a parenthetical comment that was already qualified with a "probably."
Okay.. glad to see the effort, but I've been using boto and euca2ools for years. This will have to be good for people to switch.
I think Android Quik would be next (and perhaps likely if KitKat goes well given the Nestle connection and the scarcity of "Q" dessert names).
It benefits both: KitKat is a great name for an Android release, it's alliterative, more recognizable, and of course it offers co-branding and co-marketing opportunities galore. It's a great business opportunity.

But there's a better reason that's less obvious: this is great marketing because it's fun. It's sort of funny that your phone runs on a candy bar, and your candy bar is fully supportive of it. It's a refreshing counterplay to what would otherwise be a horrible and usually expected lawsuit over the naming rights.

It's brilliant marketing, and brilliant UX on a grand scale. True props to these teams for working together and having some fun. A success of honesty and humanity that may or may not be insanely successful, but is at least authentic and refreshing.
Amazon has a program called KDP. If an author puts their book into the KDP program they receive 70% royalties, but they have to be exclusive on Amazon. If they don't want to be on KDP, they only receive 35% royalties, but they can sell anywhere. That's how Amazon is making itself into a monopoly.

edit: I mean KDP Select, not KDP.
Is the smartwatch the second coming of the Quartz Crisis
IPhone resale
I can't even figure out how to get a permalink in Maps anymore. Nightmare.
Thats funny, cause they got it right for me.
I don't mind the age box. The box you've got around where and when people should be, that's a problem.
If it's any consolation, if you long-hold an Action Item (anything in the top or botton bars, including the copy/paste UI) in android a tooltip will appear explaining what the button does.
Teach 3-6 Yr Olds How To Code With Robotic Turtles
First-party parallel upload and splitting support immediately trumps s3cmd for me.
Require funding or get funding? Doesn't a privatised prison derive a profit from its "use" of prisoners (getting/requiring funding) in the same way that slaveholders once derived a profit from their use of slaves?
For KitKat (which is the OS name) I see android.com/kitkat first, kitkat.com second and Wikipedia third.

For Kit Kat, which is the candy bar, I see Wikipedia first, followed by kitkat.com and android.com/kitkat third.

Their SEO isn't dead, but that space is and will be increasingly significant.
huh, both work for me.
I also want to be able to give the site a seed to an existing token, i.e. a hard token like the gemalto. This is the step so many of them get wrong.

(If I'm logging in primarily from a phone/tablet, an authenticator app on the same device is much less secure against targeted attacks than a hardware token would be. Plus, hardware tokens allow lots of useful things like physical-escrow based access control.)
I joke constantly with my wife "Don't! You're going to break your arm!"

hilarious - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XBb-YYszLI
I agree. I've been a regular reader of the site for over six years (and a regular poster for 4.5 years) and I'm pretty sure this has gotten a lot worse in the last few years.

Headline-writing is very audience-specific. A headline that works fine in its original context (on a personal or company blog, for example) does not always work out of that context. In the early days, the "use original titles" guideline was much less rigidly enforced, and most users did a good job of tweaking titles to make them more informative and appropriate for the HN audience. When they failed, editors did a good job of fixing that.

Today it seems the rule is applied blindly and often detrimentally. And unlike, say, MetaFilter, where the moderators are visible and engaged with the community on questions of policy, the HN "editors" act invisibly and seem never to respond or engage with their readers. :(
Wow -- you managed to call crass, vapid consumerism built around substandard unhealthy confection 'authentic and refreshing'.

That's impressive. What would be more impressive is if Google hadn't sold out their userbase to Idiocracy-style co-branding with a diabetes inducing sugar product.

In other news:
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The new GMail Compose is a horrible horrible interface. It's bordering unusable. After looking around to disable it without any success, I started looking for alternatives. I ended up installing Thunderbird and couldn't be happier! With IMAP I can run Thunderbird on different machines and got the benefit of moving from machine to machine and still be able to access mail accounts.

Thunderbird is the way to go!
And at the same time the world's thinnest article, reworded from http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/02/worlds-thi....
> the single factor determining Microsoft’s future: if the company can navigate the move from the desktop to mobile, it will succeed; if it can’t, it will fail.

Sounds fair, but the vultures have been circling a long time now. Here's one of my favorites, from a former head warning of the dangers of open source:
http://www.synthesist.net/writing/onleavingms.html

Sure, he hits some good points, back in 2003. Then the poor, failing company saw a decade of earnings most successful companies would kill for.

Counting up reasons a company will ultimately fail rarely reveals the day or the hour.

IBM also saw some dark days. How many products did they base their entire business around that have since become obsolete? Though I have only a loose grip on what their core business is anymore, I have no doubt that they'll be here next year. I'm more suspicious about the new restaurant down the street.

A new restaurant has to make brilliant decisions every week. Microsoft can probably be stupid for thirty years. A certain amount of capital buys you a hell of a lot of indulgences.
That's sort of what I thought.

I've only thought about doing it because the Amex Platinum card has a statement credit for it.

I'm still hesitant about it just based on principle.
The window size and position is fine; I like being able to easily refer to other emails.

It's what they've done to the editing that bugs me.

- It encourages top-posting. To bottom-post, you have to click the "..." button, and then remove the two blank lines at the top.

- Fast selection of text with shift-Pg{Up,Dn} no longer works.

- Firefox's "It's All Text" add-on, which lets you drop into a real editor to edit a textbox, no longer works with it.
The Worlds Hardest Game
Interesting - I must have had an older version and not played with it. The version I had did not have 's3 sync', and the help files were a long list of ec2 commands and some boilerplate headings.

Reinstalled and now they have shorter, saner commands and real help pages... and they also changed the pager from 'less' (my default pager) to the crappy 'more'... because (apparently) you never want to go back a page in a help file. More detailed content, but it's harder to review. Odd.
NanoDoc
A couple of guys out of the Bhatia Lab at MIT have made a game out of design and optimization of cancer nanotherapeutics. Nanodoc (http://nanodoc.org/) is on online game that allows bioengineers and the general public to design new nanoparticle strategies towards the treatment of cancer.
IBM to customers: Your hand is staining my window
Just Delete Me Is a Massive List of Links to Close All Your Accounts
UK Parliamentary porn consumption laid bare in official figures
what is this why is it just a static piece of --- Oh, cool. Really needs some kind of "hang on, loading" for the initial preloader.

Sadly it didn't work too well with my Leap. I mean, aside from the basic gorilla arm problems, I found that I got a TON of framerate hiccups and sometimes it just totally ignored it.

edit after playing some more, with a high score of 70.

I also have some issues with the game itself. The thumping beat and the "run on shift" behavior makes me feel like this is a game that wants to be about zooming down a tunnel at high speed, but it defeats itself - the barriers are way too close to be able to run through them unless you see that an entire path segment has holes in the same places, and it's just too damn hard to see them half the time. And I say this as a person who has loved playing Jeff Minter's "Space Giraffe", which is basically a Tempest variant dropped inside a music visualizer with the intensity set to 11. I am a life support system for a visual cortex,and I think these gates are hard to make out - I think this means there's something wrong. If they had a white sheen or something this would be more playable.

The scoring seems to encourage MOVE FAST ALL THE TIME too - you get 1 point for moving through a gate, and 2 for running.

Also the visuals worked against the gameplay for my first few plays. The detailed, realistic corridor with cables hanging down made me assume that "down" meant "crouch" and "up" would mean "jump" - which I assumed is pretty much a momentary thing that has to be hit at the right moment to make it through a gate. It took me like five plays to work out that, no, I'm actually just kinda flying through this corridor here. If the tube had been abstract I think I wouldn't have made that assumption.

Also when I play on keyboard with it fullscreen, the keystrokes seem to keep on falling through the game now and then; I hear error beeps over the music when I hit a key sometimes. (Safari, OSX 10.8.4.)
Meh, 90% of what I do is ec2 anyway.

I did have to break out: cli53 rrcreate.
SF with 1% on the full stack.
Have you played Trains yet? I think that may be one of my new go-to games with new people. It's like Dominion but a lot less abstract.
Heisenbug is a kind of bug that exists and doesnt exist at the same time. Morever, the moment you think you caught it - it slips out from your fingers.

Interesting choice of name for an operating system.
From Mr Average to Superman: Craig Davidson's account of using steroids (2008)
I use keyboard coords to navigate and operate most facets of GMail, and all of the buttons have a tooltip, distinctive icons, and have the ability to undo. I'd be willing to eat crow if there were actually a study showing that users of 2-3 icons without labels don't know their purpose after the first couple uses. Instead, we get a bunch of parroting about how Google and Page have lost their way -- nothing scientific.

As for Android, sure there is no undo, and I wasn't really speaking for Android, but I'd, again, be really surprised if the cut/copy/paste is statistically confusing. I'd only suggest the paste option only be offered in the context-menu above the selection and not also next to the cut/copy icons. I'd also argue that it's really unlikely I'd be doing anything with an Android device that isn't repeatable with little effort or would be undoable and before I possibly had to cut my teeth once or twice. I think iOS did a better job here, as Android offers no means of backing out a change.
Likewise. I did a search in one country, started a new one in a new country and it's still locked up. Couldn't even close the tab. (Chrome, OSX).

Really neat app, though!
After flying Air Canada and Virgin Airlines, I think I'll take Cup Noodles at 30 000 ft over having Wi-Fi at 8 000 ft.
The figures per month vary massively from 15 in February to 114,844 in November 2012. Makes one wonder what sites are classified as pornographic and if the spikes occurring are the result of poor filtering.
Then again, the iOS App Store has also allowed a huge number of amateur developers to produce apps, and has basically instantiated an entire industry around App development. Sure, it sucks for the incumbents like Nintendo, whose Gameboy devices are now a tough sell. But essentially this democratisation of the publishing chain has led to a widespread increase in publishing of creative works(apps, books, art & craft via etsy), and a better cut for the creators, whilst also increasing the size of the markets they sell to.

Creators who are dropped by publishers have the ability to then self-publish. Hugh Howey is not publishing sequels, just completing (IMO) a series which is now done. His other works are receiving a lot of interest on Amazon as well. Not seeing a lot of downsides here, except to traditional publishing models, and frankly good riddance to them.
Just learned about these today. The nice thing about the
Is that they have crypto instructions on the chip and outperform the Raspberry Pi 40 to 1 when using OpenSSL (at least according to benchmarks). With the price point cheaper than the RPi (comes with a case, flash, etc.) these may have just won me over.

See http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=38411&p=39...
I enjoyed reading this book by Ramit Sethi: http://www.amazon.com/Will-Teach-You-Be-Rich/dp/0761147489/r...

Its full of very basic fundamental advice. It doesn't go into depth into securities options, but emphasizes practical "set and forget" tactics.

TLDR; invest early, invest often, keep a good credit score, stock market is great for returns over the long run (index funds/mutual funds), keep a savings account, automate your investing. Also, did you know your credit card offers perks like extended warranties on purchases (at no cost)?
"recently"? October 2012 this started rolling out....geezus.
This might be my male bias showing, but most of the sites in the "patriarchy" section are way cooler than the ones in the "matriarchy" section.
>>Because we have higher standards for achievement for a 30 year old than a 20 year old.

Then your form doesn't really allow for that. You're only asking to list the coolest thing someone has built. Why not change the form to: List the coolest thing you have built (maximum of three).

This enables the 30+ year crows to show their broader list of accomplishments and not artificially tilt it toward the younger audience.

You say you have higher standards but then you don't allow the higher standard to show. What if someone has consistently hit singles (to use a baseball metaphor) and a rookie has one home run. You're rewarding the onetime home run over consistent delivery. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but you need diversity and your system discriminates against that.

Hey, this is your show and you're going to run it the way it fits your need. However, with risk of blacklisting my name, I feel it's important for someone to speak out and help you see it from another perspective.
Reach out to area colleges, contact the professors and tell them you're interested in offering help. Most profs have office hours where students come in to ask questions, so they might be able to use you to help students.
Reminds me of this, in board game form: http://drtechniko.com/2012/04/09/how-to-train-your-robot/
Oh, Settlers of Catan is also fine. I just mentioned Carcassone as the first gateway game that came to mind.

I don't really play Settlers anymore these days. It's nearly twenty years old; the first decade was fun, but it does get old after a while. There are also a few things that a modern game would do different---but beginners will enjoy themselves very much.
Working with Structured Data Using Command Line Tools in Linux
You’re not still using cluster analysis are you?
When I was a kid, Kellogg's had a bunch of flash games on sites for their main cereal brands.

Guess who had their mother buying cereal at the supermarket every month?
Sounds like he's on debian, which only uses the ESR release by default
Indeed, I used Soothe for a while too. Loved that as well.
Does this attitude only apply in airports, or do you apply the same logic to buses too?
> In Carcassone, you can't really take very aggressive action against other players.

You are playing it wrong. ;o) Carcassone, in my player groups, has much more direct conflict than Settlers of Catan.

Monopoly is almost devoid of direct conflict. At least of conflict you can have any influence one. Your hotels are targetting all players equally.
The measure of marketing is effectiveness, not moral validity. I'll let you judge that for yourself (and you clearly have).
I don't need to post research. Logically, if a plane falls out of the sky this also presents a threat to anyone on the ground at the time of impact. If people are blown up at an airport, there's no additional risk for those outside the immediate vicinity. This is a consequence of the fact that planes are mobile while airports are not.

Yes, I'm being rude, because by your own admission you are arguing from a position of ignorance and inaccurate prejudice.
I don't understand why this would be the case:

3. It recently came to my attention that this microcode update might forbid
unsupported (by Intel) overclocking on 4th gen Core "K" processors installed
on motherboards that lack a Z-series chipset.
This was a good comment but the Steve Jobs bit was unnecessary (because people like me will get distracted and flame you for it).
The best feature of emacs is running shells in buffers. For interactive work, this is supremely useful because you can easily search your history, grab previous lines/chunks of code, and edit them into future commands. I do this all the time for data exploration with python.
I'm about 12 minutes into that video and amazed I got that far. It's some guy chasing flying paper. What am I missing?
>implying this isn't a new patch from the NSA
I have experienced it, having known several crack addicts personally including a former colleague and roommate.
Maybe because of Windows high market percentages, hardware manufacturers build their products around Windows experience, rather than the other way around.
Who is jason?
Well obviously, while debating internet filtering legislation and technology, a lot of research was needed.
The About page talks about Klee, the program that Philip Guo talked about in his story about the trials of PhD life:

http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir-prologue.htm
Following some of the links in the mail thread[1] it sounds like intel only allows it on the Z series chipsets for various reasons. And some mother board manufacturers have been enabling it on the sly to let people without them to do some amount of overclocking.

[1] http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/07/25/intel-overc...
Maybe include an invert axis option? Great btw
Very impressive. Is there a write up on how such games are done? In general, how long does it take to reach this level of expertise in writing games? 2 years? 5 years?
Not portable though. I live and work on the road from an Airstream using mobile connection. An easy to configure portable satellite setup is my dream. There are a few out there but at crazy prices.
It's probably 'news' because AWS is at risk of losing mindshare on HN as more competitors target this community - Rackspace just started giving everyone free credit, Linode gave everyone big free upgrades, DigitalOcean are just killing it, and then there's Docker etc threatening to reduce them all to interchangeable dumb infrastructure.
Thank Goddess you weren't around during the American Civil War so you could make a huge show of NOT participating as a white member of the Underground Railroad because the plight of black slaves just wasn't your fucking problem.

Allow me to use the power you think I have to say: fuck you, thanks for nothing, jerk face. If it's "not your problem" then you are actively increasing my problems.

All my educators were men. Everyone in my chain of command from manager to CEO are men. About 90% of my industry peers are men. If they were all anti-woman then WHAT GODDAM POWER WOULD I HAVE? But they're not. Some of them even go so far as to acknowledge the general state of inequality might be within THEIR power to influence. And so here I am: a woman with a computer science degree, working information security, because not only did some men choose not to use their power to block me from getting a foothold, THEY DECIDED TO BE ACTIVELY FEMINIST and help me pull through when the misogynists were telling me to kill myself because I was a worthless slut and actively trying to prevent my career from ever starting with harassment, degradation, and slander.

Maybe I'm not your problem. But if you are just gonna kick back and relax and let misogyny sort itself out then you. are. mine.
Intuit versus Xero. Is it Goliath versus David Part II?
American Express Forcing Complex Usernames & Weaker Passwords
Even worse. I found myself in situations where I cleared the middle section of one gate and, without any movement on my part at all, hit the next gate even though it also had an open middle section. This happened to me twice with a gate at the top of a ramp.

I'm confident that I didn't move the ship because I used the arrow keys and positioned myself well before reaching the first gate. I was close enough to missing the opening that I would understand hitting the first gate, but hitting the second gate is uniquely frustrating.
Oh hey, that was my intern project this summer! Well, not all of it of course, but I worked on the accounting system that will handle the MatchBook transactions.
Just tried it out and it is excellent ! The integration of various aws services is really neat. The help and correction-suggestion are nice too.

Great to hear that this is built on the awesome boto library. Will serve as an useful reference for boto developers.
Omg, now I have a craving for Kit Kats. And the webpage is hilarious and fantastic...