skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody know or dare to guess how warm this thing gets? All I could find is that it needs a 5V@2A power supply, but it doesn't tell how much of that is overprovisioned for e.g. powering USB devices. If most of that is converted to heat inside that box, I guess it gets hot (that's 10W in a package slightly larger than an eighth of the volume and a quarter of the area of a light bulb)
It almost crashed my firefox. wtf.
Lol, i can just find route A to B and then B to C.
The main purpose of the downvote as I understand it is to punish responses (in the ranking algo sense) that don't add to the discussion.

A snark one-two liner sitting on the top of the comment page is hardly a comment that's adding anything interesting to the discussion of Libre News
Could be way off, but I find the idea that people are opting out of Android due to dessert names very unlikely. Seems roughly equivalent to OS X (recently retired) cat names and I don't remember people staying away from Mac cause snow leopards don't convey the advantages of owning a Mac. Especially since I'd bet a vanishingly small amount of people who own Androids know the thing that runs their phone even has a code name. Google doesn't even sell Android in boxes with jelly beans on them like Apple used to do with cats.
Same happened to me - expected info about the upcoming OS release not the candy on the bottom link.
Pylearn2 : a machine learning research library
I believe there is a Labs option in settings to turn that on.
Nutritional value, who owns the product, retailers (e.g. if you're outside of the US often products are harder to come by), etc. Standard stuff.
This guarantees that Nokia phones will continue to run Windows and that Microsoft can stay in the fight. This could be a life and death fight for Microsoft as both Google's and Apple's ecosystems are extending to phones, tablets, set-top boxes and beyond. They haven't built a bad Phone OS, but they need more time and a full-court press to fight for some market share. This deal gives them that opportunity.
I'm actually quite fond of the new compose window and I fall into essentially the same category of email user as you. My anxiety was in fact lessened a bit by the chat-like (and therefore more casual) vibe, thanks to large expanses of white space making me feel like I /must/ fill them with text.

Email anxiety is no fun, maybe a native client would be the best way to ensure your workflow is optimized?
The Go Circuit Project: Paradigm for developing and sustaining Big Data apps
My own effort from late in high school:

http://glider-kernel.sourceforge.net/

Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to put my 236376 Operating Systems Engineering course project online, due to the licensing issues with JOS-based project code.
Actionable articles about the business of software and technology to help build same. That's what we're here for.

Really?

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

The guidelines do also say, "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics [etc.]," but then qualify, "unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

It might be that HN has reached a point at which there ought to be a split with accompanying comment police to enforce it, but it seems presumptuous to assume that the decision has already been made in alignment with your particular preferences.
Presumably the same people who like KitKat on Facebook. Utterly pointless, but people do it.
I know, that is why I used marijuana as my example.

@whyleyc is asserting that drug "hardness", not drug prohibition, is the cause of the societal harm associated with drugs. I am pointing out that we see similar harm with marijuana, which everyone here accepts as not "hard", but which is prohibited.

It therefore stands to reason that if prohibition can cause harm to society with a "non-hard" drug like marijuana, it would cause harm to society with a "non-hard" drug like caffeine.
Ro Khanna rakes in huge dollars for race vs. Mike Honda
It reminded me of the Mac Pro product page http://www.apple.com/ca/mac-pro
It always shows last names for me (so long as they're available). Unless you've got some new feature, I'm guessing those contacts just don't have full names assigned. Spending some time in the "contacts" tab, cleaning things up really made things easier for me in this respect.
You can tell this is U.S.-centric when it thinks you need to be personally wealthy to receive decent healthcare.
> Of course there were.

Safe to assume a very small percentage of alcohol users, which makes the difference here. Safe to assume that during Prohibition the vast majority of alcohol users could have been sober during working hours to pay for it.
Brilliant.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant.

I'm still chuckling at the "tiny print" at the bottom of the page. I'm going to go check and see if #GrannyEyed is trending now.
Small steps.

Go see a professional too. You know how we keep saying "Damn client! They think they can make their own website! Or that their husband can!"

Well, it's the same thing for your emotional health. Don't underestimate how hard it is to build up a rehabilitation program. Don't hesitate to get a professional opinion. There is nothing wrong with it. :)
You don't have to remember the ad, you just have to have a subconscious desire to pick one up when you see it in the impulse buy zone at your grocery store.
Poll : What trading account do you use
Hi All,
I am guessing a lot of geeks do stock or options trading at some point.
I think it would fun to create a poll. Upvote below
That video is so incredibly clearly mocking Ivy, not Duarte.
Microsoft's purchase of Nokia makes no sense but could actually work
That's not how marketing works.

Has anyone ever seen a TV commercial and said "meh, I can guess how this episode ends -- I'm going out to get a Pepsi!"?
1. Scottrade
2. TDameritrade
I disagree, think of it like Bit.Trip Runner, the beat builds as you progress, but you have to start over if you fail.
3. Fidelity
Looks like FLINT center has a higher seating capacity. Startup School was pretty packed last year, so I am glad they are increasing the seating capacity.
Hmm, do you think the new pricing of the Kindle DX on this page is just a typo ($139 as of visiting)?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/?docId=1000739811

If Amazon lowered it to that over the next few days, I would actually consider purchasing the (3+ year-old) DX.

The actual product page still says $239.

Do any HNers have recommendations for large eInk readers suitable for viewing pdfs/textbooks? I mostly read textbooks these days.
> a lot of people are opting out because of it

No, they aren't.
4. optionhouse
At my company, we write new MUMPS code all the time. Some of this is sanely written ANSI standard MUMPS, some uses the Caché extensions.

There are techniques and strategies for containing legacy code which are pretty well known in the community. At minimum, this would involve wrapping it in a sane interface. You'd want to isolate global variable state too. Alternatively in Caché you can wrap it in classes (whose semantics are close to Java/.NET)

It's on our list to rewrite the legacy code "some day."
Prescription opioid drugs like oxycodone kill more people than meth or crack. And there are a lot of people able to hold down a job and pay for cocaine (see also: wall street). What was your point again?
5. E*trade
I don't know what the percentage is for crack but I bet...

Hello, old friend.
do not talk about my experiences with women in IT (they are probably outliers like Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Mayer)

Oddly, 99.99% of women in IT are not senior executives of large companies like these two. I think what Shanley's article meant is, you aren't supposed to point at these two and claim that everything's cool for women in IT, because they are outliers.

Presumably, it's reasonable to employ anecdotes about the female CTO you worked with, or the female developers on your team with whom you have personal experience?
>a lot of people are opting out because of it

Uh citation that Android version code names affect "a lot" of people? Because I doubt any tech people care, and retail users are buying whatever and not stopping and saying "Oh, code name Jelly Bean? Screw that I'll buy an iPhone."
Who visits those sites?

We just did.

> What do they do on them?

I don't know, but now I want chocolate. Too bad for them, I already have a candy bar in the pantry.

>Clearly, they can replace the entire thing for the purposes of a joke so it can't be that high up there.

I bet they sell a few Kit Kat in the next few days after this little joke.

EDIT: Noticed they've coordinated a marketing campaign with http://www.android.com/kitkat/
I actually feel super proud!
I found the KitKat site to flow better than the Android site it was parodying. In Chrome, even.
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No, I mean the normal page. Not this joke one. kitkat.com has existed for a long time, and before today was just filled with normal promotional stuff.
Writing concise, properly formatted email is the responsibility of the writer, no matter the email client UI.

It's also my responsibility to ensure I can focus and work efficiently, agreed. Whether I can do that well with Gmail's new Compose is the issue.
Where/who do you send the work to that you decline?
If COPS is representative of real life, there are plenty of people willing to rob convenience stores of cigarettes. I have little doubt that this would turn much uglier if nicotine was banned.
I'll definitely make note of this and get it changed. Thanks for the feedback.
Maybe we should be finding a way to make no one personally responsible for failures.

No, we need to stop making a small group of people, namely, the government, responsible for very large failures, by making them responsible for things that have a very large scope. Instead, a much larger group of people--i.e., everyone--need to each be responsible for a much smaller scope, so that no one person, or small group of people, has to bear by themselves the consequences of a large failure.
No, I won't, because when frustration_value > fun_value I stop playing immediately and never come back.

Failing because I wasn't quick enough can be fun. Failing because your overly-clever graphics engine requires me to distinguish "fog" from "glass in fog" in 0.5 seconds is never fun.
Try to bring a standard-formula KitKat to a warm-weather climate, and you'll realize the promises of "Universal Compatibility" and "Unlimited Stand-By Time" are dangerous, messy puffery.

Where's the FTC when we need them?

(KitKat does use a different melt-resistant formula in hot places like Malaysia: http://www.nestleprofessional.com/uk/en/SiteArticles/Pages/F... )
>> Kit Kat's homepage is currently a monstrosity [...] the history hijacking made it a crappy experience and I couldn't close the tab quickly enough.

I am hoping this is a parody of the average Hacker News comment on an HTML5 site.
Having the Startup School in the cradle of startups is preaching to the choir, no?
Did you run your finger along the tinfoil to cut it perfectly in half? That is a staple of every Britons childhood.
Not if that information is already publicly and easily accessible to that group. If I was to post a link to an existing but obscure Wikipedia article on Hacker News, it would be as much of a "revelation" as Snowden's "revelations."
Ask HN: Can ISP see what you're doing through a proxy server?
If I use an IP:Port proxy server to connect to the internet, I'm aware that the destination server (website) doesn't exactly know it's me, but can my ISP know what site I went to?

What would an ISP see if I connect to the internet through a proxy server I've set up on ec2 or something?

Lastly, if my ISP can actually see what I'm doing, is there a way to hide from them (e.g. does connecting through an HTTPS proxy hide what I do)?

Thanks!
They've coordinated their joke with http://www.android.com/kitkat/
Ads exist for lots of reasons. Sometimes just to remind regular customers of the brand, prompting them to buy again. Some are to bring in new customers. This one? Who knows.
It uses a lot of tricks. The scene has a very low polygon count and the lighting is a pre-calculated texture.
If you're expecting levels of drug abuse to rise with deregulation, let me just point you to ... well, everywhere that's deregulated drugs.
When it comes to a chunk of sugar as delicious as a KitKat, all they really need to do is plant the word "KitKat" in your brain and you'll want one. Or maybe it's just me.
Persistent drawing over any web page
There's a lot wrong with that article. If the computer is smart enough to tell you what to do in social situations and can also read, write, and drive cars, the game is pretty much up.

There will be nothing humans can do that computers can't.

The best thing to do will be to plug everyone in to the Matrix, because otherwise millions of wars between people with really smart computers will break out. Wars that will feature weapons designed by smart computers i.e. drones with nuclear/chemical/biological weapons - deadly enough to kill everyone.

The safest route for humans in the coming years is for global scale cooperation to create a basic income, not a stipend, but self-contained self-sufficient virtual reality simulator so that we don't descend into chaos when some of us get access to hyper-intelligent computers.

It's quaint that the good professor thinks we'll just go on seeking jobs after taking coursera courses, and marketing sales letters to each other, but we hackers unfortunately know that that isn't an accurate prediction. The gravitas of the situation is far greater.

edit: Ted Talk by Daniel Suarez (author of Daemon and Freedom) on the drone threat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
I'm curious why you're running a docker file instead of committing a pre existing development docker container, and shipping that as the deployment artifact? This approach seems to treat docker more as provisioning tool (ansible, chef, puppet etc) and less as a continuous delivery "shipping container" tool.

Your adf-config tool makes me think of etcd: https://github.com/coreos/etcd
Marketing is a tricky beast. Sometimes "viral" things like these will drive more traffic (and thus, awareness of your product) than money can buy.

As for who visits these sites? Almost no one. Until they pull a PR stunt like the one that just happened.
On Level 1 Human
Their js is not uglified. Here's the easteregg.
function initEasterEgg() {
var pattern = "72658669656682696575"; //haveabreak
var userPattern = "";

var code = "38384040373937396665";
var userCode = "";

$(document).keydown(function(event) {
var p = pattern.substr(userPattern.length,2);
var c = code.substr(userCode.length,2);
var r = Math.floor((Math.random()*3)+1);

if(event.which == p) {
userPattern += event.which;
if(userPattern === pattern) {
$( "body" ).append( "<div id='eeDroid'><img src='assets/desktop/images/misc/droid" + r + ".png' /></div>" );
$('#eeDroid').animate({bottom:'0px'},500).animate({left:'-600px'},2000, function() {
$(this).remove();
});
userPattern = "";
}
} else { userPattern = ""; }

if(event.which == c) {
userCode += event.which;
if(userCode === code) {
$( "body" ).append( "<div id='eeDroid'><img src='assets/desktop/images/misc/droid" + r + ".png' /></div>" );
$('#eeDroid').animate({bottom:'0px'},500).animate({left:'-600px'},2000, function() {
$(this).remove();
});
userCode = "";
}
} else { userCode = ""; }
});
}
>> infuriating display of bad design

Perspective please!
Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition
Vim is an excellent text editor. But I mostly use it for coding, and that's the problem. Vim is not an IDE. It relies on plugins to deliver a half baked IDE experience. Sometimes these plugins are broken and other times they refuse to play nice with each other. As I sort of need them to get the job done I end up wasting time fixing broken things instead of solving real problems. That's why I'm ready to throw this tool away and move on. I might try Vim again in the future when things are a little bit more stable. Anyhow, thanks for all the fish.
Different people have different susceptibility to advertising, but it is safe to say that if advertising didn't work, it wouldn't be such a giant industry today. Despite all of the advanced technology coming out of Google, what gives the company virtually all of its value? Advertisements.

There's really no getting around it in this case -- either advertising Just Works as claimed, or the advertising industry has been fooling everyone who is giving them billions and billions of dollars per year into believing it works for the past 50+ years, which they would have to be doing using the principles of advertising... so it still works.
Or if you have a van and work with Verizon Wireless, once you know its general location near one tower, you can drive around with a high-powered femtocell, hijack the phone's tower connection and close in on its exact location.

If you're a GSM user you don't need to update the phone's PRL list to hijack its tower connection, so you could do something similar yourself with an OpenBTS setup (though without the tower information to correlate, you'd be doing a lot more driving)

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/04/verizon-rigmaiden-a...
Super Hexagon.
Does it get much hate, though? Snowfall and The Jockey, the NYT pieces, use scroll to trigger pretty much everything, and they received tons of attention both here and in more mainstream media outlets.
Unless everyone who gets free healthcare are considered PEOPLE WHO DON'T NEED MONEY.
This is a great intro! I've been using Emacs since 1996 or so and I still learned a new key: M-m, which will go in my lexicon immediately.

BTW, "M-g g" (goto-line) is also bound to "M-g M-g" which I find much easier to type.

Another thing I discovered way too late about Emacs was the "q" key. When you're in a read-only buffer like a diff, a man page, an Emacs help page, or an info page, pressing "q" will bury the buffer and close the window (if it wasn't open before the buffer appeared). I find this tremendously useful.
What would you think if they didn't have the site?
To me, the publishers have destroyed most of that value by producing such cheaply-made physical books. If you open a hardback from several decades ago, it feels different, like a real book. Most hardbacks now look fine if you don't try to hold them open and read them. I only buy them reluctantly, and less often. If DRM weren't so common I'd hardly buy them at all.

-- From the things-were-all-right-when-I-was-a-kid file
You're going to forget about KitKats before the next time you pass a drugstore, checkout line at a grocery store, or a newsstand? I doubt it.
Making PL/SQL developers far more productive
My browser can display the entire history and allows me to skip right to where I want to go.
Alternative, admittedly uninformed hypothesis: the structure makes it lighter, which means the chord suspending it can be thinner, which makes it harder for ants to crawl down it.
WalterBright is talking about purchases of new books (vs. used/resold), not new purchases.
As an affiliate marketer, am I the only one that thought OP should of posted a amazon affiliate link and then did a case study on conversions/efficiency of having a link on the front page of HN? lol
Anecdote: at least one woman was arrested because her kids were playing outside:

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/local_news/water_cooler/texas-...
This is a very clever parody of Android phone marketing. Buying a KitKat to test compatibility.
Umm... powered by Storystrings, but features the Svbtle network's Kudos button (as "cheers")... is there a connection here, or is the former borrowing from the latter?
"Besides, a programmer who can't focus on coding unless they have a quiet office with with no interruptions should probably work on their focus skills"

Everyone regardless of profession has a "zone" where they are the most productive. If a CEO needs to write 10 long-form emails in a day they should definitely have the best environment and the best tools for the job. It can be the difference between spending 5 minutes composing an email vs. 30 minutes.
I do IOS development in a VM on a lenovo w520 - runs pretty well and never had compatibility problems. Graphics related things not so much but if you test on the hardware itself (as you probably should with games) and are careful about your debugging process it works pretty damn well considering its a VM in a VM :)

I'd suggest trying that before setting up a real hackintosh. Here's a tutorial (havent tried this exact one but one similar):

http://www.ihackintosh.com/2012/07/install-mountain-lion-in-...
Which leads to a culture where everyone is afraid of touching kids that are not their own. It's really sad.
Or C-x u
Children learning to use the internet, perhaps. Though such a site wouldn't be very kid-safe, in terms of nutritional health.
Excellent parody and a product idea Nintendo should totally pursue, honestly.

Well played, Pat Stewert, whoever you are.
Unless they were DRMed and the provider had gone out of business, or cut off his access for other reasons, or...
The point is quite simple. Public visibility is valuable regardless of relevance.

This is the same across the board; if you have a sellable good and are serious about it, it should exist in as many accessible ways as possible. Marketing 101.

Granted, this contributes to the noise that makes traditional advertising much more difficult to be successful at, but if everyone is yelling and its your job to be heard, you need to yell too, or find a new place to talk quietly.
I think what people liked the most about those was the use of truly rich media (html5 video) to compliment the article. The use of the scroll wheel was a novelty add on. When everything is reliant on the scroll it's pretty annoying.
LinkedIn Wants More Cash, Offers to Sell $1.15B Worth of Stock
Their logic is so flimsy (and manipulative) that it actually serves to turn this engineer (and Bay Area native) off to the idea of working for them.

Working the other direction, they could have introduced us, for example, to...

Lee, creative transplant:

He is a graphic designer. He lived in Oakland for 8 years. He previously worked at Hexagram as a design intern. In Brooklyn he lives in the old manufacturing quarter turned vibrant nightlife spot, Greenpoint. His favorite thing about living there is taking the ferry to work.

“Silicon Valley started to feel like a rat race that I didn’t want to be a part of.”

Roberta, finance transplant:

She is a finance operator. She lived in Chinatown for 7 years. She previously worked at a hedge fund as an internet research analyst. She now lives in Brooklyn Heights, a beautiful waterfront neighborhood. Her favorite thing about living there is that there's no fog.

“Brooklyn feels like a place where I can build a life.”

Nina, engineering transplant:

She is an engineer. She lived in the Mission for 4 years. She previously worked at Bank of America in research and development. In Manhattan she lives in the bustling West Chelsea. Her favorite thing about living there is the Highline, NYC's iconic new elevated park and one of the world's most talked-about new public spaces, right across the street.*

“I loved SF but I wanted to work at a company that shared my values.”
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