skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first used requests to earlier this year to handle some obscure calls to the twitter API, and was absolutely astonished by how much work it saved me. Really amazing work.
In-copyright but out-of-print books from the 20th century aren't completely unavailable or lost to us; you can borrow many of them from public or university libraries.

However, with ebooks replacing print books, libraries will increasingly be unavailable to fill that role. There are both legal and technical (but mainly legal) reasons that libraries can't hold on to ebooks and lend them out, lacking explicit permission from publishers, like they can with print books.

On the other hand, maybe ebooks won't go "out of print", due to significantly lower marginal costs of production? I am definitely not confident of that though; as any software developer knows, there certainly are costs associated with maintaining a software product working 'forever'. Ebooks won't be immune from this, and I have no doubt that some will go 'out of print' when publishers do platform migrations, or when the consumer environment changes and new formats and packaging methods are needed, etc.
That's not a weird parallel, it's confirmation bias. There are both AGW sceptics and AGW believers who draw broad conclusions from localised data when it suits their view. It's a very normal human foible.
>It's driven by the fact that the author has some theories about UI design, and wants to share them with us.

This was exactly my reaction. The author points out things which are "confusing" within the context of some logical UI design theory. But nothing in the article is practically confusing. From the article:

The Plus could mean “Add Something”, but why does it have no outline? And why is it red? Does it perform a negative action? Confusing.

This feels like forced criticism. Immediately, they guess the correct function of the UI element (to add new alarms). Why should the plus sign have an outline? Why is it confusing that the plus sign is red, when the app has red as a primary component of the color scheme?

The author's points are interesting from a certain perspective, but it just doesn't matter in practice. I mean, is the biggest critique of iOS7 that a rectangle is clickable in one place and not in another?
I never found YouTube comments problematic. On the contrary: they are the closer to a universal, democratic, ununcensoredsensored dialogue we have ever achieved as a planet.

There's racism, sexism, nationalism etc? That's exactly because those also exist in the world. That's what makes YouTube comment threads democratic and uncensored. It gives people living in their microcosm and social bubble a chance to find out what other people believe and think.

It's also the visual nature of the medium: unlike a blog post or some web essay, a video can attrack visitors from more walks of life, more ages, more countries, more educational levels, and more perspectives. Even the language the video is in is not an absolute barrier (people can still enjoy what's shown without it).
Alternatively, SLAM, the (never made) supersonic nuclear powered cruise missle that would fly across a country popping off nukes as it went: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_Low_Altitude_Missile
It's a sad commentary that this point needs to be made, though.
Normally, sites will have more views than they have CSS objects. So if you're doing OOCSS it would be easier to just update all the objects (css files) instead of updating all the views.
I'd guess that due to commonly used resolutions most users cannot see beyond the Wikipedia link so it's all set up perfectly to increase ad clicks: 3-4 relevant links (er, ads) or Wikipedia.
But it could be the same, singular bank that the money gets deposited in and loaned from, repeatedly.
So now all large corporations must handle customer problems through "social media" even faster than calling them? How is this supposed to work? Legions of CSRs manning a dozen different streams looking for trouble?

I sympathize with this woman's treatment, but I really really would not expect to get relief by making a tweet at the gate while the problem is still happening. That's something a local manager should be handling.
The penalty requirement is recently waved off. I should update it. But the notice is required to be sent under the section 18B of FLSA.
Also, if the employee does not receive the notice and he misses the open enrollment period, he can sue the employer later at any point.
>> but if you insert something, you will get caught

Is there a tool for checking that?
How come so few people have been to hackdays?
Excellent post. I think the aversion engineers have toward PR for teams is unfortunate. A similar attitude toward prof. networking exists. Good team PR and good professional networking is predicated on mutual benefit.

Teams that are innovating, working on novel problems and dedicated to quality shouldn't be afraid to present themselves in a positive light. There's nothing sleazy about trying to attract and retain like-minded people.
That's nothing, the Sprint Missile was able to do 100G acceleration. That's 0-Mach 10 in 5s. So fast air friction made it glow white hot instantly. That what you can do with no human on board.

http://www.nuclearabms.info/Sprint.html
Show HN: Troubleshoot distributed systems
We'd love your feedback on our MVP, designed to help troubleshoot distributed systems in general, and web applications in particular. It's like Firebug's network tab, but for the backend.

http://packetbeat.com
You can save a lot of weight, iterate faster, undertake missions without concern for return, make big wins in the aerodynamic department, get improved situational awareness with strategically sited cameras, and more.

Of course, if someone can interfere with or hack your link with the aircraft, you're hosed. If they can turn it around and attack you with it, it's even worse.

That, and the Blue Angels will be far less romantic when there's nobody at the helm of each finely-tuned airbreathing rocket.

Things change.

(Modern air-to-air missiles are $0.4-1.2M [1,2]. Modern war is expensive; we trade consuming lives at war for consuming economic output at home.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-120_AMRAAM
Link: http://packetbeat.com/
I guess I should have been more explicit. I didn't mean to strike a partisan nerve.

I didn't mean to say that the CRA was the only cause for the housing bubble. There were a lot of factors that lead to the housing bubble.

My point was that the CRA was the beginning of a decade long non-partisan policy shift that signaled to regulators, Wall Street, etc. that owning a home was an unqualified good thing and looser standards for lending against homes should be encouraged.

Once the government and regulators signal to Wall Street other investors that they are encouraging the deployment of capital to a new, loosely regulated asset class it creates a dangerous environment.
I was devastated to find out that Snow Pea was a payment-only option and not a random drop...I mean no offense is complete without SP to slow down them zombies.
You cannot know whether the date the content was published will be relevant for a reader or not. It is not your assessment of timeliness that matters, but the reader's. So in the interest of doing the right thing, don't obscure the date.
They screwed the Music app and the whole OS as well.

The Music app ain't able to play genres entirely, or largely groups. They force you now to do Playlists on the iTunes app: you cannot make playlists comfortably. Try to add an entire album you will be screwed.

I feel the overall design is horrible. We discussed this on the past in HN. I feel the overall animations and embellishment i see isn't enough. This may impact non pro's, like my mom or dad, but i assume techies will preffer other well done options, like Android soon.
It's missles all the way down...
You have a right to free speech, but you don't have the right to post anything on someone else's server. People will have to make terrible comments from their own blogs or something.
It's even funnier on old devices like the iPhone 4, where a tap might not have a response within a few seconds depending on what's the app's doing. These are genuinely awkward moments wondering if the phone is painfully slow or you just tapped a label.
Hoon also excels at handling and validating untyped data, a common task on teh Internets.

Not sure if satire?
Sorry if I was unclear. I was responding specifically to "They find you, instead of you find them." I use SO and Github quite a bit, but my point was simply that I'd MUCH rather find someone myself than just wait for resumes to come in, as the resumes that come in are often not very good.
It very well might be worth it

Therefore, you answered the question of 'Is College Worth It?'. It is, for some professions. Thank you for agreeing with me.

Given that electrical "engineering" (i.e. you won't become a PE) is taught at the community college level, I'm not sure why you would think that way. Clearly there is a demand for people in this sector without the college education and degree that goes with it.

Is community college not college? Are associate degrees not degrees? Hence, you'd still need a professional education to get your foot in the door.

but that is a long way from saying it is required, which is the context of this discussion.

At no point did I, nor the article, argue that degrees should be required for any specific profession. I'm having trouble arguing with someone that doesn't understand what is being argued in the first place. At this point I think you are simply trolling so I bid you good day.
Additionally, when you connect an iOS7 device to a new computer, you need to unlock it and confirm you trust that computer before it'll talk/sync to it (before that, it just treats the computer as a charger.) Which will stop unqualified attackers (who aren't aware of DFU mode) from just swiping your phone and putting their own stuff on it, or attempting to naively restore it.
I've written some terrible crap on youtube that I don't feel are authentic representations of what I think/ who I am.
Let go a head and say this. Fuck you marketers. Thank you Google.
AMD’s R9 290X Faster Than The GTX Titan
After the Curacao model (middle class graphics card) we got the first glimpse at AMD’s newest flagship model, the Radeon R9 290X. In the photos bellow you can see AMD’s reference card design as well as the reference PCB. We have also heard that on launch only cards with the reference design will be available, while manufacturers own solutions will be available later.
I just created a model from a table with over 20 columns. A few days ago I had to hardcode a list of settings I screenscraped into a JS array in the Chrome console. You can't refactor things like that.
Dogfighting will be lost for the same reason the SR-71 was retired: New technologies came along that superseded them. Doesn't matter if you can dogfight if you disable the vehicle with a laser from the ground (future) or you can overwhelm it with surface-to-air missiles (now).

An aircraft is now just a mobile long-range weapons platform.
So? If you chain the loans, the bank might have the final balances: ($50M, -$450M) and ($45M, -$405M) and ($405M). The bank's net loan after settling internally is still $500M. Even if spread across banks, the sum of "real" money loaned out is still only $500M. If the loan at the end of the chain defaults, the loss is only $500M net.
>Has anyone ever really said, "Man, my whole day was made better by that comment on YouTube! I'm really glad I could be part of that!"?

Yes, me, tons of times. Comments of YouTube have made me feel connect to a common human "soul" with people all around the globe, unlike any other medium.

Nothing like a 18 year old American, a 30 year old French and a 70 year old Asian praising the same Louis Armstrong video for example. Or people enjoying some cat doing feline stuff.

Even the feuds are enlightening, seeing that people over country X and Y, fight between them for similar issues to the ones your country has with country Z.

I've also seen tons of humor there.
It seems logical to me that this would have occurred long ago....I'm sort of stunned that it's just happening now. There is simply no reason to have humans in fighter planes or bombers these days, and retrofitting the old equipment should be relatively inexpensive. We should be retrofitting tanks and helicopters for this as well.
"The Years of Rice and Salt" by Kim Stanley Robinson
On the contrary, I think the Blue Angles shows will be even more awe-inspiring when the aircraft fly within inches of each other, and perform maneuvers that no human pilot could sustain.
> Your IP address is extractable from your IP address.

That's not surprising. ;D
Well, you might not think they are, but if you wrote them then that's how you felt at the time, so they do provide an authentic look of part of you (which you might have outgrown, but that's beside the point).
Fine. You do that. But you think major computer companies are dumb to advertise and probably risk $5 a click for "computer" when users want a link to Wikipedia?

Because if you want to learn the history of computers you are unlikely to be worth $5 a click or whatever it costs now. And ad links are barely different from other links (most will probably just see ads unless they scroll.)
I think Skynet maybe working on a similar project :)
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How the selling compares on Mac App Store vs outside?
Mailbox.app Javascript execution
I can certainly see how, if it's working, they might not want to 'fix' it. But... users who feel better served by the content they get here might be more inclined to stick around, participate, become involved and eventually apply. Each of these "hacker news for x" sites that pop up are clearly attempts to exploit what appear to be gaps in what Hacker News provides, and maybe by extension they're taking a bit of the focus off YCombinator itself. Apps like hnnotify are providing functionality that could be added to the site.

Just because it happens to be making money now doesn't necessarily mean some aspect of the design isn't keeping them from making even more money.
"I'm particularly worried about the high speed at which they can travel because they might not be able to distinguish their targets very clearly."

I really don't understand what he is trying to say here.
A programmers guide to data mining
The SLA isn't really great (but that's not exclusive to RS). For RS managed hosting SLA 30 minutes of network downtime means 5% of monthly fee back.

So if this counted as downtime (and that's unlikely) and your email was down for 3 hours during your business hours, and if the mail SLA is the same as managed hosting's network SLA you'd get back 60 cents per user.

Anyway, Google Apps also has a SLA which would credit 10% of the monthly for less than 99.9% -- but again, that's uptime so "some users not getting email on time" is not going to count.
Valve, a AAA developer in their own right, already has plans to release their own hardware & doesn't need to wait for a third party to make hardware for this to succeed. They already have a massive base of customers which have already invested hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, in their Steam libraries so they don't need to build traction. Game consoles, while a significant expense, are not an all or nothing commitment like a cellphone - customers can easily have a Steam box in addition to their PlayStation, Xbox or PC.

It's not really fair to compare this to Android. Android succeeded, not because of Google's user base but because of Google's financial clout. Companies thought that throwing in their lot with Google was a safe bet - there's too much money behind the project for it to fail. People are going to throw in with Valve because it's a smart bet - it's bringing what gamers want to the table.
I replace my MBP hard drive every year, it's super simple and each year I get to double my storage.
Nah Facebook is old and mature, not bubble material. Short the exciting and new Tesla!
This is what about 90% of the libc libraries out there do as well. Also tracing jits also do the same thing they see a trace that has a known optimization and it is performed.
I'm going to infer (mostly from the country code in your profile contact) the airline in question is Syphax.

If the headline figures I've seen are correct, their IPO sold nearly half the company for approx ~$15 million (or about three month's revenue according to their Q2 figures) in working capital.

They have 6 aircraft on order with Airbus which will cost them something in the region of $300 million over the next few years (which they'll probably fund with a sale/leaseback arrangement with an aircraft leasing company because another IPO wouldn't even scratch the surface...)

Those figures give you an indication of why it's easy to get the economics of a startup airline wrong. Imagine Silicon Valley working on those numbers!
I really dont like the ongoing "tutorial" style BS between levels. It wastes a lot of time and to me adds zero value to the game. So much so I might stop playing it.
I will argue they've already proven themselves wrong. Nokia has differentiated itself through hardware quite well - the 1020 takes better pictures than any smartphone on the market.

There's a reason why all the Lumia commercials have focused on hardware rather than software. The technical merits of Windows Phone 8 aside, it doesn't seem to have much consumer appeal compared to iOS or Android.
Just some background, this is by Mencius Moldbug, a.k.a. Curtis Yarvin, a.k.a. C. Guy Yarvin of Unqualified Reservations fame. It's been in the works for a long time and is certainly a serious project.

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-f...

http://moronlab.blogspot.com/
While I wish Google would stop doing this, for now there are extensions that will replace the URLs in search results with the actual ones.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undirect/dohbiijnj...
Yes I cannot wait.

I recently started trying to learn some basic C/C++. My usual initial step in setting up an environment for a new language is to google "intellij plugin for X", so I was very disappointed to find that C/C++ is very poorly supported with respect to most other mainstream languages.

I ended up having to go with Visual Studio, which is also impressive, but there are features I miss coming from the Jetbrains world.
Cool! I did the `Session.prepare_request` change [1] and found the project maintainers extremely helpful and patient in discussing the best way to go about it as I stumbled around. It's a good codebase and an awesome library.

[1] https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/pull/1507
I think people are compelled to act certain ways in certain environments. I wouldn't say the same things to my family as I would to my friends and vice-versa. If you're in a cesspool, you're not afraid to throw shit because everyone's already subsumed in it.
So it's kind of like freedom of the press then? You have freedom of the press as long as you own one.
Microsoft unveils Surface Music Kit
HTML5 belt buckle
My friend has PTSD from his tour in Afghanistan and he has an emotional support dog. He's one tough mofo but the dog helps him from having panic attacks and becoming a "normal" person again.
What is going on with NIST’s SHA-3?
Process, management, de-empowerment, hiring B people.
I really understand that, but maybe they should tell the users whats going on, because they say that they dont register your IP and dont submit your information to 3rd parties.

As far as I understand, the problem is that in the request for ads they leak (want it or not) your IP and then google knows where you are.

I find this some kind of awkward because they clearly say in the page "Startpage does NOT record your IP address !"

I think that if it is a bug, they should fix it, if it isn't they should tell you about it.

We all know that we don't know what any sevice does with the data we submit (hence the need for tools like Tor) but anyway, I feel something is wrong with this.
Good comment, thanks. And appreciate the connection with professional networking.

As a young engineer, it was very hard for me to come to understand the value of building my network. I guess when there's so many horrible 'networking' events out there (just like 'bad' marketing), it takes some time for one to overcome an adverse knee-jerk reaction and really apprehend the value.
yeah much better. Momentum has a positive connotation. Again, very cool project!
>At Google, you better believe that when search changes are made - those changes are ran through a test to see if they have a positive or negative effect on revenues and profits - aka Ad clicks.

This is absolutely false, and I wish people would stop repeating it. Google does not make ranking decisions based on revenue. We don't even collect that data for making ranking launch decisions.
Ruby devs don't understand the need for interfaces or type-hinting either, so this doesn't surprise me. But then they go and try to make fun of PHP.
I really enjoyed reading this + a some of the pages.

Very mindbending, got up to watching the video.

Am thinking it looks like it could be quite fast, I guess it would make sense to implement something like ContextFree in it as a start.
Out of curiosity, can you explain why you created the community edition for PyCharm, but not others?
The underlying issue is with Python 2.x (which is feature frozen and won't get SNI support) but apparently Requests can support SNI if you install PyOpenSSL, ndg-httpsclien and pyasn1

ref: https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/363564610492063744
Whenever someone cites some amazing-but-unpopular book they read -- and I then find out that it was published in the 1950s-80s -- I throw my hands up and try to forget the book existed.

No e-book version exists, so I can't start reading it right then; and my local library would, at best, have to order it in (since it wasn't very popular in its time) so I likely can't start reading it for a few days. I might be able to order it from Amazon/eBay, but that's a high toll for something that I'm not sure has any value at all yet (this is the same reason iOS apps are legitimately "valued" at $0.99 -- value illegibility between "this is awesome" and "this is worthless", with no try-before-you-buy.)

I sometimes dream of starting a company that does something similar to Google Books -- scanning+OCRing books to put them online -- but for in-copyright works: creating beautiful eBooks from them, and then, instead of posting them publicly, offering the book's original copyright-holder a deal to become their digital sublicencee, with no additional work or cost on their part. This company would then offer free TOC + chapter samples, an area where the original author could submit errata, an option of subscription-pricing rather than by-book pricing, all that other good stuff.
That looks interesting. Do you have plans for a way to filter data before it arrives in your system for security/regulatory reasons? How does it handle PII?
I think Randall Munroe did a pretty great job with reddit's 'best' comment ranking[1]. Hopefully youtube will be using something similar.

1: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...
This is hardly news. The Air Force recently ran out of the old F-4 Phantoms we used to use for target practice, so they've moved on to converting the aging (and plentiful) F-16 fleet. That's all.
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