skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite SCPs: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-988

Spoiler (including why it's related to your post) since I think it's easy to miss what this is: Vg'f n obk gung, jura bcrarq, qrfgeblf gur havirefr. Fvapr nccneragyl guvf obk yvirf va n znal-jbeyqf havirefr, vg'f onfvpnyyl n havirefr-fpnyr Dhnaghz Fhvpvqr qrivpr.

http://www.rot13.com/index.php , for your convenience.
Thanks! Let's get waffles!
This is what happens when you drop a computer into a bathtub
Goodbye Silverlight, hello HTML5: our experience rebuilding RavenDB Studio
Indeed, facepalm is all there is to do...
Hosting, I will ask Revenue for a ruling and a clarification.
World is a big place and in some areas (like mine) all the services you mentioned aren't popular at all. I doubt 1% of communication happens through them.
People around use gtalk and facebook messanger. They used to use GG (Polish product, some time ago most popular here) and Skype but most of them switched to either gtalk or fb.
Maybe you don't see complaining because services you mentioned didn't come about as replacement for traditional chat clients integrating most important features of those only to get rid of all this in one go once the user base switched.
6 months is a decent starting point for one-size-fits-all advice, which is why it is the standard context-free recommendation, but I honestly think there are circumstances where you can skimp on it.

For example, in the totality of your personal situation, you might have:

+ multiple independent sources of income
+ insurance against common forms of risk (e.g. very good health or occupational coverage)
+ strong non-market safety nets, either via your government or social network
+ better than average marketability of your skills
+ a lifestyle which was amenable to belt-tightening in the event of an emergency
+ access to credit which would survive events likely to cause a hit to your income

I appreciate that there is a wide range of the risk tolerance spectrum represented on HN, and I'm probably towards the "I'd prefer more consistent, smaller returns" side of it, but there are many people for whom six months of savings is underbuying risk given their positioning and preferences.
I'd be curious as to what this would likely mean for an employee of Braintree (or Venmo) holding, say, a 0.25 to 1.5 precent equity slice (or option).

Note that I'm not asking anyone from either of those companies to leak, here. Just that I'd be curious what the payout (if any) would likely be in this scenario, drawing on past models.
When I scored my first job out of school, I moved out into a tiny apartment in downtown Toronto—walking distance from the office. I managed to save about half of my after-tax income for a year and a half which came out to $26k.

No car, no family to support, no travel, no expensive purchases (I remember deliberating for weeks about buying an iPod Nano). Doubt I could have done it with a family to support and multiple cars.

I did have immediately family as a safety net but I covered my own expenses for whatever I needed after moving out, with the exception of a few meals here and there.
I had about my annual salary minus taxes in savings. I also had 2 or 3 contracting gigs lined up.

In addition to all of that, I had zero debt.
Firefox: Unload inactive tabs, save effecitvely resources.
Is This The World's Coolest Desk?
Announcing general availability of Windows Azure multi factor authentication
Right now, I'm working on a pet project. I hope to target PC, Linux and Steam. I've seen all the statistics concerning the various platforms. iOS isn't compelling, as the average selling price (among paid apps) is quite low, and median revenue for iOS developers is abysmal (http://maniacdev.com/2011/10/survey-says-median-ios-game-rev...). Android is worse.

Take a company like Mojang, obviously an outlier, but they sell a popular app on PC, Xbox, and mobile. Their financials are somewhat public, and their all-time mobile sales are around 1 quarter of their yearly salves... And of course, they became a hit on PC. They also do twice the yearly revenue as Rovio.

When I was thinking closed and oppressive, I was thinking vs. PC/Linux (you can distribute your app through many channels), so you're right that Steam, XBL and PSN aren't very open, but they're becoming more open.

As a player, a decent iOS gaming device (iPad retina) costs more than a PS4 will cost at launch. Apple's not going to put out an Ouya competitor, the internals they put in the iPhone 5S would put them in the same price range as the PS4 for vastly inferior hardware.
You would be looking for either an IRC bouncer or something like Kandan http://kandanapp.com/

Cheers
I do think though, a lot of this will depend on the code, and how complicated his site actually is (doesn't seem too crazy complicated though). I think this is more of a developer market fit/social question.
More the catastrophic portion. Is Man affecting climate? Sure. So are ants. Probably less so. Does Man have a good track record predicting what his effects are? No. Do we currently appear to be on a catastrophic course? No.
This is really superb! I really like the functionality, this is very impressive.
Sorry for the mocking tone -- I edited my original comment. It's easy to forget people are in very different environments and that affects our perspective.

If you're still thinking of gchat as a desktop AOL Instant Messenger replacement then I can see that products that seem to operate that way are disappearing. The way people are using chat products is changing drastically due to mobile. I would say AOL-style chat isn't going away because Google killed the competition -- rather I think demand for those style systems is just dwindling in favor of multi-platform, multi-modality, multi-party chat clients (picture/text/video, desktop/tablet/mobile).
I just wanted to say that Joe Kraus did an awesome job at keeping my attention and presenting his ideas. It is extremely odd how much people rely on phones, but I think it's deeper that that and it's actually the internet that is the fundamental issue. Yes, it's a great resource; it's a great source of entertainment, knowledge and potential power. But for something that could be described as intangible it seems to be quite detrimental to us as a society.
How does iTunes do it? They're doing $0.99 payments all the time.
Tell that to my customers in EU who see 23% higher prices than nonEU, doing vat calculations and returns also adds time to my already busy workload.

It is also misleading and annoys customers when you show prices exVAT, it is you who gets blamed for this tax not the government or EU

Most of the competition who are outside of the EU dont have to worry about this VAT shit and can have lower prices hence shown to endusers
When I started college in 2008 I remember almost always being able to talk a cute girl or at least another person on the bus.

When I finished in 2013 (switched majors and studied in France so 5 years it was) that happened incredibly rarely. It's hard to talk to someone when they have head phones in or are buried in some sort of game and almost every single person had their headphones in.

Even a book I can casually ask what some one is reading when they look up.

No smart phone for me thank you kindly. Even when I hang out with friends I occasionally experience moments where everyone but me is just staring at their phones. Then I wonder why I'm hanging out there. It's weird.
That is very true. Also, bay trail still won a lot of benchmarks on said page.

I cannot shake the feeling through, that while bay trail is competitive and will be very interesting for many purposes (looking forward to getting a small home server based around the new atoms) - it needs to truly trounce arm to initiate an industry change.
Include potential health issues in your unexpected issues if that's possibly calculable for you.
I pay $30/month in the US for a t-mobile month-to-month sim with 5gb data (soft cap), unlimited texts and 100 minutes on my nexus 4
Same boat here.
Recursive Google suggestion is recursive
Reveal.js is great.

Up until recently, I was putting slides together using Google Docs (ugh!), and thought there had to be a different way so I started looking around. Reveal.js looked the best to me, but I wanted two things:

1) It running on a server reading new slideshows automatically, and

2) To write the slides in pure markdown (like how some others use `---` for slide separation).

I ended up hacking together a quick Erlang-based slideshow server called Sliderl[1] that lists all slideshows (showing a quick preview of the first slide), and has a simple text-search. And of course, all the slideshows are rendered with Reveal.js.

1) Make sure Erlang is installed

2) clone the repo

3) put your slideshows in its "slideshow/" directory (slideshows must end with .markdown)

4) make

5) make run

6) Open browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000

I suppose it's simple if you have Erlang installed already, but if you don't have Erlang installed, you probably don't want to install it just to show some slides. A running example with some of my slide decks is at http://slides.sigma-star.com/

[1] https://github.com/choptastic/sliderl
This is great, although a small part of me can't help but remember that we used to be able to do this kind of thing in Visual Basic in the early 90s (and I don't doubt that someone will trump me with an example from a decade earlier at least). Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, I guess.
Hey this is pretty cool. Not having to use additional screen share software is nice.
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People don't want to move to mass transit because it sucks. During rush hour it only takes me 25 minutes to drive to work. If I took the bus it takes 2 hours. You will never get me to give up my car with times like that.
Eulers Disc [YouTube]
You may want to look into machine learning/data analysis/inferential statistics.

I'm also a web developer. I do both front-end (Angular etc.) and back-end (Django) work. I enjoy my work, so I'm not looking at a career change at the moment. However, I do not still want to be writing CRUD apps when I turn 30. To that end, I'm planning to learn about data analysis and machine learning over the next few years. I believe it's a useful skill that will always be in demand in business, even after the current "Big Data" hype dies down.

I don't think this is something I can pick up in a few months' time. My current estimate is 2-3 years until I reach a reasonable level of competency.
'Big Bang Theory' secret weapon? The real-life science guy
My understanding is that refinements are more of a limitation of existing monkeypatching functionality though. Like before, if you needed to monkeypatch something, you had to re-define the method system-wide. This seems like it allows you to have the monkeypatch only apply in the modules that you need it to, and to define it with a special refine keyword that's easy to search for.

Then again, many of the major gems that I've worked with so far define methods in various dynamic ways, making it challenging to figure out what code it's actually running. Hello ActiveRecord?
From my understanding fuel cells are already in some limited use in Africa. At a VMWorld partners conference several years ago I spoke to a South African guy working for Wyse and he said that they had a bunch of small installations powered by fuel cells.
Numbers can be described, as they are throughout the thread, in multiples of monthly expenses or other types of scales.
One reason I've seen these projects (take an existing system and make it work well) fail to gain traction is an unstated lack of faith in the people pushing for refactoring. In my experience this often comes from others having been burned by their prior proposed projects, where they've wasted 6 months doing self-indulgent refactoring that went nowhere or introduced bugs or made it hard for the rest of the team to contribute because of a bunch of new abstractions "to make the system flexible and generalized". The same people who care about code quality enough to argue for a cleanup project sometimes go overboard and burn their credibility. Unfortunately the right mix of judgment is hard to evaluate in any sense that isn't super-context-dependent.
Being on the low end of computing power, every time I see a reveal.js based presentation I cringe. I'm not embracing the trend for fancy transition in presentation, content first I guess. Maybe there are ways to gracefully degrade slides to avoid lagging ?
WAL-E and Continuous Protection with Heroku Postgres
Most financial planners usually say to build the 6 months before anything else - since if shit hits the fan you're likely to dip into your retirement which has penalties if you're pulling some out early.
Spot on - yes you have.
Ford acquires Livio
Ancient Chompers Were Healthier Than Ours
It's subsidised in that they are fronting you the money.

My wife has about £100/month disposable income and pays about £30/month for her handset and contract. When her renewal comes around she can buy the handset for, say £400. Apart from to get that £400 she needs to go without beer and eating out and new shoes for 4 months (never going to happen). Or make do with less for, say, a year (very unlikely given she doesn't really care enough about handsets).

Her alternatives are to take the contract and handset bundle or to buy the handset on credit. Assuming she takes a SIM-only plan like mine (£13/month with limits I've never exceeded) that leaves her with £17/month to pay off the credit on £400. I've not done the figures but I'd say that probably works out at around two years - so it doesn't really give her any advantage beyond avoiding lock-in; which she'll only care about if we change country (remember she's not really bothered about handsets)

Which is all a long way of saying that many people's priorities aren't the same as ours (by which I mean frequenters of Hacker News) - which alters the equation and makes buying off-contract less appealing than getting everything up-front and paying for it over time.

Edit: typos
Wildcard EV certificates supported by major browsers
This is handy and extends S3's use case by making two-way sync straightforward. My long-term storage is in Amazon Glacier; I wonder how much effort it would take to extend this and make a straightforward process to pull the data from Glacier, sync with S3 and then push back to Glacier.
> In general, we deserve to have more decentralised services that are built on the principle of 'privacy by design', rather than 'trust by design'

What do you mean by this? And how would this prevent a similar bug in the future?
Did you bother to read the parent? It explicitly said Al Gore should "stop trying to profit off of AGW," which has tragically little to do with an article about geo-engineering.

What's the point of implying that climate change is just a scam to pad people's banks accounts?
I actually thought that Shanghai was the best one. Unlike on iOS 7, nothing is centred in the other icons.
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Yes, that's my algorithm.
Eulogy for a horse
Isn't there something approaching the Acid2/3 test for graphics drivers? It seems like the popularity of the Acid tests was beneficial for the browser ecosystem...it was an easy and standard thing to point to.
Dear Random Follower, Please Don't Kill Me
Yelp UX Teardown: Driving More Reviews
I recently bought a Biolite. It's a really great product and I love it, but you are right, it isn't the lightest things. I think it's perfect for those shorter trips where weight doesn't matter as much. However, it won't fully replace a good gas/gasoline stove.
I think cannibalizing retirement (by significantly reducing how much you save) temporarily is the way to go.

If you make that decision, it also makes it easier because it reduces the amount of money you would need for six months expenses. If you're low on cash, you're less likely to put money into retirement savings anyway (since if it takes too long to get more revenue, you'd have to pay fees to make use of that same retirement money.)
The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid
Allow me to disagree (after all, you don't drive). Driving becomes subconscious after a short time, something most drivers can confirm, and the driving environment is actually less stimulating than walking. I would bet "subconscious walking" or "subconscious cycling" is a much less common thing, due to the larger number of distractions/unexpectedness.

Quick test: it's easier to concentrate for lengths of time listening to the radio when in the car than when walking.
It won't be a bad investment when some aliens come to visit. At least they won't think we're that stupid.
It's probably to stop people from importing cheaper devices from other regions. Samsung wants the flexibility to price devices differently by region/market and that doesn't work if the consumer can import the cheapest one instead. This will probably continue to escalate because the way the market is heading prices have to get lower in expanding/poorer markets while customers in established/wealthier markets are willing to pay more. This is a side effect of trying to win the race to the bottom on price.
This really puts a damper on my excitement for the Nexus 5 (or whatever it will be called). I hear that it will be running an Adreno GPU. On the other hand, I guess it is going to be rough no matter what option you pick in the mobile world.
Trusted Computing (2005)
I used SVN for years without understanding it and that caused me to get weird merge errors I never managed to figure out. Git on the other hand I understood after a few weeks of using it.

Since I failed to understand SVN after years of use I would say it is more complex.
US Startups heat map based on Twitter activity
Actually you do. Tell me again why I can't delete either Game Center, Stocks or other stock Apple apps on the iPhone.
I'm going to get one so I can carry coal instead of batteries.
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How do I apply? I have subscribed to the list. Am I supposed to wait for you to contact me?
Probably best to serve your public/static content on a cookie-less domain, so your session cookie is not sent on those requests.
What are the pros and cons of using s3sync versus s3cmd?
You will get a full explanation, under NDA, if you're a paying customer. For the rest of the people you're getting some PR-filtered bullshit.

I said it before and will say it again: Stay away from proprietary protocols like Hangouts.
shrug

I guess so. I'm not sure they have as much leverage as Apple did with the iPhone. (Fun aside: Verizon was Apple's first choice for a launch carrier, but Verizon balked at the level of control they wanted over the device. Well, that and the cut of the monthly data plan fee.)
iOS Is For Revenue, Android is For Ads
Which is exactly what I'll be doing - learning. I've made Android applications (some are in the Play store), but iOS and Objective-C is something I want to learn now.
> Isn't this a required truth of evolution (not necessarily these animals, but the concept) - that humans and centipedes (or sharks, or dogs, or pigeons, or mushrooms, etc.) all have a common ancestor if you could trace evolution with perfect accuracy back to the beginning of time?

No, its not a "required truth of evolution". Evolution works just fine if you have life arising independently in multiple places.

Universal common descent was among the hypotheses Darwin proposed in The Origin of Species, but its certainly been challenged many times without the basics of evolution being challenged; I think it is part of the current scientific consensus based on the available evidence, but its not at all necessary to evolution.
Upvoted because others downvoted this. Just because you are not happy with the truthiness captured by the comment is not a reason to downvote it.
I had almost a year worth of normal income stashed away. Plus my wife's income was also coming in. To be honest that was a really conservative move and not really required. I made a pretty comfortable amount plus had some pretty large side web jobs I helped build up my savings. It was a lot of after hours working though.

Pretty ironic to be talking about this today, because this is a year to the day I left my day job. I still can say it was the best thing I ever did.
That very specific thing? No.

Or the more general case of allowing carriers to mandate restrictions that Apple do certain things that provide a poorer experience? Of course.
Mali has a different architecture than desktop GPUs, so glClear generally isn't implemented as a clear op (or drawing two triangles that cover the viewport, etc). It clears out all of the commands that were previously scheduled for that target.

But yeah, the Mali driver has various performance quirks and oddities (there used to be a lot of weird stuff around how you updated index buffers too).
I don't care a lot about the deeper artistic value of this all, but I haven't seen anyone deny that this design is very polarising. Much more so than the visual style that has been used in previous WWDC slides.

The question remains whether a polarising design makes sense for things like developer sessions, or Apple's "iOS for businesses" website a while ago. If not, then it might technically be good design, but used in the wrong context.
The problem is with bundling. Carriers should be forbidden to bundle phones and plans long time ago.
It's antitrust issue and a big one. Microsoft faced trouble for bundling their browser with operating system which you could easily replace with any other one while carriers are forcing phone manufacturers to accept ridiculous terms (unless they are Apple or recently Google) and customers have no way uninstall all the crapware.
Nothing. I was forced to figure it out quickly or go back to school.
Tegras are actually pretty good - their fillrate isn't as high as some of the competition, but their overall global performance is impressive.

(just to be clear, I'm just saying that the mobile space doesn't have to be horrible, so the adreno doesn't really have that as an excuse).