skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from Nepal. The irony in all this is that we Nepalese will keep flying the Qatar Airways. The Nepalese airlines, a state-owned corporation, used to have regular flights to many busy destinations like Frankfurt. But like with everything that has happened in Nepal for the last 10-15 years, this has gone downhill.

Qatar bribed many Football Associations in FIFA to get this world cup bid. One of them was Nepal. The Nepalese FA's president is in good terms with the Qatari FA, and was apparently given nice kickbacks for voting in their favor.
Web Promotion India
As I said:

> I have been able to find a few references to "black gold" meaning slaves

I am not claiming that no one has ever used the term to mean slaves.

What I am disputing is (1) your claim that in the 19th and 20th centuries the term was popular with this main meaning, and (2) your claim that it had anything to do with Islam.

On #1, I find that the term was extremely rare until it started being used to describe oil in the 20th century.

On #2, note that the slavers mentioned in your particular links were all Western European or American. Guess how many of them were Muslims? I'm thinking the answer is somewhere between "exactly zero" and "zero to within statistical sampling error".
I heard that they ditched the fit-to-width feature (ctrl-F11), do you know if this is true?

It's one of those features other browsers simply do not have (Opera has a couple more but this one's pretty unique) that I really do use several times a day, and I'm not "upgrading" until I know they won't take that away.

Not that it matters too much, features or not, I'm thinking to switch to Firefox because these are times no longer to be using closed-source software.
I absolutely agreed that writing high quality, maintainable tests is hard (in fact, I say so in the article). My point is really that the way testing is discussed, particularly in the Ruby community, makes testing seem more complicated than it is, and I think puts some people off.
Thats ok. I'm pretty sure they won't exist for much longer now anyhow.
Considering that I'm almost thirty and still don't have a drivers license, simply because it overloads me with multitasking issues (looking around, steering, the mess that is changing gears, all the other knobs) yet have succesfully been combining walking with all kinds of activities since a very early age, I respectfully disagree.

EDIT: Although the points raised by others about cars providing a nice isolated comfortable environment makes a lot of sense as well. I guess it all depends.
I loved VLC, but since I've started using Daum PotPlayer I just can't go back :\

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PotPlayer
Maybe it's because the CEO of braintree is called "Bill Ready". Heh.
Anyone got stats on the acquisition split between owning parties (founders/investors/employees)?
It would be neat if the algorithm found the most illustrative solution for each case (e.g. maximizing minimal distance in each state). Especially the Arkansas one is obviously the edge case.
Another pretty good one: https://github.com/will

Via http://bd808.com/blog/2013/04/17/hacking-github-contribution...
140 chars not enough for complex thoughts - emphasis on applause buttons over reasoned discussion. But, it's addictive - social validation.
Airquotes: Automatic quote generator for a T-shirt website using AngularJS
I think that was kind of the point.
Imagine how upset they'll be when they thought they were buying Braintree, but got some guy called Brian's tree.
Is Gravity Skeuomorphic?: And Other Thoughts on Transitioning to iOS7
Depends on where you live - I grew up in the countryside of the Netherlans, which has excellent biking infrastructure, almost no traffic, and a calm environment in general. Biking to and from school every day was very good for my mind.
I recently decided to become a proper developer and started looking into testing, I'm almost through with "Laravel Testing Decoded", a book by Jeffrey Way, it focuses on Laravel but contains a wealth of information relating to testing in general. The book has given me a lot more value than I got out of any other resource that covered testing. Highly recommended and only $20: https://leanpub.com/laravel-testing-decoded
Congrats to Stripe for all the new users!
It doesn't take a few months, you can just change the date on your computer when you commit. There is a script somewhere that will fill your activity with Nintendo characters.
You forget to mention that they are "per site" preferences.

But wtf they removed this too?? What is wrong with those people?
Don't forget Vimium for Chrome: http://vimium.github.io
> Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit

Why do you think this is? Do you really believe these efforts are not being taken by every major world covert agency?
It appears Mr Brian Tree is actually an actor - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871672/
> I can understand why they switched and focused on value added features.

But they didn't. They just dropped the browser engine.
Um, I don't know about you, but I like how VLC "just works", is extremely portable, and I'm very uncomfortable with codec packs, they have a tendency to screw up video and audio playback and are often quite bloated. (Plus I like free software)

So I don't see a problem with VLC.
It looks like a 'shurtle': The product of breeding a shark with a turtle.

I can see the ad campaign right there: "Darwin's Whiskey, one night stands before it was cool". Or "Influencing evolution since way back". (With a picture of a shark and a turtle the morning after, with a "What have I done" expression).
It is possible for a 140 character message (tweet) to be "mind blowing", that's the reason twitter is so popular, isnt it ?
The "Spring farewell day" ... on June 29th?

Yep, sounds like a Russian holiday alright :)

The context is that it's the oldest inside Russian joke to make up random occassions when drinking. You feel like having a drink, but can't justify it - no problem, drink to the revitalizing power of parsley or to bid spring farewell or something as silly.
Nope, there's no way around it. Tests are not easy.
But! Writing tests, learning from that, then improving your tests, which in turn help you design better software will make writing tests easier. And will help you write better code, in general.

Also, 99% of the time, the first test you are going to write in a job is for an existing piece of software. So it will definitely not be easy. But you will learn so much more about the software you are writing the test against rather than writing code in the edit-and-pray methodology.

I highly recommend reading http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guide...
Ooh, I've been wanting to make an iOS app for something for a while now. This should be a nice easy thing to sink my teeth into.
The poster you replied to is saying that the "contributions" were created solely for the purpose of making a pretty contribution graph; they're not actually legitimate (code, issue, etc.) contributions to an actual project.
On Linux 0.01 (10/30/93 1:00:00 AM) I see the following:

jne cur2	/* check for ctrl-alt-del */

During years I've been working on shared KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) devices, where windows sysadmins did press ctrl+alt+delete as first step, to wake up the monitor from sleep.

If you had bad luck and the KVM was in the wrong port... boom!

I did learn to disable this feature the hard way.
Do people understand that iPads and iPhones are MIDI compatible through the lightning to USB kit? (CCK before that)

The number of peripherals, corded and Bluetooth that work with the iPad are staggering because of this. Look at the Queneo, the new novation series, the Qunexus, the new Numark controller... And most importantly the software is there to utilize these control surfaces. Akai made a case like this for the ipad two years ago...

So good for Microsoft for launching this, but show me the software and the specs.
Has anyone ever addressed focal distance? Constantly refocusing my eyes from road distance to display distance is going to cause fatigue much sooner in addition to decreased safety due to lack of attention on the road.
This has put me off of Braintree and on to Stripe, but not for the reasons you might suspect. You see, I still want to take PayPal payments from my customers who prefer it. But it doesn't seem like a good business to have all my eggs in one basket, and using a competing payment system gives me the ability to switch PayPal off if they try any shenanigans.
3 Things Your Customers Want You to Tell Them
If there were ever one guy that deserved the Nobel's Peace Prize, it would have been him!
There's actually two photons involved, not just one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%E2%80%93positron_annih...

(If there were just one produced by annihilation, you'd have great difficultly satisfying conservation of momentum and having that photon move at the speed of c (when looking in the center-of-mass frame).)
Random WTF (Insfw)
Usually encountering problem and not solving it almost instantly, I switch to something else, switch off from original problem, come back few minutes later, either fix it instantly or go away again.

Stop thinking about thinking, that is one of greatest issues.
I also find cycling to and from work helps process the day. Cycling forces you into the now, you have to deal with the reality of situations around you. My theory is a that this has some similarities to sleep in that it frees up the brain to perform that clever thing it does that makes you smarter. Probably.
Hah. 503 people in space. I must be the only one who finds that funny.
I'm using it for modeling videogame prototypes in logic, and then deriving properties of them, aimed at providing richer design support: http://www.kmjn.org/publications/Playtesting_AIIDE09-abstrac...

The longer-term goal is something CAD-like, where you get immediate feedback on design changes, analogous to how architectural CAD systems will highlight things like "lacking structural support" or "violates building code". With games simple versions could be "unreachable areas", "item never needed", etc. More involved versions could be generation of basically the kind of log data you would get from playtesting, only instead of empirical log data, it's analytically generated logs of possible playthroughs exhibiting requested properties: http://www.kmjn.org/notes/analytical_metrics.html

Many of the above can also be done with software-verification systems, which in some cases might be a better choice for efficiency reasons. However, the stuff coming out of the AI community is a lot more flexible as a modeling language, feels less like writing a fixed specification. It's also designed to be editable, e.g. you can add or remove game mechanics without re-formalizing the whole domain (a property John McCarthy calls "elaboration tolerance"), due to being based on a nonmonotonic logic. I was also already familiar with Prolog, and ASP's syntax is heavily modeled on Prolog's, even though they work entirely differently under the hood.

As far as getting started with it, the Potassco people have a pretty good book: http://potassco.sourceforge.net/book.html

As a much shorter way in, a colleague of mine wrote a tutorial on using ASP for generating game maps that are guaranteed to have certain properties: http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu/2011/10/map-generation-speedrun/
Aha it has gone down. This proves most of site which come on front page of HN go down with ease due to heavy traffic !
Looks like Braintree will have to change all their "we're not PayPal!" marketing now.
Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve
Just one of those observations:

A while ago, could be 3 or so years, I was in my local fish and chip shop. For those who don't know, there are small take away food shops in the UK (and I guess else where) and generally you wander up, order your food, then usually wait a few minutes while your order is put together or cooked. 10 mins or so. (I like the wait because usually it means my food is being cooked fresh.)

Usually I stand to the side waiting, and just gaze around, usually at the world going by out side the window. Normally the customers are not just one off people, but a couples or a pair of friends, or a parent and kids, and so on. You know, a decent variety of however people come. Usually there is a bit of a buzz of conversation and what not.

This time, I looked up, and all 10 or so of the people waiting in the show were literally buried, absorbed in their smart phones, and the shop stood stark silence. The people on their own, the kids, the parents, the couples, the whole damn lot. The only sounds were of the people working in the shop preparing the food.

Usually when the food is cooked, the person behind the counter only needs to mention the beginning of the order and the right person usually snaps in to action to retrieved their food, and leave the shop. This time I noticed it took up to 3 or 4 attempts before the smart phone spell was broken and the person realized their food was ready.

And the weirdest thing was, as they came to, coming out of their smart phone spell, each and every one of them had that look of some one who had just woken up in the morning. Eyes blinking, rubbing eyes, the slow realization of where you are, what you are doing, what comes next, etc.

I found the whole thing incredible creepy.

And since then, I've seen it more and more. In fact, I have even been round people houses or in a pub, where there are a few people meeting up, and I've observed the exact same thing. Oh, add to that, railway stations, bus stops, and so on.

OK, smart phones are very, very useful. Great little devices. But Im not so sure about they way people use them. Seems to me there must be something socially damaging about over use. Its like having the kid who is (exaggerate to show the point time) 24/7 in his/her bedroom on their computer. Now its like that but we can take the computer everywhere. Yeah, we can isolate ourselves anywhere.
> I couldn't imagine going through life believing that this is all there is. IMO it would be a miserable and mundane existence if there was no purpose to life.

This realization is part of growing up for many people. One learns to deal with it and find happiness where one can.
Transport Tycoon Deluxe? That was a cool game!
nothing appropriate, gentoo and Im too lazy for fixing it (=^‥^=)
The most unisex names in US history
Can it update quickly enough to support the suborbital Virgin Galactic flights?
In the long run I suspect that this will be a huge win for Stripe.
Did they want Venmo for it's ability to make payments online, or to kill competition that lets people give/receive payments "for free".
And math is hard in general.
Yup, EeeNote. Sorry! It really was great, but it lost all use for me when Evernote sync was deprecated. The barrier to getting my files off became too high (move them to a microsd card, then move them to my computer with an adapter I always lose).
A few years ago when I was living in China I was told about this, but it never worked.

Then on a hunch I fired up my proxy and discovered that the Chinese government was actively censoring it.

WHY
Show HN: Quicktacts, an Android App to manage your temporary contacts
Wow, I was looking at Braintree when I found Stripe last year. I wanted something truly different from PayPal for my customers. Looks like I made the right call.
Awesome! I think you guys are going to be for Python what Eclipse was for Java about a decade ago. I'm a paying PyCharm customer, and I absolutely love it. The pace of development is excellent too.
The point being that testing simple things is simple?
I believe there are 2 Americans in space right now.

Speaking of space - in a restricted sense - there are around 2.3 million Americans in prison.
We were just about to add payments to our site, and Braintree was high on the list to checkout. Any other suggestions in addition to Stripe?

-edit-
This seems like a good list:
http://gatewayindex.spreedly.com
It's the "Public Contributions" graph that is being talked about.

The title is slightly misleading.
That's why I only code against Spreedly [1] instead of directly against any payment processor. One API instead of 53, switch processors just by changing a variable, and you can securely store customers' payment info without locking yourself into any processor's vaulting solution either.

1: https://spreedly.com/
I often enjoy Terry's writing as well.
Evolving the reddit alien logo using genetic algorithm in javascript
It's a bit of a shame that the link to AltaVista doesn't point to the search engine site. I think they did eventually get altavista.com (it redirects to Yahoo now) but the IA link given pre-dates that.
You should get it soon and get it out of your system. At first you will want all the apps. Then likely none or very few. And you may only end up using apps that help overcome the inefficiencies of our society until those "wasteful" outdated systems are replaced. We should tend toward no apps. Or put another way, "The best user interface is no user interface."
Nah, it's "pixel art" in the contributions graph ("Public Contributions" below the repo lists)
Braintree Teaming Up with PayPal
No, it's about the "Public Contributions" section where there are a bunch of green squares showing contributions over time. In this case, they spell out the word "hello", and there's part of a mushroom from Mario at the start as well.
I think that a good deal of that fear/anxiety comes from the fact that people are expected to be more productive. If someone doesn't respond to an email immediately, we think the are not working or are being lazy.

A quick but possibly meaningless e-mail response doesn't constitute productivity. The expectation you describe is just one of availability (or working), while ignoring productivity or presenting real solutions.
Yeah, and playing on Full HD since a while, while all the consoles out there rely on crappy upscaling to fake Full HD. It's been a while I did not take my Xbox360 or PS3 out. And I'm far from being convinced by the PS4 and XboxOne even after playing with them in the last week.
Greeting from Morocco :)
Not to nitpick, but the byzantine empire, seat of orthodox christianity for its first 1000 years, condoned slavery:

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674036116
If I were a young and enterprising lawyer (I am not, I am programmer), I would sell companies bullied by patent trolls legal defense for 90% of the sum being blackmailed.

Companies that "took advantage of this program" would be entitled to everything included legal defense in future demand arising from not yielding to the patent trolls.

Startups would only pay 90% of the extorted sum, and also have the advantage of not giving in and helping perpetuate the trolls' scheme.

I as a lawyer would earn a lot of income but would only have to defend in court a small number of app developers actually being sued.

I think something like this would work because what really intimidates small entrepreneurs is not losing the case in court, but just the onerous weight of fighting the case, no matter its outcome.

The community would benefit from patent trolls earning less money.

Finally, I know that there is a chance that patent trolls would litigate against each and every one refusing to give in. But in that case they would be DoSing themselves.
This is sure going to be very useful at times!
Thank you very much!!!
:)
Trying each of those today (the links on the site go to waybackmachine) -

Altavista.com: Redirects to yahoo.

Excite: still up

HotBot (boy there's one I haven't heard of in years): still up

InfoSeek: redirects to go.com, which appears to now host the site of Disney's holding company.

Deja.com (which I think I remember): redirects to google groups

Yahoo: still up

Amazon: still up

dmoz.org: still up

egroups: redirects to yahoo groups
Islam absolutely contains a set of laws. For the Muslim, you cannot have the religion without the law. Even in countries where Islam is the minority, disputes between Muslims are settled by a community Islamic court...
I would argue technology has made it more obvious.
Three Paradoxes of Big Data
I can't see how “Braintree is a perfect fit with PayPal”, they're clearly in direct competition (http://www.quora.com/Which-is-better-as-a-payment-solution-B...).

Although, perhaps eBay has solved its Innovator's Dilemma. They seem to be cannibalizing their own sales through this acquisition.
Why do we so seldom see people smiling in painted portraits?
He was insinuating the reply will be the same.
Yup. "testing" is sometimes mythologized as this huge, complicated, complex thing. And it is. But it's also really, really easy. As the post says, fundamentally, you do something, then see if it did it right. That's it. Everything else builds from there.
I'm not sure this point really gets through. The way the article read to me was "Testing is simple and easy (1)"

1: small print - writing good tests is hard

I could likewise argue that "writing code is simple and easy, but writing good code is hard", but this statement has little value in itself. It seems more an argument against using complex testing frameworks and going for simpler syntax. As a fan of Nose, I absolutely agree.
Expedition 37 with a crew of 6 are in space right now. 2 America, 3 Russian, 1 Italian. The last three launching Yesterday

"Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy to the International Space Station."

http://www.nasa.gov/content/expedition-37-soyuz-launch/#.UkQ...

Edit: CORRECTION this is the SECOND half of the Expedition 37 crew launching 25 September 2013, 20:58:50 UTC aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M. They are expected to return 12 March 2014. The other three were launched in may.
And Buckinghamshire.
It looks really nice! Im especially happy that the useless "chat services" integration in the top right corner is gone.

The thing that replaces it looks very nice and useful, sort of like the Control Center in iOS 7.

The thing that has made GNOME 3.x useable for me is the "Dash to Dock" extension, that makes the dash always visible on the left. This is useful for me because I like to always see it and use it to navigate my windows with the mouse. I dont much care that it wastes a bit of space, I dont like maximazied windows anyway.
I'm seeing '0'. That can't be right.
There are previous/next buttons on top of the elements documentation pages.
Sight, will there ever be a PayPal alternative?
I love Git, but I'm pretty sure there's no way to explain it simply.
Noisli - background noise and color generator ideal for working and relaxing.
The other end of this would be that splitting up from a co-founder (especially on less than great terms) is pretty much the same thing as getting a divorce, in terms of stress, hassle and potential emotional toll...
I wonder why the other HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6450149) got more traction that this one.

This one was posted 6 minutes before the other, after all.
Been around for a good while, but still awesome.

You should check out all his labs on http://hakim.se/

Be ware that most of the stuff there is just PoC and you may have some issues trying to adapt them, but the showcases are awesome :)
Media Capture in mobile browsers
22 Hours is the Average Time in which Malware Distributors Exploit News Events
You're just wasting all your battery life with having so many pixels you never ever see with your eyes on such small screens. Do you feel happy being manipulated by phones manufacturers Marketing?

I have a 22'' screen, FUll HD on my desktop and I never complain about it. Maybe you just have a crappy LCD one.