skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think our human desire for constant attention, feedback, approval, communication, collaboration, instant satisfaction, etc. has always been there. But now technology has caught up.

Perhaps though the pendulum will swing back the other way if technology enables us to get too much instant, constant attention?
My personally theory is, that this development has been going on for thousands of years. As we find better ways to deliver messages, e.g. horses, pigeons, telegraph, telephone, eMail, twitter, our time horizon has apparently been shrinking accordingly. Think about the cathedrals which took hundreds of years to build. The mindset that was required for such undertakings seems almost alien now.
Interestingly, the same could be said for the water company.
Is he seriously comparing himself with Picasso? I knew Mr Curtis thinks quite highly of himself, but this surprises me.

Just get off Twitter if you really feel this way, Mr. Curtis. It's not that hard.
Does anyone know why Chrome font rendering sucks so hard. It isn't just this site. Boss passes me a design to make and more often than not we have to reject the designers font choice because of terrible rendering.
I mostly agree but vehicles shields you from the environment which is nice too. I don't know how many people function this way but being in my own physical bubble makes my brain expand.
My main passion is Heavy Metal. As a consumer, I use Twitter to keep up to date with tours, releases, news by following bands and music media. I use it to interact with bands.

I also have a band which has a Twitter account which is used to keep people up to date as mentioned above, and I have a music blog twitter account which I use to review gigs etc...

I have a pretty good Metal Twitter list here if anyone is interested: https://twitter.com/ColinHugh/lists/metal-news
My problem with ultrabooks is what is intel doing with the brand. At first, ultrabooks were supposed to be laptops with good battery life, high-resolution IPS screen and a SSD. Also it should be thin, which I think is meaningless, but whatever.

However, it seems that this disappeared somewhere, and now laptop with 1366*786 15" TN screen and rotary storage (with a measly 16 GB "SSD cache" that does pretty much nothing to make it faster), but it is required to have Windows 8 and touchscreen.

The brand lost meaning, it went from "Apple quality from someone else than Apple" (so we can buy nice computer without supporting walled garden approach)
Oh wow, that's fun, I'm going to make everything drawable from now on! (but seriously, there's a children & technology centre website I will put this on :) :) )
> Business validation is optional and doesn't enhance the transport-layer security benefits of using SSL.

Except that SSL isn't just about transport-layer security, it's also about identity. The entire model of SSL breaks down if anyone can buy a certificate for anything.
What I wish people had told me before about this article:

- this article only deals with unit testing

- it does not help you write more maintainable tests

For the record, I don't think (unit) testing is simple. Tests are, in my experience, the least maintainable and readable part of a codebase. You often end up with many lines of setting up complex business objects. And usually, the only help wrt to what the hell is being tested is the method name. And that's just unit tests. Integration tests are a major pain, and often even harder to understand and maintain.
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> The CA system is totally flawed anyway

The flaw basically being that people aren't trustworthy, yes?

Do you have any alternatives? There's ssh's model, where you just hope it's the right certificate the first time; or maybe mob-source it like WoT?
If you're talking with someone, rather than at them, I think it would become apparent fairly quickly that they weren't really involved in the conversation.
For sure, it´s a eternal need of humankind to make things faster. In some ways, it can be good. But in other ones, it´s very bad. So our challenge right now is too start making better choices about what we should make faster and what we should make slower.

Building a bridge or finding the cure for the cancer needs to be faster. But talking with your son, chilling out and hanging out with friends?
Wouldn't that imply lots of missing links? Or are the vast majority of evolutionary, er, jumps known and understood?

My minor point was about a "missing link", in normal conversation it is used as though its one specific fundamental thing. Seems to me there are or would be many missing links.

Or, am I just pedantically reading far too much in to something that is a lose term and not a specific scientific thing? And now I think about it.....
"* Lack of parametric polymorphism means there's no useful higher-level functions like map, fold, etc."

This is one of my problems with Go, too. This will add line after line of repeated code in the long run. Time will tell.
So the solution would be an option to have it fixed or not.
If this were the case, anyone with manufacturing power can just monitor the USPTO for filings, create your product faster than you and release it to market months or years before your product gets there.
Careful or you will destroy all the social app crap that makes this website profitable.
I wonder if this isn't just a phase. We're just trying our new toys to the max until we give it a proper place.

I've almost completely stopped doing this (taking pics of everything, twittering, constantly checking my phone). It wasn't a conscious decision, and I'm not a particularly social or active person, it's not like suddenly rediscovered "living in the moment". Also, I'm still just as prone to look for constant distraction (hello HN...).

I just got bored with it. Bored with doing it myself, and bored with following everybody else.

I was an early adopter, and for me the novelty has worn off. Maybe that will start applying to the masses soon enough too.
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Your reply is technically correct, and yet also entirely false. It's of course true that the color is aswad. I was not talking about the color black being abd. It's just that in English people use the same word for black (the color) and black (the skin).

If it makes things more clear, abed means n-gger. Literally and figuratively.
Check out the Mouseless Browsing extension if you're using firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/mouseless-bro...

It's overkill to have it show the IDs all the time, so you can disable that and set a shortcut to toggle them on and off so you only get them when you want them.
> You're really just wasting your time with a "business validated" certificate. The browser doesn't treat it any differently

If your vendor doesn't do a decent job verifying who you are (and this may or may not mean EV), then browsers won't treat the certificate any differently when it's entirely replaced by someone else either.
really not worth the read
It's more than that: The Android app has no feedback at all. I have no idea even whether you're there or not. It's a complete clusterfuck, and orders of magnitude inferior to the old Google Talk app, which worked fantastically well.
Tree, yes much better term.

Although as a get out, I would try argue that in my head, even if not conveyed in my post, the the branches are sort of chains... Even then I can see that falling apart.

But yeah, over all, tree is much better.
I lived without a phone for 3 months.

It was like taking this barricade of social interaction away from me. I actually felt some anxiety over it at first.

Nowadays I just use my phone less, partly because I use Firefox OS, which is really stripped down version of what a smartphone can be. I'm happy that it yet does not have push notifications.
Thanks jb, awesome work by the vlc team - as always.

Could you maybe share some news on the status of the web plugin for the Mac?
One might consider as "transitional" those species that exist between stages of punctuated equilibrium (if you consider punctuated equilibrium valid).
Thanks for your detailed reply. It pretty much mirrors things I've heard elsewhere, it seems file sync is one issue in particular which can be slow and prone to errors, it is a shame as an all in one solution would be great.

Funnily enough I have both Baikal and BitTorrent Sync running on a Raspberry Pi (model B/512) and it is handling it surprisingly well, I even use it as a destination backup server for some VPS's and local computers (using duplicity). I just wish the Pi had more RAM as BTSync is a bit of a memory (and CPU) hog when you start to hae a lot of files involved, it is under strain. My compromise has been to tar a lot of folders I rarely access to cut down the number of individual files it needs to track, not ideal. I was thinking of buying one of the Intel Next Unit of Computing I think it is called, which is more powerful but still power effecient enough to be left on 24/7.
Not only an alternative. ClinkerHQ does so much more (and better) than atlassian svn that if we were at school the teacher would tell you off because you cannot add up carrots and sweet pears.
Maybe he has a thing for probes?
Probably you would, if you were orthodox or had close friends, which are.
There are a few still active or not : Gregarius, Lilina, TinTinyRSS, RSSLounge and the more recent selfoss from the same developper.
More generally you would search for new informations on the topic with something like "self hosted rss reader" in a search engine
Design Inspiration: 25 Designers to Follow on Twitter
Round up a list of 25 great designers to follow and interact with on Twitter.
PayPal Acquires Braintree for $800M
To round out your abilities I'd suggest BASH and Python.
Not to mention the fact that unit tests can only help with verification - i.e. that you have built the software to expectations and to catch regressions.

I would say that 90% of the grief I have experienced building applications is the validation part - that you are actually building the right thing.
Although I'm a believer in bootstrapped startups, I just hope that if AdCash raises capital they make it from European funds, and not foreign ones. Europe needs to considerably develop is own venture funds and funding resources, and that won't happen if capital comes from abroad.
Let me google that for you :
http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Tour.htm

The English colonist in the New World imported white indentured workers at first, but found there weren't enough of them. The Indians in the Americas refused to work or proved to be poorly fitted for long hours of hard labor. The Europeans found it easier and cheaper to import Africans as slaves. By the seventeenth century, the African slave trade was booming in the Americas. The slave dealers made so much money from their human cargoes that soon Africans came to be known as "black gold".

http://www.economist.com/node/21556890
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Slaves_were_called_black_gold._why...
http://www.unesco.org/bpi/eng/unescopress/2001/01-91e.shtml
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans...
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Thanks for the link! I'm happy to answer any questions about Draper or presenters as a strategy in Rails apps.
Command and Control[1] offers a comprehensive compendium of nuclear incidents if you're interested in more. It's quite remarkable that the US never faced an accidental nuclear detonation, despite the SAC, Air Force and Navy's bickering between themselves over control of them, and their refusal to fit safety devices until late in the war.

My favourite anecdote is the code on all warheads on the US' Minuteman fleet being set to 00000000 as an exercise in simultaneously conforming to and circumventing requirements for PALs (locks to forbid misuse).

[1] : http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/eric-schlosser-c...
"Islam isn't a system of laws"

Really ? Have you ever -even once- asked a muslim this ? Seriously ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharia
GNOME 3.8 does NOT depend on logind. That is optional. See https://blogs.gnome.org/ovitters/2013/09/25/gnome-and-logind... for a bit more detail. E.g. some features rely on systemd, so if you want those features you better run systemd.

Gentoo got this wrong and they prefer just depending on systemd to make life easier for them. However, I only expect GNOME to require logind (thus systemd) once we remove X support and only support Wayland. No idea how far off that is. For 3.12 the intention is to support both.
A Scientific Guide to Effectively Saying No
@samuelpepys is steadily posting the diary of Samuel Pepys - a famous diarist from the 17th century.
Immediately thought of the same Louis CK bit from Conan.

Pascal's quote is revealing and shows that this problem is by no means a recent invention. Though I would wager that new technology has made it much, much easier to quickly distract ourselves from idleness.
I cannot imagine a worse way to spend 3 months.
Finding a tech co-founder is like trying to get married
PayPal Acquires Braintree For $800M In Cash
Bill Gates interview at Harvard (2013)
I generally agree with this reasoning but this is not "flying", this is "flying with x airlines which dropped a plane once".

There are alternatives and one could choose a statistically safer one. There is obviously no guarantee. However, gtalk now has the highest likelihood of sending your messages to random people. That's a reason to avoid it.
As far as I know Chrome still uses GDI for its font rendering on Windows instead of the much better DirectWrite API. Firefox, IE10 and so on are using DirectWrite.
Nice! This is actually a lot better than the drawingboard!

Sad I didn't stumble upon it a few months ago while I was searching for something like this.
3D Printers Make Art for Future Robots
I'd like to have both available. Most other music players provide an option to shuffle the current playlist (which rearranges all the songs in a random order, and stay in that order)
And they provide a "random song" option where all the songs from your current playlist are played in a random order for ever.

VLC shuffles the playlist upon hitting the shuffle button and does not alter the order until shuffle is disabled and reenabled again. I'd like VLC to go through the whole playlist in a random order once, and when every song has been played instead of reusing the same pattern again, reshuffle.
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Heh http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/proxy?url=https://news.ycombina...
The mushroom is getting eaten!

It's a cool idea, although those were not "real" contributions:

https://github.com/Androguide/gitfity/commits?author=Androgu...

I imagine someone making significant commits to some big open source projects and after a few months say "oh by the way I spelled 'hello' on my github page". Badass.
> ... and Yahoo is stuck in another era.

To their credit, at least DES was all the way down at #3.
Zeno's arrow paradox for evolution? Interesting.
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I don't own or use a mobile phone and I can see all the behaviours of the people in the video in family and friends.

Without a mobile or any other source of external interruption, i enjoy every moment i have the chance to share with a friend (not that many, i'm afraid).

But i have to say, this life is not for everyone. Without a mobile, i'm outcasted of some kinds of interaction with society:

* Any social interaction made on the fly. For me, it's necessary to warn other people that they can't always change plans because they can't get in touch with me in certain moments.

* Any interaction with certain groups of people ("friends") that are using closed communication like Facebook or Whatsapp. (Whatsapp is probably the worst, since you can't have a account without a mobile, at all)

* Most of the interactions with potential sexual partners. No SMS or FB stalking, no attention. :P

* In some countries, a mobile (or a landline) is required to have a bank account (e.g. U.S.)
Unbelievable, and you get downvoted for this. Folks, you've all had ideas come to you in the shower, yes? The heat, the warmth, the isolation from all else tends to make it a great place to just relax and think.

Now imagine a mobile climate-controlled bubble with no noise but whatever you put on the radio or barring that, the constant background of rubber rolling across asphalt, and you get that same effect.
"I am a Christian simply because I believe there has to be something more to this life."

Why not be a Buddhist or believe in some other religion then? They also offer something that will make you feel comfortable with your belief; Christianity is nothing special or unique regard to some existence beyond your current life.

"I couldn't imagine going through life believing that this is all there is."

I couldn't disagree more. This precious life, even with it's ups and downs, is awesome!! And, as far as we know for certain - as it's happening right now - it's all we have. The fascination with a possible after- or next-life is a dangerous one that twists many people's actions and motivations.
Except the identity part is well and truly fucked and in serious need of redoing. It relies on trusted CAs, which has been shown is a bad idea, because some of the trusted CAs mismanaged their private keys or have been paid to or been coerced into giving out valid certificates to third parties, permitting them to impersonate websites.
The person making the decision didn't actually have to work on the thing for a hundred years. If you think of them buying their way into heaven - or making a show of how religious they were - then it's really just a long-term insurance scheme that someone else is going to go on to manage the complexities of for them. I'm not sure that's really any different to paying a pension company that manages part of it's liabilities via long-term bonds.
As a counter point, everyone I know is on Twitter and uses it actively, but very few are on Facebook.

In fact, we sat around a table earlier this year and were chatting about a piece of news that mentioned some exclusive content via Facebook, and realised that none of us had access. And that was fine by us, we don't really get what Facebook is for, and we just went back to talking and continued some of the conversations next day on Twitter.
this is a good example of how microsoft fail. they have actually fixed this problem - but their fear of changing anything because of the enormous community backlash means that this functionality is not the default. they are doing more with Windows 8 on the tablets, but the desktop version in the desktop mode is like Windows 7, which has its legacy from Windows Vista, and XP etc... which is why the icons are tiny and don't adjust to DPI without you changing your settings afaik.

My problem with Macs (i use one as my main dev platform at the moment) is that they unpolished features are extremely weak. As a technical person doing development work on a Mac its a constant headache vs. Windows - VS is ugly, but its much /much/ MUCH!! more functional than xcode (it has what... a 15 year headstart though?) even in areas where Apple traditionally excel - e.g. the tab interface in Xcode requires more, less intuitive, user actions than the equivalent feature in visual studio, and it doesn't allow side by side docking of the tabs (afaik).

The other thing about Apple and displays is that they cheat a little and use a very good color profile which is vaguely related to sRGB at best. Try calibrating an Apple monitor - its basically impossible in my experience, even if you use their 'sRGB' setting. On the other hand, my well calibrated HP monitor does look like garbage by comparison... this is also a problem for development, because most people not using a Mac or iPhone do not see what you see when you work on there...
I am from Nepal. Where did you get that information from? Nepal does not have exit visas the way Qatar has them. The one mentioned in Wikipedia article applies only when one (a Nepalese citizen) goes back to Nepal to get his H1 visa stamped.
"Braintree" not "Briantree"
And then every time that stuff changes, all the tests are suddenly out of date, which means people get used to the idea that failing tests are fine and fixed by updating the tests.
Funny that you mention that. You see islam has that exact story in it's holy books, but with a slightly different outcome :

Bukhari :: Book 6 :: Volume 60 :: Hadith 79
"The Jews brought to the Prophet a man and a woman from among them who had committed illegal sexual intercourse. The Prophet said to them, "How do you usually punish the one amongst you who has committed illegal sexual intercourse?" They replied, "We blacken their faces with coal and beat them," He said, "Don't you find the order of Ar-Rajm (i.e. stoning to death) in the Torah?" They replied, "We do not find anything in it." 'Abdullah bin Salam (after hearing this conversation) said to them. "You have told a lie! Bring here the Torah and recite it if you are truthful." (So the Jews brought the Torah). And the religious teacher who was teaching it to them, put his hand over the Verse of Ar-Rajm and started reading what was written above and below the place hidden with his hand, but he did not read the Verse of Ar-Rajm. 'Abdullah bin Salam removed his (i.e. the teacher's) hand from the Verse of Ar-Rajm and said, "What is this?" So when the Jews saw that Verse, they said, "This is the Verse of Ar-Rajm." So the Prophet ordered the two adulterers to be stoned to death, and they were stoned to death near the place where biers used to be placed near the Mosque. I saw her companion (i.e. the adulterer) bowing over her so as to protect her from the stones."

Let me repeat that last sentence: 'I saw her companion (i.e. the adulterer) bowing over her so as to protect her from the stones.'

If any muslim can answer this question : who was the most moral person in this story. The prophet or the adulterer ? Because the answer is VERY clear to me.
No, not really. Since it isn't observational it is best guess.
It needs to be vector based and infinitely zoomable. There's another site that does this but it's not open source.
Well this has put me off ever using them.
become as good a programmer as you possibly can, and learn to write extremely thorough test plans.

put another way, build quality in from the start. ensure that you don't need to fix/update your code or test plan later. if that's unavoidable, at least make doing so as quick and painless as possible.
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The fragility of parsing emails is a big problem though. But I agree that for the equivalent of webhooks it is the perfect platform, and simple scripts work. Except at scale.
Thanks for pointing that out, last time I checked there was no such thing.
I don't get it. Is it about the pull shown at the bottom? https://github.com/evilsocket/dsploit/pull/291
The book "One Minute to Midnight" about the Cuban Missile Crisis has a rather long list of places during that confrontation that almost led to nuclear war.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev...

One fascinating one was a U2 getting lost on the way to the North Pole due to the Northern Lights and flying back into the Soviet Union just at the wrong time - alarming the Soviets and resulting in fighters being sent up by the US to protect the ailing U2. Unfortunately, due to the US being at Defcon 2 the fighters were only armed with nuclear air-to-air missiles.... The relief (for a number of reasons) the U2 pilot felt when he eventually landed was, understandably, rather intense!

Amazing book about a ghastly time.
But not the TV show? That's disappointing.
What's your solution, free sterilization?

All I'm saying is, your mouth can't get pregnant.
Plus the article only shows the most basic kind of unit test possible. Yes, unit testing an 'add' function is easy
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Creating an issue also counts as a "contribution."
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