skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://web.archive.org/web/19970210151434/http://www1.sausag... this was state of the art in 1996 :-) It was killed by places like GeoCities where you build your site "online."

All through the 90's web sites that let you build web sites were quite the rage, and then pagemaker/frontpage/et alia seem to just take over. Not entirely sure why but they did. Now here we are 17 years later doing it again.

I spent a number of years "liberating" my data from FrontPage by basically creating a new CMS and sucking it from html scrapes into a modifed version of markdown. I hope that Google learns from that experience and always provides for an 'easy' way to liberate your content from their tool so someone doesn't get stuck.
Live right now: Wozniak, Hertzfeld, and Daniel Kottke on public access TV
I'll see all you lovely people on the 18th! I got in!
Because most of the images out there are in pixel and not vector format. Converting the latter to the former automatically doesn't always produce the desired results.

At https://starthq.com we do use SVG for the logo and all icons. Falling back to PNG for older browsers requires a CSS hack though and that fails on some older mobile devices.
Got accepted as well :D Anyone get rejected? I wonder how competitive it is/was this year
And in fact, with Vista/7 they changed the way the graphic drivers work. I've had my GPU card crash several times, and all I got was a blank screen for a few seconds, followed by a notice that the video driver died and restarted. Sometimes it might flip into "basic" mode after that. Before, such a problem would have been a BSOD.
Flight booked. Can't wait.
Roger, may I ask what you pursued in University? You said that you learned chemistry, physics, electrical engineering and mathematics, but what degree did you get specifically? I ask because I currently have a CS and Finance degree, but would prefer to work on the type of problems you speak of. I'm currently considering doing a masters in Computational Mathematics, but I don't know whether that would get me to where I want to be or not. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated (I also saw your post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462363, and I completely agree with your sentiments regarding most of the job positions on HN.)
Maybe when they say "optimized for iPhone 4S or newer" it's just that performance is bad, because it downloads fine for me on an iPhone 4.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chipotle-scarecrow/id6894702...
Open Competitions: Thoughts on the Netflix OSS prize
MS PR is weird, though, like all TV shows are set in this bizarro world where everyone uses a Surface and Windows Phone. I don't think people will care about this unless the pilots end up enjoying it and recommending it.

Maybe there's a more extensive deal; limited free wifi on Delta flights for Surface users? Plane-local wifi with access to movies via a Surface app?
Oh? Which loss leaders, exactly?
All Facebook posts now searchable; or: All your posts are belong to Us
This kind of thing kind of scares me to be honest. It's almost a peek into a horrific dystopian future where piracy is so rampant that games, music videos, and perhaps even movies are only made as a marketing effort and are filled with advertising, branding, and product placement.
It is unclear to me whether you are advocating for a programming style that you think is desirable but nonexistent, or if you're advocating for a programming style without naming it.

If the former, you should know you are not alone and serious attempts to create such programming languages are afoot. It's hard for me to find any solid, single web page to point you at, but you want to look at the more theoretical end of Haskell, and Agda and Coq, for some examples. Interesting Google terms include "structural recursion" and various other recursion schemes, and also things like http://blog.sigfpe.com/2007/07/data-and-codata.html .
Something else that might apply here is Occam's Razor[1] (lex parsimoniae if you like Latin). The hypothesis that one device is broken is a simpler hypothesis than the one that all devices are broken.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
As someone with a deleted account I hope this doesn't mean that my now non-existent privacy settings open me up to search.
The article argues hard that making pseudoephedrine a prescription drug would magically solve all this... and never once floats the idea that making methamphetamine itself a prescription drug would work much better.

Once addicts can get cheap, safe maintenance doses to feed their habit, there's no more need for homebrew meth labs, and no more burn patients, toddlers drinking drain cleaner, kids in foster care because their parents are in jail, police teams in hazmat suits and all the massive costs this imposes on society.
An insane amount of trafic is Google, and I can see them imolementing MPTCP.
I think the point is that even if it's only a one time study, a default strategy of preferring free to paid can be rational since we participate in a huge number of transactions in daily life. You are viewing this as an irrational sacrifice of quality for $0.10, but it's really a question of longterm strategy, even if the calculation is done on a subconscious level.
Sources? Mother Jones clearly has theirs, otherwise I would have to accuse you of "trying to polarize a situation".
Google has gotten to be really annoying with this. That's why I have reverted to using Google only for search (I no longer have a Google account at all).

If you don't like their actions, then do what I did, and leave them.
There are a few other code search engines which search across publicly available code though if that's what you are looking for.

http://code.ohloh.net/
https://github.com/search?q=malloc&type=Code&ref=searchresul...
http://searchcode.com/
http://codesearch.debian.net/

Symbolhound is also quite interesting, http://symbolhound.com/

Full disclosure I wrote and maintain searchcode.
The VB stuff matters of course but as a regular excel user what kills me when I use LibreOffice is:

(1) The responsiveness which I guess is from hardware acceleration. It's like comparing a $60 cheapo tablet and an ipad or Al Bundy's old Dodge to a 2014 Camry.

(2) The need to flout basic Excel conventions as if that's somehow lauditory. LibreOffice has made some strides here (hey you can use commas in formulas again) but it still feels like someone from Samsung should be put in charge of the whole thing.
One experiment OP could try is sleeping in a room other than the bedroom. Kind of goes along with the recliner idea, but maybe there's an association with the bedroom and the and the anxiety.

Does the problem persist on travel in hotels or anything?
Physicists use blind quantum computing to verify results of quantum computer
> I call BS.

I am making no statement of support for original numbers but if you "call BS" then you need to provide something to back you up. NASA budget comparison is pointless.
Well, we manually are collecting e-mails from farmer's markets websites which require a lot of manual work as we don't purchase any lists from third parties. So there is a fine line between cold e-mailing and spam as we are targeting a specific market.
Pseudoephedrine is the most effective chemical we have to alleviate flu-like symptoms. The alternatives such as phenylephrine simply don't work.

I believe in cognitive liberty, but meth will mess you up. If I believed any drug should be illegal, meth would be at the top of the list. But illegalizing something for which we have no reasonable alternative is absurd.

Of course, making less destructive amphetamines legal so people don't feel the need for meth, that's just crazy talk.

source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylephrine#Questions_about_e...
That's a shitty employer; 1. it's sadistic to require programmers not enjoy their work 2. if you've got a bunch of bored programmers you're going to lose your top-tier men and women to more interesting jobs.
This is a real kick in the butt, I'm working on a similar project for physics for the last summer. There's a lot that I can translate from my experience of physicist PhD and co-founder of Taipei Hackerspace.

http://signup.moonpunch.org/

Keep the science rolling!
Global Quality of Life for Older People Index 2013
Also, I can't believe this is a thing: "a one-to-five-year sentence for buying pseudoephedrine with intent to make meth".
Isthegovernmentshutdown.com
Yeah, and it's a very weird and sad feeling to delete someone's entry from your address book because they passed away.
I use the term "let lie fallow" for my long neglected personal webpage.
Google's Open Project lets you control apps on a remote display
Why are people accusing google of this really being an ad tool when on their help page they call it an ad tool?
Windows Mobile market share is a long way off 8.8% according to Statcounter: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-DE-monthly-201209-20130...

That said I could believe the sales growth as Nokia are know for making great quality low end devices so there could be traction gained here as the allure of flagship phones is not as appealing/affordable for all as base technology improves.

IMO the best thing WM could do is create a phone that works more as a mobile base station for all your computing in the way Ubuntu Touch are attempting. The latter launching in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to try it out!
Better yet, legalize or prescriptionize less destructive amphetamines, so people have no reason to use meth.

(yes, I just coined a neologism. You can thank me later.)
> The various consoles (ps3, orignal xbox at the very least) -- were sold at a loss (for the hardware).

This isn't dumping at all. Cited from your citation: A standard technical definition of dumping is the act of charging a lower price for the like goods in a foreign market than one charges for the same good in a domestic market for consumption in the home market of the exporter.

The console were simply loss leaders, sold below cost in all markets with the assumption purchasing a console would result in more long term profit.

> Now if I sell a pc at a loss, that'd be considered dumping[1].

No, that would be considered poor business. If you were 100,000 PC's under cost in order to drive a competitor in a foreign market out of business that would be considered dumping.
Uh... WinRT excluded all existing third-party code from executing on it.

EDIT: asveikau has rightly pointed out I have confused two matters.
Retina Macbook Pro 2013 Preview and Predictions
Full-time recruiters would make around $100k-$120K at an agency in San Francisco, and be expected to place 1-2 candidates per month.

The standard fee charged to companies is 25%, though that is often negotiable. At Hired.com we charge 15% (20% of which goes back to the Engineer/Designer/Data Scientist when they get hired).
What's funny is they came up with the design 3 years ago. Made a prototype, raced it, set a bunch of records then shelved it. At the time, a production version would have cost $60k and they didn't think that was viable. Now it's 30k and there are rumors about a 15k version in the next few years.
Monome unveils Aleph: programmable sound computer
Fortunately, the catastrophic insurance can be pretty cheap, if you choose a high excess.
just sent request to FB group
So...... you're for or against pop-up blockers?
I've been really considering a 2nd BS in CS at times, but just can't seem to get myself to do it. I have BS in engineering, but not CS. I get fustrated because of what would be required for a MS in it, and some schools the time for a 2nd BS is just out of control for myself.

I also see myself being in more management of programmers at sometime. It's pretty rare for me to trivialization a solution process. I've done it, but so has everyone. Making mistakes is the learning process.
I'm coming from Austin, TX if there are others from Texas attending?
see yall in cupertino!
So a few high profile incidents like the ones caused by the protagonist are exactly what you need.
I worked on this one for a little while:

http://www.astronautics.com/index.php?q=content/electronic-f...

I have trouble imagining either the iPad or the Surface being used for anything critical.
"I'm old, I can recall a late 60s moral panic about LSD - it supposedly made you have babies with lobster claws, if you survived the mandatory dive out of a 2nd floor window. There was an early 70s panic over heroin, and then the Angel Dust thing in the early 80s. After that, it was Free Basing, and then Crack. It's been Evil Meth for a while now, isn't it about time for a New Drug to Panic over?"

I grew up in a very poor part of the country and this statement is ridiculous. These drugs (save maybe LSD) are still massively destructive forces in society that still kill people today in poor, uneducated sections of the United States. Your statement makes it sound like people are just afraid of these drugs because they don't understand it, but once they come around to it, they'll see how it's not so bad.

That is an insane position on drugs.

disclosure: I'm actually for legalization but I have my eyes open about what they do and how they destroy families and lives.
Thank you from the Zapd team
Ubuntu Touch OS launching Oct. 17
In the UK yes, in the US no.
One real problem (that this article got factually wrong) is that phenylephrine (the 'PE' in Sudafed PE) doesn't really work. The literature goes back-and-forth on it, but the consensus seems to be that it's only marginally more effective than placebo. Pseudoephedrine is significantly more effective than both (which, of course, is partly due to its close chemical relationship to methamphetamine...funny how that works).
Anyone else heading there from Florida? I went last year, ran into some old NASA buddies. Lot of people seemed to know each other. It's a long flight, anyone know of which afterparties are happenning? Last time Weebly threw one but it was too late for me to get on the list. Would love to connect with more people this time. I've got some very interesting stories to share given that I'm trying to launch a mini non-profit version of Y-Combinator in Melbourne, FL :)
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Your foot stamping and insistence that people shouldnt have any control over site content does not infact change the technical reality that they do, being as its their client on their machine displaying what they tell it to.

Its better to just accept this fact and work with it than attempt to boil the ocean.

one might also ask about what kind of entitlement an attitude like yours is bringing to the table.
True, but the smartphone market could be considered as a leading indicator for the whole mobile one. What caught my attention is that MS is/was being considered as a dead horse in this race by a lot. Well, dead they are not.
As the article points out, has to be the low to mid-range phones. The Lumia 520 costs $100 off contract, which is an amazing deal.
Methamphetamine is already an FDA-approved prescription drug, called Desoxyn.
Nope, like HN (free, public) but specifically for content related to bootstrapping and business only. It's for the community, not a business itself. I don't need another business.

I got hellbanned for just talking about it above! So that's exciting. Let's see how long this comment lasts.
The review breakdown for this app is all over the place: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/chipotle-mexican-grill/app/ch...

Getting the users was indeed a concentrated marketing effort that took quite a bit of advertising, too.
Yes. From austin.
Give-and-Go with PostgreSQL and Sequel (RailsClub 2013 Presentation)
Too bad those platforms don't include Linux & FreeBSD.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Nothing new under the sun.
Ask HN: anyone else having GMail app crash on iOS 7.1 update today?
In Fairfax County, extra sleep is a privilege for some students
I can't understand why they are pursuing this case since presumably the SEC is going to argue that he agreed to confidentiality but they almost certainly cannot prove that. If they had convincing evidence (e.g. a signed document) Cuban would have almost certainly settled.

On the other hand Mamma would have been breaking the law if they didn't enforce confidentiality so maybe the case does have some kind of legs.
Your fear is misplaced.

1) The game exclusively on IOS, where piracy is minuscule. It couldn't have been the motivator.

2) People are willing to pay for good quality and convenience instead of pirating (e.g., Steam, Netflix, game consoles).
Half agree with your post, but I can see why you are downvoted.

To me, in grief, platitudes and comforting words seem like a useless distraction and annoyance, but I wouldn't then go on to suggest your way of being around the grieving is what everybody needs to be doing. He was being nice and wasn't hurting anybody doing it, and there isn't such a dearth of those posts that we need to attack them.
> Thank goodness for the internet...your app/device can report its own problems rather than waiting for your users to do it.

Which removes convenience, privacy, and resources from your users to make up for your shortage of proper design and testing.

/crank :)
I thought IAP enables trialware, with some creativity (like disabling Save/Share/Export/Import)

Does Apple block apps with countdown/timers on functionality?
Still not an employee. If I inherited a big fortune would you put me too as an example of how lucrative this career is?
It's because Europeans are a bunch of idiots. They're dumb enough to let gays ruin their society and their dumb enough to use Windows Phone instead of the vastly superior iPhone.

There's no news here, no surprise.
UC Berkeley evacuation after power outage and explosion
I just wanna say thank you for turning your successfully funded project into a success for the community.

The amazing community is what drives Clojure's success.
Going, and would love to meet up with people before/after. Flying in from SD.
If you're using Angular, it is possible to patch the error handler service and augment it with additional info like the expression that was the cause, scope erc. That's what we've done at https://starthq.com

We also have browser specific code to prettify the stack traces. We push the errors to our server and from there to Sentry and that works like a charm! In fact it's so good that we've used it to report issues to third party script providers such as Clicky analytics about errors in their scripts.
Thanks for contributing to Hackernews.
On the one hand you deride one solution that's actually been proven effective as magical. On the other hand you propose a solution and then proceed to enumerate its magical effects.

Addicts who start on a street drug aren't typically in the habit of going to the doctor for their fix.
The physical security (especially the release mechanism) is what I'm curious about. Elsewhere you mention the constraints low-power places on you, and it strikes me that the less energy required to trigger the release, the easier that might be to fake with bumping or vibratory attacks.

There were a couple of interesting DEFCON videos I've seen on electronic safes, which are a similar niche, and quite a lot of them were utterly trivial to open.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIJFQO4DIxw is one, trying to find the other, which I vaguely recall was from Barnaby Jack.
Accepted, and definitely attending! Looking forward to meeting up with people before/during/after. I'm flying in from Champaign, IL.
We're not a contracting agency, but we pay in that range for 40 hours/week, are a 100% remote company, allow flex time, and with good benefits. Email me at dharris@drh.net if you're interested.
Yes, me again, and that's exactly what I was saying: S/he was being taunted by his/her friend, as she murdered herself, while OP was helpless to do anything but listen.

As I said: I know how that feels.

Generally people side emotionally with the person who ended their life, but when they deliberately call you up, taunt you, laugh at you while you desperately try to help them… that's murder in my book. Maybe it's a murder under the influence, but it's awful and it's cruel in addition to desperately sad. No wonder a memorial doesn't help you feel better, because it memorializes your lost friend, and the person who viciously taunted you while killing them. "I'm going to make you listen." And you know the murderer will never be brought to justice, and it's probably awful to be angry at them (and people don't want to hear what happened anyway, and if you tell them, they act like "Oh they were just ill" and you have no right to hate the murderer, etc, etc).

You can't comfort yourself with the thought that you didn't know, that you couldn't have known. (Common suicide coping technique.)

You can't say, "S/he was in so much pain, now at peace" -- because they dragged you with them.

You can't tell yourself any of the pleasant lies. And, you can rarely if ever tell the story, because nobody wants to hear it… just about everybody sympathizes with the one person who doesn't need it any more (who's beyond sympathy now, unlike you, as you get more and more scarred).

And, in my experience, the successful suicide attempt is not the first time this scenario played out, just the unfortunate last one.

As I said: I know how that feels. I bet the poor commenter I replied to understood me.

I'm truly glad that the people who downvoted me almost surely have never had to experience it. Good. Keep it that way.
I don't think people are proposing making pseudoephedrine illegal. Just slightly more difficult to obtain.

It appears that the data supports that changing the drug's status has a positive impact on meth production. However, there was no data about how people in Oregon or Mississippi deal with their flu-like symptoms.
I am (coming from Waterloo)
Wow - nice work! Are there really that many contributors in Alice Springs or is the big spike in the middle of the country just a generic "Australia" stat?
FWIW, this is the same argument against minimum wage, which you may or may not feel the same way about.
and you arnt entitled to my personal information and browsing history just because i clicked a link.
How are these kind of commenters even exist on hacker news?
There may be something funky with Statcounter, when looking at North America, they show Blackberry as doubling it's growth since May, doesn't seem like the most reliable source.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-na-monthly-201209-20130...

Also, its Windows Phone, or WP, not Windows Mobile.
Dude, that is racist. Calm down.
This is the presentation I gave at RailsClub in Moscow a couple days ago. It's a showoff presentation, so navigation is via keyboard (press z or ? for help), sorry if that makes it hard to read on a phone or tablet.
It's OP's first comment. I'm guessing that it's an alt of another user?
This is share of sales in the last 3 months, not share of devices in the wild. It's no surprise that iPhone's sales share plummeted the last quarter before the 5S release.
I know with books in my car, I have to always search for them. They wind up everywhere - in the glove box, under the seat, in the way of the pedals, etc. Then, there's "oops, I forgot to bring it", "I forgot to bring the charger cable", where is the danged charger cable, the charger cable gets in the way, etc.

And, airliners can sometimes be involved in fairly violent maneuvers, including upside down. To you really want to be hit in the head by a tablet?

Lastly, most of the size & weight of a tablet is the battery. Putting it in the instrument panel dispenses with that.
http://i.imgur.com/OfqdZeE.jpg
By 'rest of the world' you must be discounting Australia then ;)
When naming a project, it seems a lot of people don't stop and think about what it's going to be like to try to Google it.
Awesome! Could you please tell us your site and your monthly traffic? Just for referring! Thanks a lot!
Ahhh cheers to obliviousness.. Wish I would've applied! Enjoy it you lucky dogs!
Final Cut Pro? Aperture?

Apple's consumer apps were cheap, not business apps.
Also known as criticisms of the Law of Excluded Middle.