skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Equal opportunity hate. Everyone in the rocky mountain west hates people from California.

But why should Texas be upset people are settling there form elsewhere? After all that's the story of Texas for the last few hundred years. Maybe it slowed down a bit in the 20th century, but it was quite a hotly contested area preceding that.
Good news: loaded in ~2 seconds.
Bad news: interface seems to not work at all. (I'm using iPad 2, with iOS 7.0.2)
I should point out that he's on the exact same journey that I am taking and that's why it resonated with me.

I wrote my first single page app three years ago using JQuery. It was PITA to write but users adored it.

I'm still learning AngularJS but it changes everything. Using CFML to write business logic and serve up JSON is for me the perfect combination with AngularJS. My level of satisfaction has gone way up.
How soon before The Oatmeal does a comic about what a dick the space pen was to the pencil?
Twist-Erase forever
Actually, it looks like it is.

See brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which will be elevated after many exercise, be them of mental origin or just walking.

Lifting weights also counts.
But is the nerd "way of thinking" the only way to achieve things like that? Or is it just that being mired in such a homogeneous culture makes it seem like the two are inextricably and inevitably linked?
That would also make some sort of sense, but isn't the origin of the term.
jQuery queues animations by default. In my opinion, this is a very silly default for its normal purpose, for such reasons as these. Add `queue: false` to the options in the $.animate call to turn it off.
This is not entirely true. The majority of oligarchs are either related to ex-top soviet officials or some black market thugs who got freedom in post-collapse chaos.

My grandfather was a KGB colonel, in 90s he lost all his savings because of crazy inflation. I cant recall any of his friends i knew who became rich, most of them retired or had to leave and are getting miserable government pension and a letter of appreciation for good service once a year.

As I said the oligarchs are ex gov officials sons or cousins and thugs who spent time in soviet jail for black market trade. Hey, even ukrainian president did a few years in jail for stealing some merchandise, what would you expect.
The Apple Customer's Massive Data Conflicts with Apple's Vision
I mean, it carries the implication of not giving vendors time to fix, in a way, but that's not at all what it means. There are plenty of zero days vendors know about but haven't patched yet.
#define RGB(r,g,b) RGBA(r,g,b,1)
The accelerometer should work fine in space? It measures acceleration, it's not like acceleration stops outside the atmosphere
The market-god spin is that San Francisco has an advanced economy, with advanced jobs, which is why there are so few poor paying ones.
I really hope we get the IPS retina panel for $1100. I would probably preorder a computer for the first time in my life if this happened.
Oh, I probably should spend some time clarifying the docs.

But basically it just helps avoiding nesting functions, a common boilerplate when writing decorators.
Where Can the Middle Class Afford to Buy a Home?
Google to sunset Google TV brand as its smart TV platform merges with Android
Roundtable Recap: October 10 – Try To Minimize Capital Risk
Here's a story you guys might appreciate.

I found a cross site scripting vulnerability in Bing.com that was kind of hilarious. Searching for:

</script><script>arbitrary js</script>

in the main search box would execute the code on the results page. I mean, holy shit. I could not believe it. I emailed their whitehat service and they fixed it but I never received a bounty.
My office supply room is stocked with Pilot G-7 pens but I feel like they're too runny and make my writing sloppier than other pens.
Is Flipboard’s Monetization Strategy Working?
A visit to the Twitter HQ that sparked a startup
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512597
I'm not very good at many things.
Facebook's main advantage over Twitter was the private-amoung-friends thing. I wonder why they are trying to kill the thing that sets them apart.
I prefer:

#define RGB(color) \
(((color & 0xFF0000) >> 16) / 255.f), \
(((color & 0x00FF00) >> 8) / 255.f), \
(((color & 0x0000FF)) / 255.f)

Pass in an HTML-style color hex triplet.
Google Malaysia Site Hacked
So "hacker" to you means Middle East or third world? You do realize you're on a site called "Hacker News", right? There are hacker conventions held all around the Western world.

Your mock headline would be more accurate if it said "physicist models higgs boson". Hacker is a perfectly valid job title for a security researcher.
mining cost = labor + energy

If:
labor + energy to extract gold > gold price

we have a bubble?

;-) LOL
Have some pride in where you're from! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV_E8SPc_jo
Yep... in LA and just watched a hundred-year-old, boarded up crack-house across the street list and sell for almost $700k.
Should we stop believing book reviewers who haven't read the book?
The article is saying housing in San Francisco is unaffordable compared to San Francisco's own median income. I'm not an economist (nor a San Franciscan,) but that sounds unsustainable no matter how you spin it.
Do you mean to say P vs NP, or is this some new bit of jargon I should know?
I stopped being interested after "Resolution: 1366 x 768 pixels".
Tons of reasons for the price difference:

* Land was less scarce.

* Different amenities - doubt you saw many granite countertops or stainless steel appliances in the 1910s

* Sparse (or no) plumbing/electricity

* Fewer building codes/regulations
What does the surveillance state do with your data?
They're not keynsians, sure. However, my point was that Nobel Prize in Economics is as risky as Noble Prize in Political Science. Or Philosophy. Or Ethics.

You don't do it. Period.
Computerworld: Percona challenges Oracle with alternate MySQL release
Is information in your head your information or mine?

Stories have many characters. If I cheat you, lie to you, call you names, win over your girlfriend, and steal your dog, can I prevent you from using my story without permission?

This notion of information ownership is relevant in practical things. Look at the use of SLAPPs [1], for example. Or credit reporting, or Yelp, or even reporting crimes. All could be impacted by the radical version of personal ownership of personal data.

The right of ownership of fiction is mainly a commercial right: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." So it doesn't really apply in non-commercial contexts. It's very limited in practice.

The book The Quantum Thief [2] has an interesting society where information ownership extends that far. If you don't have contract agreement to see or remember somebody, you won't.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLAPP
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quantum_Thief
Sounds like you might be interested in this function that I keep in my bashrc, which prints a random line from Uncyclopedia (note, output may contain NSFW language and mangled unicode characters):

mknoise(){
curl -Ls http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random/ | sed -n '/<p>/,/<\/p>/p' \
| sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e '/^*$/d' -e '/article/g' | \
perl -MList::Util=shuffle -e 'print shuffle(<STDIN>);' | sed -n '/^.\{35\}/p' | head -n1
}
Thanks a lot for ruining such a great story ;)
To me this is essentially admitting that Andreesen Horowitz is loosing the ability to identify impactful startups. That is fine, its harder to do at scale, but nothing is different now than 5 years ago. We have lots of people doing experiments, some hit early success, some pivot. Once you get product market fit, you raise that B/C/IPO on the back of the growth you've been able to afford thanks to your raises and revenue.

Just as Berkshire Hathaway had to change their investment strategy when they grew very large, it is fine for AH to do the same, but I don't believe for a second that things are hugely different in 2013.
Why should advertisers care if you incorrectly 'spell' your name? All Facebook should care about, to support their income, is engaging real users - real names or no.
Lots of people need that. Teachers, doctors, social workers, care workers, people who work in/out of prisons, people who have had violent spouses/family members and this is just off the top of my head. The list goes on.

It is frustrating that the largest social media network is darn right hostile to large swathes of people.

Lots of events and groups solely exist on facebook. I think it is kind of awful that we let a company cut people out of their real life social networks just because they have stronger privacy requirements than 'normal' people.
> Why do you have an account, but not want people to be able to find you?

I signed up when I was young, and now my FB account is a liability I have to manage. (Which FB keeps making more difficult.) I communicate with friends to share, not to present an image to the world at large. I stopped adding FB "friends" years ago to prevent future issues, and I would rather people just believe that I don't have one until I can unwind the youthful indiscretion of signing up in the first place.
Ask HN: Why contribute to open source and not do voluntary work instead?
I just read the "I asked for a t-shirt, I got a job" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6529696) story and couldn't help myself anymore: How come people contribute to companies (for free) and to open source but not do volunteering in the same volumes?

I mean, what are the reasons that make someone build X library for Y company/application that are not found when it comes to helping clean a nearby park, protect a forest, organise common meals, etc etc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3914638
http://www.discourse.org/

Designed for just this sort of thing. It's fairly easy to get a basic install going on Heroku, also comes with moderation features.
With sourcemaps, this is unimportant. For example, Closure Compiler, Dart, and GWT support source maps which let you see and debug the original source inside the browsers that support sourcemaps, even if the underlying representation is heavily optimized and minified JS.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it would be ideal, I am saying that I could cope. Certainly fear of this sort of future would not put me off campaigning for slowing the erosion of privacy, as it seems to for jamesaguilar.

Nevertheless, I think you are seeing problems where there would be none. Reporting a crime involves violating the perpetrates privacy? Well sometimes stopping a crime or defending yourself violates the perpetrators right to not be struck or even killed. We seem to operate pretty well with self-defense exceptions to general bans on violence. It is easy to imagine analogues.
If your name is Mike Smith or Chris Wong or Jane Lee, you can murder and rape and pillage with the confidence that once you are out of prison, you'll be "anonymous" on social media - you can hide in plain sight.

On the other hand, if the spelling of your name is unique in the digital world, as mine appears to be, everything you say and do online can be traced to you individually. (By employers, for instance. Who want to know how old you are, or whether you're married, or how you spend your spare time. To pick a bland example from among hundreds.)
My take on the two is this:

Python code looks like Python code. Its structure is rigid enough to let you take on new Python code and (unless it's been too heavily inspired by Ruby code or similarly makes injudicious use of certain powerful Python features) you'll just "get it". Python's strict structure and syntax enhance this.

Ruby? Ruby is a language, but it's sort of more like a meta-language, with the popularity of the concept of using DSLs. Its studied lack of syntax makes it look to me like you often need to know the codebase to know what to do with the code.

(I speak this as one extensively familiar with Python but who has only a passing acquaintance with Ruby at present.)
I can see that. But what if they just typed your name into Google? Isn't that the same thing? Why doesn't that bother us?
Google Malaysia Site DNS Hacked
If you take action based on a recognition of difference, a value judgement is implied. For example choosing action A over B implies a preference for action A, even if you don't consciously think of it that way. So it is hard to see how any human endeavour can ever be free of discrimination in the moral sense you're talking about. Every decision we make discriminates against someone or something in an 'unfair' manner, basically.
Economics isn't bankrupt. Economics is just very ideological. Like Political Science. Or religiion. Or philosophy.

My point is that there shouldn't be Nobel Prize in Economics for that reason. It's as much of a real science as psychology is. If you can't have all serious folks doing that science come to a table and agree that 2+2 is 4, you will end up with mistakes that will cost you Nobel Prize Prestige.

Walesa, a guy who got Peace Nobel Prize in 1980s for figthing communism in Eastern Europe wanted to give it back, once he heard Obama is getting it for "encouragement".

If people like Krugman don't stop making clowns of themselves you may and up with a situation where the Nobel Prize as a whole isn't kept in such a great regard anymore.

So for me, the claim that was made to get rid of Nobel Prize in Economics makes as much sense as not giving it for encouragement or sciences like psychology or political science. They are usually just extension of opinions masquarading as sciences. Not real sciences where you can proof something. Sorry for pooping on your party.

And yeah, having bunch of these clowns at the FED who think that their job is to go from a bubble to another bubble which one bigger than the previous one - how this isn't mad? You call this science? I beg to differ.... it's cheap politics masquarading as serious science. Laughable.
They know everyone can't be convinced to give up email, so email users are appeased in order to allow others to use the app as intended.
There are at least 3 options for publishers:

- don't allow content on Flipboard

- allow truncated content

- allow full content

A/B test and tell us the results. This article is just speculation and complaining about the variety of options you have, without any data.
Yeah, but the question is how do you make other people do that.
Ask HN: Personal Health Tracking
I am working on a research project, and need to get a sense of the following:

What is the general consensus on personal health tracking among readers? Which products and/or features do you see to be the best? The worst?

For those of you in the start-up world, how popular is health tracking and for what reasons/purposes is it used?

Any feedback would be extremely constructive. Thank you.
It's a miracle that Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits even got made
> You sound like you're snarkily disagreeing with d23, yet the core of your disagreement is based on something that he/she didn't say. No one is saying criticism is bad; obviously if anyone had a default position of never expressing criticism or disagreement, nothing would ever improve, right?

Well, I did get sick of it after yet another discussion on HN went into the 'stop raining on the parade' comments.

> At least, that's how I interpreted the comment you were responding to. Maybe you've never met people like that; if so, you're lucky.

I've met many people who dismiss any criticism with complaints of negativism. I've even seen that happen when I complained about how they were dissing others, as if me suggesting they should be more understanding was negative.

In fact, I see a lot of negativity with insight, and a lot of yes-men attitude without any reflection. It's a far more common disease.
For those tempted to abandon after reading just the question about John Carmack's tweet because they fear some handwavey Stack Overflow answer: it is actually John Carmack who answers the question.
Are those people trying to hide from stalkers? If you're avoiding an abusive spouse, some behavioral modifications are going to be necessary. You can't keep going to the same bar for quizzo night, regardless of whether you post about it on Facebook or not.
I totally agree that you'd want to hire some people way more than others, but the process for hiring your interns/entry levelers should be in a sense the lowest common denominator. As in, the more you want to hire someone, the more "features" you add to the process (eg. Paid flights, airport pickup, respond to emails withing 24 hours, whatever), instead of just treating lesser value candidates worse, if that makes sense.
How to Dance
Largest ANSI scroller ever: 3,266 lines by 22 artists
Definitely. Since they don't like my browser, they're not even going to tell me about the product?

On to the next link ....
The best commenting system is Disqus, and they're the best not because they have the best UI (the UI part is easy). It's because they already have a network/community and you can follow others and see their activity, get notifications when someone comments on your stuff, etc.
how else could this problem be solved given the power constraints?

I wonder if gravity changes enough at a typical flight ceiling to be detectable by a very accurate accelerometer?
* no insurance

Now every single developer, contractor, sub-contractor, general contractor, professional engineer, material supplier, home owner, renter, insurance agency .... must have insurance.
Mercury astronaut, Scott Carpenter, dies
The Bay Area Council: A Business Lobby of BART Contractors
Also "stacked ranking" is a MSFT thing.
I don't really understand, can you explain more? I should have written in my comment that I'm a Haskell beginner...
What happens when a Yelp review of a business is considered to be owned by the business? (Replace business with sole proprietor, if you like.)
Wow. This is the level of discourse you are bringing? Believe it or not, I chose the AK-47 specifically for the visual it brings to mind and the fact that most people recognize it and its distinctive shape. That it may be a cheap Chinese knock off is immaterial.
Azathioprine - Fantastic demo(scene) in Javascript from 2011
thats actually fine for a 10"
Only if the browser supports HSTS. Many do not, especially mobile browsers.
I know it's been true for a while, but "pivot" is really gone from "alter part of the business while retaining certain aspects of it and the company's core strengths" to "pitch an idea in the trash and start over."

Properly pivoting an idea probably should not be too disruptive to investors' investment thesis, since the pivot is happening because a new, clearly better route has been uncovered in the process of the first idea that the team can leverage their past efforts in executing on some tangible way. If you're really going to just try a completely new idea from scratch, it would make sense to refinance the business and give investors a chance to take their money out, but that's hard to legally structure obviously and would take too much time.

So I get the sense that AZ is saying a lot of startups aren't pivoting really but just pitching and starting over too often if they fail to get initial traction quickly enough. This combined with the illiquid nature of startup investments forces them to not really know what they are investing in and be stuck with it once it materializes.

People have started to forget that startups generally take a long time and a lot of work to build momentum. It's easier to just pitch what you have and jump into the next shiny thing. Particularly when you have ridiculously long runways due to low costs and absurd valuations. I blame the ridiculous liquidity in deals right now combined with the "fail fast" culture.
No, facebook's main advantage was that you had enough room to write messages with some content in. And that there was a dedicated events-organizing system.
This is not something they are choosing - it is a market reality. Its now possible to start a company and essentially get to a B round without taking investment because cloud services make it so inexpensive that founders really don't need VCs any longer.
> Economics is just very ideological.

Economics is a science. The subject matter of economics may often touch on issues on which people have ideological investment, but the same is true of all of the social sciences, physics (especially cosmology), biology (a whole host of subfields, but particularly those that have something to say about the presence or absence of innate differences between races, genders, or other subgroups of humanity, or that touch on origins of life and its present diversity), and, well, lots of areas of science.

And, of course -- largely orthogonally to any scientific contribution in the field -- economists (as well as scientists in any field) may have ideological views that they advocate for, whether or not they touch on the subject matter of the field.

Neither of these are reasons to not have Nobel Prizes in particular fields.
Wealth and the Inflated Self: Class, Entitlement, and Narcissism [pdf]
the fisher cardrige comes from factory with a medium size tip. this tip kinda sux for the reasons you mentionned

get the fine tip (it cost $6 or so), and.. surprise, its perfect. Always wondered why they did this.

source: i've been using this pen for 20 years - gift from nasa :P
Which would be different from if the same people just didn't sign up for facebook accounts how?
all that is at best buy. but he calls those $999 models "high end". so...
> there are very very few AK-47s in circulation.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47)

> Even after six decades the model and its variants remain the most widely used and popular assault rifles in the world because of their durability, low production cost, availability, and ease of use.
This can occur when an influx of high paying jobs raises prices but the original, poorer inhabitants are unwilling to move out. Eventually the median income rises as people retire, die or can no longer afford the property tax on their now-very-pricey homes. The few remaining low income jobs are staffed by commuters.
Perhaps this is an indicator of why Google has not released an official Google Play Music app for Roku and other third-party devices?
This shift is yesterday's news. Given their size, brand and PR, however, when Andreesen Horowitz does it, they get an article in the WSJ.

The reality is that tons of VCs have already migrated away from consumer startups.[1][2]

Data to support above

[1] 84% of 2013's largest exits in tech have been to enterprise companies - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/enterprise-tech-consum...

[2] 70% of 2013's largest tech financings have been to enterprise - http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/trends/venture-capital-enterp...

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of CB Insights - the firm that put out this research.
Only if low end. Compare to the 2x res of a nexus 7, for example.