skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I think email tools I remember a company called Xoopt which Yahoo acquired and shut down. They managed all the files you shared with others and gave you better search + visualization within gmail. That was the best photo tool I ever used.

I think there is data out there that confirms email sharing outweighs sharing on FB + TWTTR + everything else online combined.
Thanks guys. I've been blogging seriously since 2010 and it's been really great to take those "best of" articles (many of them that have hit HN) and put them into a Kindle book.
I agree - the blog post says that for a time the evidence could support either view but this is false. Galileo discovered (there's that pesky novel factual evidence) that Venus showed ALL phases - new, crescent, gibbous, and full - which conclusively proved that the Ptolemaic model was false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Venus.2C_Saturn...
The problem isn't that there's no room for disagreement. It's that the quality of the disagreements and critiques are so low, it's impossible to believe there's no alternative motive at work.

Your post is a great example of this type of trash. You start off comparing one of the most researched fields, involving decades of effort spread amongst thousands of researchers around the world with a small number of people who did not even have an understanding of the mechanisms (genetics, embryology, etc) with which they were dealing. The GP's analogy works quite well, our certainty of cigarettes causing lunch cancer is about the same as the IPCC's certainty of anthropomorphic climate change.

Second, apart from the normal peer-review of specific papers, there have been several large-scale attempts to "review" all of climate change. A great example is the "Climategate" fiasco, which after a review by a sceptic funded the oil industry, turned out to have been nothing but an attempted hit job on the scientists involved.

Third, there is actual review and revision going on within the IPCC. One of the major differences between the 2007 and 2014 IPCC reports is the narrowing of the predicted temperature ranges. Deniers however don't seem to have the evidence to work within the normal scientific process, so instead they must engage of various types of deception and PR work to get their points across.

So no, it certainly has not become a weirder field of study. It's just that people threatened by facts are trying to apply political tactics to a non-political field, much like creationist attempts to revise or silence evolution.
Well, how would you feel if your death on a plane crash was actually the responsibility of an Air Traffic Controller on the ground, and not the pilot of your aircraft (who also may or may not have perished)? Seems like you could already be in this situation, as there have been some very serious accidents caused by ATC error.
A quick and easy easy brain hack - take the scenic route
Completely Painless Programmer's Guide to XYZ, RGB, ICC, xyY, and TRCs
I can surmise out of this (probably wrongly) that when the likes and dislikes of a language are similar, they may be due to syntax issues more than a failure of the language's capabilities.

E.G. Ada, R, D etc...
The URL is being passed into an <a> tag href value.

Checking Mozilla documentation, it makes it quite clear. "Is a DOMString representing the hostname and port (if it's not the default port) in the referenced URL."

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorE...

So IE is getting it wrong? Edit: Other post points out experimental standard which IE may be adopting.
Thanks for mentioning Railo. The problem with CFML is that Coldfusion(tm) gives Coldfusion a bad name. Some 'legacy' apps that ran on CF were recently switched from Adobe Coldfusion to Railo and it is like night and day... way better memory utilization, hugely advanced caching options and the speed is crazy... like as fast as PHP and other languages I've worked with.
Not really. Leninist ideals went out the window when Stalin took over. The results you're citing aren't due to Leninism, but Stalinism.
They turned the opposite of Capitalist. Cronyism via leveraging the state via force to plunder assets is not Capitalism.
As with any event, it's what you make of it. If you go to sit in the corner, then its probably not worth it. But if you "work it" then it will probably be worth the money.
Was it one of those planes that flies for six months?
You've nailed it, except I still think it's a feature not a bug. I think you might think that way too, if you'd been involved in an open source project with tens of thousands of non-technical users.

I love them, really I do, but it only takes 0.1% of the user-base to naively believe that it's easier to ask for help than to RTFM, and bang - there goes 110% of your time dealing with them.
It's just too bad that we keep using these amazing thing to spy on, control and kill our fellow humans. Good wor everyone!
I think your first problem was looking for a professional-quality computer at Best Buy. They've always been full of cheap plastic junk that can only be pushed on unknowing consumers.

Have you considered the Thinkpad X1 Carbon, Yoga 13, Vaio 11/13 or Asus Zenbook?
Basically, private Hacker News for organizations to share and discuss online articles. This is awesome. Something that I didn't know I need but now I just can't wait to try!

One of my biggest pet peeves is endless emails sent to everyone in the organization by someone who just wanted to share an article that he/she thought was interesting. Then someone replies all with a comment, another person replies all, and soon, my email client just kept on buzzing even if the topic doesn't concern or interest me.

And the most frustrating thing is there's no rule that I can create to filter out those kind of emails.

This is very, very useful. Kudos to the Kippt team.
250lb - can carry Hellfire. New incarnation of a multi-month-on-station [previously nuclear] bomber/cruise missile concept.
The spec on this is at http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-url-host and says:

If url is null, return the empty string.

If port is the empty string, return host, serialized.

Return host, serialized, ":", and port concatenated.

So what is port in this case? That's defined at http://url.spec.whatwg.org/#port-state and the key step is:

2. If buffer is equal to url's scheme's default port,
set buffer to the empty string.

So IE is wrong and the MDN documentation is misleading. I've fixed the latter; can't do much about IE. ;)
I've gone from §50 per week to §300 pw this year. Still long way to go before I can quit my job, but slowly getting closer to it every month.
Since like|dislike is orthogonal to bad|good (how do you really define any one of the four anyway?) this poll can capture a decent sampling of current opinions about languages, from a fairly relevant subset of <the world>, and present at least a little more info than just dry feature comparisons. My two cents.
No, the documentation just doesn't match the spec.
Taser (the stun gun company) to acquire Familiar, an app for sharing pictures
Which are all the types of things regulations regulate.

60years ago fatal crashes happened in cars without crumple zones, poor firewalls, and no over shoulder seatbelts, etc. Regulation has mandated changes in those areas.
Half the value of all these platforms is they each provide a different experience and thus are good for different things. SMS is urgent, Facebook messages are not, email for important thoughtful things, tweets for helping get attention of busy people with the viral factor. UX is critical to shape your users behavior.
Yeah, it is but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6524826 which kinda sucks.
Hehe, I'm a systems guy, don't write much code which targets either. I try to stay up to date though.
[objc] IDMAlertViewManager: Handles priorities alerts and more
As a network game programmer, this is sort of what I was telling everyone I knew a few years ago - that the real consumer push for IPv6 would be with video games. IPv4 address exhaustion will eventually force carrier-level NAT and make peered game connections and NAT traversal difficult in all cases and impossible in many.

Microsoft now needs to make IPv6 a 'brand' - something that consumers know to ask about and demand from their ISPs. A nice warning screen in the XBoxLive connection test telling gamers that because their ISP doesn't support IPv6 their gaming experience will be degraded should do the trick.
I didn't see the earlier post.
Interesting, I didn't even realize it was there until I saw this posting.
Yep... although if you look at that, it's just lining up based on tabs. I like gofmt because it barely ends up changing my code--I already write it pretty much like that! I was talking more about when people want to do things like this:

func someFunc(arg1 string,
arg2 string,
arg3 int,
) bool
{

and get very angry when the arguments don't line up perfectly under each other using just tabs. And, presumably, that Go won't let you put that { on the next line like that.

When I tell these people I often use an editor with variable-width fonts, it damn near gives them an aneurysm.
I would look at characteristics of the clients you like working with and see if you can find other clients like them.

Are they technical? Non technical? Focused on a certain aspect of the niche? What kinds of problems do they have?

Anything that will act as a filter so you take work from clients that have a high chance of being good ones.

As far as expanding to other areas of development, if there are adjacent areas available (for example, using CakePHP if you are already using Symphony, or trying Alfresco if you already do Documentum) it might make sense to investigate and do a trial project in them.

Looking at your profile, it looks like you do interesting stuff. Not sure what industries you target (because it isn't outlined on your site), but you could definitely evaluate industries that have 'hard problems' (and money--don't forget the money).
These guys having an amazing sense for design and product. Early paid user of Kippt and looking forward to this pivot.
This is brilliant, and a good thing.

Unfortunately, we in the EU are going to be left behind on this one, due to the more arduous product approval required before you can sell any electronic product :(
>The big failing is that Android's app space is fixated on touch, and reaching out to touch a laptop touchscreen sucks.

If Google has learned anything from the launch of Windows 8, it's to keep touch/non-touch operating systems separate. Even if they occupy similar form factors, you still can't expect a unified UI to work well.
Amplifying Security Intelligence with Big Data
This is no longer true. You can debug CoffeeScript in web browsers now with source maps. Yes you may need to dig into JS for a more severe bug but most of the stuff is debug-able in source maps.
Open source OSes do not and will not implement "protected pathways", it violates the nature and expectations for those OSes. MS enabled this junk deep in its system. That's why the mere fact of using Windows already means using DRM.
Presentate: HTML5 presentation software that works everywhere
Customer service might make the differente, since Google hasn't got any.
Sorry. I guess my social media button filter is tighter than yours, as I didn't see Like-buttons at all. On top, the introduction on UpWorthy, mentioning the authors reaction when watching the story unfold, added anticipation for watching it.
insurance doesn't work unless it's universal. it just falls apart once either side picks and chooses. the young people don't buy it, and then they fall off their bike and they're screwed. and the insurers can't get stuck with just sick people, they have the whole pre-existing condition thing, so your kids get sick and you can't leave your job.

a sick person looking for treatment is the opposite of everything that makes a market efficient, there's no perfect information, non-coercion etc.

if people want to say, I'd rather people be sick and die and have the freedom to not pay for universal insurance or get vaccinated, that's a values choice. but it's a serious error to say that the free market will result in optimal health outcomes.
And they got a patent for it? :D
Looks perfect for me on Chrome on Windows, but I think I'd keep it fully expanded for a second or two or start out fully collapsed. Opening the tab to see something collapsing the instant it loads is a little ugly. Otherwise it's super-cool. A bit mystery-meat-ish, but your personal page is a good space for that kind of form-over-function.
This is exactly the explanation I needed, thank you.

I wonder what the rationale behind this decision was. It seems like a pretty easy way to mess up people like me :D. Any ideas?
"Anyone who thinks the current system is acceptable has never experienced the current system: they likely are covered by a large company's health insurance company, and haven't had to watch a family member try to buy themselves insurance."

Strange, a large number of us can remember buying individual "major medical" high deductible catastrophic coverage policies for quite reasonable sums of money, since they're true insurance ... policies which are now illegal. And a lot of self-insured people/families are finding their policies canceled or unaffordable, along with what they can in theory buy on the exchanges. Seeing as how Obamacare mandates 10? or so generally? new and expensive things, like coverage of your children till age 26. Or explicitly makes healthcare more expensive, like the 2.3% excise tax on medical devices: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Medical-Device-Excise-Tax:-Frequently...

As for "somebody's doctor taking orders from the government" ... well, what if they want to get reimbursed? Not quite the same thing, but just about the same effect.

As for Medicare ... well, seeing as how much it shifts costs to other customers, just how do you propose to pay for it as more and more people got moved to it? Being disabled, I'm on it, and track what my doctors get paid. Sometimes its reasonable, frequently its not, and I haven't needed anything really expensive yet....

And I do believe your race card has been maxed out: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-5-2010/race-car... ; why do you think we've opposed this since Truman made the first attempt? Was Clinton truly our "First Black President" as way too many said before Obama, back when Hillarycare crashed and burned?
Raindrop looked so cool. It's a shame they stopped working on it.
Given that the VB.NET side of Roslyn is written in VB.NET, I can probably say I've hacked on the largest modern VB codebase in existence.

As someone who has had never looked at any form of VB before this: meh. It's basically C# with a... unique syntax.

There are a few things that VB does better though: type inference for lambda expressions and exception filters.
What is an "Android laptop"? Is it different from a laptop that has Android installed on it?
Cut the seasoning powder with melamine.
Fake it til you make it with sweet sweet government money (re appropriated from the citizenry for their own good)
it would be in java...
I just got through speaking in DC about Agile, startups, and functional programming, mostly to an audience that is intimately familiar with government work. It's really bad when you try to be diplomatic about how bad things are fucked up and get open laughter from the crowd. There's no BSing people who live this everyday.

Talking with folks afterwards, I heard about systems that I could have rewritten in the late 90s in a few months that are still in the process of being rewritten, 15 years later. After literally hundreds of people have worked on them costing the taxpayer millions of dollars. And these are not unique or oddball edge cases. Stuff like that is standard operating procedure. I can't impress on the HN audience enough how terrible federal IT is overall. (Aside from some really great outliers). There's a vast and increasingly large gap between political rhetoric and the reality on the ground. This has been true for at least the last 20 years.

I take issue with some of the details the supporting argument makes here, but that's mostly a quibble. The author is definitely headed in the right direction.

I'm a veteran of several federal IT programs, and a real veteran. I have seen some really good federal teams, but never a good federal team of teams. It all falls apart once you get past a few people and start throwing some kind of structure and management in place. I understand that Agile is becoming required for some federal work, but I'll bet you a thousand bucks this kind of "Agile" isn't going to be the kind that the rest of us use. Think big tools, big management, lots of stupid measurements, and no accountability. All with the word "Agile" stamped on the front of it.

...The bottom line is that federal IT programs' success is measured by things that have nothing to do with how successful they are or by the metrics most of the world uses. While the business world (and Web companies in particular) now monitor user experience and productivity as a metric for IT success, the government keeps throwing out numbers that mask the truth: the only people who would use their systems are the ones that are forced to...

Yep.
Good point. What if we find out that it's someone like the Syrian Electronic Army that developed this and has now backdoored everyone! Could we have reasonably expected an announcement from the government telling us as such?
One advantage of birds is that their droppings are easily washed off my car, unlike the droppings of UAVs.
If browsers don't, your window managers surely do. So you can capture the screen with ease. In order to avoid that, Windows created a whole chain of DRM which prevents user from accessing it. This will never be possible on free software systems.
I'm curious why the price of the book isn't on the landing page. Also why not some sample chapters on the landing page?
I'm currently using CoffeeScript for a big project on the web and the build step that I have automatically watches my coffee files and recompiles on a new change. Group that with using LiveReload and you have an auto recompile and reloading application with no additional manual build step.
I'll agree there of course; as an ecosystem it's hard to match due to the availability of libraries and ease of platform swapping. My original comment was targeted purely at the language syntax and semantics. Like I said, there are many reasons to use Java, but I'd rather use something else given the choice
Sure thing! http://hammerformac.com/, http://anvilformac.com and http://riothq.com/ are all hosted on Forge.
Maybe a fine line between "writing" and "designing" and "prototyping". :-)
Microsoft pays $100k bounty to British researcher who found Windows 8.1 bug
There is an extension available on both chrome and firefox that makes gmail use the old interface.

Restored sanity to my life. What a relief it was.
Probably some combination of "this is what most browsers do" and wanting to have "http://foo.com:80" and "http://foo.com" have the same underlying representation.
Why not? Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Amazon all use a lot of Java. It's come a long way since when Microsoft shipped rollover buttons via Java applets in MS FrontPage.
The commentary on that post is frightening.
Bank Big Data DATATHON with 90,000€ in prizes
Imagine these things being able to be re-supplied with munitions whilst in flight.
Just bought it. Thanks, Jason.
It's sad that the best windows laptop on the market is installing win8 on an MBP.
Good approach using bytecode so that any .NET langugage can be supported.
Is Cuba the First Large-scale Maker Society
Perfect income equality is not an ideal, it's a marxist fraud used as ideological cover while the elites keep the "proletariat" held in intense but semi-equal poverty.

You should not get paid the same thing for different work.

If I work twice as hard as you at the same task, you should not make as much as I do.
But isn't Chrome still doing the wrong thing when given https://foo.com:443?
> The 35 percent of wealth that Russian billionaires
> own is equivalent to $420 billion.

According to Wikipedia, the wealth of Russia is $5.61T. What am I missing...?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_wealth#Statistics
I mean: "does it work with local carriers here if I put a generic sim in it from o2.co.uk", I take your answer to mean yes? Which, if the case, is superb, I do not much care for the IOS or Android ecosystem (though much less for the former than the latter) so having Mozilla backed phone would suit me very well!
I'm a systems guy and I love C for its simplicity. There certain problem domains which C++ is better suited for, but everything being equal, I'll chose C every time for its simplicity (don't give me the whole "shoot your foot off" argument. I know, but this is not much of an issue for experienced and competent C devs)
I'm not sure why people have problem with this "observation". I can't pull it out but there is a connection with chaos theory as well. Let's say you equalize everyone's income but after that some people would use their income to start new business, some would buy lottery, some would spend it all out and so on. Outliers would be rare and ultimately the distribution would settle in to Gaussian. The width of the bell shrinking as time passes. For some phenomenons there is upper bound to the shrinkage and for others width might oscillate between extremes.
True that Google doesn't own the world's largest online retail outlets, but it is one of the worlds largest web companies. On par with Amazon. Google also has a loyal customer base (Android, Gmail, Chrome, people that swear by Google+), I think it might be a closer comparison than you think.
This was posted here months ago, is there something new?
A fleet of these seems like a great way to provide cheap internet.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't your code just have easily used hostname as opposed to host since that's what you were specifically interested in?
Visualizing min-heap algorithms with D3.js
There are a handful of projects translating C# to JavaScript:

- http://sharpkit.net/ (commercial)

- http://scriptsharp.com/ (closed compiler)

- http://www.saltarelle-compiler.com/ (open source)
Getting my own plan was a legal impossibility, and would have done little to help anyone in the US get hold of me.

car's suggestion is at least an interesting half-solution. I didn't even consider a T-Mobile "wi-fi calling" phone at the time, as I'd been under the impression, right up until today, that T-Mobile had only had that feature for a couple years before abandoning it.
Hey there! I'm Forge's lead developer. We're targeting people who want to set up a site, but don't want to set up a server or use Amazon's admin panels.

For example, many front-end developers and designers struggle with things like S3 buckets, setting up cloudfront, minifying assets and images, and keeping a version history.

If you're a developer like me or you, Forge is useful because it's one less tool that you have to mess with to host your site. Simple, easy, everything in one place. I hate using the S3 admin panel and wanted to build something I'd enjoy using.
I'll definitely agree with that. I've called Amazon many times, yet I've only talked to someone at Google once (bad Google Offers purchase).
"the same reason that many of us have read pg's essays - particularly the early ones." [1]

The question is would anyone have thought anything of PG's essays before he became "PG" that he is today? Not that people didn't read them but it seem now that anything that he has written or writes takes on such status that people are less likely to question or disagree with any conclusions.

[1] Also noting that PG's (at least the ones's I've seen) essays are always proofed by others it would be interesting to get a sense of the type of comments and changes that are made post that proofing.