skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have finally found a workflow that works for me, and I'm slowly converting my thousands of unusable bookmarks (I'm a hoarder).

I use pinboard (delicio.us clone) and firefox.

pinboard lets you tag a bookmark, and you can subscribe to a tag's rss feed, or a combination of tags' feed. It's pretty clever.

firefox has a "live bookmark" feature, where a bookmark is really an rss reader of a specific feed. Peanut butter in my chocolate.

So for news sites, I tag them in pinboard as 'news'. For news sites that I want to read daily, they get an additional 'daily' tag. For news sites that I read frequently but not daily, they get the addtional 'often' tag. That's all in pinboard. I use a firefox extension to save pinboard bookmarks.

In firefox I have a bookmarks folder called news. Inside the news bookmark folder I have three live bookmarks, each pointing to one of my pinboard rss feeds:

news #firefox folder
news # firefox live bookmark pointing to pinboard 'news' rss feed
news daily # pinboard feed for combo of 'news' and 'daily' tags
news often # combo of 'news' and 'often' tags

In firefox I click on Bookmarks/news/news often, and I see the list of all pinboard bookmarks that have been tagged with both 'news' and 'often'.

And since it's pinboard I can access them from anywhere, any browser, no synchronization required.

Now I actually use my bookmarks.
Kiva.org anyone? I"m shocked this hasn't come up in this thread
They have St Vincent de Pauls societies in little towns all over the world.

In the Boston suburb where I grew up,they were 12 parishioners who would collect money and make direct payments on people's rent, car payments, they would bring Thanksgiving dinners to those who couldn't afford them, and they had a clothing drive.
The isolation is extreme when it's an unknown language and non-"western" culture. Though I would still consider Ukraine relatively western.

I was in Luhans'k, an industrial city with a college district, located near the eastern border with Russia. I worked remotely from a euro-style ($1200/mo) flat. It was 4 years ago.

I loved walking around the city in the snow, looking at shops and markets. The local tech scene was pretty much dead, at least for a foreigner who didn't speak the language. It might be as cheap as Thailand, but probably less accessible and fun. I have yet to visit Asia. I couldn't handle continuing to bootstrap there because of my isolation.

Edit: I think you'd have MUCH better luck in Kiev.
Me too. I'm currently using it for the second time for a large multilingual dictionary. Both dictionaries are the first produced for these languages. People are thrilled at the results. It is so easy to create something beautiful with LaTeX.
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I am surprised no one has talked about the QGMLWY Layout, or the fully English optimized QFMLWY layout?:

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?full_optimization

Take not of the script you can download to pipe your scripts to, and learn what is the best layout you actually need:

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/?requirements

Here's a list of them:

http://deskthority.net/wiki/Keyboard_layouts

There was another that was truly optimized for use Coders, that is not Dvorak based. It had the Option key (⌥) as part of its modifiers. I assume it was called something like the coders layout? I don't recall. If any one can recall it, that would be awesome.
ya i saw that I'm not familiar with OpenNLP. lemme have a look it might solve my problem, I'm also starting a nlp project using scala :)
Why not hand the next beggar you see a $20?
The problem is the car isn't really very big, is heavy due to batteries and compromises, and if I drive it at all aggressively like my personal car, I can make it go sideways.

Bummer. Doesn't sound much like the Ultimate Driving Machine.
There are places where I would use the latter, but the name of the library is wrong.
That Ivy Bridge processor may be completely mainstream now, but it was released after the code freeze for the distribution you were trying to install. That basically guarantees that you'll have at least some driver related issues, either due to immature drivers or undiscovered quirks in the new hardware. But you can also expect things to get much better in only a few months time.
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Presumably because $20 goes further in Kenya than in wealthier countries.
What DRM is there? I thought the SoftDevice was just a binary blob? I'm currently in the prototyping phase of a product that uses the nRF5, I couldn't see any competitive advantage I would gain from developing my own stack considering the time investment it would take.
I agree that personal anecdotes are best left untold unless they illustrate documented effects that you can back with evidence. But I strongly disagree that only professional doctors and scientists should discuss any form of science. That is anathema to an Enlightened world.
I had actually used d3's internal transition / tween functions to do something similar. Take a look: http://jsfiddle.net/x4EBe/

It's nothing fancy, but was quite interesting to have in a dashboard we made.
Bottleneck courses resulting in students struggling to graduate
Looking at some of your earlier submissions here, it seems like you already have an interest in Python -- why not go with that? It's a powerful language.
I think this is feeding into a prevalent and false narrative that persons in poverty are all drug addicts or welfare queens.

Christian Parenti really sums it up well when he describes American views on poverty in his book, The Soft Cage:

"In a society that denies the true causes of poverty—low wages and structural unemployment—the poor necessarily show up as objects of mystery to be examined, measured, interrogated, and indexed, or as James C. Scott would put it, made “legible.” In a society that hides the real mechanics of exploitation and sees all social phenomena through the lens of individualism, it is assumed that the poor—their genetics, their habits, or their culture—must be the true cause of poverty."[1]

Specifically with respect to your point about drugs:

"Reports such as the National Survey of Drug Use and Health suggest drug abuse among welfare recipients is hardly widespread. Many states have tried drug testing for welfare recipients with practically nobody testing positive. In Arizona, for example, in 2012, after three years and 87,000 screenings, one person had failed a drug test. Utah's drug screening program spent $30,000 on testing and only 2.5% of recipients turned out positive for illicit drugs. Florida's program had the same results.

"In all cases, the testing -- which assumes all welfare recipients are druggies -- cost much more than the savings in welfare payments."[2]

We need to stop acting paternalistically toward the poor and, instead, treat them as people who are capable of making their own decisions.

[1] http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7593829M/The_Soft_Cage

[2] http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/30/opinion/granderson-michigan-we...
Have you noticed that you had to enter a serial number in order to get your SDK?
The Norman layout [1] beats Workman at it's own metrics (or so it says on the tin), and from brief experimentation makes more sense to me.

I've always wanted to try an alternate layout, and this post led me to find minimak [2]. I'm typing with it right now and really enjoying the similarity to qwerty (only 4 keys changed) with reduced movement, plus 99% of my shortcuts remain the same.

[1] http://normanlayout.info

[2] http://minimak.org
My only point is that to me, giving cash to Kenyans and giving cash to beggars seems morally equivalent. Not saying you shouldn't do either but I do think if you give Kenyans cash but have qualms with giving beggars money, well I don't think that makes much sense.
More firefox and pinboard bookmark management.

The firefox pinboard extension (and probably other browsers' pinboard extensions if they exist) lets you "Save tab set". So if you want to save a huge set of open tabs (guilty) and change focus, do that and give the set a name.

You can then, later, come back to the tab set. You can open them all back into tabs, or edit the list, or open one tab at a time. I wish you could attach tabs to bookmarks in a tab list, but it's not too bad to have to open a single mark/tab and then tag it.
I was one of those people. I apologise if I brought more heat than light.
It was also covered by Planet Money and written up: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/is-it-nuts-to-giv...

PM also followed an American building contractor who was attempting to build a schoolhouse in Haiti. The guy landed in the country pretty gung-ho, ready to apply his extensive experience to building something relatively simple. He had never done aidwork in a developing country. After many delays and run-ins with corruption, he did manage to complete it, but he concluded that just giving them money would have been more efficient.
Since you couldn't be bothered to read the article before leaving what must apparently be a wisecrack: it was a controlled experiment using groups.

> Blattman, an assistant professor of international and public affairs and political science, recently completed a four-year study of a government-run program in northern Uganda that gave cash to groups of young people so they could learn a trade and start their own businesses. The results surprised him and convinced him that outright grants are the best way to give aid.

> The program, funded by a loan from the World Bank, was designed to boost the Ugandan economy after 20 years of civil strife by encouraging young people—ages 16 to 35—to move from agriculture to skilled trades. The grants were only about $400 per person, the equivalent of a year’s income for most people in the area. To get the cash, applicants had to form a group with others in their village and submit a proposal showing how they planned to use the money, but there was no follow-up to make sure they used it for that purpose.

> Grant recipients became carpenters, metal workers, tailors and hair stylists. Some of the money—about 10 to 20 percent—went for training, either at an institute or as an apprentice to a local artisan, but most of it was used to purchase tools and raw materials. Some of those small businesses grew large enough to hire paid employees, improving the economic situation in an entire village.
> There is no serious evidence that Dvorak is a 'better' layout.

The typing speed record, while it still existed, was held by a dvorak typist. I can type at 130-140wpm using qwerty and feel like it's almost impossible to go any faster, while it's not uncommon to see dvorak users typing 160wpm+. If anything, the reduction in total finger travel is enormous.
I feel like improvements over Colemak are going to be pretty incremental at this point. In this case, there's a pretty big trade-off on leaving home row for the sake of not reaching for the H.

What I'd like to see is some proper innovation like good programmer-usable chorded layouts that work with existing inexpensive hardware (I don't mind buying a good non-ghosting keyboard, but I don't want to pony up a few grand for a Velotype).
And, to manage lots of open tabs strictly in firefox, use tab groups: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tab...

Basically you can divide your open tabs into groups, and then only have one group open at a time. You can easily switch between groups. That way I can switch focus between different subjects that I'm studying.

Unfortunately pinboard can't see firefox tab groups, it only sees all the tabs in all the groups. It would be nice to use pinboard to "save all tabs" for just the currently opened firefox tab group. Maybe some day.
IntelliJ does an amazingly good job of Javascript + html + CSS code completion, inspection, and reformatting. I primarily program in Java and I expected basically no IDE support for Javascript, but I was pleasantly surprised when it started warning me that imported files don't exist, my jquery selectors don't match any element IDs, my CSS is invalid, etc etc etc.
they want to know what their future boss's next move will be
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eh. I had that at a previous employer. I used volcano names because there's a fair number of them and they sometimes explode. ( the graphite server was called seismograph... ).
Yep. Junior z/OS sysprog here. A little Assembler and some C.
I can offer you an alternative, rather more cynical, explanation as to why it's such a popular class: it's rated as one of the easiest.

Not only, as the article mentions, does it fulfill a core requirement, but it's also rated as one of the easiest courses going in the student evaluations. It scores a 1.58/5 for workload, and a 2.43/5 for difficulty, both below the benchmark for the Gen Ed department (which itself is pretty low).

I'm sure many people taking the class have a genuine interest, but from my experience a significant number of students spend a lot of time finding core/gen-ed classes that are light on work (this is especially true if you've left your requirement to the last minute to complete).

(I'd link to the evaluation data, but you need a harvard.edu login, so you'll have to take my word for it).

Edit: Turns out the student paper backs this theory up - http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/9/hey-atlantic-5-r...
Didn't you know that everything is style and nothing is substance?
> how many people actually end up storing dates before the magic February 29 1900?

Anyone engaging in any sort of historical research?
Switched to Dvorak after plateau-ing in typing speed and experiencing pain in my hands and wrist. Helped immediately, but what also hleped almost as much was:

- Aliases for frequent shell commands
- Remapping 'caps lock' to 'control' (on US keyboards)
Show HN: The Bike Pit uses Jekyll and Github Pages, runs a free bicycle shop
Just from the headline, I thought this would be an Onion article..
Education visa is a good option for staying long-term in Thailand. You just need to enrol into a course (usually 60 to 180 hour Thai language or English language course) and that will give you 15 months visa that can be extended for up to 5 years. Total cost for 15 months is around 1000 USD and you don't have to leave the country every couple of months. Just Google "thailand education visa". It's also a good way to learn something while staying in Thailand.
I think Kiro meant 500, as in the HTTP status code, due to PHP running out of memory, not 500MB.
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Phailin Cyclone Footage Caught On Dash Cam.
> It is the jetblue of car rentals. Entire fleet is the same

I think a closer analogue is Southwest Airlines.

JetBlue actually operate two distinct families of aircraft, neither compatible to _any_ degree. The EMBRAER EMB-180 and the Airbus 320 / 321 series.

No spares compatibility and no pilot rating across those two types. Even the seats are different widths. The only common factor is that they both burn kerosene :)

JetBlue have also introduced a second cabin product, Mint, which further complicates their operations.
my classmate's half-sister makes $72 every hour on the internet. She has been without a job for eight months but last month her payment was $16159 just working on the internet for a few hours.Here's the site to read more......

------------------->http://www.works23.com
I'm going to go out on a limb here and disagree with you :-D

I know that the Toastmasters folks will ding you for saying "Um" or "So", etc. And yes, if it is too common it can be annoying (sort of on along the lines of someone who inserts "you know" into almost every sentence). However, in this interview, it was obvious that you were doing that while trying to come up with a thoughtful and meaningful answer. I don't think that it detracts from the interview at all. In fact, I would say it is a sign of you being real, sincere -- and not just trying to BS your way through the interview.

My two cents.
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A guide on how to build a six-figure blog in less than 3 months.
When I was in college, I noticed that I was allowed to use 3 credits of physical education towards my elective credits. However, none were offered at the school, so I took yoga at a community college and transferred the credits in.

Turns out I discovered I really like yoga. :)
Congrats to the team. Title made me double take for a second there.
I wonder if requiring applicants to "form a group with others in their village and submit a proposal showing how they planned to use the money" had anything to do with their success. It's not like they just dropped money out of a plane. And the fact that these grants were funded by a World Bank loan seems to undercut the headline even more.
To install Ubuntu, I insert a usb stick, boot, and answer a few questions. It auto-detects all my hardware, unlike Windows which has no clue what to do about my printers without downloading dozens of MB's of drivers.

If I want something I don't know whether comes as default or not, I press the Windows key, start typing a keyword. If anything matching is installed, it shows up, or I pick the "applications" tab to get a list of not-yet installed applications available from the software centre.

I'm listening to music now, browsing the web of course, and regularly watch videos, none of which took anything more than the above.

(I don't know about a gaming rig either, as I don't play many games)

It sounds to me like you last tried a Linux distro 5+ years ago, or hav been extremely unlucky.
Excellent example of Occam's razor.
I'm a happy user of the Neo layout. It's very different from QWERTY (or rather German QWERTZ) but optimised for English and German bi- and trigrams as well as programming.

Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Neo

Or take a good look at its multilevel layout here: http://neo-layout.org/ ("Ebene 3" is especially interesting for programmers…)
the wrong math is what bothers me the most about these spam posts.
Didn't they just have a huge cheating scandal? I mean why kind of journo is on the prowl (of his own volition) poking around these kind of corners in a university?

If the body leads, the mind will follow.

The smallest actions have the most profound ramifications.

Decisions are made from the heart.

Seeing how they just launched another $6B fundraiser...perhaps they were getting pushback from the type of students that were making the press for all the wrong reasons.
We kinda had this talk, but it proved useless, since most users hardly change habits (the real reason to µ$ Word stagnation):
http://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1mt8a5/nearly_everyon...

Even IE6.
does anybody actually give a shit?
Is this actual production code? https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace/blob/mas...

It's way below the quality you'd expect from a modern front-end. Poor standards, undocumented code, monolithic sources, hard-coded data all around. Despite using Backbone and other modern frameworks, it looks like something a novice JS developer would concoct, not a project in the millions...

My favorite part so far (https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace/blob/mas...):

//got this from the internets
//fetchs the URL parameters
function getUrlVars()
{
...
Is there a way to get the reading list for this course?
Use of funds makes all the difference.

Sometimes, a person needs a little push - or some initial help to get off the ground.

What are your views on all the entrepreneurs seeking funding - would you consider them parasites?
There are different schools of Chinese philosophy that have differing approaches and conclusions, and even then sub-schools with differing beliefs within them (e.g. the Confucianist scholars Xun Zi and Mencius on the innate goodness of human nature). Saying that students should apply something as broadly and uselessly defined as "Chinese philosophy" into their lives is not particularly helpful, and sort of implicitly reinforces the stereotype that Chinese (or East Asian) people all adhere to this rigid, alien way of thinking.

Also, it's sort of condescending. No Western professor teaches Heidegger or Schopenhauer by breaking them up into easy-to-digest, feel-good aphorisms for better living.
Here's another theory (not saying yours isn't possibly right): the Chinese government has an agenda involving more and more people studying Chinese language, culture, and traditions. I'm not insinuating any malicious intent here; as any sensible country would they want to promote trade with other nations, and trade goes a lot smoothly if the other party speaks your language/knows your culture/has a connection.

One manifestation of this agenda is the Confucius Institutes that have spawned hundreds of branches around the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius_Institute). They're pretty nice organizations: they run programs, give funding for projects, give scholarships (heck, my web development job during college was paid partly through the local CI). All in all promote Chinese language/culture, though all pretty much funded by the PRC.
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Why would someone kill themselves in order to get into Harvard only to slack their way through it doing the easiest rated classes?
Presumably this intro level course does a survey of major belief systems.
I'd love to learn something like this but my problem is that I'm scared I'll disable myself from being able to use a regular QWERTY keyboard without looking like an idiot.

Changing keyboard layout of library or university computers or basically any other computer than your own comes with a lot of trouble.
For example you can live just fine in many fairly nice areas in Czech Republic and Slovakia for $1000/m (wife's family is Czech & Slovakian, never lived there myself but visited very often & stayed with locals).
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Have you ever been 18?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that professional success and studying music both correlate with having an upper class background.
$1000 is 737 eur/m, you can certainly live like a student in Berlin that way (e.g. with roommates) but I wouldn't say "live well" considering the recent rent hikes. We're moving there now and just renting a small 2-room (1 bedroom) apartment can easily cost 600-700 eur/m (gesamtmiete).

You can do well with 1000 eur/m per person tho.
I used to use dvorak, but ironically, I switched to querty because I was having RSI issues and I reverted to two finger hunt and peck for a while (not a fun time). Now that things are better I've considered going back, but the sticking point for me is ctrl-c/ctrl-v. These were always awkward for me under Dvorak, and at the time almost impossible to remap.

This has perhaps inspired me to give colemak (which retains the usual c/v positions) a shot.
Quite a few people believe that general education requirements are a waste of time. Therefore, they pick easy classes for the things that have nothing to do with their major.
"Fact" because I can't tell if it's true. (I'll confess I have great doubt.) "Preposterous" because it doesn't seem possible a web site would cost that much. Relevant to HN because it's about a web site, and the readers here are well positioned to evaluate how such a thing might actually be true.

I was worried it might appear so, but I was not trying to rabble-rouse. Sorry if you mistook my intentions.
Really bugs me the kind of ideas that getting funding. Some of us have viable businesses that need funds to scale but just don't have the right pedigree.
Japan has gotten a lot less expensive in the past 10 years.
Predictable as the sunrise in these kinds of posts.
> I don't buy exclusives.

You've never bought an exclusive game on a platform you already own? Given that some of the best games ever made have been exclusive to something or another, this seems rather self-defeating.

Did you mean to say you've never bought a console because of exclusives? This strikes me as still quite unlikely (else why did you buy it in the first place?), but much more reasonable.