skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never seen a Mercury capsule, but the most striking thing to me is its small size [1]. I know that the flight duration was quite short (longest was 22hrs) but the thing is tiny and there is basically no extra interior space.

Gemini was slightly bigger [2], but I'm always amazed that the Gemini 7 crew spent fourteen days in a space about as large as the front seats of a compact car.

Exceptional people.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Mercury-s...

[2] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/Gemini_sp...
Hell, we haven't even resolved (B) within a single nation e.g. London/NYC/Bay Area vs rest of country.
Clearly, his soap bills were hundreds of dollars a month. Now that he's quit his soap habit, he's got enough for the iPhone. For shelter, he built a yurt out of soap wrappers and self-esteem.
I don't think anyone sharing their anecdotes (myself included) are asserting any kind of medical expertise or suggesting that a comment section generally reserved for relatively obscure debates about technology should replace a qualified physician/psychologist.

Discouraging the general dissemination of experience seems generally counterproductive unless of course someone is making claims that would discourage sound medical advice.
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off topic, but this: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/50
Inspecting DNS Prefetching and Resolver Performance Within Chrome
What it did turn out, though, is that we use too high doses of soaps and shampoos in general, and they are actually intended to be used in minuscule amounts

Well, isn't this a confirmation of what I have said? Like producers of cosmetics encourage us on a regular basis to use up as little of their products as possible? I like what Chomsky said on a somewhat similar topic:

If I'm analyzing capitalism and I point out that General Motors tries to maximize profit, that's not a conspiracy theory. That's analysis.

It's not a conspiracy theory that companies try to maximize profit, in fact that's one of the basic assumptions of free market economy. I don't even ascribe any particularly cynical viewpoints to any of the individual people involved, but in any large company responsibility becomes so diluted it's easy for things that are quite bad for society in general to just happen without anyone being left with much remorse. I think it's quite rational to expect that markets that are not regulated to some extent might degrade in those nasty ways.
I thought that - I wondered if that was only the number who were paying? In fairness though, the SSL cert would compromise even those who weren't..so I guess you're right.
I suppose he is talking about some kind of swimming shorts. Those often have built-in tights.
I deactivated my Facebook profile for several months. Didn't miss the photos. Came back. Photos start to look silly, pointless, trivial. If I really, really want to see something, I'll ask a friend to show it to me over his/her phone.
"How do you spend your time" is a good alternative. If people are out of work, or hate their job, it doesn't alienate them, yet allows them to talk about it if it is important to them.
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It would be good to be able to edit the To: field without having to clear it entirely and start over. Furthermore, pressing Tab after entering an e-mail address in the To: field causes it to be cleared.

Also, the bubble number indicator to the right of the Drafts folder seems to fall down on to the line below.

Iceweasel (like Firefox) 23, Debian Linux.
It's more for the integration with Vagrant than Wordpress itself.
I thought it was pretty obviously satire, but so many people are taking it seriously here; now I'm 98% sure it's satire.
The article states that they claim Assange was charged with 'rape' in Sweden, and that Assange has never been charged with anything by anyone.
Huh? The top level comment said something about Google search using SSL and "clicking through certificate warnings" which doesn't sound like server-to-server connectivity to me.
You have asked?

I live in India and have been poor most of my childhood and I can say with some surety that - globalisation or not, working condition of poor workers WILL not improve just out of blue.

There was a story recently in Bangalore about - labourers working on Army Contracts are not being paid minimum wage and their salary being held for months. If anything I am pretty sure, people working at Suzuki or Chevrolet assembly plants are being paid better than those labourers.

The question being asked is - "Does Globalization encourages exploitation of poor workers"? Answer is most probably no.
paging Moxie Marlinspike ... http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-worst
If you like this kind of thing I highly recommend Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth.
Multi-millionaire American says you should move to Asia.
My “Must Have/Nice to Have” Framework
I don't see so much hate in the current results for languages that offer few or no real advantages. It seems to me that most of the hate is directed at languages that are often mandated by external forces, whether those be bosses, target platforms or simply lack of alternatives within a niche.
Every time someone tries to convince me they've found some awesome way to live their life (or do anything) and hints that they've tapped into something undiscovered, or something we'd all be doing if we weren't so blinded or busy being tricked by 'the man', I have to remind myself that we're not all the same.

It needs to be repeated. We're not all the same.

To think that we are the same and make decisions based on that assumption (and use that as a basis for any kind of advice) is at best, foolish, and at most, dangerous.

Here's my ridiculous strawman (which is for entertainment more than argument, like any good strawman):

I don't need a wheelchair. The average person doesn't need a wheelchair. So let's do away with wheelchairs!

Look, sure, I've got a lot of stuff that I don't need and shouldn't need. Upon accepting this truth I didn't dump all my shit and try to fit my life into a backpack. I'm married, which brings with it a whole bunch of compromises. This post, and many like it, reek of someone who doesn't have to make a lot of compromises. I'm sure it works for him. It may not work for you.

Wear sunscreen.
That was the plan, but now we are planning to make 4.1 an easy upgrade as well, and not remove deprecations that were originally planned on being removed.
> And I don't see Africa at all

That would be because Africa isn't a country. Look in the bottom center of the visualization: MAR, NGA, EGY, ZAF and a number of smaller countries between them - that's Africa.
I totally get it now. With vast majority of HN users being Americans, there is just one comment on this post about trampling the innocent and that is a quote! No wonder the rights and freedoms of the common men of west are being subjugated more and more day after day.
Wow, people here are obviously much more attached to their lifestyles than this guy, considering the amount of hate he received in just a few minutes. I mean, he was relatively non-judgemental about the whole thing, and people here respond almost like being attacked personally.
Not if you can afford eating out for every meal.
Except cops are out catching real criminals as well, there are lots of cops. If the entire police department are out catching speeding drivers and dealing with no other crime then "they should be catching more serious criminals" is a valid point.

How much capital (financial, political, human, technical) does Wikileaks spend focusing on each country around the world? How would that list correlate with the worst human rights abusers, the most opaque governments.

This of course in a week when the Azerbaijan presidential elections have just seen the results accidentally released before voting even opened...
What are the benefits of searchkick over tire?
IMHO WP is not complex enough to have a necessity to develop with it in Vagrant.

That's what I call "overtooling". Keep simple things simple and preserve complex toolchains for complex tasks and environments.
What I dread is the ratio, not the actual resolution.

Fuck 16:9.
Why did Datapipe acquire Newvem?
I'm very interested in doing a long distance river trip in Europe. Can I ask which route you took through those countries? Was dealing with locks an issue or did you just carry your canoe past them?
Who doesn't associate glasses/binoculars with "find", "hunt", "look", "search". Even if I use a piece of software I've never seen before, I generally know what the icons mean, and usually buttons will have a title — or below the icon on OSX sometimes — on hover to give more information.
Frankly, what are you talking about? This was posted an hour ago and, right now, it is between ~2 and ~5 AM in most of the US.
> Shampoo: Some people report that omitting shampoo works well, but there's a nasty transition period of a few weeks in which you might look like you dipped your head in grease. Reportedly, skalp skin reduces the amount of fat secreted if you stop constantly washing it away.

Who are those people? I'm genuinely interested. I got rashes that are made worse by shampoo.
Not at the moment of the conversation, but there's nothing stopping one of the people there from blogging about it once they get home (think Silicon Valley "overheard" product leaks).

The fact that a piece of information passes through a volatile medium before ending up in a more permanent form doesn't change the value or ownership of the information.

On a tangent, Google Glass passive audio and video recordings will be much more damaging to one's privacy than photos shared intentionally by friends.
I I I I I I -- wow. You said I 53 times.

That is not modern minimalism. You are a contemporary pseudo-ascetic with narcissistic overtones.

edit - removed the angry and hot-headed language
That would be Richard Stallman.
Hardcore soap user? I'm not sure you're using it properly
Kickstarter? I joke, but the serious proposal would be to do work on a "pay us and then we will make it" basis, and release the product free.
Does your 7 year old daughter know what a floppy disk icon does? I bet she does. Does she know what the floppy disk is though? Mine doesn't (12y/o). She just knows that she needs to click it if she wants to save a file in an editor. Might as well draw a random squiggle and call it "save".
If you blindly trust anybody, you clearly don't value your privacy as much as I do.
Nobel Peace Prize : Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
Searchkick uses Tire under the hood, but provides a higher level api. Also, Tire is getting retired in favor of elasticsearch-ruby, so Searchkick could switch the backend and you wouldn't have to change your code.
I personally am in love with Uniball JetStreams. They are the nicest pens I've ever used (and I've used a LOT). I don't mind the Pilot, but it didn't feel right; the JetStream flows like a gel, but dries like a ballpoint.

They're expensive, about $8AUD per pen, but totally worth it.
Nobel Peace Prize 2013 : OPCW
Why Don't More Americans Win the Nobel Prize?
Think of it as the Egyptian hieroglyphs. I'm sure they were quite clear for people back then. But today? we've lost the link to the original concept. The metaphors of icons don't work.

A iOS7 example, look at the browser icons at the bottom of the screen, a square with an arrow on top, two squares next to each other and two squares on top of each other...
Google's answer to asm.js: pepper.js compiles NaCL apps into JS using Emscripten
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Tame Your Twitter Feed by Killing Annoying Retweets
Thats a weak argument. The designers job is to choose sufficiently recognizable icons if they actually want them to be recognized. One magnifying glass looks like most others, and the same goes for most symbols in current widespread use.

Bad designers are the problem, icons are fine. Icons are more efficient. Reading the full word takes longer and recognizing an icon is something the primate brain has developed to excel at over millions of years, in the form of things like predators, prey and brightly colored, specifically patterned fruits shrouded in dense forests.

Pattern recognition runs deep. Icons aren't a problem any more than calling a search function "find" or "browse" or "look for".
You make up story or illusion.
Else, living under bridge and staring at running water gives the same satisfaction.
Yeah, it would be so much better if we wouldn't need Ladar and co in the first place.
Identify whether it is a PhoneGap app or Android native code app
The route out of depression is simple - go to see a doctor. At first they will try to improve your state with talking sessions. If this doesn't work they should prescribe antidepressant. Can somebody offer better way?
He's setting himself up for failure everybody agrees with the fact that all public standards should be available on the internet however very few people are willing to pay for that to happen.

We kind of think it's the government's duty to release and make public on the internet as well as everywhere else these standards without us having to spend our hard earned money on it.

That's what we pay taxes for.
Not exactly on topic, but related: with all the revelations around the NSA spying, I've started thinking about the internet as basically a non-private space. It's a distributed network, and data passes through myriad corporate and governmental infrastructure. Anything you want to keep a secret, you just can't put it on the internet. On some level, the power of the internet is connected with this non-private nature.

I've never understood what the argument for widespread adoption of encryption on the internet was. To get the same utility, you'd have to have a huge "private" network, which would quickly become non-private again.

In light of this, it is disturbing that more and more systems of society are being moved on to the internet. Health records being particularly omninous. You can choose not to post or have profiles on social networks. It looks going forward we will no longer have the option to keep private medical info private.
Samsung Acquires Biometrics Firm Fingerprint Cards For $650M
So now you could scrape the name of every GitHub user and their email if it is public.
Since nobody else has pointed this out: the rest of the guy's website reveals him to be a stand-up comic. The ridiculousness of this post is intentional.
If Doctor Who were a programmer, he'd use deferreds.
Move.js Control your device with your body movement
Ask HN: Affordable service for Twitter historic data (research ML project)?
I'm working on a pretty cool research pet project.

The idea is to build a tool that look for correlations between social media data (basically tweets) and consumer spending habits in a particular area.
Once a promising correlation has been found, the second step is to apply a machine learning model for prediction, and measure its performance.

I already have the anonymous financial data, but I don't know where to find an API or historic database of tweets for that period (6 months between 2012/2013). I've asked to Datasift and they kindly pointed me to their subscription plans (starting at $5K), which are far out of my budget as a personal research pet project.

Any clue on where to get the twitter data I need?
Frameless: column by column, not pixel by pixel responsive framework
Oh they rate limit and only allow access to the first 100 pages of results. Well that is that idea out of the window :P You could probably get around 7000 of them max, barely a scratch.
Even though @PeterHunt apparently wrote this deletion feature, and stated on HN that your information really is deleted [1], I still don't believe him. Even if he is genuine, there is nothing to prove that since he wrote it, Facebook haven't changed that policy.

That is Facebook's core problem. They are the boy that cried wolf. We have seen them lie about privacy. We have seen how they have eroded our privacy, sometimes deliberately and sometimes by mistake. More importantly, we have seen them make these invasions into our privacy, and genuinely not seem to care.

The take-way from this, is that Facebook has become untrustable. As more people realize that, the more people will start deleting their accounts.

The challenge is (as a person that has deleted their Facebook account), is that you have to overcome the addiction and then the deal with the loss. You have to finally accept that the things you think you are missing out on really aren't that important. I personally found this quite hard to accept.

Giving up Facebook and giving up smoking are relatively similar, and I've done both.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3320240
A bit disappointed by that price. I mean, what's the rush? Why not wait for next year, when the OPCW will have at least started the job?

Last time the price went to someone before he actually did something, it didn't turn that well, so why try again?

It's not like there is a lack of possible nominee.
Great point.

So the next question is - for how many years will they admit less qualified women before the policy can be rescinded? Or will it stay in place as long as its required to have a 50-50 incoming class - which basically means quotas forever?
If you're deploying a personal blog, sure. What if you want to create a web service to automatically provision and deploy WP servers? There's a purpose for every 'overtooled' bundle of software, otherwise it wouldn't exist.
Hot water weakens the skin, leading to more infections.
IPhone 5S users report 'Blue Screen Of Death' reboots
We should look at the finances of the film and see if the USG helped to fund it.
Okay, now I get it, the naming makes autocomplete more convenient.

Returning void makes it easier to spot errors. If you accidentally use "capitalizeInPlace" instead of "capitalizedString" your code will compile without issues. If the mutating method returned void, it would result in a compile error.
Hey, great why don't you email me? Do you have experience with kayaking? We are planning to go kayaking in the Guadalquivir in May if you are interested. Otherwise, I can share with you our itineraries (with locks) for the Danube (Passau-Bratisalva) and the Vistula (Cracow-Gdansk).

To your question. The routes we look are river only, meaning, we pick a river and we just keep going. Locks usually are not an issue, you either go pass them as you said (so pack well and get a cart 1) or you use a sluice.

The thing I would really be careful with is falls. Even 2m falls can be dangerous. We got very close (like 5m from it) to a 10m water fall in Vienna on the Neu Donau. It was not in our itinerary because under a bridge and not visible from google earth.

1 Couldn't resist: http://www.vanwal.nl/photos/albums/vistula-june-2013-/img_06...
From what I've gathered, toothpaste is "nice-to-have" - the mechanical aspect of brushing (gently, with a soft brush, lest you damage your gums!) and flossing is much more important (which is why you need not go with anything more extravagant than the cheapest brands, so long as they contain fluoride. It just doesn't matter that much).
Java packages is one of a few things that I like in Java more than in C#.
They asked Neil Armstrong what he would do, if engine on Eagle broke and there was zero chance they would return from Moon. He answered: "I would try to fix it"
Wow, you're not making people live in unsustainable bike-hostile urban sprawl! About time!
Yes, it really is both an awe inspiring and also terrifying sight to think these guys actually sat in there. Looking at it I was reminded of Alan Shepards famous quote when he was asked what was going through his mind just prior to launch; "the fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder". That is bravery on a scale I cannot even begin to contemplate.
A cross-platform solution would be using Opera 12's sidebar, going to links, selecting all 'view' links and downloading all at once. Or use Opera to download the torrent.
Not this again.

I have just moved to another country. While my wife wraps up her job in my home country, before she moves here, I am moving from apartment to apartment with only a suitcase full of clothes, my laptop, and a phone.

Frankly, I hate it. It's great to have a safe and familiar place that you can call home. It's great to have a sofa, a bed, a stack of books, some nice photos on the wall, a kitchen with cooking tools, etc. Also, it's utterly impractical to be a minimalist when/if you get children. Or a life partner who doesn't hold the same philosophy.

I believe in the middle way: don't be overly consumerist, don't be ascetic. There is nothing wrong with having a home and owning stuff (like two jeans).

(Of course, each to his/her own, but I think for 95% of the population extreme minimalism doesn't make them happier.)
And there are more than 7 billion people in this world. In japan, sick people wear face mask to minimize the spread of their sickness. We use vaccines to protect us.

Humans are not perfect creatures.

On a side note: does he at least use soap when he goes to the bathroom, you know, to have a shit?
Could it be that AMD plans to release a revamped binary driver for Wayland?
If you decide to learn to swim, do you jump straight into shark infested waters?

If you anger the US government they will (generally) initiate legal proceedings to see you in court. Even if you think the legal proceedings against you are a sham, you (generally) get your day in court which are (mostly) fair. If you anger China or NK they (generally) don't bother with even that much pretense and you may be tried, convicted and executed before anyone even realizes you're missing.
Note that if acceptance rate is a murky statistic, then using underrepresentation to prove discrimination might be even murkier, because underrepresentation is a function of the acceptance rate and the number of applicants.
"CHASING ICE" captures largest glacier calving ever filmed
So why doesn't the Fisher company seek ethical employers overseas?
Can ayone explain this statement that Wikileaks makes?

Sarah Harrison, the WikiLeaks journalist who accompanied
Edward Snowden from Hong Kong and assisted his successful
asylum bid, is in effective exile in Russia.

Why is she 'effectively in exile'? What would she be charged with if she returned to the UK?
Get some customers. If you can't get customers, get backers.
Already shared at : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6532140
Weird, when I lived in LA nobody called it that.
Denied for that loan? Soon you may thank online data collection