skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what is suggested by this blog:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/12/15/10-rules-for-how-to-wri...

Rule #2: Factor out the GUI into non-reusable code – then develop a cross-platform library for the underlying logic

I'd like to hear others experiences and views with doing that as opposed to using something like QT or GTK.
I am thirsty, Are you?
What about dimensions? This table seems very tall.
Bystanders beat the guy up after he vandalized it and then they tried their best to restore it: http://gothamist.com/2013/10/17/banksy_bed_stuy.php#photo-1
A university degree can be helpful for starting up
In the linked article the first paragraph is a summary. The next few paragraphs are a larger summary. The detailed stuff starts after both of these. Just as your third paragraph recommends.
Same here. If you're really sure people want a noisy, slow to parse medium, at least provide a link to the text equivalent.
Should writing code to contribute be a goal in the long run?

Also I already hangout in IRC chats for FOSS and it's something I want to do but the things I look at all seem over my head.
Windows 8 Boots faster, wakes up faster. The GUI seems about the same to me, a lower end machine may find the GUI to be faster as Aero is gone.

You just need to consider the Windows 8 menu screen like you would the Windows 7 start menu. It just covers the entire screen. You can ignore all the Windows 8 full screen applications for the most part, I am sure they are nice on a tablet but not on my 27" desktop screen.

I find it easier to move between a Windows 7 machine at work and my Windows 8 machine at home then between XP and Windows 7, the old work home combination.
another data point for disliked the video. In my mind, if the sales page is that unfriendly, how unusable is their software going to be?
Is Estonia the Next Silicon Valley?
Can you blame them? This is East New York we're talking about - one of the poorest, most violent neighborhoods in the country. This isn't Midtown Manhattan or Greenwich Village - this is a neighborhood that is usually discussed only in terms of fear and derision.

And now that Banksy has "blessed" it with one of his pieces, suddenly people who scoffed at the idea of ever stepping foot in ENY are arriving in droves.

Think about that for a second: people who look down on you, who do everything they can to "contain" the effects of your neighborhood, are now tourists. Not only are they tourists, they are tourists visiting in worship of a figure who has appropriated one of the primary cultural elements of poor urban areas and made it aesthetically and thematically palatable to the wealthy.

I'd be pissed too.
You're 25 man, use all the opportunities you get while you still get them. Go there, make sure if you want it or not and if you do just invite your family with you. If they don't want to come, their loss.

I did once took a job opportunity in a neighbor country where I didn't speak the language, but overall and all the experience rather changed my life in a good way not a bad way.
Foxconn has a number of factories there now.
Did you see this ? It shows screenshots with explanations.

http://www.groovehq.com/#what_you_get

EDIT: Apparently, this link takes you to "how it works" tab and you still have to click on the "What You get" tab manually.
Veeva Systems vs Salesforce
I think staying under 50 employees means you are exempt from being forced to offer insurance to full time employees (those with over 30 hours a week and/or salaried.) However, if you are offering health insurance - and most startups would be, then you are affected by the changes to private insurance.
I don't know if those people were shills or not but the thing about the Win 8 boosters that surprised me was how angry many of them were or are.

Someone would complain about the start screen or badly integrated metro apps and the chorus would start up about how anyone who didn't like the new menus and hot corners were luddites terrified of change. Absolutely ridiculous.

It was a surprising change of tone from how Windows users usually discuss things. The anger is usually reserved for inexplicable changes which don't work. The defenders usually shrug it off with a "Well, Vista always worked for me." Windows is not normally the sort of thing which attracts the sort of angry defensive passion which Mac or Linux users used to display.

So I can see how the abrupt change of tone would make people suspicious.
Busting China's Bloggers.
We've been kicking around similar ideas for our startup - this helps to jumpstart our motivation again.
Advice for YC applicants from Michelle Crosby of Wevorce (YC W13)
Just a little correction, the plural of Real is Reais, and not 'reals'.
Agreed regarding the biases pushing women towards less powerful roles. On the other hand, men are pressured socially to always choose certain roles, whether they want power or not. By definition, the majority of men aren't leaders and possess little power. But watch what happens to a guy who becomes a stay at home dad. The snarky comments, the jokes, the behind the back comments.... Don't think for a second women get anything nearly as bad in this decade when they choose to go to work.

I think that's where the disconnect between the Feminists and the Reddit-type Men's Rights people are(not talking about the psychos on there). The MRA guys aren't saying men need more paths to power. They just want more choices, while the Feminists want a society that isn't constantly steering women to subservient roles, no matter what choice they make.
French court convicts Scientology of fraud
The issue we're talking about has nothing to do with the relative priority of security issues versus other bugs. The OP claimed that Oracle issues bug fixes less frequently (quarterly) than Microsoft or Adobe (monthly). Your claim is completely unrelated to that.
EME means CDMs. There is no CDM API, and CDMs would likely require trusted binaries, i.e. signed software they had verified themselves. At least Flash and Silverlight work with browsers you compiled yourself.
There have been plenty of studies that link salty, fatty foods to brain activity (highs) similar to addicts. Anecdotal explanations usually trend around our brains rewarding us for finding and gorging on life sustaining calories as a leftover attribute from earlier humans who lived when food was scarce.
My experience is obviously is anecdotal, but nonetheless I learnt this from my daughter.

When she was about 3 my wife and I were discussing a birthday gift. My wife wanted to get her a kitchen play set (stove, dishes, etc) and I disagreed, purely on gender role grounds.

A week later we were visiting with my sister, whose daughter did have one of these play sets. My daughter spent the entire visit playing with that set, and asked for one when we left. My wife looked smug.

In retrospect my thinking was dumb. My own life experience should have clued me in. Most of Western society is built to cater for the white male. Those who aren't are told that 'success' is dependant on behaving more like a white male. That is only true if there is only one type of success, the white male type.
Why Docker? Why Not Chef?
Agree completely. Now that we've tested the simplest page we could come up with, it's time to start adding other paths to the funnel.
That link just takes you to the how it works tab. The first time I loaded the page the "what you get" link didn't do anything. I opened it back up in safari and now can see the interactive feature list. Still not much information there.
cool idea. Can this be done for many sites? like macros that take advantage of the site's own JS.
Not to the OP, but if the author or someone from distilnetworks.com reads this: you probably shouldn't have a customer service bot proactively try and chat with people who are just reading your blog.
Wait! I am applying this Winter batch in Y and 'No Idea' and 'Idea' pages are the same? So, how Paul will judge which one is what?
It's a really effective approach, and I think it's cool that it flips the situation of 'programmers being bad at marketing' around.
In simple (and sad) words:

There is no passion anymore
This article is the perfect example of why why the financial industry and looking at the bottom-line so often falls short of the entire picture. If you think the value of Tesla is in its current line of vehicles you completely miss the point. The Roadster, Model S and Model X aren't Tesla's real value proposition, despite the numerous awards they've won and the incredible cars they are; those were merely the entrance fee.

And yes, I realize this is exactly what people were saying when the .com bubble happened, but Tesla is turning a profit on a small scale, and the potential for it to profitably scale up is obvious.

Before Tesla, very few people took electric cars seriously, for a few reasons:

1. Small range.

2. Too high cost for the car.

3. Looked cheap/corny.

4. Impossible to make long roadtrips.

In short, electric cars used to be toy cars.

The purpose of Tesla's fist three models wasn't to make a bunch of money, but to change both the reality and the perception of electric cars; to show that they could be a desirable and economically feasible daily driver, and they nailed it. The above points are less true with each model and other incremental advancement (supercharger network, charging station) Tesla releases.

I would unashamedly invest in Tesla, not because its earnings are so stellar, but because it has begun to crack the code and reinvent the entire automobile industry.
> That being said, the tone of your comment makes me think you are not interested in an argument, but rather just want to deflect attention away from what the USG is doing. Because everybody is doing it, right?

Quite the opposite. In no way am I trying to excuse what the US is doing or say that it is "right" in any way, shape, or form. I think what the US government is doing in terms of internet surveillance is unequivocally wrong.

The issue is: viewing it as a US-only problem will lead to everyone being vulnerable to similar surveillance from other parts of the world. Countries which are currently grandstanding about the US's actions are almost certainly motivated in part by wanting to deflect attention from the fact that they are either already using similar systems, or scrambling to build them.

Freedom from internet surveillance should be viewed as a human right that applies no matter where one lives. Framing it as "the US vs. everyone else" leaves everyone wide open. Before the Snowden leaks came out, there was widespread skepticism about the reach of the US's internet surveillance. Now that that skepticism has been (hopefully permanently) dissolved, I find it strange that there is any skepticism left in regards to other governments.
Mine (Asus Zenbook ux31a) doesn't even boot to dekstop anymore with the default kernel. X server just says fatal error, no screens found. Using kernel 3.8 now and things seems to work.
Passenger. It's a thing and it works great.
Five-star recruit Devonta Pollard in junior college
Someone did this a while back -- it made HN, but I don't remember who was behind it. It had a camera and an LCD display and could travel between offices and conference rooms in an office building several states away, attending meetings and generally hanging out with coworkers.
Good point. I updated the post with this:

It's 5' long, 25" deep, and 32" tall. It came out a little taller than expected because I put feet screws in the bottom of the legs so that I could make the table even. Those screws added almost an inch. I just have to raise my chair a little bit though.
You could have just stopped at "mostly unknown impacts", or rather "unpredictable effects". Because the heart of the problem, and I think the debates between pro and anti climate change perfectly illustrates it, is that we don't exactly know what will happen if we push the ecosystem too far from the current equilibrium.
New Spinnakr Integration - Segment.io
It's common to see Brazilians abroad on vacation loading up on large amounts of consumer products to avoid these super-high import taxes. Apparently in some countries (Venezuela IIRC) a combination of currency controls & import duties makes flights abroad self-financing.
Let's not overlook Jack Ma of Alibaba. When it started Taobao in China to compete with eBay China, eBay had 85% of the online auction market in China. Within a few years, eBay was forced out of the China market completely. And if one looks at Taobao closely, its model is much friendlier to small businesses and that's the main driver of its success. I wouldn't be surprised if Taobao starts competing with eBay globally within the next few years. And then there is alibaba.com...
Who gets to define "fair"?

Maximal competitiveness.

down a grid and subdivide quadrants by population

aka red lining

Campaign finance reform, as commonly understood as you describe, is anathema to the fundamental right of free speech.

Money != speech.

Any attempts to regulate, limit, and document facilitation of free speech will be subverted.

Laundering campaign money thru Super PACs et al is a form of speech?

I thought you libertarians were all for open government, transparency, accountability.

Regardless, freedom of speech != right to privacy. When you petition the government, you have to use your real name.
DataElite
I really get tired of this sort of response where the one replying ignores the primary point in order to take issue with a single portion of one of several examples that bolstered it.
they increase the power of organized factions that are not directly accountable and which provide support for politicians between offices

That's one factor, sure, but you have to consider that tenured politicians are both a force in their political seat as well as a force in the "organized factions", so they magnify the power of those factions and reduce the need for those factions to expend effort. Once a faction owns a candidate, the candidate helps them maintain power so the faction can gather more candidates with less marginal cost.

At least with term limits, there are chances for citizen legislators to attain office. Organized factions have to expend much more effort to keep their candidates elected and in check.

Besides, term limits are just one problem. Dealing with the organized factions is another one.
The ACA means an increase in premiums for young or healthy people with no pre-existing conditions. However it also means that people with diabetes or who have had cancer can now get insurance, something that was impossible or insanely expensive before.

I'm a healthy <30yo man and pre-ACA high-deductible plans that I could get for $65-80/month are now >$160.

If your annual income is less than $46,000/year you probably qualify for premium subsidies under the ACA.
Yeah, I didn't think about that. There was so much research to do and eventually I just built the thing knowing I probably made mistakes.

Thanks for the feedback; I didn't know it was called breadboard ends, and now I can research how to properly do that. If this ends up cracking in a few years, I'll just build another one!
What has led to this situation in Brazil? High wages? Is the situation similar to Australia?
You can check it yourself on http://packages.ubuntu.com

php 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2

postgres 9.3+146really9.1+148

ruby 1:1.9.3
If everyone is is afraid of Amazon, then Amazon should be afraid of everyone. Potentially any one of them can topple amazon. The truth is, amazon hasn't killed any companies other than certain old bookstores. Have they killed walmart, costco, ebay, target, macys ? Nope, not even close.
Are you actually saying that the males of a species being more competitive and risk-taking, and the females being more nurturing and risk-averse is "unlikely" to be genetic?

I would say it's a basic genetic trait that the males of a species are more risk-accepting.
Why? What's the response time on an airbag release in an accident? On the ABS in your car? Your graphics card manages to rotate, scale, texture and shade a hundred million polygons per frame in around 1000/60 = 16ms. We're talking here about processing one UDP frame, usually under 256 bytes.

Why is this the only topic discussed by HN where technology suddenly becomes this frightening bogeyman?
No. 10ug of LSD does nothing, it has no psychedelic aspect to it at all. You need 100ug+ to have a decent trip, and 200ug+ to have the kind of trip that people become religious about.

An analogy would be saying that taking a sip of a glass of beer had some sort of effect. It's like if someone said they'd never had a drink in their life but are going to see if they can reproduce some positive effects of being drunk by taking a sip of beer once a day.
The A-10 is a plane built around a gun, also stuff about python and big data
I really appreciate the note. It is an actual person, not a bot that chats with each user but I actually agree with your perspective. It can be seen as intrusive. As the CEO, I'm making the executive decision to take the chat feature off the blog today. Thanks for helping improve our user experience!
> Swing for a mature looking, cross-platform application

Dear lord.
An import concept shared by Aaron: "Sell ideas, not stuff!" I think this is profound. Most often companies forget about selling the vision and get caught up in the details.
Being a woman in business, especially in the tech industry, is hard but gets easier as you grow older: you get isolated, pointed out, 'discussed' and I've had clients marvel at my technical prowess, as if it were some magical gift endowed to but a few women. It took me years to learn to cope, and to have the confidence to say, it's not about me. It's about whoever is saying those things. Every day I am the sole woman in my workplace and that's OK. Most of our customers couldn't give a damn, as long as we fix those bugs and make new features. It's hardest in public, I avoid industry meet-ups, but I'm also very reserved as a person which is probably more related, and why I speak anonymously online. It's hard to read these articles and then see maybe 95% (99.5%?) of the commenters are men. It makes me the 'other' and it's awkward but I love what I do and I love HN because in my workplace, the men around me don't give it a moments thought that I'm the 'other' and I know that the majority of the men here are also the same when it comes down to it.

Sandberg has a right to her own opinions about how things work for her as a leader and a parent. Just like everyone here has their own opinion about pretty much everything.
I don't understand the hate of PHP (or any language for that matter), I've never really gotten a good feel for why people are like this, the best I've come up with is "If someone invests 100's of hours learning X, they then feel the need to defend that investment in X or they made a bad choice".

The other thing I don't get is the need to identify with a language or framework.

My current project is in PHP (Laravel based, absolutely lovely framework last time I used a technology this fun was learning Delphi/VCL after slogging against MFC) except all functional and integration tests are written in Python (Selenium/WebDriver), Python is also used for 80% of my shell stuff (if it's more than 10 lines it gets written in Python).

I'm not attached to anyone technology anymore, I chose PHP for this project because I'd spent two years mostly working with it at work and after doing a couple of small projects in Laravel I got a liking for it.
We are using Streak right now, and it has been the best tool I've found so far - streak.com. Streak is a CRM / Project management tool built into GMail, so you don't need to switch between email and another website to handle communications. Streak has a lot of flexibility to it, but this also means that you need to spend a couple of days customizing it to get it right for your team. I'm putting together a guide now on how we've customized streak for our start up, and I'll send it to you if you're interested. Streak went through YC btw, and their tool is completely free.
I've been thinking about making a kind of greene and greene inspired side table for my front entry... of course arts and crafts styles in general have a lot of the breadboard ends. Do you have more information on techniques to avoid cracks?
By the way, Xbone will be 1000 USD here, this is resulting into terrible PR for Sony here, not for the government, because people are believing that if MS figured how to sell Xbone by 1000 USD, then Sony should have figured how to sell PS4 cheaper than it (beause it is cheaper than it elsewhere).

Sony might need to bite the bullet and sell at loss here if they want to recover their PS2 market share (in PS2 glory days they had 95% of market share, now Xbox 360 has 86% of market share)
Poor man’s DoS attack (using Chrome + a spoon)
There's certainly government pressure, which seems to be ramping up. Even if you ignore the destruction of media drives (and relocation to America), and detention of Miranda.

1. Pretty well all parts of the story have D notices in the UK:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/17/defence-d-bbc-m...

2. The Home Affair's committee is looking into the Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/16/mps-investiga...

and

3. They've been criticised by the Prime Minister:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24555955
Playir: Real-time 3D multiplayer game designer
I think the title says it all
"If you’re using Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux Mint we need to support Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux Mint. If you’re using an iPad or a Galaxy Note we need to give you a long, hard, nonplussed stare and think about supporting IOS and Android at some point."

Comedy gold!
How Rich Is The Rothschild Family?
Yeah I think housing markets are much more the problem. I just moved from a dead end place in upstate NY to Denver, CO, seeking the better job market for software developers. I'd have loved to have gone right to the main nerve in SV but the housing prices are just so insane it was beyond my budget.
Ultimately, as many, many, users are pointing out, this is not a controlled lab experiment despite its rigour. I applaud the author for taking initiative and I'm so happy that people are looking at drugs that are anecdotally supposed to have these positive effects, but ultimately the weaknesses inherent in testing a schedule I drug without gov't approval sink any real findings.

That being said, I find this experiment fascinating. I've taken LSD several times and intend to take it again in the future, and I've always had incredibly positive times with the drug in active doses (>150 micrograms each time). I think it's not illogical to assume that some of the positive benefits can be reached with a much smaller dose, but I agree with the author that anecdotal evidence is not convincing enough on this point.

Were this experiment to be repeated, I would like to see several key changes:
- A more accurate knowledge of the EXACT dosages used. LSD, as many have pointed out, is keen to react and de-nature. A chemist making and distributing the chemicals in a more professional manner than tabs from silk road would be a huge step forward
- A broader user base to sample on. Drugs don't necessarily have the same effects, at the same dosages, for different people. I believe that the author didn't receive positive effects from his dosages, but that might be the dosages or him or it might do nothing.

These nagging points hinder an otherwise very well-thought-out and conducted study.
Small Cubes That Self-Assemble
curses programs are not command line tools - they're effectively GUI applications, but using the terminal as their 'graphical' toolkit.
Thats exactly right. ACA doesnt force you to offer insurance, but if you do your rates are likely to go up as a startup.
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The fish shell has been bumped up to 2.0, I'm happy about that.

I agree they should really have postgres 9.2 in Saucy, so it would be very stable by 14.04.