skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always find this phrase 'powered by...' a bit sad when used in relation to computer software. I'm pretty sure the ship is powered by a large diesel engine or a small nuclear reactor. It's managed or controlled by Linux...well, technically via Linux but that's beside the point. A trivial objection, but I don't care for my news reporting to read like a breathless press release complete with meaningless marketing-speak.
Nice call! I was coming in to post that link, but I see you beat me to the punch.
Have a startup idea but don't know how to code?
Any belief about the origins of the observable universe rest on a leap of faith. It doesn't matter if it's God or a quantum fluctuation, there is no way to know about anything prior to the origin of the universe (assuming there is one). So it's not a "god of the gaps" explanation, since there is not actually a gap there.

If you claim that the cause of the observable universe is a natural phenomenon like quantum mechanics, then it necessarily raises the question "where did the laws of quantum mechanics come from?"

The idea that quantum mechanics simply exist for no reason at all is no more plausible than the idea of a creator.
> Do high school girls somehow sense the "hostile environment" in engineering schools before they spend a single day there?

My wife, who has a solid head for mathematics but majored in German once explained to me why she didn't go into engineering: 1) because she didn't want to be surrounded by dudes all day; 2) because she didn't want to enter a field where she wouldn't have women bosses and mentors.

So if you're a high-school girl doing even a minimal bit of career planning, yes, of course you take into account the fact hat you'll be a minority in your field if you go into engineering, with all of the career hurdles that being a minority in any field entails.
We are https://www.tesla.im - an encrypted messaging service for teams.
We are named after the brilliant scientist Nikola Tesla.
People confuse our name with the more famous Tesla Motors.

Should we change our name? Please tell us here.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1uERhq0A9GIRMaIDh8AtAw8_ZHGt...
I don't understand why HN currently considers link submissions and text submissions to be mutually exclusive. Most of the problems with titles seem to stem from the title being overloaded to carry additional information. A text field for link submissions would relieve these problems by providing a proper place for additional information that the submitter would like to add.
That's awful...I pay $85/month to Comcast in Flint for 50 up/10 down and I wish Google would move their ass with Google Fiber
Birth and rebirth (intersection of life and a Ph.D.)
Great, My drive suffered a catastrophic crash 2 weeks ago and was replaced by Apple with one week left under warranty.
After following these instructions and installing new firmware Chrome reopened to the Replacement Program page which I already had open prior to update!
How can determine if If my new drive is affected?
Certain shows from Showtime are streaming. For example, Netflix has all of 'Weeds' available for streaming.
Looks good! Are those designs, by chance, from ana-white.com? My brother's made some similar pieces. Really nice.
Lua Scripting Support Added To NetBSD Kernel
Maybe shittier search results cause more clicks on the ads made to look like search results?
Thanks. I will try this out, if it works then "Intro to the Linux Shell" lab just became a lot easier, more effective.
Who exactly is crawling my site?
This is fun! I loved the colors, the graphics, the scenery.

My suggestion: in addition to space-moves-you-forward and shift+space-moves-you-backwards keyboard controls, you should also give this functionality to the left and right arrow keys. Good luck!
From the FAQ:

How do I make a link in a question?

You can't. (This is to prevent people from using this method as a way of submitting a link, but with their comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just submit it, then add a regular comment.)
I agree that this policy is sensible from a process standpoint. However, it does end up penalizing the writers who are bad at SEO, or just don't care...and at the same time, it rewards the sites that do cynically partake in link bait titles, all the while being little more than blogspam.

I think my problem is that when a headline is clearly too vague and someone adds a non adjectivey headline, the mods go out of their way to revert it, doing a disservice to everyone. If monitoring titles is a burden, then it seems like it'd be less work in these cases to leave the clarified titles...the community is usually good about flagging it.

Also, do HN mods revert to headline or the title tag? That is, can submitters choose from either (this is significant for most New Yorker articles, which have very short heds by properly descriptive title tags)
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It doesn't bother me if everyone subsidizes my entertainment or not.

For people like me, entertainment is fungible. I can enjoy myself watching football, playing a game from Steam, reading Mr. Money Moustache, streaming something from Netflix, or renting from RedBox. The game has changed. There is literally more high-quality entertainment than I have time to consume. Of course there is going to be downward pressure on prices.

If any of those things cost too much to be worth it (like non-local-market NFL games and non-event films in theaters), I'm going somewhere else with my money.

If the economics don't make sense for Hulu to entertain me for cheap (the number of commercials are pushing it already), no skin off my nose. There are probably some books I haven't gotten around to reading anyway.

So, for me, the supply of entertainment is high, my supply of attention and my budget for entertainment are both rapidly shrinking. So for me, and I suspect more people every year, paying a large monthly fee for cable (or even streaming services) is absurd.
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surprised he mentioned Game of Thrones, since the DVD releases much later and HBO doesn't let you stream anything unless you have a valid HBO cable subscription. Also Netflix doesnt have all the shows, neither do any of the other stream only services he mentioned. My point is, either way you will not great deal, cut the cord or not !
I'm sorry my humor detector wasn't working as well as it should have yesterday. Writing doesn't have the nuances of personal conversation, and it often happens that something that was intended as humor doesn't come across that way.

I've been in your shoes here a few times, when I've posted something that I thought was obviously humorous and people took it seriously instead. It's usually happened when I avoided putting in a :-) because I felt like that would ruin the joke - and instead leaving out the :-) ended up ruining the joke.

So, peace, bro, OK? :-)
Yes, what redtexture said. This answer is much more complete than mine.

"Not a sign of a business opportunity until you have confirmed people will pay for it."
> the increasing prevalence of mean and stupid comments has a much higher priority than the fact that authors' original titles are not maximally informative.

Give a small number of trusted users a "mega downvote" - it takes a comment to -2 with a single click.

(Just for clarity: I don't want this button. I'd be a terrible person to give it to.)
Google does not make ranking changes based on revenue. We don't even collect statistics about that for ranking changes. Worrying about the fate of small sites in Google's rankings is a reasonable concern, and one that we share. But whatever you think we are doing incorrectly in ranking, it has nothing to do with making more money.
Totally agree. Most people here are smart, we don't need submitters editorializing, which is usually what title changes are.
> so I'm curious what the list of these additional python language features is.

http://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#special-me...
No, the chinese workers have a lesser standard of living because the suppressed value of the currency takes away from the value they can purchase with their wages.

It will even out in the long run as wage inflation will be impossible to fight while keeping down the value of the currency.
Social Media to Promote Your App: Yay or Nay?
LynxOS is hard-real-time, unlike Linux, but is Linux-compatible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LynxOS
He just explained why. Article postings are community property. The first person to post an article wasn't intended to have a privilege to editorialize or summarize the article.
A few software licenses restrict the use of software in use of nuclear weapons & other WMD. I'm sure this vessel is capable of launching nuclear weapons, but it makes me wonder if the government will honor those license agreements or even if they were apart of the consideration.
$100/mo for 50/25 FiOS here. We've currently got too many ancillary services in my opinion - Netflix DVD and streaming, Hulu+ and Amazon Prime streaming
ahem.

tesla.im survey.

The form "tesla.im survey." is no longer accepting responses.
Try contacting the owner of the form if you think this is a mistake.
So I don't speak Rust, but if succ takes a pointer then yes you do need to pass it a pointer, and that's what referencing is doing, right? Not that referencing a stack variable is hard...
I think that's covered by the issue of titles being common, not personal. If two people both submit the same story, the first person to submit it should not get extra editorial privileges over later submitters.

I suppose you could have a separate "subtitle" field that anyone can add to, and vote the best/worst like comments, but that seems like more trouble than it's worth.
Most open source licenses explicitly say that the software is provided with no warranty. IANAL, but I think that's intended to prevent people suing you if they use your code and something goes wrong.
This is probably the best analysis that I've seen of the iOS 7 icon shape: http://blog.mikeswanson.com/post/62341902567/unleashing-gene...

(I am slightly biased, though.)
Well, showing concern (by saying 'alas') that someone, or some thing had suffered Yorrick's fate, does not, as a phrase, or even in a headline, necessarily indicate that one has 'taken sides' in terms of whether that that fate was desirable. The article 'didn't clearly take sides' but instead speculated as to why the outcome of this challenge to the Rift could be both dramatic and unpredictable.
Google historically left a lot of money on the table (not using every spot on the page for ads, giving away services with real value, etc.) They decided to stop doing that when they decided they were a 'peer' of Apple's.

The shareholders love it because it means Google will finally be pulling in as much cash as they 'can' vs as much as they needed. Users seem to be somewhat divided on the issue.

Sophisticated users and people who are long time observers (like Danny Sullivan) have noted that Google is squeezing the value proposition at the expense of people who can ill afford it. ('Ranking' on Google is very much a pay to play kind of thing these days with their page layout). As others have mentioned they have gone all in as an exploiter of their demographic data. And "thinking big" as Larry would always exhort people to do, includes thinking about how much money you could get for the sorts of things that only someone who has Google's knowledge of the activity stream can get.

Now historically this has often been associated with fading influence and success (the old 'killing the goose that lays the egg' kind of thing). It will be interesting to see if Google is an example of this or they manage to grow into actually being a peer of Apple.
No, dollars are scarce so there's more competition for those dollars. Advertising has become more relevant but that's not an indicator that "times are good." Tactics are used to get people to spend money they don't have.
How to grow a network effect startup - lessons from Belly Card
Buzzfeed Articles Without The GIFs
2 Rolls-Royce Marine Trent-30 gas turbines driving Curtiss-Wright generators[5] and emergency diesel generators, 78 MW (105,000 shp); 2 propellers driven by electric motors

shitty citation -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-class_destroyer
The internet is killing my favorite color.
That doesn't look like an example bad query to me.
I don't think this is what he was insinuating either.
Prototypical resumes don't get shared on social media sites either...
If it does not work I am here to fix it :-) Let me know.
I wish he would just update the site guidelines. Some of the meanest, stupidest comments on the site can be rationalized as fitting into the wiggle room of the guidelines.
>This would be clearer if we didn't let submitters enter a title-- if our software simply let people submit urls, and retrieved the title from the page. We don't do this because it's too inflexible. Some articles have titles that are too long. In others the subtitle makes a better title.

The problem is you've created a horrible half way house. There is a class of submissions that only make sense or attract interest with a custom title. These generally get reverted to some meaningless title which then prompts a lot of pointless discussion about the title change. If you don't have the man power to review custom titles, and don't trust the community to do it then disallow them other than in the case of manually editing down titles that are too long. It means missing out on a certain class of submissions, but those are mostly a mess these days anyway because they get filled with people talking about the automatic title change and people confused about why the link was submitted and upvoted.
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic — And Kids Should Also Learn Coding
We are currently building a product. We hope to meet with as many people as we can on this trip, not to pitch our idea, but to learn about what advantages/disadvantages there are to moving to SF to found/grow a company. We are also contemplating working at another startup in SF as a first step.
But only data (i.e. the number itself, as bits) is transmitted over the Internet, not interpretations.
That doesn't answer my question. Storing structured data in any single-field, be it checked or unchecked, violates the first normal form, if you're going to be querying directly on sub-fields of that field. If the json document is just getting exported out to the client without any inspection of the document from the SQL side, then it's fine and I see the point of having a JSON type that can validate the data. But to extend the SQL syntax to allow for querying sub-fields of that data is the wrong solution to the problem.

SQL Server has had this feature for quite some time as well, in the ability to store and query on XML documents. It's awful. The few times that it has "saved the day" on certain queries just because the data was already stored as XML, it turned out to be a false profit and became a serious issue down the road.
I don't know if my perspective is just so heavily biased or impractical at this point, but I'm almost embarrassed that my country's Navy would use windows for such a critical system.
Out of curiosity, what would you have edited out of this (to you point 'b')?
The real problem isn't even live sports, it's live sports blackouts. If my NHL Gamecenter account (or similar service from other leagues) allowed me to watch local games, I wouldn't need cable.

I'm sure the leagues are incentivized to maintain local blackouts as a way to capture enormous deals with various sports networks, and also to drive gate revenue, but cutting out the league middleman does afford them the ability to do some nifty things, like directly charge consumers of their content.
Sorry, it should work now.
I do this for three or four shows, and it's great being able to go back and re-watch entire seasons on a whim. I don't use Amazon Prime Video much since I usually go to Netflix first, but I rarely feel like I'm overpaying or missing out.
If you're on a mobile device without a keyboard, I made an alternative version that changes on click rather than keypress:

http://jsbin.com/iPIrucU/1
That's not cool. People here want to hear about how the US is doomed. They are absolutely crazy for it, regardless of reality.

Edit: This post is an interesting case where people upvote it because of the title and then flag it after they read the comments.
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http://supshp.com/showthread.php?t=1800
http://supshp.com/showthread.php?t=1800
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I stream all of my sports every weekend. I love football and soccer however, I refuse to get cable and then pay a premium just to get ESPNU and the NFL network. Email me and I can give you a list of sites that broadcast every game; the quality isn't HD but it is very watchable.
I think these are exceptionally good ideas.

The only reason I typically care about this conversation is that a year ago or so I was tracking an article that I saw the "new" page, and it got its title changed to something insanely literal like "Post #4". Which of course tanked it's chance of getting off the new page and me learning anything about the topic.

Either of your suggestions would have solved this problem.
When you amortize out the cost of a smartphone subsidy, it's basically a wash. You can either spend $1600 over 2 years on AT&T and get your phone for < $300, or spend $1000 over 2 years on StraightTalk and pay full retail ($750 on an iPhone 5s).

The cost savings start to add up if you hold on to your phone for longer than 2 years, but if you're the kind of person who buys a cutting edge phone every 18 months, prepaid is only an advantage if you care about being able to switch carriers on the drop of a hat.
I was a little hesitant to use hstore in my latest project, but it ended up being really cool.

I'm basically storing a trees of metadata that catalogs, in this case, a "season" of television as a root and then each individual episode as a leaf.

What I thought was really cool was that I can store the object references (as a self-referential foreign key) outside of the hstore: this means that the join I use when fetching the tree is still indexed and very inexpensive.

However the actual metadata itself is stored as an hstore payload -- which can be indexed in addition to being part of your query. The only downside is you lose a bit of typesafety since hstore is `text->text`.

It let me throw an application together without committing to a rigid schema, which was nice -- and it actually ends up being pretty easy to work with.

I just thought it was really cool how easy it was to separate the unstructured data, and the well-structured relation of that data.
This could be heaven or it could be hell. Supreme court precedent either could kick patent troll war into overdrive or it could secure their place under the sun. One would be good for startups and competition. Guess which.
WePay's API pays off, handles 648% more crowdfunding volume than last year
Sony also has.
But they are producing only PS2 and PS3.
Things in Brazil have a higher price not only due the high taxes, but also because the companies and the people. See another example: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/08/11/brazils-rid...
I'm only replying to the second question. In the US at least, it seems (and at one point I might have been able to point to the studies) that interest in STEM drops off[1] for female students around middle school, same for minority students. Many efforts at outreach, then, have tried to focus on introducing extracurricular academic programs at those students (often by targetting schools with higher female or minority populations) in an effort to cultivate their interest and maintain it through high school, in the hopes that it can increase the number participating in STEM in college and, later, the workforce.

At this point, however, I don't know what measurable impact those programs have had, I should probably talk to the folks I know that are still participating in the programs at a level where they monitor the trends.

Regarding who: Anyone working in STEM with the patience to deal with 12 year olds. Volunteer with FIRST Robotics teams or other after school or summer programs. Female and minority volunteers, in particular, as knowing that there are female and minority STEM workers isn't the same as knowing female and minority STEM workers, it can make a huge difference for kids.

[1] EDIT: It may not be a drop off. It's been too long since I was involved with this, but perhaps instead of them losing interest it's that they don't develop the interest at this point?
Yeah, there's really no alternative, especially for football. For NBA I can get League Pass but anything that's locally aired is blocked so I'm forced to find some TV that airs it, at a local bar or what have you.
The author doesn't seem to know much about feminism (self-admitted); he seems to be using the first and best definitions he can find, find that that definition/decription resonates with him, and then tries to sell it. So anyone who believes in equality (and isn't an asshole) is a feminist. Okay. Then I'll similarly assert that everyone who believes in equal opportunity is a communist, that everyone who believes in freedom is a capitalist, etc. Now, everyone is at least superficially acquainted with these ideologies, so they won't simply take such assertions at face value, even if I say that 'there are many definitions and this is just my definition'. To assert that an ideology (or school of thought, or what have you) is about this and that, a handy 'definition' is not enough for me, personally. One should perhaps make an assessment based on what it's members do and say, such as bloggers, academics, etc.. Or restrict oneself to a particular wave of feminism. At least a more comprehensive description and/or analysis is in order if you want to correct others, than to simply cite a single definition from a single Wiki. That is just my opinion, OP.
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> I canceled my Hulu Plus subscription after two weeks because they were asking me to pay $8 a month and watch a bunch of ads

Hulu is a complete fucking piece of crap cause of this.