skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One important difference between Time Machine and using rsync.net in the way you describe is that Time Machine doesn't require trusting anyone with your data[0].

Of course, it's possible to have encrypted snapshots on rsync.net with duplicity[1], the method I use. That being said, I have no particular reason to distrust rsync.net, and I have liked the service they have provided. If anything, I trust rsync.net more than other backup providers and certainly more than Apple.

[0]: Assuming Apple hasn't set up Time Machine to secretly send files back to Apple. But if you run Mac OS X, you're already trusting them not to do something like that.

[1]: http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/duplicity.html
I don't disagree with you at all - paper money is terrible. However, everything else is worse. The only better option is the complete removal of any kind of barter exchange - like a Star Trek economy - but that relies on a lack of scarcity and automation we haven't achieved yet. We are heading in the right direction fairly rapidly though - completely autonomous mines, factories and vehicles are one of the big turning points of the economy and we are very close to achieving that (50 years optimistically?).
Yep. There are two separate problems: original titles created with an overly-high amount of concern for people clicking through (linkbait) and original titles created with an overly-low amount of concern for people clicking through (interesting personal blog posts titled "some stuff", for example).

Both of these should be changed to solid, standard news titles that inform the potential reader about the content.

Letting people change titles eliminates both of these problems, at the occasional expense of a crappy title being submitted and promptly flagged down. Graham's solution is worse than the problem it purports to solve.
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I feel that supporting Android 2.3 at this time is roughly equivalent to supporting IE6. For the majority of people, just stop targeting 2.3 support as a requirement. Perhaps it'll net you some additional marketshare in emerging markets, but for the most part, ≥API14 is ubiquitous to a point where this is a sensible decision.
If I were to create a mobile app for HackerNews, what would be the best way to go about doing that in terms of API to use?
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As content creator Nina Paley put it "Attention is scarce. Information is not. Do the math."

I do take issue with the TFA, though, even if it is sarcastic: I don't think it's the sports fans who are getting screwed in cable deals; wasn't there an article a while back that described (or at least the comments did) in detail how all the non-sports fans are being forced to subsidize ESPN by not being allowed to opt out of it?
The URL updates in the new version. It's always the permalink. Much easier than having to go through a bunch of clicks to get it.
A good idea might be that in egregious cases, the law firm representing the troll might also be fined for their participation.
I like this, if there was some way of visually distinguishing submitter addition (make it lighter, italic, etc) so we know if a parenthetical is from the site or from the submitter.
...except for the HN guideline that specifically asks people to post the original article: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.

I personally wish this were more rigidly enforced, because there's an awful lot of filler material on the net which basically consists of little more than a link and a 50-100 word wrapper (as opposed to a more comprehensive article that cites some other links). To my mind HN is most effective when it allows readers to avoid the usual tides of blogspam that seem to make 80% of daily 'content' production.
If you're looking to try Postgres as a full on document store there's more and more tooling around making this feasible. Here's one newer gem that makes it pretty straightforward for Rails: https://github.com/webnuts/post_json
Any particular policy on titles where Betteridge's Law applies? I asked about this yesterday because almost all such posts become flame wars that are exemplar of the commentary we don't want on HN. When the title drops the level of discourse it should be addressed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6566940
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This looks like a very good solution. If enough users will actually care to vote for the title.
When I was a student in Edinburgh in our last flat we decided to pay GBP 30/month for the "usual" cable channels and something like 5mbps internet (as at about 2005-7), and made the conscious decision to avoid pay the extra 10 pounds per month because we can always go to the pub to watch the SPL or the Premiership.

Thing is, we'd go to the pub every other week and shell out 3 pounds per pint each time, stay for 2-3 games (sometimes more as La Liga is often on later) which between 3 of us would usually top out at around 20-25 quid each saturday.

I'm not sure how the US works, but even if you're a "sparkling water, please" person it's likely that paying a little extra for the sports channels is works out cheaper than going to the pub.
Site is giving me a database error, so I'm committing the sin of posting based only on the title :(

Hipster Mountain View/Palo Alto is not the world. Most people who manage to afford to buy a smartphone, use the thing until it dies. I personally just upgraded from an Android 2.3 device, and my latest Apple device is on iOS 2. And I read Hacker News for christ's sake.

Maybe for your app, your community the norms are different. But be careful not to bias your data - you better be sure that you are not unknowingly turning away people who would be customers if only you supported their device.
Well, two issues. First, there hasn't really been much time for viable replacements to be constructed, so who knows? Second, people who thought that was a likelihood as opposed to a faint possibility were deluding themselves.
Managed pointers are fine. The only problem I see is ~str and ~[] are managed pointers most of the time and that makes the code looks weird to people.

If we make str default to managed rather than ~str, and [] default to managed rather than ~[], most of the weird pointer complaints will go away.

Edit: Darn, what was I thinking? I meant owned pointer.

Strings or vectors are owned in most cases. That makes Rust code littered with ~str or ~[], especially when having vector of strings or vectors of vectors. ~[~[~str]]. If we make str and [] default to owned, the code would be much cleaner.

That means move the syntax for fixed vec to something else, like ![1,2,3]
You kids and your Squircles! In my day, all we had were Round Rects

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...
Right, but the guidelines are developed from people doing undesirable things to the detriment of HN. (Presumably, submitting blog spam and the front page being full of ten blog spam pages that have the same title and all point back to a single source.) If (as the critics suggest) the combination of "submit original source" and "use original title" are making HN worse, we can adjust our behaviour and change the guidelines.

What I'm advocating is that people submit "blog spam" only when:

1. The submitter is absolutely certain that the original source has a title that makes no sense out of context,

2. The submitter wants to editorialize the title because of (1), and,

3. The submitter owns the blog that has the "blog spam" post (i.e. they don't submit blog spam from TechCrunch or Kotaku or what-have-you unless they actually write for TC/Kotaku/etc.)

If a "blog spam" post makes it to the front page way more often than the original source because of editorialized titles, then that is the decision of the collective HN community. I suspect that it rarely will.

As a bonus, if the new approach works well, maybe we can switch to an automated title-scraper.

I agree that there may be a short-term increase in blogspam, but this approach lets the people who are upset about title-changing see for themselves which title was most useful to HN readers. I hypothesize that in the long run, people who write factually incorrect editorialized titles will learn the hard way (because their "blog spam" doesn't get upvoted) and eventually go back to submitting original sources (and maybe they'll stop complaining about title reverts to boot).

And, in either case, this removes the need for mods to revert titles, which (hopefully) is win-win.
I think the same and wonder why aren't shareholders pressuring Google to start paying dividends.
That would be the same of accusing Apple of being evil for overlooking environmental laws, while other companies (Samsung, etc...) use the exact same practices and end up getting a free pass. Walmart gets labeled as "evil" simply because they are the big ones and therefore the media likes to make them the example, but every retailer acts like them.

This is a problem of corporate-capitalism and the lack of labor protection in the US more than anything else.

(I agree with you that this is bad behavior. My point is simply that this kind of behavior should be enforced by the system)
Publicly traded companies are not measured by the VC yardstick.

Facebook is certainly high growth. And even if you don't want to use the traditional Wallstreet "growth stock" measurement, try this one out: If you were a facebook engineer hired 1 year ago given a (relatively small) $100k RSU grant that vests over 4 years, that grant today is worth $285,000. And today, on your 1 year anniversary, your first 25% chunk would've vested, giving you $72k in pre-tax income. As somebody who experienced this recently in another "high growth" dotcom IPO, the term I'd use for that is "down payment on a house."
... you'll need cash!
Would a reverse stock split or stock merge encourage more people to buy the stock or less, or no effect?
I recall that there was a Java reference site that was highly ranked on Google that placed all of its examples under such a license.
Not supporting IE6 will cost you lucrative enterprise dollars, Android 2.3, while popular, is not nearly as profitable.
I think #2 is the primary reason. We got an interview, which we didn't accept, for the Winter 2013 batch. I didn't work at Stripe then. Dan didn't found Giftly.
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Cool project. A few small suggestions:

(1) Fix the spelling of After Effects.

(2) You might want to reverse the order of jobs so that the most recent is listed first, since that is what recruiters will be most interested in seeing.

(3) The text within your job description boxes can be tightened to highlight your specific contributions and their impact.
But the only people who read the guidelines are those who intend to follow them.
Given the gridlock common in mega cities, these chargers should be installed at every stop light.
Like a boat ramp?
Since that article was published significant amounts of spectrum were taken back from the TV industry and auctioned off to the highest bidder (cell phone companies, mostly): that's why everyone needed to switch from analog rabbit ears to digital TV reception.
I'm not sure what you mean. "String literals" are &str, not a managed string, and [1, 2, 3] syntax creates a fixed-length vector, not a managed one.
<API14 is 30.8% of the user base.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

IE6 is 4.9%

http://www.ie6countdown.com/

They're completely different.
Are you sure Musk isn't planning on massively upgrading the thing to transform and be an actual "dry submarine"? The article says that the car he bought is just a prop that doesn't even transform, but that he wants to make it transform. That sounds to me like his goal is to recreate the functionality the car had on film, including having a dry interior when submerged.
Make a blog post with your custom title, link to the article you were going to submit, add your commentary even more fully, submit your blog post.
The asserts are in the .c files. Defining NDEBUG in your program won't change anything in lthread because the library was compiled without NDEBUG defined.

If you want to define NDEBUG when compiling lthread, that's up to you.
So, hackernews.el is actually a very simple front-end for the guy that really has to deal with hackernews. I'm using a library that I built on top of `ruby-hackernews`, you can see what I did here: https://github.com/clarete/rhn
Need to resize my server. Can't handle traffic.

Read the blog post then decide.

Wrote perspective from different Android devs in the blog post.
I think that's very potentially worse. "Changing direction" is far too opinionated.
Ah, good to know; thanks.
> The only way we can tell if a newly created title is accurate is to read the article, and we're not about to read every article submitted to HN. The only option is to revert to the original title, which is at least what the author intended.

To revert to the original title, you have to at least read the original title, don't you? Sometimes it is evident just from the original title itself, without looking at the content of the article, that the submitter's title was better. For example, when John Graham-Cumming shut down his blog, the submitter took the title of jgc's blog entry, which was something generic like "Shutting down my blog", and simply added who it was, so it because something lie "John Graham-Cumming: Shutting down my blog".

It would be nice if the mods could at least let that kind of submitted title survive.
>And finally what happens if the site goes down or gets slashdot/hn/reddited?

It would be great to have that many eyes on my resume.
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> Subs are not energy efficient. Water is 1,000x more dense than air, & moving through it takes far more energy.

I don't disagree that this is impractical, and you could be right that subs are inefficient, but the density argument alone doesn't seem sufficient, because propellers (and presumably other means of propulsion) also generate a lot more lift in water than in air.
Not if sudo is set to only allow gnucash! :-)
But he responded to a specific example. If you want to come up with more examples, fine. But don't tell him he's wrong or do a "yes, but".
Yes, I meant that it hasn't increased in the way that it "should" relative to the monetary base.
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TqpuK7M...

Select the text-only version on the top right
My Chromecast works fine* with my VPN, I use it to watch Netflix in Greece.

* With a router that can intercept DNS requests.
It might change gaming, but as a non-gamer I don't see much point. If the idea is to woo non-gamers like me with amazing games, it's going to have to be cheap and casual, and neither of those are natural adjectives for the Rift. If the idea is to really take over the world, somebody somewhere had better think of an actually compelling office/business use for it. Jurassic Park scientists examining DNA does not count.

For what it's worth, VR has been trying to become a thing since the mid-80s. Much like 3D, it bubbles to the surface for a few years and then nobody cares again for the rest of the decade.

Carmack is clearly an amazing programmer, but I'd like to know what his prognosticatory credentials are. He's also predicting Haskell will be a big deal in gaming. You can be amazing and still be a crackpot. Look at Linus Pauling for instance.
Some title changes are bad, but I do remember one title change that was partially good. Someone posted a link to the site http://lobste.rs/ with a title like "Yehuda Katz creates new Hacker News competitor". But that was factually false - Katz was merely an early user, and was not involved in creating or running Lobsters. The story got what you could consider an unfair amount of attention, since I bet many people clicked on it just because of Katz's name.

The mods eventually changed the title to "Lobsters". That failed to convey the relevant information that the site is like HN, but at least it removed the false information about the creator.
Hmm, I would say it really depends. Fried foods are much easier to pull off in a commercial kitchen with a dedicated fryer, for example. If the weather is bad, grilling at home may not be an option but may still be in a restaurant kitchen. Et cetera.
If you're not aware of it, wget[1] allows you to save pages, whole sites, file types, etc.

[1] http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-downlo...
I know a few people here who say that it is their "dream" job. But, that's mostly because @WalmartLabs is treated like an independent startup with its own management, ecosystem, and philosophies. The employees who can make a huge impact and have awesome bosses are very happy - this would be true at any company.
China has about $1.2 trillion (with a 't') in Treasury bills. US GDP last year was about $15.7 trillion.

Bank of America has about $2 trillion in assets. If the amount of money you give to a bank is more than half its current assets, then your relationship to the bank is fundamentally different than anyone else. You're not a customer. You're an owner. That's the scale of money that we're talking here. Once you have this much money to store, it becomes clear that there's no such thing as a completely safe place. But, out of all of the unsafe places, US Treasury bills are less unsafe than everything else.
Is this newer than the 1080p model that was being shown at gaming conventions earlier this year, or is this just that dev kit finally shipping?
I haven't tried Windows on it, but I've been more than happy with the battery life on my new System76 laptop.
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This was a highly disappointing article, not enough vented spleen. I'd expect more venom and ear burning quotes from Rasmus Lerdorf.
Ultimately, ship is being managed/controlled by humans, for the time being. But I take your point, this is why I mentioned 'via Linux'.
Take me with you. :)
If you wait for shows to become public domain, you can watch them for free!*

*although you'll be dead long before you can watch breaking bad
The reportage is in quotes (italics). [1]

[1] From wikipedia: "Musk plans to install a Tesla electric powertrain in the submarine S1 and make it transform into a road-going car. [6]" There is nothing in the story that say it would be a dry submarine. What it appears is that the <wet submarine> would be able to "transform" into a road-going car, in other words, just what wikipedia quote also says. CNN, viz: "I was disappointed to learn that it can't actually transform," Musk said in a statement provided by Tesla. "What I'm going to do is upgrade it with a Tesla electric powertrain and try to make it transform for real." But a power train is not a pressure hull(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_hull#Pressure_hull), which is what would be required for a dry sub.
You missed an opportunity to push people to the Bookmarklet: http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html Perhaps this would help the issue. Not sure.
got it. Let me see how I can fix that.
I'm on the cheapest plan on Digital Ocean.

I'm resizing to a bigger plan.
I was going to say something sarcastic, but if I could print this page and get a proper resume I would be blown away. Wouldn't be hard to do with the proper stylesheet either. Even so I am blown away already by how cool this is!
Having a "flag this title" feature is the best suggestion I've seen so far. If there aren't enough moderators to read articles before reverting titles, then having the community do it makes so much more sense than doing it blindly.

This approach gives intelligent first posters the necessary flexibility to change the title for any of many valid reasons (I still can't believe your comment that they changed the title of that serial killer article, killing one of the most chillingly powerful articles of the last month), yet it prevents first posters from abusing their priority even more effectively than the current approach.
I don't know anyone who has joined at rank Junior Software Engineer I (doesn't necessarily mean you are wrong though). Everyone I know who joined young (and there aren't many...) came in at JSWE III which requires prior experience and is roughly commensurate with $100k industry-wide.
If I remember right it was COM only until TP4.
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You should pay them $100/hr for the interview if you're having them work. There are some companies that have people come in for half a day or a day as part of their interview (not onboarding) and they cut them a check after.
From your link:

In 3 August 1998 issue of Government Computer News, a retraction by DiGiorgio was published. He claims the reporter altered his statements, and insists that he did not claim the Yorktown was towed into Norfolk. GCN stands by its story.[7]

Atlantic Fleet officials also denied the towing, reporting that Yorktown was "dead in the water" for just 2 hours and 45 minutes.[6] Captain Richard Rushton, commanding officer of Yorktown at the time of the incident, also denied that the ship had to be towed back to port, stating that the ship returned under its own power.[8]

Even though the problem was caused by programming error in the Remote Data Base Manager application and not by problems with the operating system itself, criticism of operating system choice ensued. Ron Redman, deputy technical director of the Fleet Introduction Division of the Aegis Program Executive Office, said there have been numerous software failures associated with NT aboard the Yorktown.
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You can't scale your blog server but you're an authority on what version of Android to support?

Cool story bro.
minification can't (usually) happen on the public side of the API - that could explain jQuery, as a very large amount of it is public.

Otherwise yeah, you can just run it through a whitespace-remover. There are also often options on e.g. the YUI compressor: http://refresh-sf.com/yui/ and Google's: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/home
Agree with both sentiments. There needs to be some mechanism to pierce the shell corporation and get to the beneficiaries, whether they are the representing legal firm or the licensing entities, in egregious cases.
This is the year of the Linux warship.
Neither ~str nor ~[] are managed. Neither of those introduce any runtime overhead.
Chicken and egg. Should they 1. crawl you first, or 2. send you traffic first? If 1, how long until they should either send traffic or stop, and if 2, how?
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What makes a perfect supplemental reading title for a digital classroom?
Google did not proved to be profitable outside internet, so far. So it´s a really bad bet to believe they will find a new cash cow, or even a new market in the near future.
So in Chrome for Mac the icons glitch with the pinch effect but it works fine on Chrome for Windows. Why is the difference between the two Chromes not more acknowledged?