skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically, there is a foosball table and a vending machine with Red Bull. Employees prefer Cola & Coffee though (those are free).
If you're doing that, please also revisit the guideline about not posting with linkbait titles - because that's usually why I edit, and it's frustrating to replace a linkabity title with a more factual one only to see it reverted later.
"I was disappointed to learn that it can't actually transform"

This is after spending a million dollars on it (literally).
As many before me have suggested - please preserve original titles and have a profile option to choose between them and moderated versions. Unless I am missing something obvious this is dead simple to do and it will resolve this issue once and for all.
I believe people refer to this as blog spam, right? From the HN guidelines: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.
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There's a solution to this problem... I got it! I'll rent a room and put a bunch of giant TVs on the walls so it's even better than home. You'll be able to watch 5 or more games all at the same time. To make things better, I'll stock a local selection of the best beers and drinks. I'll even serve you better food like fresh french fries and chicken wings, not that crappy bag of potato chips you get at the store. In fact, you won't even have to get up to go get your drink, I'll hire some young college girls to do that for you...
Anyone with any critical thinking skills should question the example of outsourcing manufacturing to Poland as an endorsement of Poles' critical thinking skills.

The alternate hypothesis - that the Polish education system is much more effective at producing drones who are efficient and motivated when performing menial tasks for low pay - has much to recommend it.
It is funny when you present an argument, like I did a few times here, to a bunch of True Believers which can't disprove it -- and they instead down vote you. :-)

You're funny enough to be worth the Karma, idealists. You do make me a bit sad.

Let me tell you how serious people, with at least a smattering of science education, think:

We know most of our opinions are wrong and that these positions will be updated repeatedly during life, so they are less and less wrong. The trick is to identify with the process of learning, not to identify with a certain position.
It's pretty typical of how humans argue. This doesn't make it a good idea, but painting your opponents with it is a cheap shot. You can find plenty of examples of this on every side of any issue.
I can thin of whole host of reasons that a different title makes sense. Maybe the article's relevant to an ongoing debate on HN, perhaps only a particular detail in the article makes it relevant to HN, see comments for others. I can't remember seeing a single occasion where reverting the title has been an improvement. HN is a pretty smart crowd, the evidence is that they're pretty constrained with titles but change them where it makes sense, can't we just be trusted to get on with it?
So I guess the Snowden leaks collapsing US internet dominance didn't materialize.
That's still not enough useful info. It tells us that someone has posted a webpage about A New Beginning on php.net, but it doesn't give us enough info to infer that it's a blog post about a new leader taking over PHP. Even worse if it's from some generic URL (blogspot.com, etc).
I tried this, and living in a half-basement even with an antenna right by the window provided me with 1 channel in Spanish. So while this would be great if I didn't live in the middle of no-where with horrible OTA coverage, it doesn't help in every situation.
It would seem like the issue here is the trade-off between having full time admins, versus a simpler and less perfect title system. It's ok to argue for "Let's go for perfect" but if you're not paying for the admins, it's tough to make that claim.

I'm ok with the current system. HN is a free service without ads. I'll take "Good but not Perfect" titles as the price.
Netflix will do this, but only one film at a time, I think.
If you're not familiar with Dopplr, this short infomercial has all you need to know:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXNgBs5DPLg
I find it objectionable that blindly applying feminist recipes in IT will have any effect. Feminism is not a framework but a set of ideologies, and even if we assume it is, applying it out of context, it is just stupid (e.g. a company claiming it is 'pro choice' in order to attract women). Most IT jobs are in countries where feminism already works for decades. Clearly you need something more than feminism to achieve total equality.
Huuuh, curious. Maybe comments that include the string 'goo[dot]gl' are auto-killed?
But I bet you'd shop Amazon without thinking twice.
One problem with inflation is that wealthy people and corporations own a lot more assets like real estate, factories, patents, brand names, mining rights etc. while common people put their savings in fiat-denominated bank accounts and sometimes questionable debt instruments through their pension funds. So inflation is going to take a toll on a lot of middle class savings and old age survival funds for regular people.
It isn't quite the same, but a large amount of configuration and content gets commingled in Drupal databases. It can make for interesting upgrade / migration challenges if you aren't careful.
So does your timer tracking me down the page while I read.
I have an old saying:
"If you want to make good money you can do something that either:
a. no one else can do or
b. no one else wants to do
but if you want to make really good money, do something no else can do AND no one else wants to do."
From the article: "It's a so-called wet submarine, meaning that it fills with water when submerged, so the driver has to wear a wetsuit and breathe air from a tank. (The dry passenger compartment shown in the movie was a set.)"
Failing immediately is certainly an easy way to handle unrecoverable errors. However, it seems as though your library assumes NDEBUG is never defined. Maybe you should make your own function rather than using assert()?
You may want to update this to reflect the fact that "MJ12bot" is selling SEO Services, too.

They run a reward program for using their agent and getting pages crawled (data is then crunched on a central server cluster owned by the operators) - cash payouts that are seeded by the subscription models they have here http://www.majesticseo.com
Crashplan restores are also relatively easy, with a few nice options.
There's no way you missed the post at the top of the front page (which has been there for hours)...
Would you call FB high-growth? At least from a VC standpoint "high-growth" is a 10x return, and not 2.5x like FB (on a good day)
Rather have a flying car than submarine car.
If the food you get at the pub is better than your food at home you are doing it wrong.
> Titles are common property. The person who happens to submit something first shouldn't thereby get the right to choose the title for everyone else.

This is a strange statement.

To me, a submitter is an editor, not a robot stumbling on an interesting article by pure chance. As an editor, the submitter makes a decision about when to submit a link (the time of day matter a lot), and, yes, about how to present the link.

Every day there are posts that make it to the front page, thanks to an interesting spin in the title, and when suddenly the title gets reverted to the plain original version we wonder what this is doing on the front page.

It's also strange to state that what users complain about in an ongoing fashion, is "not that big a deal".

Anyway, there would be a simple solution to this: when the title is changed by moderators, save the submitter's title, and show both versions (one under the other, one smaller than the other).

I wrote a little script that does just that (it saves every new submission, and then when called on the page, checks if the title changed and if yes, adds the original title as a subtitle); it worked fine until HN switched to https.

I'll re-release it as a browser extension soon if anyone's interested.
try costco
I think Danny Sullivan over at Searchengineland has done a better job of chronicling the changes but to give you a flavor, the size of the ad space before the first organic has grown tremendously, the injection of Google properties (G+, Youtube, etc) has further pushed on search results. When a buying intent is detected the 'shopping' bar activates which only shows shopping results from people who advertise on Google, etc.

An interesting experiment is to look at every link on the search results page and try to figure out how many don't generate cash for Google, its getting harder to find more than one, yet when Google was started it only profited from the ad-links.

As others have mentioned search has changed. There is no longer a big push for 'finding things on the web' which was the appeal of early search engines, now the bulk of the web use search as their portal to a giant reference library and product catalog. One of the things Google tried to monetize and failed was reference information (Knol) so now more and more they just show you the fact you were looking for, scraped from some web page, right on their page, no need to click away.

I think it was a smart move on their part from the shareholder perspective (disclosure I sold all my Google stock at $650 :-(). The second order effects though will be interesting. You see if Google becomes just a catalog, sort of like SkyMall "Magazine" in airplane seats, then it risks losing all of its unique utility. I'm certain that Microsoft can construct an equally compelling catalog as can Yahoo. This will shape the future for them.
You misunderstand what I wrote, it seems? I argue trivial game theory.

If brutal dictators can get their way by hurting their own civilians, it will be very bad for a lot of civilians.

For a parallel, there would be very few kidnappings if no ransom was paid.
Throw enough shit at the wall and some of it will stick.

At least there will be no shortage of easy work for security analysts if people keep encouraging morons to think they should be developing web applications.
Yep!

Care to tell me why I shouldn't?
This is a fair point, however blacklisting isn't necessarily a perfect solution either. It would require continuous manual effort in going through the logs and blocking bad bots, and if some new bot were to misbehave and crawl too aggressively, blacklisting would only help after the fact.

I do think I did make a mistake though. To your point, I shouldn't block crawlers that both behave and are attempting to help my site in some way (by driving traffic to it -- IE search engines). Whether or not they are currently driving traffic to the site is not important. I'll whitelist Yandex, Baidu, Scoutjet and any other related bots I see and edit the post.
The Internet brought value but also competition. Frankly, we live in the age of hyper competition, and I don't see us ever going back.

There is saying, if you can make it in NY, you can make it anywhere. That quip is related to competition, and in my opinion anywhere is becoming just like NY.
But it's not actually Linux that's managing or controlling the ship. It's Linux that's managing or controlling the software that's actually managing or controlling the ship.

I mean, if we're getting into a semantic argument.
It seems to me like this is his equivalent of a hobby or week-end project. So I wouldn't try to read too much into it.

Yet.
is there any software better than this ?
My first thought as well :)
Even if you had millions of infected machines crunching on your behalf it wouldn't be profitable?
does any one have any idea on how to change the time ? i mean the time to focus ?
It would be appreciated if the moderators would make an attempt to not obscure information when choosing to modify titles, e.g.:

> The new title, "Leaving Twitter", is much less descriptive than the previous one, "Nathan Marz is leaving Twitter". Could someone please change it back?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5386284
So your solution to an expensive cable bill (which allows me to watch many sports from the comfort of my home) is to go to a bar, for hours, multiple times per week and pay for deliberately overpriced food and drink?

Are you cord cutting for economic reasons, or are you just opposed to cable companies in general? If it's the former, I think you need to rethink your plan.
Sometimes you can't, quotas aren't a useful solution. Check your recruiting approach. Are you recruiting from male dominated events? Are there more balanced forums or even female dominated forums you can also recruit from but haven't yet? Do you read the name of all applicants with their resumes? Try sorting applications without knowing the name, gender, race and see if perhaps you had an unintended bias in how you filtered them. Check your behavior. Do your female engineers end up as project tech writers and configuration managers more often than the men? Is that where they want to be or did you just happen to put them there? If so, why? Check the behavior of your staff, is there a guy who keeps hitting on the female staff or a particular person? I've seen this happen and several women leave before management acknowledged that his behavior really was a problem.

In the end, your 4:1 ratio may be fine, you may have hired the appropriate people for the position and there's no reason to fret. Same with ratios for other demographics. But recognizing that intended or unintended biases can be at play is important if we want to change STEM at large.
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> Unfortunately I don't still have the code I was writing to tell you exactly, but the main issue is that you can't write generic functions because some times your usage will need to pass in a reference, some times not. The map and filter functions are examples of this.

Usually you pass references, because that's the most generic option. I wouldn't say "you can't write generic functions", but you sometimes have to add wrappers that convert between levels of indirection.

> My hello world for evaluating a language is this: write a program that sums its arguments. It's arguments might be numbers or strings so you have to filter and cast. It's a simple program but I find it a good indicator of how elegant (in terms of what I consider elegant of course) a language is to use on a daily basis. Lisps obviously do best in this type of test but Haskell also does very well despite it's type system. So the issue isn't types, it's pointers.

Certainly a language can be easier to use and you can write more elegant-looking code if most everything is a reference. No argument there.

It basically sounds like you weren't using the low-level features of Rust, which are important for our use cases but not important for everyone's. So Rust might well not be for you. That's totally fine, as I don't intend for Rust to be the one language to rule them all.
The mouse wasn't moving that you could see. Consider that a mouse has a much higher heart rate; if you can pick one up (eg those rare occasions where you are able to rescue prey from the cat) they practically vibrate in your hand.

Also, another poster makes a good point about cats' hearing. Not only do cats hear in higher frequency ranges than we do thanks to their reduced size, they can angle their ears to 'focus' on a particular sound; being a sound engineer by profession, I desperately envy them this ability. I have simulated this using cardioid microphones while wearing headphones, and I would cheerfully sacrifice a good deal of social standing for a pair of working prehensile ears.
Thanks for that.

When this kind of comment comes up, I am always concerned about a slippery-slope as there are many other companies / practices that do worse things than Walmart and thus boycotting only Walmart would be a hypocrisy. You could say similar things about Apple products, or the random T shirt one would pick up from a cheap store. The personal angle in your comment makes a lot of sense.
Which means every tax payer should have access to it?
If they're smart they're going to put their best people (and probably spend a lot more time than they bill) on an article that's going to get them press.

I like the concept of testing out the service, but I'd like to see what their typical results look like in comparison.
That's a very important case that is so fascinating because despite all the weaknesses of employing a precious metal as a currency; since the introduction of paper currency in the last centuries central bankers have managed to create hundreds more Spanish disasters in such small period of time!

Weimar, Austria, Zimbabwe, Argentina... It's a long list of 20th Century, central bank, paper induced economic disasters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation

Can you find any hard-money regimes like that?
hits to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahr about to go critical
Does iMessage do this?
Interesting idea, though it won't scale as easily as plugs would (since plugs require less hardware at each location). Of course plugs have more hassle and can be unplugged by teenagers who thing they are clever, so there is probably a strong niche for this.
A sane legal system would then require the plaintiff to post a bond in this case.
Don't be evil, bro. Eric Schmidt smells everything you do.
The biggest issue I've come to see in this industry is the denial that there's even an issue. That's what makes sexism so hard to address.

You'll find no shortage of those who don't experience that marginalization deny its existence. Meanwhile, those who do experience it and try to share how they experience it are ignored or talked over.
I would love more than anything for you to cite the claim that they've taken a huge hit in polling in their districts/states. I looked around, can't find one - but if you have one I would greatly appreciate. I do not think that they did, however, and no amount of popularity dip among people outside his state can stop Ted Cruz from filibustering and raising hell.
It's a so-called wet submarine, meaning that it fills with water when submerged, so the driver has to wear a wetsuit and breathe air from a tank. (The dry passenger compartment shown in the movie was a set.) It has no steering wheel or other automobile controls and is instead controlled with levers. The fins on the outside are not retractable, but permanent.

So, the title is false. Or at best, misleading. He is going to take a james bond movie prop and get it wet. He is not going to make [the] "james bond submarine car" a reality. This is somehow increasingly typical of Tesla stories that make it on HN.
The biggest problem with this is the unavoidable editorializing. Its as likely to become

PHP project takes awful turn, elects incompetent new leader.
We're actually all 'suckers'. The broadcast networks earn $billions from their use of the public airwaves and pay us nothing in return.

"We don't give away trees to newspaper publishers. Why should we give away more airwaves to broadcasters? The airwaves are a natural resource. They do not belong to the broadcasters, phone companies or any other industry. They belong to the American people."

from
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/27/opinion/giving-away-the-ai...
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Despite the gendered headline, this applies to women working at Google, too.
This would be IMHO the best solution UX wise.
Scattering the spans more wouldn't do much... it's still pretty straightforward to gather the list of css classes used in the page and just piece together the innerText of their elements until you see a dictionary word (or even easier, a space).

In any case, there's always the impossible-to-defend-against attack: just hit PrintScreen on the keyboard, paste to MS-Paint and run the image through one of the many OCR websites that you can find via Google. Maybe even run it through MS-Word's autocorrect after that.
The person who happens to submit something first shouldn't thereby get the right to choose the title for everyone else.

To throw another idea in to the mix of interesting ones proposed here already:

When someone submits the same URL with a different title than a previous submission, allow them to see the set of submitted titles for that submission and upvote the best title. The highest voted title (with some smoothing logic to avoid back-and-forth flips) is the visible one.

This way submitters can use better titles than the original, but instead of the first submitter determining the title it is decided by the group of submitters. It would also decrease the work for the moderators.
I waffled on whether or not to reply here, due to the personal nature of some of what I have to say, but here it is.

First; quit making excuses and having regrets. Either get off your ass and make it happen or be satisfied with not doing so. This is the only life you are going to get. It is short, and people in far worse situations have gotten further because they aren't afraid to try.

I grew up in total poverty, surrounded by poor uneducated friends and family, mostly who had defeatist attitudes that nothing better was possible for them. We were a family of poor white trash the whole time I was growing up. Everyone at school looked down on me and mine. Some of my immediate family, friends, cousins I grew up with are now addicts, thieves, pushers. Some of them are in rehab, some of them are dead; one in a shoot out with the cops. Most of the rest are working dead end jobs and drinking their way to early graves.

During my junior year in high school, my friend Mike looked at me and asked, "What are you going to do after high school?" I told him I was going to go to college, get a good job; and eventually maybe start my own business. Mike said, "That's a nice dream, but you're just going to end up hanging around here getting high and drinking yourself to death like the rest of us, because that's who we are. We're losers."

As a child I was beaten, stabbed, ate food out of dumpsters. On top of all of this I have terrible ongoing chronic medical illnesses and have had since I was a very small child. I can say, emphatically, my situation was worse than yours.

Now I have been writing software for 15 years, and I am not the best, but I'm damn good at what I do. I make enough money; I live a good life. I have connections. None of this was given to me. I worked and sweated, I gave, and I took back. And when everyone said, "You can't."; I said, "I will."
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According to this U.S. Debt Clock [1]:

The interest on the national debt is $260 billion per year, on nearly $17 trillion in debt, for an effective interest rate of 1.5%. If that interest rate were to rise to 1980 levels, for instance, at 6% [2] that would be an annual interest payment of over $1 trillion/year.

In order to come up with an extra $700 million per year, the government would have to raise taxes by 25%. Possibly more depending on economic factors.

Now that I have run the numbers it seems that this is not as much of a Ponzi scheme as I thought but it still seems pretty bleak. Has anyone seen this video[3] of Japan's debt problem?

[1]: http://www.usdebtclock.org/

[2]: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year1980_0.html - It appears that the government spent on interest about 6% worth of its total debt.

[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njp8bKpi-vg
It appears there will be another Rift development kit (whether for the public, or for private partners, he doesn't say), with higher resolution and positional tracking. Carmack says that VR is going to 'change the world'. I believe him.
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