skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find things written with lots of genderless pronouns can make the writing unclear. Lots of "They" , "Their" feels unnatural and clumsy when talking about people and it can become difficult to decipher which parts of the text are referring to a person and which to some inanimate thing.

Just as frustrating is writing that switches pronoun gender when referring to ostensibly the same person. However describing some operation between two people "Alice and Bob" it can improve clarity to make both people belong to different genders.
“companies will realise that this is a great way of opening up the talent pool while keeping wages low.”

It's certainly cheaper to move bits than bodies, so why don't companies realize this already? Why do they keep placing more jobs in places people can't afford to live?

One cynical suggestion is that the people making these decisions do live there, and their inflated property values depend on keeping demand high. But this explanation is obviously false because it would be a violation of fiduciary duty.

Naturally :%s/London/Silicon Valley/g among others.
Yes, WorldCom leaps to mind

http://www.accounting-degree.org/scandals/

They misstated costs as investments and were able to show big profits - for a while.
NSA Propaganda Video Among Highest Downvote Percentages in Youtube History
Are Eager Investors Overvaluing Tech Start-Ups?
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For decades a tobacco industry told us that cigarette smoking and second hand smoking were completely harmless.

First of all, the harmful effects of secondhand smoke have been wildly overstated. [0]

Beyond that, what gives you the right to put other people's health at risk?

This sort of hysterical nonsense has in recent years been engaged with far too much credit. I'm putting your health at risk when I drive a car, when I light a campfire, when I run my lawnmower, and so on and so on. Of course I have a right to put your health at risk in this way because a society in which I couldn't would be a very annoying place to live indeed.

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=secondhand+smoke+overstated
>> few weeks ago, when my wife's old XP computer finally wouldn't boot anymore I got a new hard drive and tried to run Ubuntu on it.
>> Couldn't even get through the installer without it freezing up.

It sounds like the machine may have had additional issues. I ran Ubuntu 7.04 - 12.04 on my 2005 machine until this year and could really have made it another year or two but thought it was time to treat myself to an upgrade.
This ^^^ comment cannot be upvoted enough. Please treat all servers, virtual or not, as ephemeral.
You are criticizing gopher from the point of view of "it must have the same features as HTTP". Some of the things you call "problems" are just different ways of doing it.

And if the TCP sliding window is an issue for you, why not fix TCP?

Why should the server send any kind of header?

Doesn't TCP do checksums, already?
World’s anger at Obama policies goes beyond Europe and the NSA
Surprise! I have twenty companies that all look about right. Net profit: 280 million. And the result is still shit.

The solution is obviously to pick good companies, not lemons. Except, that was the whole problem in the first place.
YES! That's the one I was thinking about too. I remember making some simple games in this as a kid and I learned a lot of assembly using this at the time also because, if I recall, you actually referenced registers and such right in with your other code - or something strange like that.
That's something I only put a little bit of thought into, as I'm not very worried about my bike getting stolen.

It would be non-functional if someone stole it without stealing the magnet and reed switch as well, but they wouldn't know that.

There's a bit of a trade off, as you're going to want to remove the light to charge it up, in that if you want it to remove easy, it will be easy to steal, and if you want it to be hard to steal, it will be a pain to charge. I don't have any solutions for that yet.
The moment I really realized how much things have changed was when I plugged an old printer into a 64 bit Windows machine, searched for drivers, and finally found out that Microsoft's official position was "Buy a new printer". Then I plugged the printer into my laptop running Ubuntu and it said "Please wait while we set up your printer... OK your printer is ready to use".

I used to advise novice users against Ubuntu because troubleshooting can get pretty hairy. But that's my ex-Mac user bias showing. Compared to Windows, it is at worst a toss-up, and I feel that's being very generous to Windows.
UX Design for HTML/CSS Mobile Web Applications
PythonHackers - The open source Python community project
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I was trying to be polite.

But in all seriousness, this is the first major entitlement program passed without bipartisan, widespread political support (more from me here on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622456). The Administration was insane not to factor in that there would be all sorts of "glitches" in the development process because of that. Someone deadly serious and competent, like the shivved Tom Daschle (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6622284), should have been working on this the day after it was signed, if not before. Then again, very few people seem to have that much power in this Administration ... see again the possible object lesson of Daschle.
Addict in recovery. I'm glad I was never pigeonholed into Suboxone treatment. Once you are addicted its no better getting off of than Methadone: a month of withdrawals vs what could have been three days.

>This goes for Alcoholics too.

This is terrible advice, there are a million non-addictive anti-seizure meds you can be put on so you don't just fucking seize out while at the store. Gabapentin through sodium valproate. Benzos are just a replacement addiction, though, and are just as dangerous to kick.
"selfhelp" - a self upgrading Node.js example app
...what do you accomplish with all this? I was forced to use Windows at work once so I had a Linux Virtualbox to do specific tasks, but it's not at all an ideal setup. I'm not sure what the advantage is over just using Linux as your host OS.
Your comment should be downvoted for trolling.
Bezos has found and hacked a feature of public markets: you can get away with no profits as long as you're growing. Therefore, you can construct a profitless business scheme that reinvests all profits (or doesn't generate any) as long as your sales forever climb. It's the business equivalent of the Ponzi scheme--and if you look at Amazon's revenue, it is a classic exponential curve.

If sales ever plateau and investors force you to generate profits, the plane stalls and the whole thing spirals down, because it's the profit reinvestment which actually drives sales growth, and actual profits attract competitors who have been unable to pull off the profitless-hyper-growth trick. So far that hasn't happened.

Amazon's value is in the entire business and not the sum of its parts, which means that at some point, investors expect to own a profit making enterprise and not a bunch of warehouses. However, that won't happen until sales plateau or Bezos dies. Ironically, at that point the business loses a lot of value, both because growth has stopped and because competitors are about to enter the space, emboldened by Amazon's newly discovered profits. The whole thing is a bit of a sham. Any growth industry (Internet retail) can support only one "no profit rocket," and eventually it comes back to earth when that industry matures and ends the hypergrowth phase.
Django Basic Apps - simple apps for Django projects
I don't see how general celebrity deaths are hacker news. I would like to read about tech and computer news and ideas; if I wanted this, I would read general news sites.
I suspect that what they call unfairness, I'd call abusive behaviour. Unreasonable, unpredictable, unapproachable, blaming, personalizing, forcing agreement and then holding you ransom to what you agreed, applying a double standard to their own advantage, ignoring, controlling, and snooping.
You should switch to using ConEmu[0] as a terminal. Completely fixes the rectangular copy blocks. Just set it up to launch PowerShell as your default shell.

[0] http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/
Has anyone at all managed to get past the first paragraph? It's his blog, his tutorial, his sweat disseminating knowledge to everyone for FREE. So he encourages a certain group of people. I don't see any of them reacting. Take the education and thank aphyr for his efforts.
Way too many people take that for granted these days.
Actually, I've since learned that Brother does indeed support that printer in Linux, and has published .deb and .rpm's for their users. So, I guess its really more that the OP doesn't know what they're doing ..
The "bedroom tax" operates on private sector renters too, in the sense that you rent what you can afford.
Finally, open-source CalDAV/CardDAV for Android 4+
I must admit I have tolerance for that bullshit. The cigs don't contain any of the dangerous chemical in a cigarette - you don't need a study to prove they are safe, you just need a decent understanding of chemistry.

But a million anti-smoking advocates don't give a shit.
While I agree with the rest of what you said, it's jumping to a few conclusions to say that lots of people will die because of this. People will think they are insured when they aren't, but the usual outcome of that is bankruptcy -- or a bunch of ugly and public lawsuits over who pays the bill.
Using the nook Simple Touch as a remote eink Raspberry Pi screen
There's been a fair number of fluff PR and guerilla marketing - even directly at HN readers - around vaping. It's likely organized and funded, etc. blah blah. How far did you have to read through this article to get any voice of someone NOT paid by the company or by the company of the author?

The whole e-cig thing is trying to re-build the signalling that real cigarettes have had instead of the self-medicating, addicted idea people have at this point. Rebellion, authenticity, ritual, nostalgia, freedom etc. vs.
Addict

It must be turned into something you do in front of people to be safely contrarian. Why not just have little capsules that you can get a high dose rush from that essentially is minimally enveloped nicotine? Just enough toying to get it straight to the blood stream?
This probably isn't the change his supporters had hoped for.
From: Amazon EC2 Notification <no-reply-aws@amazon.com>

Subject: Amazon EC2 Maintenance - Instance Maintenance Account: NNNNNNNNNN

Dear Amazon EC2 Customer,

One or more of your Amazon EC2 instances have been scheduled for
maintenance. The maintenance will result in a reset of the network
connection for your instance(s). The network reset will cause all
current connections to your instance(s) to be dropped. The network
reset will take less than 1 second to complete. Once complete your
instance(s) network connectivity will be restored. The instance(s)
will have their network connections reset during the time window
listed below.

You can avoid having your network connection reset at the specified
time by rebooting your instance(s) prior to the maintenance window. To
manage an instance reboot yourself you can issue an EC2 instance
reboot command. This can be done easily from the AWS Management
Console at http://console.aws.amazon.com by first selecting your
instance and then choosing ‘Reboot’ from the ‘Instance Actions’ drop
down box.
would you pay for gopher client? if yes - how much?
Problems:

An insistence on a heavy (throughtly validated) registration process.

People want to have choices. Maybe they don't want to get insurance from company A. There are also monthly payment vs. deductible tradeoffs in the Bronze vs. Silver etc. plans. And some demand cost sharing after you've used up your deductible (I wouldn't really care if the plan had a 10 million dollar limit if I was expected to pay 20-30% of that...).

ADDED: plus you must be able to see if your doctors are in a plan's network.

Despite the "one size fits all" new minimum gold plated plan, there's still a lot of tradeoffs ... and then email isn't necessarily reliable enough for the response. I can't see them avoiding a "or check back on the site tomorrow..." option.
It seems to be pretty clear there's a link between cortisol levels and atherosclerosis too.

(Also, I am not a doctor.)
So, it was perfect timing for me, when I jumped from do to Blimp few weeks ago!
And Nike, Reebok et al are about sports, but they still make clothes for people with 60" waists to laze around in eating pizza. McDonalds sells salads in their restaurants too, but they ain't a healthfood company.

You've been bamboozled by the Graun's PR and branding, which they should be slick at, that's their main demographic.
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It looks like you and jroseattle are demonstrating the main two competing views about how to approach new software projects: 1) deterministic, controlled, strong planning, avoidance of failure vs 2) nondeterministic, flexible, embracing uncertainty, expect and handle failure gracefully. There are many different versions of this in technology: one big expensive server vs many commodity servers, waterfall vs agile, ACID vs BASE, BigCorp in-house R&D vs distributing risk across startups.

Large parts of the technology world operate according to the latter model, and they do so for a variety of very valid reasons. Obviously, the government and government contractors do not.

jroseattle's comment presents a speculative model for how to apply a distributed, fault-tolerant model to this kind of technology project.
So a company essentially invents a segment, so de facto owns 100% mindshare, and the fact that competition shows up over the next several years is somehow..... what? A sign Apple did something wrong?

And if only Apple had the sense not to make any money off the iPhone, they'd hold all the "mindshare"?

As an investor in both companies (though I recently sold my AMZN position), I'm quite pleased with Apple's decision to value revenue over "mindshare." The iPhone business was and is bigger in itself than many entire Fortune 500 companies.
And maybe take a relaxing six-month vacation while you’re at it?

Face it, not everyone is privileged enough to “quit on the spot” just like that.
Even if it were a server, you'd have to protect yourself against the exact same risks: hardware may fail, the datacenter may burn, your data may be destroyed by cosmic rays.

Cloud platforms let you avoid physically dealing with the hardware, and conveniently using ec2-create-snapshot instead of tapes back-and-forth, but the paradigm is exact the same.

If you care about your data and your servers, you have to plan for failure. Cloud or not.
Cool! Aside from price, range is the critical limiting factor in Leaf buying decisions (to hear folks considering one). It doesn't have to get 300 miles to the charge to be a good commuter replacement, but given that environment conditions (e.g. winter, road speed) can decrease the current model's effective range to below fifty miles, even moderate commutes can start pushing your luck. A worst-case range of 100 miles should make it viable for all but the farthest commutes.
From my experience with 50-100 mile BMW 1e cars, I am pretty sure I'd require at least 200 miles to be comfortable with a car in the Bay Area unless I had a commute pattern with guaranteed charging both at home and at work (and went to the primary work site and remained there most of the day). The "big" Tesla seems like a much safer bet at 250-300 miles.

I guess a 48 KWh Leaf is about the same as the 60 KWh Tesla in range? (it might not be; cheaper/lamer vs. physically larger but more advanced might be a wash).
What every article like this and about any other EV fails to mention is how many Km can it do before needing to be charged, how much is needed to charge, etc. I'm sorry but that does not make me want to buy an EV not until I can get easily all the numbers to compare properly.
At some point in time desktop was a must-have to get any meaningful work done. Especially a windows desktop. whatever the work may be. today thats not the case. In fact, lot of work cannot be done with windows desktop anymore. We need windows only to access windows specific legacy software, that enterprises are still using, such as outlook, excel, powerpoint etc. It is the IT groups in large companies that is holding the fort for microsoft. But, how long they can defend microsoft? Probably not much longer. Still intel is a major partner for microsoft. With ARM 64 bit coming in 2014, intel faces steep competition. ARM and linux go way better than ARM and windows. IT guys will eventually probably disappear foreever.
Yes, I know I do assume they are safer.

If the ecig industry were regulated, then we could make sure the liquid has no or minimal side effects.

In my country it is worse because ecigs are forbidden (given that uncertainity), so we have a black market for ecigs, making the quality of the liquids even more quetionable.

I know tobacco is really bad, and I have doubts about ecig. So, I give the benefit of the doubt, as it is little probability it is worse.
I'm making a wild guess than more than 14 people will fall through the cracks and die. Certainly such stories have been used to sell Obamacare.

Ah, I just remembered that economists can predict over large populations how many will prematurely die if you remove X dollars from the population. I forget the now obsolete figures, but I'll bet on that basis alone there will be that many casualties.

Any time the visible foot of government makes such big steps people will die, it's a given.
Damn it - amazing musician. Hope he's taking the proverbial walk on the wild side.
I compose the large majority of my hacker news comments on my nexus 4 phone.
I don't see these issues, odd that our experiences are so different.
No. There are numerous studies demonstrating that they are safer. Here's one: http://publichealth.drexel.edu/SiteData/docs/ms08/f903492642... . Here's another: http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2013/03/05/tobac...

Also, without direct evidence or rigorous analysis it would still be preposterous that a mixture of nicotine, fragrances, propylene glycol, and vegetable glycerine would be anywhere near as harmful to the lungs as cigarette smoke. There is a difference between "just assuming" and applying common sense.
Choosing a MacBook Pro
"Leading ecig makers" are fraudsters in my opinion. They are selling whitelabel Chinese junk at huge margins. They make false claims about their sub-1ml liquid in pre-filled cartridges being equivalent to 2 packs of cigs. They are marketing hacks and aren't actually innovating, unlike my company.

The FDA tested the liquid composition of these Chinese cartridges and yes, one was supposedly contaminated. I get my propylene glycol from Dow, not a random Chinese source. Just because one company cut corners and sold a contaminated product shouldn't incriminate those who do assure quality.

You're conveniently ignoring that the DEG found is within the FDA's own guidelines as safe anyhow. It sounds scary to tell people that DEG and PG are ingredients in antifreeze and ignore that PG is also in those Mio water shots people use.

>That's kind of like saying, "My product is 100% natural."

Strawman. I just said I source my ingredients from America and huge, trusted companies like Dow. I said nothing about being 100% natural. By the way, propylene glycol is highly antibacterial and it was considered to pump it into the air of hospitals during the 50's. It is also a common diluent in things like asthma inhalers.

Yes, I am dismissing these bullet points from the FDA because they are crafted to evoke fear. Here's another example:

"Tobacco-specific impurities suspected of being harmful to humans—anabasine, myosmine, and β-nicotyrine—were detected in a majority of the samples tested."

These "are detected" in nicotine patches and gum, actually at a higher level based on intake than ecigs. The amount of these in all cases is so small to not raise any concern.

>I'm going to trust the FDA over you.

I bet you trust the NSA too. I follow all the research and am capable of having an honest discussion of the facts but clearly you are not.

edit: There's a lot about the FDA statement here too - http://casaa.org/uploads/8_Biggest_Electronic_Cigarette_Myth...
Again, it need not be a "windows" desktop. you can do seriuos work with Linux or Mac desktop. And you may be more productive as well.
Why not? If the are not dangerous to others, what is the big deal? If it is just an image thing, we have an advertising industry quite good at changing those images.
It so desperately disappointing when a man who was elected largely for his understanding and respect for the constitution turns out to have been systematically dumping over it for the last few years. Like so many people, I expected better of Obama. He's not the man I thought he was.
The answer is that you can't structure the transaction as a realtime query. You have to structure it as something that's sent and gives you a ticket, and the reply associated with that ticket will come back in its own time.

Stick the processing pipeline in Twitter Storm (which can retry any step until the whole pipeline is done) and structure the requests as nearly-idempotent (so a repeated reply is harmless, and the first arrival associated with the ticket wins). Finally, you have an "inbox" where people can wait for and see their answer, with optional SMS and email notification.
Code examples: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/download/c--exn.pdf

Slides: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/download/c--exnslides.ps.gz

Audio: http://wino.eecs.harvard.edu:8080/ramgen/nr-pldi00.rm

The Manual: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/extern/man2.pdf

The manual contains the specifications and a few code examples. It looks like it's easy to learn, but it's a little different than other languages.
They could have been as well, my parents are in France with orange, and they don't seem happy either.
"Failure isn’t rare for government IT projects – it’s the norm. Over 90% of them fail to deliver on time" Is this really much different than the success rate of startup culture where VC's count themselves successful if 10% of their investments yield a return? The startup environment has the "success rate advantage" that if the venture really isn't getting traction, you can walk away from it, or change directions a do something related, but not your original objective.

Government projects like the healthcare exchange don't have that degree of freedom - if they go down the wrong track, the only choice is put in more resources until it's back on track. Giving up or changing objectives isn't a decision under the control of the project - it's a legislative or budgetary question.
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I'd say Lou Reed is a hacker. A hacker of music. His Metal Machine Music was one of the first and perhaps most famous examples of noise music (after Merzbow) which completely challenged all conventions of what music truly is.

There were plenty of others before him, but he had his place, as well.

Even though his later years were not up to par.
Will your recommendation algorithm be public or secret? Will it be customizable by your users?

You mention a bulk import. Will you provide a bulk export, or will I have to keep my own backup database to avoid lock-in?

I see in your API example a bucket, a source, and a target. Would you consider a "value" field, for graphs with weighted edges? (The question is moot if I can't modify the recommendation algorithm to employ it.)
Modernizr is a great way to be able to start using some of these features with legacy browsers. I actually have to battle with some of my customers to upgrade to IE8 (and not to set the group policy that forces "compatibility mode").