skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to cycle 15 miles or so each way to work a few years ago. That place did have a fitness center w/ showers on campus, so it worked out ok (except having to get up an extra couple hours early). My current job just moved into a new building with a small fitness room and showers, so I may try it again next summer (about the same distance).

The best part was actually looking forward to my commute -- even though I only cycled about once or twice a week. Now I'm so far out of shape, it will take a few months of working out in the gym to get back to what I was doing (and hopefully my knees won't go out again).
In the vast majority of cases, divorce is worse for the kids and usually leaves the women worse off for a variety of reasons (and if I hear patriarchy, /thread done.)

There are many situations in which divorce is the only choice but it is dangerous to imply that it is right thing to do more often than not because we are now supposedly more enlightened.

If you don't have kids though, go for it.
This isn't just for innovation, it's for getting things done. I struggled to come up with a name for the Useless Extraneous Suggestions, and then I heard someone call it "Advice from the Idea Fairy." Perhaps it comes from the military? Idea fairies are never around to help get things done, but they toss around ideas without thinking them through. The ideas are usually useless, but still take some time to run down.

This isn't to say all ideas are bad, but there is a lot of "No" that needs to be said to make things happen.
LIFI (Internet connections through LED bulbs + light-waves)
I gave up StackExchange since day 1, I found no difference between being registered or not, any useful action is blocked because I'm a new user, and I would rather stay away than spend time figuring out my way through a hostile site like that.
Kinetic looks like it's for cold storage. There's already a problem where the server to host cold disks (e.g. a Backblaze pod) costs more than the disks themselves. Having the disks speak Ethernet may reduce cost.
Great job, but for the one thing I think it would be useful, it is not.

I built this website (www.portacomprimido.com.br or www.pillorganizer.co) in Portuguese and translated to english. It is supposed to check your browser's language and serve the proper language - portuguese for PT-BR, english for all others (doesn't matter which URL you use, both are the same website).

As I not very sure of my coding skills, I wanted to check it, so I asked a friend of mine living in the USA to check it for me. I thought your website would be a easier way to check it, but it is not. All locations show the english version, even the ones supposed to be from "Sâo Paulo, Brazil". If you can correct this, it would be a nice feature.
The Dave Arnold post at:

http://www.cookingissues.com/2009/07/24/tales-of-the-cocktai...

(linked from this review) is arguably much more interesting than the review itself. So is everything else at Cooking Issue. Cooking Issues is amazing.
Yes, but you have a copy of the actual file, not a hollow reference to the the deleted version on Dropbox's servers. You can also recover the file via Dropbox's version interface.
Even if the trashcan is emptied?
Messaging for men in the mainstream media seems to be "do whatever will make women happy". Note how this article, while being surprisingly equitable in at least considering men's point of view, has a completely different attitude towards resentment in men and women.

Women who dated in their 20s and want to marry in their 30s are resentful of men who now want to date. Meanwhile, men who were unable to find love in their 20s now want to date in their 30s. They grew resentful when they couldn't find love, much as 30-something women now do. I see a lot of symmetry here.

However, when resentful women say "these men are assholes", that is taken at face value: it's obvious that these men are indeed assholes, and that these women are being wronged. On the other hand, resentful men are called misogynists and brutes, and what they really think ("these women are sluts") is considered unfit for print.

It seems hypocritical, and I don't think it's conducive to improving things.
Scratch for Arduino
If I take real files (.doc, .cc, .py) in a folder on my computer and move them into my google drive folder on my computer, Google Drive syncs those files to the web. Now my real files exist, sync'd, in two places. My local disk and Google's disk.

If I take Google Doc files I have created in the browser and drag them from my google drive folder on my computer, into another folder, I get a file named the same as the document I had created that basically contains a URL. My gdoc files still only exist in the cloud. What I have in my hand is bupkis. So what are gdoc files? They certainly aren't real files and few people understand that they are worthless outside of the Google Drive folder.

No one expects this is how document dragging to or from folders works.

When dragging gdoc files out of a folder, there needs to be someway for Google Drive to give you the actual file from the cloud.
That assumes owners of (at least some) dating sites know how to make them suck less and choose not to in order to extend subscription times. I don't think that is necessarily the case.
Here is a similar project: https://github.com/scrapinghub/splash#renderpng
"Quite common" is an overstatement. The market is nowhere near as liquid. Only a small number of tenured jobs are advertised each year compared to the number of junior tenure-track jobs. Superstars can get hired somewhere else, but for the vast majority of tenured faculty there are not many options (most universities would prefer to hire a cheaper junior faculty member, and many are very limited in how much credit they can give an applicant towards tenure).
Another use case of our customers: in-app bugtracking - they work day by day in the web app and can submit bug reports or feature ideas while they are working. Because of that, many papercuts can be fixed which would not have been reported normally.
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> I don't understand why easterners aren't participating more actively.

Quite a few are, though it's highly variable between countries, and many contribute in languages other than English. The Japanese-language Wikipedia has about 4000 active editors in a typical month [1], and I believe the vast majority of them are Japanese, though I'm having trouble finding solid stats on that (if any exist).

[1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryJA.htm
Well, in fact it's just the result page of the Usersnap examples and no polished landing page. But I've corrected it for you!
And this is why your database server needs row-level security
I've been using the extension HN Special. I've tried a ton of interfaces, but this one is my favourite.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-special-an-addi...
Isn't it the Google Drive application that updates those files?
I don't think we need better performing hard disks. Everyone who cares about performance should have moved to flash already. Kinetic looks like it was designed by "disk people", not "flash people".
Would you say Insync is worth the $10 if I only have one Drive account that I want to back up? They do offer backups, right? Their site seems to advertise multiple account sync as its biggest feature.
Well ... there was always a limited amount of information in printed encyclopedia's, and since printing included incremental costs, the editors were careful to make sure each article had enough value to be included.

Is it possible that all the important articles have been written and are, at this point, well vetted? Perhaps there aren't enough topics left for all the people that would be writing articles? Or perhaps the ones that are left are boring, so volunteer writers won't address them?
But if you're running a business, that's not necessarily going to be your end goal. You want users to "think the site is aesthetically pleasing" because those pleased users [convert more / are more engaged / view more ads], whatever your key metric is. And those are typically easy to measure.
I think the challenge is how do you identify experts? Does a Professor have to earn it over time? Are some professorships worth more than others?
It would have little effect on bicycle use. Raising gas taxes is going to cost people who have longer commutes substantially more than people who live within reasonable biking distance. The average U.S. commute is around 32 miles round-trip, which would take close to 2 hours without traffic or traffic controls.

The response to higher gas taxes would have nothing to do with bikes. We'd buy cars with better fuel efficiency, explore alternative engines with lower costs-per-mile, and continue to pay the tax. Until the efficiency gains match the costs of the tax, the rest of the economy would suffer as most people would have less discretionary spending.

You HAVE to get to work, so you're going to eat the tax. And it's regressive, to boot.

Urban people in the U.S. complain a lot about the suburban nature of most of the country, but there is little that can be reasonably done eliminate the suburbs. Most people in this country simply prefer it, and will pay more for their transportation costs to get it. Raising taxes on these people is not going to change their behavior in any meaningful way. A few extra cents, or even an extra half dollar is gas taxes is going to be a lower cost to them than uprooting their life and moving within biking distance.
Not "would do" but "could do;" you can't build, honest and competent or not, without local code-compliance. Perhaps the same should be true for the web; perhaps there should be damages for poor security; government or not.
Same for backups. If you have six months of backups but you haven't tested any of them, and they broke four months ago, then it's going to be very unpleasant.
> My wife is a corporate lawyer and gets a lot of flak for working long hours, especially from family. Nobody ever gives me flak for working long hours.

Just curious, do you end up hiring baby-sitters for the baby? My friends at this moment are going through this situation, and I see what happens very often is that baby-sitters are too expensive, not good enough, or a number of other things and eventually the woman ends up deciding it's time to put a halt on the career and accept herself as a 'housewife' of sorts. I'm curious to know how you and your wife managed through this.
I was thinking about this the other day and I came to think that Wikipedia's rule about citations is this: Wikipedia does not want to be a source of information. It wants to be a collection/aggregation of other sources of information, and those other sources have to be accessible to others for all time (i.e. not a human being but a book written by a human being).

What I mean to say is that Wikipedia's system is one that does not/will not give article editors credit for original content; it treats them as just collectors and explainers of original content. When the explainers start writing stuff that has no source, they then disappear and leave Wikipedia holding the content which is now unverifiable. And that's just not how Jimmy wanted it to work I guess.

When I look at it that way, the policy doesn't seem that ridiculous. It may be inconvenient, but that's like saying a stack data structure is inconvenient because you can't remove things from the bottom. It's just the way it is; it has advantages and disadvantages.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Sorry, but you're the guy (as a type) I went on tons of dates with before meeting my current boyfriend. I always ended up running away, because I felt like you were out to impress me and not actually, you know, talk to me.

To me, had I gotten into a relationship with you, I would have had no idea of how to deal with your emotional needs - plus how would I expect you to take care of mine. There never was any hint of that on a date with that type.

Which is why I am not dating a guy like you at all...
In the spirit of Wikipedia, can you provide a citation? :-)
Really curious what FBI will do with the BTC they now have. Sell it for USD? Devise a government process for storing seized Bitcoin?
This Defense Contractor Is Repeatedly Spear-Phishing 68,000 Innocent People
Farbox, not just another static blog
Could just go with "a number of themes".
Thanks for the feedback Soneca. I'm currently working on a feature that will let you change your user agent and language to address this issue. This, and other new features will be hitting GeoPeeker in early November.
The "Wikipedia's Bureaucracy" chart is sort of frustrating.

It used to be that being in the "Administrator" group was basically the only granularity we had to differentiate users. People complained that they only wanted to work on some things, like vandalism patrolling, or file maintenance, or creating accounts on behalf of other users.

So we unbundled, so that people could get the rights they wanted to do a particular task.

And in other cases, like with Checkuser, the Bureaucrat group, and Oversight, the advanced privileges are in fact dangerous and therefore are appropriately restricted.

Actual governance is pretty simple: the only things that are truly binding are community consensus (as determined by a sufficiently public discussion, closed at its end by one or more administrators) and decisions of the Arbitration Committee, which conducts its business on public Wikipedia pages. Administrators have some leeway in terms of blocking and closing discussions, but everything is subject to review.

NB: I'm part of the system, granted. I'm an administrator, Oversighter, and CheckUser. But these roles exist for good reasons, and I think the unbundling helps increase participation, by letting people help out without requiring full community trust in all matters.
fwiw this really resonated for me because i'm a single founder in a semi-crowded space. my strategy for success is to basically have a much smaller scope and very narrow feature set, but to be crushingly better than the competition in everything that i DO attempt.

or maybe i'm just seeking out articles that make me feel good about myself.
Yeah. I like this one a lot as well. Use it on my phone, iPad and in browser.
Let me guess: you still think that we all are going to die of skin cancer because of the whole in the ozone layer?

What happened to that thing? Got old? I'll tell you what. New taxes were imposed world-wide and the problem disappeared over night.

Coldest winters in living memory and these clowns still push "global warming" propaganda. Why don't you turn off the TV and open the eyes, huh?
PouchDB will also sync with Couchbase Sync Gateway. We use PouchDB as part of the load-generator cluster for performance testing. http://www.couchbase.com/communities/couchbase-sync-gateway

There are more and more things that can sync this awesome JSON HTTP protocol. http://syncable.org/

Thanks Dale!
Cups of Water
You meet some people, you date the single ones. If you think/feel fine, you start a relationship with someone. End of the story.

Maybe it's because i don't understand dating as a competitive activity and my social interactions are very limited that i don't understand where are decisions to make (a.k.a, how people "play")
I have had very similar thoughts. I've only visited Hawaii for a short while, but I imagined the same thing - it's beautiful but actually living there would be hard. I also arrived at the same conclusions about big-city life, though I had been living in DC, not SF.

Now I live in the Northwest which has become my favorite part of the country by far. At first I was fiercely unwilling to ever consider moving away, because I loved it here so much, but the longer I am here, the more I see that falling away. I don't want to always have one foot out the door. We moved around several times when I was a kid and I've always envied people who have roots in one place. But I suspect it will always be this way for me.

At the same time, I don't have the desire to get out of the US that some of my friends have. I suspect that though the US has its problems, other places do too, and the grass is always greener as you say.
Congratulations on your wedding!
Students Are Not (Merely) Customers
No one designs systems like that because, up until now, the threat of having the feds confiscate your private SSL keys was unthinkable for those of us who don't wear tinfoil hats.

And it's still not 100% clear that forcing a business to hand over their keys is even legal from a constitutional standpoint.
Is the notoriously sprawling America cyclable? Distances in the centers of old european cities are small.
The hard part is the "meaningful" part. Many of them are likely to be duplicates/not particularly helpful.
Google Drive syncs actual files.

Google Docs, however, does not provide "actual files" with substantive content for its native documents, you have to export them to other formats to have "actual files".
Wow, just installed it, and Hacker News no longer makes my eyes bleed! Thanks for pointing it out.
Why is one SSL key the only thing protecting these customers?
Is there a video link where we can watch it?
Link to the purported address: https://blockchain.info/address/1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN4...

I'm not sure you can call it "seized" if the balance hasn't moved to a different address, which would be proof that they have ownership. Until then they can claim they have found the money.
Great news. As a member of your target audience I'm excited to be able to provide so thoughts on what I would find helpful. My main complaint with a lot of the beginner HTML/CSS books is that they approach the subject from a static perspective. They seem to assume that I'm only interested in creating a simple static website when in fact I suspect anyone who's learning HTML/CSS is doing so implicitly because they want to learn how to ultimately create dynamic database-backed web apps. A book that approached the topic with that in mind from the get go would be much appreciated. Also, one of the major topics I think is overlooked is the PROCESS odd designing and creating a real web app UI. As a beginner, I'd very much like some insight into how one goes about creating a web app using HTML/CSS...I.e., what process do you follow when attempting to realize an idea you have in your head or which you have sketched out. I would also like extensive coverage of how to use all the standard tools which are now very common and which attempt to make it easier to develop well-laid out attractive web apps: twitter bootstrap, foundation 4, CDS preprocessors, grid layouts, etc. These things are becoming as important as simply knowing about HTML/CSS. I guess what I'm saying is that we don't necessarily need another book which teaches basic HTML/CSS (tags, and so forth), we need a book that closes the gap between such books and the more advanced topics like HTML5 (I.e., adding JS/jQuery functionality to a web site). I hope this ramble has been helpful. Thanks for asking for input!
I think it's pretty obvious that if the bugs aren't sufficiently fixed within the next few weeks, the individual mandate penalty will be waived or at least delayed.
Yes, but those are actual codes. In fact, that's why they're codes. Contractors won't do more than they're legally required to (nor should they be expected to), so safety features were made legal requirements.

Relying on the honesty or competency of your contractors go above & beyond their requirements is an inefficient and unsustainable solution in a free market. This is a clear case of Moral Hazard: In the same way that bad money drives out good, corner-cutting organizations out-compete honest ones.
This seems to be the usual retort anytime someone dares and propose a change in the insanity that is car driving in America. It is as if god personally swept down, laid out cities and then continued to crush their public transport systems.

In reality of course, these commute times are all of your own making. Just because politics in the 20th century designed cities a particular way doesn't mean it is now forever set in stone in the 21th.
2013 Rails Rumble winners
So many kudos to Dale Harvey for driving this incredible project. CouchDB's concept of replication is itself mind-blowing, but PouchDB bringing that to the {app,client}-layer opens up untold possibilities for robust, distributed systems.
I was replying to the part where "even if the files are local" i.e. not on the net.
I think the happy medium is one of the browser extensions. I'm using "Hacker New" for Chrome, and it adds basic nice things like default larger text, comment collapsing. Of course, I get used to it and become annoyed if I decide to visit the unmodified HN on my mobile device.
I like this quote, thanks for sharing!
That's not real time, real time is measured in nanoseconds, this is just a bidirectional socket. No one really cares about the *asS crap, TCP sockets aren't some kind of mystical technology.

If you've worked with a protocol other than HTTP this isn't really a 'miracle'.

Just add ZeroMQ to your app, a few triggers to your DB, you're pretty much done. Or apt-get install ejabberd and add something like XMPPFramework to your app, again, this stuff is a day or two of dev work.

How exactly do proprietary APIs, protocols, and formats democratize something as simple as adding a few more files to your project?
I use the HN Enhancement Suite. It adds some good functionality as well as making the interface pretty (but not overly web 6.0-y with thin-weight helvetica and white space everywhere.)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Sure - both engagements were part of the Cold War which US has won.
Where did you see 1.5 listed as experimental?

The front page clearly has 1.5.5 as the release and that takes you to a page that has 1.5.5 listed as the latest official version and 1.6 as the development version.

Are you referring to 1.5's Python 3 support? That is experimental, but 1.5.5 itself is not.
The statement we're talking about is "... it hasn't been the case for 60+ years". 1900 was 113 years ago.
> In the construction industry, a contract might not explicitly say that the building has to comply with local building, fire and electrical codes - that's taken as a given.

That's because you have to have a license to perform that work. If you don't meet the code, you don't keep your license.

This is one of the reasons why McConnell et al have argued that we need professional licensure. Licensed Professional Engineers can lose their licenses if they sign off on half-assed plans.
Blivand Design
Supposedly the coins: https://blockchain.info/address/1FfmbHfnpaZjKFvyi1okTjJJusN4...
Fukushima tsunami alert after quake
Drive actually syncs files.

The Google Docs (and Spreadsheets/Forms/etc.) native files are, however, links to online resources that are manipulated via an API, not document files in the usual sense.
To be fair, I'd imagine the technology running PRISM is really incredible... i'd love if they could open source any of that.
> Facebook is already impersonating your friends and family by showing fraudulent "likes"

Do you have a source for that?
I think that in Europe riding a bike is something that is done for a good health or exercise. In the US riding a bike can be as much of a statement as driving Hummer H1. In most places in the US there just isn't infrastructure to ride bikes and they are as expensive as used cars. Yep, you make the whole lot of a statement to me if you ride $5k bike in a nice neighborhood on your daily commute in the US. I just know who you vote for when I see you on a bike in nice suite going to work in DC or NYC.

I remember how I was driving to work in the DC instead of taking metro. I was labeled Republican in a second.
I'm car free in Portland Oregon. So far so good. Ask me how I'm feeling about it in January. :)
It's obvious that your straw man has no clue how SSL works. Why should the disclosure of one SSL key compromise all users of your service?
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