skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it too. It is so annoying that companies like Google fail to do this (give users the popular options you do here). The new compose it horrible, horrible, horrible. But Google-borg doesn't care - you must submit to their wishes (you don't want G+ to overtake and break all sorts of your G stuff - too bad).

Your service proves it isn't difficult not to deny users decent Ux options.

Getting rid of IM is also very nice, I am not really sure what the removing G+ stuff does but I know I don't want any G+ stuff interfering with my email client, so I clicked that too.

I do agree with those that say the removing ad thing is not good. It seems fair to me to be stuck with the ads if you use a service that is offered as ad supported.

I tried paying Google but the process of using their $50 a year option is horrible. It isn't just pay $50 and ads disappear, it is pay $50 for our separate app with lots of issues that makes things annoying, breaks, has all sorts of problems when you want to reverse out. Thankfully I just tested it on a brand new account for 2 years and could just let the whole mess die an ugly death. Don't consider it without reading all the horror stories people have had moving their primary email and then trying to get out of the mess created.

I can see Google making the plugin not work or making it really difficult for people if they see too much use since ads are removed - though using gmail with desktop clients doesn't show ads as I understand it so maybe Google will let it go.
> It takes power steering with it though,

That is what sucks about cars with power steering, they don't get any of the benefit a car built with no power steering does.
Brake pads don't usually burn in cars.
My sister's old white Macbook had that problem. I always assumed something melted in it. It definitely has a powerful "armpit" smell when you open it.
And the people in the faster ships will be your grandchildren, yup. Plot of Heinlein's "Time for the Stars", pretty much.
I thought cars were still generally like that. The ABS can step in and take over, but without pro-active behavior from the ABS you have a direct hydraulic connection. I didn't think ABS was being called upon as involved here.
Does it discard data in a manner compliant with FIPS 140-2? Or NIST SP800-88?
Have you ever worked with MFC or Win32 GUI API proper? I have, and I can't imagine anyone who'd want to go back to those days.
"Urea, I found it!"

-- Apologies to Archimedes
'Classically liberal' is a gesture of self-congratulation, not a useful descriptor.

No offense, but the same point could be put to your comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
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Water should only be used in extreme situations where no horses, humans, or cats can be coaxed into a milking. Urine has well known properties which it lends to the steel.
Thanks; link posted.
I've been using UX Nightly on OS X as my primary personal browser for something like 6 months now and it has given me very little trouble.

It's worked well on Linux, too, but I haven't used it there as much.
If it is indeed the webcam and not Skype, it'd be cool to update the description and/or title accordingly. After all, it's rare to see a MS product given high praise around here - and they certainly seem to deserve it here.
Mmm old Saabs used to have the crayon smell when the glue under the carpets eventually deteriorated. I used to leave a box of crayons in the back to explain it to people. Was quite funny.
Specifically cat urine, not other urine? I must be thankfully smell-deficient because I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, and I grew up with cats for 20 years
> I do not rely on /dev/null.

> I make my own null character devices as I need them.

Why? Is there ever a reason to have more than one file on your system which acts as a /dev/null?
Does cat urine smell different from regular urine?
Exercise Boosts Academic Performance, Especially for Girls in Science
The difference is that in Europe, the entire spectrum is much more visible because they come in separate parties.

And yes, you'll find lots of nutjobs, but overall, across Europe, for the most part those nutjobs are now marginalised one or two parties to the right of the mainstream right wing parties, whereas in the US the centre of gravity in terms of votes fall far closer to them.

(Btw. you bring up another interesting point: To most people in the Western parts of Europe, parts of Russia might be geographically Europe, but we don't tend to include it when talking about Europe; the same often goes for countries like Ukraine - I know I didn't even consider either of them when using the term Europe earlier)
The issue is really about the future. Your service is as useful today as it was yesterday or six months ago, but the perceived usefulness of your service a year from now has gone way down. We all appreciate your honesty about the pivot. But how will your customers fare in the long run?

It is kind of a strange situation. You're clearly the leader in hosted Docker PaaS at the moment. However, you're also promoting an ecosystem where all these Docker based startups are springing up, like deis.io. Why won't you be out innovating them? I fear you'll be moving down the stack, and letting others fill the PaaS role. It isn't clear to me how you're going to make money out of Docker (perhaps it isn't to you either).

I say this as someone who was going to be deploying my first Django app in a couple of weeks. I have a dotcloud account, and had messed around a little. That was my deployment plan. However, I spent tonight reading the Heroku docs. It seems at some level you realize you've lost out to Heroku, and have pivoted to this shiny thing that is getting lots of traction. That's great, and I'm sure that is the right path to take business wise. However, it doesn't sound like your current dotcloud customers will get any particular benefits from the great Docker fueled future.
"Recent phenomenon is cause of ancient problem"

Give me a break. there are a lot of interesting points and valuable insights. I won't say there isn't a real problem there, but the core message is wrong IMO.

Comfortable people make far too little effort to find work. Talk to job seekers about how far they will go for a job... this is why I will always have one. People seem to think they are somehow entitled to a convenient job on their doorstep.
It's politics are old-fashioned Tory politics, i.e. maintaining the health and education of the workers is good policy for industrialists and landowners.

The workers, and everyone one else should otherwise be allowed to live their lives as freely as possible, as long as they don't try to usurp the gentry.
For really special stuff, blood of a virgin, during a full moon. Bonus points if it's an equinox, or your country's Maximum Leader's birthday.
Continuously inventing new laws is kind of the job description for congresspeople and senators.
>> ...driver might have to fully remove their foot from the brake during an unintended acceleration event before being able to end the unwanted acceleration. <<

"Might" is a weasel word you use when you don't have proof. Are they saying that the the system is non-deterministic? Seriously, you can say it "might" cause the problem, or you can run tests that cause the problem. Even if it is non-deterministic, you could run 1 gazillion test and get a percentage. Then you could figure out, based on the amount those system get used, how often you'd expect acceleration to be uncontrolled.

And it still doesn't explain why it mostly happens to the elderly.
I didn't mean to imply that. I've driven the same drive by wire car for several years, and I'm still around to tell the tale :)

But consider that a good mechanic could figure out the failure in the analog world, and this Toyota issue has required deaths and 9-figure lawsuits to get close to an answer.
A few years ago, I had an agonizing emergent medical condition, for which I headed to the emergency room, and ended up having surgery later that evening.

Of course, the cost to me was $0, since I live in Canada and we do it right here. But supposing I lived in your "transparent pricing information" ideal society. How exactly do you suppose I would flip through the ten-thousand page pricing book to determine what brand of surgical gauze I'd like to have used in my surgery, when I'm in 11/10 pain and going to die within a few hours if left untreated?

And do you think the other local hospitals would send over their ten-thousand pricing books as well, so I can price-shop? Do you think Dr. Smithers is really worth a 12% price premium over Dr. Johnson, or not?

Can you really have a meeting of minds when one of the minds is unconscious from an automobile accident? Please advise.
OO has brought us a lot of extremely bloated, over-engineered, "enterprise" monstrosities over the years, and imho should not be encouraged.

When done correctly, object oriented programming is a lot like the Unix philosophy.

The Unix philosophy (in part): Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together.

Correctly done object oriented programming: Write objects that do one thing and do it well. Write objects to work together.

There's a lot of very poorly written non-OO code out there. Don't blame OO because there's also a lot of poorly written OO code out there. OO is, in part, a tool to manage code complexity. Blaming OO for complexity is like blaming Unix for complexity because there are too many programs in the /bin directory.
All the portable-app versions of Chrome and Firefox (for example, the Firefox that comes with the Tor bundle) have auto-update disabled, for both the browser, and included extensions.
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I found that jarring too. I assume he meant something like 'progeny'?
The problem isn't only with primitives, as I think you've mentioned before. Even assuming a browser provides turnkey symmetric crypto for arbitrary plaintext lengths, "content-controlled JavaScript" can still subvert the ostensible encryptions in subtle ways.
I don't know about you guys, but the text is almost impossible to read. I am on a Windows 7 system 1600x900
The best way to describe The Economist is "liberal communist". They serve Samuel Huntington's Davos Man, Christopher Lasch's Revolting Elite.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n07/slavoj-zizek/nobody-has-to-be-v...
Thanks for your inputs! And yes you are right and even I am worried with those cases. Anyways its a 3 days side project and I had no idea that it will gain this much hype!

I am alone here and 5th position on Hackernews is kinda a new thing for me! Currently I am worried about if my server goes down!
That could be easily avoided setting up an htaccess password and let the service know about it I guess.
You can't down vote submissions.
No status message options = no go for me as well.
Already a good idea, beautiful simple to use, now playing the good guy. I think this is something that is worth doing. Hope Distrokid succeeds :)
Sex myths without substance: Mislabelling Japan
"These stories gain traction because they support a simplistic view of East Asia which is at best patronising and at worst overtly racist [...] The collective obsession with portraying Japan as a nation of tech-obsessed sexual deviants dehumanises its citizens and echoes orientalist attitudes that should be long since dead and buried."
Very much so (ammonia content, for one). See any IPA brewed with a large proportion of Simcoe hops as well.
I love the way nascent thought is being given to the use of 3D printing on large size implementations
Ask HN: Are small hosting companies still making money?
With Amazon as competitor, is future of small hosting companies certain death? Will it be similar to what Walmart and other multi billion chains did to mom-pop shop?
I tried switching to Jit.si last month. After a week or so, I went back to Skype. Very poor audio and dropped calls.

Get someone in there to completely strip the UI, increase the audio quality, and I'm there. Paid user.
Is this supposed to be serious, because we want javascript to be better, or sarcastic, because most people DO live behind locks that are broken and can be bypassed trivially with relatively unsophisticated tools? Everybody break out your bobby pins!
The reply is even more interesting . This is by an official rep. Really impressed by Dell.

"As mentioned above, no biological hazard was involved and we do know that a manufacturing process was the root cause. That process was changed which resolved the issue on newly manufactured units. As for everyone out there with a unit that still exhibits the symptoms, we haven't forgotten about you and will make things right. Keep watching this thread and as soon as more info if available, we'll let everyone know."
How does the webcam driver know how much bandwidth your socket has? The request to reduce quality in some fashion would have to come from Skype.
All I know in detail is the 757 system, which uses triply-redundant hydraulic systems. Any computer control of the flight control systems (such as the autopilot) can be quickly locked out by the pilot who then reverts to manual control.

The computer control systems were dual, meaning two independent computer boards. The boards were designed independently, had different CPU architectures on board, were programmed in different languages, were developed by different teams, the algorithms used were different, and a third group would check that there was no inadvertent similarity.

An electronic comparator compared the results of the boards, and if they differed, automatically locked out both and alerted the pilot. And oh yea, there were dual comparators, and either one could lock them out.

This was pretty much standard practice at the time.

Note the complete lack of "we can write software that won't fail!" nonsense. This attitude permeates everything in airframe design, which is why air travel is so incredibly safe despite its inherent danger.
Hey just now I tested with Win 7 IE 9 - looked fine to me!
Why? I found that useful.
Well known properties like smell?
Indian outsourcing giant to settle visa fraud case with $35 million
I'm leaning very much towards a Vagrant/Ansible setup to provision/deploy/configure instances across a range of VPS providers. I'm actively testing with DigitalOcean/Linode/AWS right now, spinning up Ubuntu 12LTS and 13 instances both locally (in VirtualBox) and remotely, and it's looking very promising. It'll only get you 1,2, and 4 out of your list though – but does have the big advantage of not suffering "lockin" to any of the VPS vendors. It also gives me really easy local Vagrant/VirtualBox development, test, and A environments – with very high assurance that they're all sensible replications of the deployed environments.

If your app/service is architected to make spinning up a new 1G or 2G instance when your 512M one is running short of resources, "faking" 3 would work. I'm not sure where I'd start looking if I needed a web interface for it all though…
I've heard of this before with cheap plastics, like "pony beads", for instance. What I really wonder, though, is if this will be forever linked in the consumer collective mind with Dell returning to privately owned status.
That happened at a former employer of mine. Parts came in covered in chicken shit and straw. Long story short: our main vendor in China outsourced to a make-shift forging operation set up in a barn.
I don't understand the use case. I upload a h264/AAC video file to my server, and this service transcodes it into an h264/AAC video of the same resolution.

I also worry that since it is based on streams and heroku, that it doesn't re-write the meta data to the beginning of the video after encoding. This is a really important step as it cuts the time to first frame by 1/2.
I'm disappointed that there's no penguin.
Ask HN: How did you discover your start-up idea?
That's like saying "don't skip ads on free-to-air TV, don't like ads? Don't watch free to air TV".

In regards to what we are giving in exchange for the free service, there's all sorts of tracking activity, contact and content mining, and general Google account-related user information that we share with Google in order to feed Google's database.

Google aims to feed its database to improve its products and make its products more attractive to partners. Ads in Gmail are only part of the story of how Google gets rich from your stream of personal data. A few ads shown on the Gmail interface is not how Google is making its billions.
Talk to your developers. Unless they are quite inexperienced they should have a personal appreciation for why language and platform experience are not the most important things to look for...
What hackathons are actually good for
Interrogation by SEC( Mark Cuban' blog post)
I have written about the use case here: http://amritbera.com/journal/why-i-built-transcode-io
HHVM 2.1.0 released, supporting many frameworks out of the box.
> And yet, jsquery works that way, doesn't it? Everyone pulls jsquery in from basically one site...

Not everyone (not even close). Many do, but if I'm running a site over SSL I'm going to be hosting my own copy of the jQuery libs.
FF 24 on 13.10 works.
The high price of an ultrasound setup has nothing to do with the desktop PC component. Ultrasound probes are the specialty part of the hardware costings, the clinical know-how for the software is another expense, compliance is another, and low turnover contributes yet another.

Similarly, 'just sell in developing countries' is an utter throwaway line for medical devices the way you're using it - and you'll find that these products already do sell in such markets anyway (what a novel idea indeed!). Not to mention that developing countries have extremely limited medical budgets, and 'allied health' stuff like ultrasounds are luxuries - they're available and have sales teams, but the turnover is extremely low.
With a bit of preparatory work first, how close does this sound:

> cd app/production
> vagrant up --provider=digital_ocean

?
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Actually, it's the sharing of search terms across tabs that is useful, and is still supported.
204 No Content would.

202 assumes a possibility of further processing, but /dev/null can offer none.
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recruiter.destroy
The website is missing a "meet the founders" page with the pre-pubescent CEO, CTO, Director of Marketing and Director of Customer Excellent, who just happens to be the CTO's little sister.
wow! thats a great idea. thanks!
Just a couple of examples. Arrays and Objects are the same type of structure in JavaScript. Arrays just happen to be indexed by integers and Objects by strings.

This description doesn't tell the whole story, leading people to a false conclusion of simplicity.

When it comes to JavaScript arrays, a lot of magic is happening under the covers that doesn't happen with non-array objects. Good JavaScript developers need to know those details, and that counts as complexity.

You're doing people here a disservice by leaving out relevant information.
Two things to point out as a VoltDB engineer.

1) VoltDB's global transactions are much slower than its partitioned transactions, but it's relative. It can still do hundreds or thousands per second.

2) Making this number faster for common cases is ongoing work. In upcoming 4.0, multi-partition consistent reads will get about a 10x performance boost if they're bottlenecked on transaction overhead. This allows us to do up to 50k/sec global reads while doing 500k/sec partitioned writes. Expect improvements for global writes in 2014.
> In most of political theory, the spectrum breaks down roughly into two…

As a Ph.D. candidate in a top tier political science program, let me just stop you here and assure you that whatever follows is almost certainly categorically incorrect. Political theory is so wildly diverse that one strains to appreciate the relevance of large chunks of it, but it, without a doubt, does not generally/roughly/approximately break down into the positions of the U.S.'s two major parties.

> I won't pretend to be a master political theoretician, but…

This is kinda like when someone starts a sentence, "I don't want to be an asshole, but…" or "I'm not a racist, but…" or "I don't want to interrupt, but…".

Please don't pretend to be a political theorist.
As opposed to....
This is a behavior of webcam. My Dell laptop does all this.
One night in Paris - Air France customer service experience
You would have extreme trouble picking a lock with a bobby pin, they're much too fat to do anything outside of a movie.
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If anyone ever asks me what to name their cat, I am now forevermore going to recommend the name "boxwood".
"Why?" Why not?

In my case, the reason is because it's shorter to type.

I would expect most longtime UNIX users have experienced what happens when, for one reason or another, /dev/null is not a null character device and you have scripts or programs writing to it as if it was. By the time you realize that this has happened, it's too late -- data has already been saved to this file.

There may be various workarounds for this. I'm not a professional sysadmin.

But in my case, for my own personal usage systems, by using my own null character device in my own tmpfs mounted folders, I can just test for the success/failure of the mknod command before I start redirecting anything to it.

I don't need a /dev/null. But I do need mknod.
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Although if the gas giant is anything like Jupiter those moons are probably getting smothered in radiation that is dangerous to Earth-like life.
I actually quite enjoy their displays as well. But their laptops have been nothing but headaches for me.
I'm interested in the idea for sure. Is there any way I can get updates on the project (github, website, newsletter)?
BBRY Market cap today: $4.3 bn
Cash: "about $2.6 bn in cash"
Patents: "estimate [...] between $1 bn and $3 bn"

That leaves not a whole lot of value in the company's other assets after the cash and patents - their personnel, supply chains and branding are valued at almost zero in the market. I'm kind of amazed by that.
So, what gets to be "mg"?

I'm not against the idea, but please don't have the new base also start with "g".
What books would you suggest this junior developer read?
It seems like the requirements for jobs continue to increase. Not too long ago, you could get a job just having experience in one/a few language(s) with a few things in a portfolio.

As a guy who's always looking for advice on getting an entry-level position, I've been told to learn a dozen or so technologies before applying for a junior position: HTML, CSS, JS, Python/Django||Ruby/Rails||PHP, Linux, Data Structures and Algorithms, Photoshop, Design Principles. I also need to have some good quality projects and approach hard problems, which can be time-consuming and difficult on your own. Even then, some places filter out candidates who don't have a CompSci degree.

To me, this seems a little high for a junior position (Any company, not Google) and sounds more like a full-stack web developer (I'm just shooting for a Front End spot). With no professional experience, there's no way I'm going to be proficient in all of those domains unless I spend a long time learning on my own and that doesn't exactly pay the bills.

As the problems get harder and more people drift towards CompSci, the requirements for even a minimum-level position will continue to increase, while the time to learn all of the requirements remains the same. This will hurt the talent pool in the long run, although people that have been riding the wave will command very large salaries if the talent gap continues to widen.
(I am one of the founders of MongoHQ)

Buffer has been exceedingly fair with us, we are fully in favor of them giving customers all the information they have.
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Oh my god I had those M990s in black. I thought there was something really wrong with my feet. Thanks for the closure.