skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it have interfaces, abstract classes, and optional types like PHP? Or it is as lacking in OOP as Ruby and Python?
Command + R (If you're on a Mac)

or whatever you do to refresh.
The War On Hackers
There were basically three oil shocks/market disruptions, Nixon's closing of the gold window in 1971, i.e. letting the world price of the dollar, which oil is priced in, float, and you know in what direction, the Yom Kippur War based embargo from October 1973 to March 1974, and oil and gas not being removed from Nixon's price controls. All of those lead to the '70s energy crisis, which Reagan started zapping with a stroke of the pen upon becoming president, and than had a good effect on inflation. Prior to then the DoE decided where every gallon of gasoline and diesel went; my father constructed a small tank farm with 55 gallon barrels of gasoline, but they turned out to be unneeded because we're in a farming area and those bureaucrats made damn sure those had enough fuel even while they were pinching the big urban areas.

I don't claim to have a good understanding of macroeconomics (not sure anyone really does), but I'm pretty sure fiscal policy has some effect. But since we're discussing a sequence of numbers, that hardly matters. What does is that Carter did indeed "find religion" on a number of fronts (including defense after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), and in the case of the Fed, replaced Burns with Volcker in August 1979, albeit way too late to save his presidency. What's critical with Reagan is that he recognized Volcker was the right guy for the job and fully supported him when things got ugly, e.g. big hikes in interest rates (to a prime rate > 20%!!!) that along with the delayed phase in of the supply side tax rate cuts gave us a nasty, sharp recession.

That's when Reagan's economic policies were labeled Reaganomics, a term which our betters dropped like a hot potato when they had their desired effect and Reagan ran a "It's morning in America" 1984 reelection campaign. He deserves more than a little credit for the moral courage to persevere in the face of near G. W. Bush opprobrium while he let that harsh medicine work.

And the bottom line is seen in those numbers. Whatever Reaganomics was, it manifestly wasn't an increase in inflation.
This is good news: it seems as if Apple's quality control is improving. After all, there is no report here of Mail.app actually deleting messages[0] [EDIT: oh, well] or sending out hundreds of copies of a message.[1]

Despite this improvement, however, I think I shall continue to avoid this company's software in favor of more mature, open source solutions.[2]

[0]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12758081&amp;tstart=0
[1]http://lee-phillips.org/iphoneUpgradeWarning-4-2-1/
[2]http://www.mutt.org/ (http://www.washington.edu/alpine/ might be OK, too.)
Do you really think it's just as easy for a woman to give her child up for adoption as it is for a man to leave the relationship? I mean: really?
Reminds me of Draft, which seems much more fully featured (and is made by frequent YC contributor Nate Kontny): https://draftin.com/
What are you using for task management that is open source?
I completely agree, It's time to start counting atoms/molecules of something (being careful with isotopes).
Integer numbers are very good for "perfect" (well, very good) abstract definitions.

And it would also really prolong the French Revolution spirit in the sense that this unit would become so universal that you don't need a physical reference anymore, like what we could achieve with the other base units (like second then meter).
better interface, a good community, more featured aimed at writing etc.
The IPK being 2nd lightest out of 12 on the given graph is not statistically significant: even before accounting for post-hoc analysis.

The even distribution suggests (to my eye) that this is as likely random as by some systematic effect.
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It's a shame to see what passes for "reporting". It's an ad, not an article...
Hacker News Needs Honeypots (2011)
[2] You've misspelled Alpine. :P
IPv6 has gigantic variable-length headers. That is inefficient, and too hard to implement in FPGA/silicon for a niche exploratory project.
Honestly, I think one of the key things of finding a great investor is not just the money but the business mentorship. With crowd-funding, all you get is money which is cool, but what most start-ups need is money + people in power in their corner to promote their product, set up meetings with corporations who would otherwise never listen to the startup founders, and a way to open doors to new relationships.
> It is interesting (kind of scary to me) that this is totally stripped out of all humanity.

Yeah. How many of the people in the article talked (and some of the talk on this page) makes my skin crawl.

First my qualifications to talk on this: I have absolutely none. I somehow managed to stumble into love, got married at 22, and over 20 years later still going strong (with a few rough patches and a lot of work put in along the way.) The only thing I can boast to be being extremely fortunate. I was an over-weight, socially inept nerd at 22 (these days, I am a little less socially inept, maybe.) So I've never really had to seriously 'compete' in the dating 'game'.

I was trying to find the right word to describe how most of the people in this article and discussions viewed finding another human being to spend the rest of their lives with and create more human beings with and couldn't find the word. When I showed the article to my wife she nailed it straight away: mercenary.

Dehumanising would be another word I will use, too.

The women who attended that lecture in hopes of capturing the interest of an alpha-male creep me out the same way as when I read articles about pick-up artists and how they think about preying on a woman's insecurities to get laid. It's all about accomplishments and not relationships. Dehumanising.

Was it Ovid who said, "If you want to be loved, be loveable."? Perhaps becoming loveable may entail cultivating interests that don't just involve computer games, or learning how to "dress metro" as some have advised. But I bet developing an attitude of treating people with some basic dignity and compassion will go a long towards being loveable and attracting someone you want to live the rest of your life, rather then categorising everyone on a scale of one to ten or as opportunities to exploit.
Email is always a bitch. Google's implementation of IMAP is a disaster as well. I have yet to find any email app on any platform that I can't swear at daily. I even tried to write my own before sanity returned.
The t-shirt trucks get the same privileges, but I suppose an ambulance wins in the hypothetical case when both of them are fighting for way.

In India, the only thing that gets any kind of privilege is a politician's motorcade.
Forced refresh did work. Thanks.
Odds are you don't really understand GPLv3. See what people like Linus (you might have heard of him) think about it. And he made quite some contributions to the open source world.
I don't understand why so much weight is given to the difference between US and non-US nationals. And in my experience, it's pretty common to see the US assign a pretty high amount of trust by default to US citizens.

For example, a few months ago I visited a friend there, and I got to tour the SpaceX factory. Since I'm foreign, he had to jump through some hoops and there were parts of it the factory that were off-bounds for me.

I know there are very tight controls on space-related industries and I can understand the no-pictures policy, but I don't know why it makes such a big difference whether I was born elsewhere.
HN: upvote and downvote arrows gone. HN now supports high resolution screens
The CSS was changed last night so all you have to do is refresh HN and you should see the arrows again.
As I understand his argument, it’s “Changing port number add security, therefore it’s a good idea.” I think nobody argues that it adds security. The problem is that:

1. It adds very little security: 16 bits is not much, and the result is not 256 bits (say) of SSH key plus 16 bits equals 272 bits, but instead effectively still 256 bits, or 256+8×10⁻⁷³ bits.

2. The security it adds is itself bad (sent in cleartext, easily brute-forced)

3. These problems stand against the many drawbacks of this previously discussed (complexity, confusion, etc.).

And the final argument: If increased security is what you want, simply increase your key lengths and/or password lengths, and you will get much more than 8×10⁻⁷³ bits of security, without any of the above problems.
Or this is just a researcher stating to a reporter that he does not have proof, to avoid false headlines. The underlying reason of course being that there is not such a thing as "proof" in physics.
A Man Stole This Woman’s Wallet, and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
no matter how much we think we know about the universe, we still don't know sh#*!
Putting something into this URL could help.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="news.css?1382794165">
Does this affect browser extensions or mobile/web applications which were developed for Hn?
The trouble with most endothermic reactions is they involve far less energy absorbed per kg than exothermic reactions tend to emit (and their reaction rates much slower than you'd like). As a runner I'd not be too enthused about lugging around a 500g brick of goo that has the best possible endothermic heat absorption. You'd lose far more in heat dissipation potential than that brick could ever absorb, at least if it started at ambient. (Imagine how less popular ice would be if it never melted but stopped cooling).

A peltier cooler would be right out; they only work when they have an active cooling mechanism (heat sink and fan usually).

If you wanted to ditch the cooler and put together a hat or other appliance with a 3V case fan and ultrathin solar cells (CIGS probably), you'd get an excellent improvement in heat dissipation, and it would work indefinitely as long as it was daytime (probably a safe bet).
Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London
That would work really well here in Texas. My job takes me nearly an hour to reach by car. You can basically fit all of Europe in Texas with a little rearrangement. Scale matters.
Related issue regarding the new CSS https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/5
> The problem? Young people are terrible at self-reflection.

No. Some people, not just young, are terrible at it. And some are good at it. Universities don't change that because they continue to be nannies. If you want people to be able to assess themselves and know what they want in life, you better start asking them to do it earlier, not later.
Where lesser means less restrictions, not less freedom.

GPLv3 = The ultimate restriction
It is ace, but I wonder if you'd get cycling as mainstream anywhere else. That country is almost uniquely and famously flat.
I know about the new free plan, but no image manipulation or direct s3 uploads means I still have to rework on my code or pay. So you do if you use direct to s3 uploads.

I dont expect good stuff to be free, and Ink is indeed good, but i still think this goes into the dark pattern category. I bet there are many devs in our situation, and plenty will just pay.
My bad, you're absolutely right. I meant mod_wsgi.

With regard to code location, I mentioned that because of Spidler's question.
I haven't had any issues with thunderbird.
Mail.app has these issues consistently, across versions. Which is a real shame, because UX-wise it is a really fine mail client.

Also, threading algorithm changed slightly in Mavericks, leading to many more mistakes than ever before.
If you did a python/ruby/node-javascript that would capture the best features of PHP, instead of inventing a whole new language, I'd actually be tempted to use it.

The features (or what others would call anti-features, but one man's "bug" can be another's "features" so lets ignore the long talk) would simply be:

1. Ultra-Ease of deloyment - I want to be able to just:

- load a module for my webserver of choice (Apache, NGINX etc.)

- drop code in a folder via ftp and have it "just work"

- have a shared nothing app model with no long running processes, PHP style, because this way I can ignore 99% of security and performance problems, both as a provider of dirt-cheap shared hosting and as the developer of a web application that doesn't need to scale that much and isn't that much of a target for hackers either (so I can have the following mindset: "I don't need to care about scalability/performance or security, because by the time I'll need to care about these I'll be already making enough profit from it to be able to hire some very smart guys to rewrite everything from scratch the right way or I will have already sold the company and be enjoying my $ while others care about this")

2. Ultra-Eease of app/site setup:

- I want to just drop files in a folder and have it work, just like that, just like magic

3. "Don't make me think" style of development:

- I want the same language in my controllers, in my db code AND in my templates

- plus points if it's in the browser too

- have all the component I and other might need in "one pack", "batteries included" style

4. Almost non-existent learning curve:

- someone should be able to go from A - "poetry major with no knowledge of what computers are" to B - "expericenced full-stack developer" withouth feeling any learning curve: yeah, it will take time to get from A to B, the first 10% of the road should be made as easy as possible

...and to "kill" PHP you'd still need to add a killer extra feature. I can imagine something like an object persistence feature (Maglev/Gemstone style) baked into the language/library/framework that would allow you to simply persist objects without even thinking about a database (it could be implemented as a very smart ORM underneath, but it should be as opaque/black-boxed as possible and 99.99% of users shouldn't need to know how it works) - this imho would be the kind of thing really enjoyed by PHP developers.
I changed it because it makes FreeBSD's nightly security run output not contain thousands of lines like this:

Jul 28 23:53:57 hostname sshd[1068]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55040 ssh2
Jul 28 23:53:58 hostname sshd[1076]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55155 ssh2
Jul 28 23:53:58 hostname sshd[1076]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55155 ssh2
Jul 28 23:53:58 hostname sshd[1076]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55155 ssh2
Jul 28 23:53:59 hostname sshd[1084]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55460 ssh2
Jul 28 23:53:59 hostname sshd[1084]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55460 ssh2
Jul 28 23:53:59 hostname sshd[1084]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55460 ssh2
Jul 28 23:54:00 hostname sshd[1092]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55566 ssh2
Jul 28 23:54:00 hostname sshd[1092]: Failed keyboard-interactive/pam for root from 78.129.252.154 port 55566 ssh2
That is not quite true. In some cases, the idea of building for cars was abandoned before it got fully executed, but that didn't always happen.

Examples:

In Amsterdam, the Vijzelgracht was turned into a highway into the centre of town (it's hard to imagine, but about half of Amsterdam's waterways have been filled in to make room for traffic (much of this predates car traffic). Even as late as the '50s, there was a plan to fill many canals to make room for parking garages).

Utrecht had plans to fill its outer moat to make room for a ring road. Part of the Catharijnesingel was filled in 1970 or thereabouts to build 'the shortest highway in the Netherlands', but afterwards, the plan was luckily abandoned (the Catharijnesingel will be dug again in a few years)

Residential neighborhoods built in the '60s were designed first for cars (http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/making-a-1960s-...)

Rotterdam, after the bombing in 1940, rebuilt its city plan to accommodate for cars.
To be fair there was once a mess where e-mail was riddled with issues with charsets, bad MIME implementations, buggy QP-encoded headers and so on. Then there was the spam age. Then the no-client-actually-works age, which is where we are.

I don't think email ever worked well.
My point exactly, or if I find a useful answer in a completely obscure question and I want to upvote the person that answered it because she got too few votes (xx points required).

Like I said, I got frustrated because I couldn't do anything useful, and I would rather stay away than be hunted down by a SE Inquisitor.
Well, that's also a decision to get out of the business of Federal contracting, and to lose a lot more of their contracting business.

Did you notice how obsequious CGI's VP Cheryl Campbell was when asked the usual leading questions about the bureaucrats and political appointees running the show? This bit from the hearings is really telling (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-panel-grills-co...):

"Later, Rep. Leonard Lance (R-N.J.) asked the contractors whether they could conceive of “a more incompetent administrator” than CMS.

“I have no opinion on that,” Campbell replied."

Might be a lie, might be she's been jaded by so many customers from hell she really can't precisely rate CMS....

I'd also note that it wasn't necessairly the 2nd or 3rd change that were fatal, while the late ones clearly were. I'd further note that a lot of us are optimists, believing we can perserve in the face of tough situations including clients from hell, and we can take that too far when things become manifestly impossible.

It's also possible that CGI et. al. believed, certainly hoped, that when the first integration tests in the last 1-2 weeks before the scheduled launch resulted in total failures the administration would admit reality and delay opening a site that they knew was going to fail hard. I mean, this steady dribble of bad news is a zillion times worse than a one time hit in a program that's had a zillion delays and waivers already.

I guess I'm saying I'm not sure CGI could accurately gauge the depths of stupidity of this client prior to the most insane decision to turn on the known failing system.
Sorry for deviating for the topic, but I think it must be said: "Sorry for the snarky reply" is not enough, considering that you wrote it at the same time you could have gone back and rewrite the text into a polite, well-worded argument. That's just condescension - if you really were sorry, you'd have rewritten your text.

By replying like that you've ensured that your point won't come across - for all I know you might be technically right, but using that tone ensures that lots of people will refuse to read past the second paragraph.

If your argument is solid, that's all you need. IMHO, snark makes your point come across as bragging, and no one likes that.
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To me it seems like QA is declining. I just experienced data loss with the new Mail.app 7.0: Moving mails out of inbox to another folder left a copy in the inbox. Deleting the copy in the inbox also irrevocably deleted the other copy in the other folder. Smart mailboxes just don't work properly, doesn't auto-refresh, incorrect non-refreshing or just plain random "unread email count" badges, table column "Mailbox" shows "Archive" no matter which folder a mail actually belongs to, random 100% cpu usage for extended periods of time even when left idle, etc. etc. etc.

The old version that shipped with 10.8.5 had none of these problem at all. Mail.app went from being perfect to being actively hostile :(
For some reason I can't upvote you.
Show HN: Offline lyric/chord WEB App created by a highschooler
In Chrome at least, having the devtools panel open[0] disables {all,most,some,infuriatingly inconsistent} parts of the cache system, so every refresh is a 'hard refresh'[1].

[0] Might be an option in the dev-tools settings, but I think it's enabled by default.

[1] Except when it's not, of course.
Does the scale matter? I can see the availability of space putting pressure on such projects, because lower property costs will take precedence over something that is considered a fringe lifestyle, but I thought the usual reason it is impossible to bike in Texas was the weather.

With less snide, I don't see why a bike friendly neighborhood would cause any extra problems for a Texan.
Where does the imprecision come from exactly? Can't we derive the kilogram from the number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms in a litre of water at an uniform temperature?
What did you use to create the generated JavaScript? I'm still new to this and trying to figure out out.
I honestly have no clue what you're getting at with your first paragraph. Email hasn't changed very much in the last fifteen or more years, so I'm not sure what changes the "Web 2.0 people" made you're referring to, your examples are pretty odd ("scan other addresses" what?). Also keeping a backup of deleted messages for a period of time is standard industry practice and has been since before I or Linux were even born.

As far as MS Outlook and standards: That little rant reads like it was written about web-browsers and you just replaced "Internet Explorer" with "MS Outlook." MS Outlook uses a fairly standard implementation of IMAP/POP3/SMTP and has since forever. Microsoft have their own ActiveSync mechanism which isn't a standard, but no competing solutions have really appeared which compete with ActiveSync (and replace IMAP) so while you could blame them, you could also blame the complete lack of innovation in this space.
Those dieters who measure fifty millionths of a gram in weight loss have bigger problems.
Clear your cache: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6616972
Why not just use the webserver as a proxy to gunicorn or uwsgi?
If the kilo is getting lighter, it means that your mass in kilograms is going up! Better hit that treadmill before the meter starts shrinking and you need to run farther.
Do writers (non-techies) use and/or want to use Markdown?
Uhm, did you even read the article?

The project is already being worked on and support for Py3 is implemented. He's reaching out looking for people to help him test it.
Is this just like C#'s async, F#'s mon^H^H^H workflows aka computation expressions, Haskell's do notation?
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Who are the most significant users? Tobi says it's cool, but does he use it? Not doubting, just curious. Who are the best writers we've got who say "yes, this is good for me" ?
There are degrees: I doubt that Google's actually surprise-deletes users' email, for example. On the other hand, their SMTP servers have interesting issues[0].

"I have yet to find any email app on any platform that I can't swear at daily."

I've been using mutt for many years and have not found a single bug or issue. It's fast, powerful, ridiculously configurable, and never surprises me.

[0]http://lee-phillips.org/gmailRewriting/
No one listens to me
"I'm not God" -> "There is a God"?
MariaDB gets $20m from Intel
No, 9 weeks would require everyone who must get a new policy by Jan 1 to get all the way through all the systems, exchanges -> insurance companies, in the last three days of December.

Even if several paths are kludged for these most desperate millions of people losing their current coverage Jan 1, I can't see how any more time than 7 weeks is feasible, leaving 2 and a fraction to process them. And to know the system is really working, large numbers, 10s of thousands, had better be getting successfully through the systems before then.
Obamacare CGI website executive has ties to Michelle Obama