skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you select a section, you can cross it with a different section. For example, select "Countries" and in related "Disasters". The reason it's called related, is because it's conditional on your first selection.

1 day pulldown allows you to choose different summarization period. You could for example choose 3 days, and section "Countries - Europe" - that would select top news for you within the last 3 days, arranged by countries in Europe.

Any ideas how I can make this clearer?
What Makes a Good Cadaver Dog?
No, it does always shrink. It's counter-intuitive, but that's what the formula gives. What you're pointing out is that some situations aren't really that well modeled by a Gaussian and you probably want something with a thicker tail.
SuicideGirls (NSFW) forums had a ban called "The Zot"; the user would go grey. But they also had something called "The Uber Zot", where all the user's posts would be deleted.

Thus, some people would go on a spree of horrific posting in order to earn an uberzot and "go out in style".

Gently counter productive.
Very significant battery life update, which is nice to see. Though, this seems to be another in a string of poor execution choices by Microsoft. Last cycle, they shipped Windows RT with a preview version of Office that was slow and buggy. That's what went into all the reviews of the device. Nobody covered the final version update. This cycle, they shipped Surface Pro 2 as the successor to a device that was widely panned for its battery life, while leaving 25% of its battery life on the table. All the reviews of the Surface Pro 2 are already out, and they all say "battery life isn't as good as we expected from Haswell + 42 watt-hour battery." How many are going to go back and update their reviews?

Sure, Apple this cycle shipped with keyboard/trackpad issues they're working out, but: 1) apparently it didn't affect the review machines; and 2) they didn't affect a part of the machine that was scrutinized for its failures the last go around.

I had a thought the other day re: Surface Pro. It's not the device for someone who wants to replace their laptop and their tablet. It's a device for someone who wants to replace their desktop and their tablet.

I have noticed that many people who express positive sentiments about the Surface Pro also consider the screen size, battery life and keyboard issues to be less significant because you can plug in a desktop keyboard, mouse, and monitor. My guess is that most of these people ordinarily work from a desktop and see using their Surface Pro for short jaunts away from their desk. That seems to be an excellent use-case for the device. Journalists, on the other hand, seem very cold on the device. My guess is that journalists have fully embraced the trend of using laptops as their primary machine. If you spend most of your time working from a Starbucks, that 10.6" screen and type cover are all you're going to get, and aren't an adequate replacement for a good laptop. Certainly, I can't see myself ever buying one for personal use. My laptop is my only machine, and I don't even have a desk at home, and $1,000+ for what's essentially a netbook-sized display and keyboard isn't going to work.

I'm not sure how big that "desktop + tablet" target market is, especially since Microsoft doesn't seem to have aggressively aimed Surface Pro at businesses. I could see it being very handy at work with a dock, but only if it were my actual desktop machine provided by IT. Also, it's probably too expensive for businesses. The 8GB RAM model is $1,299 + $129 for type cover + $200 for dock.
Most people like being awake when it is light out and asleep when it is dark. Having the world on UTC doesn't let you figure that out.

Your in London, UK and schedule a meeting for your team at 9:00 in New York, LA, Tokyo and Bangalore.

Who is awake? Who is asleep? Who's workday ended?

You live in Paris, your mother lives in Hawaii. You want to call here when you get off work. Did you wake her up? Is she at work?

Timezones give you a general idea about what it going on at that part of the world. You lose that information without them.
I think the reasoning is that people will actually join the argument instead of clicking an arrow facing downwards when they disagree with a comment.
How is it a bigger problem if it has already been solved today?

The original paper attempts to deal with all of these problems, pressure, safety, land rights, it's a very interesting read.
For me if I just enter my first name, then I get the small AutoFill popup with my contact card preselected, and just hit enter, it autofills without me seeing the full popup with the detailed info in it.
> roads to take people to hospital

The population density in some developing countries is extremely low. Botswana for example has roughly 2mio inhabitants of which roughly a quarter live in Gabs and yet another maybe 10% in the next 5 bigger towns. That leaves the rest of the country with an average population density of less than 2person/square km. Bringing people to a hospital by car on a good road can easily take a day or more. It's also not viable to have an educated doctor able to make that choice in each of the remote villages. So you really really need to find a good way to offload that decision to a person that's remote.

n.b. Botswana is a fairly well developed country, I just choose it as an example since I have family ties there and know the situation better than say Namibia which is similar in the population distribution.
I wouldn't hire anyone based on where they learned. I want to see what they've made, and see how they answer some coding questions -- not "why are manhole covers round", but questions about software design, and anything to give a hint about how much experience they have solving coding issues.

I'd ask if they had a blog, or a website they built, or a hobby they're working on. I'd prefer to see a candidate that's passionate about software - that turns on her computer when everyone else is sleeping because she heard about a new framework or language or service on Amazon that she wants to play with.

There are uninspired graduates of good computer science programs, and there are hidden superstars that taught themselves, with no idea how good they are.

Bottom line - experience and passion matter more than where they studied.
Thanks - that clarifies it. Would I be right in thinking its a visual way of doing faceted search? If so, maybe the issue is the word "related" - not sure what the best option would be. Possibily 'topic' and 'subtopic'?

For the day pulldown, the first thought to come to mind is that it is dependant on the specific search being performed - and not global across all searches.
Why was this removed from the front page? That's how I reached it.
Maybe, but the one thing a poor country can't do without are schools for fundamental education. You can do without internet for everyone, you can do without tv. But if you don't have schools and teachers, which some countries don't have (what they have only passes as schools and teaching) you're pretty much doomed as a country.
Is that the crack-smoking mayor? Or is that elsewhere in Canada?
My employees reviewed me, and I kind of suck
I spent two days in Copenhagen over the summer for some training and I loved it. The people seemed so much more relaxed than in London or here in the US. And the bikes! They were everywhere! It was so nice :)
Show HN: Commit to open source and get Bitcoin tips
What Is Node currently $0 on Amazon
A C extension in Ruby can be nothing more than an algorithm implementation accepting strings or numbers and returning such. Where you need proficiency in C is when you're building something substantial in it.

The problem with Node is, you have to load up a runtime. That can not only kill your performance gains, but actually make things slower.
The article mentions something along the lines of people who walk to work are happier than if they drove to work.

I wonder how remote working from home compares in happiness to walking to a separate but nearby place of work?

When I've worked from home for sustained periods, I've felt happier when taking regular walks than if I stay indoors all day. I've found walking before the work day starts to be the most beneficial (just around the block for 5-15 mins). I tried this after a remote working friend recommended it (and his remote working neighbour had recommended it to him IIRC).

I wonder if any of you who home work have found the same or otherwise?
not sure what this is supposed to do, It just gives me a login/password prompt.
The circular nav thing is cool, on first glance, but it ends up harming the actual usability of the app. Nevermind the difficulty of reading radial layouts, it pushes all of the actual content below the fold.

It's a cool widget, but one that is likely to confuse users on top of obfuscating the content
I don't think we are against hotel regulation. We just don't consider renting one's apartment on Airbnb the same as a hotel.
I have been less active since I lost my up voting (my fault,I had a few days when I up voted everything that hit the frontpage) and flag (no idea here) capabilities but there's no way I'm leaving hacker news.
I find more interesting content here than on any other site.You can probably configure reddit to get a similar output but it's not the same thing.
The automobile-industrial complex that destroyed public transportation in the US would never let it happen here. Maybe in other countries it's a possibility. Or maybe in the future when the major car manufacturers FINALLY go under. I support visionary tech like the HyperLoop even if only because it shows that there are some smart people who can actually see the problem and that they are thinking of ways of solving it.
Really like fotoblur.. amazing
That's not what I'm saying. The same could be said about a malaria vaccine. "Develop it and all will be good" is a fairy tale outcome as well. Even "develop it, make it cheap and malaria will cease to be a problem" is a fairy tale outcome. The real world tends to be much more complicated than that - all I'm trying to point out is that there is a real problem managing available resources, especially in countries with low population densities. We can even see that in some less populated areas of eastern Germany (some areas of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern), but at least we in Germany can luckily afford to throw money at that problem.
Writing Like a Hacker
Probably people flagging it as it's 3 years old.
My solution: Bypass Quora signup wall by avoiding Quora entirely.
I'm with you. I also hate when submitters mess around with titles, since the journalist has already (a lot of the time) messed around and hand picked a quote or chose a sensationalist header. Then comes the HN submitter and double-fucks around.
How to destroy the web [Video] [28:39]
Based on neumann comment above, btsyng still has a lot of issues.

Keep using Dropbox.
I work from home 100% of the time (I live in the US and have a client here and a client in Norway). I absolutely love it and I don't think I could ever go back to working in an office.

I have time to spend with my dogs, take them out and keep them exercised. I have time to spend with my wife and we only have to keep up one car.

I work just as efficiently, if not more so, than when I worked in an office setting through tech like Skype, Screenhero, email, and just basic phone calls. And we use task management apps like Zendesk to help coordinate between our team and other teams. It's really very smooth and efficient.

I do get a little cabin-feverish sometimes, but then I just spend an hour outside with my dogs, or my wife and I go on a day trip to and catch some theater or something, and I'm ready to get back to it.
> It should display nicely on latest browsers (which support flexbox)

So after years of telling people "Don't use table tags for layout", web devs have finally got that message... and they've started using layout tags for tables instead :(
Ah yes, I was getting the various Keying options mixed up in my head:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES#Keying_options

[EDIT]

It does seem odd though that the passwords are encrypted and not hashed, but the hints are in plaintext. Why didn't they also encrypt the hints? (Rhetorical, the answer is probably just laziness/incompetence).

Even if you do use bcrypt() or similar for hashing the passwords then encrypting the hints would prevent similar tactics being available from just a dump of the table contents.
I sent this to the blog author, but then felt maybe someone else might get something from reading it. My offer stands for everyone here. Most of us are going through or have gone through this same struggle eloquently written in this post. I'm here to help brainstorm or chew on any problems any of us are working through. Just need to email me. nate.kontny gmail

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I really enjoyed your blog post on Hacker News today about the trouble of running Twicsy.

Here's just a few spelling/grammar corrections:

https://draftin.com/documents/168810/changes_to_savepoint?sh...

I definitely understand what you are going through. I had a successful attempt at starting a business with Inkling (http://inklingmarkets.com, which still runs profitably today), but then wanted to try again. So we started a branded games company where companies could stick there own brand images into a bunch of games we made. For example, our version of Bejeweled but with pictures of the latest sweaters at the Gap. And we did some revenue making deals. But the deals were tough to get, and the investors didn't care.

I didn't have the passion for this project like I did with Inkling to see it through. So I gave up relatively quickly. Took a break and worked on the Obama campaign. But then I started Draft (http://draftin.com) about half a year ago, and that's been a considerably different project in terms of success. It's surprised me how much people enjoy it.

One thing that's really helped me is Kathy Sierra's advice (http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/0...): to find something where I'm making people better at something. And let that guide all my decision making.

For example, If I were trying to sell cameras, I'd wake up and just focus on helping people become better photographers. With Draft I focus on helping people "write better", and every feature or decision I make for the product has to have that as its mission. And it continues to serve me well.

As I briefly look at Twicsy, I can't help feel there is something here about helping people get better at something. Maybe it too is about getting better at taking photos. You must have a lot of data (i.e OkCupid) about what types of photos get traffic. Maybe with that data, you could make companies better at sharing images of what they do to get more fans. You obviously have skill getting SEO traffic, and managing a large image site. Maybe there is a kernel there that you'd be excited to productize.

Anyways, I know the feelings you are going through. I'm not going to say just keep going, because obviously you have. But I am confident, that eventually there is something you are exploring here that could be turned into something that can sustain itself.

I'm here to brainstorm or chat if you need me. Happy to be of any kind of help. Please feel free to ask. No need to feel like you are toiling at this alone.

-Nate

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http://twitter.com/natekontny
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The revolution will be open sourced. https://github.com/ChrisAntaki/revolution
They've even mentioned it on their blog: http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better

> Open any Quora URL. If you come across a Quora link anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end of the URL. Example: http://www.quora.com/Hostage-Situations/What-does-it-feel-li...
Is it related to this by any chance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
How much money does Craigslist actually make, though? Also not every Bootstrap site has to look Boostrappy, people just almost never bother to change the colors at all.

I agree with moving the ads though. Users who've shown enough interest to click into a page might be more amenable to target advertising.
Can the link be changed to this one?
The internet is what helps the guy that cares to help those suffering but without expensive vertical and salvationist interventions.

Help people help themselves instead of making more dependant.

The "more basic stuff" is guaranteed to improve when their own cultural awareness arises way beyond malaria.

Internet accelerates that process. Vaccines don't.

PD: also, is not about one or the other, it's about attacking the problem in both flanks
Show me the (at the very least) the correlation between internet access and social mobility.

You may help educate some people, though the data says educational outcome is more correlated with socio-economic status. And education is correlated with social mobility, but now we are two correlative (at best) steps away from the conclusion you are drawing. We've yet to show any causation...

Your outrage of having to explain this, is misplaced. This is not an obvious fact, nor is it backed by any evidence.
UK government calls Greenwald's partner a terrorist
Datacenter History: Through the Ages in Lego
Oh, I thought flagging was for spam and offtopic submissions.
I'm not sure you'd consider it "cool", but I've been using one of these for the past 5 months with OpenBSD 5.3 with no issues:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856205...
The best thing about leaking people's databases full of password hashes is teaching people how stupid it is to do it wrong. The worst thing is that most people in charge of this apparently don't read.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300856
Thanks danso,

One problem I had is that I need to keep users by giving them first impression that this is something new. Otherwise, they think "ah, another news aggregator"... I could possibly push the content for flow on the right of the first circle, what do you think?

The key thing is that the algo allows very precise hierarchic classification of any texts. It is unmatched by anything available on the market. Think that it can automatically find such things as articles related to US Politics, or Human Rights. Any ideas how I can prominently feature these ideas?
Ask HN: Burning idea for a story you've always wanted written?
I'm looking to write a novel but still searching for a satisfying seed idea. Maybe you have one?

(Yes, I'm basically crowdsourcing ideas for a book).
A miniKanren in Groovy
It is relatively common for vacation properties to be priced this way because, well, it tends to reflect the owner's costs in that someone is paid to thoroughly clean the property when the renter checks out. (And it's either not cleaned or cleaned much more cursorily on a day to day basis.)
The Devil's Dictionary of Programming
3 things I learned from getting fired
We all agree is a problem, but we don't agree in that Internet is going to fix that just by existing. So in that order of ideas _by itself_ internet is far from being a priority over malaria and other set of issues.
If lots of sites all use user ids as a salt and all count up from 1 then a much weaker version of this attack applies: you can identify all the people who have both the same password and the same user id.

If this were common, someone constructing a lookup table for password hashes could include ones salted with the first N user ids. A N-times bigger table isn't something you'd be excited about as a cracker, but might still be practical.

If your user ids are randomly assigned this should be pretty much the same as generating a random salt. Still, the extra storage of a salt is going to be small compared to whatever else you're storing per-user, so better to do the safe thing and go with what's standard.
>I won't even bother to get into the other countries.

I live in eastern Canada and even some of my own fellow Canadians don't realize we are an hour ahead of them here in this region.

And east of my region is Newfoundland and Labrador who are 30 minutes ahead of my region.
A. I contacted that guy directly, the response was really for everyone else. All you need to do to contact me is send 2 emails, I was trying to be nice with the hoops comment. I don't consider that a big deal and it makes the spam manageable.

B. Getting somebody decent to help for equity is hard. I have been at this for many years, of course I have tried that. Spend a few bucks and get it done isn't helpful because I am broke.

C. I think I work pretty hard!

D. My email is in my HN profile. Many others have contacted me already.

E. You assume too much!

[I edited out my negative tone. I was originally annoyed by your comment, but as you said, you are trying to help! Thanks for your feedback.]
Yeah, possibly "Topic" and "Subtopic" is a good idea, but not sure how this will work for a general user.

The dropdown - it should work like you say, I just didn't have the time to implement it that way - nor position it better on the page.

The thing is that I can apply this auto-classification to anything. Can also create custom categories for any text collection. Any ideas for potential applications?
Hmmm....reminds me of a time when I naively tried to code a date.next() method. Never again..
WeWork Golden Gate in this neighbourhood is an amazing co-working building, with 6 floors they're building out and affordable prices. With everything you'd expect from coworking (beer on tap, fast wifi, big conference rooms, etc) with private offices. We're based in there in Central Market and couldn't recommend it more.
oh - and I primarily use a standing desk! That, I think, is a huge advantage over a sitting desk. But there's also a lot of personal preference there, so YMMV
How to design the soft sell 
In advertising and marketing, the term “soft sell” is an approach at selling and item by connecting with a potential customer. By soft selling a product, you don’t put any pressure on a person to buy right now, but you give them the opportunity to decide if it’s for them or not. Sometimes we use soft sell techniques by demonstrating a particular use of a product or by giving away something for free. We can even create soft sells by giving away information in our blogs.
Do I care where someone learned English?

Even if the work involves written or spoken output, if they clearly dominate the language and can express themselves fluently, I'd quickly move on to something more relevant, like talking shop, and their past work.
A good look, and I enjoyed the mea culpa. Good on ya!
Fabulous acronym.

Also, direct link to the (really quite juicy bits of) the source code: https://github.com/pents90/eburp/tree/master/src
Another Master Key vulnerability discovered in Android 4.4
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Not very related. That looks very expensive. Mine is intended to retail for $10 to $20.
This is great. I love Rails 4. It's mature and solid. It's pure bliss to work with it.
That's a big part of the problem, actually. If it was clear which patents they were then they could be specifically avoided. The problem is that there are so many overly broad patents that you can't even know which ones you're infringing until the troll jumps out from under the bridge.

But to answer the question in broad terms, the compiler you're using and the operating system you're running it on will probably infringe something or other in its rather comprehensive standard library or system call implementation, which you've incorporated when you type the equivalent of "#include <stdio.h>" in your Hello World program.
I find it's important to have perspective of Gates vs the sili-valley-elites in this debate of who will save the world. It reminds me of this Dilbert comic strip from years ago: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1992-12-23/

The implication:

Dilbert => Gates

Zuck/Page => Wally

The real issue isn't quite this simple, but only in the context of how valuable internet access is in the context of an individual in a disenfranchised part of the third world.

I'm with Gates. And Dilbert, for that matter.