skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or, perhaps the whole PUA thing is about offering a list of techniques of social interaction that some people intuitively aren't born with, and need actual coaching. Neil Strauss documents this pretty well in his "The Game" books about how he fell into pickup culture.

Such techniques of course can be abused by assholes against the vulnerable as well.
Not quite. I've been through one like that, and it wasn't anything like as ugly. The line was, 'we haven't any fat, but our costs are too high so weren't going to have to cut meat'. 10% cut across the board, whoever happened to have less crucial work on at the time. Unpleasant, but a one time shot which didn't affect morale going forwards.
About 60 minutes writing a post. The daily analysis is just a minute to check the dashboards. And then two or three hours each weekend. Maybe 10h a week.
Keep in mind that internet access can be slow and sometimes out of reach of the Satellite. Other than that it's a great idea and there have been tech cruises.
Well, from the url:

http://blog.angularjs.org/2013/11/angularjs-120-timely-deliv...

I was expecting a) a blog post, and b) from the .html-ending a hypertext document, maybe with text and images?

What possible reason could there be for this to be "an app"? It's a blog, it's for reading -- and you already need a reader to access it -- why would you implement a (new) rendering engine?

Ok, I can see an argument for adding comments via javascript and a service, or for posting blog posts and doing admin stuff. But the other reasons (user tracking etc) for having this as "an app" only detracts from the readers experience.
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(-40 1) = 40.

To be honest this is a stupid syntax. Basically it reads 40 - 1 from what I can tell from playing around. Why would you take -40, something that everyone understands as negative forty and make it mean forty minus?
It is unbelievable what SourceForge, once amazing, became of.
It's a shame that a company which spearheaded free availability to open source code has sunken to the point of encouraging proprietary installers and adware laden applications.
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> shoved at the latest minute

The pull request was opened 3 weeks ago with plenty of discussion.
Conglomerates peaked in the US in the 1960s; since then, it's been believed that too much de-focus is bad. That said, it's certainly OK for a company to have multiple businesses. Berkshire-Hathaway is like an old-style conglomerate. GE is regarded as being very well run. Etc.

The danger of a conglomerate is that a culture or decision-making paradigm suitable for the dominant business(es) might not be good for others. E.g., smaller businesses might get ignored because they don't matter enough. Or they might not be allowed to move quickly and take risks. E.g., Xerox found that selling LISP machines and copier paper mixed badly, as reorders of the latter were held hostage to the immaturity of the former.
Have it on my desk Monday morning.
Official blog post:

http://blog.solidconcepts.com/industry-highlights/worlds-fir...
Governments cannot stop Bitcoin on a global scale for the same reason they cannot stop Internet on a global scale.

There is no cost-effective way to destroy a well-designed decentralized technology/protocol, plus it would require co-operation of most countries to destroy it.
Another one to make my /etc/hosts along with:
www.google-analytics.com
google-analytics.com
ssl.google-analytics.com
statcounter.com www.statcounter.com

Let me know if I missed anything important. :)
[]+1 = [] 1

[]+[] -> error ...
Only if you told them why, in a "right to work" state.
Some people seem to be able to learn how to socially interact on their own. Others need coaching. Is it dishonest if it is coached?

All social interactions at some level of depth eventually involve pursuasion of a sort. The question is when does that become unethical?
So it just desugars into Python? I see there is a section in the documentation for macros, but there's nothing there. Does it support AST macros right now? I thought of doing something similar to this except doing some kind of static or gradual typing (that would be a larger project though).
Incredible implementation.
The nicest / most surprising thing to me was the instant image preview. In less than a second I had 'uploaded' a huge image and was editing. Nice work.
Does testing have much to do with it? What's the angle I am missing?
How the Hashtag Became a Worldwide Phenomenon
Do you need or would you use a software estimation tool
I have worked in startups , small and huge consulting firms and so far I have seen the typical crazy excels that are being used to estimate software projects (hours, duration and cost).

I started building a software estimation tool that is simple and with an awesome UI. My question is does the world need a software estimation tool?

What do you guys think?
I used to be an elitist and dump sh*t in Ubuntu, but lately I've been running it on my Desktop.

I mean, it works, it's pretty, it's used... plus there's something in Unity which I like, it just gets out of the way (most of the time).

Of those distros you've posted there, I'd consider OpenSUSE, Mageia and Debian. OpenSUSE and Mageia are KDE-Centric and I'm not a big fan of it, and Debian is OK although had problems with it in the past.

I'd stay with Funtoo if I could, but honestly I don't have the time anymore.
Some of the technical challenges I can think of:

1. Version control.

2. LAN sync.

3. Dropbox probably also does a lot to try and minimize their S3 costs - so probably a good deal of compression/duplication-detection on the backend.

4. Any and all networking issues. Even if using OSS gets you 98% of the way, Dropbox probably gets you 100% of the way.

5. Performance. I don't know what Dropbox is doing, but about a year ago I tested out Google Drive, SkyDrive, Dropbox, and SugarSync. I didn't want to use Dropbox because it gives you the least free storage, but Dropbox was consistently 2x faster than the competition (without using LAN sync). That makes a huge difference so I switched to it, and if Dropbox engineers are beating out Google and Microsoft engineers, they're clearly doing something special.
"Secure your anchor event attendees by staying in regular communication with them."

Never underestimate the power of a few dedicated participants.
It's not that difficult to parse s-expressions and generate code, which is what this does.
One more important thing about these custom URLs:

1) Your Google+ profile is publicly indexable by searh engines.

2) Having a custom URL means anyone searching for your name on Google is going to find out your Google+ profile easily. Basically, your identity is now even more easier to discover. (When contrasted to the ordinary Google+ URL of random numbers)

3) If you are using the same profile picture on Google+ as your Facebook, people can track your Facebook profile, too. This is bad if you have a fairly active social life, but wanting a bit of a privacy.
Um, what? Can we make 'growth hacking' into not-a-term anymore? A lot the suggestions on here ring just a touch above scummy.
Yup, misread OP.
Among many serious engineering projects at Facebook:

* HHVM (open source) - A PHP runtime and JIT compiler (http://www.hhvm.com/blog/)

* Presto (open source) - A distributed SQL query engine working on hundreds of petabytes of data (https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/presto-i...)

* Running graph algorithms on a graph with a trillion edges (https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/scaling-...)

* Open Compute (open source) - Custom designed data centers down to the motherboard (http://opencompute.org/)
The other team will take the accolades for your work, your team will be mad at you for mot pulling your weight.
A java hello world application should do the trick.
That, my friends, is how you make an engaging teaser video. Kudos to the fellows who put it together!
If GitHub were to clone some of SFnet's features (full-featured web hosting, forum), I bet my behind on a mass SFnet exodus.
I can't tell, is the idea here to actually make a computer (wire the datapath+control+memory+IO on a breadboard or something)?

Or is it simply another PC assembly kit for dummies, where no understanding of computers is needed?
I posted my migration toolkit Brambling to HN.

You can find it here: https://github.com/bitemyapp/brambling/
Big ExitTM's Big ExitTM will come from suing everyone who says Big ExitTM. I have no idea how to superscript
Science and Its Skeptics
What? It looks like Raspberry Pi and a case. That's not how computers are built.
I actually felt like having my buddy put the words growth hacking in quotes.

Sorry if we offended you.
Wow.. How to grow for free and in the smartest way! Very interesting points..but I haven't see any suggestion about SEO or paid advertisement..do u guys believe on it?
That's interesting, I'm always struggling on how to attract more traffic. Good stuff man
It's interesting that we live in an era where a microblogging website with no innate value can be worth more than the most popular professional social network with paying members.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/11/08/twitter-...
For $99, it's a great introduction to the basics for people who don't have access to a bunch of white box equipment, like kids.

The package looks well put together.
Actually a single water molecule is held together by covalent bonds between the O and two H's, and hydrogen bonds (not Van der Waals) are the intermolecular forces responsible for the properties like surface tension and high boiling point.
It's using prefix notation, so

=> (+ [] [])
[]

As in Lisp, commas aren't needed to separate list items. []+1 is parsed like [] followed by positive 1 (+1), which is why it ends up executing even though it's infix notation passed into a prefix-notation parser.
Scroll down. It's a Raspberry Pi, accessories, and manual in a shiny box.
Actually, we do have quite a lot of people pointing out both that and the war effort, both counted in "schools" and "manned Mars missions". Not in this discussion, but that's probably related to the fact that India neither started a homophobic olympics nor invaded Iraq.

Mind you, I do think that a lot of complaints about this specific mission are of a racist nature - but that's because I suspect that many of the detractors wouldn't critique US space programs the same way.
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Yeah. Some sort of unusual 80/20 rule is in play. 20% of the attendees keep the other 80% engaged.

Oddly enough if you space things out pseudorandomly like putting name placards of different people next to each other on tables that are far apart, you increase the likelihood of engagement.

If you require people to reach over each other, they're polite and engage.
This technique is fairly common in 2d games now. I wrote a blog post on this technique along with a form of ray tracing to also cast shadows in a 2d game: http://mattgreer.org/post/4dynamicLightingShadows
i cant imagine that it's better than torrent
For line art (like the zombie example) it may be possible to use one of several available semi-automated algorithms to generate a depth map. Here's a page that shows a few:

http://parter.kaist.ac.kr/jyhahn76/project13.html
Diary of a programmer and clueless marketer: where to from here
> I don't know what you mean by saying I'm not arguing out of principle

Let me put it another way. The efficacy and morality of taxation cannot be deduced via extrapolating historical economic and sociological data points. If a country has high taxes and is economically well off, that doesn't refute that taxation constitutes theft. It also doesn't prove that they couldn't have been better off with lesser or no taxes. Just because a region has low taxes or low regulation doesn't mean it's the epitome of what a decentralized society has to look like either. I can tell you think you have my ideology in a little libertarian box, but you're only fooling yourself.

As for your ticket, I'm not backing out -- but the condition is you have to stay. I'll buy your ticket and send it to you, but you have to put down a safety deposit on a mutually agreed upon arbitrator for the amount of $400. Every year you can prove residency you get $100 back. If you can't prove residency, I keep the remaining funds.
Then there was the part where the scientists resigned/were forced to resign. That part was truly overkill.
Why the age of the jetpack may finally be here
If I understand their business model, GTAT wanted to be in the furnace and process business and sell those to other companies that would do the manufacturing. It looks like no one wanted to be one of those companies.

There is no "scarce" here. GTAT wanted to make and sell a lot of this capacity, they just couldn't get a buyer to risk their capital.

From that standpoint it makes perfect sense for Apple to pony up. They want the end product. There is no need for a third company to take risk, provide capital, and make extra profit. Apple provides the capital, takes the risk.
I wanted to find a 1-letter domain that was the easiest to type on a keyboard (with my 2-finger typing habit).
I think that was back in 2006-ish days.

So i found that typing keys C + . + GG requires an absolutely minimal amount of physical finger effort as hands are almost perfectly positioned above these keys.

So I registered these.
In fact back then there were a plenty of other 1-letter domain available up for a grabs.

I used to do professional photo business and registered GO.GL - as my first name is Gleb (still have business cards laying around with this address).

At the same time i thought that registering GOO.GL would be cool too - but back then the greenland (owner of this TLD) charged $50/yr + the only way you can register is by sending them a FAX. So I didn't bother.

I am actually good at picking decent domain names even today.
What SDKs do you use in your mobile apps?
glad you found it useful. :)
Mined sapphire is not useful for using as a lens as you can't purify it - it must be made pure.
Make it:
me.<yourdomain>.com

(In case big G will decide to abandon G+) :)
How to create an iPad app with HTML
Allllllmost good enough to excuse the dubstep. Almost.
What I mean by 'different' here is 'not related.'
All good things come to an end.
I have nothing valuable to say, but my jaw dropped when I saw this.
Yes, pretty cool stuff.
Indeed; that was fantastic.
Sapphire glass uses synthetic Sapphire so this is more like building another Gorilla Glass factory than hoarding the output from a Diamond mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire#Synthetic_sapphire
I think it works because some people feel a direct benefit from the services a gold account provides. Others feel that because they are on Reddit a lot they should be contributing to it. In the future I see the potential for a structure much like Wikipedia, public radio stations or PBS have created.
I've given PhoneGap a try, thought the learning curve was reasonable especially coming from a web development background. I thought the APIs were a bit lacking in functionality when I tried it, that may have changed with recent updates.
Yahoo Mail gets multi-tasking
I prefer to go for PhoneGap for HTML5 apps.
Hm. No mention of the obvious IRC connection.
I wondered how expensive their serves actually are. 1 month of reddit gold ($3.99) pays for ~276 server minutes at the moment, or so they say. That's about 0.0145 cent per minute. In a 30 day month there are 43200 minutes. Using these rounded numbers a month of hosting therefor would cost $626.4.

Though I highly doubt that figure is really that low (or doesn't include bandwith and similar, if applicable) I somewhat wish it was because that would be a sign of craftsmanship.

Unlike other similar companies who spend several hundred thousand dollars over two years just on hosting and go bankrupt, despite getting 1% of the traffic.
Amazon Route 53 has a feature called Latency Based Routing, which you can use to distribute traffic to your own mirrors. With AWS, Rackspace and other similar cheap hosting, I see no reason for a SourceForge.

By the way, SourceForge, Freecode (aka Freshmeat) and Slashdot were all acquired by Dice.com in September 2012.
I don't think it is.

Sourceforge is very user-oriented (in contrast, GitHub is very coder-oriented). Non tech-savvy users don't know how to download software using torrents while HTTP just works using one click.
For $99, you can buy a decent starter FPGA board, where you can really make a computer (and learn a whole lot in the process).

I wish I had one when I was a kid.
>"oh he's from country X - they must all be cheap assholes there. I hope I don't get any more tables with people from that country."

This is generally what happens. I have a few friends who are bartenders/servers and they loathe Australians.
You mean, unless they buy enough asics.
> You have to consider any situation holistically. What you call exploitation is often a tremendous improvement over the alternatives those folks have in their countries of origin.

To consider the situation holistically would mean to look at the global system of capitalism bootstrapped by years of outright colonization and exploitation that lead to the situation where doing low-skilled manual labour is considered an improvement in lifestyle for otherwise healthy and able individuals -- rather than (say) getting free, high-quality education or vocational training and a reasonable share of the improvements in life style industrialization and science have enabled.

I'm not buying into the idea that not going on a cruise would improve things, and I'm not even saying don't go on cruises -- but why delude yourself that exploiting people is ok, just because someone else have set the stage for doing so? It doesn't stop being exploitation just because someone comes from a worse situation than they're in now. That just makes participating in the exploitation is a rational choice by the one being exploited -- it doesn't make it a moral choice by the exploiter...
Or, to flip this on its head - remember this tale the next time you miss out on a job to 'the other guy'. Perhaps it will be a trigger for your own personal Onion moment.
u forgot small-batch
Well, there's more besides the 'rooms are 2p'. It doesn't include food for example... You have to buy that, and it can be pretty expensive because the restaurants on the boat have a monopoly. The other thing is that cruise ships usually have mandatory gratuities that can be pretty expensive.
How is that a problem? It fits in perfectly with the GP's thesis.
I'm not 100% sure how I feel about it, but this is my first impression:

Reddit is a service that has truly created a community. And a community isn't just the good, it is the bad. For every bus driver being tormented that is saved with kickstarter story, you can find one where a user is being pestered and encouraged to commit suicide by trolls, or things like the Boston Marathon manhunt.

I feel as if the Reddit community is hitting a point of critical mass where one of two things are going to happen:

1. It becomes much more segmented, with specific subreddits disregarding interaction between users who generally stick to a few specific few, and these communities do well because they are now the size of what used to be entire large chunks of Reddit.

2. Reddit will fail to deliver enough new features fast enough to justify the spending, and it will result in many feeling slighted and we could see a digg-esque migration of users to some other service X that pops up.

Personally I have stopped using reddit as much as I used to, because I generally only peruse the programming and ruby/rails and clojure sections. Most of the stories I see posted are already on HN and have better discussion here. However, I am obviously a very specific case and the reddit userbase is quite widespread now that it has gotten so popular.

It really will be interesting to watch.
I understand what's happening just from the confused comments. Crowdsourced charter airline destinations/flights.

Friday night is probably a rough time for HN comprehension. Would be awesome to see this hit critical mass, as has with auto transport! Do you have plans to target popular events (i.e. Sounders fans recently chartered a plane to Vancouver, BC for a rivalry match [1])?

If so this is along the lines of similar app ideas I've had, although much more high-end. Best of luck!

[1] http://www.theprovince.com/sports/wing+prayer+Southsiders+ch...
this "bypassing IT and selling directly to employees" seems to be working for dropbox, box, github, basecamp?
Every "good" girl secretly fantasy to have a dominatrix whip in her hands.

"Welcome to the real world!"
--Morpheous
Google 'NSF NSI contract 1993'. Ended up being worth North of $20B in about 7 years.
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An interesting thought experiment would be to consider what you'd think of a female pick up artist.
Genius my ass!
Yes :)

You can post absolutely anonymous comment. But only after you log in :)
Right, and simply stating that taxes constitute theft isn't an argument either. What exactly is your argument? Because so far all I've gleaned is "waaaaah taxes."

And supposing I accept the fact that taxes are theft. If I can show with my stupid "evidence" and "historical record" that lack of government regulation has tended to cause oh say, slavery, genocide, and subjugation. Am I simply supposed to accept the risk of those because you can make the unfalsifiable claim that no taxes could theoretically lead to a different outcome? Why is theft the ultimate immorality in your ideology. Is the capitalist exploitation of the worker not theft?

So now you want me to put up twice the cost of the ticket and stay for at least four years? Somehow I don't think you made your initial offer in good faith. I'll accept if you lower the bond to the price of the ticket and stick to the initial one year (mostly because I sincerely doubt I could manage to stay in Cuba for 4 years without getting booted out). You can pick the escrow agent (obviously I'd prefer an established service).

Oh in just in case you think you've got my ideology in a box. I'm all for a decentralized government. I'd say I identify most closely with anarcho-syndicalism. But I do most definitely reject any sort of libertarian or capitalist ideology.
I am somewhat sympathetic to your point, but do feel it is overstated in this case. It would be one thing if there was some indication of ill intent. From all I've seen, I just don't see it as an attempt at being deceptive. Marginally useful? Sure. Trying to trick people into thinking their computer isn't sending data back? This is akin to hating cell phone providers for creating tracking data on you. It is rather obvious that the data has to have been sent across the wire.
It just seems odd that you're reading Musk/Tesla-love, or an exclusion of the possibility of flaws, into my comments. It's like you're responding to someone else.

I'm mentioning another non-exclusive possibility... and one that would work synergistically to expand the stock impact of any actual flaws. (It becomes more likely once the initial idea is planted, be it by flaw or random coincidence. Turn 2 or 3 real fires into twice as many with a little help, collect a billion dollars.)

Or do you think high-flying volatile stock values are never unethically manipulated in either direction?

Hey, where were you during each of the fires so far?
It desugars into python's AST, not python.
I did a little presentation on Hy at Pycon Canada earlier this year [1].

Hy has come a ways since then even. Shortly after that talk we added succinct syntax aliases for QUOTE and QUASIQUOTE. And we added a nice clojure-inspired core library.

It's a cool little language. Fun to hack on. You could learn a few things if you do. And I do hope that we can start help creating documentation for the Python AST module via this project.

[1] http://pyvideo.org/video/2328/hy-a-lisp-that-compiles-to-pyt...
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