skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious as to what you are saying here. Poor self esteem is healthier? People shouldn't have self esteem, positive or negative? Or they should, but we should ignore it?
the docs really aren't that quite weak when comparing them against Ember or Angular docs
The fact that most people don't get it is one of the most exciting things about it. I like reading negative articles more than positive ones.
A reporter for Bloomberg News ... which employees for the company said
had been killed for political reasons by top Bloomberg
editors,

Is it just me or did anyone else read the first paragraph and wonder if top Bloomberg editors assassinated a reporter ? Tough newsroom.

Edit: ellipsis
I was pondering whether I should put in a "or husbands" qualifier. Seems like I should have!

I also fixed the spelling.
The best source I've found is at http://rewriting.loria.fr which contains lots of interesting papers.
"You can't loan someone bitcoins and if you could, how would you get them back?"

Why do you say that? MPEx has been doing that for 3 years. As for how you get "them" back that is pretty obvious. How long would a margin call take with a digital currency, like 2 ms or something?
> 1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off.

Example I always run into:

site:news.ycombinator.com foo bar baz

"site" is an unknown protocol now, because it looks like a URL. I have to remember to put the search terms first.
I was a bit skeptical about the idea but seeing Bunnie's name on the project is kind of a certificate of endorsement now.
actually the tools for doing this in other languages have gotten a lot better than they used to be. Using esprima you can do some pretty neat code rewriting in JavaScript and Python includes ast tools in the standard lib. Plus if more new languages start to include things like gofmt by default then we'll end up with more of this stuff as first class. Either way though, it's nearly always the case that the platform itself has the best tools for doing this, so at the very least if gives you the best possible chance. :)
!ddg is quite a few extra keystrokes though. Isn't it easier to just keep a shortcut key bound to that search? For example, I have 'g' bound for Google. The result:

"blah blah" -> Google: blah blah
"blahblah" -> attempts to find a host named blahblah
"g blahblah" -> Google: blahblah
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i'm not sure whether this current bitcoin price run is a bubble or just the currency becoming more valuable as it gains more attention and recognition from world governments. my guess is that a downward correction is coming soon. either way, though, i'm certain that in the long run, the currency is worth much more than the $600 it trades at now.

the model i'm using is BTC as a new form of gold. the current value of all the gold in the world, by my primitive calculation, is around 4 trillion. if all the bitcoins in circulation eventually reach a quarter of that value - which i think is totally realistic, most likely an underestimate, that puts the price per bitcoin at over $100k, a number that already seemed reasonable to me.

my guess is it'll be there in less than 10 years. anybody want over / under?
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Many currencies lack stability (meaning some low % inflation/deflation(?)). I think it would be reasonable to contend that almost anything could be a currency or used as one, but stability makes for more effective currencies. While the value of BTC vs USD (or other established currencies) continues to explode, it makes it more difficult to use as a currency proper (rather than as a commodity/investment). If you have 10 BTC, it'd be difficult to spend 0.05 BTC (over 30 USD now) on a good (not a necessity) when it seems like in a week you could spend 0.03 BTC for the same thing.
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I expect bitcoin to crash and burn at some point. But that is because I think bitcoin has flaws that make it likely to be replaced by future crypto-currencies, or possibly something weirder. Until those currencies exist and gain traction however, bitcoin is going to get bigger. A lot bigger. I don't think this is even that stupid a time to buy, I strongly suspect that there is at least another 10x growth still there, a $10,000 bitcoin price within 3 years would not shock me at all.
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Huge agreement from a regular Chrome user on Linux here. I watched the video and the design is great. I'm really looking forward to this landing in a stable release.
Firefox UX branch on Linux (Gnome) http://i4.minus.com/i3HfXuN32bRDe.png
"Modern, clean, and comfortable."

Design terms like these, when juxtaposed with the "curvy tab" language, get way under my skin.

What is a "comfortable" design, exactly? I suppose a better question would be, what made the other design "uncomfortable"?

What is a clean design? Do you really mean "modern" instead of "clean"? Wouldn't it be better to say the interface elements are more defined, or there are less textures, or whatever?

Perhaps this is Janet Murray speaking through me (GaTech), but using vague terms to describe minuscule changes is somewhat bombastic. Instead, use appropriately narrow and descriptive terms.

I guess the rant is here because the changes aren't really that big of a deal. It's pretty much a nod to Chrome, run through a few iterations, am I right? Or maybe I'm being short sighted.
Typical Zed, but reading Max's email I have to agree it's quite offensive.
Yeah, I think the fact that your total karma is positive does preclude my idea here. Someone else would have to chime in on your case specifically. I have seen people get shadowbanned by being new accounts and having their first comment downvoted, this probably doesn't apply to your case though.
The ability to have a serious conversation decreases as the number of uniques increase linearly.
If you care about your privacy and are uncomfortable with the idea of someone reading your emails or social media activity, encryption is pretty much the only way to protect what you share, whether you're a target or not. I don't think that using an encryption app is enough to make you a serious, individual target.

I think the problem isn't only in surveillance -- it's in giving private companies access and control over heaps of data on our personal lives.
Coincidentally, I recently came across this contrarian view of statins which says that they aren't really all that benign as we think: http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2013/10/how-statin-drugs-really-l...

I haven't read the book, nor can I vouch for the arguments. But take it FWIW.
This is neat.

Improvements might be allowing you to hand-pick which repos to highlight.

Also, I'd love a way to highlight my contributions to popular open source projects on github that _aren't_ in my own repo, or a 'team' repo I belong to. For instance, I have, I think, 2 or 3 commits in Rails -- but you aren't going to find that out from looking at my github account, or from this resumé thing. I have yet to figure out _how_ to figure it out in fact!
Ah sure, amending commits doesn't work once you've pushed it to a remote branch though (IIRC).

Though this distinction is one of the things brought up in that email, that hg treats it all as one history. That is kind of nice.
This is great. First off, congrats.

As others have mentioned, due to the sensitive nature of a project along these lines, I would strongly recommend finding a mentor in the psychology realm. You'll want to make sure that you carefully consider some of the functionality aspects of the app to make sure things won't be unnecessarily/accidentally harmful.
I created keyword search bookmarks for all my frequently used search engines.
For example, I often look up music releases on musicbrainz:
http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=%s&type=release
I bookmarked this URL and assigned a keyword (You can also right-click input fields and select 'Add a keyword for this search'). Now, everytime I enter "mb-r <name of the release I'm looking up>" into the url bar, it goes straight to musicbrainz and inserts my search string into the %s-placeholder.
I very much like this idea.

I think the most important and persistent feedback would be to offer more (even if just a few more) asks on the front page. While it makes sense to limit focus, by having one a week, I feel entirely less compelled to keep ask.io on the forefront of my mind.

If you do choose to stick with one, make a few macros or something like that to allow people to be reminded of the newest ask once a week. I have a lot of things to do on Mondays, so I could see this falling behind. Perhaps you develop a very simple iphone app that pushes a notification of the newest ask?

Other options would be an email list or an easy-to-use calendar reminder. Think ICS. You could also take advantage of the new push notifications for Safari.
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Do not want a rainbow in my title bar and have not met anyone > 12 that does.

You do realise that's an add-on skin, right? The entire point of that system is that people can do whatever the hell they like and you aren't affected by it.
So use a complete theme. May take a bit for some to get updated as they need to overlay the current UI elements. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/complete-themes/
Meetup Tonight: Big Data in Excel
Prototypes Are Disposable
Same-Day Delivery from Costco now available on Google Shopping Express
Wow, 21% of households didn't have a father present. That's sad.
Did I miss the Chinese actors? You are not thinking of Ben Kingsley surely?

edit: various pointless teenager-y references to characters redacted now moocow has pointed out what I missed. Weird
The PaintCode team continue to impress... Great app! Really helped me to generate the drawing code for my custom, dynamic UIViews.
Agreed entirely. The main point I was trying to make is that while testing MVP fashion is an incredibly useful way of collecting feedback, it's often misappropriate as a way to ship half-baked or poorly thought out products/features. At the end of the day though it's important to note that the people who misappropriate the "MVP" name would likely fail in one way or another regardless.
Firefox has looked awful on Linux for a long time. I'm excited to see a consistent design on every OS, and I've been primarily using the UX build for months.

A lot of people say this looks a lot like Chromium, but I don't find that to be the case at all. The background tabs aren't rounded at all, while tabs are shown to be rounded on mouse-over. It's a significant improvement over Chromium's approach. I'm not a tremendous fan of the rounded design, but it's certainly an improvement over the previous design.
Yes, it's easy to convert Bitcoin to USD. You can sell them at Coinbase, Bitstamp, LocalBitcoins and all kinds of other exchanges.
Weaving content and product to gain SEO edge over traditional retail sites
I've played around with this idea in the past. Here is a demo with three images encrypted in two different images.

use the arrow keys to move the images around or drag them.

If you overlap them perfectly, you see one image. 5 pixels left of that is another image, and 5 pixels right of center is a third image. They were originally photos and end up very high contrast :-)

http://bettermagician.com/topsecret/

Here is a version with only two images though with a better grayscale. due to the method I was trying you can see some information leak through:
http://bettermagician.com/topsecret/big.html
You said HN is bad for my well-being. I'm suggesting that you don't know how HN is for my well-being and my experience as a reader would have been more satisfying if I read your article to satifsy my curiousity about why HN is bad for your well-being. If you had put it as your problem I might have a couple more suggestions, but you instead tell me how I should solve this problem you think I have.
And a lot of atheists wouldn't take offense to you sending such a card. Even Dawkins didn't take offense to people praying for him. He said that it wouldn't do any good, but he appreciated that people were thinking of him in such a way. Could someone be a real bad actor and do something unkind with this? Sure, but they can do that with anything. Should we shut down the internet because people can use it for distributing and consuming child pornography?
Is there any value in a sample or boilerplate contracts?

I've asked some people in the past and they seem very guarded about sharing theirs and always try to refer me to a lawyer. Good advice and I realize that lawyers should save you money in the long run, but for on-the-side small time consulting is there a base template that would get people through their first few gigs?
From a cardiovascular risk-minimization standpoint, many people should be on statins. From a pure preference standpoint (e.g., I prefer not to take pills, I prefer not to spend $4/month on pharmaceuticals, etc), many of those people will choose not to be on statins.

Their health will probabilistically be worse for this decision; however, health is but one of many competing Goods that people might choose to maximize.
Spark on Google Compute Engine
Revision numbers are stable within a given repository. The revision number for a commit is simply the index of the commit in the changelog — nothing more. Since a changeset must come after its parent in the changelog, the revision numbers give you a topological ordering of the changesets. A topological ordering is often not unique — this is why revision numbers can differ between repositories, even if they contain exactly the same commits.

Because the changelog is append-only, new commits you pull in get higher revision numbers than the existing commits. Your existing revision numbers will thus not change when you do 'hg pull' and 'hg merge'. We don't actually guarantee that revision numbers cannot change when you pull, but it's been the case until now.

In any case, the stability of the revision numbers isn't why we like them — we like them since it's often easier to type 'hg histedit 12345' than 'hg histedit c38c3fdc8b93' when you've looked up a particular changeset in your (local!) repository.

Hosting sites like Bitbucket and Kiln will wisely not show you revision numbers since the concept is meaningless when talking about more than one repository.
On further reflection,

It is also true that reactive does not have any support for collections or scoping. Reactive seems to take a view-centric approach while EndDash takes a template-centric approach. To us, the later seems more logical, as HTML is the structure of any webpage.

EndDash hooks into this structure and acts as an optimization so that HTML turns into a high level description of html/views/value interpolation. Thus defining a large template (with partials if needed) can be passed a single javascript model which is scoped down into. Passing models to views as needed.

Again, thank you for the comment :)

From Amicus.
Online communities are sources of passion, emotion, argument, conflict.

There's a big difference between that and knowing basically nothing about a person other than that they're in a hospital and having a birthday.
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But there is a reason why Chrome looks like Chrome. Ironically, it's the lack of Chrome - the UI is unobtrusive and gets out of the way. I see the new Firefox UI in the same way.
"Creepy" seems like a massive understatement.

It serves to highlight the creator's priorities though. Someone who believes in the cryptoanarchic ideal to such an extent that they're willing to get in bed with murderers. I understand that they believe that the ends justify the means, but were that the case, why would you have to purchase the services of assassins to achieve it?

The line between cryptosnarchism and is getting very narrow.
Came here to mention this. 'Mother Theresa' evokes charitable feelings and connotations for many people, for some (myself included) though it's a very negative thing.
Looks like Australis "borrows" a lot from Chrome UI.
It has pinned tabs with an icon, chrome like tab shape, chrome like options (3 horizontal bar) icon, chrome like simple settings and even chrome like icons (incognito, bookmarks).
One of things about a 'bubble' is unfortunately that there isn't an exact way to determine what is and isn't a bubble prior to it bursting or when it finally levels off a bit because it reached an equilibrium of price and perceived value.

After it levels off or busts you will have groups saying "I told you so" giving you the same 'evidence' they used now to support their claim.

People that are 'sure' they know which this is should invest in either its success or failure, as arguing with people and trying to convince them you are right does little besides potentially increase the number of people you would have to share your profits with.
The rainbow is a Persona theme that you can optionally add. It's not the default.
You're totally right. Reddit is terrible for any kind of ongoing discussion.
Try right-clicking any download from the dropdown menu. There should be a "Clear List" option.
Holding. With its recent growth, I view Bitcoin as much more of a (highly) speculative investment than a form of currency. Curious to see how Bitcoin's rivals fare and how they impact Bitcoin.
I've gotten in the habit of using Python or Haskell for my automation. Pretty happy with it.
Twitter waterflow problem and loeb
Nope. Just not a fan of adding piles of abstraction on top of something that just crawls already. To be honest I'd use a different language/platform if you need to use patterns like that where they perform (java/c#).

Bit of a "no true scotsman" that one as well. Just because someone doesn't use Zend doesn't mean they write spaghetti.
I disagree. I don't think there's any benefit of having to wait upwards of 10 minutes for a BTC confirmation, compared to credit cards which authorize in seconds and offer you a lot of protection from fraud. If I buy something through a BTC transaction, I have no recourse, much like a cash transaction, vs credit cards which have been regulated to provide customers with a lot of protection.
Spring clean: Google Search now part of Google Plus
I work on open source software on a team that doesn't handle any user data. [1] When people on other teams talk about data deletion they talk about having to make sure that when a user deletes something it really does get deleted from everywhere. I spent a couple minutes searching for a Google blog post explaining how this works and didn't find one, so rather than overpromise I just left it as "my impression".

[1] https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed
Great quote. Sums it up just right.
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Maybe I'm blind, but it looks basically the same on Linux as it does now except the tabs are curved (and possibly take up more space!)

I notice the tabs aren't sitting up in to the window manager in their Linux screenshot (understandable). I've already hidden the menu bar, then killed the window decorations for FF in KWin, so my tabs touch the top of the screen. In fact, Chrome actually uses a few more pixels than FF for me.
Thats why I like Lua's hash implementation that adds a random seed to the hashing algorithm to limit those pathological side effects...
Is the computer language benchmarks game site down?
How about we get a Firefox that doesn't use a gig of RAM for 10 tabs? Or perhaps isn't slower than IE9 in jscript?
Did I miss the Chinese actors?

Yes, they were not in the version you saw. http://kotaku.com/why-many-in-china-hate-iron-man-3s-chinese...
Relevance of results matter. Curious to know how the results are ordered? They don't seem to be ordered by votes, user's points, or date. For instance, searching for `int main`[1] gives a random list of questions. A set of intelligent factors to determine the results would be better IMO.

[1] http://stacksnippet.com/#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=int%20main
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How do provisioning systems compare to Docker? Right now I have a development environment that consists of salt stack provisioning Vagrant. Spinning up a production server just means running salt on the host (Rackspace, DO, whatever.)

Is there any use for Docker in this case?
'course it does - valium doesn't feel like being drunk.
Haha, best of luck to you!

I noticed you're based in London, happen to work near Shoreditch? I'm in contact with Dishoom - trying to get them to accept BTC. Another reason to quit, eh? ;)
This is just the beginning of the tides turning. This huge jump is just a few thousand Chinese investors coming online. More will come.
Next think about when another country gets its own exchange, say India. Expect more large jumps before things settle down.
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You are quite welcome! And that's what I love to hear - we're pretty excited too :)
I like cubicles and would prefer to be in my own box than in an open space concept room. Cubicles reduce noise. Respects my privacy, and puts up barrier against people distracting me.

I wish more startups had cubicles.
This one is quite cool. Googling revealed that something like that exists: http://usuaris.tinet.cat/mark/sprite-editor/
The goal of YC is to make money. It's possible they now know a bit more about what they're doing.
Reddit went all out with April fools day in 2013, they pitted users against each other (Periwinkle vs. Orangered) which is likely the spike in submissions compared with other years.
The bottom section about surveys is an established technique:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized_response
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I read it and understood it. You are wrong.
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Of course you can loan Bitcoin, why wouldn't you be able to?
To decrypt messages, you need a private key, not a public key. On Syme, private keys are only available to you, and public keys are only available to your group members. We don't have access to either one of those.

If you're interested in learning more about how our crypto system works, you can check out our white paper on Github (https://github.com/symeapp/syme).
Wow....

That's really, odd.
I'd worry more about the power carrying capacity of the proposed conductors especially during partial failures. Someone is going to set fire to their clothes one day and it isn't going to be pretty.
Get in touch with someone from here: http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

They do a lot of work in this area and will have the best advice on what things you can do to help.
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Agreed. It's really getting tiring. I've decided to systematically downvote (& occasionally) flag whataboutisms.
Bitcoin is a form of currency everyone uses as an investment because its not very usable as a currency. makes total sense.
I think he's saying that falsely implanted self-esteen, a la "everyones a unique special winner!", is a problem. When everyone is told over and over again while growing up that they are great and their self-esteem is artificially inflated, they inevitably experience some amount of cognitive dissonance and maybe even depression at the realization somewhere down the road that they're probably not as unique, special, talented, or great as they were told they were as a kid.

This could set someone up for any number of positive or negative effects, emotions, or actions, from long term depression or suicidal feelings to a burning desire to really improve themselves to actually become that unique and talented person they were told they are.