skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but it's useful to have tiny toy but real programs for newbies to experiment with.

All these Thing in 30 lines posts would make an excellent collection for people to type in, debug, modify, debug, expand, debug, etc.

Someone could make an RPi friendly page and collate these. Maybe include some gentle competitive edge - code golfing or neatest added feature or somesuch.
Why improving the Prius' fuel economy is something of a fool's errand
I wrote an addon for that issue: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/keywordurl-ha...
by default. the address box still works as a search box, if you don't want the separate search box just get rid of it.
Good design, same shit writing.
Thanks for posting!

You can also see the winners on the homepage http://nodeknockout.com

We're doing a live show with the winners at 11am PST (will be embedded on the homepage).
EventedArray: a JavaScript conveyor belt
Bitcoin is a currency. Shouldn't we be more interested in the number purchases made with it instead of the current exchange value?
None of my OS X apps are signed either and honestly it is because you have to pay Apple $100 every year to be able to sign them. As a student I have quite a lot of free time to work on Open Source applications but $100 every 12 months is still quite a lot of money for a hobby where I give away the fruits of my work for free.

(Or at least I can't find out how to sign it without paying)
The submitter has posted about registering .IO domains on her/his blog: http://hack.ly/articles/app-io-acquired/
"the "self esteem" movement that took over United States schools after I graduated from high school may have actually INCREASED risk of suicide in the United States"

Yes, "self esteem" is again putting the individual up directly in front of themselves to examine and focus on which only brings existing problems into sharp center-focus. Depression and Pride both have a common denominator in too much self-absorption.
I haven't touched the codebase in quite some time. My recollection might be a little off. If I remember correctly, when you integrate Google Analytics through the admin panel you are integrating a flavor of Google Analytics that actually passes the data through the vBulletin mothership.

Like I said, I stopped using vB a long time ago. For all I know they've fixed this issue. Please don't take my word for it as current versions might behave differently. If you are a vB user I suggest you ask in their various official and unofficial support forums.
Been using this on the UX branch for a while now, loving it. Been very stable, excited to see this is finally merged.
What you're thinking of already exists to a great extent -- look at Fischer/Thermo and VWR. They're the Amazon's of science-stuffs (Amazon has AmazonSupply but it is greatly inferior)
This is a depressing comment.

If there are people who would go out of their way to snail-mail an insult to an unwell and unfortunate target, then there is far less hope for the human race than I realized.

Alternatively, if you're suggesting that someone is so entrenched in their principles that when they need comfort or compassion, they won't appreciate a gesture of goodwill for what it is because they don't agree with the beliefs of the well-wisher, then, well, same thing.

Where's the assumption of good faith? Or at least hope for it?

Thanks for trying to make the world better, OP.
I actually use it for a wide variety of tasks that I think are better suited for spreadsheets including:

- data tables
- anything that requires some simple calculations
- anything that could use cross-referencing cells, etc.
I think you should reach out to those who are experts in the field and find out what they think would work, then build something that does that.

As an example my partner volunteers with a suicide prevention hotline that also has a chat client, I'm sure they'd love something mobile that works with their chat system, etc.
So, because a subset of people may decide to be a dick about something, this is a terrible idea and should be shut down immediately. Got it.
Looks like half the sites are down/have issues. Can't even login to my coinbase account without getting errors.
Obviously there's a slip up with at least not including placeholder/unavailable topics for Linux. That said...

Maybe the reason so many contributors to most FOSS projects are developing at Linux is partly because so many FOSS projects are so goddamn hard to get into from a Windows environment. I know that most Windows build instructions for the projects that I've been interested in have been an absolute nightmare. Wrangling standard make instructions into something that Visual Studio will play nice with is a challenge that will turn off a lot of potential contributors.

By explicitly helping Windows users to pitch in on Firefox development, they are potentially capturing a set relatively untapped helpers. I feel that contributions to a FOSS project should be judged on their individual merits, not on the OS/environment it was developed in.

And because this it HN, I'm going to preempt any comments about 'how about patches derived from slave (or slave-like) labor?' with, well obviously those are bad, but in no way is developing Firefox (of all things) on Windows unmoral in any way. I mean, if you'll happily let Window's users use your free and open source software, then you have no reason to deny their contributions because they use Windows.
Logarithmic plots!

A better way to look at a quantity which has changed so much is to use a logarithm.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zvzl
My problem with conflating search and URL is

1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off.

2) cluttering my typed-URL history with search keywords.
Grep'd for "Rich Hickey" in these comments. Not a single occurrence. What gives? I thought this guy had a strong cult of personality following.
In over $5,000,000 of paid search spend managed, I have never seen this to be true.
The perception of this is universal to all clients, but the numbers never backed this up. Would love to see a case study that shows it's true.

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/08/conversion-rates-dont-va...
This is a serious project. Please find a licensed psychologist to partner with as you develop and test your app and prepare it for release.
Announcing Gitorious 3.0
It's handy unless you accidentally start searching for anything that could be mistaken for an IP address or domain. Typing in `0x10c` to find the site for the game, or `minimal-library.js`, or whatever, won't take you to a search results page.

Works alright for most things though, and I think it's still better than Google's default to Google approach, which is frustrating when you're working on a locally hosted site and keep getting sent to a search page.
I like having them separate too, you can use the Omnibar add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/omnibar/ to have Chrome-like functionality.
Yup, despite what it's advocates say, it sure isn't behaving like a currency. Major requirement of currency: very-low volatility.
Google Security Blog: Stronger certificates with Google Internet Authority G2
Mine looks great on Ubuntu, what are your issues?
I wish they would remove all search functionality from the address bar.
A Start-Up That Wants to Be the ‘Anti-Yelp’
It seems not to be able to synchronize my read/starred articles with any server (TinyTinyRSS, feedly, ownCloud News, feever, etc.). For me this functionality is essential because I use 4 different devices to read my feeds, but I understand that there are people out there who only read them on one devise.
I would suggest you to learn how to build the entire thing yourself. This is a great opportunity to get your hands dirty and understand the nitty-gritty of web development. Very useful in the long run!

Having said that, I am not sure about the time constraints you are working with. If the timeline is tight and you have never done this before, it's better to outsource it as opposed to building a sub-standard app yourself.
I think it is telling that in the time from when this was posted to this reply, bitcoin is up to 668.5.

This is a bubble, anyone who thinks otherwise doesn't understand that people make an effectively stupid amount of money by using bitcoin as a pump and dump scheme.

If you think this bubble is helping bitcoin as a currency, then you are terrifically incorrect. For all the good that bitcoin is capable of, how the hell do you base a payment system around something that has no price stability?
You're not going to have reasonable discussions on reddit. Or here, for that matter.

If you want serious discussion, hit-and-run style up/down comment systems are not what you're looking for. The up/down system acts mostly as a psychological reinforcing mechanism, to get people addicted to checking their karma or points or whatever. Moderation at this level really just hurts discussion and makes it a popularity contest. Things that people agree with go up, things that are controversial (that spur actual debate) go down. And it will all be forgotten in a day. It's junk food conversation. The equivalent of the online water cooler.

Usenet, mailing lists, forums, or even IRC are all much better places for discussion than reddit. The hivemind and clique behavior exists within all these places as well, but usually your words stand much better chance of being on equal footing.
This is awesome news. One thing that I'm still hoping the Firefox team would integrate is the ability to clear all downloads from the dropdown menu once they're finished instead of having to open the downloads window.
There's a large US audience here, many of whom still worship the nation as a "functioning democracy". I see you are talking about liquid democracy and I think that approach might not be perfect but would certainly be an improvement, maybe a very big one. If there is something else specific, point it out to me.

What country is using liquid democracy though? What country is a "good/functioning democracy" right now in your opinion? I assume some European country will be pointed to, then I can still find slews of examples where the structural incentive problem is taking place and causing harm. Liquid democracy is the type of radically different idea that we ought to be able to experiment with.

Introducing a web of trust and having a mechanism for recall or direct representation by individuals is an improvement over the popularity contests we hold in the US every 2/4/6 years. If you slap liquid democracy on the idea of geographic monopoly, you still have an inferior system, because it only outputs one thing, the A or B in a box. If I want A but the chain of delegates chooses B, I am still losing out. What if we could have a way to have both A and B as well as all minority opinions C .. Z be expressed? (as long as they don't break the code so to speak)

Well, we already have this and it is called free markets. If I want soda, I go to an entity I and a bunch of other people have largely turned over power to control picking the best sodas: one of my local supermarkets. That is like the concept of handing over my votes to someone who can in turn give all those to someone they trust to represent them. Coke and Pepsi dominate as people's favorite choices, so they and their flavor variants occupy a lot of shelf space (think Earth's territory for the analogy). What if I want some guava soda or Jamaican ginger beer? Well, there might be some if there is enough demand in the area to make it profitable to carry it.

Obviously, I expect people to have all sorts of objections here to comparing laws to flavors of sodas. I think the availability of all sorts of niche things though is a great example of how markets make the individual consumer "king" whereas "typical democracy" only has the empty promise that anyone can rule.
It's not a bubble. It's very fast growth.

http://i.imgur.com/qgT9vxx.png
I would imagine that it works particularly well for lisps, since lisps can easily transform running code to source code and vice versa.
That's EXACTLY what I always have a scratch sheet open for and sometimes I don't want something as full featured as a Google spreadsheet. I want to just open up this app and it'll be a full screen spreadsheet with no distractions and a URL that I can share just like notepad.cc. It doesn't need to do advanced calcs, just simple arithmetic would be enough and the ability do a simple password protect and share the link.
I use the Press app on Android attached to my Feedly account, and I couldn't be happier.

http://twentyfivesquares.com/press/
I have a painfully personal acquaintance with suicide. I agree that an app couldn't have done much for it after a certain point.

But what causes people to be suicidal in the first place? In my experience, feeling like they don't matter. Apps by themselves can't do anything about that feeling, yes.

But apps are used by people. And apps can help put you in touch with people who can change your life. Who can help you understand that you are important.

Apps can also put you in touch with yourself, and help you grasp your own context.

Perhaps this specific app will work, perhaps it won't, but writing off any and all apps seems a bit premature.
You can type a ? before the one word in the url bar to go straight to search
The solution to this problem I've seen from actual cryptographers is Siphash: https://131002.net/siphash/

They address all of the problems of this sort by just designing a hash function that is good enough that collisions are difficult to find, I think even with the secret key.
OP here: thanks Chris for the amazing capabilities in Light Table. It is the piece of software I'm most excited about these days.
Designing a Data-Informed Decision Process with Edwards Deming
Something like /r/SuicideWatch? You don't really need an app to access that community. Just a web browser and a reddit account will do.
Exactly my point, and that kind indicates the endgame here.

As people cut the cord and try to get back to watching television OTA, the broadcasters could just vacate their licenses and auction the spectrum off to mobile carriers. They win both ways: the windfall from the spectrum auction and the move of OTA viewers back to paid-retransmission carriers.
But if you're using it as a currency how do you value it? Do you literally let people pay you 1 Bitcoin for $500 worth of merchandise?

Also your telegraph analogy is something I've seen in several places and doesn't seem to mean anything. Plus I'm not really comparing Bitcoins to bank I'm more curious about the viability of a pump-and-dump system with a finite amount of units. If it's all based on speculation who is ever gonna spend the stuff?

The logical point I keep ending at is that you need a buyer. AS SOON as it starts to dip down, everyone will smell "crash" and then how do you sell them? The bubble bursts. From then on I think 1 of 2 things will happen.

1. The system will completely fail in marvelous ways as the parties with large stake in it writhe in agony.

2. The value will reach a resting point and become ultra-stable because people will cease to believe in speculation for infinite profit margins.
The Armed Forces (and similar government organizations) spent their good will raping people in Abu Ghraib, mutilating people in Afghanistan, blowing people apart in cafes across the Middle East, illegally spying on Americans for who knows what reason, and generally acting like a bunch of psychopaths with little to no respect for the rule of law.

Why would we trust any institution acting so obviously violent and so completely unaccountable?
There was a special deal where if you pre-ordered this year's Madden game for $99 you got NFL Sunday Ticket for "free". Of course, Sunday Ticket is worth more than the Madden game, so it was a ridiculous and silly deal, but no more ridiculous and silly than the rest of the contracts and regulations the NFL has for their game broadcasts.
Adobe password leak hint / email checker from LastPass
>	Rebecca Black

Is that accurate??
Why would your resume have your actual street address?

Surely city name is enough granularity. (mine doesn't even have that)

It's also why mine doesn't have my actual DOB.
It looks like every other app. What is wrong with that?
Some apparently already might be. Google some of the names - (syntax appears to be last initial- first name. Comments & names from some of the people re-identify them as NSA elsewhere on the internet. Some of those comments were interesting:

"Thank you Thomas Drake for your courage.

------- ex-USAF ex-NSA"
Pictrition – Eating healthy made easy and fun
Still 75 share widgets and 6 analytic scripts per page and WordPress?
oh, people would go out of their way to do a lot worse just because they have an address to focus on...
Ok, great.

edit: a new update is now available with the new changes, I _like_ it!

edit': a minor quibble though, I preferred the star button when it was directly integrated in the url bar. I find it too excentred from the url for my eyes, I often give a quick look to check if an url is already starred or not.
Funny thing is, I tried using __FUNCSIG__ with gcc and clang before I posted. Doesn't work; gcc 4.8.0 on Linux and clang 3.1 on Cygwin. Looks like a Microsoftism to me.
This is what the real-time monetization of a good looks like. In the early stages you have massive price increases until there is enough liquidity and volatility declines. Bitcoin looks like a bubble, but money is inherently a bubble phenomena:
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2013/04/bitcoin...
How does one short bitcoin? Any proxies?
Microsoft launches Office Remote, an app to control Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
They aren't sending me out SMS verification codes.
I would think the opposite might be true. The person who is likely to click all the way down has already tried a bunch of links on top and their purchase intent may be much higher than the casual shopper who isn't as determined to find the best price. Also, the more price conscious shopper is not necessarily the worst shopper if you have the lowest price!
Answering controversy: Stability vs Security is something you configure
And so what if an 'Atheist' did receive a bunch of cards like that? Why does it matter? Is the 'Atheist' supposed to be 'offended'? That is pathetic.
Here's some major fallout of the (possibly emergent) decision to allow private companies to create de facto electronic money. It's great that this Chandler is getting credit card companies to watch their "branding" and not put a Visa/MasterCard/Amex/Discover logo right next to a White Power link on a website.

In the very recent past, the credit card companies arguably suppressed some very necessary free speech by de-funding Wikileaks. And all very legally, I suppose.

But what's next? Not allowing the Green Party any credit card funding? Disallowing the purchases of certain books or Guy Fawkes masks with credit cards?

We privatized electronic money, and now we get to see the side effects.
is it a currency? is it a commodity? it may be something new which doesn't fit into existing categories.
Unsurprisingly, the author makes no attempt to show why any BTC to USD exchange rate should be considered reasonable or unreasonable.
Doesn't posting your public key for all to see on the internet mean any authorities you're trying to avoid giving access to your data can simply use said public key and get it anyway?
Some contests count _tokens_ instead of chars. It fixes the problem nicely, but it doesn't have that charm of a block of magical code that fits on the back of a card.
There are a number of currencies that experienced ridiculous levels of hyperinflation over the years.

When is a currency a currency? Until it isn't?
Actually Bitcoin is following strong exponential growth from its inception. It's no more a bubble than Facebook is.
you are probably smarter than us
Viewed on a log scale, it's clear that $650 is too high. But, it's not quite as outlandish as the linear plot implies. http://i.imgur.com/GOYWUMo.png According to that armchair-financier line fitting, the trend is for the price to still be below $300. What's more interesting is the long term trend of 10X price increase every 12.5 months for the past 3+ years running. Disclaimer: past performance is not an indicator of anything.
I agree with your basic sentiment, but tiny toy programs for newbies to experiment with should DEFINITELY have readable variable names.

I've been programming for 15 years now and that Excel-like thinger taught me a thing or two, and it didn't take tearing it apart to figure out how it worked.

This game, and the Snake one from yesterday, didn't even go so far as to generate the DOM objects in a loop. That was another big part of how the Excel thinger worked, it wouldn't have been nearly as succinct without it.

Now, I can see using the HTML if there were significant text data you wanted to include, e.g. text-adventure room descriptions, but this just seems like they're focusing on the "30 lines" part of the challenge and not the "super-dynamic" part.
That article fails to mention what is going on in China right now which, whatever it is, is driving the price
Stating the obvious - this is the Heroku acquisition paying off for Salesforce.
If you compare Tulip Mania to the world's first decentralized, censorship-resistant, inflation-resistant, digital currency, then you don't understand Bitcoin. At all.

Combine this with absolutely zero efforts to estimate the worth of the Bitcoin system, how Bitcoin is used today, etc. That's the difference between being published at Techcrunch and more prestigious publications like http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/technology/bitcoin-pursues... or http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/11/08...
If you have a server where you can install something yourself, I recommend TinyTinyRSS[1], or if you already run a ownCloud instance then ownCloud News[2]. For both of them there are desktop and mobile clients, TTRSS even has a fever plugin[3] which mimics the fever API so you can use it with all clients which only support the fever API too.

[1] http://tt-rss.org/
[2] http://apps.owncloud.com/content/show.php?content=158434
[3] https://github.com/dasmurphy/tinytinyrss-fever-plugin
That looks much better than Australis (I _really_ don't like rounded tabs).
That's, er, the point of constituational democracy. It's not 100% pure democracy.
1) My feelings as well

2) Bothers me to an extent but since FF ranks by usage + weights naked domains higher in the awesomebar it isn't too big an issue.
Apple wins, Samsung loses, lawyers win, you lose,blah, blah, blah ...
Agreed. I'd like to purchase a cheese sandwich at my local BTC-accepting food truck, but I'm going to skip it this week precisely because I might be able to buy twice as many (or half as many) sandwiches next week.

Things are so volatile this week, that even nearly-instantaneous transactions USD-->BTC-->BTC-->USD (whose utility isn't affected by the price of 1 BTC) aren't guaranteed to happen as expected. Better to wait a week for things to chill out. They will.
It's really just another Instagram purchase. Posting photos is one of FB's core features, so FB is putting out any fires before they can grow. It's like Yahoo buying out Google before it can ... oh wait.
That's optimistic. In even a lightly active subreddit, posts disappear after about 48 hours.

Stickies kinda solve part of the problem, but Reddit's comment system is entirely unsuitable for ongoing discussions. I'm not sure traditional forums are the best we can do either, but Reddit is certainly worse.