skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Configuring selective sync (which was a must since this was on a laptop with a relatively small SSD) is particularly excruciating, and I do need to tweak that from time to time when large folders are added. The window that pops up when you click the system tray icon also has the scaling issue, which is something that I do need to interact with on a daily basis. Luckily, it's not quite a bad as the selective sync configuration, but it's still pretty rough.
> and the feature is available anywhere we render diffs

No, it's not available on gist.github.com.

Sure, they may (or may not) port it over after some time, but I just don't get why they can't use the same code in the first place. Why is GitHub reinventing the wheel in for its very own sub-site?

(Other than that, this is absolutely great!)
Sometimes, you just have to believe.
Sure, I found this blog post that describes it pretty well:

http://somethingsurprising.blogspot.com/2011/11/feynmans-sha...

But basically, it was something that was posted recently on HN, about how Richard Feynman (famous physicist) happened upon a mechanism designed in WWII to avoid mines being detected by trip wires between boats, by allowing the trip-wire to pass through the shaft-passer
Survivorship Bias and UX
I am a solo founder with a 17 month old child, a second on the way and a full time job. While I don't know your idea, I can tell you that you can accomplish a ton working nights and weekends and not jeopardize your primary income.

I would suggest you don't quit your job until you know the project has traction and it's something people need and will pay for. I know it feels more real if you do it as a full time job but why risk your family's well being if you don't even know it will pan out...no matter how much you believe it will.

There are some benefits to working nights and weekends: It forces you to make the most pragmatic choices. What is the absolute minimum required to get X done by Y schedule given I only have Z hours to work on it?

I have probably slaughtered 75% of what I considered must have requirements for launch, simply by having insane time constraints...and I don't think my product is any worse for it.

You also start thinking about what you need to work on and what you can farm out. I use elance all the time for stuff that doesn't provide competitive advantage. I probably also use far more third party services than I otherwise would.

All of these where good decisions I probably wouldn't had made if I weren't equally time constrained.
Google plans 'floating retail store'
https://github.com/kaeluka/cv
Since we're on the subject of Github's diff viewer, thought I'd throw in a plug for a chrome extension I wrote recently to improve it:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/github-enhancement...

Has side-by-side + word wrap + context (somewhat nicer looking than Github's, although could be biased)

Largely inspired by Phabricator's diff viewer.
> Honestly I don't think you understand this at all. You're acting as if by collapsing the government it would instantly pass to a more preferential party who would reign in the excesses.

I think you don't understand me at all, to be honest. I don't expect a change in the parties in charge to reign in the excesses - why would it? Both the major parties are full of authoritarians.

What I think it might provide is what we don't have in the current situation - a basis for future change. A party that actually stands up for what's right provides a cause for effective protest to coalesce around - as things stand, who does a concerned citizen vote and work for, when no party supports change of substance? You're hardly going to spur on a popular movement with promises of working within the existing government to change the situation from horrifying to very slightly less horrifying.

I do believe there's enough concern over these issues for a talented politician to work with and build on. After all, despite their recent actions, both the lib dems and the cons were elected on a popular mandate to improve civil liberties from the dark days of labour.
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Kind of off-topic, but how do you feel about doing a conscious MITM to your users(by using Cloudflare), being 4chan home of Anonymous and all that?
If anyone wants to play me :) https://bitflop.me/game/play/62
China’s Xiaomi sold 150,000 smartphones in under 10 minutes… using a chat app
[Django] Security advisory: ImageField abuse
Just a quick note that your web site isn't rendering in either Chrome or Firefox on a Mac. It blinks, then vanishes, though the source shows everything is there. Console shows a bunch of missing assets and an AngularJS error, which could be it. Just FYI.
4chan User Attempts Suicide on Live Cam as Hundreds Watch and Do Nothing
Are you guys just stopping at these places and hoping people come to you? Or do you have an event scheduled at each one? I'm specifically talking about Yale.
That's not true at all. What newsroom did you work in that had journalists writing their own titles and expecting even a modicum of influence over the final product once it has been handed in?
People say that there's usually about a 10 year lag before tech from the military enters civilian use. Since drones showed up roughly 2003, it stands to reason that 2013 is when we should first starting seeing the tech become civilian viable. In fact that seems to be true, there's a whole lot of DIY material out there, and that's from people who don't have real world experience. I wouldn't be surprised if as military contracts wind down the large amount of people who just developed a new set of expertise may try to break out into the private sector. The only thing stopping the tech seems to be the FAA. Obviously its not something to take lightly, there are real safety concerns here... but its not completely science fiction.

Why do we accept that modern warfare can be fought almost entirely with drones (libya?) but when it comes to civilian applications it's a fairy tail publicity stunt?

I think bezos wants to turn a profit, and lowering delivery costs, and giving faster service might only make his company that much more valuable. I don't doubt for a second that this is a genuine effort.
Indeed - I wish more companies were goaded into doing interesting, exciting things in reaction to scathing biographies. Quick, someone write a scathing biography of Elon Musk - we'll have people on Mars in 3 years!
The best way forward is to look at open bugs against software you use, whether it be "less", "screen", "ssh", or something more large.

Standalone applications that you yourself use will be more rewarding.

Beyond that it is hard to say where to start; are you a C coder? PHP? Perl? Javascript? Ruby? If you gave even a hint of your level of experience and your preferred language/environment then people could be more useful.
What part is a typo, though? The 24 or the 28.3?
Small comment: I was slightly confused by the new game form.

I assumed that your watermarked values were defualts (which i was happy with) .... so didn't change them, then couldn't work out why the create game button was disabled.
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Facebook and Twitter eyeing up startups in India
The Thunderbolt display is desperately in need of a refresh. How do you think a new Thunderbolt will match up with this Dell UltraHD monitor?
According to Apple's website, the latest version of the rMBP will be able to drive a 3840 x 2160 display at 30Hz via HDMI.
Does this use bitcoin or something?
I'm underwhelmed, the Lenovo yoga 2 has almost as many pixels and cost less.
My wife and I are currently trying to decide between the Q10 and the HTC One (we're both renewing contracts and upgrading from Samsung Galaxy Infuse). We're really drawn to the Q10 for the physical keyboard and BB10 looks awesome (we've watched video reviews and played around with a demo model in-store). There's also a little bit of a "Buy Canadian" thing, at least on my part.

But we're leaning more and more towards the HTC One. Our Android apps are guaranteed to work, without any complicated conversion process, missing features, or stability/performance problems. The HTC hardware seems light years ahead of the Q10 (and is actually more powerful than my work laptop). The device seems more "futureproof", especially given Blackberry's uncertain future.

What if they get out of the consumer-level hardware business six months from now (I have memories of my old Sega Dreamcast here)? What if 10.2.1 is the last consumer OS upgrade they ever release and AppWorld collapses and support for Android APKs gets worse and worse as it goes unmaintained? These are devices we're committing to for the next two years, and we can't help feel apprehensive about choosing Blackberry at this point.
> I've perused the "new" page a number of times, and generally interesting submissions (i.e. what HN finds interesting) DO make it to the front page.

Some do and some don't. Certainly, many interesting articles never make it to the front page. Due to lack of exposure rather than some failing intrinsic failing of the article.

It raises an interesting question of priorities; Is it more important that every interesting article spends some time on the front page, or that no non-interesting article spends some time on the front page?

In other words, given that there are lots of interesting things in the world, does it matter if a particular interesting thing never makes it to the front page, so long as the front page is full of interesting things?
I'd be very interested in this... I used to visit 4chan all the time back in the day, not so much now, but I do enjoy reading statistics about the site.

Thanks for this article moot.
that's because the image urls actually include the profile id.
I would highly recommend GetSSL.
This is incredible.

One small change request: the longer commands make me scroll down the page, and I can no longer see what each block is pointing to. Maybe you could fix the command to a top-bar as you scroll down?
Yes, One More "To Do" Application
Display
Diagonally Viewable Size:
60.47 cm
23.8" (23.8-inch wide viewable image size)

From

http://dcse.dell.com/us/en/gen/peripherals/dell-up2414q/pd.a...
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Do no one remember TacoCopter? http://tacocopter.com/

Most brilliant PR move ever. #suckers
Do you see all those cameras surrounding that drone? You don't have those in the real world.
A Bad User Experience of a Watermelon
Huh... I hear about it every month or two. It's a pretty popular report Gartner puts out.
What is your caching like, and do you use precompression? In fact, how do you serve that many pages full-stop? We (HN) need to know!
I think it's likely that the new Thunderbolt display will be the exact same 23.8" panel, but with updated Thunderbolt expansion hardware (USB 3.0, &c.)
How Not to pitch Joel Spolsky
It becomes less amusing when the same industry, start-ups and tech giants alike, apply the same "without their permission" attitude to governments trying to protect their citizen's civil rights.

Just because you're a tech company and your opponent is a government, doesn't mean you're on the "right" side of every fight.
A theory is that Apple is being a large consumer of this display panel. This leads to more of these display panels being produced which leads to a lower price. It seems odd that the other sizes (24 and 32) are much more expensive than this 28.
If you actually look at the mousewheel JS events generated by goddamn Macbook trackpads, they're painfully evil. I have yet to find a really solid library for handling them, and my own attempts are hackish to the point where I'm considering splitting it into a special "Macbook trackpad" case. On the browser.
Enterprises lost the BYOD war ... if you offer SMTPS, POPS and IMAPS as a way for an employee's clients to connect to your infrastructure, you've already decided to allow a connection from their personal devices. Smart enterprises have recognized this, hardened their core network and then taken advantage of the cost reductions offered by BYOD.
The display is actually 23.8", not 28.3" - so 24" is more or less correct.
> Since when is dirty laundry exclusively about bad behavior?

Never said it was. What I said was someone using your dirty laundry "for public entertainment and out of rudeness" is bad behavior. I mean, it's right there in your definition: "and out of rudeness." I thought it was pretty obvious.

> @Diane "Maybe they haven't had a family member with mental illness."

Yep. That was a perspective I hadn't though about before. The sentence after that "This Elan guy clearly hasn't" commits the same crime he's accusing Elan of, but the point is sound.

That being said, the woman didn't have a mental illness, and the assault at the end was inexcusable.
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Moving Persistent Notifications from MySQL to Cassandra at Zoosk
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As I understood it, the point is not that human intelligence never works. Rather, it works unpredictably. One can argue that the Sorge episode is random chance: the chance of someone acting on correct information is equal to the chance of someone acting on the wrong information. Sorge's own story about the German invasion proves this out.
One would think that you would reserve that sort of terminology to describe warlords with armies of child soldiers, or dictators who have their "democratic opponents" dragged out of their homes with black bags over their heads... you know, "ruthless tyrant" stuff...
For those of you who want a more developer friendly way of working with sprites, I would like to introduce you to Compass (http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/spriting/) Spriting. Along with using SASS, it will make creating and maintaining sprites a lot easier.
My dog is gonna bite the crap out of that drone when it lands in my yard.
Hi Igor. Unfortunately no, we aren't able to do H1B or remote for this position.
This is great. Hats off to you sir. I've come to the conclusion that some people are wired the way they are, and there's no changing them. It's also like Buffett says (don't remember the actual quote): either Graham's teachings will resonate with you instantly or they never will.
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moot, given that your site seems like an ideal candidate for WebP, why not use it with pagespeed (and/or let users opt to use the format when posting)?
Last time I did that with FedEx there was a charge for it ($10 I believe). I don't believe that's changed.
Did you have this problem running OpenWRT? https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/11143
First of, I love the functionality and clean design.

Why are you using bootstrap if the site isn't responsive?
Getting feedback on your work is not the same as having influence over it.
I mean what could they really do?
What can someone actually do in this type of situation?

I do I agree that it's disgusting that people were watching tho.

/b/ is literally the worst board on 4chan, I don't know why moot hasn't deleted that board.
It's a 13 inch screen. How are these even comparable?

Is it that you're holding out for an 8K desktop monitor?
You're confusing huge ridiculously expensive military drones, which are essentially small planes, with what Amazon is showing us, which are essentially small helicopters.

There's no way in the world these tiny drones can fly 10 miles each way, carry 5lbs of payload, deliver the package perfectly on the driveway/doorstep, and cost low enough to not be a financial nightmare. That's not even accounting for dealing with FAA, weather issues, safety issues.

There will need to be a few technological revolutions before it works. #1 - battery technology. Current batteries just can't handle long enough flights.
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The energy cost would have to be less than shipping by traditional means, which requires much more human involvement, additional sorting, travel, and stops. If you've ever tracked a package this would be pretty obvious.
These drones owe nothing to military tech.

They're born out of the hobbyist RC scene and were enabled by Chinese investment in cheap RC parts development.
A good editor will do that. It's about teaching and preparing journalists to be great.
Yup! Nothing wrong with that - just wanted to make sure it was clear what was going on. I run brakeman fairly often on my own for my projects. :)
I would be surprised. Amazon has a history of developing tech for its own purposes, and then selling the tech. Their SOA architecture is now the backbone for one of the largest cloud services platform on the internet.

They might be the go to supplier for commercial drones in the not to distant future, so when they work with the FAA to get them approved (which i'm sure they're doing), i'd bet they are keeping alternative applications very closely in mind.
There's also http://csssprites.org/ (SmartSprites). The web based tools aren't really in the same category as Compass, Glue and SmartSprites - they can't be part of an automated build, so someone is going to have a repetitive manual task to do. Ok for a one-off, but annoying in the long term.
A quick look shows that you could minify the Javascript quite a bit more (which is relatively easy, and would save a lot more than 50 bytes). You might also look at inlining all of the Javascript into the HTML directly (this is what Google does), which saves the extra HTTP requests. You could also do this with some of the persistent images on the page (logo) and inline them with base64 (but I don't think it actually helps with the page size).

Finally, instead of using the browser extensions (which are helpful), get actual PageSpeed installed on the servers!

Apache: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module
nginx: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed

Regardless, awesome stuff. Big fan. Much love.
A tool that estimates your mobile app's cost
I'm thinking of a fleet of self-driving taxis or zipcars. You wouldn't need to park, wouldn't need traffic signals, wouldn't lean on your horn or do things that inspire someone to lean on their horn and maybe wouldn't need to park.
Bitstamp. International wire transfers.
The problem is that climate change could create much more damage to India than to other, more developed countries.
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Reflecting on 9 Months of Startup Life in Morocco
So you didn't read the article and are ignorant of the issue being discussed.

You can start with rereading the article, and continuing here:

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/series/modern-...
Glad I CTRL+F for this subreddit before posting. Anyone that hasn't been on /r/changemyview before, it's great.
I have quite strong opinions about this. The only way to ensure efficient, high-load drone flight is to develop a hybrid design which uses wings to generate lift during cruise. The efficiency lost to the rotors is massive.

So I think eventually we will see tilt-rotor designs, where wings take over once the drone is airborne but the rotor disk is pitched horizontal for takeoff and landing. This massively increases energy efficiency, and makes it possible to go a lot faster.

The reason this hasn't been done with larger airplanes (the only prominent example, V-22 Osprey, demonstrates the difficulty), is that combustion engines makes the design prohibitively complex. But with electric motors, it should be very doable.
The part that strikes me the most about this article: "Opening up crowded urban areas full of terror targets to large numbers of flying platforms is always going to be packed with conflicting interests and difficulties"

Yes, because urban areas full of terror targets aren't already full of platforms for weapons delivery. It's not like anyone can strap on a backpack and walk into a crowded mall.

Terror is not that real a threat. If you're worried about the terror prospects, you've already lost. Terror has been possible since the invention of explosives. Most people are friendly and cooperative, and do not value random acts of violence. Real work to combat terror involves improving the lives of marginalized people, and hunting down the few rabid dogs that are spreading their disease.
Yeah... that's what my post said, but there's obviously some common ground between them, and my speculation is that reduced military funding might encourage people who have that expertise to branch out into the private sector.
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Actually, no, for sum you need three things: how to start (0), how to accumulate (plus) and how to combine two reductions (plus again). This is exactly what fold doe

Equally, for filter, it's empty list, conj or not and concat. (Just to demonstrate that sometimes the combine is different from the accumulate stage.)
all the ones you listed are trivial though.
See https://github.com/jeroenjanssens/data-science-toolbox/blob/... for a bash script that interfaces with explainshell.com.

I wrote this script a while ago. I just needed to update the request because the API had changed a bit since then. Please note that it depends on the scrape tool in the same repository, which in turn depends on the python packages lxml and cssselect. But once you have that set up, you can explain commands from the shell! :-)
50" for my desktop.

What? Most people I know can't even handle the current 30" monitors. It feels nicer having two 27" monitors from a not-grossly-exceeding-peripheral-vision viewpoint.
Thanks Jeff,
I appreciate it. I'm also looking into flipping my html and css into a workable wordpress theme so im on the hunt of a quick html/css to PHP tutorial.
Anybody remember Gulf I?

The live streams from the bombings, almost like a video game.

Those were people too.
This isn't new. It's been happening for years now on 4Chan. Moderators (called Janitors) _should_ have deleted the thread and alerted authorities as they usually do. I wonder how the thread managed to stay alive for so long.
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Hasn't this happened in the past? I recall viewing a successful attempt sometime back in 2006.
>John is an unfortunate Liberal soul who lives uncomfortably in the middle of a Conservative hellscape. While he is not a fan of politicians, period, he has developed a deep-seated hatred for the bigotry, fear mongering, and lies of the Right Wing. He also rather enjoys steak.

Uh-huh. Also posting a Youtube link of it for all the heathens to take a look at.
Linking to the comments section is confusing. Also the backlash seems really out of line.
> Democrats listened to George Bush talking for eight years. The Republicans are going to be listening to Obama's pronouncements for an equal length of time.

I think it's actually very rare that the audience get to listen to these people unfiltered. Instead the audience will have chosen their preferred channels and these channels will have pre-digested, edited and analysed any speeches. Any nuance will have been stripped away to match a simplified narrative.
Perhaps a different standard of publication would be required. It should be very easy to create a negative result publication, but the real kudos should accrue to people who repeat a negative result that has great value to those who subsequently avoid the result if you see what I mean. So, initially "this is negative" then "are we really sure it's negative" followed by "it's really negative, we all agree, well done to us" or something like that.
3D printed: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:193022
Delivery drones makes for more interesting and stimulating news than the usual b movie plots involving terrorists that come up any time the d word is mentioned.