skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. If I had an egg allergy and went to a doctor who simply decided to roll up my sleeve and stick me, I would likely
have an adverse reaction. If the doctor took one minute to speak to me about any allergies, I'd likely not get stuck and have an adverse reaction (and I'd be given an alternate vaccine for those allergic).

Is that pretty clear how a consultation would result in a better outcome and less injuries?
Did you send this as a private teaching moment first?
> If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him.

That statement feels a little to intimate for an outsider to the company. Ben made a mistake but to single out and threaten him like that in public would surely alienate him further.

This entire situation has gotten extremely out of hand. It shows how activists can turn into extremists when faced with an adversary. I'm in no way advocating what Ben did but it's despicable how everyone jumped onto the bandwagon to exacerbate and publicize what should have been a minor event dealt with on employer-employee basis, not a public shaming.
Because the animation is incredibly CPU intensive for the effect that it has.
I have a dual install of Mint on my machine precisely because of its seamless HDMI support. It was the one thing I could never get working properly on my primary OS, but Mint did the trick right out of the box.
Apple changed an Apple app to use Apple data instead of Google Data, there was no removal of a Google app because there was no Google app to remove.
As far as I can tell, client certs can't be cross-device. You would need a new cert on every device you plan to use with the site.
The article was fine, but the title is still fits the pattern. The answer is 'No'. Or, maybe, 'No, not yet'.
I think the community would do better without these corporate fingers poking on it.
I wish this was hosted at hackernews.com
I always type in hackernews.com only to find some weird blog. I wonder how much traffic that guy is getting, anyone else fall into this trap?
A weakened immune system is not a condition you can really have without realizing it.

But if you don't want to take the risk, by all means, go for the injection. In fact, my provider has never offered the nasal spray. It's only there because people find it to be more convenient or don't like needles.
At a guess: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538... and
https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...

Those two may not seem like much (at least I don't think so), but this kind of passive-aggressive behaviour isn't atypical for bnoordhuis. Eventually it'll cause a bad backlash. Like this.

bnoordhuis is an example of a problem that many popular OSS projects will face in their lifetime: is keeping a highly-productive jerk around worth it? On the one hand they produce good code, but on the other they help drag the community's ethos into the tank.
Here is more information:

http://www.sheepmarketscam.com/
Finally the form factor Geometry Wars was obviously created for...
Are there any pieces anywhere about comment gendering being an issue to female programmers? (My short googling failed me)
Here is the context: Joyent VP of Eng calls Node.js leading contributor an asshole on the corporate blog. http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

Real classy.

Yes the guy was being thick, but he was virtually fired by someone not at his own company.
Agreed. But I think part if this is necessity based. When going overseas you are often given shots for things that are less likely found in the US. It's not impossible to catch those diseases in the US, but the costs or risks of vaccinating the entire US population prevents us from doing that.

The vaccine court has paid out individuals for vaccine injury. The results of the court are generally not widely publicized, but defining safe is somewhat key to these points.
I thought this will be treated as a spam :). it's www.faqrobo.com
The original issue was a pull request[1] made to the libuv code base to change "him" to "them". It was rejected[2] by one of the committers, Ben Noordhuis, as being too trivial.

That decision was reversed by Isaac Schlueter (another committer) and committed[3]. Noordhuis reverted that commit[4], chiding Schlueter for not following procedure, but that revert was quickly reverted itself.

Bryan Cantrill of Joyent, one of the sponsors of the project and Schleuter's employer, wrote a blog post[5] indicating that had Noordhuis been a Joyent employee, he would've been fired. This post here is a response to that post. Strongloop is Noordhuis's employer.

[1]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015

[2]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538...

[3]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/47d98b64c45db8335bf7e...

[4]: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/commit/804d40ee14dc0f82c482d...

[5]: http://www.joyent.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun
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NSA may have hacked Yahoo and Google
In October, Washington Post published a secret document leaked by former Intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden stating of alienation of 300 million users personal information. Internet companies Yahoo and Google publicly accused The National Security Agency in secretly breaking their database. The common version of the NSA implication to this incident in which it has tapped the data links between Internet tech companies that allowed the spy agency to access supposedly protected data links to collect data on millions of users in real time around the world, underpinned by affiliation of the report to NSA’ snooping program. The information included not only metadata but also content. - See more at: http://allhackersnews.com/#sthash.sGXAwYp1.dpuf
Put node in neutral territory.
Because your 400 gazillion degrees of freedom machine learning core was not already ill conditioned enough for you?
Shocking news - but I'm not quite sure how this doesn't fall into the "off-topic" category of HN[1].

[1]Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
18 months probation for a 12-year-old Anonymous hacker has been sentenced
A 12-year-old Montreal hacker has been sentenced to 18 months probation. Youngest ever to face charges, he mutilated several provincial government websites and shared information in exchange in 2012. A series of attacks targeted government-related websites under the auspices of “Operation Quebec” campaign.
And this is part of working on poverty, in India and everywhere else. Forget all the other reasons. People need inspiration, and this is one way to provide it. The payoff may not be immediate, but it will come.
having trouble installing in MINT 16. Can't get the manager to run after sh
Linus for example isn't the nicest guy in town either. I know a few devs who are parsecs ahead of me, in knowledge and/or productivity. None of them could qualify as a nice and polite person. May be observation bias, but I see a connection here.
Most of the time the people writing these articles have never even heard of Hacker News; this is just a more socially acceptable way to flaunt trivia in front of people to feel smarter while at the same time being able to call "first!".
Bartender 99.9% win. The default behavior of some status menu items not being command key movable is bad UX. Combine that with, as others noticed, accretion of icons that the menu bar lops off an arbitrary number of left side of the status bar doesn't help matters.
I've used PGP keys cross-device (using both android and osx clients), why can't SSL?
huh. Interesting. How would the safety implications of running 240v DC differ from running 240v AC? (my understanding is that the amount of copper required would be the same.)

From what I've seen, 48vdc is usually just two leads sticking out from the equipment in question.. you just strip the ends of the wires and screw 'em in. I don't think I'd be comfortable doing that with 240v. I guess that's just a simple matter of standardization.
One thing I'd love to see (perhaps in a future iteration?) is a way to have overlapping ranges for redundancy, instead of mirrors.

The big benefit to this is when balancing write-heavy workloads, when the slave would not be getting its share of the total load.

I believe this could be accomplished by running a second DB on each machine as a slave to the next in the cycle, and that's what I'll probably try when we scale up to needing a cluster. But having it be a supported scenario (or facilitated somehow) would make me feel much better.

(edit: Just a feature request of course, exciting to see this release! Thanks for all your hard work antirez!)
Uhm, Ben lacks tact? Says who? I think you guys are maybe confusing the tough Dutch culture as being insensitive to some hot issues. Ben is an extremely smart, extremely prolific programmer. When you're out and about like him you're bound to get yourself tripped somewhere along the way.

As an aside, while Joyent has exposed itself as being extremely unprofessional and prone to jumping on the gun, I'm saddened that Strongloop is quick to say things like "If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him" too ... and this is just after all of this happened. My goodness people, stop sitting on your high chairs and speculating firings, it's not a fucking game.
NO! You can't make a real sentence with nothing but adverbs and prepositions!!!

:b
Wahoo thanks!
Love it so much! An easy way to detect user and could prevent quite a lot of phishings attack.

One issue is the browser compatibility. It work on Chrome, but I tried it on my iPhone Safari and it doesn't work. Is there any way to fix it?
Keep in mind that the plans that are expiring due to not covering things under the ACA or due to insurers simply reshuffling their plans as a result of the ACA (like mine) don't expire until January 1. No one has yet had an insurance coverage gap due to the ACA.
It's important that everyone knows that violations against political correctness are serious things. Whether a person calls a commit that changes "he" to "they" trivial, or refuses to assert that women are at least as intelligent, if not more, than men, or attributes Africa's problems to something other than racism and exploitation, it is important that that person loses their job.

Otherwise, how will people know who holds the power - straight White non-Jewish men, that is.
> If Ben can’t learn, we’ll fire him.

Wow, Isaac (the post author) has quote the ego.

Isaac (of Nodejs) broke the commit rules by not getting his patch signed off. Ben was quite right in rejecting it and reversing it.

Imagine this was a code patch which sneaks it way through into production. Who would be "fired" then?

This is making both Joyent and Node.js look like a joke. Who the hell wants to work with these reactionary fools?
Oh, _that_ thing. It's sort of tricky to handle HTML5 Notifications without such a thing. What does Firefox do?
Computers and the Women That Use Them
Seems like a tiny amount of money for something that would be worth quite a lot to them...
I've been an assistant professor for 2 years now (finished PhD on Jan 2012), my salary is US$110K a year.

This year I decided to secretly do some consulting/contracting work on the side (for various reasons). It was a really difficult year as I worked like a dog but I was able to make an additional US$175K in income.

It's strange, I've felt more 'fulfilled' this year than simply spending that time on writing research publications. I feel like I've actually helped people and worked on stuff that matters...

Academia is broken IMHO: Too much focus on volume instead of quality, MOOCs and online courses are breaking teaching, most students don't care about the content, 50% of university staff are administrators.

I plan to make the most of it though (while it lasts).
One approach might be to photoshop hack the color icons to greyscale. They're usually in the resource bundle.
Just a little remark:

>"Where is the liberty of the people?" Mr. Licoppe asked. "Because there are many who want to preserve the study of Latin."

Is it really necessary that I've got to explain that there are also people who don't want to preserve it? Do I have to explain how the idea marketplace, competence, academic freedom and other systems actually works?

The whole idea of embracing Latin for everything is dumb. If Latin were actually a lingua franca, then, like that school completely ignores, linguas francas (francae?) aren't there to replace the mother language (which includes all of the region's folklore), just to complement it when talking to an outsider (that school isn't, it is teaching reticulum interretiale only instead of internet first and then reticulum interretiale).

Also, from a pragmatist point of view, learning Latin today, and either using it as a lingua franca or not is pretty useless (there are exceptions, of course, like Philosophy, law, medicine, etc; but they aren't that important in a day-to-day context).
Not exactly. There are two Isaacs. Isaac Roth at StrongLoop, author of the OP, he didn't come into the story until today. Isaac Schlueter works for Joyent, and originally committed the requested change.
I use automated high-entropy password-generators and a surprising amount of websites cap lengths to 30-50 characters (or even 8 chars sometimes like a Canadian bank I won't name). Allowing super-long passwords would be a good starting alternative to SSL.
Thank you for pointing that out. What the fuck is it with these high-levels treating people like some easily replacable, unhuman commodity? Don't ever speculate firing people like that in public, just fucking don't.
I think that's an example of sample bias. There are many excellent developers who are nice too, you just don't hear as much about them because they're not causing drama. Again.

All the great developers I've worked with have been fantastic people too. Maybe I've just been lucky.

As a counterpoint in the node community: isaacs is pleasant, amazingly patient, and an excellent developer.
I was just starting out with PGP today - and found iPGMail to be useful on iOS.
I am in favor of using Latin in some circumstances. People miss the fact that the great thing about a dead language is that it doesn't change. However, if you write about science in English, for example, you can guarantee that 50 years from now your text will feel dated -- just try to read papers from the beginning of the 20th century. On the other hand, we still can read the great works of antiquity (from 20 centuries ago) in Latin. Also, a lot of scientific works were written in Latin during the renascence, and they are still available to us. Sadly, what is written in English will hardly last for more than a few hundred years. The only saving grace is that future generations will have automatic translation systems that will solve a lot of these problems.

Another issue with English is that it is a very imprecise language. You have to be extremely careful to write precise sentences in it. Latin, because of its grammatical nature, is much easier to handle in this respect. This is the same reason why it is much easier to understand philosophical concepts in German than in English. Just because English is widely understood (due to the cultural dominance of English-speaking countries), it doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to use a better language to express ourselves. Latin seems like a natural option due to its large impact on the western world.
Yeah, sorry about that; I just caught that mistake myself. Fixed.
Might be worth mentioning Weston Price, an early 20th century dentist "known primarily for his theories on the relationship between nutrition, dental health, and physical health. He founded the research institute of the National Dental Association, which later became the research section of the American Dental Association, and served as its chair from 1914–1928." (Wikipedia)

In particular, he drew a lot of relationships between diet and not only dental but general health. Some of which sounds a bit kooky but a lot of which seems to be getting confirmed, especially regards the role of sugar and processed carbohydrates.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_Price
> depriving their children of the much-needed contact with a diverse population that builds trust.

I think the evidence is that more diversity brings less trust.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Putnam#Diversity_and...
Yeah, sure this is cool. We probably can see this from Yelp in a limited way, from twitter or from facbeook. Everyone who work on recommendation algorithm probably have an idea how to implement one. I don't see that being impressive.
The amount of clutter is ridiculous...They should take a hint from Engadget/Slashdot/etc, space is a good thing
Yup. I got tired of all the weird quirks and security issues with Evernote, so I used cloudhq to migrate Google Drive. The quality of the resulting migrated notes was surprisingly good.
I think the most interesting thing about that image is that the text seems to be written by hand. What excellent handwriting!
That is good of you. No more questions. Generally I agree with your assessment, however when confronting systemic biases sometimes it's necessary to speak out publicly. However, that can be done outside the context of a particular person-to-person encounter.
From what I understand these would be complementary: the advantage of a probiotic solution would be that you basically get the treatment from time to time then never have to care about periodontal disease (which affects almost half of the US population [1]) or tooth decay, and then just have to brush your teeth or tongue to freshen your breath (but without long-term consequences if you don't).

[1] http://www.perio.org/consumer/cdc-study.htm
It's a fiat currency that they created 100 billion of. They want it to be worth something (since they control it) so they are giving away a pittance promotionally (plenty of millions, but they own 100 billion granted to themselves.) "promotionally." I'd be very very wary of any company creating cryptographic currency with no real benefit over bitcoins, especially when they own the "genesis" block that will become worth enormous amounts when they get enough popularity/trust from the sheep that join their cult.

Especially when this XRP didn't exist a couple months ago...they were just doing electronic payments: http://pdl.vimeocdn.com/44711/710/188655231.mp4

Seems like Ripple is trying to jump on the crypto-currency bandwagon and shamelessly doing it.

https://ripple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2034

http://ripplescam.org/

"OpenCoin Inc premined all of the XRPs (Ripples) in existence,
and their business model is tricking people into using the Ripple network
(you must buy XRPs to use any part of Ripple), playing Federal Reserve,
and making money off XRP speculation.
That’s directly OpenCoin Inc’s business model."
"Microsoft Announces Tons of Issues"

"Microsoft tries to stop crying"

"Afghanistan in Browser"

"Fuck a woman to win this Zune"
Much ado over nothing. "Them" in that context just sounds odd to me (perhaps not in American English?) A 50/50 mix of him/her sounds way more natural.
Thank you. I couldn't read it - the snow kept triggering my orienting reflex and making it harder than necessary to simply read the article.
On one hand the article argues for less regulation, but acknowledges that people already can record video of your back yard and it's completely legal. This seems contradictory, am I missing something?
My understanding of Node.JS and libuv community is as an outsider. I don't follow what's going on unless it is on the front page of HN once in a while and other forums.

But one impression I get from Node.JS and its surrounding community is arrogance and immaturity. This is from top to down -- companies sponsoring it (Joyent) and many of its vocal proponents. I see plenty of energy, enthusiasm, but mixed with immaturity. "We don't know what are doing, but darn it! we will be very vocal and do it with lots of enthusiasm".

One guy doesn't want to commit a trivial change. It blows up into a media shitstorm. Reverted commits. Joyent's reaction is what surprised me -- "While we would fire Ben over this". This guy doesn't even work for them. Hypothetically firing people, hmm, so committed to Women's Rights, they are hypothetically hiring and firing this person. Have they talked to him in private? StrongLoop, a company I never heard of until this point, is a bit more mature, that's good to see, but even they couldn't resist the veiled threat.

What is sad, as a whole this episode just reinforced the (hopefully wrong) stereotype I have of the community. Joyent instead of helping the community (which I think they thought they did by writing that blog post), are hurting it.

Buying into and spending time and money learning a platform/language is also an implicit buy in/participation in the community. So far it screams to me "stay away". Hopefully it will grow up at some point.
In OSX, client certificates are stored in the Keychain, which must be unlocked with your password. The problem with almost every "security product" comes down to the fact that Windows (and Linux, I think) don't have equivalent protected-storage APIs integrated throughout the desktop environment.
Uhm, Ben lacts tact? Says who?

It's a general observation I've developed watching node development on occasion. I don't even follow it that closely, but a disproportionate amount of negativity seems to stem from bnoordhuis; that's why I remember him specifically.

Okay, it could be just me, but I've heard other people subsequently complain about his behaviour too.

I think you guys are maybe confusing the tough Dutch culture as being insensitive to some hot issues.

The Netherlands isn't the world, and only a tiny percentage of developers come from there. As the blog post says, bnoordhuis needs to learn, but so far he has not. Furthermore, regardless of the origins of his behaviour, it's still negative.
The Nationwide Stolen Smartphone Database Is Complete
What does this actually mean for non-experts in Astronomy? Is it in a higher orbit around Earth, has it started a slingshot for Mars, or has it started orbiting Mars?
Amazing how quickly they updated Paul Walker's bio to past tense. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Walker
I was really taken aback when I read that as well. I don't have the thickest skin and I would have probably just retreated into the forest if someone ever wrote that about me.
I may have overcharacterized, but I was specifically referring to those in cul-de-sac neighborhoods, not all suburbanites in general.

More traditional gridded suburbs, especially those with large communal parks, probably bely the behavior I described, but I'm mostly speaking intuitively on the matter, as I'm not aware of any studies.

In short, I think we're probably both right. ;-)
If CloudFlare didn't prevent it you could just edit your host file on Windows to make hackernews.com pull from the (real) Hacker News IP Address
This is one of the most elaborate hacks I've ever heard of. Programming via adding items to your inventory in Pokemon. Incredible.
Over $26,000 donated to kid who held up Bitcoin sign on ESPN
That's a cool trick, thanks!
> In contemporary Western society, misogyny is considered abnormal.

That's... a terribly rosy view of Western society you have there, I'm afraid.
Paul Walker Died
I find once you get writer's block, it's too late. The key is to have an ongoing list of ideas/things to do, so when you have that free weekend, it's go time.