skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, if you use a short domain name "because why not" for something new that's alright. It was just the "it adds up" part that I was commenting on.

Do you have (well, you're moot, so -- want to share) some more data of 4chan's current size? I'm sure lots of people would be interested in hearing about that. (This would probably make a great individual post.)
No, but this option has always been in the back of my head. This has just been a weekend project for the past few months, and is still in alpha, but once I get to a stable/secure release this option will be explored.
If my HN frontpage were that user-dependent, I'd want to see both. I'd read my HN, but I will definitely browse in Incognito mode just to see the 'real' HN.

One has to wonder what draws all these people to sites like HN. I don't think they know for sure. At first, the site was great without me. There were lots of interesting links without me asking for them. As it becomes more amplified, with the front page being hotly contested & measured, mechanisms getting more complicated, etc., it seems we may get what we never wanted.
You know you're on the right track when people are saying, "But why isn't this in there already?"
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Not to mention, the debatably distasteful choice of advertising his 'Hipmunk' startup so blatantly under the pretense of supporting startups. And you're definitely not the underdog when you're a repeat-founder who's raised $20 mil in funding, and were a graduate of the most prestigious startup incubator in the valley.
Totally. In our case the main security benefit is that we allow the uploading of SWFs, and it mitigates the threat of cookie stealing via Flash (which we've actually seen attempted). Previously we'd used 4channel.org for this, but I switched that over along with the migration to 4cdn.org.
You eat "food?" I've been eating nothing but Bitcoins for months with no ill effects. And all of my employees are made out of Soylent.
Seriously, green threads with yield() and autoyield on blocking operations would be great. Sometimes the easiest way to write a program is to present it as a logical flow of events, and let the machine/operating environment hide the async nature of life from you.

Then again, that would mean reinventing (again) core OS functionality in Javascript. Le sigh.
How is that not "tail -f file"?
Finally, the Bothans who sacrificed their lives to retrieve the plans for the Death Star.

Oops, bad example! Remember, the Death Star was fully operational and the assault was a trap. Those Bothans died bringing false information.
http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-devel...

It's my understanding that this is the original article.
I'm interested in learning more about _how_ secure random URL parts are, and what kinds of attacks are seen in practice. Presumably an IP would get blocked after enough 404s?
Here as well. I knew of several reasons to serve static content from a different domain/cdn, but never thought of this cookie-benefit.
Thanks! To get Y value at least, hover over a series and it'll give you the price at that point.
Is this just 1v1? How many people could this scale to?
Are you idea guy?
This is quite impressive.

I'd love to see the argument explanations narrow down sub-arguments. For instance, "find -type f" ought to just show the top-level description for -type and the description for 'f', not all the other type characters.
Thunderbolt displays come with a MagSafe 1 -> MagSafe 2 converter in the box now.
Absolutely not.

"Civility" when discussing colonialism is just stacking the deck in favor of the colonists.

Read my post again. What is insulting? Describing behavior as cowardly, and then backing it up with two points that remain unanswered?

I could understand if the posts were baseless rants directly insulting the person I replied to with no content whatsoever, but that is not what happened.

All of the words in that post were appropriate, given the thesis.
The wiring is sexy, but this is a textbook cases where tabbed panes would be perfect: just have each command segment be a tab, and the corresponding docs be in a pane underneath.
That's an interesting idea. Given how flexible the bitcoin transaction script system is, it might be possible to set up a system where the bitcoins can only be claimed by someone who can prove that they won.
It indeed is tikz. Source is on github.
> If he reworked old code just to save 50 bytes, that would probably be a mistake, but it sounds like the work was being done anyway and he had the choice to save 50 bytes OR use a longer domain name.

Basically this. I thought it was an interesting side benefit that came at no additional cost to the main benefit of greatly reducing request overhead for static resources.
Ask HN: Best tech talks for beginning/budding programmers?
I work a marketing job all day and like to listen to stuff in the background, and I work hard in the mornings/evenings to learn to code better. I wish what I listen to during the day were productive, even if only on an abstract/theoretical level. Do you have any recommendations?
What BlackBerry Should Have Learned From This Startup
Not sure if a rising sort is really needed. A link only needs a few points to get on the front page of HN. Based on my experience if a link gets 3 votes in the first 15-20min or 5 in an hour and it'll get some frontpage time.

I think it may almost be easier to just show a random new link from the past hour rather than doing anything fancy. I'm sure a ton of good content misses the frontpage just because of the sheer lack of visibility that links on the new page get.
The SSD Endurance Experiment: Testing data retention at 300TB
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Even better: the 24" is $1399.
I'm pretty certain 4channers are good at tracking down profile URLs from just a Facebook image URL/filename. I don't think you can access the full album per se, but you can definitely locate the profile.
It's one thing to know and care, but another thing to pull it off. I dealt with RIM/BB not all that long ago on behalf of an M2M prospect and was thoroughly underwhelmed; the QNX team we dealt with was sharp and fully on-point, but I got the sense that RIM was holding them back. In the end, using BB would have increased our hardware BOM by an order of magnitude (literally, they suggested we buy smartphones and use them as the basis of the hardware), so it made zero sense versus a more traditional route.

It's a shame, really. QNX is a fantastic solution supported by a brilliant team, but one that's hobbled to a hardware vendor with zero vision and even less ability to execute.
Any insights where the factories are located and how they found the manufacturing partner?
Can anyone explain why monitor and TV prices are so vastly different for the same size? Could you not substitute a small flat screen in place of a monitor and save a few hundred?
Is that the real page title?
I'm a bit curious why both the 24" and the 32" are priced over 1k, yet they are able to get the 28" down below that mark. That's not to say that I'm not incredibly excited to see how this ends up! I've been looking for a sub-1.5k 28" monitor with high resolution for a while, and though I love my Apple Thunderbolt Display I use at work, I am hesitant that if I buy one for myself, I'll be buying right before a refresh.

I've been feeling that way for a long while though, so who knows
Enterprises have recently been accelerating adoption of hybrid-cloud models for certain types of SaaS products.

With enterprise cloud server backup, for example, customers deploy Zetta.net's agents on their servers, and it backs up data to our offsite cloud data centers, and to the customers own local storage.
Nope I find it very useful to quickly make a model of classes sometimes before I start writing code. Esp. when I know there is gonna be some complex interactions that I need to work out.
How Broadleaf Resolved New Relic High Request Queueing Vales
Can someone explain to me why BlackBerry gets so much negativity for trying to regain relevance, whereas there's much more positive thoughts for startups trying to pivot to do the same? It always seems like HN has a lot more love for the latter than the former.
Ya, this is 1v1 as of right now, but a full table (9 people) is currently in the works.
Can you please describe what this is exactly and how it works?
Am I in the wrong for briefly wondering why 3d-printed dildos was on HN?
In case some of you were wondering, this is related to a previous post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6817451

It's a device that allows cables to pass through it. As it happened, we were talking about in on HN, and a few days later, I found this 3D printed version.
I guess what I'm asking is, at it's core, it's just gossip, but at what point does it cross the line? Where is that line? Because it's easy to say any gossip is crossing the line, but then complaining about a bad driver is exactly that: gossip about an anonymous party. Those "OH" tweets become just as bad. Which is why I ask: where do we draw that line?
Why are they announcing this now? Is it to tell people to hold off for Xmas?
They should probably also force connections trough their SPDY supported HTTPS, rather than making it an option.
Static destruction order is way more deterministic than I thought, and I have no idea how function template specialization rules work.
Figuring this out now. Thanks!
I can hear my own sounds (voice, clicking, etc), is there a way to disable that?
Does anybody know why Alexis is skipping the Southeast? I'd love to make it and we have some very big cities, but he's not headed for this direction according to the schedule:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AroQUykhIn54dEQ...
I suspect it is because there is much higher expected volume. Not hard to imagine Apple buying a gazillion of these panels.
To start you can go to:

http://getbootstrap.com/customize

and only select the components you will need. This will provide you with a customized download of Bootstrap.

The only other way is to cut out the individual elements you don't need, but I wouldn't recommend this method as if you ever choose to upgrade or need to modify your theme you will need to go back through and add/remove whatever you need or don't need.
What an odd response. I haven't done any OO programming in nearly a decade, and I would not consider doing it ever again. I don't know where you got the idea that OO has anything to do with this. I do catch these sorts of errors early on, because they are type errors, and thus the compiler catches them. That is very much the point. The fact that you think you are infallible and can write 100% perfect test coverage, while thinking I am being condescending is pretty hilarious.
CBS and 60 minutes lost their credibility long before this.
WHY WHY WHY is this so CONFUSING? DELL! C'Mon man!

The "24" that you mentioned actually seems to also be a 28" screen?

"With the same remarkable, pin-point clarity, the Dell UltraSharp 24 Ultra HD Monitor, users can enjoy color consistency and precision from virtually any angle thanks to an ultra-wide viewing angle on a 28.3-inch screen. "
Awesome. I say this is a sign that the incumbent manufacturers are finally adapting to the heat brought on by Korean and Chinese newcomers.

"Industry's most affordable Ultra HD monitor" is semantics. The Seiki 39" is still substantially cheaper, now at less than $500 on Amazon. Technically, that is a television, so I suppose "monitor" is a clever use of words by Dell.

If Seiki drops an HDMI 2 version of their monitor—excuse me, television—for roughly the same price as the current model, things start to get really interesting. Actually, scratch that, the desktop monitor industry is finally interesting again right now. This is the first time it has been interesting since about 2005.

I prefer the higher DPI that Dell is providing, but I prefer the size that Seiki is going after. My ideal is 200+ DPI at about 50" for my desktop. All steps toward that make me happy, so good going Dell!
Show HN: My side-project, making every order a subscription
It would be nice if the article contained a link to littlist itself... I essentially had to guess at domain names to find it (unless I missed the link in the Referencing Sucks article)...
What worries me is that whatever regulations the FAA come up with will suit Amazon just fine, but will put drones out of reach of hobbyists.
TL; DR we're not dead yet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8mNjeuyV4
Since it's so trivial for authorities to fabricate evidence, using a system with a public ledger is actually preferred if you're afraid you might become a victim of evidence tampering. It's so much harder to plant unquestionable evidence in a public ledger.
much different pixel density and production volumes.
Justices Won't Hear Appeal of NY Internet Taxation
UPS is a slow moving entity because of its enormous size and culture. Their delivery system was more or less handled manually until about 10 years ago. 15 years ago they were still using punch clocks for hourly workers. "Eventually" could mean 25-50 years from now.
Now I'll be shocked if Apple don't release something similar with the Mac Pro this month.
Well what's the solution?

Do you simply redirect all "expired link" GETs to the home page? Should we have a fixed # of 10 first pages (like some imageboards)?
Widely panned by trolls everywhere!
Do you mean in general or for these particular monitors?
"The data we've collected suggests that modern SSDs can easily survive many years of typical desktop use. Even TLC-based offerings should have more than enough endurance to handle what the vast majority of consumers will throw at them."

That settles it for me
25 days of Angular: Day 1: the short guide to services
Looks like internet taxes are here to stay. We need to focus on simplifying sales tax calculation and remittance.
People think I am pining for go too, for similar reasons. Yet I tried very hard to like go, and was unable to put up with such a primitive language just for the nice tooling. Not everything is a "you just need to use go" in disguise.
I don't write C or C++, but I do write a lot of C# and some occasional obj-C. Maybe I will get down voted for this, and I completely see merit in learning all you can about a language and features as it makes developers more valuable to their employers.

<now for the but>
In my over 10 years as a developer, I rarely if EVER come across these sorts of problems. I've been in many problem domains and modeled many sorts of problems. I have come across these sorts of issues maybe 1 or 2 times. When I did come across this sort of problem a few hours of thought allowed me to come up with a rational solution that didn't require stretching the bounds a of a language.
</but>

So while Im all for academic curiosity and figuring out the way things work, I dont know that these sort of things are applicable as to whether someone can write code to do a job that is robust, scalable and reliable.

So please excuse me while I go read my C++ books because I feel stupid...
That is almost certainly a typo.
Why isn´t it on Kindle? For overseas customers it´s not always ideal to have to pay for shipping.
>Maybe if this guy had cared enough to do a five second google he'd realize that Scala doesn't use hindley-milner type inference.

That's his point. Scala doesn't use HM and it needs to. He says the reason it doesn't is because of the JVM, which seems misguided.
I'm more interested in the 24" model, although the press release goes a long way to convince me it's actually 28.3" display despite the name.

edit: the tech specs page convince me the name is not ridiculously misleading. Seriously interested of this one.
Good: it understands &>, which some Unix old-timers don't get.

To improve: it didn't provide any context to what $IFS is used for.
Will a Macbook Pro Retina 13" be able to drive this?
I get that this is addressed to a specific audience, and it isn't me - but I don't understand how their position there is something to mention at all. They're a "niche player" apparently, where in this context that means they have a low ability to execute and incomplete vision.

"BlackBerry is positioned in the Niche Players quadrant and should only be considered for BlackBerry management or for cross-platform if iOS is needed and BES 10 has been purchased." sure doesn't sound reassuring either.
Widely panned... by trolls from Hacker News?
Awesome read. BTW, both UPS and USPS (don't know about FedEx, etc) will pickup packages on demand. Of course, if you live in an apartment, this does mean you have to be home at the time.
I had the opposite experience. I went into scala very optimistic, and initially would have rated it 4 star to stick with your rating approach. But after a month it was down to 3, then another month it was down to 2 and we were investigating alternatives.
I'd bet it's panel type. The 32/24 may be IPS while the 28 may be IGZO.
I appreciate the detailed reply. I guess I'm naturally skeptical in two areas:

- I don't quite see how you are factoring in the 60% batting average above (seems like it would water your returns down quite a bit from an average 2% "per move"

- I'm not sure how well I believe that a casual trader can bat 60%. That sounds quite generous to me, especially on short-trades.

I think your ability to execute this strategy as high as 60% is going to vary year-to-year as well, although (thinking out loud), maybe this is a good strategy to play in obvious bull (2013) or bear (2009) markets, but not in flat markets (2012), when it's going to be hard to predict the outcome of any given drop or bounce.
Here is a JS one for you

Array(10).join("hn" - 1) + " Batman!"
Its cool and good but gets into the syntax too quickly.
To explain "tar xzvf archive.tar.gz" I would say "extract the archive".
Ask HN: How many of you are mining bitcoins?
This days Bitcoin news is buzzing a lot on HN home page so just out of curiosity asking how many of HNers are mining Bitcoins.
Please share your experience even I am feeling like to try hands on it at least once.
Did you watch this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geqip_0Vjec
I think he wanted to see something like this instead:

http://f.cl.ly/items/0B2T3i1o1A3y062q0K1Z/Image%202013.12.02...

I don't find it too misleading. But long line could be made to look even more different (from multiple short lines) by having distinct color, typography marks etc.
Arguably Russian Winter by itself won the war. I do not know if Japanese actually understood that attacking Russia from their front was futile at that time due to several reasons.

1. Russia is big, very big. Traversing Siberia would have taken a long time. Something that they would have to do without any naval support. Can you imagine trying to establish supply lines through Siberia?

2. Add continental winter on top of that and you get no go on Japanese invading USSR. (Temperatures of 15-20 degrees centigrade colder than people living near the ocean are used to).

3. Because China would obviously sit very still, when large portion of Japanese ground forces would be absent.

4. Remember no naval support? Attacking Russia would effectively split Japanese fleet and ground army.

I do not know if Japanese understood those simple facts, but Russians sure did. European front was way higher priority than Siberia. An if Japanese did attack, an order of magnitude smaller, more mobile force would had been enough to harass supply lines and stall any progress. It is not only winter time that would have been problematic, when snow melts things are worse for a while due to all the mud.

Similar story with Germans, it is not that Russians in monumental effort stopped the advance. They merely stalled German blitzkrieg (while taking heavy losses), and continental winter stopped it. I am not trying to take away from monumental effort thrown by soviets to stop the advance, but ultimately all it came down to: Germans could not advance and adequately deliver supplies and Russians could due to intact railroads.

* I am not saying those were only reasons, but people tend to underestimate importance of supply lines and role of winter.
Why are we more scared of raw egg than reheated rice?
If Prime Air happens, I predict a boom in the illicit 'package intercept' business.

Knock a drone down, "win" a prize is going to appeal to percentage of the population.
I totally love this, it's already incredibly helpful! It's super-functional, and frankly it's very, very nice looking. To Mr. Idan Kamara, the creator of this, I have nothing but the highest praise!

Now, I hate to get side-tracked, but for much larger commands, like this one:

ps x -o "%r %c " | grep "someScript.sh" | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' | xargs -I % /bin/kill -TERM -- -%

that has a lot of parts, it can be hard to connect the different options to the various explanations[0], since there are so many lines and they frequently have similar colors and you have to keep scrolling up and down the page. Being able to do something like click on a command/option and have the page jump to the corresponding explanation would be very helpful.

[0] - http://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=ps+x+-o++%22%25r+%25c+%2...
I think the press release may be incorrect. The "Tech Specs" tab on the product page[1] says the diagonal for the 24 is 23.8 inches.

[1] http://dcse.dell.com/us/en/gen/peripherals/dell-up2414q/pd.a...
Ruby's Array#count has some superpowers
> Sometimes I hear animal right activists...

Yep, some vegetarians claim that people who claim to be feminist should be vegetarian. Me? I'm a speciesist.

> it makes sense that people would cast their oppression in various ways down the hierarchy.

It's not always linear. A black man might be margalized in the work place (or the criminal justice system), but in a position of power at home over his wife, but if he is in prison, he might be in a position of power. "It's complicated" is a term commonly used by people within the social justice scene.

And just because there are loads of systematice oppressions doesn't mean we can't fight them all and try to end them all. Classism and sexism and homophobia and ... are all wrong.
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Even so, The difference between the high-end and entry-level models is the former are "Dell UltraSharp XX Ultra HD Monitor" and "Dell XX Ultra HD Monitor".

It doesn't have to be this way.
This is good advice, but you should be careful about the index fund you invest in. Some index funds are specific to industries. Some are "synthetic" Some have a cost nearly as high as mutual fund. In those cases you may not be getting the advantages the author is talking about.
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Definitely running Brakeman, as are https://codeclimate.com/, https://www.pullreview.com and http://rails-brakeman.com/.
How do you differentiate someone who is LYING from someone who is the wrong person, or who doesn't know?

e.g.: Bob hates you, and leaves a thumb drive labeled "CP" behind your computer, filled with random astronomy data. He then leaves bits and pieces that make it appear to be an encrypted drive of illegal porn. (Or, any other nefarious Jack-Bauer-worthy terrorist movie plot.)

When you get interrogated by wrench-wielding thugs, it will never be possible for them to tell whether you are lying about whether it's yours, whether you know what's on it, or whether you can decrypt it.

Torture can only possibly get useful information if the person you're torturing HAS that information. Of course that can work -- no one doubts that. Think from the perspective of the wrongly-accused person, though, and you'll see that it very quickly becomes a game of "what can I say to make them stop hurting me". This is why so many people in medieval times confessed to being witches, or part of treasonous plots: their choice was death by a relatively quick means versus death by torture.

edit: My point is, "reliable" means more than "we can verify that it's true", but also means that you can avoid false positives.
New style subshells aren't supported (yet) either:

for x in $(ls ~/foo); do echo $x; done