skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What "broad generalizations" would those be?

That South Korea allows people to leave if they want, while North Korea doesn't?

That millions of North Koreans have been starved to death or otherwise murdered by their own government?

Sorry, those are facts, your attempts to change the subject notwithstanding.
"As for Ayn Rand, just how much have her ideas influencedthe community's design? Mr Johnson admits he never finished “Atlas Shrugged”. "I'm not actually much of a reader," he says. "Watched the movie and skimmed the Cliff's Notes, though. Good stuff."

Awesome ;)
Too many Facebook likes can be a bad thing
You could make two mount points.
AnTuTu Benchmark for IOS will land Apps store soon
I18n is Hard ;) Apart from having a good dictionary of words to use in your desired target languages, you apparently have to keep track of actual language usage as well and sometimes even regional variations on usage. Sometimes those are then explanations for quirky behavior, e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/20/55055...
Gulp.js by Eric Schoffstall
OK, arms. As non-native speaker wasn't aware "nukes" always refers to nuclear weapons.. TIL!
No, it's still illegal

But if I understand correctly, it's 'tolerated' meaning, they won't bother enforcing the prohibition
The world needs you to do what you love (2009)
French Team Invents Faster Code-Breaking Algorithm
>I had always assumed PINs never left the pad

The local pads say something about "offline" during that process. Thats for pin & chip ones though - with Target it sounds like the magnetic strip was copied. The local cards don't require a pin for magnetic strip swipes.
You just proved the power of good PR and the most ppl forget the past very quickly.
I'm working on http://www.feedsapi.com and on a small side-project for the Hacker News crowd, I hope to have it ready today for review.
You can say that about all of the current leaders of Latin America, whether they're from the left of the right (they were most likely either complicit or participated with the guerrillas, or they supported one of the many military governments).

But really, if you think about it most Western first-world leaders have most likely supported some form of unjustified military invasion or covert op designed to support their economic interests. That is not necessarily any better; hell I might prefer the people who got down and dirty to defend their ideals, however wrong they were, rather than the suits who signed the orders while they sat back and let soldiers kill for far less worthy causes.
No but it does run on Linux! Just remember to get the 64 bit version of the download.
Agreed, but compare it to Argentina of Brazil and the difference is clear. Everything is relative, and despite significant critiques, it seems to me that a lot of things are being done properly with a long-term outlook.
Best maybe for you. It doesn't have any of the stuff I'm listening to, so it's pretty much worthless to me.
I thank you.
I often find myself typing "ducksuckgo" or "suckduckgo" on soft keyboards, and I smile every time...
The article doesn't really explain much as to why they chose Uruguay as CoTY, merely compressing a few sentences at the end and then just saying "job done"

Did they writer want to get out of the office early for christmas treats or something?
Poor oral health affects Olympic athletes' performance
It's one of the largest employers of people like us, they have tremendous mindshare as virtually everyone is a user and in one insidious way or another they form an important part of the net as a whole (see, "sign in with fb" or "comment with fb" or "like on fb").

Why do we care about Facebook is tantamount to never covering any large internet company which I might be OK with but I suspect is not what you're arguing about.

It might be worth a conversation about why the HN filters are tuned so that I hear so much about Snapchat and I never heard a single word about the Climate Corporation - easily the most exciting startup I've seen, right up until they sold to Monsanto.
Wait are you comparing people who don't work to solve world hunger with people who work to solve usability?
Evolving QA to Continuous Deployment
> CSS framework under 2kb (minified and gzip)
who doesn't know about wallbase? lol

this is not news.
In Spain this is happening the reverse way: the first Spanish social network (Tuenti), which was the most popular amongst teenagers, is dying and being buried due to the loss of users to the more feature-grown Facebook.

Tuenti was bought by Telefónica and basically I think they're going to end up pivoting to be only the only thing that is still profitable for them (a MVNO called Tuenti Móvil).
Over-Extended Metaphor for the day
I lived in Japan for 6 years and found that there is no more innovation there. It's because of the way they are a self preserving economy. Things that are available in Japan can't be used overseas. Which is the main reason why they are falling behind.

TVs, mobile phones (before the iPhone came out in Japan), voltage aren't available to be used overseas.

View my comments here from a previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6717211
I was reminded of this quote from a recent episode of The Simpsons: "Conservatives only get more conservative, because every year they get a little further through Atlas Shrugged."
I don't know how "sensible" the change is, other than you're not going to automatically be treated like a criminal. It is a step in the right direction only due to the latter. If we treated other things (alcohol, for instance) the way that Uruguay is treating cannabis, I think there would be outrage. A national registry of drinkers? Limits on the amounts that one can purchase? That's some heavy-handed bureaucracy at work, and shows that just because something is legal, doesn't mean that it is free-as-in-freedom.
"Those who cannot remember the past ..." are doomed. Full stop.
Clever Algorithms (ebook)
New Open-Transactions videos
Merry Christmas!

Here are some brand new videos of the new Open-Transactions desktop app (and mobile app):

Intro: http://goo.gl/Ea6rzq

Advanced: http://goo.gl/i0J3AF

===> P.S. in the videos, I mention a couple of articles. Here are the links to those articles:

Lex Cryptographia: http://bitcoinism.blogspot.com/2013/12/lex-cryptographia.html

Voting Pools: How to Stop the Plague of Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses: http://bitcoinism.blogspot.com/2013/12/voting-pools-how-to-stop-plague-of.html
Apparantly Scotland is "foolhardy" if it opts for "secession", but Ireland, which already did opt for secession (less pejoratively, secession is typically known as independence once it is acheived), is a resiliant example to us all, with its HDI and economy miles above that of Scotland, and that despite a total lack of oil, and despite a bad housing bust.

Funny, that. You have to be very careful with the Economist because they nearly always seem to have utterly transparent motiviations for the nonsense they peddle. In this case it seems like it benefits them to prop up the city of london and UK with a nice secure oil supply, and they have to perform weird intellectual handstands to justify why Scotland would be a basketcase while Ireland is inspirational.
...and besides, any self-respecting movie buff knows that all the best movies are shot in anamorphic widescreen, with no less than a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
I wonder how should one behave if such person is your colleague or team member. The article concludes "don't be that guy" but that doesn't help if that guy is your colleague. Any thoughts from HN?
Worryingly accurate metaphor: Unix is Christianity, complete with Linus as Luther.
AppMobi actually used Ejecta[1] for their Canvas2D rendering on iOS - which it seems also made its way into the Intel XDK[2]. I believe they have their own implementation for Canvas2D on Android, but sadly, it's all closed source.

I should really get a cross-platform effort for Ejecta going. We have CocoonJS and Intel's XDK, but afaik there's no Open Source alternative right now.

[1] http://impactjs.com/ejecta

[2] http://www.html5dev-software.intel.com/amdocs/readmes/ios.ap...
The fun thing is that the player is flash based.
Serious Science
A science popularization site featuring researchers giving video talks about their respective areas of study.

(Russian readers of HN might happen to know the site postnauka.ru, of which this is an English-language spin-off.)
You're saying it's hypocritical to oppose the independence of Scotland, because there are examples of countries who have done well after their independence?
This isn't really new, as far as I can tell; it's an article presenting the Joux et al result from June 2013.

Recap from the earlier discussion: this only affects small-characteristic fields so far, which is fairly exotic. Standard systems that most of use use daily, such as RSA, are unaffected by this result so far. Whether or not the result can be extended to them is an open question. The result does not affect elliptic curve based cryptography either.

(I don't mean to downplay this result. It's great, it's just that we've seen it before, and this article doesn't really bring anything new to the table, as far as I can tell.)
ken and his staff are really cool easygoing people.

it is great to see an article about them in the economist.
For the panel or the fantasists that appear on the show?
I can clearly see the return of his ideas such as "less but better" into many aspects of our lives, now and in following decade. People in West are overwhelmed by abundance - cheap clothes designed to be sold in quantities such as H&M that don't last to long or information overflow on the web and media. This trend of less but more is already emerging outside of web and tech.
I think you're right about the outrage that would follow a registry of drinkers. However, the degree of outrage something causes is not decided only by how sensible or not it is.

We tend to compare new developments with the status quo. "Sensible" is not used here as an absolute, but to congratulate a step in the right direction.
> This is missing a key term: "in scope."

True, of course.

Sometimes I wish Haskell would have made shadowing variables into a compile error. Shadowing is the number one reason that substitution doesn't always work like you expect. (everyone please use -Wall)

However, substitution also doesn't work sometimes because the types aren't polymorphic enough. Let bindings are monomorphic by default nowadays which can give some surprising results.
Yes, you're missing something. You need to read some Terry Pratchett. There are several entry points to the canon, some better suited than others to different readers. The Igors first arrive in The Fifth Elephat, or possibly Thief Of Time.

As an entry point (but without the Igors (yet)) I recommend "Guards! Guards!", YMMV.
Scheme Design Approach in MongoDB
First of all, best of luck with this guys.

This approach has been already tried many different times. I've got some friends that really pushed really high on that whole "recruiting via web scrapping" thing - https://masterbranch.com/ ( feel free to contact them, they are really nice guys ).

I wish you luck because I understand this approach never really worked for anyone. IMHO, it's simple [Disclaimer: I created a super fancy ATS software / job board too and did all the sales up to a point of really hating HR people :)], recruiters are truly lazy and are interested only on tools that do their job - something understandable as the sourcing part of the job is really weary. Web scrapping tools instead of doing their job just add more noise to it, i.e. forward them tons of profiles that are not really interested in the specific job posting they are marketing. You might think most developers are always open to move because some of us might be, but many people are really happy with their daily jobs, so this sort of tool always ends up making angry both sides of the coin: the developer and the recruiter.

So, it does not really matter that your "database" has 4M people on it. Even if those are somehow linked to the company recruiting. When as a recruiter I search for "node.js programmer" and get 100 results back but 99 of them are not interesting in changing jobs, well... that sucks. I wouldn't use the tool again myself. And going further with this example, well, believe me, most recruiters would think the tool sucks if just the first three profiles are not interested in the job.

But hey, I insist, I wish you the best of luck. Just pointing some stuff I learnt ( hopefully for you wrongly learnt ) during my HR entrepreneurship stage.
Not hypocritical, just demonstrating poor judgement due to a lack of objectivity. As a relatively right wing, conservative English publication they're opposed to independence for Scotland but of course express this in terms of it being a bad idea for Scotland. this despite all the evidence that smaller countries do better. I'll now most likely be down voted for pointing that out.
That's not what IA does. It says this is the first copy of that URL they have archived.

Blogspot does some beyond idiotic redirection to locale TLDs which fucks up all kinds of stuff. See https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://unenumerated.blogspot.c...
Google's New 'Blackmail' Forces Users to Join Google+ in Hilarious Video
Here's a technique I use. I call it welcome home. Take a moment to notice your breath. Specifically, feel the air as it enters your nostrils and then exits your nostrils.

Relaxing, isn't it? That's because where your breath is, you are. You are home.

The only home you truly have is you, and it's only a breath away.
Don’t Blame Social Media if Your Teen Is Unsocial. It’s Your Fault
Yeah, I would have liked more exposition on that point as well. Earlier, when talking about product design he says, "We wanted to change the world," so it would have been interesting to worry the tooth a little over modern technical innovation (computing, software, robotics, to name three), as I'd be surprised if he was dismissing it all out of hand.
Cheques to be paid in via smartphones
I found this article particularly amusing because I think we all see these behaviours in ourselves some of the time. The real trouble comes if you're working in this way most or even all the time.
Hmm, so there might a profile created for me without my permission? This is wrong in my opinion, and illegal too in Finland.
About as many as NoSql databases.
It seems like different tools for different purposes. Once grandma and potential emitters got on Facebook it lost its edge, if not it's use. It's more about PG sharing. I find that 5% of my friends dominate the feed. I'm not sure if it's the algorithm, or that they are narcissists.

Twitter seems more event and business promotion oriented / maybe persona oriented.

Snapchat is the one to send bad stuff that your parents and teachers won't find out about.
Virtual currency Dogecoin suffers first hack: $13K stolen from online wallet
These things aren't about absolute values, they are about deltas. You have a lot to be proud of.
I'm a Swedish Javascript dev moving to Tokyo tomorrow (!!!). If anyone around is interested in coding together, let me know :).
The Medea complex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea
It is the very definition of fiat money, but one could argue that almost all currency in use today is fiat.
Cool company, thanks for the reference!
With Emacs, the languages change but the tool stays the same, you just extend it. In a way akin to how programming enhances my mind to be able to solve tough problems, emacs enhances my capacity to hack by letting me hack the tool itself.

Oblig reference to classic essay on that topic:

http://www.osteele.com/posts/2004/11/ides
'backed by goods' is more commonly called commodity money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_money
Actually they are - you ensure no one could successfully start the war for water. Of course, if you need it, then it may be worth rolling the dice regardless.
> Finally, it’s probably an incredibly dumb business model to be doing a lyrics site that hopes for Google traffic in a time when Google, like Bing, is moving toward providing direct answers. Lyrics, to my understanding, often have to be licensed. That makes them a candidate for Google to license directly and provide as direct answers.

Controversy aside - This seemed like the most interesting part of the write-up to me.
Alex and Richard good job. looking at the progress of your competitor's link below, suggest to me that what you are building is needed.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/19/entelo-the-big-data-recruit...
leverage social data to search for and identify great candidates
That's true. It's nearly impossible to evaluate accurately how good an engineer was, but for me personally it seems to be useful to display similar informations to companies. Something like "geek cred" (coderwall.com) or open-source track record, because building many projects is one of the key-factors of experience. Coderwall published that they work with statistical methods like central tendency. https://coderwall.com/blog/2012-02-05-the-companies-id-want-...
Ejecta is awesome. I remember helping out in the early days of it, fixing up some alpha and rotation bugs... it's a shame how badly intel's "accelerated" canvas performs on android. On the nexus 4, native canvas looks better and performs roughly the same.
Book: Jony Ive - The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
> it would be an awful ux if words needed to be added explicitly to the dictionary.

What I'm learning today is that there is no such thing as best UX practices.

Some people are clearly adamant that having to add words explicitly is awful. After all, the phone should be able to figure out what is wanted, right?

Other people are just as certain that having the phone implicitly add words using any specific rule will fail often enough that it's obviously worse UX to try.

I find myself in sympathy with both camps. I would like my devices and environment to just know what I want and do it without my having to explicitly direct actions. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working out that way for a lot of areas. Instead, we have a mishmash situation where devices and apps try to do what most people want, and fail fairly often for a given user (unless I'm a major outlier). Ten years ago, when my computer failed to do what I expected, I understood that I'd failed to use it properly. I read documentation until I understood the failure or, at least, had some idea of what I might have done wrong, and tried again, and eventually I would understand the system.

Now that the system is supposed to understand me, I've noticed two effects:

First, detailed documentation of user interfaces is incredibly scarce. I wonder if there's a perception among other developers that if you need documentation, the UX has failed, and therefore the most direct route to apparently better UX is to have less documentation?

Second, I find that partly due to the apparent complexity of my phone (or perhaps personification of it), I'm more likely to just swear at it and complain about it than to actually try to understand what I'm doing wrong.
Learning something that takes time should be seen as investment. If you invest your time and effort, you want to know that your investment pays dividends in the future.

I feel that Emacs is one of those tools where my investment is safe and the code I write to ~/.emacs produces huge value over several decades. It's not going away. Development community is so big that it supports all new stuff that comes along.
Apple, Google topped news coverage in 2013, leaving Microsoft in the dust
>"In the future, wars will be fought over water," he says. Two rivers border the land, and the community sits atop 56 known water wells.

This is a meme invented by people who've read about oil wars. The problem is that water is very cheap to produce with electricity. Desalination plants are efficient and the price of water they produce is competitive. In addition, the price of water per kg is extremely low. This means that transporting water over large distances like oil is transported is probably non-profitable. It simply means that it's cheaper (and cheap) to produce drinking water from salt water. There are not many landlocked countries.
Here's hoping that it's the last year of these sort of posts because it died and is replaced by something less intrusive and where you can control what data about you is disseminated and used against you.
As of now this post has 67 points on HN and 782 on BlogMask. Means that people really must like watching that little circle fill up to vote. Not exactly "scientific", but definitely enough to make me leave it in as a feature.
Twitter doesn't really do any kind of job when it comes to showing you the right content. Just a dump-feed of everything. Even though I use Twitter every day, I doubt that case is useful for everyone.
How would one even use this 'framework'? One would imagine that the first step is to design the web site, then implement it, and it's unlikely that the design looks similar to this framework.
Pretty fun :)

It's after clicking on "Gallery" that I understood you could draw on the postcard, maybe a hint on the landing page would be nice

edit: oh, I get it. On my FF, the "family postcard draw it" thingie flashes too fast.

edit: also, line breaks are not saved.
> The actual gameplay, so far, is mostly finding items, bringing them to characters, in exchange for other items, so that you can find your way to the exit!

Finding items that you can collect would be a useful feature for some people.

Finding items that you can collect, and use to modify your "home" or similar would be cool too.
I'm a recovering Emacser, happy enough with less powerful but more modern text editors. It wasn't the program or the UI that finally did me in, but the community: I had a problem with how Emacs worked, I wanted to figure out a solution, so I asked on #emacs on Freenode and got nothing but abuse. I realised there's something about Emacs that attracts the sort of users I don't want to associate with: people who are smug, self-absorbed and utterly without empathy. Did I want to be one of them? No, I did not. Did I want to have to rely on them for help in my work and play? No, I did not. So I found a text editor that has sufficient extensibility and I installed that, and uninstalled all the emacsen on all my machines. And I felt a lot better afterward.
There are 3 things that will kill a project almost instantly at the beginning: bad design, bad implementation, bad license.

I don't know about the first two but GPL is not a good choice.
YouTube Culls Gamers' Videos
You should seriously consider to user another payment gateway other than PayPal.
The Darpa Robotics Challenge – Just RC-controlled toys?
If you look carefully you'll notice that the only difference between the $299 monitors and the Ultra HD monitor in term of design is a thinner bezel. Maybe it would have increased the price much more for virtually nothing to have a thinner bezel on their new screen. Also, they don't have any competitor for this screen, so they don't need to distinguish themselves from the competition like they do with the "borderless" 24" screen.

I personally don't find them cheap looking and I'd rather have a "plastic" looking bezel with a mate screen over a sleek looking screen with an all-glass shiny front.
I was half-hoping this submission would just upvote a previous conversation - I guess I'll have to go searching, but I don't have time now. Thanks for your comment - useful.
i thought they gave privacy options to paying users, no?
Facebook Says It Knows Where People Are Migrating — But Can You Trust Its Data?
"Our farm workers and suppliers still want to get paid in pesos,”

...and where will you get those Pesos if everyone is paying with Bitcoin? Exchanges, the real basis of the Bitcoin economy. What will happen when the world economic system collapses? Bitcoin will collapse with it.