skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a big fan of Medium's hip UI, to be fair. I also find their options to be awkwardly placed. It took me a while to figure out where the "sign out" button was when I first used it, for instance.
> But fewer people in future will mean it has more living space, more arable land per head, and a higher quality of life, says Eberstadt. Its demands on the planet for food and other resources will also lessen.

Different day, same Malthusian bullshit. These people can only think of humans as net negative parasites on the planet, rather than individual agents with a positive expected value to society. Density is GOOD — it leads to cross-pollination of ideas and the advancement of the world. Yes, the planet is on a path that will require us to eventually get smarter about resource consumption. Advocating fewer people on Earth is the most harmful & naive way to solve that problem.

If your life raft is sinking, do you try to patch it, or do you throw someone overboard? Your instinctual answer says a lot about the type of person you are.

[edit: I'd remove the last paragraph if it weren't intellectually dishonest to do so. I feel like it's causing people to miss my main point. It was written more out of anger than reason. Please ignore.]
Gillmor Gang: Kick the Can
It's one thing to take advantage of open source software, but it's another to contribute back to open source. The point of this page is to show the latter…
What latency is better than what brightness?
> Obama flying a couple B-2's through that zone is the opposite of not giving a crap.

It wasn't just America, it was South Korea, Japan which largely ignored it and South Korea ended up expanding their own territory.

I would have to agree with the rising naval tension in the region, but the new lines drawn by China is not at all being respected nor will they be expected to unless China is willing to challenge the United States in a direct confrontation.
I think you're right about the not abandoning @usernames, but new celebrities are showing up very year and they are not yet tied to any platform.

And yes, let's not keep doing this :-)
Market research would be exciting to see though.
Thanks for sharing. This is a truly inspirational insight. As a novice startup wannabe, I have this idea that whatever imperfection I start off with, I can just tidy up when and if I get huge. But from a look at Everpix, I can see this is probably a fatal approach. You've got to be scalable from the start. Do you agree?
http://www.iens.nl, as it gives me information about restaurants and allows me to select the area I want to dine in (as opposed to where Google thinks I might be dining).
C stands tall while the lesser languages devour each other.
Yahoo programmer missing since New Year’s
Hi, is there this code (frontend) on github?
DFW was mentioned and then I skipped the rest of the article to the comments. A commenter said "You had me at DFW". I felt the opposite.
Stop asking me for my email address
While Facebook and Google are constantly one-upping each other with their open data center designs and open server architectures, Twitter contributes project after project that are applicable to a far larger group of people. Very much appreciated.
I think it is possible that they are more sensitive to the particular color of those lights. If the majority of the population doesn't have the problem, it may never be fixed without identifying what the issue might be. It might be like a color blind person complaining that red and green lights on the road look the same when most people don't think they do.

Also, no, until this article & comments, I have never heard this complaint.
I don't have downvote privileges. But I found this comment to be condescending without adding anything to the discussion but sarcasm.
I found another article by the same guy on the right of the page, written in July of 2012:

http://siek.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-semantics-of-familiar...

... Looks interesting, but it looks like I'll have to read this crash-course first!
A patent troll is a company with the sole purpose of, well, patent trolling (Collecting patents, waiting for a successful target and suing them for profit, not for keeping competitive advantage)

In this case, I don't see that. They may be called over-aggressive, evil even but not patent trolls.
not sure if it's just me but clicking the windows store link opens the store app's "home screen" instead of your app's download screen.
What are good legal crash courses for geeks?
If I wanted to learn basic principles of law and contracts, what would you recommend reading?
"Doge" is even more childish and cancerous than ragecomics. In 2 years most of us will try to forget how popular it once was.
I wholeheartedly approve of the notion of finding an underserved market segment and building tools for them.

I have to worry, though, about naming problems. Draft sounds a lot like Final Draft, which serves a similar need; it's at draftin.com, which doesn't immediately come to mind when someone says "You should try this nifty writing software, it's called Draft."

Miscellaneous criticism: I have no idea of the pricing model. It's not obvious at all. The settings page is a horror: I love the idea that there's a big blob of text showing what you select, but asking people to type in the names of fonts is asking for tribble. Measuring fonts in ems instead of points is bizarre.

And the help link is an email address. Would it kill you to put up a FAQ or use the features list as documentation?
Can you list a few benefits of releasing custom coded solutions to the public?

The only one I can see is building culture/name for yourself (which I don't consider a trivial thing), but I can't think of anything else.
Ask HN: How do you handle a co-founder that misses all goals?
Hi HN,

I'm working on a new startup as a technical co-founder with another technical co-founder that I've known since college (~ 10 years.) We've been friends ever since, and about a year ago we decided to start this project. We've been working on a first version the entire time, and just can't seem to release. We broke the app up into manageable pieces, try to keep in constant contact (via email, Jabber, and for a while, an internal forum), and have very well-defined goals set up. I finished up my pieces (including a full test suite, etc.) months ago. He is still working on his piece, and says it'll be done "next week" or "just need to finish one more thing", but it never seems to happen. This has gone on for almost 4 months and we can't seem to get to the first finish line.

We have had several heart to heart conversations about it, I offer help if he needs it, whatever it takes to get us to the next stage, but he always refuses, saying that "he can handle it" and "not necessary, almost done this time."

I've looked at his code, and it does seem almost done, but it's barely different from where it was 3-4 months ago. I feel like I've tried everything to be supportive, but am running into a wall. We set our launch date to around 3 months ago, and keep pushing the launch date (and missing it). I've asked if there are other things in his life taking time away from working on this, but he always says no, he is super gung-ho, but then he disappears during times we've designated for work to go off to the movies or play XBOX and misses half the work session.

I really want to make this work, because this guy is my good friend and I really like him aside from this issue, but I don't know who I can ask - we don't really have anyone else working with us right now except an occasional freelance designer.

What can I do, HN?
Many websites assume you have at least 1024x768. Trying to browse at less than that without some kind of intrusive style munger is awkward.
Apparently language standards are racist/classist/whatever against everyone except the people who made the standard.

Damn those British, oppressing me with spellings like "theatre" and "dialogue".
It's a piece in favor of writing however you want to because CSWE is hard to express yourself in. It's not really in favor of meme-inspired vernacular ("a horrific mess") but maybe it's still better than constraining ourselves to formal English.

I'm not sure I agree with the part about people being mistrusted just because they speak that way though.
It's hard to believe that JavaScript and Transact-SQL have more or less the same popularity (1.569% against 1.559%). That's why I don't care about this index anymore.
Ergotron sells several variations on this setup, e.g. http://www.ergotron.com/ProductsDetails/tabid/65/PRDID/736/l... or http://www.ergotron.com/ProductsDetails/tabid/65/PRDID/736/l...
Predictions of basically any kind (well, anything useful...)
People who really care about privacy are using Tor Browser.
I think he means finally they allow ssl?
> Few or no colleagues

> Working remotely is lonely

Both pros for me.
They enabled TLS (HTTPS).
Real Python - Free Preview
Could you give a link to that? I'd like it for reference.
Come on! IA Labs built similar tech and met with Nintendo before the wii remote was announced, if I was in their shoes I would sue too.

Unfortunately Nintendo had already created the tech and had evidence, so IA Labs run themselves into the ground.

I would not label IA Labs a troll, thats not fair and misrepresents what was going on.
1. Overcrowding in Japan is largely due to such a large percentage of the population congregating in Tokyo. If the Japanese economy (and thus population) were more decentralized, this wouldn't be such a big problem.

2. A lot of the reasons for the high cost of living has to do with protectionism. For example, the rice farmer lobby benefits from very high tariffs on imported rice. Most of the rice farmers are old men, so more young people (or the existing young people being more politically engaged) could actually help fix this problem.
For some context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5576041 (8 months ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6937686 (1 month ago)

http://www.zdnet.com/bing-is-fine-insecure-as-ever-but-fine-... (April 2013)

> Bing has never supported secure connections...
Google Play Services 4.1 Adds Drive Support
Before, the https version of bing only showed a blank page. Seems like MS finally fixed it.
It'd be super cool if there were a good test for bacterial vs viral things. I often get sinus infections and get told to wait, wait, wait. Finally, I get some antibiotics, and the thing is gone in a few days, but in the meantime I've spent a week miserable, with low energy.
Uh, okay. SWE exists. It is cold, impersonal and so forth. What now, am I supposed to rebel? Burn a library? Ohmigod, I think that I'm The Man now. [commits suicide]

This is just a lot of jumping up and down informing us that there is gravity, that it exists and works, and that it is cold and impersonal. Somehow I feel I am not improved by the information.

You want to rail on language? Try reading an Army manual. Or just about any computer documentation (equal opportunity here, btw, but if you crave a villain: Oracle, and we've just gone Godwin...)
I also made the window half-size to reduce the line length... ugh.
IA labs developed their own technology and weren't just suing because they owned a patent, but because they thought their competitive advantage gained from development was being infringed upon. So they aren't a patent troll.

This case does, however, seem to be a solid win for reasonable patent law enforcement. The precedence from this appears to be: if you over-step or over attack using your patent portfolio, you'll pay a big price. Hopefully this will help those defending legal disputes with real patent trolls moving forward.
I'd like to say no, but in reality everyone has a price. I imagine it'll vary, based on your current situation, and just how bad the job could be. I imagine a lot of people take on jobs they know they'll hate because the money is much better than they'd get elsewhere.
I note with great amusement your use of "tl;dr".
Honest question: What population do you find excessive and too much for the Earth to be able to sustain it?.
By the way, Japan is not throwing people to the sea, just not replacing the ones that pass away, quite a big difference IMHO.
I hope in 50 years (if we are still around), that the American people and the American Government show a similar level of maturity.
Show HN: I neglected my med school finals to develop an iPhone app in two months
I don't think it makes you a bad person ;)

... but I don't agree with your point of view. Personalised results are obviously better for Google because they're an advertising company. But they're not necessarily better for users, particularly the HN crowd. Beyond a certain level of computer savvy, I suspect the user prefers to have control of the output via keywords and regex, rather than have an algorithm decide for them, no matter how smart that algorithm is.
2013: the year when government lost its grip on information
I might put SpaceX, Google and even companies like Boeing very far ahead of Twitter when it comes to "one of the best engineering staffs in the world"

EDIT: I added Google because of robots, AI and driverless cars, I'm not really sure Twitter is on that level.
Similarly, "slut shaming", pressure to be size 0, etc, are all things done by women to keep other women in line.
Hey imm, could you just really quickly replace your stylesheet with this?

header h1 {
margin-bottom:3px;
margin-top:3px;
}

nav a {
padding-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
}

h1 a {
text-decoration:none;
color:black;
}

h1 a:hover {
font-weight:bold;
font-size:105%;
text-decoration:underline;
}

body {
padding:20px;
font-size:120%;
}

p, li {
max-width:800px;
}

li {
margin-bottom:6px;
}

small {
font-size:75%;
}
I made a tool a year ago to do the same thing, Metis: https://github.com/srcoley/metis

I like a solution that goes where ever your dotfiles go, instead of having to install a fuzzy search on each system.

Metis will list all of your currently saved Metis aliases as well, just by typing "metis". You can also tell Metis which dotfile you want to save your aliases.
You're preaching to the choir. I made that argument. Personally I would move to Povo, Utah (not well research, so don't judge if Povo actually sucks). I like the nature and the climate of Utah better. But Austin is perfect for going out, culture, and large tech community. Kansas is perfect if you intend to live in your house, sit online, and not really interact with the other residents. I have actually visited Kansas City, it's not as bad as one might think, or much worse, depending on your outlook on hipsters. It's got a lot of people who, I swear, are living in Kansas ironically. The 30-somethings with philosophy degrees, black socks to their knees, smoking thin cigarets out of their sterling silver cigaret cases, and generally looking cool just for the sake of looking cool.

It was very strange to see a large, metropolitan city, on Tuesday, during daytime, around noon, completely and utterly empty. As if a zombi apocalypse rolled through and everyone was killed. That is Downtown Kansas City. I am not even kidding, I have pictures somewhere.
Godaddy Asks People Not TO USE ITS HOSTED EMAIL
The split is 'Tabset: Add a tabset' and you can just drag the instarepl tab over.
Wow… I wasn't waiting for anything else.
It has been a year. Can we stop tiptoeing around family and pseudo friends? Good comment from reddit discussion on a recent swartz story that was trying to blame MIT:

[begin quote]

An adult (Aaron) who was NOT affiliated with the University, broke the law using MIT's network. MIT suffered damages because of his actions (temporary loss of access to JSTOR), and moved to stop his activity. Because his activity was criminal, he was arrested.

Now his father blames MIT and the prosecuting attorney apparently almost entirely for the death of his son. How about when he, as a father, understood the fragility of his son's condition and didn't do more to encourage him to perform his activism without breaking as many laws? You know, so as not to put himself in a position where he might be faced with jail time? How about the father getting him serious psych help so that he could understand that 3 months in jail wouldn't be the end of the world, even for someone with Crohn's disease, and if anything, serving time would add to his status as a hacker activist?

NOPE, never a mention of that, only slinging hate and blame at MIT for not assuming the position of legal defender of someone who was never a student.
I genuinely wish that MIT had done more for Aaron, but blaming the University for Aaron's suicide is ludicrous. Absolutely ridiculous.

One final thought. The dad says "Bob reasons that MIT chose not to cross Heymann so as not to alienate the New England Electronic Crimes Task Force—or endanger its federal grants".
WELL! How dare MIT not endanger it's lifeblood of federal grants by intervening on an unaffiliated adult's behalf!

[end quote]

MIT's behavior was fine in foresight. In hindsight they may have had better options. The DOJ charges were not ridiculous. Again, in hindsight, had they known they were dealing with an unusually fragile person with a defective personal support network, they should have toned things down a little.
Oh no, it sounds like Apple is doomed!
I think you have nothing to worry about. Big powerful countries rarely fight each other because they both lose. China would always back down from a war because they have most to lose, unless they were facing direct invasion by outside forces.

Also nobody wants Siberia and I'm willing to bet the cost of annexing it and trying to revitalize it as some new economic zone would be a fruitless effort. I mean if Mongols didn't want it back then I'm sure nobody else wants it now
I don't have any vested interest in it any more, having sold it on, but my own index was a lot better than TIOBE:

http://langpop.com/
Ask HN: Has anyone heard of a startup that financed themselves with a SB loan?
Was just wondering, have there ever been any startups that used a small business loan to get off the ground instead of raising seed capital?
Have you tried running the equivalent of S3 using GlusterFS? Because I've seen mixed results with Gluster in practice and am not sure I'd feel comfortable going that route. Also, which one of their staff would have had to learn how to scale that? How many mistakes would they have made along the way and how much would that have cost them?
auto jump (or z) is so incredibly useful it should be built into the terminal. changed my life.
Hey everyone, I'd love to hear why you think of my app. It's an agnostic personal tracker for the Quantified Self—you can create a tracker, and decide to log numbers, text, boolean values, times and scales. Once a tracker is made, it'll show up on your home screen where you can add a record—they'll all show up in a timeline view on the Records page. You can also add default values—for example, I usually take 300 milligrams of krill oil at a time, so that's set as the default dose. That then allows me to simply swipe to the left and record it—no need for pulling up Excel and wasting too much time. There's also CSV export—visualization and analysis will hopefully be coming soon.

The link above is a post explaining the app and my motivations behind it. I'd love to hear your thoughts, and I'm willing to answer any questions—whether quantified self, learning iOS development, Quantime or even medical school. Let me know what you think!

EDIT: Just a quick clarification—school is fine, it's 100% my main focus, just thought some hyperbole might be welcome after the "30 apps this year" post last week. I'm definitely sticking with it, and I'm definitely getting my MD. I'm too far in to stop now, haha. Like I mentioned to danso, main interest is in radiology, which is a tech heavy field, and I hope that my background in technology will help me push medicine toward the innovation it needs.
Translates pain into prose.
They get an A from Qualys (yay?): https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=bing.com

… but no PFS :/
I have my own long, long column I'm working on (for TechCrunch, no less) on this topic. Nice to see Jon chiming in, but I think he dismisses the usefulness of the type of essentially formal prose being replaced by more conversational stuff. If you ask me, it's important to consider the strengths of the old way as well as the new one, which is what I'm attempting to do (4000 words and counting...).

Also, I disagree with the idea that SWE, or however you like to define it, works as a "mask." I express myself best in that language, personally, and I suspect many others do too. Conventional, "prescriptivist" English is to me very powerful, because the words all have agreed-upon meanings and relationships -- when you break those down, you allow new modes of expression but you reduce cointelligibility.
It seems to me that browsers ought to pop up a security warning for any site that tries to use an insecure cipher like RC4 or 3DES so the user is at least aware. I say that simply because it's possible that even if a site supports something more secure, what's to stop a MITM from reporting differently during the protocol negotiation?
You should try out fish[1], one of the features that makes it great is that it does exactly what the chrome omnibox does, just with commands. It shows what it will complete after you press ^F and it is a lot of times correct.

It also has lots of other features, like tab completion that tells you what the options of commands do. So reading the manpages or typing -h is generally not needed.

If you do try it, also try one of the themes of oh-my-fish[2], most of them have a git thing that lets you know if you have uncommitted stuff and on what branch you are.

[1] http://fishshell.com/

[2] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish
"But for now, the sweet lady at the boutique just has this: privacyreporter@stopaskingme.com." -- Haha

I actually think that them asking for my email is okay. Or give them a fake or my junk email.

Because, sooner or later, they want to tap our actual identity, or ask our Facebook account or Twitter account. Query our information there...
Next step: enable perfect forward secrecy :)
How interesting. I do have downvote privileges and found your comment to add literally nothing at all to the conversation.
ohhh man....I would've taken the med school finals first to secure a firm footing on path to upper middle class, and then hire some Indian app developer to make it in a few days to test the market fit and then hire more developers to grow it and work my way up to high class society.
Crashes Safari in iOS7 on iPad 3
Thanks a lot for the feedback.

I guess you mean for Windows 8? Which market are you in? As the app is only available in the US + a few others (eng speaking).
DuckDuckGo contains a "safesearch" option too, and it's enabled by default (see: https://duckduckgo.com/settings ).

I have to say, I was really taken aback when I found that, and it made me wonder if I was doing the right thing promoting yet another censorship engine. Needless to say, I haven't changed anyone's homepage/search to DDG since discovering that as it took a bit of the wind out of my sails.
Another suggestion would be for Github to offer more generous academic accounts. Currently it looks like they offer free micro accounts (5 private repos) for students, but I think scientists would be more apt to use Github if they offered unlimited private repositories to any academic users. This would match Bitbuckets current academic offerings.
Yep I'm mining.
It was founded in 2007 [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oaksterdam_University
You misspell my name, you talk down to me, you didn't even take a superficial look at my source or you'd realize the stylesheet is external, part of strapdownjs. No.