skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've added a link to galaxyzoo here: http://domitable.com/static/zoomers/sombrero.html

(I also clicked through a few images while I was at it - doin' my bit :))
>4. It's creepy, and you're creeping me out. Tracking through various deceptive means, even though I've made very clear that I don't wish to be tracked. Incidentally, subscription content suffers a similar issue: I don't want an audit trail of all things I've read, even on one site, let alone across sites.

So you're entitled to that content for free? If you really hate ads that much, and you use a site with any frequency, it only seems right to buck up and pay or not visit the site.
The US Government Owns Tons Of Bitcoin
That sounds awful. The idea that systemd vs. another "cgroups owner" changes the API you need to use for interacting with cgroups will effectively impose a compatibility burden for every app that wants to take advantage of it.
Those cheat sheets are seriously out of date. Scriptaculous? VBScript / ASP? Um, no.
Not necessarily compromised, even. There are plenty of poorly run trading desks/DSPs that don't vet creatives well.
And using SLIP connections, with SLiRP on the server side, likely over a 1,200bps dial-up.

It was a patchwork of hacks, just to make Windows use IP over a serial line, so you could use Mosaic and Pegasus.

Still, it was a magical time.
The biggest issue C++Builder has for me is that it is pretty damn expensive considering Xcode is included as part of OS X. The Professional version is £850 and still requires the extra purchase of the Mobile Add-on pack which is an extra £423! That makes the total cost £1273!! I would rather pay less and buy a Macbook Air which comes with Xcode.
Even though they are included in the GNU C library, most people do not seem to know about Obstacks:

An "obstack" is a pool of memory containing a stack of objects. You
can create any number of separate obstacks, and then allocate objects in
specified obstacks. Within each obstack, the last object allocated must
always be the first one freed, but distinct obstacks are independent of
each other.

Aside from this one constraint of order of freeing, obstacks are
totally general: an obstack can contain any number of objects of any
size. They are implemented with macros, so allocation is usually very
fast as long as the objects are usually small. And the only space
overhead per object is the padding needed to start each object on a
suitable boundary.

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Obstacks....

Sure, they’re not very interesting, but the point is that you get them for free in the GNU C standard library.
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AnyPerk.com is a great platform for providing employee perks and discounts. It works for companies of all sizes. We implemented AnyPerk at my last company when we were 52 people. And, we are implementing it at my new company that has less than 10 employees. Size doesn't matter. Great service. Highly recommend.
Valve's VOGL Debugger To Be Completely Open-Source
I went from Zendesk to Freshdesk purely based on my experience on one feature request on Zendesk. The feature was promised repeatedly for, roughly as I recall, 4 years and never delivered.

Freshdesk functionality isn't better, but it is cheaper and they've never made empty promises that affected me. The thread seems to have been removed now I search for it, not surprised, it reflected very badly on them.

Edit: Found it [0]. TL;DR, Lots of people wanted it. It's coming, it's coming, it's coming... Delivered years later...but not actually what was asked for...

[0] https://support.zendesk.com/entries/12834-Monospaced-Unforma...
Doing direct deal in house advertising is not feasible for most publishers
17-year-old is author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware used against Target?
I don't code in any of those languages so no good for me.
According Embarcadero's website Delphi XE5 offers all the same plus Android support: http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi, http://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder. If they're targeting mobile developers I wonder why Embarcadero hasn't released a cheap "indie" version of Delphi yet. Last I checked it had much better compile times than C++Builder and the language itself could easily be marketed as a "friendlier C++". Meanwhile, outside of some larger companies where it's entrenched Delphi's popularity is waning.

Edit: Now that I've looked at their online store through a US proxy I see that they have: https://store.embarcadero.com/542/catalog/product.s3703/lang.... Not that the conditions are very good:

>If you’re an individual you may use the Starter Edition to create apps for your own use and apps that you can sell until your revenues reach $1,000 per year. If you’re a small company or organization without revenue (or up to $1,000 per year in revenue), you can also use the Starter Edition. Once your company's total revenue reaches US $1,000, or your team expands to more than 5 developers, move up to the Professional edition with an unrestricted commercial license.

The upgrade from Starter to Professional costs $899.00.
...people not trusting scientists...

I'm not sure why it took you so long to flip the bozo bit (if you were attempting to dance asymptotically along the edge it really has been a bravura performance!), but that did it.
Unless they (knowingly or unknowingly) are going to follow Apple's iPhone path where "private", home users started pushing their employers IT departments to switch to iPhone from BB. At the beginning, iPhone was not considered "secure" for financial and medical applications, but as iPhone market share grew, Apple started investing in "enterprise" features (Outlook integration, etc) that it became feasible to do the swtich.
Every few months we get an email from our employers telling us that we cannot install Dropbox on our office computers. Eventually, some higher-up who's using Dropbox at home will make enough noise that s/he cannot sync his work docs from home that it will become "ok" to do it (and the org will switch to it)
So, parts of this article make sense, but parts are sort of missing the point of health insurance by pointing out that you can come out ahead without it if you don't develop major health problems. My parents have lost money on their home insurance every year, too, because their house has never been hit by a tornado. But it would be a pretty bad idea not to have home insurance, because if their house were leveled by a tornado, they would be completely screwed.

Similarly, the healthy 30-year-old saving $1455/yr by not buying insurance will come out ahead in the average case, and will be completely fucked if he gets cancer, or gets in a serious car accident. Actually, the rest of us will be too, because the most likely outcome is that he'll declare medical bankruptcy and just shift his costs to the taxpayer anyway. Hence the dumbness of a non-universal, opt-in system.
While they are not rebranded Filco keyboards they are definitely at or just below the same level of quality as a Filco. They are made by the same OEM, use the same (crappy) material for their keycaps, and are comparable in overall durability. Filco keyboards were semi-infamous for chattering (repeating keys randomly) when they were still sold by Elite Keyboards and there weren't as many other options for mechanical keyboards in the US.
Sony Xperia Z1 successor with slimmer bezels leaks
It is a good question, but it would have been better suited for the "CS Theory" StackExchange site. For example, a similar question was asked there:

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/1539/whats-new-i...
Forced to choose between adverts or paying for content (imagine a payment scheme like spotify, fixed rate subscription, popular sites get paid more etc.) I would pay in a flash. The problem is, as has been discussed many times before, the advertisers don't want people to opt out of advertising because those that can afford to are far more valuable than the others.
The ASP/VBScript one gave me a laugh. I could have used it 13 years ago.
Ruby 1.8.4?!
Your broken Apple iPhone 5c screen can be fixed an Apple Store
The left 2/3 of the space bar is rarely used by most touch typists and hogs very accessible real estate.

This is so true for me that there is a thumb-sized mark on my spacebar where the finish on the plastic is worn because I always press the key at the exact same place.

I am left handed

This is, of course, true for a lot of people. I think the solution is to do what the microsoft keyboard did, but provide a hardware switch to toggle which side is space.
I'd be interested in a list of software that Apple and Sony contributed back to FreeBSD and that is in the ports, do you have such a list? It looks like that this is a very asymmetric relationship.
"The world of the Internet is quite an interesting place to be a part of!"

Too ridiculous; didn't read.
Unless the blog post has been updated before I read it I find it difficult to understand the hostility being expressed towards FreshDesk.

Someone wrote them off as being good as dead because a competitor was acquired by MS, they wrote a rebuttal, what is wrong with that?
One of Yale's peer institutions has an anonymous review site [0] that has been working well for several years now. It doesn't have any YouTube-style vitriol that I can find, though it's possibly aggressively moderated.

[0] http://www.culpa.info/
> So you're entitled to that content for free?

The web browser sends a request to the server requesting something, and the server can either say "200 OK" and send you the document, or it can do something else, such as refuse.

If it does send you the document, this does not create any other obligations on your part; for example it doesn't create an obligation to issue further requests so as to download images referred to in <img> tags in the document. Even if you do so download them, there's no obligation to actually render them on any particular device.

If the server owner objects to this he needs to configure his server to do something other than reply "200 OK" to arbitrary requests.
And extremely narrow in scope, being all web centric.

And what's with the who's who of poorly designed technologies?
if I had to pick a list of languages and technologies with the most annoying design deficiencies, it would be php, js, mysql, vbscript, asp. Web development still is a stinking pile of languages, but at least classic asp/vbscript and most php is gone, right?
Laser makes ultra-light mirror out of tiny beads
Super off-topic, but I bet you'd be far happier if you used only one.
Trade-in quality index created by an auto auctioneer and statistician
Contrary to many, I'm profoundly concerned about the culture around Chrome development, and the attitude here is indicative of that. There really is a belief by those that work on it, or have worked on it, that it's much better than it really is, when what actually happened was it was much better than the competition at launch, but now there isn't much between them at all. This notion that Chrome is decent on mobile is still absolutely bizarre.

The more long term concern is the way it's creating a sort of development priesthood. You have the chosen few that are making decisions and developing the platform largely in secret and pushing the code out to mere mortals from on high. This wouldn't be so bad, except the decisions are not made in the interest of the mortals, but of the priesthood and the strategic interest of their Googly God, and they exhibit a level of contempt for the mortals by disallowing them direct access to things such as the components so lauded here. In an ideal world most of what's mentioned should not be in the C++ layer, but in JS, except the hooks to provide that are simply never going to be exposed (at least in the near term because of the JS performance it would be technically dubious), leading to this them and us situation where they get to develop all the low level stuff, and no one else does, especially if any patches would conflict with the interest of their lord and master. They simply aren't dogfooding their entire development stack. Mozilla, for all their flaws, do actually engage the rest of the world in what they're doing, and early Java, while slow, did have a relatively small JVM with an enormous class library which was mostly written in Java itself. You could argue Sun's error was to Swing too far in the other direction by insisting on being all Java where at the time it really should not have been.

So yes, sadly I've come to view many Chrome devs as smug self serving slightly delusional types persistently confused that the masses don't acknowledge their brilliance, and this piece is evangelism to try and persuade us of this. The truly scary part of this is they just might be right to have this point of view in order to prevent what happened to Android where groups outside succeeded in nullifying many of the expected advantages of a standard open mobile platform, and I suspect it's this which has led to their open but closed approach to things.
It's pretty much just the USA. In fact, most of our clients are looking for devs in NYC or the SF Bay Area, so even US devs outside those areas are on the waiting list.
In a world where the attention span of adults and teenagers is trending towards zero and where sites like http://viralnova.com and http://upworthy.com do so well, links that go viral have to do more than educate the reader - they have to briefly 'elevate' the sharer in their loosely defined peer group with a momentary ego boost.

Reminds me of something that a legendary e-commerce marketer did once (before FB probably banned the practice). He played to ego - the most important player of all:

* Setup a Facebook app for fans of a certain college team (I believe it was the Cornhuskers)

* The Facebook app challenged the user with various and obscure trivia about the college team

* If you scored well enough, you were "rewarded" with a chance to share your score with your FB buddies and a "no-strings-attached" Netflix trial subscription
And it probably pales in popularity compared to "Which Star Wars Character Are You". It is surely eclipsed by "What is your Elf Name?"

What is the take away from this? What is the amazing discovery? What is the reveal?

Some content is more accessible and shareable than others, often in a negative correlation with value. In this case it's a linguistics/idioms test where you can prove that you, indeed, live where you live.

It's also strange how much noise is being made about it doing it in "11 days!". Most content on news sites have an extremely steep popularity drop off, and it isn't really the norm that people go back to revisit the news from two weeks ago: A week after the fact, you aren't reading the original story about the Boston Bomber, but instead are reading the newest one (of the 10,000+ that the NY Times published on the topic). There is nothing in that particular observation.
I don't see why it doesn't. If someone had an awesome idea for finding highly valuable companies in a previously underserved market, you don't think YC would invest in them? If you don't then you're missing the point of for-profit companies in general.

It's like every time we see an argument that some company would never do X, because obviously they are in the business of Y and Y is so far removed from X. Well that's just missing the point altogether. Companies are in the business of making money, and if X is an opportunity they can capitalize on, of course they're going to pursue it! Drawing lines in the sand is only limiting your own vision, others will not be so constrained.
Just one caveat I'd make to his presentation. He says "Naturally, one can extend this definition to n-fold tensor products...", but this isn't actually a definition - it's a theorem.

If you wanted to define A x B x C, you could begin by looking at (A x B) x C. This is elements like ((a,b), c) which obey tensor product laws. You could alternately look at A x (B x C), i.e. elements like (a, (b, c)).

It's pretty straightforward to prove that there is a natural isomorphism which preserves all the tensor product properties between (A x B) x C and A x (B x C) - it's basically just rearranging the parenthesis. Here the term "natural" also has a technical meaning which agrees completely with it's intuitive one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_transformation).

Since (A x B) x C is isomorphic to A x (B x C), it's natural to equate them. You can also define A x B x C in the obvious way, which turns out to be isomorphic to the other two.

But it is important to have the theorem proving isomorphism.
Well, technically...

Yale has made it clear they would set in motion procedures in which they may decide to no longer to business with these brothers, over this website.

If I don't like someone or something someone said, I don't have to do business with them. Yale is no different. Yale is a private organization that may do business with whomever they wish for whatever reason they wish, outside of the public policy decisions of the government. They have decided to utilize this right.

Its not that Yale is violating anyone's rights, its that Yale is a making a decision that reflects poorly on their institution.

Its the public institution equivalent of [insert bad thing here] to your neighbor because of something they said. Its not a freedom of speech violation to react that way, its just going to lose you alot of respect and alot of business.
Hi there, awakeasleep.

I think all your points are very solid. I would, however, disagree with you about Dropbox or any other cloud provider implementing their own, in-house, encryption.

They're the one with the data and having the key to open your data as well is, to me, a conflict of interest. I've share my thoughts on this a while back (http://vuongnguyen.com/personal-business-cloud-security.html).

Now, if you haven't had a chance to use nCrypted Cloud, give us a try: http://ncryptedcloud.com. We do client-side encryption and work on top of Dropbox and shortly other cloud providers. We're free for regular consumer. The enterprise clients we have a usually more interested in the integration, management and control mechanisms we have in place.

Thanks,

-V.

PS: Please feel free to contact me if I could be of any help. My email is in profile.
I'm not sure what the first thing has to do with anything. If a terrorist organization is going to kill or kidnap in order to play for someone's release, it doesn't particularly matter where they're located.

Logistical nightmare? We try more dangerous people than this every single year. It's hardly insurmountable.
I have to say, this HN thread is super confusing to me. There are plenty of good points in this article, none of which come off as smug to me.

The fact of the matter is that the helpdesk software market is huge, and the notion that there isn't enough room for multiple companies to succeed in it is just wrong headed.

Very rarely, but especially with niche software, is there ever only one winner. Usually there's lots of room for many companies to succeed.

As a happy Freshdesk customer I pretty much agree with everything written in this post, and think they'll be just fine.
I see where you're going with that, but I don't think delivery of software over a so-called "network" will ever be feasible. Even with a 1200 baud modem, transferring a multi-kilobyte .exe would take hours, and that's assuming the BBS doesn't drop the connection partway through!

It seems more realistic to transmit the pictures using CD-ROM technology: it's like Netflix, but for CD-ROMs. Amazon would mail you their catalog CD-ROM, and you look at a slideshow of all the products they sell. Then, when you decide what you want, simply fax your order to Amazon, and they tell you which "shop" to drive to in order to pickup your merchandise.
The cost of underground construction varies significantly depending on local geological, soil, and water table conditions. In some areas with deep well drained soil underground construction is relatively cheap, as it's basically just earth moving. In others you hit granite bedrock after a few feet and you have to excavate the bed rock to go deeper. It's certainly possible to expand out from a basement, and every so often the news shows footage of elaborate underground tunnels for drug manufacturing etc beneath a normal house.

If you're interested in underground structures, you should check out limestone mines converted to office space or storage like subtropolis. They mine the limestone of a solid horizontal layer leaving pillars to support the "roof", creating an entire underground building millions of sqft and acres in size. Subtropolis is over one thousand acres.
I found out my mother was replacing thousands of duplicate rows in excel by hand, had she thought about it and googled the problem she would have been done in a few seconds, instead of a few days.
> I believe HN also runs on OpenBSD too, if I'm not mistaken.

On FreeBSD.
The content-light format of "22 X that Y"[1][2][3], pioneered by Cracked and perfected by BuzzFeed, is infecting other sites, including once-reputable ones like Forbes[4], and indeed getting tons of eyeballs. I'm somewhat afraid next year's top article won't be much more than funny pictures off Google with witty captions.

[1] http://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/18-cartoons-from-the-90...

[2] http://www.buzzfeed.com/tashweenali/gooey-desserts

[3] http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/23-oddly-specific-netf...

[4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2014/01/17/12-tip...
Adblock Plus offers the option to display ads that follow a certain set of rules.
Is the word "developer" now implicit shorthand for "web developer"?
HOW DO YOU INNOVATE? Not A ONE MAN JOB
I'm always wondering why journalists "kill" everything. There is room for more than one player - in nearly every market.
Last year, we built this site: http://www.thecostofcarbon.org/, which was part of a project for Al Gore's climate change non-profit.

Currently, we're looking for devs for a company that helps museums keep track of their collections, another that makes it easier for people to cook healthy meals at home, and a third that's encouraging universities to incorporate 3d-printing into their curriculum.

So there's quite a bit of variety in the types of projects we take on. Social good is a vague concept that means different things to different people, but we can certainly try to match you with projects that fit your interests.
+1 that is so cool. I sometimes wish I was also a hardware person, especially when I see projects like this.
More of web developer cheatsheet(2008)
One step closer to protection from 'infringing on freedom of the press' for online (non-print) journalists?
>E.g., there are two ways to write Cañyon City. You can write the ñ as U+00F1 or as an ascii lower-case n followed by a combining tilde (U+0303). The first case results in a single rune, and the second in two runes. Example††. You need additional logic in order to normalize to a canonical representation and realize that the two strings are actually the same.

Who thought that having two ways to go about this was a good idea in the first place?
"in Europe they're considered "natural"

That is because when a majority of people exhibit certain traits, those traits do not constitute aberrance. Marketing, Pharma influence & FUD peddling can make a majority feel singled out. Fear & consumption 101.
Actually I was thinking of most of the current newsmedia sites. You know - CNN, Fox, or locally for me - Sydney Morning Herald and others. Of course there problem has ended entirely since even the effort of reading them has lost its appeal.

I literally have never heard of the 3 things you just listed.
I'll take the zune if it means I don't have to use itunes.