skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Too Young to Use Tablets?
I think you're not the only one. I feel sort of a sense of anxiety in that I have to keep scrolling while reading if I'm reading a book without discrete pages (infinite scrolling also becomes a distraction from the content). If the layout is reformatted as pages, I know when a page begins and ends and don't have that feeling any longer.

I'd never willingly implement or recommend infinite scrolling on a website or mobile app. If a client wants it, I would dissuade them at first with reasons against it, but if they insisted I would implement it reluctantly with a fallback to pagination.
"Moss is just a bit exaggerated" :-) 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3
No what?

"It's" can mean two things: It is or it has

Does the phrase accept either of these? No

However, it accepts the neutral possessive pronoun "its" which is the correct word.

And NO, the genitive case of the definite neutral pronoun is not done with an aposthrophe
Swiss Privacy Foundation claims to have DNSSEC https://www.privacyfoundation.ch/de/service/server.html

I would rather use Dj Bernstein's DNSCurve though
So I follow the URL, and it takes 30 seconds to show me three lines of text on the screen, and I can't skip forward or anything.

How is this better than Flash landing pages, exactly?
I find black on brown extremely hard to read.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but it's high time... TripAdvisor, Yelp and several other sites all have the same issue.

In the competitive NYC hotel biz, competitors and people with post-stay expenditure remorse have been posting false/fake reviews of encountering bedbugs/mice/ants, blood/semen stains, pubic hair (can it ever anything else?) and prostitutes.

Since reviewers have no obligation to prove they actually stayed at a property, they can say whatever they want. Property owners meanwhile have zero recourse other than a management response and without reservation details they can't even investigate claims.

Competitors can usually be detected by references to their own hotels as better alternatives. 'Remorsees' are trickier, but there are patterns as well. For instance, they do not address issues during their stay, as indicated in post-stay surveys, but once they read the credit card statement, they send in complaints and post negative reviews thinking the "squeaky wheel gets the grease" (spoiler: they rarely do).

I have even seen negative reviews posted which are promptly followed up on with a "settlement offer" email to the hotel ("Just give me back 50% and I will remove my review. If you don't, I will post this review on every trip review site on the planet.")

The worst thing I've seen is a claim of bedbugs crawling from the mattress (impossible, they're tempurpedic and bedbug sniffing dogs visit the rooms at least once a month) where the reviewer had uploaded an image from Wikipedia, claiming it was a bedbug he'd caught in his room... We traced that one back to a self-proclaimed journalist/blogger miffed at not getting free nights in return for an article... In this particular case, reservations for this hotel dropped by 20% overnight and we had to threaten a lawsuit for the site in question to get it removed when they remained unresponsive.

After analyzing 5+ years of customer feedback and surveys, I can tell you than a lot of visitors should have just thought twice before going on a trip...
The problem with it is that you're watching it as if it's a show for nerds when it's a show about nerds as seen by people who are not nerds. You're not the target market for this show.

As a side note on your page layout - My screen is massive. Please don't be afraid to use the space available!
I am from Turkey and no, 1 star is still 1 star here. It is not a cultural mistake, it is just the people in example are being narcissistic and trying to show off
I skimmed, read a few sentences, and felt I got the entire point.
Somewhere in the DVD commentary he calls out a scene as what killed the show because it was just so realistic no one liked it. Everyone was making fun of a kid and he fell and broke his arm or something. They said after that scene aired the ratings dropped off and never recovered. So yeah, best representation, but it would seem people don't like things to be "real" they'd rather watch something like Big Bang and it not being so realistic.
Simple Chrome window resizer
> And of course, it's virtually impossible for BTC banks to operate because they can't provide interest (BTC is designed to be anti-inflationary, and therefore by definition the concept of interest is hard to fit into the scheme of things)

Here is how a bank operates: take deposits, promise withdrawals, send some fraction of the deposits to a third party to spend, charge him interest, give depositors a cut. Track him down if he won't pay, or absorb the losses, and if there are too many, fail (and all the depositors lose money). Likewise if there's a crisis of confidence and everyone rushes to withdraw all their money.

Here is how a Bitcoin bank would operate: take deposits, promise withdrawls, send some fraction of the actual cryptocurrency tokens to a third party to spend, charge him interest, give depositors a cut. Track him down if he won't pay, or absorb the losses, and if there are too many, fail (and all the depositors lose Bitcoin). Likewise if there's a crisis of confidence and everyone rushes to withdraw all their Bitcoin.

Either way, there's more money around than there used to be. Oh, there are the same number of crypto-tokens, but there's more money: money is money because people believe it is money, and you believe there's money in the bank. You could go so far as to say that all lending is, by its nature, a double-spend attack (with a promise to set things right in the future).

But since essentially no earns Bitcoin for a living, the foreign-exchange risk on a BTC-denominated loan is insane. A loan that'll cost $500 to pay back one day and $1000 a few weeks later? They'll sell like hotcakes!
I made this last year for fun while working on a responsive project, partly to continue learning about extensions and also to do some non jQuery JavaScript, to help wean me off using it unnescessarily in projects.

Code is on github too, https://github.com/grahamlicence/chrome-resize if you want a starting point to make your own.

In light of the "Window resizer" extension trickery I'd recommend making your own one because it's fun and you can make it do exactly what you need.
Can this be deployed on a OSX? If so can you provide instructions on how to deploy this on a local OSX server? Thank you.
Νέα ιστοσελίδα tautotitapolis.gr - Ταυτότητα Πόλης
I imagine that is probably a webcam photo, so left/right are backwards.
Is this an auto-updating string? I hope not!

"Over 3 LTC sold and 1 customers served to date!"

If you buy 1BTC from one of the established channels that you know, you can have a practically limitless supply of altcoins at cryptsy.com. That is assuming, you don't want more than 1BTC worth.
It is not really a bug, 1 star reviews get an intentional bump in priority which is expected since "THIS APP BROKE MY PHONE, 1 STAR" is more important than "Just another breakout clone, meh. 3 star"
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Just like MySpace, or Friendster, Facebook's dominance is eternal.

Bitcoin's adoption in broad society is next to nil.
That's monitoring. Alerting seems only possible via Email, Hipchat, SMS and Telephone.
>And NO, the genitive case of the definite neutral pronoun is not done with an aposthrophe

Presumably, this is the technical term for the fact that, while it possesses something, "it" doesn't get an apostrophe like in "the user's comment" because it's a pronoun and not a real noun, and thus not worthy of the extra punctuation?

Always found that confusing and arbitrary. I'm happy to take a slightly scattershot approach to apostrophes, as long as I'm not writing "10 apple's a pound". It's too far into the reeds of arbitrary grammatical prescriptivism for my liking, without conveying any useful extra meaning.

I didn't spend millions of years developing this highly adaptive fuzzy parser for nothing.
Find a famous open-source project that interests you and that is open to contributions. There are webapps to help you do this.

Contribute to the project, starting with simple bug-fixes. They will be glad to have your help. You can then say, honestly, that you contributed code to that famous project, which puts you far beyond most candidates.
That joke is mainly not about Moss or the IT Nerds - but rather the world outside that the audience inhabits.

The Moss joke is that he is the only person able to actually memorise that (useful emergency) number, which shows he is better than the outside, that the normal world is the object to laugh at.
Wikipedia says that Japan has enjoyed a long period of low defense spending (1% GDP), partly because they rely on the 1960 treaty with the US. So the implicit threat of US involvement is very much taken for granted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_budget_of_Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Mutual_Cooperation_an...
Software on my deciated server already blocked attacks from IP's belonging to:

- China

- Mongolia

- Netherlands

- Turkey

- Iran

- Moldova

- Romania

- Kazakhstan

- France

- Taiwan

- UK

Pretty diversified attack in progress.
Indeed; that's the point I was attempting to make (though not very well). As far as I have seen, cats aren't afraid of a specific species, nor do they "identify" exclusively with only one specific species. If they find a dog (or a cat) who they can befriend, they do. If they find a large enough animal that scares them (I have a very tall friend), they'll run like hell and hiss whenever the animal is near. I'm not sure if they see classify species as much as they do friend or foe.
Not if you live in a dictatorship.
hmm ... strange. I just speak from my personal experience.
I work in computer science research and consider myself a nerd/geek. I got already several statements when meeting new people, like "Oh ... you consider yourself nerd, no that cannot be, you are not weird or awkward like these guys at TBBT. I mean you can talk to women and do sports ...".

How TBBT portrays nerds seems to have an impact on how a larger part of society (at least in my vicinity) sees nerds and I believe it's the wrong picture they are advertising.
you can check the market cap for bitcoin and dogecoin here : http://coinmarketcap.com/
dogecoin is at 8 mil for now , bitcoin at 10 bil.
I doubt the US has the nerve to risk all out war for Taiwan. Tens or hundreds of thousands of American dead for what?
If you don't think that Moss and Roy are both also clowns then you haven't been paying much attention.
I recently came across another issue with infinite scrolling, no access to a websites footer. I found myself annoyed by the issue when was trying to get the RSS feed from some websites which infinite scrolling on their blog posts. The infinite loading of the site actively prevented me from ever seeing the footer, which is where the RSS feed URL was, so I could not subscribe on my mobile (I knew it was in the footer as I could see it on desktop layout). Coupled with the equally annoying no-zoom meta tag I had no easy way to get the URL. Absolutely braindead.
China is powerful, but is it powerful enough to beat India, Japan and the phillipines at once?

Especially considering that USA have a defence agreement with Japan.
On the delayed gratification note, there are a couple of points. First, not everyone knows that they are going to be starting a business in the short-term when they have children. Second, there is a very real biological countdown in place for child-bearing and child-rearing. Our bodies do much better when the parents of the children are in their 20s and 30s. Many who delay their families find that they're limited by age-related implications. There are no such biological countdowns on entrepreneurship, and founders' experience, and therefore value, only increases as they age (until the point where dementia or other debilitating mental conditions become a serious possibility, but for most people that's well past retirement age). From a lifelong perspective, if you intend to have children, it's more intelligent to prioritize reproduction and delay your gratification for entrepreneurship.

Furthermore, family life teaches much more about delayed gratification than single 20-something life. If your argument is that entrepreneurs should show maturity through delayed gratification, the college kid really does not want to go up against the family man.

As to your point that the availability of excessive numbers of working hours and lack of work-life balance is superior, I think there are many who'd disagree. I don't feel compelled to cite a bunch of literature at the moment, but suffice it to say that slave-driving is not considered effective management, and workaholics are not considered healthy people.
What Was Edward Snowden Doing in India?
Wouldn't sweet.js and a macro make a more eye appealing solution? The idea is nice and all but the syntax... is just so ugly.
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do what most people do, fake it. look for remote work. or say your 18. i always just said i graduated on my resume -- who cares they never checked.

honestly your doing it wrong though, if you want to get rich when im older i would go to school. the contacts you meet there are priceless. also 4 years in university could be the best years of your life. start a business in college maybe, find people you could work with. honestly if an illegal immigrant can get 40k a year from the government to go to college so could you.

ymmv but what i would do is hang out on reddit/r/entrepreneur and read the books they recommend. i would work the easiest job you can... maybe desktop support, customer support online (emails/soforth), waiter, night hotel mgr, something. in my spare time i would party and eventually try to start a business. all this is much easier when you have the daily income from your job.

consider buying crap for cheap with online deals (something like fatwallet) and then ebay them for retail. consider buying shit off craigslist and using a printer to print decals on them and selling them on ebay as "one of a kind custom xxxx" for no less than 1000% what you paid.

if you stay with a web shop just talk to everyone and try to get them to let ur build a projecft for them, or build something cool and show it to them (here your forums suck -- checkout this layout i made) -- eventually you will find someone who wants it (sell it to them) and either way you can use it in a portfolio (as say a client sample -- not used), and then get work from there.
And I've seen the exact opposite complaint from someone about a site that capped the text width.

You just can't win with people who have ridiculously-sized browser windows.
Thanks for pointing out Mou. I didn't knew about it, it's good although a little bit distracting at first glance.
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Yeah, the offline support is a bummer, but it's something I'm expecting to be remedied by the import/export function. An app which will handle this for you would be very cool!
Also when infinite scroll is used on finite data. I have to spend 5 minuets awkwardly scrolling through pages to get to the end of a data set (I'm looking at you Soundcloud).

With pagination this is literally 1 click!
Makes sense to me, and I say this as one who has posted several negative reviews on Yelp under the same name that's on his driver's license. Yelp's primacy in its field means that a negative review on the site can substantially depress the business of the company so disfavored. Given that potential impact, why shouldn't I be prepared to stand behind my words? Why shouldn't anyone?

Anonymous speech on the Internet is of enormous value, but I fail to see why the protection of anonymity should be extended to outright slander. Such permissiveness can only dilute the perceived value of anonymous speech as a whole, with potentially disastrous effects on those who cannot speak in safety otherwise.
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"Scroll Down to Explore"

So, where's the scroll bar?
I evaluated chargebee a while back and, I really liked their pricing, give it a shot !
Looks like it's time to find a replacement for Hover Zoom.
((Action)(() => Console.WriteLine("Hello")))();

or

new Action(() => Console.WriteLine("Hello"))();

Yeah, it's verbose because you have to cast the lambda expression before executing it, but honestly I don't know any case where a self executing function can be useful in C#.
If you use Google to ask this question the first hit is actually the pngnq website, which explicitly states that pngnq is a modification of pngquant, and supposedly an improvement.

http://pngnq.sourceforge.net

> Pngnq is an adaptation by Stuart Coyle of Greg Roelf's pnqquant using Anthony Dekker's neuquant algorithm.

> Why another quantizer?

> Pngnq exists because I needed a lot (several thousand) of png images in RGBA format to be quantized. After some searching, the only tool I could find that worked for RGBA was pngquant. I tried pngquant but found that the median cut algorithm that it uses, with or without dithering, gave inferior looking results to the neuquant algorithm. You can see the difference demonstrated on the neuquant page.
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Agreed. Adds a bit of peer review to the mix.
I do, actually. Even in London it seems like it's ok to talk to strangers on trains (e.g. Thameslink), just not on the tube. Or the overground. It'll be interesting to see what becomes the standard on Crossrail.
The math for systems like this is pretty well vetted; considering that DHTs have been used in a number of projects for over a decade, any flaw that the NSA knows about almost certainly would have spilled out into the rest of the world by now. There are theoretical attacks against portions of this -- the 51% attack against the bittorrent protocol for signing IDs -- but in practice, they'd be very very difficult to actually pull off. Yes, a "few people" implemented it, but it's all pieces that have been vetted elsewhere.
You've been programming for 5 years and have "no portfolio". What have you been doing in that time? Presumably you've been building something - unless it's completely NSFW then that's your "portfolio" until you get something better. It may not be as snazzy as the professionals, but it will demonstrate that you can actually carry a project to completion - and that's what the "can you build me a website for $200" clients will want to see.
I can't quite put my finger on why I find this article annoying.
that site isn't actually Medium. Just a look-alike
Objc-run - Run .m files like shell scripts
Appears to use Function.caller ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... )

"Non-standard
This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future."
I feel I've explained why it's not a free lunch throughout this thread. I didn't claim that YC had to change their program. I just suggested that it is not helpful for founders with family obligations, and that we're missing something in the startup community by neglecting this group of entrepreneurs. What does that have to do with a free lunch?

I understand there are tradeoffs, and I acknowledged this. I do not accept the popular brogrammer philosophy that rootless 20-somethings are the only people worth investing in because they are the most easy to exploit and/or manipulate. I don't think that makes them worth investing in, but I accept that most investors do. I stated my reasons throughout this thread -- I think founders with families are more likely to have true maturity, seriousness, and realism, and to have superior mental health overall. I think these attributes are beneficial to investors and that they'd have an interest in investing in familied founders for this reason, even if it costs more money to invest a company led by that type of person. You and I are free to disagree, and it still doesn't have anything to do with a free lunch, and it doesn't have anything to do with tradeoffs. It's just two people disagreeing.

I don't really get what you want here.
don't be a dick, just answer the question.
And just to forestall obvious retorts based on Bitcoin and any and all other brilliant, game changing systems conceived of and implemented by small teams: That such teams can change the game, can occasionally create things sui generis, does not in any way diminish the possibility of a large, well funded, well staffed, and incredibly well resourced organization like the NSA from either having access via a) other channels (all crypto runs on hardware eventually, and all hardware gives out heat and makes noise - even if our ears cannot hear it; learn enough about waste emissions from hardware and you figure out what's going inside - and that's just one vector in the compute channel, let's not forget there are socially engineerable and occasionally corruptible people involved too!) or b) direct attacks on the crypto and other masking technologies themselves, because these guys - the NSA, I mean, keep up :-> - may just know that much.

I've never worked directly in areas that would give me first hand knowledge of any of the above (and I had, I would likely be committing a crime writing this) but I have worked long enough and deeply enough in adjacent areas to have an inkling of just how powerful an adversary (in the technical threat-risk-assessment sense) the NSA is. Or may be.

So to say that your latest weekend project is somehow proof against them? Hmm, I tend to, uh, at least dubiousness ("Well, have you considered this vector, and this combination of catastrophic failures?"), if not directly to outright scoffing ("Mwa ha ha, you're so sweetly naive, have a biscuit").

I tend not to worry about the NSA and others of their ilk because none of my shit is worth enough or is interesting enough to be of value to them. In aggregate? Who knows, good question. I tend not to worry about that either, though, because I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of other more interesting fish. I do worry about the potential erosion of civil liberties, but so long as we have the EFF and Michael Geist, I tend to feel a bit better and worry less.
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Are you seriously suggesting that I polluted more by cycling to work (for the extra food that I had to ingest) than I would if I drove instead? Can you point me to some reading material which would prove that? Thanks.
Just a crazy thought, if due to some chain of events of this or similar events China devalues Dollar - can a backup currency like cryptocoin(s) be used in result of such emergency?

Also I strongly disapprove of imperialist move by China, Filipinos are nice people and no need to be an aggressor against such a small country.

my 2c
What actually happened is that a superficial image of the nerd/geek culture has been appropriated by "our" former bullies.

The popularity of "I fucking love science" or "BBT" doesn't mean shit in this context. There was a short polemic essay [1] by Maddox about this phenomena.

The same topic is discussed in the video "You're Not such a Nerd: Commodification of Nerd and Gamer Sub-culture" [2]

[1] http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=youre_not_a_nerd

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7A5OgfP4NA