skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> entirely unhelpful (calling people assholes)

That doesn't follow. Turning normal people into assholes by giving them small powers and prestige doesn't mean that prestige cannot be undermined by denigrating them. It's a perfectly good hypothesis that calling a petty tyrant a knave, poltroon or asshole could deflate them. So raise a middle finger for freedom.
Doesn't seem to work at all in Safari, had to switch to Chrome.
Kimono can handle several pages with malformed and old/bad HTML. We're still in beta though, so we're handling more edge cases as we encounter them. Should work on HN main page.
Brilliant piece of comedy.

I wonder what percent of people actually finish most levels on a game they buy?
The Constitution also envisioned limited government.
No, that is an insane implication.
> employers have a greater duty

employers have no duty, but that of making profit. Don't misplace your loyalty, because employers certainly don't place theirs in you (the emoployee).
Welcome to heaven, then.

http://bolinfest.com/coffee/features.html

or

https://github.com/Steida/este/
Packaging for the PyData Ecosystem
JS + lodash is good enough for me.
Spotify Drops Free Web Listening Time Limit Everywhere
Why location still matters to tech startups
Exactly. The system should be resilient to the assholery of the individuals, as far as possible. It's not a surprise that TSA, which is new, high-profile, and huge has fucked up incentives.
Open Source Software: A Lot Like the Real World
Facebook has an explanation on that page:

> You can see your name and profile picture because you're using a computer network you've logged in on before.

At least, that's what I saw when I did it on myself in an incognito tab.
Entrepreneurs Are The New Labor
I watched this last night and thought it was really good - but the entire time I couldn't help but think about this propaganda video put out by North Korea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJoQOQHQ8oA
HN has a voting system where readers decide what stories get to the top. Apparently a lot of people considered this both newsworthy and relevant to their interests.
>The money you gave to Nodejitsu to continue supporting npm was a huge part of getting us in front of the exponential growth curve.

The $300,000 is gone already?
It is a shame Steve Jobs isnt alive to answer for his part in this.
Hey, I'm sorry that somebody else is getting you down. Is everything okay? Are you going through any sort of trouble?

I ask not to be condescending or sarcastic, but because there are usually deeper causes for such anger and aggression. You can talk to me if you like, email or whatever. Take care.
There is so much interesting information in the article that people really forget what they came for, the answer to the proposed title question.

Personally, I wasn't upset at all. I really liked the article although it had a deceiving title.
> Another problem is simply walking around with 2 phones which is an opsec indicator for feds that you are up to something and req targeted surveillance. They have full automated access to every cell tower db to look for this as per snowden docs dumped on cell meta data

Do you happen to have a link? That's pretty terrible for anyone with a work phone and a personal phone.
Your parent's point is that at least some of the bloat is not actually Windows. There was a time when Firefox occupied tens of megabytes in RAM. Today it occupies at least 500MB at all times, for me. So good luck with your 512MB Windows XP machine of yore- and that one isn't the fault of Windows.
Whether there is a torrent available doesn't really factor in to the decision to buy a game on sale.

If a game is deemed "worth it" by a buyer, they are going to purchase it, instead of torrenting it. Or, rather more frequently i assume, they first torrent the game when it comes out and full price, play a bit and find it not that great. Then, when time comes for a sale, the gamer chooses to buy it and replay it, because the price is worth it.
For one thing, there isn't enough accountability after the fact. This kind of obstruction of justice should be a slam dunk go to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200 for the people involved. How much do you want to bet that none of them ever set foot inside a federal penitentiary? I certainly wouldn't take that bet.

There are certain laws that appear to simply not apply to certain agencies. Fix that, and the rest will largely fall into place. Nobody is going to put a witness on the no-fly list to prevent them from testifying if they know that they're going to spend years in jail for it. And similarly, few people will avoid doing that if they know that there will be no consequences.

Somewhere along the way, we got the judicial branch working for the executive rather than keeping them in check. That strikes me as the root of this.
Not even that faint dot of Socatra just east of it belongs to Somalia, that remarkable island is part of Yemen.

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/most-alien-looking-p...
Keeping footer always at bottom using HTML and CSS only
You should read this interview [1] and watch the talk [2] by node's creator Ryan Dahl to get a better understanding of where it comes from. There was much more to it than "we really like javascript" (tldr: single-threaded, evented, dynamic, freedom to write new I/O apis, backed by huge companies, well known).

[1] http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2011/01/31/node-js-interview-4...

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo_B4LTHi3I
"[...] well-thought-out points of disagreement with Sam's arguments."

I see mostly opinions, not arguments. An argument is generally what follows if you ask someone "why?".
Might want to brush up on your use of "literally" first.
Ask HN: Why do all shopping websites look the same?
I have been looking at various shopping websites, and to me they all look the same. Nordstrom, Amazon, Half.com, Etsy, Ebay. Category bar at the top. Hero Image and search bar. Some content below the fold.

Is this because this is the ideal way to shop for things online, or everyone just copies each other and converge on the same layout?

I realize at this point this category is pretty mature, but it just strikes me that there don't seem to be many "alternative" layouts for shopping websites.

Any counterexamples (or perhaps push back on my argument) are welcome.
I am also curious to know why. Why did they go after her and pursued this case for eight years? Did they actually have proof or did it come down to their egos?

Either way, this is unacceptable - putting her daughter on the no-fly list.
First: Respect. Sorry for pissing you off. I was acting like a troll and I don't usually do that. I'm having a bad day.

Thank you for calling me on my B.S. in a way that I can really relate to and respect.

Next: Yes, I'm ignorant of Node et. al. but my point is kind of that I shouldn't have to know about it at all, because Node shouldn't exist, and all the effort that went into it would have been better spent on other things.

Really my issue is with the whole industry and I'm just picking on Node because that's what I saw this morning. The Tornado project gave me similar misgivings.

I feel like we are constantly reinventing things (GUI widgets, IRC/IM/chat, Twisted/Tornado/NodeJS/..., video codecs, and on and on) yet certain basic really simple and important things (like getting a file from one computer to another, or UI design) are eternally neglected.

Why the heck is Dropbox a thing? You feel me?

You have actually given me food for thought, and I will check out Node.js with ToffeeScript. I'm a little leery of 54000 modules but I take your point.

But, without meaning to be harsh on Node in particular, I really feel like our industry has to kind of grow up some how. I never thought I would hate on innovation for its own sake, but it is starting to get a little ridiculous, and, from my POV, JS on the server seems a little bit too much JS. Now that it's there, and someone with your XP says it works well, well there you go, I suppose that's not a bad thing.

I apologize again for being a mouthy ignorant punk. I'll try to at least know what I'm talking about if it happens again.
So tell me - what was your role in these events? You said that you went through these struggles, so I'm curious what you contributed?
you sound like a terribly jaded person. sf is teeming with culture, sights, sounds, and food spots that would take years to scratch the surface. i'm from ottawa, canada, you don't know boring big city at all bud
this is a test of fun
https://gist.github.com/search
Descent of Air India and the killing of a critical book
Maybe. But who exactly is passionate about a weather app?
Try using Hola Unblocker, a handy Chrome/Firefox extension that allows you to get around regional blocks
You have misunderstood the analogy.

The issue is not whether the collusion is public or private, and it is also not whether it benefits the rich or the poor.

The issue is that in general it is illegal to reduce competition by forming a cartel. People to it privately because it is illegal. The one exception for this is forming a cartel of sellers of labor, i.e. a union. Note that, if it were not a labor union, a cartel would be illegal even if it was benefiting poor people at the expense or big corporations.

A much better reason for allowing labor unions, is that unless they use physical force (which of course they do, all the time, but I am speaking theoretically here), they don't really create that much market power. People can always choose to work during a strike (again, assuming the union doesn't physically stop them, which is in theory illegal). If unions don't create market power, what is the point of them? I think they can be useful to help management to stick to long-term commitments they make to workers, and to provide an alternate way for workers to be represented in the company.
> [...] imprisoned for the anti anxiety pill in their bloodstream [...]

Really? Which countries are now demanding blood samples at the border?
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics..." and "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." If we go with your logic, I would start posting and upvoting news coming from TMZ and the latest Casey Anthony updates.
Yes, but the email address or phone number, is not. I would argue therefore, the information that the email or phone connects to the public information, is not.
and also, i don't see a game (even MMO style game) taking calls and operating a call center. At best there's some admin/moderating role, and it'd be asynchronous, and cookie cutter style responses.
Some coworkers and I put together a Vagrant + Puppet setup for CTF 2: https://github.com/e28eta/stripe-ctf-2.0

I know it's got a couple bugs still, but the first levels should be pretty solid.
the price point of $20 is a bit steep for such a subscription. Perhaps $10 a month, and that seems to be stretching it. I think a lot of gamers are young and therefore cash-strapped.

Netflix style gaming rentals have been tried before - i don't think they succeeded much tbh.
A great new way to find interesting places, awesome indeed!

This is what a social network should be, a place where human collective consciousness is used to better our choices in life.
Great job guys.

One problem I've had though is that I think you guys are hosted on AWS - a lot of websites block incoming connections from AWS.

Are there plans to add an option in future to route through clean IPs? Premium or default, this would be cool and make it a lot more useful.
Wait, did you come here via some sort of transfer program? How do you graduate so soon? If so, I'd suggest you list it in your resume. I'm Indian and did my Bachelors here as well. H1-B shouldn't be a problem at all, not at least for the big ones (MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB et al). I've been on recruiting teams for a couple of them. They just look for talent. Often times, it's easy to get an illusion that you did really well in interviews. Interviewers are trained to not show any visible signs of not being satisfied with the candidate. Even if you did well, there are a lot of other factors (For example, if we've been told to recruit 5 students from your uni, and we see 6 good guys, we still choose the top 5). Interviews are very far from a perfect system and companies usually be on the safe side and favor false negatives rather than the other way around. So don't get disappointed. Just have fun coding. Apply for masters programs on the side and try again. I wasn't able to score one after my freshman year (in my defense, i hadn't taken a data structures course yet :). However, did two subsequent ones at AMZN and MSFT.
An application installed at the option of the end user is not subject to the same rigorous requirements that an, oftentimes, compulsory operating system is subject to.

Especially when the operating system costs money, and lots of it.
I think it's because it's a high profile distributed system. I bet there's a problem that's similar to a toy bitcoin algorithm.
Even when conducting a selfless act, you still want your action to accomplish some goal. Snowden's goal was that the American public would know about the government's activities. This group's goal, presumably, is to give North Koreans information about the outside world. It is an open question whether the balloons are actually reaching anyone.
Great tool!

I'm coming at things from a non-coder perspective and found it easy to use, and easy to export the data I collected into a usable format.

For my own enjoyment, I like to track and analyze Kickstarter project statistics. Options up until now have been either labor intensive (manually entering data into spreadsheets) or tech heavy (JSON queries, KickScraper, etc. pull too much data and my lack of coding expertise prevents me from paring it down/making it useful quickly and automagically) as Kickstarter lacks a public API. Sure, it is possible to access their internal API or I could use KickScraper, but did I mention the thing about how I dont, as many of you say, "code"?

What I do understand is auto-updating.CSV files, and that's what I can get from Kimono. Looking forward to continued testing/messing about with Kimono!
But perhaps not a business partner in it for the long term that they might have hoped for.
Apart from the obvious political justifications (people want the union vote) there are some sound reasons why unions are different from cartels like the employers in the article are alleged to have formed.

A cartel is several companies colluding to raise prices above/below the market price.

A labor union might be though of in the same way, but in practice is is very hard for a union to really control the supply of labor, because it is made up of thousands of people. It is only when they are tacitly allowed to use force/violence that unions can effectively prevent strike-breakers.

So given how ineffective they are at permanently raising wages (perhaps they raise wages a bit, but not nearly as much as if they had a true monopoly), unions should probably be allowed since if people choose to join them, they must provide some other benefits, such as representing individual workers with grievances, etc.
You're correct when it comes to some parts of the greater Los Angeles area; beyond the foothills that surround it and The Valley, but that's just because the city by that definition goes on forever.

Los Angeles proper; downtown and the surrounding areas, have a great climate because of the onshore breeze that comes in through Santa Monica. The indigenous foliage (what's left of it) there and up into the foothills is quite varied, and with everything the inhabitants have planted over the years, can be quite dense in some areas (largely supported by water from elsewhere in the state).

The extended areas as well, Angeles National Forest and the San Gabriel Mountains, can be comparable in density and recreation to forests across the nation.
Interesting to see that France which is supposed to be the most visited country in the world is not the brightest area in Europe...at all.

Could there be a bias in the data due to the fact that all the countries don't have the same usage rate of social medias ? Or just population density ?
Or official statistics are the ones that are biaised...

Anyway, great work. Loved it.
2013 was strife with pointless "hacking" of X.
The author of the blog is making, imho, the classic mistake that the music industry makes when calculating potential revenue.

He makes this quote:

> If just half of the players who buy the game during a 50%-off sale would have bought the game at full price if that was their only option, we'd already have a wash. What fraction of sale-waiting players fall into this category? I suspect way more than half. The picture gets even worse for 75%-off sales.

Which is a plain wrong assumption. The buyers of a 50% sale would hardly contain any who would've bought it at 100% price. Those who would've bought at 100% price have _already_ purchased! This is the same reasoning that music industry counts lost sales in - if they pirated it, then they _must_ also would have purchased at 100% price had piracy been prevented, because the media is so rock solid that it's assumed that the acquisition is going to happen no matter what, just the route to it!
That's a hoax. You didn't start wondering when they said "there are no birds except these ones, which will be eaten on Tuesday; they are yummy"?
There are probably some sites in here that really are photographed more, but a lot of it seems to be some version of this: http://xkcd.com/1138/

Edit: Oh! It's much more useful if you zoom in. Sorry for the knee-jerk.
Meet Blackphone, A Highly Secure Device
Educated guess… he probably tortured kittens
What part of the Facebook ToS do you think this violates?

What law do you think this violates?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/4481621...

A woman was arrested for some passport/visa irregularity and they then took a urine sample and found Codeine and Temazepam in it, which she had been given by a doctor in the UK. They gave her a four year sentence, but she was eventually acquitted, after two months.

Harsh.
Wonder why Europe has so many more photograph density than the US. Just correlating with higher population density?
The icons were vectors, but typically drawn at an isometric view and combined with other components (like the "sheet of paper"/"magic carpet" underneath apps). When you click once to select the app, the paper turns yellow. When you double click, the paper back and up behind the icon.

A screenshot of the Icon Catalog:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/dynaweb_docs/0650/SGI_Admin/...

And the docs for IconSmith, used to draw icons:
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi/0650/...

And Motif was used for all the widgets, I guess that would make it vector-based.
I'm not so sure that a standard market approach to increasing supply really drives down or even stabilizes housing prices.

I've been present at some significant housing supply buildouts in a few areas, and each time, my observation was that the price of new housing was somewhat above market rates... since it's brand new (and often "luxury" condos/apartments). Plus building costs for new stuff is financed in unamortized $RECENT_YEAR dollars rather than amortized $DECADES_PAST dollars.

For land-constrained places like San Francisco, where the only way to increase supply is up, this dynamic is probably more true, since however old the tech is, it's a lot more capital intensive than stick framing.

Where I have observed a decrease in price, it's never been because of supply increase. It's places like Detroit where demand drops, either because of economic stagnation/collapse, or where there's health/property hazards.

This isn't to say they shouldn't build out/up in SF, just that I'm pretty sure that introducing rents musicians can afford is not going be as simple as changing development rules and letting private developers go at it.
That's just not true anymore. You can get a desktop mode by running Xephir inside xpra.
What’s known about tutoring
Incumbents Asleep At The Wheel
Words change their meaning over time. I'm afraid this is something you'll just have to learn to accept.
And a few of the drawbacks of caffeine:

• It causes peristalsis of the intestines, resulting in what might be called "premature" defecation. I have a hunch this reduces nutrient absorption in the small intestine.

• The "pick me up" you receive when drinking your morning joe is actually just the elimination of your body's withdrawal symptoms through reintroduction of the stimulant. It raises you back to "normal".

• Depending on whether your body metabolizes caffeine quickly or slowly, even a small/moderate dose early in the day may disrupt your sleep cycle, perpetuating insomnia.
Losing Trust in Higher Education
Every opinion or observation suffers from at least one of dozens of biases -- from the crucial ("should I marry her?") to the mundane ("does this outfit match?"). In fact, the tendency to quickly label and dismiss said advice is probably a bias itself.

Instead, take it as input and context, and then form your own opinions (and biases). We knowingly ask for biased opinions of our friends, family, and coworkers all the time; apply the same process here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Provided it ran the same across browsers.

My main gripe isn't Javascript (though I agree, argh), it's the DOM. So yeah, I could choose to write X instead of Javascript, but I still have the most painful of the pain points to deal with.
History? I don't know the source so maybe there is a bias of what data is available.
Fullscreen acquires Viddy
privacy is dead.

if you're going to do something that might raise the ire of someone sophisticated, don't do it online with your true and/or trusted persona.

now if you're complaining the waterline for "sophisticated" is getting lower...well...welcome to technology :)
I don't think I've ever seen anyone round off 200 million dollars before.
He should make another one on the correlation of this comic being linked to in the comments of a heat-map related HN submission.
It appears this only works if you're using an account that you've already logged into from that IP address.

If you try someone else's phone number, it has a placeholder profile picture, says "Facebook User", and has censored out email addresses to send a recovery email too.

I'm guessing everyone here is using their own phone number to test with which yields a lot more information than if you were to try it with a phone number of a friend whose never logged into Facebook from your network.
I was a contractor in Stores Dev at Target about 6 years ago, at that time the POS ran custom software running Win XP Embedded like the article mentioned. Most of the software was pretty ancient, the stuff I saw was first written in 1993.
Not sure what you mean by that, can you clarify?
The rendering on the server is done using a regular Xorg server, it will use whatever settings you choose.
If you use an xpra lossless mode (or lossless with auto-refresh), then this is exactly what you'll get on the client.
Now, if you mean sub-pixel hinting, that's a different story.
while it's logical to argue that an MMO style game benefits from a freemium model, i rather argue that a freemium model destroys the craft by turning game design decisions into business decisions (that is, whether you morph your game design/mechanic so that you can extract more money). This is a terrible trend i m seeing recently with many games (and especially true of mobile games).

I rather pay a $15 subscription and play a game designed without fremium in mind, than pay $15 in In-App-Purchases.
so what exactly did they do?
Do non-profits have no duty at all?
when I buy a service I don't expect a business partner. I'm not sure why other people do -- anyone got some good reading on this (admittedly nebulous) topic?
There is a proof of concept which you can try:
https://www.xpra.org/trac/ticket/473
http://mappedinny.com/ - Found my first junior rails dev job there.
Well hey, you could always read the article.