skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My biggest gripe with 8.1 or 2012 R2 is using the corners or charms on a VM or a smaller sized RDP session. Its awful. The right-click on the start menu is also a much needed improvement in 8.1 and especially for Server 2012 R2!
Here's a better link from late 2012 http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57534694-285/how-to-retu... Seems it was always there.
Aggregation. Aggregate services. Guy who made padmapper.com just aggregated all listings from various sites.
Considering his strange outfit, it's entirely possible that he's mentally ill (or, alternatively, he doesn't like people taking pictures of him). The article doesn't give any real context.
How hackers took 110 million credit cards & how much they made selling em’
As ideal as it may seem, people are wary of government having too much control over forcing people into mental health treatment. Unfortunately, as it turns out this is for good reason, because even in recent history there's been some pretty horrifying abuse of that power.
I see many books on Python listed. It's a good language for data analysis and scientific computing, especially with scipy, but there are alternatives, of course. I like Fortran 95, which is available in gcc as gfortran. A relevant book for data scientists would be "Developing Statistical Software in Fortran 95" (2005).
If the maintainers of that page are around here, I suggest putting some visualization of how close you are to the goal on there. It's amazing how much of a psychological motivator a bar filling up is.
I think it only applies to volume licensing but I am not 100% sure on that.
The other big win is the amount of money in Real Estate. When most transactions have fees on the order of 6%, there's a lot of money sloshing around to pick up.
I know he is, he has posted on HN several times before.
No offense, but your comment reminds me all too much about the elitism that surrounds music criticism. I listen to a wide range of metal. I, for one, encourage the experimentation and the cross pollination with other genres.

Who really cares whether this, for example: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry0dHtwD4TU) is metal or not? Mostly people who care more about being "fucking metal" than music. Is it such a surprise that liking a kind of music can be about more than just social capital?

Yes, as genres get more complex, genre labels also become more complex. And sometimes the defining characteristics aren't clear. So what? This isn't a bad thing. If all "prog" was the same, then it'd be boring. There'd be no point in having yet another prog band. You'd be constrained by the label into doing a certain thing. People rightly chose not to do that. A genre gets you 80% there in terms of guessing what a band sounds like, and that's okay.
But if the project stops keeping obsolete build machines around, they would save on electricity bills. Hackers could still hack, they just wouldn't be killing the project with legacy support costs.
I'm not convinced of the technical chops of the author.

Right near the top of the article, we get this:

> Since websites designed using the adaptive web design are housed on their own domain, the web pages load at a much faster rate.
...
> Quite unlike the websites designed using an Adaptive Web Design, the ones designed using a Responsive web design load at a slow speed.

Sure, you get a difference in page load time based on whether you render mobile-specific templates server-side vs doing the adjustment for screen size in JavaScript and just sending the same thing to everyone, but surely that comes from the slowness of running JS on the client device and the larger page size, rather than what domain it's from? Which domain it's on shouldn't matter at all, there's no reason to assume that both domains aren't served from the same server with virtual hosts in the two-domain case, or that one domain isn't served from two servers through a load-balancer in the single-domain case.
Imagine a presidential candidate making promises and saying a lot of things that he believed in about spying and how the agencies involved should work. Then he gets into office and finds out that things are much worse than he could have possibly known before getting into office. Would you prefer he keep to the path he laid out in campaigning or deal with reality as it is, even if it goes against his beliefs? I try to be smarter today than I was yesterday, I hope somebody in such a position of power would do the same.

Note that I have no idea if this is anywhere near true and I don't believe in what Obama and the various agencies have done but I do believe something like this is closer to the truth than some grand scheme by Obama to lie himself into power.
I completely agree.

Apartment search is, in my opinion, the hardest rental vertical to try to tackle, mostly because solutions the 2 sided market traction problem have been elusive.

It also seems to be the most common one that founders attempt.

In contrast, rent applications, management software, online rent payment portals are value providing from customer #1.
Online rent payment. Rent and taxes are my only regular expenses that aren't automatically deducted from my credit card or bank account. And even the IRS accepts online (albeit manual) payments. In fact, rent is the only reason I have a paper checkbook at all.

It's an easy win on both sides. In exchange for letting me schedule automatic payments, my landlord could get much more timely payments. I think I'm reasonably responsible as folks go, but still occasionally forget to mail a check on time.
Is it really a good idea to link to a 47MB raw JS file hosted on github's server so most visitors to the blog post will click through without any actual interest? Seems a bit rude (and a great way to hang a browser/tab for a minute or two.)

If you want to communicate the size of the output, link to the github summary: https://github.com/trevorlinton/webkit.js/blob/master/WebKit...
I think that holds pretty true for many things in life (i.e. the "teen pregnancy" gene), but definitely for money management. I also knew decently smart kids that didn't have a lot that now as adults go out and waste money at casinos and sports betting. They were a lot like us growing up, but their parents would spend anything extra on the lotto. So it definitely seems it has more to do with things we observe as children rather than actual income, education, and even learning from bad examples.
Great integration!
This resonate so much for me, in VLC.

VLC has a very large number of users on Windows (80% of our users), yet almost none of the dev use Windows to code. Therefore, we use UTF-8 char* everywhere, notably in the core. We use UTF-16 conversions only in the necessary Windows modules, that use Windows APIs. Being sure we were UTF-8 everywhere took a lot of time, tbh...

But the worse are formats like ASF (WMV) or MMS that use UTF-16/UCS-2 (without correctly specifying) them and that we need to support on all other platforms, like OSX or Linux...
1666.67/month for electricity powering 2 racks of servers + HVAC.
>There's no point in saying "Drop them!" because the devs working on them probably could care less what the rest of us think.

If it's worse for the rest of the ecosystem, there's a point.
It's not just iOS. It's PITA to upload videos to Commons for an ordinary person. It's a legitimate problem. That said, list of unsupported _free_ formats: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:UNSUPPORTED No 3D, no raw, no CSV, no HDRi, no JPEG2000 (widely used by archives), etc. Or even H.261, its patents probably expired already, and it's widely used by various archives. But very little happens in these directions.
Some contingents, which I expect have some overlap with customers of Alcor, have a stronger expectation of resurrection through scanning and emulation, which isn't exactly "bodily".
Super awesome. Congrats Alban & Crew!
Easily Build HTML5 Native Apps for Android
This is a classic case of where the kinds of technical founders that cruise HN shouldn't be trying to invent their own thing, but rather find a boring "business" subject matter expert as a co-founder. There are lots and lots of these things, where businesspeople see a gap that can be solved by tech but don't have the skills to do it.

My advice to all the kids out of college who want to be startup founders - don't try to come up with your own idea, because you don't know enough about business or the world to get a good one (hence the plethora of cheap social knockoffs that will never go anywhere). Instead, go find some older, experienced businessperson who wants to solve a problem in a non-technical space they understand deeply, and work with them. You're much more likely to succeed that way.
Or even better, let me import my list of Flixster ratings (or a flat file with some standard format).
Looks great! If you haven't already you should post it to the Maker Pro newsletter at makerpro@makermedia.com.
The Economic Case for Net Neutrality
This is my experience with movies as well. I find the use of genres (a la Netflix style of taste profile builder) annoying. Why should I be shoe - boxed as a comedy movie watcher or a horror movie watcher? Maybe, I only watch specific comedy movies that are made by Judd Apatow? Is there a genre for me then?

On the other hand, this ingraining of genres is everywhere. Fiction for example. Why are you supposed to be into Fantasy just because you read Tolkien?
> As I understand it, our current understanding of physics suggests a probabilistic system, but I don't think we know enough to assert that a deterministic model is impossible.

We're pretty close actually. Look up Bell's Theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem). It has been experimentally verified countless times and necessitates that "one is forced to reject locality, realism, or freedom". "Freedom" meaning something specific in a scientific sense. Rejecting the last one implies something called superdeterminism, which is basically just determinism (the "super" implies that everything that exists is deterministic; there are no random components). Gerard t'Hooft is one of the only legit physicists left who supports a superdeterministic theory. Almost all other physicists believe that a measurement of a quantum state collapses it into a random eigenstate.

For me personally, were superdeterminism found to be true (although it's looking more likely that's not going to be the case) it wouldn't bother me in the slightest, and I don't see a conflict between determinism and free will. Imagine someone creates a movie. They decide the plot -- what happens and when. They decide the setting, the number of characters, and everything else about the movie. Then when you play the movie, everything that occurs is predetermined -- deterministic in a sense -- yet it was freely chosen outside the realm of the movie. I kind of view reality that way.
Thomas, thanks for that comment. If there was a "best of HN", this comment should be a part of it. Good storytelling, a great business lesson tidbit for all of us, interesting technical discussion, and a good reality check.

Well said.

Sorry for my slightly o/t comment.
Congratulations on the awesome integration!
Why would you take an out-of-context quote as an attack on you and yours?

The actual text:

There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me –
because they want to give something back. They know they didn't –
look, if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own.
You didn't get there on your own. I'm always struck by people who
think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot
of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than
everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch
of hardworking people out there.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to
create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed
you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've
got a business – you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created
the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.

The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our
individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are
some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own. I mean,
imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way
to organize fighting fires.

The 'You Didn't Build That' was just an awkward change of thoughts from the 'roads and bridges' in the previous sentence.

Were you equally insulted when Romney said:

You Olympians, however, know you didn't get here solely on your own power.
For most of you, loving parents, sisters or brothers, encouraged your
hopes, coaches guided, communities built venues in order to organize
competitions. All Olympians stand on the shoulders of those who lifted
them. We've already cheered the Olympians, let's also cheer the parents,
coaches, and communities. All right!

Both were a nod to the social contract which hasn't been terribly controversial since sometime in the 1600's.
Good point. I changed the link in the post. Might take a few minutes for the caches to clear.
Dear god yes, agreed. For someone still learning the ropes, the absolute torrent of new buzzwords/languages/dbs is really fatiguing.
> The FCC link certainly articulates a laudable set of principles, but it seems rather late in the game for platitudes. If FCC don't have an actual policy reaction to the ruling yet, when do they plan on having one?

Presumably, they are first reviewing with the details of the ruling with their legal team and assessing the prospects of appeal (and appeal strategy, whether to file with the US Supreme Court, or file for en banc review by the full DC Circuit.) Should they appeal, there won't be need of a "policy reaction" to the present court decision, because the policy will be the policy already adopted in the Open Internet Order.
>What it teaches is how to accept dogma without reservation.

Yes, I agree. I didn't mean that religion should be taught, I'd rather a course that teaches about religion.
I remember this being an April Fools' Day joke[0] in 2012. Interesting to see it coming alive. I imagine it will be a pretty large file size so it might not be practical for a little bit longer, especially for mobile devices.

0 - http://badassjs.com/post/20294238453/webkit-js-yes-it-has-fi...
"This is what made UTF-8 the favorite choice in the Web world, where English HTML/XML tags are intermixed with any-language text."

Except that Javascript is UTF-16, so no luck with 4 byte chars there.
I think you need to think larger than real estate is only finding a place to live.

Who are the actors of this market? Tenants, property manager, property owner, super intendant, etc. What do they need to do? Pay their rent, ask for maintenance, send paperwork, track their tenants, track their expenses, etc.

Their is plenty of stuff that could be done. Now I'm pretty sure some or all of these are already addressed by some company.
Common Winter Roofing Problems: Ice Dam Damage
Can we get them some solar panels?
My father seems to have the knack of buying printers and scanners that don't transition between Windows versions. I had no idea that printer drivers could break between Windows 7 and Windows 8, but they did.

He began emailing documents to himself and printing from his Windows 7 laptop.

About six months after Windows 8 was released, HP finally released a supposedly compatible driver for his printer. Upon installation of the driver, the system detected the same printer twice, and neither of the detected devices worked. Additionally, every application I tried printing from crashed as soon as the printer dialog appeared.

The situation was resolved when we discovered that HP has a Windows 8 compatible generic postscript driver that works with just about everything.
Die-hard windows users will stay with Windows. Not because they like Windows so much, but because they believe in crap "every second Windows version is good", "I can just wait for another version", "what I have just works".
I really like gittip
https://www.gittip.com/
A related notion is the Blub Paradox:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BlubParadox

"As long as our hypothetical Blub programmer is looking down the power continuum, he knows he's looking down. Languages less powerful than Blub are obviously less powerful, because they're missing some feature he's used to. But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn't realize he's looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub."

I, personally, am very slow to adopt new languages or frameworks for serious projects. Still haven't found anything I can't do with Java and/or Ruby on Rails. I do try to keep up with the news so I'm not totally caught off guard, and I make a point of building toy projects in other languages like Python, Haskell, Scala, Clojure, etc. It's important not to be a Magpie, but also not to get caught up as a Blubber and end up looking for a COBOL to Objective-C cross compiler so you can make an iPhone app.
congrats on the integration Sketchfab. I'm sure there are a lot of 3D designers that are pretty pumped right now!
I don't use Netflix, but I do play games. Browser games, but also some games from Humble Bundle, and some 3D games.

I don't have that many unsupported peripherials. Ubuntu currently handles my wireless HP printer better than my other laptop with Windows 7.

There are alternatives to commercial consumer software. The goal of a typical user is not to use < program >, it's to accomplish < task >. Usually < task > is "browsing the web, using email, playing music and videos".
I'm having trouble reading this thread with its stigmatising views of "crazy people", compared to other HN threads that are supportive and urge people with me tal health problems to talk or to seek help.

Well, some of the attitudes displayed here are precisely why some people feel unable to talk about their depression or paranoia or hallucinations. Some of the attitudes here are why people do not disclose their MH problems to emoyers even though US law provides protection.
About 2 weeks I tried to file a bug with our backend guys about 4-byte characters wreaking havoc on our API.

My example broke the bug tracker's (bugzilla) comment system as well. I chuckled.
An outstanding anime on the topic of overcoming the culture of risk aversion in Japan is Whisper of the Heart. (耳をすませば is the Japanese title.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart

A teenage girl spends much of her time reading books that interest her and is drawn toward writing fantasy fiction on her own. This runs against the grain of the cultural norm of devoting herself to studying for university entrance exams.

She is inspired by a boy her age devoted to making and playing violins, who goes to Italy for a year to pursue this dream. His family supports and encourages him in this endeavor.

Her parents are understandably worried about her choice to pursue this risky dream, but decide to support her choice in the end.

The movie really drew me in emotionally to what it must be like to choose a more creative path in a society with a strong norm of conformity. It made me think of how the animators must have felt telling this story, as it must have mirrored their own past.

It also makes me wonder how so many creative people have managed to flourish in Japan, and what path they took to arrive there. There is so much creativity in manga, anime, video games, and all the other cultural artifacts of Japan so popular throughout the world.

And what about the Japanese who do manage to successfully start new businesses? How do they manage it?
I've talked to a few startups doing interesting things like loading building designs into 3D game engines and letting real estate agents meet and talk with potential investors/buyers in the space itself. This sort of thing normally gets done by phone, Skype, pre-rendered videos, or rare and difficult to arrange trips to the site or design offices. If an investor is visiting from China and only in the US for 10 days and is checking out a dozen different hotels to fund building, there just isn't much time on the trip side of things. So there's lots of room for improvement.
But Genres already are, effectively, tags. Depending on implementation, artists, albums or songs are given one or many genres.

If by tags, you mean user-driven categorization by arbitrary text, that's an even harder problem. Tags can be spelled differently and mean the same thing. Or they can be spelled the same and mean completely different things. What you mean by "punk" and what I mean by "punk" are different. Possibly radically different. If tags are to be useful at all, you still need one authority who decides specifically what each tag means.
There's a bug in the removeClass() function. If you use a class with a reserved regex character it will fail.

I'd rather see this done with a small sets library anyway. removeClass = function (el, cl) { el.className = _.without(el.className.split(' '), cl).join(' '); }
My idea was for them to run 100% at native speed.

For running inside the browser I rather stay with JavaScript and friends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSH_servers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_SSH_clients

Personally, I've mostly used OpenSSH on desktop and servers and Dropbear on embedded/low-memory devices. I've also installed lsh-server out of curiosity once, but that was just to take a look, not for production use.

However, I believe, security- and featurewise, OpenSSH is probably a best option (unless device's really low on resources).
This is a great observation, I don't think it diminishes OpenBSD at all, anyone wondering if this comment is worth reading, it is :)
You've got this almost completely ass-backwards. It's a far more complicated issue than that.

Paradoxically, places with more homeless-friendly policies attract far more homeless people (for obvious reasons). As a famous example, Santa Monica has a history of hassling homeless people and effectively criminalizing homelessness, which has the effect of forcing the homeless population elsewhere.

Also, relative to a lot of other places in the US, SF's far-more temperate weather increases the appeal for those living outside. On top of all that, you get asshole states like Nevada bussing homeless people to places like San Francisco[1] (SF is actually suing the state of Nevada for this).

Now granted, the way _anywhere_ in the US treats their homeless and mentally ill is not particularly "socially aware", but looking at SF's relatively large homeless population and assuming that it comes from a relative lack of social awareness is a completely wrong-headed approach.

[1] http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/11/2602391/san-franc...
At least we're not making this comment about a person!
To put a number on it:

6% transaction fees you're talking about are probably in home sales. About 800B a year transacts in the US in home sales (existing home sales data: http://www.realtor.org/sites/default/files/reports/2013/emba...). In practice, that 6% number often is a bit lower for the brokers. Also, FWIW, on top of broker fees, you'll be paying attorneys, government taxes, etc.

In Chicago, to transact in and out of a house, you should expect to pay between 10 and 11% (so if you buy a house for 100k and sell it for 110k, you will break even if you're lucky).
This is the most difficult blurred-and-colored-background-parallax-single-page app I've ever seen. It's giving me eyestrain.