skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why today is the first day I'm hearing about imgur. Are they somehow superior to dropbox for image linking? Do they have a desktop syncing application with quick access to hotlinking url's from a context menu?

What is imgur's selling point?
You could make it a pre-compile step in Maven, maybe. But it'd be gross.
>Touch input is something far more intuitive to someone in her generation (so it seems with my meager sample size of one) than mouse/menu-driven input

I would imagine most people find touch input more intuitive than mouse input, if only for the reason that it accomplishes the same thing but better(at least on an intuitive level).

A mouse is like a pair of chopsticks. Sure, after a while, you can coordinate it pretty well, but it's still a lot easier to build a house of cards directly with your hands than with chopsticks.

I desperately want every screen to be a touch screen. There is no more direct way of the "indicate something on a screen " action than touching it. Even precision issues due to fingers being pretty big usually get solved through decent heuristics or new gestures.

The only place that's still iffy is text editing. But even there some things (rapidly , but roughly, going to a spot in your text) that could be a great help.
See, that sounds awesome. However, my company uses Google Hangouts exclusively for our weekly business meeting (owing to everyone being remote), but we can't afford the price tag of the Chromebox.

If there was a cheaper (order of magnitude cheaper) version, we'd be interested.
Back in 2012 Sarah basically said try DnD when the simple choose a file to upload /?noFlash page went away. The flash uploader didn't work on FreeBSD any more and DnD on FF would upload the file and then return an error. She nor anyone else never replied again after I tried to follow-up with that. Imgur had changed.
Yeah, of course I'm aware, it's just that there is a time/space trade-off, so I think folks who argue that goto should never be used or has no legitimate uses, are just taking too much of a hard-line.

And I think it just highlights a lack of understanding about what might make goto "bad" in programming--IMHO it's "bad" when it makes control flow more complex, which undermines maintainability. Common "cleanup" idioms that only jump forward are not that bad, because they don't make control flow particularly more difficult to follow. (Whereas jumping backwards, especially across many state changes, can be very hard to follow.)
Hmm. Has anyone registered the SillyValleySelfParody.com domain yet?

What's the valuation?
Could you provide some feedback on our new logo concepts?
This reminds me of a couple of games I had on the Commodore-64. One had a helicopter, but the other was Lunar Lander, which has a very similar mechanic.

I can recall a few others with similar play style - Star paws and Zaxxon come to mind.
Satya Nadella is 'a sheep, a follower' says ex-Microsoft exec
Which is why you delegate to people you trust like the article spoke about.
I think there is some truth to the article, but not that much.

Yeah, 5" devices are a nice size and make people somewhat less likely to reach for their tablet when reading. But is a 5" screen going to replace a textbook? or a magazine? or a kiosk? are people going to want to watch a movie on their phone?

It's all of the above - phones, tablets, laptops. Depends on what you are doing.

But fact is, many are now using tablets instead of laptops. Tablets are simply a more pleasant experience for causal use. And a lot of computer use is casual - reading, surfing the web, games, email, facebook.

So IMO tablets trend up in the long term, laptops trend down. But neither die.
This will not work. This does not account for the fact that many hackers do indeed use code generation tools, macro templates, or metaprogramming. It doesn't make sense at all for other reasons as well.

For example a hacker could introduce a security vulnerabiity in the code and then exploit it with another tool, therefore changing the original code to a certain extent.
From Green to Mean: Becoming a mid-level Software Engineer
Doesn't have kids..
Why India Won't Produce A Silicon Valley Type Startup Anytime Soon
Yes, love the soundtrack - EDM producer here - great job!
I wouldn't feel too bad. Odds are it would have had a few dozen or hundred downloads, then quickly dropped off to 0 forever.

I don't know how this game became so popular. Did Justin Bieber tweet about it?
I did a short blog post on this service here: http://bicortex.com/twitter-data-sentiment-analysis-using-et...

It pretty good for what it does.
That is not the title of the article, it is nothing to do with Bitcoins.
Why wouldn't there be stories? Haven't Hubble and the Mars missions gotten a lot of stories? At least in my media bubble, they've gotten much more attention than the order-of-magnitude more expensive ISS. If the unmanned space program got as much funding as the manned space program gets today, I think it would generate far more news and interest.

I'm not sure manned versus unmanned is the right distinction to make for media attention, though. More important is whether a mission is TV-ready (like a manned moon landing), or not (like an unmanned Mars landing where after landing we spend six months calibrating each instrument one at a time, before rolling forward six inches).

Right now, science is barely on the radar of the manned mission planners. While for unmanned missions, science is the highest priority. If this were only tweaked slightly, and media appeal made another priority for unmanned missions, then I think you could get cost-effective unmanned missions that are both media- and science-friendly.
And how will that continue to work when if it goes beyond Twitter, G+, and FB? Most browsers send a referrer in HTTP GET for the img tag. It works now for those because google and facebook grok the html, pull out the image, and cache it.
First PHPWeekly of February
I wonder how far you could get using dark patterns/manipulative design to force the user to improve their life.

Have there been any attempts? Before you suggest it I should say that I think BeeMinder does not count because of it being upfront about what it's there to do.
LinkedIn to Acquire Job-Seeking Site Bright for $120 Million
Many physically disabled people ride tricycles. Don't know about the GP's wife but it's a good thing to keep in mind. Could prevent you from possibly making some painfully unfunny jokes.
Perhaps the authors will do some market research here on HN? I'm not sure what price point would get me to "repurchase" the electronic version, but I'm unlikely to get the paper version until it's steeply discounted.
The Wikipedia article on options backdating notes that Steve Jobs was investigated for fraud at Apple, but ultimately the SEC went after Apple's CFO and general counsel at the time.
There are roughly eleventy kazillion mobile clones of that helicopter game. However, Flappy Bird is the first one I've seen that has a constant difficulty. Most things start easy, get increasingly hard, and arguably at some point become impossible. High scores become primarily a function of the RNG at the skill ceiling. In Flappy Bird if you die it's 100% your fault all the time which makes it quite compelling to try again.

Also it's a total Black Swan event and should be treated as such.
There are plenty of reasons a person might find a tricycle more appropriate for their use than a bicycle, personal preference of course being a perfectly reasonable one.
To be fair, actually to me it sounded like she meant it would take a day to teach people who already knew some programming to teach it. That's still kind of underestimating how hard it is to teach programming though.
Flappy Bird Creator Reveals How Much He’s Making, And It’s A Lot
Hey all you guys who make PC's, here's an idea on how to make some money. Build a good laptop, let me upgrade it, and support it.

Apple right now makes some of the best hardware you can buy, and they are pretty profitable doing it. The problem is I can't upgrade it. I would spend a fair bit of money for a good quality (materials, and parts) laptop. No one seems to be doing that any more. Most laptops have these huge clunky plastic cases, with cheap parts, and terrible support.
Apple creates Sapphire Crystal furnaces to make 100-200M ~5-inch iPhone displays
I'd be surprised if using a pseudonym for someone made you immune to libelling them.

Made up example:

"I once met a president of the USA, he was called Carrick O'Barmy [name changed to protect the innocent] he was snorting crack of a toilet seat at the time" ... doesn't look like it would if printed as a truth, but was really a lie, mean I would get off scott-free unless the context was clearly parody (or as here labelled as a fiction).

IANAL of course, nor even a USA citizen.
Maybe they need a more "corporate" packaging for it. The CBox 1?
Evernote Denies ‘Secret’ Acquisition Rumor
According to the numerous people in this thread who have made observations on who "Michelle", it's also probably quite untrue. Especially the first part.
I'd argue than a condition flag in this case would introduce code bloat (declare, initialize, check in the loop construct) and decrease readability compared to a goto Label.
Two weeks ago, I went to a birthday party for a kid we know. His dad works for google and there are a lot of tablets in the house. I was outside eating barbeque, then went inside, and not hearing any noise, went into the kids playroom thinking they were all asleep. All five were sitting on the sofa playing the same game of minecraft. There was a nexus 7 on the floor that had evidently been drained of battery. My son had plugged his in (I carry a micro-usb cord and converter in my pocket for events like this). Their ages: 5 to 9.

They played for an hour solid, only speaking to each other to discuss in-game stuff, like: how do you make arrows, or who has strings...

Not once did they ask parents for help.
Health Disorder Often Mistaken For Obesity Posses Serious Threat For Women
Lipoedema is a genetic, metabolic and hormonal disorder that effects women of all ages and body types. It is relatively unrecognized and misunderstood by health care professionals which presents huge problems and complications to patients who suffer from this disorder.
See jader201's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7192705

That said there is no easy answer for widgets.
The flapping mechanic looks a lot like swimming in Super Mario Bros (1985), or the flying in Joust (1982), minus the ability to control your horizontal movement. So it seems pointless to compare it to more recent games. If the game involved only jumping, or climbing ladders, or shooting, would we try to figure out which other games had that mechanic?
Even Lorde knows about Dogecoin
If "standards compliant" means implementing every feature then no new (or existing) browser will ever be standards complaint anyways. This is not a lever that can be used to force everyone to implement DRM.
Good work! Just a suggestion: You should probably look to collaborate with this guy: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

The two of you together can help us (l)users know when we've been pwned...
Hands-on with Google’s new “Chromebox for meetings”
20 Stunning App Icon Designs
I wish I had the nerve to put A Programming Motherfucker on my résumé...
Google: it’s time to make a public commitment to ethical hiring practices.
Nope. I was right. Just looked.
Creator of the project here. Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into it
Not to mention the kinds of programs that would most benefit from lightweight threads are high connection count servers. Precisely the kinds of applications where the JVM weaknesses are most hidden (startup time, base level latency, etc).
Eeek! Only 50-50? I'd love to see if I can improve that for you.

Could you either send an email to gifwrapped@jellystyle.com or create a support request (link below) so I can get to the bottom of this? If you could attach a couple of the non-working gifs, that'd be helpful too! :)

http://support.jellystyle.com/discussions/gifwrapped
Yeah - they need to work together, but it doesn't seem like the GC should be in a position where they're being judged by the person they need to be watching. That's like the ratings agencies being paid by the banks they're supposed to be regulating...
Ask HN: Which music player do you use?
We're building an audio platform with a twist at a Hackathon this weekend and we were wondering what you guys use to listen to music? Especially if you do it through a web based application.
Greece is ok for startups. Connection is fast, living expenses cheap an always sunny. Strikes and protests are well policed and easy to avoid. Biggest problem here are taxes.
We've cobbled together a rough equivalent of this at work, using a Mac Mini + Hangouts, a Logitech video camera, a wall-mounted flatscreen, and a USB speakerphone. The pieces all work as expected, but it's clunky and needs to be better integrated.

For example, someone will change the Mac's sound IO for whatever reason, then the Hangout audio IO will change and someone else won't realize this (e.g. sound comes out of the Mini speaker in the closet, instead of the speakerphone). So a few mins at the start of every few meetings is spent debugging these things.

The holy grail everyone wants is, "walk into the room, and it just does the right thing." This looks like a step in that direction from our current setup.
What I am hearing is:
- You can be successful, just make sure you don't get it by dumb luck.
- You can be successful, just make sure you spent more than 2 days coding your app.

Otherwise, you suck and we hate you.
Show HN: Those Pesky Release Notes
They forgot to mention Lesson #1 which is go ahead and just blatantly rip out the tile graphics from an old Nintendo game and reuse them, it is easier than wasting time creating your own and apparently you can get away with it.
Show HN: geocolor, geojson data classification and coloring viewable in github
Try linking to "img.imgur.com" instead.
It's not Procrastination, it's You.
A Guide to Basic CSS Layout Structures and Quirks
Docker inc - http://www.docker.com/jobs/ - San Francisco, CA

Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineer, Web Designer

At Docker Inc, we believe that containerization will soon become the next big thing, the next tool which will be part of every developer and sysadmin toolbox. What's "containerization"? The name comes the LXC technology (Linux Containers), and the technique is also known as "Lightweight Virtualization".

That's why we recently launched Docker (http://www.docker.io/), an Open Source tool enabling anyone to run those Linux Containers very easily. Containers boot 1000x faster than virtual machines; their disk and memory footprint are also much lower; and they work on virtually all current platforms (from physical servers to public cloud instances). We think that they are the future of virtualization, and will soon become ubiquitous.

Convinced? Then fork the repo on github (https://github.com/dotcloud/docker) and have a look at the code. Not convinced? Then check the website (http://www.docker.io/), which contains more details, demos, and screencasts. Excited about this? Then join our engineering team!

Your responsibilities will include:

- being a contributor to the Docker project, which means contributing patches, and reviewing and merging pull requests from the community;

- working on some server-side applications;
participate in product discussions, influence the roadmap, and take ownership and responsibility over new projects to make them happen.

You can qualify if you...:

- can read and write Go code (because docker itself is in Go);

- can read and write Python code (because many tools and services built around Docker are in Python);

- are familiar with network protocols: the lower layers like IP, TCP, and UDP; and the higher layers like HTTP;

- have experience in scaling large applications;

- believe that writing unit and functional tests is important.
In fact, his original title was "a case against the goto statement". It was the editor of CACM that gave it the link-baity (for the time) title "considered harmful".
Not a direct replacement for Lob (as they are targeting a different subset of the print market), but have a look at peecho and see if they offer what you need.

Disclaimer: I work at a company that could be considered in some ways a competitor to lob or peecho. We don't offer what you're asking about though, so I'm just here to help...
You are not afraid that this will lead to radical redistribution of wealth eventually resulting in loss of motivation to create wealth?

The motivation to create wealth justification for inequality is one of the most morally bankrupt ideas ever conceived. Billions of people around the world live in abject poverty; to blame them for their situation takes a profound case of the fundamental attribution error.
it is solvable in organizations with people who have an enormous amount of credibility within the company. The most commmon examples are people who either founded the company or can credibly claim to have been their transformative savior (or in the case of Steve Jobs, both).

Of course, founders have a way of either dying (Bill Hewlett & Dave Packard, and Steve Jobs again) or "losing their touch" (Mike Lazaridis of RIM).

I would be curious of any examples in which there was such an undisputed leader at a company who was neither its founder nor its savior.
Microsoft’s Surface RT Price Drop Tripled Monthly Sales Volume
The Chromebox is significantly cheaper than other enterprise VC solutions ($10k+ with steep annual fees). For those customers, I think the Chromebox is really compelling as it is a much better user experience.
Well, it also goes to show that public perception and reputation of a person can be largely at odds with reality. I like Horowitz's story, too, because it shows that even though people can do illegal things, it's very easy to do so with the best of intentions. Given the widespread nature of options backdating at the time, Michelle may have even been under the impression that her proposal was one of the "tricks of the trade," so to speak.
Bitcoin banned in Russia?
Github READMEs in Markdown are the new man-pages.
That is some impressive graphics.
Hi, I made this quick guide to help my father-in-law with learning the basics of CSS quirks. I hope newbies find this useful, and it would make for a great share with your aunt/uncle/mom/dad/friend whom is just getting into HTML and CSS wand wants to learn basic layout.
PX = CX = UX = #usable + #feels_fast + #was_emotive
Every company I've ever worked at (save one) had projectors in conference rooms, but no permanent computer hooked up to it. The meeting organizer would have to set up a web conference in something, and then people would share their Desktop, and whoever the presenter at the moment was would plug in their laptop.

And then the guy forgot his power cord, and can't project for the whole meeting.

And then the other guy forgot his Mac's VGA converter.

And then some other guy has a Mac VGA converter, but it's the old one, not the new one.

And then the guy's Windows box for some reason will not show video on the second monitor.

And the file he needed was on his desktop, not his laptop, and does anyone have a USB key?

And now Windows is rebooting and you can't turn off the power, because it's installing updates.

I think a permanent ChromeOS-based computer plugged in to the projector makes a TON of sense. I've also drunk the Google Docs kool-aid, so YMMV.

EDIT: Oh, and then because the projector was sharing his desktop, we get to see a ton of instant messages. Some of them from his wife. If instead you were doing a Hangout on a collaborative Google Doc, you wouldn't see that.
As someone who has a tendency to read negativity into neutral comments on the internet, allow me to point out that there's nothing in the GPs comment that suggest that it is disparaging. It is actually extremely matter of fact, and even helpful (even though it contradicted part of your original statement). Sure, the quotation could be read as snarky, but that's only because there are a lot of shitty, snarky people on the internet that use neutral language to be jerks. It kind of spoils the well for everyone when neutral direct language is transformed into mean, hateful sentiment, but this comment gives absolutely no outward indication that it is of that sort. Whether or not it was meant to be snarky, as people who communicate often on the internet, we would all be happier if we had the ability to take such comments at face value.

And to be clear, if I had made your original comment earnestly, and received the GPs reply, I am not at all certain that I wouldn't take it just the way you did. I'm just pointing out that it needn't be taken that way.
Man pages are bad but mostly useful

INFO pages on the other hand, are terrible. Is there something less intuitive than the Info reader?

Navigation is awful

I think the RHIDE IDE had a better Info reader, IIRC, that one was useful.
I don't think this addresses screen sharing, which is a big part of half of the conference calls I'm on.
It's possible to perform compare-and-swaps in java just like it is in C. They compile right down to the same primitives that flip bits in metal: you'll get CMPXCHGL instructions (using x86_64 as an example) from the jvm just as you will from gcc.
I should also mention that the editors of the article cut what I felt was an important part - how I fell in love with the country, found that my social and family life was better here (In Israel), and how it was all about personal reasons for me - not professional...

I wish they'd left that bit in, but what can I do? ;)
LinkedIn To Acquire Bright.com
Researchers make self-healing plastic from common materials
On the contrary. Tablets are finally beginning to get good.

Android Tablets support multiple users. Active stylus support is becoming natural (Surface Pro, Dell Venue Pro, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Tab Note). Tablets are beginning to treat HTML5 pages more consistently.

Its still a while out before Tablets become amazing, but I'm going to be grabbing one soon (Dell Venue Pro 8 + Active Stylus) because they're finally good enough to be on my radar.
My employer received a number of pre-release units for testing and feedback. One of my coworkers reviewed it here: http://blog.cdw.com/hands-on-with-googles-new-chromebox-for-...

Edit: HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7192940
three suggestions:

1. “Put one foot in front of the other” for two to three weeks: close out
small tasks, don’t look at the big picture but schedule a time to look at
it candidly and let your subconscious work on it.
2. Find a way to dramatically break the pattern of your day: fast for a
day, volunteer somewhere for a day, go along an all day hike, spend a
day at a museum or art gallery, etc...It’s not about getting away from
the challenge as much as finding a way to get some emotional distance on
the constraints you are wrestling with
3. Make a list of what you have accomplished in your life and the
people you have enjoyed working with. Often when I have a setback
I forget what I have done and tend to focus on the things I have screwed up.
I'm getting no redirect.

Firefox Beta with adblock

Not logged in to imgur
It's 99% impossible for you to get a resident visa.

Actually, everyone should know this... what you can get in Israel is a highly skilled work visa but this is limited to max 5 years, in any size of blocks for the course of your entire life. Meaning you can work for 5 years and then they will just kick you out. (I know from first hand experience).
What's to prevent a hacker from compromising a computer then checking config scripts for the monitor?
"Sailing" on Google Trends. Going down (generally) over the last 10 years.

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sailing