skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that:

• Manpages are short. The average length is around 4 pages printed, much of which is pro-forma. Some run longer. Shells in particular (bash(1) runs around 98 pages piped through 'pr').

• Manpages include an EXAMPLES section, though this isn't always filled. That should be considered a bug.

• Manpages suffer from various projects attempting to deprecate them in favor of other forms of documentation. I particularly fault the GNU project's attempt to shoehorn info in place of man (the availability of man to Web utilities such as Debian's dwww largely wholly supplants this: info and the WWW were born within months of each other, Stallman and the FSF should have conceded the battle decades ago). Red Hat and the GNOME project have also been notably lax in providing manpages for utilities and programs. The Debian project considers omission of a manpage for an executable to be a bug, though not a release-critical one (I wish this severity would be increased).

• Fixing the deficiencies of existing manpages (and beating upstreams over the head with these until they're accepted) would be preferable to creating numerous externally maintained nonstandard variants. http://xkcd.com/927/
Why does this tick you off? "Non-profit" doesn't mean it has to be a charity. It just means that they make no profit... All profits are divided among the teams and taxed accordingly. The money is being taxed, just not at the "top" level.
I was going to ask what music slows the perception of time, then after checking his soundcloud under related sounds I came across [Orchestral Crunkwave](https://soundcloud.com/tags/orchestralcrunkwave).
Whenever anybody says that CSS is easy, or "of course you can do that with CSS", or even hints that CSS is somehow well-designed...

...the only thing I really need to say, is that every couple months, on Hacker News, where a lot of really smart people hang out, a new top-voted story comes up about how to center a div. With tons of comments and discussion too. And it's not even a joke.

What more is there to say?
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is distinguishable from malice.

Apple has certain well advertised priorities. Interoperability with non-Apple systems is not one of them.

(Not to blame Apple in particular -- non-intropability is coincidentally a common feature among the biggest player in every industry, while interopability is a key feature of challengers. But it's just a "bug"... )
I have a dotjs extension (firefox) which sole purpose is to prevent those pesky huged fixed headers.
The the element is merely sitting on the line-height and not being positioned. So no, I think you are incorrect on that one. It is a nice bit of work otherwise.
God no, I just threw up in my mouth.

Once your website is sufficiently complex, having to trail and which td belongs to what tr in which td is a NIGHTMARE.

Don't do it people - coming from a front end developer. A backend developer has no business commenting on front end issues, just a javascript developer shouldn't really dive out advice on proper DBA procedure.
As mentioned elsewhere: "display: table-cell" with "vertical-align: middle".
However even if someone picked the project up again it wouldn't run on any modern devices, since the last iPhone to have an untethered bootrom exploit was the 3GS.
I use iOS on an iPhone.

1) the hints shown on the desktop version if search (about prefixes) are not shown on the mobile version of the site.

2) I have no idea how to sort the results by time or points or relevance after you've returned the list.

3) searching for [danbc] doesn't return enough results. Searching for [danbc operating] doesn't return any results - but I have used the word operating in a few posts.

It is very fast though!
Why I manage my own blog
But the cosmic radiation does not come from the sun.

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

Then, in 1912, Victor Hess carried three enhanced-accuracy Wulf electrometers[12] to an altitude of 5300 meters in a free balloon flight. He found the ionization rate increased approximately fourfold over the rate at ground level.[12] Hess also ruled out the Sun as the radiation's source by making a balloon ascent during a near-total eclipse. With the moon blocking much of the Sun's visible radiation, Hess still measured rising radiation at rising altitudes.[12] He concluded "The results of my observation are best explained by the assumption that a radiation of very great penetrating power enters our atmosphere from above." In 1913–1914, Werner Kolhörster confirmed Victor Hess' earlier results by measuring the increased ionization rate at an altitude of 9 km.
When's ones "political agenda" is to protect people from paying money to walk into the traps they are complaining about...
> you would probably have to use one of the more involved GC algorithms that require kernel support like Azul's C4 collector

Which shouldn't be such a problem if you're already writing an OS?

Also AIUI the only "hard part" of C4 is making sure objects don't get modified while they're being moved (that's what the barrier's there to detect) - which isn't a problem if everything's immutable.
The problem with two-factor is that if user forgets the device the options to bypass two-factor can be limited and inconvenient. If I happen to be using a public computer because I need to retrieve something urgently from my email, Google will make it so hard that I can't access it immediately. (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185834?hl=en&ref_...)

Password seems broken for two reasons:

1. password requirement varies and is a pain in the ass. Some sites will ask for at least 8 characters, mix of uppercase and lowercase, one occurence of non-alphanumeric character and the password is at least certain length. Some even go as far as no repeating characters or max password length (8-15 characters).

While the intention is great, it makes password so hard to remember and people are less likely

2. every website runs its own password management. How the heck can I tell website X is actually hashing my password and doing it correctly? I can't.

Persona - single identity is probably the way to go. Adding multi-factor auth will be great. But again, I argue that password by itself is not entirely broken. If the attacker can access the database directly by ssh into the server, then there is also a possibility that the app server can be compromised and therefore alerting app code is just a finger tip away. This is the highest level of attack and the story is over at this stage.

I personally think password is not entirely broken. It has value. By itself it may not be as strong as having multi--step authentication. Authenticating yourself with key-only, or device-key only is the worst thing ever. It's like running EC2 instance. If I delete the instance's key off my computer, I will cry.

So keeping infrastructure secure is important. Multi-factor authentication on the server side is critical. Keeping database apart from app server is too critical.
We actually solved that problem and purely functional distribution exists, its called NixOS
Indeed. DOT fines tend to be small in this area. On the other hand, it is notable that DOT considered and rejected each of AA's defenses. That could be useful as precedent.

Some passengers may also have meritorious claims they'd like to bring against AA on an individual basis.
When requirements change —

center { text-align: left }
We already have a purely functional linux distro that is immutable and stateless, called NixOS
When I lived in Southern California the NFL and its boosters were continually trying to get the taxpayers to build a stadium complex. The arguments always went something like "There will be X new tax revenue and Y new jobs." And that's probably true.

But if you took the same land and used the same money to build a big shopping mall your X and Y would both be much bigger. Every time local governments did a study that compared a new stadium to just about any other use of the land the alternative was better.

I'm not opposed to stadiums, per se, but professional sports teams are businesses and as such need to pay their own expenses.
Accidentally clicked on the wrong icon and downvoted you, sorry, my bad.
Steve Jobs dies and everything goes to hell. Tim Cooks biggest innovation was the Apple Dividend.
> They are not profitable at all, which would mean teachers would not get paid at all under your model of supply and demand.

I think profit is used differently depending on context. I would guess this is a reference to 'profit' in the economic sense of the word. In that case, that is profit for the firm i.e. taking salary into account.

Another industry that's traditionally taken as an example of zero-profitability is local [non-chain] restaurants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-profit_condition
I was being sarcastic. People change constantly. You can no more predict your future with someone than you can anything else.
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I've mention something like this previously, in light of Obama 'conceding' on NSA complaints by suggesting the data be stored in private corporate hands.

It is befuddling.
Show HN: Luna Delivery – night packages for London
Hi guys. We just launched last week in London, been pretty crazy so far.

https://LunaDel.com/

Just wanted to get feedback re our front page and if there is anyone out there who has experience with logistics or similar services? Could use some help and just to chat with those in the industry.

Working with a great team sourced from the Freelancer thread on here. It's a really great source of talent. Especially for us here in London, UK.

If there's anyone of you in London who want to meetup or if you use the service, would love to hear your thoughts. Just mail me: lm@lunadel.com

Thanks
Meh. The NFL is a nonprofit organization. I don't see the problem. The teams pay plenty of taxes.
Simple hosted private npm and registry.nodejitsu.com – blog.nodejitsu.com
Coding my way around 100 countries
As somewhat specifically indicated in your list by "user login", you also launched without any kind of permissions model, and most of the applications built on your stack for a very long time thereby were, without even realizing it (as your marketing materials I will argue weren't really honest about the issue) storing customer data in insecure ways. I imagine many of those applications are still out there, unknowingly exposing information that they don't realize just anyone can go download (or even manipulate) via your API.

(Even the Instagram-clone demo application you guys had to show how awesome your solution was had these issues: anyone could fake comments or pictures as any other account. You managed to just barely fix that one in time with a new major feature you launched the night before my talk at 360|iDev 2012, where I was doing demos of all of these security flaws in solutions like yours ;P. I sadly hadn't bothered to come up with third-party applications using Parse that had issues, so I wasn't able to then do any cool live demos against your offering, but obviously those would have still been vulnerable: you hadn't even yet updated the tutorial showing how to build the application how to use the new security features :/.)

(For the people reading this who aren't aware of these kinds of problems: people use these services relying on client-side verification. I had an example of a company--unnamed in the presentation--using StackMob that was a singles meet-up application. Using the StackMob API you could download their entire user database, including all of the Facebook full-access offline tokens they had for each user and every private message the users had sent to each other. Storing data in a scalable and secure manner is not an easy problem, but the business model of these kinds of companies kind of rely on making it seem like an easy problem, leading people into horrible implementations without guidance or often even the tooling required for security.)

Now, clearly: that didn't keep you from being successful, so nothing I'm saying should detract from the "lesson" here being learned, even by your specific example; but, this is a bug in the way people interact with product marketing that depresses me to no end daily: that people who wait to include critical functionality--not something optional like "object counts" but something absolutely core to the value proposition of "manage your application's data without running your own server" such as "user login" and server-enforced permissions--in the end can often get screwed by being "beaten to the customer mindset" by someone who decides "engh, unimportant" and decided they could "iterate" on security or safety features once already deployed :(.
Can you provide a link? This is probably my hugest pet peeve when it comes to browsing the internet. I have no idea how fixed headers became so trendy and I find them absurdly painful. I tend to read at the top of the page and scroll down to keep my current line near the top, and (large) fixed headers really mess with that. Small ones can still be annoying, but some like Facebook's aren't that bad.

I even asked a question on the superuser stack exchange about blocking them, but it never got very useful results.
A Python App to See What People Are Saying About You
You are totally right, I have moved the blog from my old domain wait-till-i.com to my name about a year ago and realised in November that all my ads got killed that way (see how I game that system) :)

This was the first to come in, and I felt rather torn about it. It was needed to get one in to get the affiliate program (which changed owners in between, another thing that is kind of fishy) kickstarted again.

The good bit about these is that all they want is a link. No JS, no Flash, nothing, which is why I considered them in the first place anyway.

Utterly fair points though, so here's a fat header above them and a nofollow on the link.
I don't understand your point. It says "The uploader has not made this video available in your country" for me, so it looks like ARD did that on purpose. They could have hosted that on any server and blocked you by IP address.

We have Fair Use in the US, which is the protection you seem to be grasping for, and while the concept is weaker in the EU, even with stronger protections it makes no logical sense to depend on the person who wants to (over) enforce their copyright to distribute their works freely under fair use. Even without any copyright at all, you still wouldn't be able to force them to distribute to everyone. You might as well mail them and ask for a copy, and, when they turn you down, call for a post-Postal-Service world.

You can, however, look to others to distribute the work, and as others have said below, the interview is available online[1]. If you think fair use in this case is important and someone tries to get the interview taken down from the Internet Archive, I suggest donating to hopefully get some good precedent behind them.

[1] https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
The printed output of the BSD 3.4 manuals for the first UNIX system I used (other than for playing BSD games as a kid) always had a certain fascination for me. Several large 3-ring binders comprising the sections of the manual, Postscript printed from their troff sources.

Note that you can still do this with manpages:

man -Tps bash > /tmp/bash.ps

Or if you prefer PDF output:

man -Tps bash | ps2pdf - > /tmp/bash.pdf

... not that this addresses the content of the manpages, as you note. But at least you can decide on the format.
'Clojure has transients, which basically means "inside this function, use a mutable value under the hood while building up the value, but make it immutable before it's returned"' is this essentially a ... closure?
Depends on what you want to do. I admit I didn't know what iMessage was capable of, but the basic features (text, images) are also possible with XMPP. The more complicated ones is a mixture of "the ISPs don't allow that" (I'm thinking accepting inbound connections), "the user needs 3rd party support" (I'm thinking about needing a proxy server for transfers, which most people don't have, but Apple can conveniently proxy transfer through its own servers) and "just do it".

The problem with XMPP (or any IM protocol for that matter) is that if nobody uses it, there will be little technical progress, which means few people will use it, etc...
We compared a few childcare places and while all seemed adequate, the one we went with has a kitchen with some instructional component (e.g., children often see how the food is prepared and get some practice), chickens and vegetable garden, has orchestra-level musicians visit for music days, etc. It's a purpose built facility rather than a retro-fitted house too.

My child is there only two days a week, so I have no issue with not being able to drop in to play during lunch breaks.
Here's the series that blows my mind:
Here's a little table of results for the past 8 years.

Cash generated by operating activities, Q1
Year Dollars, millions
2007 1,813
2008 2,787
2009 3,938
2010 5,781
2011 9,773
2012 17,554
2013 23,426
2014 22,670
I need help signing in my Instagram
Is there anyone that can help me with my Instagram I'm having difficulties signing in on my phone from the app it says I violated the terms but when I use the internet or other peoples phone it let's me sign in
No this does not work. Group MMS from iohones are still dropped (as the article clearly describes).
Nevermind the fact that iMessage existed long before SJ passed on and that this issue has been present since then. Just cut off those rough edges to cram it into your narrative.
Well, of course it comes with gotchas:

- if that item is "display: table-cell", it must be within a larger element that's "display: table" or "display: table-row"

- "vertical-align: middle" works also for inline-block elements, but that means it's subject to all the other gotchas present in the article about explicit sizing

It eventually makes a kind of sense, but these rules are passed down in folklore and trial-and-error.
It's almost absurd the lack of fanfare surrounding AT&Ts proposed phase out of the PSTN in favor of IP networks.

We got number portability and wireless number portability, but the carriers still act as if they own our e.164 addresses and make the transfers arbitrarily difficult. We use phone numbers of SMS, but really we use individual address books, stored in devices, or synchronized with central repositories. We use names to identify people and have to work hard to ensure that our address books are not filled up with duplicates created because we used a one-off email address, or phone number and the phone wasn't able to merge it with an existing contact automatically. We have identity providers that can only represent a small portion of our identity, real names on Facebook and Google+, but cannot resolve that back to our phone numbers or find the best way to contact us at any given time. Presence, which was the real promise of IM and XMPP (and SIMPLE if you must) is not integrated. I cannot determine before hand whether somebody is available to talk on the phone, would prefer a text message, or if I should leave a push voice message they can listen to at their leisure.

Even calling a company with a well designed IVR is still a confusing waste of time, when the device I am calling that system from is smart enough to contain any identifier or proof of identity that the called party would need, the protocols are artificially limited to phone numbers as identifiers. There is also no out of band solution to this problem, or the the problem of selecting what department I would prefer to speak with about a problem without navigating a menu that the interface on my device is not really designed to use. Think DTMF on an Android device where the screen shuts off.
Next week: The complete guide to sticky footers!

It's unbelievable just how annoying CSS can be for seemingly simple things.
I have a question for mobile developers...

is Apple the only one making this mistake?
Air if OSX, Lenovo X1 Carbon if windows...

That's what I've heard...
> Also, instead of passing any arguments to "git-log", I usually just use "tig", an ncurses display of the commits: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/05/git-tig/

Agree, tig is awesome and in my opinion the best git GUI (or at least representation). Use the normal commandline tools for commiting/cutting/rebasing/... and tig to see where everything is at!
Web Host Cancels Account Because Of Tweet Asking About Downtime
This story is more than two days old already. What's it doing on the HN front page? (I changed all my more crucial passphrases more than a day ago, just out of an abundance of caution.)
Thanks, but isn't that semantics? :-)
The argument you put forth has already been done against the case of used car salesmen/saleswomen. The argument is that those people rely on reputation to sell successfully, and thus reviews from previous buyers will fill in the gap of information asymmetry to new buyers.

If the customer collects the critical information about the product from other buyers before purchase, information asymmetry can always (even with used cars) be removed. However, the buyer must also in practice be able to assess the value of a product through examination before purchase. If consumers in the general case do not inform themselves by reviews and shared customer experience, information asymmetry will happen.

So when a game is released with horrible user reviews or below working condition, they still tend to sell perfectly well. Even in cases where the developers themselves has admitted the poor state and given refunds, the games sell perfectly well. In a world with information asymmetry in games, Simcity and Rome 2 can be commercial successes, and even Ride to hell sells copies.

If you believe that there is no information asymmetry in games, how do you explain the discrepancy between reality and theory?
dogecoin is an interesting dual to bitcoin for experimenting with money. Microtransactions are relatively unregulated / ignored by the tax collectors of the world. Small gifts / capital gains under some quantitiy are usually not reportable. Even children buy and sell baseball cards, comic books, marbles etc... I could imagine children using dogecoin or fedoracoin / TIPS. Are they going to enforce AML / KYC on transacations worth 0.015 cents through a tipbot ?
How often you visit the store, where you walk in the store, how long you are at the store.

Your identity doesn't need to be attached for this information to be useful; for example, the store can say things like "gee look half our customers leave three minutes after they enter the store, so we are having a hard time converting walk-ins to sales". Or perhaps "Wow it looks like 90% of our customers come back within a week, we are doing great at getting repeat visits"
I highly recommend reading 'This is your brain on music' by Daniel J. Levitin if you're interested in learning more about the neuroscience side of music.
I recently went back to a project to convert the CSS to SASS, and shit was over 1,200 LOC. I think I managed to trim something like 200 LOC, but it turns out that there were a truckload of hotfixing for all the evil quirks CSS throws at you at every given opportunity.

The LOC just grows exponentially, when you approach 100% non-quirky cross-browser uniformity.

I will say this; CSS is a great lesson in humility for every hacker and programmer who try their hand at it. And you can learn a lot about someone by how they describe CSS and the front-end developers who make a living working with it.
“Never Heard of It, Must Not Be Big” Has Never Been More Wrong
I had exactly the same issue on holiday last year. When out and about I wouldn't see any messages and then as soon as I got back to wifi they'd all come through.

Just another of the many apple straws that have been breaking the camel's back for me recently. The fact that it could haunt me even after I completely leave their platform is truly disturbing.

I feel that this issue needs a lot of noise. Bug or not it should be filed under non-competitive behaviour.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7164630