skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the reply!

> the current process is to hold the money from the clients in the bank account for the sanity of both client and freelancer.

Sounds kind of like an escrow service. What kind of measures does he have in place if there is a discrepancy between the client and developer? For instance what if the client feels cheated somehow and wants some money back. Admittedly if you're a good contractor and have vetted your clients this hardly ever happens but there are edge cases.
Yo my man! Four legs good, two legs bad!

(I really, really hope you don't get down-voted from those who miss the point).
Chalking this blog post up to FUD spreading and moving on with my life then!
Why Multi-Cloud? Evolution, Freedom
That's fine. I don't care about convincing you. I care about convincing people who have the same perspective on individual freedom that I do that are reading this thread.

I guess if there's no convincing you, then your open-mindedness claim dies with this discussion.

Toodle-oo.
Nondiabetics have normal A1c because they do not exhibit wild blood glucose swings, even postprandially.
Much of the complaints I had, also the baffling license choice when it could just as easily be released under the MIT license or whatever others there are out there.
It's all kind of heresay isn't it? The only thing we know for sure is that Jordan should've never taken the job. On Twitter (@SuperCoolJordan) he admitted that the commute, pay, and hours were not to his liking BEFORE he took the job. His leaving the way he did only shows that Jordan doesn't belong in a corporate environment. We know nothing about his employers.
Basics of WebRTC PeerConnections
I was, in my teens. Specially in my "angsty phase", videogames were my escape.

Now, I don't play as much as I would like because of work and personal life. It also helps that most of my firends aren't gamers.

IMO, it's the finest and most flexible medium that currently exists, taking cues from a lot of the others. I'm an amateur video and board game designer and developer. It's hard to play games because of this, as I am always playing games with a "research" and "critical" perspective. I force myself not to replay games and try to only play games "that matter" and that "have something new", whatever that may mean at the moment.

I find it very sad to see so many HN'ers say they are "wasting their time" with games. There is a lot of crap, but some game are well worth the time. (As it is with everything -> Sturgeon's Law)

So, to answer the question, I was addicted in the past, I'm not anymore. But I would gladly be addicted again (in the good way :) ).
I am part of couple of Alan Watts discussion groups on facebook and reddit. I saw a HUGE surge of interest in all these groups.

Is it because of the movie Her?
I feel jaded. I know NASA has new evidence of water on Mars. I know this is true everyday when I wake up, because they've announced it so many over the last 10 years. I don't care any more.
I love it.

One thing though, I don't want another text editor. This is a feature, not an app, and I want this to integrate into my existing workflow. I don't know if that is a web service for integration with popular editors, integration with things like Editorially, or something else, but I really don't want to open yet another app to edit things.
Could be mostly pages without CSS. But layouts that don't need to restrict the width in any way do exist.
Yes. Groups labeling themselves as feminists have sought to disrupt speakers, harass audience members, and basically stop gatherings by literally doing nothing more enlightening than yelling, "Shut up already!" Then this behavior is justified through ad homonym attacks on the speaker and audience.

You can find references to the earlier incident here:
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2013/03/08/a-mens-righ...

Also, 5 minutes into the speech described above, the fire alarm was pulled. To me, that's not speaking truth to power. That's violating the rights of others.
Falling in Love with HTML and CSS
It'd be interesting to paste a typical cover letter in the app and see how much crap one has to write nowadays to get to the interview stage. :)
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Facebook is protecting the vast majority of users and making developers click a checkbox to undo that protection. There are plenty of things to get outraged about, but I'd argue this isn't one of them.
I thought the same exact thing. I've seen some newer CSS frameworks using stuff like min-width (I think for responsive reasons), so maybe that accounts for the 6%? Just a theory, though.
Guarding your library boundary with a recover doesn't absolve your library internals from being nonidiomatic by using panics. (That the stdlib uses panic/recover in a few specific places does not make it broadly idiomatic.)

Without seeing specific code I can't say for sure, but it's very unlikely that any database interaction code is best modeled with panic/recover for error handling. I'm very curious to see the source, at this point.
> The downside to failure is exceptionally low. It's all other people's money (at least in Silicon Valley)

i always feel disgusted by this sort of attitude. sure it mitigates risk, but as secular and reasoned as i like to think i am its just morally reprehensible as an attitude to take...

i treat other people's money with /more/ respect than my own. maybe thats just me being backwards.

always taken the attitude that if you need someone else's money to start then you aren't really ready to enter that business. maybe you should start a small business and build funds first... instead of taking a risk with other people's money when the sum total of your experience is approaching zero.

sure its their own fault for investing the money... but that doesn't make it easier for me to swallow.

i do not consider this irrationality to be a bad thing
Just to share an awesome GitHub feature that I learned about when doing a similar integration as you; your repository also tracks all Pull Request related commits. Really helpful when you're trying to build these sorts of tools in the future. If you set refspec to the following then you'll get automated builds for any commit activity related to all Pulls. Its saved me tons of time writing middleware to handle these things.

+refs/pull/*:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*

The major Jenkins plugins have their respective build-on-new-commits, so you can automate these builds and just treat these like feature branches.'
There are import taxes, there is a cost of shipping it back to Europe and there's a cost of re-certification to European standards. It still makes sense $-ly, but it's a hassle.
Seems relevant! For those of you who have never met a woman, they also have faces and nails just like us! What a thoughtful and anthropocentric gift :)

Now it's not like _only_ women have faces and nails, but hey a gift is a gift!
I guess that's possible, but then why did Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla all decide it was important enough to implement years ago? It's not like this is some controversial political thing like DRM, or some huge technical challenge that would require a lot of resources - it's just a simple database API. Even if they ignored the multiple existing open source implementations, they could build their own very easily. And they've had years to do it.

Incidentally, I've been trying to make non-dev users care. I wrote a semi-popular HTML5 game that runs everywhere except iOS because it uses IndexedDB. When people complain that it doesn't run on iOS, I implore them to direct their complaints at Apple for not supporting IndexedDB. AFAIK nobody has even gotten a response.
Perhaps he was included in 'Her' because he has become popular recently.
Going To College May Cost You, But So Will Skipping It
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/5/1264.full.pdf#page=1&....
The data shows beef causes a much larger insulinogenic response than rice. There is little there isolating fat, but your first link is interesting.
This is a very beautiful and logical interface, but it's the wrong approach, because it's a very developer-centric approach to writing.

The problem with writing is you can't loop through it and find whether each sentence passes or throws an exception. A written work needs to be evaluated as a cohesive whole. That's what "bold and clear" writing means to me: a written piece of work that stands on its own and says what it means.

Computers are not smart enough yet to understand why "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." is a complete, perfect paragraph. It doesn't have a verb and it looks like Lola is misspelled multiple times, so it doesn't pass the subset of grammar rules set up in the backend. But the meaning, the essence of the paragraph is clear.

Writing may someday be able to be governed by algorithms, but not yet. I ran the second paragraph of David Copperfield through Hemingway [1], and it gave me too many adverbs, a misspelling of the British neighbourhood, and the use of passive voice. This is understandable, as Charles Dickens was a verbose writer who got paid by the word. And yet, it doesn't detract from the fact that he is one of the most-loved in the English cannon.

We can't measure good literature yet, because there is no straightforward formula, and although this is an interesting attempt, it can't teach good writing better than a human.

For a better, and still technical, approach to understanding how and why sentences and paragraphs work with us or against us, it's better to read Strunk and White, and even better to read "How Fiction Works" by James Wood.

If there is a way to incorporate at least those two books into conditional statements, I would be excited to see it.

[1] http://imgur.com/k9hsHfj
Found this via [1], would love to hear some opinions from knowledgable people here.

[1] http://www.echojs.com/news/8496
The passive voice has its place. But sentences in the form, "x is something that is y," are difficult to defend. Just write "Passive is important in good writing."

(Even worse: https://twitter.com/Graham_LRR/status/387778330054774784
)
While localStorage is blocking it offers A LOT better performance than IndexedDB, at least based on my experience.

There's also some benchmarks here: http://jsperf.com/indexeddb-vs-localstorage/6
That sounds fantastic.

I agree there is some baseline level of rote manipulation people can't get away with, but it's gone too far.
I like the app and I think the easy to remember name suits it well, even if Hemingway might turn in his grave. It's a promising start, but I'm not sure if I'd continue to use it unless I could start tracking improvements in my writing.

I would love to see a bit more of the hard data behind the rankings. For example, I just tested a blog article I wrote 5 minutes ago against an article written by a proper journo on PandoDaily and I scored higher. Does that make me a better writer? I hope not.

In all seriousness, the idea has a lot of potential and you could certainly find a few nice ways to compare yourself different writing styles of famous authors Hemingway or someone else.
Yes, I, too, can recommend listening to any of Alan Watts' many recordings available on youtube.

I don't agree 100% with everything he says, including his view of money, but I have spent many long evenings laying quietly listening and considering his perspectives.

In particular, he teaches the concept of Atman, which is the idea that the Self doesn't end at our body, but extends beyond our bodies and eventually includes the entire universe. Battles, interactions and encounters of person against person are really one organism (not Gaia...) getting to know another part of itself.
The DevOps Tools We Use and How We Use Them
If you're concerned your NTP servers may have the monlist command enabled and therefore be available for attackers to use to mount these reflection attacks there is a Nessus plugin to check for this: http://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=7178...
Why convincing somebody in discussions hardly ever works
Systematic Debugging
That was a lot of rambling and tangents that don't relate to what I assume was the central point:

If we keep automating and laying off people, eventually there wont be enough people with money (jobs to get money) in order to purchase goods made by machines.

The proposed solution seems to be:

Alter the structure of the system such that the government creates debt and distributes money as income to the people, this way even the jobless can buy products made by automation.

Some other things in there:

* Comparison of Catholics and Protestants (particularly related to guilt)

* Prices of goods should not rise.

* Making mistakes is okay.

* Money and credit is bookkeeping.
Indeed. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind the license.
Dear whoever made Hemingway: Can you please make a Wordpress plugin?

I would love you forever.

Yours in gratitude,
While I don't completely understand your comment, I didn't say my level of english was perfect ;)
Exactly. It took several individuals two months to get into his files. I don't understand why number one on their list of attack vectors is physically breaking into his house. You're pen testing an individual and number one is B&E?
Some basic documentation or even a few paragraphs of a description would be nice, for a start...
They say The associations between dairy fat intake and central obesity were consistent across body mass index categories at baseline.
This is really nice. I said I'd by $5 for a desktop version but I'd pay $10 for a Chrome extension that could work on selected text or (even better) the Gmail compose text box.
* No logging

* No unit tests
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There's a difference between "pretty" and "useful." IMHO the Yahoo Food site is pretty while sites like Reddit and Hackernews are useful. There's a place for both, and each will attract a different market and use case.
Especially as accounting and legal is easily solved:

1) hire an accountant
2) hire a lawyer

(I had both since day one and that was the best decision I ever made)
I could have posted a better reference for that claim, but I was actually very busy when I wrote that. This article by the same author (Lyle Mcdonald, a revered expert on nutrition) clears up that point very well: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/how-we-get-fat.htm...
If you're looking for a PHP microframework that's a bit more mature, I've had good experiences with Slim. http://www.slimframework.com/
Please provide one example of a free market.
Microwave just the water, then put the teabag in after. Then it will taste the same.
One major goal for IndexedDB was to be low-level enough that people could build the APIs they want on top of it. This type of design is popular these days due to some older standards like appcache and localstorage which have nice, simple, usable APIs but are not flexible enough to handle many real world situations.

(Now, one could argue that IndexedDB is still not low-level enough... but that's a separate problem.)
Current HN search is fucking terrible, especially on mobile.
That perfectly describes where I currently work; definitely noticing those symptoms. I'm looking forward to leaving in two months.
Unless I missed something, this app doesn't force edits, it merely highlights things that writers should take a second look at.

Showing someone overly long and complex sentences, and pointing out examples of passive voice could only improve an editing process. Once you manually point out problems, the burden to change/leave as is falls onto the writer.
Pro-tip....please stop popping up dialogue boxes asking me to sign up for newsletters. This one is worse than most because it waits a few seconds before appearing thus interrupting me when I'm settling into the first paragraph.
You are right on the specifics, SOAP and similar actions (lots of what really go on, under the US supervision) are what is related to TLDs.

Nobody managed to create a problem with IP block allocations yet, mainly because IPv4 is about dead, and IPv6 is plenty enough. There is no way that can change in the UN hands.

Anyway, the US has almost total control of the UN, what are you really complaining about?
It seems pretty useful as a tool for spotting the kind of linguistic howlers that tumble out on first draft. I can see this sort of thing becoming more valuable when more advanced Natural Language Programming APIs become available. It would be cool to see an attempt to encode Orwell's rules from Politics and the English language:

(i) Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.

(ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do.

(iii) If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.

(iv) Never use the passive where you can use the active.

(v) Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

(vi) Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. (https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm)

I find it quite surprising that detection of cliches and needless multiple-negatives are not common features of word processing software.
The surface of Mars is approximately equal to the land surface of Earth. It’s big.

http://www.msl-chemcam.com/index.php?menu=inc&page_consult=t... - Mars 101#.UvuUrHbfMdc

We have there only ¿three? moving robots there, but IIRC one is not moving and one is not working. And there are some (maybe 10) full static platforms, but I don’t know if any of them is working now.
I agree! The Hemingway mode at seems to be geared (ironically) at technical writing. My English teacher wouldn't like it — it encourages simplification of language and minimization of word variation. Sometimes it's good to write like Austin...
> That's marketing. They have the same number of problems as all other OSes and computers.

Absolutely not! I have to support my parents using a computer and I bought them a mac mini 6-7 years ago, because they would always get their windows machine in an unusable state where i couldn't even remotely connect to help. Using a mac, they can do the things they need to do with almost no problems: store photos, backup, email, web browse, facetime, ichat. That would be impossibly for them on a windows machine.
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>if he was so happy and enlightened

I don't remember him claiming this. Infact, one of the common themes in his lecutures is that you can't beat the game( yin-yang)
Frisian is even closer to English than Dutch. I always liked the rhyme : "bread, butter and green cheese is good English and good Fries", which in Frisian is "Brea, bûter en griene tsiis is goed Ingelsk en goed Frysk". There's a hilarious video on Youtube where the comedian Eddie Izzard attempts to talk to a Frisian Farmer in Old English and gets surprisingly far. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34
Yep, should've gone with Zitser or Poppler.
I don't think it's just Flash-messages, or it could be based on Flash-messages containing faulty data.
He gets the phone tricked to show that there is 250 missing calls on both lock screen and in the home screen (does the voice mail sms use flash?). Certain types of messages also locks the whole phone so that it has to be rebooted.
He says he has talked with Apple via both email and phone.
hahahhahah I didn't think of that
this video stupid, don't waste your time.
Let's assume for sake of argument that you are right (although as ori_b shows, you are not). Why do you expect this functionality from _make_ specifically? Nobody ever claimed it can do everything. In fact, it's a good thing it doesn't even try to do tasks for which other, purpose-built tools exist. Creating compressed archives is a very different task from managing dependency graphs. Make was built for, and excels at, the latter. For the former there are better choices (and they can be called from make if need be).
Sometimes what variables represent is too complicated to be expressed in a variable name. If you insist that all variables be semantically intelligible without reference to the part they play in the entire algorithm, you may be committing yourself to a less efficient algorithm that isn't any more flexible.

Is there something wrong with code that is too dense to be self-documenting, especially if you're willing to write and distribute a paper to explain it? Would you understand "pivot" in quicksort if you hadn't read a description of how quicksort works?
Spamassassin is not as good as Gmail but I still don't want Gmail. I don't mind giving up a bit of confort for political reasons. The same way I don't mind using DuckDuckGo with ixquick (!ix) and startpage (!sp) fallbacks instead of Google. It's a bit less confortable, but I can still find what I need.
Very cool! On a side note, Is the voice Drew Houston?
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There are _numerous_ problems with the argumentation being used here. Starting from the top, the first one is actually kind of silly.

"none of these alternate init systems did the hard work to actually become a replacement init system for anything much."

This conveniently overlooks whether or not there was any reason to do so. The scope of "classic" init is very simple. Its scope is well defined. It amounts to "start and stop the services when they're supposed to be started and stopped" and that is _all_. Those other init systems mentioned all expanded the scope of the problem of starting and stopping service a bit further, but only a tiny bit along the lines of deciding whether a county border should be on one side of a twisty creek or the other--in practice, very few people even care. Systemd expands its scope by _miles_ and strides boldly forth as a proud example of _scope creep_.

The bulk of the rest of the argument amounts to "Well, systemd did all this hard work!". This isn't KINDERGARDEN. Its insane to argue that people should be giving systemd a free pass simply because the developers _worked really hard on it_. All those edge and corner and simply misbehaving daemon cases aren't things systemd should be more than peripherally concerned with--they're things to push back on the original developers to fix from the start, and in the meantime those workarounds should be held in their proper regard... as _workarounds_, not major features, because again... _scope creep_.

Lastly, while they're busy giving systemd points for trying real hard and solving a bunch of problems that it shouldn't be bothering with, they ignore the fact that systemd was busily creating _new_ problems... but I'm sure they'll also credit systemd for solving those as well. Specifically Poettering himself recently posted about a "bug" with apparent filesystem corruption caused by systemd failing to properly unmount a filesystem when it's upgraded... during which at some point they appear to have decided that PID 1 is some mystical holy number (which it is _not_) and that going back to the initrd the system booted with is a completely fine and reasonable thing to do, and that it is not, in fact, a sign that one has seriously painted themselves into a corner. They're essentially arguing that they didn't paint themselves into a corner because they're standing in the middle of a long hallway... surrounded by paint... and that the real problem is the lack of roof access.

It's a _huge_ workaround for what is simply not a problem for a small, simple initd that _only_ handles a small, well-defined problem and handles it correctly.

...but you pro-systemd people enjoy having to explain why half the core system functionality has to stop whenever you have to upgrade any of it. The rest of us will continue to use systems that do what they're supposed even while being upgraded.