skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I understand correctly what your question is, it shouldn't be a problem. Since your JavaScript - which you are testing - is publicly accessible, the tests shouldn't do any harm. They cannot do anythin, what the users couldn't do anyways.

What can be a problem: if you produce sample data during running the tests, you are going to produce a lot of trash data in your production environment. But you shouldn't do it anyway - just mock AJAX calls and so on.
Interesting piece of work - 2 related scroll problems.
When you paste a long piece of text in your editor:
- the palette doesn't position near the text where you double click (it remains at the top of the document)
- any undo action, which change text below the fold doesn't scroll the editor where the change occurs.
Good luck with that promising project. Most people who took the contenteditable route to build an editor (ace and codemirror for instance), eventually decided to fully implement the editor themselves...
It’s official: Apple sells more computers than all Windows PCs combined
I think the point of the parent comment was that simply being in a cold vacuum doesn't make you instantly cold. That still requires a process of heat transfer, which occurs in a fluid via conduction, convection, and radiation.

When immersed in a vacuum the conduction and convection heat transfer paths are sharply reduced, so the question then becomes how fast do you cool off via radiation alone?

I'm not a physicist so I don't know, but it's certainly nowhere near as fast as conduction/convection (in fact I believe heat dissipation was actually problematic for many spacecraft designs).
For as interesting and smart as this article is, it was really jarring and annoying to see Malcolm Gladwell's ideas branded upon it everywhere.

It's so frustrating to see "Science-style bullshit" taken as gospel by intelligent, creative, and usually critically thinking people.
From Stephen's tumblr:

"23RD JAN 2014
Recent experiences caused me to examine my motivation for undertaking potentially revenue-generating projects. I initiated this site in order to produce income — a reason which seemed to require no further examination at the time. However, upon further reflection I discovered that I sought something more significant than income.

After pondering more deeply, I realized that income generation is not my ultimate motivation; I recognized that there are contexts in which money is useless or non-existent (e.g. being stranded alone on an island; or when a national government is radically re-structured in the wake of a natural disaster). Money is merely a means to attain other ends — it is a tool. Accordingly, I recognized that creating and producing value is my primary goal, while income generation follows subsequently.

This realization informs my time expenditure; I could cease writing this passage, and instead apply for employment positions via the internet. Conceivably, this strategy could be more effective for increasing my revenue over the short term — prior to my insight of today, I might have pursued this option. However, I now distinguish between income generation and value creation, and currently aim to maximize the latter. Accordingly, I will perform salaried labor for the minimum amount of time necessary to meet my material needs, while devoting all time thereafter to working on my venture."

Insightful, admirable person. Rest in peace.
Fair enough. As I've said before, Semiaccurate is only "mostly" correct. Charlie has been wrong before, mostly because he pushes (likely) hypotheticals.

I have however, read the contents behind the paywall, and Charlie is quite specific. He has the company name, some vague details on the deal, and the location of the facility.

He is stretching the hypothetical a bit to say that "Apple bought a fabrication lab". That may have gone to far... but those details are discussed in the paywalled article.
Agreed completely. The stigma attached just makes things harder.
I searched through more before I gave up and refreshed HN hoping for a link. Thank you for finding it.
So, they sell more iPods, iPhones, iPads and Macs than all others sell Windows-based x86 PCs.

That's not counting Android phones and tablets.

Are they implying nobody does actual work on those?
Show HN: Bookima, ebook/audiobook selling platform
He's stating a personal opinion. The only way that becomes a subtle dig at PHP is if you make it such.
We use Elasticsearch as an index in front of Neo4j but also as a NoSQL database. Free-form search is still the big draw for us but treating it as a database has worked really well so far.

There are a few things that bug me about ES (the bulk update API format...). Other than that it's been a big success for us and the found.no blog posts about it were a big help.
TrifleJS: Headless automation for Internet Explorer
http://fcw.com/articles/2013/03/18/amazon-cia-cloud.aspx

I can see how these intranet apps can be secure, but not when on the internet. When I hear web app, I think internet.

You're right that there's no real reason why an intranet app can't be secure.
Yea, I feel that's kind of important to the whole thing. Talk about what the illness was, not about the person.

For all I know it could be anything from autophagia to trichotillomania.
I read this as 5 US Paratroopers, though I think that'd be all it would take. They are the "French" Canadians ;)

jokes
Given that they gave everyone sudo access they don't seem that concerned with stability/security. Which means that going with the latest over LTS isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I wonder if you could reasonably sue someone in small claims court for racial discrimination. I've never heard of such a case, but it seems like it's more or less what we're looking for -- a way to bring suit for a penalty that's meaningful in amount to an AirBnB host, without you having to invest tens of thousands of dollars into a sprawling lawsuit.
Very thankful we have a few good men like Rand still in politics.
From reading inbetween the lines, it sounds like depression and suicide.

Evan, I'm sorry for your loss. Be with friends everyday this week. The internet can wait.
Subverting the intent of a ruling or law is not viewed favorably, and can easily be fixed, if need be, by tighter wording.
Lifespan predicted from flashes in worm cells
Was not meaning my comment as a slight to you at all, it's a very cool app you've got here. Best of luck with it!
This is exactly where I'm at. If I had to characterize Python with one phrase, it's "blandly practical". Sure, Python gets the job done, and it's not a horrid mess like some languages. But at the same time, it's just kind of there. There just aren't any projects out there that I want to write (day job-wise or spare-time wise) that scream "I have to use Python for this!". There are no new exciting projects or libraries using Python that I have to check out now.

Javascript has Angular JS that I want to play with. Go is shaping up to be an efficient and easy-to-use server-side language. Rust is C++ that doesn't want to make me gouge my eyese out. But what about Python? Apart from throwaway command-line tools, I've got nothing.
I would start out by saying there's a stigma around mental illness and that it's not a "real" illness and that it's "all in the head therefore not real".

It is exactly this type of attitude we have had since the dark ages that much development of treatment and studies are now only beginning to take more shape.

We have to have a much wider awareness of mental illness and how it affects the basic human rights.
> not messing up would be making sure they have other jobs either at IBM or elsewhere.

Oh, I see. You're a Communist and think IBM exists to provide jobs, not to provide shareholder profits. That'll necessarily lead you to a different conclusion than it led me.
I'm very happy with this answer.
Plus the notion of "which of my ten passwords did I use for 'xyz.com?", you end up exposing your other nine passwords to 'xyz.com. Not as bad as using the same password everywhere, but still. I wouldn't want to accidentally give my bank password to, say, a crappy online forum.
From anonymity, it follows that A and B cannot raise their own statuses by being mean to a 3rd party.

From ephemerality, it follows that anything mean A and B post cannot long endure. Were C & D to post something mean about a 3rd party in the same thread, it would push the mean postings of A & B into /dev/null. Were E & F to post something mean about a 4th party in a new thread, it would push the entire thread about the 3rd party into /dev/null.
Best Android e-mail client?
Who cares? Languages get hyped because people are newly finding them as great solutions to a problem they have.

There's no "perl hype" because (virtually) nobody is just discovering it as something new and useful.

As python came to have a robust web ecosystem, it started to get a lot of hype as it was getting a ton of converts from perl/php/etc.

Now as web tasks are changing, Go's niche is becoming larger, and people are excited to use it where Python was failing them.

This will continue forever, most likely.
So, looking at the complaint, it actually names Obama (POTUS), Clapper (Director of Nat. Int.), Alexander (Director of NSA), and Comey (Director of FBI) as defendants. This seems reasonable to me.

This is the bulk of page 5.
notify me when you find a solution.
All of the startups you're talking about are sitting on the shoulders of much longer term R&D that was funded by corporate labs or government/academic R&D.

When was the last time a small startup produced a huge breakthrough in physics or manufacturing that did not build off of research funded by the public or big consortiums, corporate labs, or universities?

I don't care if Bell Labs didn't cash out, just like I don't care if NASA, DARPA, or Sandia Labs makes a profit. Quantum Theorists need work too, and Y-Combinator isn't going to fund them.
b-b-but you could express it in any way you'd like, you know like

compute.this.regex.now()

haha! how cool is that! it's like I'm talking with the computer LOL programming is so much fun when you don't have to use those "old languages"
Here --> http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1xq1k6/candyswipe_op...
Sorry for your loss.

Make every day count!
What's the best way to reach indie authors?
I'm working on a new ebooks publishing platform for indie authors. it's kinds like Gumroad but mainly focused on books.

wondering what's the best way to reach indie book authors to make them sell their ebooks on my new platform (http://bookima.com).

Also, please check the website if you can and let me know your first impression and feedback.
It's not worth it.

The terrorists won.
I haven't - thanks for the link. I've read The Japanese Mind, Misreading Scripture Through Western Eyes, Malina and Rohrbaugh's Context Group work and The Syrian Christ as well as a number of academic works on group-vs-individual and honour-vs-shame.

I live in a unique society - most of it is group-oriented (and frustratingly, present-oriented rather than future oriented) but there is a large minority that is thoroughly Westernised - guilt, individualist, future oriented. Needless to say, we don't understand each other much.
Researchers Uncover 'The Mask' Global Cyberspying Operation
I am not the one judging the hype, FYI.
I found it was much easier to cut my daily calorie intake and increase fat burning by skipping an early breakfast and regular lunch and moving to coffee for hunger suppressant, a low-carb brunch and some other low-carb afternoon snacks instead. Before dinner, I do about 20 mins of mostly body-weight exercise. Then have a regular dinner including carbs and then some more high-glycemic carbs. Keeping low-carb for a long continuous part of the day lets your body burn a lot of fat for fuel, and it's easier to deny myself those things I like to eat if I know I can have them later in the day, and it's a very nice carrot to do regular exercise. I've also had the impetus to discover low-carb recipes I enjoy, making it a nice feedback loop. To help this process I began by going two weeks without carbs, as that was recommended to help get your body used to burning fat for fuel. I've enjoyed a much improved body composition and it's still getting better.
Ahh, a great classic. You can view all humanity through that lens, all the time.
I can believe racism was a factor.

However, there's also a bias against new guests (with no history).

And, there seems to have been a big increase in the percentage of marginal listings that are not-really-available. (Perhaps, far more people are casually listing places without real intent to rent or diligence in checking requests and updating calendar availability. Or perhaps with higher usage, those are the only kinds of listings that are left in the last few days.)

My experience: the first few times I used AirBnb, even as a last-minute booking, availability was accurate, most hosts got back to me right away, booking was quick and easy.

The last few times I've used AirBnb, in New York, Berlin, and Portland, I've had a positive feedback history and there are more listings showing as available than ever. But, many hosts take over a day to respond if at all, and often then tell me the spot isn't available. I've had to send ~10+ inquiries, instead of ~2, to achieve one booking. So a few 'sorrys' in a row, on a booking a few days in advance, doesn't seem that suspicious.

Because the host gets to perform a 'social/internet x-ray' on a prospective guest, you always wonder if the real reason for the 'sorry' is that you're just not to their liking: by race, gender, age, coolness, politics, career, whatever. You never know for sure. That's both a strength and weakness of the AirBnb system: people can meet and host others they're most comfortable or interested in... or express longstanding and unfair prejudicies.
This is not an extreme example. The alternative was conditional terms on expanding the debt limit, not defaulting on the debt. The bill passed without any additional restrictions on spending or changes to collection.

The national debt is one of the biggest issues in the country right now and both parties are doing little to stop its expansion. As I said in my original comment, the fringe are the ones who are legitimately different from the single party, for example, as you mentioned, the Tea Partiers would support either defaulting or significant restrictions on spending.
He had 'symptoms of depression, anxiety and schizophrenia'. The psychiatrists etc always danced around saying 'symptoms of' but he was seeking help.
Blame networks that don't implement BCP38

http://www.bcp38.info/index.php/Main_Page
http://getkirby.com/ is close, although doesn't seem as polished as Statamic
Jjencode – Encode any JavaScript program using only symbols
He is a comedian, whose "bit" is being critical. He takes jabs at just about everything he covers.
I don't read that as being a "subtle dig at PHP". There are many very legitimate reasons for a developer, especially one well-versed in many languages, to not want to use PHP.

And his position is very reasonable. He doesn't seem to care if you use PHP, if it works for you. But he doesn't like using PHP himself, for whatever reason(s), and wishes to not use it. His abstinence from PHP doesn't prevent or affect your (or anyone else's) use of it.
yeah I was a linode user for few years and am using digitalocean and I've never looked back. I think the droplet API is by far the most powerful feature, it's so simple to use and understand compared to Amazon. For example, if I need a new development box to test something out I can spin up a new droplet and shut it down when I no longer need it and save the money. It's pretty insane how much of a cost save DO offers.
The original HN thread on Ben's "Why I did not go to jail" post had comments saying more or less the same things, though not to this level of detail.

Talking about jail was much more attention-grabbing, though, and that worked out well. The downside of that though is that now some readers are hung up on whether Ben really was going to jail and might miss the more important example about having expert help but digging in to the details of that expert advice.
How come 32.5 = 31.5?
Wilson gets criticized a lot, and I get that.

But wouldn't you have to say that the imperialism at the lastest started during McKinley's administration and continued into Roosevelt's (consider for example Roosevelt's actions towards Colombia to get the Panama canal).

But let's be fair, Wilson held out for a long, long time as far as WWI was concerned. Teddy would have got into the war 2 years earlier.

I am interested in how the direct election of U.S. senators ties to imperialism?
Kiva Responds: The famed microlender replies to Sinclair's scathing critique
No, you're not crazy. It certainly became free. I just remember that there was a period when people were forking over actual money for a browser that wasn't IE.
As someone who's coming from a Django world and is trying to get into the Rails 4 "way of things," where does this article lie in my path to enlightenment?
> he did all the things he was supposed to do to get help in a moment of crisis - made multiple calls to his care providers, to 911 and even went to the hospital. He had been experiencing symptoms for several years but was in a highly-respected treatment program that was working intimately with him.

So in other words, conventional psychiatry failed. And the author's solution seems to be to spread it more.

Maybe after a failure like this, where we see that the care providers, hospital and "highly-respected treatment program" don't work, it's time to stop respecting that treatment program so much and consider different approaches.

http://www.szasz.com
Disney Is Launching An Incubator For Media Startups
Do you plan on helping journalists distribute their content outside of the main Beacon site? I imagine some have their own following but others want to use the site to help gain readership on/off your platform.
March 27, 2014 Reset the Net
My recommendation to people interested in computer science is to not get too obsessed with individual programming languages.
The floating school built for Nigeria's water world
> We must break the stigma against mental illness

How? People are labelled mentally ill IFF they do things that have a stigma attached.
No offense to anyone, but this link should be deleted. You may not like the system, but HN isn't the place to protest IP laws with civil disobedience. A lot of YC companies have their own IP they'd like to protect I'm sure.
Actually, it was "go think up a way to deliver an ICBM between the US and Russia with meter accuracy" and "here's several hundred billion dollars to figure it out and build it."

The GPS system would never have been built by any startup, period. It took decades to build up the space based infrastructure and engineering know-how to make it, with the backing of a very deep pocketed government that was looking for results, not for profits.

We need diversity in research approaches. No one is saying that profit-focused R&D is wrong, just that monoculture is. If you've got $100 billion in the bank, do you need to focus all of it on short term projects, or can you try several strategies.
OK, let me be more precise: it may not be possible to do better-than-breakeven fusion on a small scale in a way that makes the resulting energy safely harnessable for useful work.
These campaigns need to be more creative and fun.

The majority of youth today (a demographic with the most free time and incentive to participate) do not like making calls or writing emails. Also, the emotion created by most of these campaigns is doom and gloom. Dark colors, threatening symbols, scary acronyms, powerful shadowy figures, walls of text. Raising awareness or gathering support through fear based campaigns is not going to work. The media has run that cart into the ground long ago.

The majority of people I know will be turned away or further made apathetic by these campaigns. Those of us who aren't, live in an awareness bubble.

Here is an idea I came up with just now (so don't take it too seriously) - organize a huge public BBQ at the park nearest your local representative's office. People only vaguely interested in the cause would show up for good food
and fun, and may contribute to the perception of success of the event, while possibly learning more about the cause in a non-threatening environment. The representative's office is right down the street should they wish to support the cause in person. If these BBQs, were every Friday at lunch or something, I would be there for sure every time. Now I am hungry. Errr... hungry to end mass surveillance... right.

Maybe that idea is ridiculous, but the basic idea is that if you want people to spend time for a cause, it's easier if you let them have a good time while doing so.

For passive participation, I believe selling t-shirts specifically designed for different audiences is one the best options, way better than changing an avatar or creating an online meme. Donate the proceeds to the EFF and open source crypto and networking projects, and it is a solid campaign. The messaging should be simple and direct, but not overbearing. The key is for the design to stand on its own regardless of the message it carries. 99% of people don't care about the message, they want a sick shirt. If anyone here is interested in making a shirt related to this cause, you can email me about your idea and I will do a quick concept design for you for free.
Sometimes, if your subtask names (in the list below the description when you click on their parent task) are too long they run off the edge of the screen and don't wrap (on Android at least)
First of all he's talking about a 4 year old. Whole milk is highly recommended under 2 years of age. The doctor is not an idiot for suggesting a 4 year old that is drinking a modest amount of whole milk switch to skim milk. There are lots of good things in skim milk, vitamin D and calcium for one and if a kid drinks skim, 1%, or 2% milk he/she will be getting more of those things because he/she will drink more of it as it is less filling than whole milk. It could be there was some concern that the child was getting enough calcium. One way to increase calcium intake is to switch to a lower fat milk.

Also, some people may call 1% or 2% "skim milk". In Canada the labels on these milk products are called "partly skimmed milk".
> It lacks the flexibility of Ruby, general appeal of JS, philosophy of Clojure.

This feels like a cheap shot. What flexibility, general appeal, or philosophy?

Flexibility: Python is very flexible (I'll say dynamic), but not at the expense of clarity. This is a (IMO, correct) decision made by the Python community.

General appeal: What does this even mean? The only reason JS has a general appeal is that it ships with every modern browser.

Philosophy: What philosophy? Purity? Simplicity? Python is a pragmatic language ("get stuff done") while keeping simplicity in mind (although I definitely wouldn't argue that Python is as "simple" as some languages, it's simple enough)
This is related to something I'm researching. To be blunt the intersection of government and civilian infrastructure is all muddled up.

The theory is that DHS helps defend the civilian Internet (where "helps" seems to be as directive as it gets, since so much of the affected infrastructure is in private hands).

In the meantime NSA and DoD are looking at cyber security very seriously, but through the military-tinted lens.

It is a lot easier to differentiate a law enforcement problem from a military problem domestically when in the meatspace, especially without the attribution and jurisdictional issues that pop up with cybersecurity.

It doesn't help when laws intended to clarify the process by which private and government entities cooperate for the security of the Internet get muddled with RIAA IP protection laws and subsequently get angrily tossed out of Congress. As it stands it all seems to be still quite foggy.