skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created a website chatleap.com about a month ago and I had moved on since I was unable to get people to use it. I saw the twitch plays pokemon post and realized that it was hard to chat in the twitch chat due to all the people spamming commands so I decided to post my website there in hopes to get 1 or two people to visit my lonely chat. I ended up getting around 130 people and even had others posting my link in the twitch chat. So thats how I got my first 100 users but I am afraid they wont stay for long.
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That's a nice solution, though I've gone for a markdown admin widget instead.

This one if I remember correctly: https://github.com/timmyomahony/django-pagedown
Jokes on you! I have no idea about what I'm talking about ;)
Honest question. Seriously. For Britons only--

What's with the Guardian and "From my perspective, America's not so great!" articles? Not, like, "how could anyone think that?" but why does it seem to be such a regular feature? I admit upfront my being American may cause me to imagine/over-remember this phenomenon.
I wish we had more of a board game culture in the U.S.

It seems that most adults end up, just because society is so demanding and competitive these days, with a lot of low-level social anxiety. It's rarely enough that most people notice it, but it keeps people from really relating to each other or learning from each other, and it's a major part of why people become so damn boring, one-sided, and narrowly careerist once they leave school.

There seem to be two antidotes to this low-grade but ubiquitous social anxiety. One is games, the other is alcohol. I don't mind an occasional drink but, most of the time, I prefer the one that sharpens the brain over the one that dulls it.
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Immunity Project hits crowdfunding goal with 10 days left
I'm guessing they want to set up a single session key, maintain deniability as well as authentication, and avoid leaks of the key when someone leaves the chat... It certainly seems that maintaining all of OTR's guarantees is a lot more difficult with more than one party involved.

With two parties, you either have a chat (both in conversation) or the session is ended (one or both parties leave).

If all you want is "traditional" encrypted chat alternatives might serve you better.

I'm not sure if I think re-using the OTR public keys/ids for encrypted chat that effectively isn't OTR (deniability, forward secrecy) is a good idea or not. Perhaps demand some form of indication from the user agent that clearly show group chat and individual chat is different?

As for "just broadcast multiple copies" -- that also depends on use-case. 100 person chat room? 10 person video conference? 10/100x bandwidth might not be the best approach.
Oooh, very nice, thanks for that!

One unintended (and great) side-effect of a Dropbox-hosted site is that you get mirrors for free (they all update together).
A bit of the JS stuff seems to be geared towards writing Windows 8 UI apps... so that's not really transferable, but I think it is at least interesting... Also, some of it can apply to say GTK apps.
Not only do I disagree that this is how people in France think overall (nor even a majority of the government present or past), but I also believe the asphyxic bureaucracy we suffer at the moment in France is neither an effect or a cause of the ideology you describe, even if it happened to be true.

We have the same amount of useless paper filling for everything including claiming social services, most other aspect of our reglementation that have nothing to do with creating a company are also suffering from that maze effect.

What we need is a cleanup of our laws and rules, our parliamentaries seem to feel like they need to add their own little law on top of it every couple of month, but they never clean the mess.
One thing though, if the site's unreachable, often in the comments there's a mirror or a summary. If you can't turn the a into a:visited, you'd never get the link to show up if the site gets overloaded by the HN effect.
Also, avoid adverbs. :)
I don't know if this went into the decision making process, but with the cursor at an angle the OS can use the x,y coordinates of the cursor to find it's target, instead of having to offset the coordinates to compensate for a straight cursor.

I'm not sure if that's how cursors work.. just a thought.

edit: grammar is hard
Is Catan really Silicon Valley's golf, like the article claims?

I'd believe it of the old Silicon Valley. The new one, with Snapchat and Clinkle and spider pooping and expensive real estate and multiple liquidation preferences? Probably not. I think golf is the new golf in Silicon Valley.
But they also get a salary: money the founders raised. That difference is huge.

That said, I completely agree. It takes a great match. Equity percentage can't be the only dimension considered.

Also, if you're struggling with hiring, giving more equity can be a solution. There are plenty of "cofounders" that came on as employees after money was raised but needed a sweeter deal to join.
How to monetize ignorance? (specifically: about evolution)
The other day in my local public library, I came across a couple of books in the "Darwinism" shelf. Except these books were in support of "Intelligent Design."

The logical fallacies in those books were incredible to me. And they were plainly in print, and the authors were not embarrassed to be associated with them.

But then, about 75% of people (of all religions) in the U.S. do not believe in the theory of Evolution (even the more rational ones who do believe that the Earth is more than 6,000 years old don't believe in the theory of Evolution).

(As an aside: My mid-western U.S. town's public library has a large "religious fiction" section. I once conducted a poll in my university class to see who believed in the concept of Evolution, and only one student out of 13 raised her/his hand.)

So, here's my question. As a "go with the flow" kinda person, I don't want to fight the current. I want to exploit it. What are some creative^^ ways I can exploit this ignorance for cash money? I seek your thoughts on this.

^^One way would be to write books supporting "Intelligent Design", but too many authors already own that shtick
First JS build tool I've used, that I have been actually immensely impressed with. Manages complexity really nicely, and does so that delivers immense value.

Porting all my projects to it as time permits.
yes a fried of mine whos an ex pat (no a citizen) used to work for citibank in the usa and he was paying almost twice what NI stamp was just for his health coverage
I can say I was at least a little surprised they didn't have anything for node.js, considering how much they're starting to use it internally, and how much they've invested into getting node.js working as a first class citizen in Windows.
Especially in certain situations like "I'm not very tired".

Offhand you could say "I'm not overly tired" or "I'm not too tired", but those could subtly change the meaning of what you're trying to say or sound unnatural in everyday speech.
This article is very shortsighted. Ambition is not the problem;

1.) Subsidies are broken;
The company with the biggest mouth gets the money instead of the best idea. I've seen it dozens of times with the weirdest legal constructions; Companies create holdings with different companies under them and those companies "hire" each other instead of hiring other parties outside of the holding, so they get all the hours and money.(Lots of tax money is evaded that way)

I know a company that got !3 million Euros! in EU-funding in the last 6 years and no one knows what they do. Now nobody wants to do business with them.

2.) Startup hubs DO need help;
As much as I love the passionate startup hubs, they are not going to get traction without help from a bigger company. I think that the startup scene of London wouldn't be so vibrant if it wasn't for the Google Campus. Companies would be funded more/easier if your being backed by a worldwide-known brand like Google (even if its only the desk your sitting at).

Please see http://www.larrypage.nl for my quest to bring Google to The Netherlands and start a Startup Campus here.
P.S: The United Kingdom is NOT Europe.
> convex
very rude = vulgar ?
You may want to re-evaluate your definition of 'god complex'. They're trying to stop a million 'Flappy*' apps from flooding the market. Maybe the ecosystem should stop trying to profit from someone else's work.
I would think this would probably have come before some of the school deals. I don't feel that this is a bad thing in general, and honestly far better than some of the backroom deals they've done.
I don't think overpopulation is responsible for most of the world's problems and in fact I think death is the biggest problem we have. The increase in population over the last few hundred years correlates with our massive increase in technology and industry.
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This OTRv3 document has been available since at least 2012(?), so I'm not sure why there's a sudden interest in discussing it, but here was our analysis of OTRv3 at Open Whisper Systems:

1) The introduction of SIGMA in the switch from OTRv1 to OTRv2 significantly reduced the "deniability" properties of OTR. The protocol does some explicit things to provide "full" deniability, but in OTRv3 only people who've actually had a conversation with Alice can produce a complete forged transcript with Alice. More details: https://whispersystems.org/blog/simplifying-otr-deniability

2) OTRv3 doesn't work in asynchronous environments. It depends on a reliable and synchronous transport that delivers messages in-order. The messaging landscape is increasingly asynchronous, so OTRv3 is a difficult fit for modern messaging protocols. More details: https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security

3) The OTRv3 "ratcheting" protocol is slow. It uses what we refer to as a "three step ratchet," which provides less-than-ideal forward secrecy and "future secrecy" semantics. More details: https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting

We sought to improve on OTRv3 by addressing these issues in the TextSecure V2 protocol, which we believe builds on the work of OTR to provide enhanced and simplified deniability, an asynchronous-friendly environment, and optimal forward and future secrecy semantics: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2

It also now supports group messaging and multi-device messaging, but we'll cover those in a future blog post.
The advice attributed to Kleinbaum is actually from the movie Dead Poets Society, written by Tom Schulman (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097165). Googling for "Kleinbaum + Dead Poets Society" suggests that it is a novelisation that came later: http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Poets-Society-N-Kleinbaum/dp/1401....
I think we're mainly lonely because we learn to value sex as the primary goal in interpersonal relationships, thereby devaluing everything else. There is a linear relationship in western culture between the rise of emphasis on sex, which at first seemed "liberating", and the decline in feelings of connectedness with other people. Read some of the older literature which seems "repressed" by today's standards, and you will see that people had a better appreciation for life's other blessings, placed a higher value on friendship, and had more substantial friendships with other people. I don't think it has much at all to do with technology or the "pace of life", or even materialism; it's mainly about sex and where it lives in our value system. We don't want to go back to being repressed, but our current value system needs some adjustment, which will be difficult because it is a form of addiction. Like other addictions, it gradually drains meaning from the rest of life. Ironically the epic glut of pornography could help turn the tide, as people just overdose and realize how empty the whole thing really is. The recent rise of mainstream sadistic fantasies like 30 Shades suggests the end of the line for this kind of thing; what would be next?
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Europe shouldn't try to beat Silicon Valley by becoming Silicon Valley. If they want to be superior to Silicon Valley they should develop business models, industries and technology that is superior to anything in the world. Silicon Valley is pretty old and their practices are dated. Getting over Silicon Valley is a matter of development.
> 502 Bad Gateway
Essentially yes. It is also wonderfully free of ads. =)
And some people need more hand holding, especially dipping their toes into waters they've never been in before.
Are you bored?...or Nahh
Sure, its about half "Kendo-React adapter" and half general functional-programming friendly form abstractions that aren't coupled to the underlying widget implementation. The higher level of abstraction is the important bit - this level of abstraction isn't possible in "just Kendo" or any other OOP style widget library.
fwiw somebody has raised an issue with the mathematical underpinning: https://github.com/videlalvaro/erlang-prime-sieve/issues/2
I built a decently large static content site with a dynamic backend (http://yareallyarchive.com) on django.

With aggressive caching of all static pages it is fast as hell, and I love the django ecosystem. Adding search was as easy as dropping in django-haystack and adding like 5 lines of code. django-mptt has been brilliant for easily querying and manipulating comment trees.

It's possible to do small sites with django but it requires you to learn a lot of stuff you don't necessarily need. Flask is a better choice for small/nearly-static sites if you're not already familiar with a web framework.
Why do programs that only work on OS X always end up on lists of "Unix" programs?
Why did they install the ignition key on the left side in Porsche cars
No schools in the UK are gaming the system to maximise the outcome, a school nurse doesn't help get a nice but dim kid get a grade C in English and Math. Uk Schools put all their effort in turning D's into C's

So they just dump the cost on the NHS
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This is a good list and lesson.

I remember learning about this in my creative writing classes in college, and the other great tip we got at about the same time was to do something similar when writing in past tense by ditching the "ings" and changing references like "he was running home" with "he ran home" or "she was burning the papers" with "she burned the papers". It turns out that too many "ings" can make a story drag.
No, because you can still verify a user's fingerprint after the handshake has been completed. That's something that you'd want to do with traditional, non-asynchronous OTR as well.
Can take it serious when the man is holding a LED 2x16 saying "Hello World, via Skynet".

Ohh, we got a badass over here!
This is good advice. After 26 years of working in this field under stress that makes an air traffic controller look like a librarian, it has finally taken a big toll on me.

Take the advice. Please.
So... you're using a database? Great. Use Django.
This was inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7251987 regarding mouse cursors.

(Note it applies to all porsche which is why I edited the subject to reflect that).
Did you watch the film? Is it necessary to downplay it and bring in your own concerns instead of engaging the concerns raised in the film? This is not a zero-sum game of suffering and your concerns are intimately connected to those raised in the film. How can it be otherwise?

To use your example around men being sent to war. Do you think that's entirely unrelated to excluding the perspective and ideas of half of the population? Such that we've chosen a narrow set of options for conflict resolution instead of including the wide range of human creativity.
Agreed. Very useful, indeed.
I thought that was, like, common knowledge. Everybody, like, speaks like that.
Of course, this says nothing about how efficient the allocation of money to charitable causes. Without knowing either way, I assume the rich and poor's allocation are equally efficient.
> I've always been confused as to the success of the computer mouse. It doesn't seem like the ideal solution. Then again, neither do trackpads.

Without meaning to be argumentative, what would be ideal? In the absence of an actual better solution, one can explain the success of an obviously sub-optimal but existing solution by "worse is better" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better).
Way #1: Don't right an article about not using the world 'very'
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Please tell us what management or design improvements would solve this problem.
That was a very good article. I've wanted to read something like that for a very long time, but it's very difficult to find such material of very hiqh quality.

To whoever posted this, thank you very much.
well Macie at the end of the day it worked for Dickens and Dumas :-)

Apologizes for using footballer speak :-)
They're generally a left wing paper, the US is generally perceived as pretty right wing in politics and economics. Plus there's been the whole Snowden affair recently.

Brits in general seem to be on a bit of a downswing in terms of how amazing we think you are. Right now it's pegged somewhere around "you've got as many problems as the rest of us" where before ~y2k we thought the US was some sort of magical fairyland where everything was made of candy.
he said, adverbially.

I see what you did there, isn't 'also' an adverb?
OCR'd it since I'm going to add it to my dotfiles. Might help somebody:

http://paste.ubuntu.com/6949984/
I am new to git and using it for my humble projects.

79 git add
66 git commit -a -m
58 git push
32 git pull
6 git remote
6 git init
6 git clone
4 git reset
3 git push -u
2 git pull --force
2 git merge
2 git commit -a
1 git status
1 git rm
1 git rebase
1 git fetch
1 git comit -a -m
1 git
It probably goes without saying, but here it is:

If Samsung had acquired Android, none of us today would own an Android smartphone.
> not requiring an auction when passing on purchasing a property

That rule is so rarely followed I end up in an argument with other players every time I play a game of Monopoly for attempting to play by the rules. People don't even believe that the rule exists, never mind make a conscious decision not to follow it.

The fact games of Monopoly always open with an argument is probably a big factor in me no longer playing Monopoly.
Nope, anything you use a lot loses its punch. (That's the idea behind the article)
I was always bothered by the overuse of the word "pretty" on the Internet in place of "very." As a non-native English speaker, I grew up thinking of pretty as synonym of beautiful. Now that I see everyone using it as they would use very, I find it hard to parse.
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> I'll vote for "yes" which at least seems intuitively useful in a "yes | rm -i something" kind of way.

I use it when I want to compile a LaTeX document and ignore errors:

$ yes ^M | pdflatex document

(useful because TeX tools hate accepting command-line options).
bmon - less detailed iftop that doesn't require root

pv - progress bars for pipes

iostat - hopefully common by now. best way to peek at disk IO
Git diffs in vim tabs with splits
I actually benchmarked this a while ago. I use a lot of static pages that need to be absurdly fast.

I can definitively say that unless Google App Engine has substantially changed in architecture over the last 12 months, it is definitely not faster to host your static site there rather than on an nginx-based VPS with someone like Digital Ocean.

My tests showed load times on GAE-hosted static sites to be around 200ms - 300ms slower than a reasonably-optimised DO VPS.

It's possible, of course, that GAE would pick up some speed if you're loading the page from somewhere a long way away from the equivalent VPS, as GAE essentially comes with a built-in CDN (to the best of my understanding).
I wrote this, am happy to field questions here.

Can a mod put a more helpful title, with something like "JavaScript build tool" so people know what it's about?
Except the poor are the charitable cause.
Here is the relative frequency:

oldfaithful.gif 1
earthquake4.gif 2.3
earthquake3.gif 23.2
holeinone.gif 31.3
us_cancer_death.gif 104
book_mockingbird.gif 134
bike.gif 226
earthquake2.gif 232
fire_dept.gif 245
cat.gif 265
us_cancer.gif 297
dog.gif 362
parliament_toilet.gif 561
amelia.gif 724
dogbite.gif 805
car_us.gif 812
house.gif 907
car_germany.gif 972
kiss.gif 1020
bieber.gif 1192
recycled.gif 1216
facebook.gif 1306
car_japan.gif 1406
vibrator.gif 1886
eagle.gif 2097
earthquake1.gif 2321
keys.gif 2321
tattoo.gif 2738
phoenix.gif 2751
car_china.gif 2984
cat_mockingbird.gif 3099
pulsar.gif 4029
ndsex.gif 4087
bottles.gif 4441
denverpizza.gif 4441
littleleague.gif 4585
meteor.gif 4904
phoenixshoes.gif 5222
car_elsewhere.gif 5476
turnsignal1.gif 6000
flight.gif 6065
iphone.gif 6065
turnsignal2.gif 6267
heartbeat.gif 6558
shark.gif 6795
wedding.gif 7520
wikipedia.gif 8418
domain.gif 8813
death.gif 10071
birth.gif 23500
Is Golang 12factor compliant?
Well, sit tight. There's a new version of the Neo that supports U2F (https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/gnubby) coming out Real Soon Now (https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/yubikey-neo...) -- sometime in 2014 is all I've heard.
I think a lot of the data for these is in Wikipedia.
Yes I woudl have said that Catan is a lot more complex tactically - Agricola is another good Euro style game.
I am very well aware of the huge amount of paperwork we need to do anything in France, but it does not stops someone motivated enough to go through it. I wanted to highlight that even after having started your company successfully, you won't get very far. Of course, the complexity of the bureaucracy is a deep-rooted problem and I am quite pessimistic on the probability that such a clean-up will be done (when remembering the previous attempts).
Using Docker to reduce website downtime is easier than restoring a PC
When an average right-handed person points at something his hand has a very similar shape. Imaging a large screen with some kind of a presentation and you are explaining something to the public and pointing at some object on the screen. The shape of your hand in this moment is the most natural thing for a pointer, immediately understandable by anyone.
There's a difference in meaning between "he ran home" and "he was running home." Most people aren't aware enough of the language they use to avoid overusing certain things, but mechanical transformations aren't the answer. One should aspire to learn how language works, and then use it appropriately.
Or is the birth rate of mockingbirds substantially higher than you suspect?
That's actually a big problem in machine learning. We can make AIs that learn from the data, but trying to reverse engineer the models that they learn is extremely difficult.

I remember hearing about a scientist that used symbolic regression on some of his data sampled from microorganisms of some kind. Eventually it discovered an equation that described the data perfectly. But he can't publish it because no one understands it or can figure out why it works.
> > FTA: vim: attack yourself

> Emacs user?

As holyjaw mentions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7253126), this appears to be a vimmer's self mockery, rather than an Emacsy attack:

http://www.danielmiessler.com/blog/categories/vim
If you enjoy The Settlers you should find a copy of the 10th Anniversary Edition from somewhere - the game has been near perfectly ported to a modern engine without changing any of the actual rules.