skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah. Telecom lowering their price? LOL.

Normal businesses when their costs go down: since we're in a competitive market, we'll use this as a competitive advantage and lower our prices to match

Telecoms in the same: "we're sorry, but we've lowered our costs by $X. Unfortunately now we have the expense of handling all this new cash, so I regret to inform you we have to increase your bill by the same $X."
The point is that posting the email wouldn't have been a punishment if she would have responded in a socially acceptable manner. She brought it on herself.
No. Grab an extension like HN Special or RES if you want the functionality.

Infiniscroll is an evil creation, made worse by developers who insist on creating a footer at the end of the scroll view, just out of reach so that you can never quite get to it.
You don't have to use C++XX features you don't like. One of the more beautiful things about C and C++ that I like is that I can go as "bare bones" as I want and still have an incredibly powerful (not to mention performant) language to program in. You didn't (and still don't) have to use STL (any version). You also don't have to use the lambda function syntax or range operator, move operators or rvalue references, or basically any other thing that is "new" to the C++XX standard(s). In fact, if you eschew these things your code is likely to be more portable and longer lived, although it may require more time to develop, and include more re-implementation of boilerplate.

Also it's amusing you opine that pointers are "awful" in the same post in which you rail against others' for "screw[ing] up C++". Pointers are one of the best things about the two languages in my opinion. I love the power and flexibility they provide.
It intelligently remembers where you were if you click a link and then back; it restores your previous scroll location. Pleasantly surprised by the behaviour as I usually do not enjoy infinite scroll.
Hey, I'm the lead developer of swirl project. I'd like to add that I wouldn't be working on this today without the support of NLNet who has provided a grant that allows me to work on swirl full time atm: http://nlnet.nl/project/swirl/
Huge props.
I've yet to find a time when autocomplete has been disabled that I've not wanted to slap the web designer. Most every one has been on some sort of common address form. My browser knows my address. I don't want to type it. You'll get better results from my browser than from me typing, always.
There are ways to deal with things that are enshrined in law. Building a corporation is unlikely to be the right way to do it.
It does.

This would be perfect if clicking the nav didn't cause a page reload. I expect the page to go back to an entirely previous page, if I hit the back button in this case.

That would not be the case if the sections of content were different from one another.

- A super-scrolling page with different sections of content might keep the back button functionality the way it is here.

- Homogeneous content like Facebook posts should not incur a back button through the pagination.

IMHO. But this is super cool otherwise.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7315392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7315575

(Don't want to duplicate the comment once again.)
Actually, this is the 14th post on the subject. That said, OP: quick, post it some more, some people haven't seen it yet!
Facebook Messenger for Windows will shut down on March 3
One doesn't fix perfection.
Honesty, tell them you're still working on scaling and interview them about their needs.

Now stop posting this over and over, or you're likely to get banned.
I guess you can call me naive.

..and slightly ignorant regarding this HIPAA kerfuffle that popped up. I did some quick [hilarious] research that resulted in an issue where commented copy was being used as an indicator that there was to be no sense of privacy on the website.

source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/oct/...

I'm not entirely sure that's what you're referencing or whether you're just bein' a smart aleck, but I had some fun reading up on the story. I also learned that the website healthcare.gov doesn't necessarily need as much HIPAA compliance as I had initially anticipated. To enroll, the only 'medical' type data you need to include is whether you are a smoker or not - I thought there would be much more sensitive information right off the bat.
I would say that the USA economy does not seem so bad right now because of Quantitative easing: a few trillion $$ in the last several years of new money created out of nothing. This has maneuvered housing and stock prices up, fueling a false sense of optimism and more consumer spending.

Long term, we have huge problems in my opinion. Our profligate military spending is going to catch up with us. If we are able to redirect our offshore military spending soon, things might be OK, but I am not hopeful.

Edit: I forgot to give my advice: don't get caught up in consumerism (stop watching TV commercials, don't get a new car every time your brother in law does, etc.). Try to save some of your after tax income. Invest time (and money if needed) in continuing education over your entire life.
I really liked Discourse's approach to infinite scrolling[1], it updates the URL as you go with the History API's replaceState() function so you can safely navigate away from the page without losing your position.

[1]: http://eviltrout.com/2013/02/16/infinite-scrolling-that-work...
Lawrence! You're exactly the same as I remember.

Get it?
Occasional spam message? I have yet to get a linked-in notification that's not spam. "Hi, I noticed you ask to connect to people who you've worked with before, but I'm a recruiter so I don't give a shit."
Yes, but it it an all-or-nothing affair?

If I've got several hundred connections, do I want to hide them all from my other contacts?

Some may see that being a bit more exclusive in connecting may be the best solution.
In general I'm with you on this one, but maybe the Nordic states? Or maybe extremely small states a la Lichtenstein, where the complexity and amounts of money involved in governance are so low that corruption hardly pays off at all.
I think by anointed the parent means a Google or Facebook alum, or other big name from the Valley.
Exactly. Committing something of worth acts as a super-token. It's way of illustrating your commitment and (internally) reinforcing that commitment.

One of the psychological effects is that Personal Bests almost always come from competitive events. I'm sure this is true of the CrossFit competiton as well.
With bitcoin we passed the FPGA mark a while ago, now it's all about custom ASIC chips.
I don't think it does, at least not on Firefox. When you scroll down the URL just updates without a history entry being added.
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I do fair amount of work on my Chromebook, granted I work mostly with Rails apps, so I can just connect to my server and do my stuff over SSH
I used to read every single email I get from recruiters. They used to give me confidence. Nowadays I don't even open my LinkeIn mailbox:

http://i.imgur.com/cdDQDu8.png

After being rejected by Google, my only goal in life is to be good enough for Google. No matter if in that point, I'll be interested in working there or not. I just want to be that good
Create a style prototype for your responsive site
through senate staffers i know, i made sure Senator Manchin sees my post and also my partner's post
http://www.usv.com/posts/when-did-america-become-to-afraid-t...
Almost. I hate any variant of the phrasing "I apologize." It still serves to distance yourself from the apology. An apology is a thing. You can say that another person apologizes. But "I apologize" is not, in itself, an apology. An apology is saying "I am sorry."

The reason I care is that I think it takes more humility to say the simple words "I am sorry" than "I apologize." Saying "I am sorry" is an admission of feeling. Saying "I apologize" is trying to narrate at event that did not actually happen.
I've always taken an approach of "always be respectful to everyone" - not just to be a kind person, but also because you never know when someone may reciprocate that kindness.

In some cases, mere acquaintances have turned around to introduce me to job candidates, customers, business partners, etc.

This approach works in the social world too, in terms of dating ;-)
Redesign of the FDA redesign of the Nutrition Label
You need to be more persistent.
Actually, as far as I've read, both connection requestors who received this type of treatment tried to add her so that she could see their profiles. The data they sent to join the job board is fairly limited (doesn't include a resume) so both individuals felt that allowing her to see their profiles could be beneficial, not trying to "farm" this woman's connections for jobs. They're trying to join the job board to find jobs.
PIMs are outside my field, but Wikipedia looks like a reasonable start (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor-in-memory).
I was expecting a small explosive charge in the battery or something cool.
This was just lame.
First, you're ignoring the fact that the woman specifically runs a listserv for people looking for work. That's what the woman DOES. She helps people find jobs (supposedly). If what you do is help people find jobs, do not be surprised when people without jobs come looking to you for help with finding a job. It's like running a soup kitchen and going "What's with all these homeless people asking me for food?!"

Second, what is it with people and the "almighty linkedin connections" thing? Do you or anyone else really think your "960+ connections" are some kind of treasure hoard that needs to be guarded by Smaug and kept safe from the undeserving? Protip: they're not.

The issue here is that the woman's response was petty. She could have just denied the connection on linkedin and then made sure the requester provided all the required information to join the mailing list. Instead, she just blanket denies her from the mailing list with the intent of never letting her join because she had the audacity to ask for a linkedin connection.

And, yes, people who are too full of themselves and hyped up on their own "importance" deserve to be knocked down a peg, which is what happened to this woman. Especially considering that this isn't the first time she's sent this kind of response back to someone.

Without public exposure, she would have never been taught a lesson she desperately needed to learn - that you can't just shit on people because you think you're more important than them.
Besides the obvious issue that correlation does not imply causation what does the statement "1 in 1,000 uninsured people die each year" even mean given that the overall annual mortality rate in the US is 799.5 per 100,000[1].

Is this in addition to the background rate? If true that would be quite astounding. Or is it just rounding?

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
I'll start by saying that I feel your pain. I've had lots of discussions with friends where we expressed the belief that we all thought we'd be financially comfortable by now. Almost none of us are.

Some thoughts on both sides of this:
1 - My grandparents lost it all in the Great Depression. My parents never had enough money to take overseas vacation once the kids were born. They were never comfortable. This isn't unique to our generation.

2 - We have a lot of material gains that aren't factored into the equation. (Free internet, etc) But this is forcing us to compare against others a lot more. We only see the people succeeding, and don't count the failures.

3 - Once you discount the effects of obesity, we are a much healthier generation than our parents and grandparents. Think of all the major diseases (polio, flu) that used to be fatal.

4 - For better or worse, there is a "Winner takes all" mentality in the current environment. Globalization plus Technology means the best get paid disproportionally more than in prior generations. Upper Middle Class is getting squeezed. The "winners" are now earning a lot more, and are a lot more visible.

5 - In today's environment, losing a job costs A TON and is incredibly destabilizing.

I don't know what advice to give, other than don't get sucked in to the consumerism, or feeling forced to keep up with everyone else.
What service does your startup provide?
Google joins the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
I hope the refs reject it. That's unacceptable to have a paper that was written by a marketing department. There's nothing new or original about FPGAs. They make it sound like they invented the concept. They may have improved on it, but they didn't talk about the specifics of that.
Let me put that another way: Do yourself a favor and shut up and let other people talk about what you wrote.

I'm done here. I doubt you can be clued.
You press the key labeled 'X' in the keyboard, and an X shows up in the screen. Can't be more intuitive than that.
Denying a power to the states is not the same as granting it to the federation. The federal government was never authorized to declare anything a legal tender. It was authorized to manufacture coins and say what they are worth.

It would be nice to think that the supremes would strike down legal tender laws for that reason, but as they are paid in paper, I don't think it likely in this millennium.
If you look at the URL bar in google's example it does that as well.
I hate to be negative, but this is designed perfectly for gamblers. Invest in index funds.
It's possible that his account has been hijacked.
As another atheist (from a Lutheran background) who has read the bible (it kind of precipitated the whole atheist thing), I totally understand why many Christians believe that the old testament is relevant and believe that their god considers homosexuality to be sinful.

That wasn't what I was taught in my particular brand of Christianity, but having read the book I can totally see where other denominations pick it up. They aren't hallucinating or imagining hateful things in that book, it's all in there, ready to be reinforced or erased and excused, depending on which particular interpretation you take.

I think that reading the bible and coming to the conclusion that the god described in it hates homosexuality (among any number of other things) and that Jesus did not reverse those prejudices is perfectly reasonable. It's also somewhat reasonable (though far less so I think) to take away the idea that the Christian god is genuinely all loving and that Jesus absolved that god of all of it's sins (wasn't he suppose to do that for humanity instead? But it seems like he is most often invoked to absolve the christian god of his sins...).

(That of course isn't to say that I believe the sort of hateful Christianity seen prominently in certain parts of America (and other parts of the world) is acceptable. While I think their interpretation of the Bible is reasonable, I think it is _unreasonable_ for them to believe the Bible is divinely inspired, or that the god they read from those pages is worthy of being worshiped.)
My favorite quote from the article "I tried, and failed, to speak with Valley-based recruiters, who seem to be considerably less eager to return emails than to send them."
One of the best uses of d3 I have seen is a visualization of biblical contradictions. [1]

[1] http://bibviz.com/
Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is sticking with MySQL
> And reference counting also renders the point of determinism moot - now you never know if releasing a reference while trigger freeing a resource.

You know that releasing the last reference will. That is why the important concept is single ownership of resources and not reference counting by itself.
The Default Scala Seq Is Mutable. Wait, What?
30%-70% of our government representative's time is spent calling the 0.05% (150k people) of US citizens to raise money to get re-elected.

Our Republic is a Representative Democracy (not a true democracy) where there are 2 election cycles, the "Funders" and the voters. As a representative you can't get your name on the ballot in the voting cycle unless you pass the "Funders" cycle.

This is a closed source program where one has to "lean to the green", towards the 0.05% of people who have the money, to play.

NH is the KEY! Isolate 50,000 people in New Hampshire who say, "What will you do to end the system of corruption in Washington?" 50,000 people will swing the vote.

How can technology help isolate those 50k people? What apps can we build? What networks can we build?
I disagree with this pretty strongly. Somebody posed a similar question in the blog comments, and I think I did a decent job of answering it: http://nerds.airbnb.com/testing-at-airbnb/#comment-13289
Architecture of Hadoop Distributed File System
The only reason I still use Django is my deep-seated and abiding love for django-rest-framework. If you're bringing it to Flask, then that's the final bullet.
Reference counting doubles the number of memory access - you have to update the reference and the counter every time. That is a big performance hit. Reference counting may randomly halt your code, too, because you never know when you hit zero and the resource gets freed.
Unless you scroll a page at a time using Page Down or Space.

When I'm at the top of the page, the last visible item is "Live Room". If I page down once, the first visible item becomes "Black Refraction". I never even see that there's an item called "Live Room Out", it's obscured first by the footer and then by the header.
Proponents of Bitcoin tend to view the lack of regulation as a feature, not a bug. With that lack of regulation comes higher risk of losing everything in the event of a catastrophe. It's hard to have it both ways.
Nope, this seems to use history.replaceState, not pushState: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/DOM/M...
Well, things have changed since our grandparent's generation. A college degree used to be a guaranteed ticket to a decent job, and even many blue collar jobs were much better paying and less abusive. Now being 30 years old and living with your parents is not that odd.

Now, debt, unemployment and inflation are soaring (if you want to see how bad it really is, visit cities like Detroit or the non-wealthy areas of Chicago).

There is a growing wealth divide. I have nothing against "1 percenters" but I do believe the gap is becoming dangerous. 95 percent of recovered funds from this recent "improvement" in the economy (since the last crash) have gone to the wealthiest 1 percent.

Our government's budget is increasing in size, but they are not spending money any more wisely. Certain contractors make a killing (particularly in the military sector), and its kind of a false economy based not on merit but who puts money back into their politician's pocket (in the "real" world, the healthcare.gov site would have been built for a fraction of the cost and its failure would have been a huge blow to the company that created it).

Part of this is people failing to adapt to the changing world or feeling too entitled and expecting their corrupt/indifferent government to fix every problem. Part of it is that automation and oversea workers are claiming many jobs (but these are crappy jobs you wouldn't want anyway). Automation is even going into territories you might not think of. 100 years ago the US population was almost half farmers (IIRC), and now it is less than 2 percent.

Basically, you are not delusional. Things are getting harder, and worse. Competition is getting fierce as everyone is increasingly competing to justify their worth to employers. The economy is definitely in a bubble because the stock indices does not reflect the reality of debt, unemployment, and our stale economy right now. I have no good idea of how these problems can be solved. I am no Luddite, but I think that perhaps taking a step backwards in time could be an interesting experiment - create more towns that are self-sufficient, grow their own crops, build their own houses, etc. It seems like much of the wealth is getting boiled down into the hands of fewer and fewer big companies.
Link is down - here's to file: http://imgur.com/gallery/71sQ92K
If a job board exists in a forest, and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

This woman apparently has influence and persuasion because of her membership. By trying to connect, this young woman was saying "you are important and I want to connect with you". That is a two way street, and it is not fair to say "something for nothing".

As to the public shaming, we are all accountable for our words and actions, particularly when we engage in discriminatory behaviors (the whole bitter "your generation" bit). There is nothing disgusting about this so-called public shaming (note that it was in result of someone engaging in ageism and then basically declaring the person shut out, celebrating their monopoly).

The Job Board operator could have simply hid their connections if they really feel a great burden for a connection invite, and their grievous fear that everyone was trying to usurp their network (again, we come to the "Feeling threatened" bit) would be allayed.
Well, reference counting is definitely a way to collect garbage, but when people say X language used a reference counting GC versus a collecting GC, they typically mean that X language was using that GC for all objects. I'm guessing that the .NET experiment you're thinking of used the terminology in that way, and if so, I don't think it's particularly surprising that reference counting was slower. But using a reference counting library only in cases where you find that you need multiple references to a single object is a very different animal. Most programs don't actually need much shared data, even without any design contortions.
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This was submitted by another HN user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7274674 .
Whether you are aware of what a LinkedIn connection supposedly entails or not doesn't change the fact that her email (described as "venomous" in another article, and I don't disagree) was extremely unprofessional and just frankly out of place.

But why should we assume that everyone is aware of how supposedly "exclusive" a LinkedIn connection is? I for one was not. (I stopped using LinkedIn shortly after their security mishaps a few years back.) If the requester only had a few contacts it's reasonable to assume she was new to the site and did not realize this either. That's no reason to have such an acerbic response shot back at her.

> Yes, the response was rude and insensitive....and so is the entire world

I for one don't tolerate rudeness or insensitivity in either my personal or business life (on either my part or that of others). I guess that's just me.
Your tech sounds cool but I don't think it's open source ;-). If you are at IETF89 in London next week, I'd love to talk P2P streaming. I'm @dch__ on twitter.
>I am not an US citizen, I am not affected by it

Being in Germany, you are already in fully socialized medicine, so any battle for privacy of health records is already lost.
Also: pi-seconds is a nano-century.
I'm just saying, few jobs have analogs to "accountability to logic", "accountability to the compiler", "accountability to the unit tests" and so on. Surgeons have it. Engineers have it. Even people who do sales have it. But you know there are a lot of service, middle-management, and executive jobs where no rubber meeting road really occurs.
Capacity planning for startups
One of my favorite features of infinite scroll is how it can make clicking on the footer of a page nearly impossible. E.g. try clicking on "About" or "Careers" on the bottom of http://venturebeat.com
They already got one accepted to IPDPS 2014, "Finding Motifs in Biological Sequences Using the Micron Automata Processor"
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_%20advance_program.html