skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe your job this weekend should be to get a little exercise before writing on the internet?

Maybe you should learn some manners and stop posting wild assumptions about physique of your peers.

> It's a nice little summary of cool tools. "Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure".

It's barely a summary. A summary requires some details about the points being raised; albeit a briefly phrased. That site was more akin to a bullet-pointed list.

The descriptions are lacklustre, the screenshots are useless for all bar the ncurses programs, and including "just too useful to miss" programs like vi and curl but with zero detail nor examples about how to use them is absolutely worthless. Anyone who's every used a Linux / UNIX command line -even briefly- would already know that vi and curl exists - what they might not know is how to use it. And that's where articles like this should focus if they're wanting to incorporate commonly known commands along with obscure ones. Otherwise you're trying to appeal to everyone yet failing to please anyone.
Xkcd #1337
Wonder how much of this 1 billion actually successfully resulted in backer rewards and wasn't indefinitely borrowed/outright stolen. Just recently a webcomic artist John Campbell who raised $50000 wrote a long screed telling his backers that they will never get the book they paid for. And a lot of projects get completely forgotten about after they get fully funded.
Applying VAT to a currency seems strange in the first place, no wonder they are scrapping it. It's also possibly they've looked at the whole MtGox fiasco and thought it's no worth worrying about Bitcoin anymore and they rethink regulations when the outcome of the MtGox thing is known.
> What sort of world leader hates cats after all.

The tosser sort, obviously.
Online optical test – Are you sitting too close?
Is this what Tesla and Apple have been talking about?
I'm an iPad user in Romania, right now.

The salaries are really low here, most sales seem to be 100-200 Euro cheap Androids.

The Androids are often used for specific applications/niches (e.g. in taxis and by poor students). If buyers had money, they'd at least get Androids with better screens.

I believe the market for paid Android apps here is more or less nil.

(I hope the cheap Androids aren't used for banking etc, considering the lack of security updates.)

In short -- these cheap Androids aren't really competing with iPads. People just can't afford better (or they are used for a specific application 20 minutes a day).

All that said, I still would consider to switch from iOS if I could get better Emacs support with external keyboard than a terminal (which work on iOS now).
Reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc
How to Performa A Web Performance Audit
That's a good point, but the onus should probably be on us. E.g. be more empathetic / less judgemental from the start.
While the code is pretty bad I have to agree with this.
Slightly offtopic: The title says "mission to probe Sun" and the article starts discussing it, but it soon changes to other projects, like a Moon rover, but the transition is not very clear. I first skimmed the text and thought it was a joke article about a rover in the Sun. This is a serious article, but it has too few details, and cover (all) the future Indian space missions. I think that a more generic title would be better.
> Unrelated to the above but relevant to the parent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav

> […] On 15 August 2008 he was awarded a knighthood. He is the first penguin to receive such an honour in the Norwegian army.

Wait, other penguins have previously been knighted in non-Norwegian armies? Is there an Order of Penguin Knights out there?

> Edit: ok this takes the cake, especially temporary demotion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Windsor_(goat)

The reasons for temporary demotion are hilarious:

> [D]espite being ordered to keep in line, he refused to obey. He failed to keep in step,[16] and tried to headbutt a drummer. […]

> Billy was charged with "unacceptable behaviour", "lack of decorum" and "disobeying a direct order", and had to appear before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Huw James. Following a disciplinary hearing, he was demoted to fusilier.

As were the consequences:

> The change meant that other fusiliers in the regiment no longer had to stand to attention when Billy walked past, as they had to when he was a lance corporal.

edit:

the end paragraph about other goat troubles in the british army is mind-blowing in its britishness:

> At one time a royal goat was "prostituted" by being offered for stud services by the regiment's serving goat major to a Wrexham goat breeder. First charged with lèse majesté, the goat major was ultimately court-martialled under the lesser charge of "disrespect to an officer" and reduced in rank. The goat major claimed he did it out of compassion for the goat, but this failed to impress the court.

> Another royal fusilier goat earned the nickname "the rebel", after he butted a colonel while he was stooped over fixing his uniform's trouser-strap. The incident was described as a "disgraceful act of insubordination."
I am using shake on action "not available" for one of my project and it fits very well.
I'm digging further off-topic, but anyway: as a non-japanese speaker and someone who spontaneously thinks in terms of optimization, I'm amazed by the seemingly gratuitously complicated rules of politeness in that language.

Does it require concentration for a native to avoid faux-pas in a discussion? Can it become much more difficult depending on your social origins (i.e. how effective is it as a social discriminant)? I'm wondering how much time and thought is typically spent on those matters, to the detriment of actually thinking and communicating information.

(I guess this post is extremely rude from a japanese PoV, but I'd genuinely like to understand all this better, and I'm sure typical HN readers can understand this approach)
Am I alone in thinking Apple should be worrying more about fixing iOS 7 rather than porting it to a lot of new devices? It is easily the buggiest version of iOS I've used (4 through 7.)
There is no tax harmonization in the EU, or even the Eurozone.
DC doesn't hate cats, he likes them very much... with butter sauce and potatoes, washed down with a nice big glass of the tears of the people.
JXcore – A Node.js Distribution with Multi-threading
Watching Android versus iWhatever is like watching Windows versus Macintosh all over again. How soon will they have 97% of the market is now the question.
Don't forget The Call of the Wild, also by London - fabulous book.
I agree, some of these effects are appropriator for negative ore attention seeking reactions.

A checkbox must be checked before submitting the form? Shake the ckeckbox when the user clicks submit.

Log-in failed? shake the log-in form.
In that case, you first write a test case ensuring that the first three statements won't throw.
Collection.ts - A lib to got Collections, etc. in TypeScript & JavaScript.
This lib will give you some common functionality of the .NET System.Collections, System.Collections.Generic and System.Collections.ObjectModel.

Upcoming features:
- ObservableCollection.
- Modules for the JavaScript version.
- Node implementation.
But they already have cars that drive themselves, without human interference. Google (and other companies') engineers have been driving them all over the country on test runs. Obviously if the car will drive itself to a specified destination autonomously, the physical state of the occupant is no longer an issue.

The physical state of the occupant is an issue if there are situations where the occupant might need to regain control of the vehicle. Unless the autonomous car can handle all potential situations the occupant will still need to be in a fit state to drive the vehicle.
Depends on the country. In the USA the launch price has held steady since the iPhone 4, but everywhere else the off-contract price has been steadily increasing. It's now $720 in Canada. Same with some of the Macs (e.g. Mac mini jumps around during the rare refresh)
What kind of display is it so that the finger casts a shadow on it?
I think this would have some amusingly rapid effects on ALL colleges

Undoubtedly, but would they be positive? Universities are not vocational schools, nor do I think they should be. Their goal should be to give you deep theoretical and philosophical understanding of your field of interest. The practical stuff you can pick up on the job or on your own.

If you don't want that, but rather want to learn the current industry best practice in how to build web apps in Rails, then you should go to a vocational school.

I'm not saying the current system is perfect or even very good, and there is much universities can do to improve. But forcing them to focus 100% on getting their students jobs is not the answer. The answer in my opinion is to stop demanding university degrees for every job, focus a lot more on creating industry specific 1-2 year trade schools for those who just want to learn a useful skill, and let universities be for people who enjoy a heavier focus on theory, research and pushing the state of the art.
Q – Validate, Coerce, Sanitize and Document Data the Correct Way
> greedy old white men

Please stop doing this
I disagree with both points so much it hurts. Driving automatics is fun, especially if you are in a car with a massive and a powerful engine - the sensation of it dropping just to the right gear,and then holding up to just the right amount of RPMs is exciting, something that only pro drivers can achieve in cars with manual transmission.

As for the second point - in critical situations on the road, I would rather keep my eyes on the road and both hands firmly on the steering wheel - not manipulate gears and clutch.

And I also disagree with the notion that automatic cars don't give you control - with enough experience,you can force precisely the gear you want in an automatic by operating the throttle in a right way. They actually give you way more control - if I find myself at a need to suddenly accelerate, I just press the throttle all the way down and then the transmission just drops down two gears,or one, and does it in less than a second. I am pretty sure that 90% of drivers would not be able to do is as quickly/smoothly/efficiently in a manual, selecting the right gear, declutching and starting at the right rpm - automatic transmission does that for you.

I never had an automatic stall, they don't do jarring shifts between gears, and my left leg is not about to fall off from holding the clutch in a slowly moving traffic jam.

And "serious" cars like sport cars mostly come with an automatic transmission without the manual as an option. You know why Bugatti Veyron comes with an automatic? Because no human would be ever able to change gears as quickly as needed with that car.

And interestingly, the entire off-road market is moving towards automatics as well. You know why? Because you can't burn out a hydrokinetic clutch while starting uphill or in difficult conditions.

I've driven many many cars in my life, and while there are situations where I can see how the manual transmission is "enjoyable", automatics are just objectively better, with new ones offering lower fuel consumption, better acceleration, smoother gear changes and relative lack of maintenance in comparison to manual transmissions.
Personally, I'd extract it into its own .sql file; if your query is complex, it should be treated as code.
> That's like saying that cell phones with color screens were already pretty mainstream when the iPhone came around and it didn't really add much.

> I think you have forgotten just how different the iPod was.

It wasn't very different. Jesus Apple fans talk a lot of shit. The first iPhone couldn't even install apps, stop this ridiculous rose tinted view.
>I've just been ignoring(well, downvoting a few) the HN-comments around these YC Female Founder. But this one, this one is just awful. You represent the absolute fringe worse-case scenario that I suspect a few of the other commenters are thinking just not foolish enough to actually post.

Let me just ask you which part of what I posted was inaccurate? Everything that I said was true from consensus of every study and poll done. I am not about 'empowering' people to do things based on false promises and partial disclosure. If anyone wants to be a founder, and wants to be successful - it takes special qualities. Individuals (especially women) do not often posses these qualities. That is full disclosure. Guaranteed that if a speech was given at this conference about this reality and the facts that I stated in my earlier post, most women would leave dejected. The ones that would leave feeling motivated and on fire after such a challenge are the same women who would have succeeded anyway. Personally, I feel that out of the whole group, more would succeed if given full disclosure. I think that the 'better to have tried and failed' speech is complete BS in many cases (this being one of them). Do you think people still think this of all the gold minors in the Klondike (you know the dead ones). What about all the ambitions actors/actresses, artists, musicians ETC. that never made it and became druggies, hookers, porn actresses, and criminals. Were they better off from having tried?

Better off how?

>Get back in your time-machine and return to the 1950s.

The plain truth (though you would never see this in the media or among liberal discussions) is that women get less respect overall today than ever. Women have excelled in many areas, but a lot of the so called 'respect' that they have comes not from men changing, but from men keeping their mouths shut about what they really think. Do you think that this is really healthy? Political correctness silences the public mouth (and actions somewhat), but not the mind or private life.

I believe that if women did not expose their bodies so much and in so many different ways, men would not think of them as sexual objects as much, thus the respect baseline would be higher, making things easier (more truly equal) for women overall.
I had my daughter when I was 27,and I was employee number two at a startup.

The most important thing you can do is spend time supporting your wife though the first one year, women can get very depressed in the early months and you being there makes a lot of difference.

The hardest part lasts around a year, and it gets easy as time passes, by the time your kid starts walking confidently, she will be too busy for you :).

Learn to sleep when your kid sleeps, she will sleep 14-18 hours a day, and plan your day around it. My kid used to sleep very late, 2 pm - around 10 am, so I convinced my boss that I will be working from 12 pm to 9 pm and I would work from home twice a week. You can also split tasks with your wife, I used to bathe the baby alternate days and we took turns changing the nappies. If you get it down to a schedule, I think you can have enough time for yourself.

On the money front, Babies dont ask for much and if you dont go around spending money on needless luxuries, then you should be fine.

Rather than getting depressed, I think you should try to cherish the experience, This time will never come again in your life.
Q – A Data Language
I'm another fan of odd time signatures, took me a few bars but I made it 13/X (feels more like /8 than /16 to me, but meh)

I nailed it counting loops of 1234 1234 1234 1

I've noticed the place you're most likely to hear 'odd' time signatures (other than prog music) is in scores.
This is the attitude that is needed. So many women are given the delusion that they are naturally as good at men at things that men are inclined to do well in. The reality is that women are far better at many things than men and the converse. I am not of the belief that propping someone up with false hope and faith is helpful. Look at the housing boom. Caused partly by the commission for affordable housing. The idea was that if everyone was just given the chance to borrow money and 'own' a house that they would somehow become more responsible and harder working individuals overnight. They would 'rise to the occasion'. Well we all see where that got us. People have got it all backwards. Society needs reality. Those who are disadvantaged need to know that they have to work harder than others. This will separate the wheat from the chaff early and avoid our economy losing trillions in the meantime. We don't need to lower our standards again and again in education so minorities can be on more 'fair' and 'equal' footing. We don't need to give $150k to a high school grad so he can attend and drop out of art college. There is a poison in this country of political correctness and false encouragement. No one is told the truth up front anymore. You have to be very lucky or exceptional to make it as a founder, especially so if you are a women.
>> I just get a kick out of shifting perfectly, the feel of the engine and the control that I have

Funny how I feel exactly same way when I drive an automatic.
Electronic Transaction Governance: Implementing Security Management
Maybe it's like "retarded"? It was jarring to see in medical texts, but they use it.
I was surprised by that one, as I have not tried it, but it does sound like one of Microsoft's nicer efforts when I read about it.
Thank you!

I'm really glad to see the Go team sticking with the short release cycles. Very easy to follow what's changing and what to expect in the next release.
I'd maybe agree with you if this was organic music played by real people, but it's all electronic, so you can guarantee someone entered 13/8 into their sequencer's time signature.
Which is as close to "unregulated" as useful definitions go: once unleashed and bootstrapped, no human nor political organization can directly drive it. It's only self-regulated the way a free market is self-regulated, which is almost the exact opposite of what one has in mind when they talk about "regulations".

(Actually governments can influence its value significantly, by stating on its legality, and the legality/taxation of its conversion into state moneys / commodities).
I'm someone who has put lots of C# into production and whilst you're right, caution has to be used when using LINQ. There are several humungous hand grenades that will go off in production unless you really 100% understand how it works (memory ballooning, infinite sequences, total misunderstanding of log complexity, leaky abstractions and difficulty of debugging).
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We have big plans and are backed by impressive angel investors in London and the U.S. - most are successful entrepreneurs themselves.

Our product is driven by a RESTful API built in Python and Django. The web front-end runs on AngularJS and we’re currently working on our mobile apps running on Phonegap for Android and full native for iOS.

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You'll help define our company culture and decide what perks would interest you - conference/travel budget, ideal workstation setup, free lunch...?

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I completely agree.
After having used C# extensively recently, and having used quite a lot of Java before that, I have a feeling that C# is what Java should have been/should be.

LINQ alone makes C# infinitely less verbose and 'boilerplate' than Java.
That's of course true. However if a human driver causes injury through error he might expect to be held liable. If an autonomous vehicle responds incorrectly to an unanticipated driving scenario and causes injury, the manufacturer will likely be subject to a lawsuit.
this would have been cool if it didn't require you to have an iOS device. like the car should just have it built in. the entire iPhone.
I don't know what white men have to do with this. I bet a bunch of the people who are opposed to that are middle eastern!
> What's the usage numbers like though. That seems to be the one Apple always bring out when discussing the iPhone

They use whatever number is to their advantage. First it was marketshare, then it was app count, "usage" is simply the newest number they use. Suffice to say, they're going to lose that one too. But I'm sure iOS will always have some advantage so they'll always have some number that's the one true indicator of value.
Shipcat - a potential name for antivirus software.

Here is a video of a cat called "Goliath" (real name Hercules)-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN7eXTz35dI
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Ask HN: Worth it to violate a NDA?
Hi all,

Long story short: I was hired to build a website and somehow it turned into a B2B. I was effectively acting CTO for the 4 1/2 years I was there, so I know _everything_ - and I was the only IT person for most of that time.

Anyway, the founders turned out to be fundamentally criminals - the CEO flat out lied to a customer about the nature of the data they were going to get and the customer eventually figured it out. They threatened to sue, etc. When the attempt to gaslight the board of the customer failed, I got strong armed to actually the build the system to generate the data the customer wanted - I was owed $20k in invoices by then... (don't ask, my fault entirely) and if they had been sued, I would never get my money...

So I built it, contract saved, then I got forced out of the company (again, long story, lots of stress..) After the CEO sent me a email mocking me for quitting, I had a nervous breakdown.

A year later, I am still troubled by the whole thing. These people harmed not just me, but the sales guys and the other part time contractors who they yanked around. There is no reason to suspect they have changed their behavior, so they are a threat to everyone that they do business with.

The NDA I signed covers "business info" in a general way, but disclosure of criminal acts certainly is an exception. I can prove all my assertions as I was there and have the email trail. So what do I do? My comment history will show I've ranted about sociopaths, but now that I'm feeling much better in general, I still feel the need to do something based on professional ethics... These people, as I learned out later, have done business like this for the past 30 years - the guy who introduced me finally told me some stories - damn idiot...

thanks.