skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used the Freestyle for several years. It's a lot more comfortable than any other sub-$100 boards I could find, but the rubber-dome key response is pretty lame compared to real mechanical switches. The horizontal staggering didn't bother me at the time, but now that I've switched to columnar staggering it drives me nuts every time I go back.
Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks revisions to news articles?
It’s increasingly commonplace for journalists and hacks alike to update their articles, dropping or revising the most poorly researched sections, without noting the retraction, much less preserving the original edit.

It would make sense for there to be a tool which scrapes news sites and reports on the "diffs".

Does one exist? Have any of you tried to hack something like this together?
I grew up in Calgary. In my opinion, West Edmonton Mall has been dying over the years. There are several corners of the mall that feel really gross to be in. They got rid of the submarines that I enjoyed as a kid. And it no longer feels new.

I don't know if the recent renovations have changed anything, but it would be great to hear someone from Edmonton chime in.
The Mall of America, from the same developers as the West Edmonton Mall, is another good exception. The mall is massive, but the interior spaces feel like the outdoors. This is partly because of the live plants and bright sunlight filling the theme park in the middle, and partly because of the fresh air from their fascinating climate control system. It's also well-connected to public transit. Outdoor malls don't do as well in the winter months in Minnesota, but MOA appears to be doing well enough since they have a massive expansion underway.
If people think it's bullshit that Monsanto can prevent their seeds from being re-used then that's not insane, but I'd politely disagree.

They are seeds. They aren't being reused, they are being used, as seeds.

Genetic information in the wild cannot be subject to strict intellectual property regulation, when there are things like horizontal gene transfer.
Luckily there's a fix for that too. Behold, Los Alamos National Lab's infamous music video to encourage people to use handrails when they're on the stairs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDsTc2oWGSI
There is definitely a case to be made about old stodgy incumbents getting in the way of innovation. But my point isn't really about innovation disrupting the old but rather people throwing out the baby with the bath water when it comes to the relevance of business know-how.
Very true actually. It's just sad that malls had to get all the way to the state of being run-down. What I suggested should have been down 10 or even more years ago. Right now I'd agree with you that many malls have to work hard to find tenants who'd be unwilling to be associated with a mall.
Lots of places in the world malls are still being built at a rapid pace. London, for example, is seeing an ongoing stream of enlargment, redevelopment and new mall developments. For an example local to me, the Australian developer/mall operator Westfields has formed a joint venture with another developer to combine two local malls and redevelop them into one huge mall, which make Westfields 3rd huge mall in London:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/croydon-westfield-set-...

Maybe large parts of the US just has too many/too large ones, given how many of them were developed pre-online shopping. And a problem with malls is of course that population shifts are far harder to accommodate when such a large area is operated as one unit. If the mall owner does not actively manage changes due to changes in the surrounding area, it can easily become obsolete as a whole.
Wow. I thought for sure you were talking about Cleveland, OH. Just goes to show you it's happening almost identically everywhere.
Terminator seeds have never been used except in research. It says that in your own link. Monsanto have also made commitments, including to the courts in the USA and Canada, not to ever use the technology.
perhaps surprisingly, many subcultures have more nuanced views in long-form historical texts than is evident in their blogs. This does not mean that the older, longer texts lack cultural influence in the present.
Would you prefer to listen to your news feeds? 
We are building an app that would allow you to listen to your news feeds from any source like techcrunch, hacker news or even wall street journal. Can you take the survey to better understand your use case?
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/1QiJeB12WHMnrrYZJULUS_MPxoR-wGebOfOuLNExJpcg/viewform
Serious: What would happen if there is no Facebook and Twitter tomorrow 
I am trying to determine the realistic outcome or consequences if both of these services vanish tomorrow.
You don't disrupt elites as an infantry captain. You need to be more like Putin getting himself annointed by some oligarchs and then turning on them and making himself the supreme oligarch. Or Erdogan in Turkey saying, we can't have the military involved in civilian politics and be part of the EU, using EU membership as a stick to disrupt the 'deep state' of the elites, then saying screw the EU and concentrating his own power.

You have to attain a position of leadership in/over the informal elite to disrupt it.

Anyway, it's a very good article. And War and Peace is outstanding as well, if you have the time.

Behind every form of government lurks an oligarchy.
Blogging is the New Resume
Unless you have different pricing per country or something orthogonal to language, I'm sure than a speaker of Canadian French can figure out that clicking the French flag may help them understand this page better. It's a common enough idiom on the web.
> I suppose if you've got some idea you're relentlessly devoted to enacting, you'll either end up learning this stuff or failing.

I agree with this.

> The real problem is when you're someone like me who is long on technical chops, and short on actual business ideas.

Its not about technical acumen, or about business ideas, its about the desire to learn and grow beyond what you already know. Its very, very hard to select for people like that. You have to tease it out of people over time, and few of us have the time needed for that.

> I just don't see where all this stuff is going to be taught in an on the job training kind of environment.

As I previously mentioned, I think apprenticeships are the way to go (apprenticeship/internship sort of environment, with acceptable pay). This is how I hire and train DevOps/Systems-Network Admins; I bring people in with 1-3 years of Linux experience (or even no experience if they show the desire to learn), and I teach/coach.

> Kudos to you for learning all of the above yourself to build your business rather than in school.

Thank you. We all take different paths. Some days I wish I had had the resources to go to college (MIT was my first pick, but couldn't for family reasons).

If you're ever in Chicago, coffee is on me. Email in profile.
Peter Thiel at DLD13 – Developing the Developed World
Nor surprising, given that the strongest predictor of occupation on health is autonomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehall_Study
I haven't used a non-staggered matrix layout, only column-staggered and row-staggered. Staggering the columns[1] makes allowances for the fact that your fingers are different lengths, and I like it a lot even though it takes a while to get used to. I suspect I would like a non-staggered layout better than row-staggering though.

[1] - like the Ergodox or my own Atreus design does: https://secure.flickr.com/photos/technomancy/tags/atreus
I have to upvote this for the best laugh I've had all week.
They aren't 'just operating within the law'. They are actively lobbying to strengthen it, and to create legal precedents.
Some people, even technically inclined writers, fail to understand exponential growth.
By "signal" I mean the social/professional status gained from mentioning that college on your CV. "Went to Harvard" and "dropped out of Harvard" mean nearly the same thing: Harvard.

Signals are important, when someone needs to make a decision like "should we interview this person" because they have little else to go on.
>And this is why I prefer 4chan to reddit. By eliminating individual identities (except on a few niche boards, almost nobody posts in any identifiable way) from a group, you are left with no way to form personal cliques.

I've never experienced this on reddit. Yes usernames are attached to every post, but it's functionally anonymous. No one knows or cares who anyone else is. With rare exceptions.

>The threads are also flat and you cannot upvote posts. This prevents the upvote-echo-chamber effect you can see on reddit.

You can sort reddit by "new" and it's awful. Likewise HN uses basically the same system and manages a much higher quality of discussion.
For additional context; what/which revolution(s) are you thinking about that aspired to be the most structureless but became as oppressive as the most tyrannical ones?
This statement is completely untrue.

- iOS forbids JIT just like Windows, making it no worse than Windows.

- iOS 7 made JavaScriptCore public API so all iOS apps may use JavaScript.

- Pre-iOS 7, companies were already embedding SpiderMonkey and their own forks of JavaScriptCore in iOS apps. This is allowed as long as JIT is off.
I hadn't been there in years, and went back recently and really found it depressing.

The city, Manassas, has a bigger population than ever, but can't sustain the mall. The mall is in a death spiral. Nobody goes there because it's a dump with no place to shop, and they can't get businesses there because nobody goes there and it's a dump. People from Manassas don't even go there, they just go to other nearby malls for their mall-style shopping when they need something.

At this point, the city would be better served to tear the mall down and replace it with a large outdoor style town center. Cost of living in Manassas is relatively cheap compared to other places in NoVA and with enough mixed-use zoning there, could turn it into an attractive place.

I didn't really dig into the city too much, but over the last 20-ish years, the entire city has death spiraled. Grocery stores closed and were reopened as barely maintained "global marts" that made me want to take a bath after I left, franchise restaurants have closed up. etc.
Some malls are indistinguishable from Soviet Era waiting rooms.
> There is no universe in which that does not mean "because he will murder you."

Feel free to argue with yourself, with your own words, words I have never used nor implied.

> Using 'girl' instead of 'woman' for 'young female adult' is NOT one of these serious issues.

Learn current events, and don't assume your personal experiences can serve as a guide to reality.

http://www.wakemag.org/voices/i%E2%80%99m-a-woman-not-a-girl...

Is the above the "real truth"? No, of course not -- it's just as reliable an indicator of what people think as your view. The problem is that you have no conception that there's any view on this issue apart from your own.

> The reason you're being picked on and downvoted in this comment thread ...

Oh, I know the reason very well. It's well-established that downvoting inevitably follows the posting of a simple truth. The simpler the truth, the greater the number of downvotes.

Like this one.
The web version is actually localized by domain.

http://maps.google.com is the US-local Google Maps; http://maps.google.ca defaults to Canada; http://maps.google.co.jp sends you to Japan; etc.
Remember that the fashion industry has revenue that absolutely dwarfs the tech industry. It's so far beyond that it's not even funny. People can't go naked, they need clothes, and most of the time they prefer to try them on, see how they look and fit, then purchase in person.

Then there's food which is even larger. The online ordering of groceries is a drop in the bucket. You want fresh food, you're going to have to go and hand pick it.

Not surprisingly Wal-Mart has a foot in both camps.
Edith Piaf said it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFtGfyruroU
I prefer the chruby model though which is just based on modifying $PATH.
If I was financially independent I'd work for SpaceX for free.

They build rockets!.

I'm not remotely in their league though as a programmer.

I build web apps.
We still have heirloom seeds - anyone who wants to can develop their own varieties and share them as freely as they like. Many thousands of people do this. However, those varieties are just extremely unlikely to be as consistently high-yielding as the latest commercial varieties.

Patents serve the same purpose in farming as they do elsewhere: it makes it worthwhile for companies to invest the hundreds of millions of dollars it costs to drive crop yields ever higher.

I share your moral outrage at the idea of patenting life, and all my own research as well as all the genetic technology produced by our consortium on the C4 rice project will be made free (as in beer and speech).

However, agriculture relies on agricultural companies, and they need some way to make money. If people can just take their technology and grow it again themselves, there is no way for them to recoup their investment and we simply won't have better crops.
My Life as a Forth Interpreter (1986) [pdf]
Microsoft uses compatibility and bundling as leverage to maintain their monopoly

ATT/Verizon use municipal contracts and large barriers-to-entry to maintain their oligopoly

All Monsanto has are patents on their specific crop strains. What prevents a seed producer from going into business other than the benefits of using Monsanto strains?

EDIT: ok, after googling around (the techdirt link was broken), it looks like they were bundling

http://www.organicconsumers.org/monsanto/monopoly.cfm

http://www.patentdocs.org/2008/05/monsanto-and-sy.html
A lot of commentary here and in the article was worrying to me. Directly relevant since I bought a cheap (good value) Lenovo G510 laptop today that came with Win 8.1.

I didn't want to use Windows at all, just boot Clonezilla straightaway, clone the HDD and then install Debian. No go on booting from CD - "not allowed" due to the security setup. Ah, OK .. so it then boots Win 8.1 and I had to go through various Windows setups I wanted to avoid before rebooting and trying again.

It was then I had to figure out the BIOS side of things and saw it was all UEFI. I just turned it off and switched to "legacy" mode (BIOS legacy I assume) and disabled secure boot. Cloned the HDD, booted the Debian Testing CDROM and now have a "Jessie" install on it.
"Current Google Share Price :
495.01 USD"

This hasn't been updated since GOOG was a bit more than a third of what it is now.

But if they actually own 819 shares that is almost a million dollars of stock right now.

Edit: http://gwei.org/pages/google/legalletter1.html
I think the name 'Monsanto' doesn't matter too much. It can be any evil corporation using all their muscles to lobby, and make legal frameworks in favor of them. For those who are not sure why Monsanto is evil, read this article.

http://newsjunkiepost.com/2009/08/05/monsanto-dow-making-hea...
Yup, and that's completely part of the legal framework of the USA. They take advantage just like every other IP-owning company, including basically every tech company in Silicon Valley.
Congratulations on downvoting a dictionary definition, you morons.
If the violation of the law is the purpose of the contract, then it's not a legal contract.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_agreement
To be clear, what we're talking about here is not a simple interpersonal issue. It's sexism within a company.

It doesn't matter whether the source of that sexism is the way the men treat women, or whether its the way a high-powered woman treats the other women. (Both are at play in this particular story.) If someone is being discriminated against due to their gender, the company culture has an issue with sexism.

I brought up jealousy as an example, but I didn't mean it to be romantic. It can be an issue of feeling threatened by another woman, as when a woman used to be the only female voice at her company. It's a twisted perspective, but there's data to say it exists.
I thought the share class structuring of Google was such that you can never own Google by buying its publicly traded shares?
Quite right. Even better is hosting your git yourself so that the data never leaves the premises. it is more work; but from a security point of view it's even better.
> Pre-internet, if you wanted to peruse music, toys, books, movies, and/or video games and software, you essentially had to go to a mall. Or at least you wanted to because it was so convenient to access one or more of these sources of entertainment.

Well, actually, as I recall, malls were typically where you went for stores for those things that tended to be overpriced and had limited selection, but were conveniently located together along with restaurants and places for the kids to be entertained (like arcades and sometimes play areas, carousels, etc.)
Unless Eric Schmidt is secretly behind this of course. ;)
Hadn't even heard of the rug incident until I read about it in this thread, but I'm pretty sure their idea of meritocracy here only applied to GitHub the company, not GitHub the website, and came out of their culture of "Managers and chain-of-command? Not here. You can work on whatever you want at any time and at any location, as long as good work comes out of it."
There is no such thing as "Europe".

I don't know of any malls being constructed in the Netherlands.
Ogling is defined as "stare at in a lecherous manner."

The hard part here is defining "lecherous" but it would seem to imply that he is watching in a way that signals sexual intent.
It's worth noting that women are generally much better at interpreting body language than men are, so it's possible that a guy is watching the woman dance and getting some sort of erotic enjoyment from it, tries his best to hide it but some subconscious subtle clue gives him away.

Having said that, hoop dancing would seem like an inappropriate thing to do in most offices to begin with but I would say the same thing about nerf gun fights.
Hi pitchfork bearing loon, feel free to mention specific moral axioms behind your opinion at your own leisure.
Renting fully furnished homes is common in many countries. AirBNB charges upfront, keeps your CC data on file, has references from previews hosts, and allows landlords to collect a security deposit if wanted. Looks about the same to me.
If someone believed that they could attain a smart, capable supporter without offering those legal protections, however, then you agree that it would be rational for them not to provide those protections, right?

Not to mention the sizable portion of men who don't care about the intelligence/capability of their partner, or those who don't believe that wanting a legal upper hand correlates positively with the type of intelligence/capability that they desire.
I'm guessing you didn't mean this in a general sense. An approach like this would fail horrifically in any of the following scenarios: Claims of harassment/discrimination, claims of incompetence, any form of whistleblowing (on the exec) and probably many others.
Uh, no, Github is the new resume. Just saying.
a very important thing that we're overlooking here, where monsanto is kind of a side effect. is that we're losing our seeds. we're losing for example seeds that are have had hundreds of years of adapting to a certain environment.

a friend of mine was actually collecting seeds in afghanistan a couple of years back precisely, because of that.

besides the yield implications there are also health implications, as we're increasingly growing seeds with a certain taste.

this is completely disregarding the possible health implications of gmo crops.

imho there's huge potential for startups, but probably als huge attack surfaces on those startups.

why? don't forget that uncle bens for example tried to patent basmati rice, and it took the indian government to shut them down. there have also been countless other such cases.

and for those saying the whole monsanto thing is overrated? i remember the guy mentioning a couple of years back that he wants to own 100% of the crop market by 20xx(xx being a number that i forgot). that number has been growing rapidly. and again disregarding the health implications of generic seeds distributed throughout the world, we kinda recognize that monopolies in everything are dangerous.

what on earth makes us think that this is any different?
Oh no, no no no. Your life partner is there to support you, personally, through the difficulty of starting and growing a business (if you're lucky.) They should listen to you and maybe even give you some gentle advice. But when they show up at work and start meddling, there's no way that will go well.

Why would you even want that? It can't be good for the organization--because they are outside the normal chain of command and thus not really accountable for their actions, and because they have power not earned through an objective process--and it can't be good for your relationship. Just don't do it.
And it'll use a lot more power. I wouldn't want a simple logo to keep my GPU busy for no reason when surfing on my phone.
Does it provide integrated interactive error handling, break loops, debugging of compiled code, ...
Thanks for the idea, Carlos. We've already considered a variant of it, but not a full AaaS (Aquaponics as a Service) idea. We'll give it some serious thought.
Neat idea, but it looks like the site was last updated in 2005/6.
Out of curiosity, what are the other malls you're talking about?

The pair of high-end luxury malls sound like they could be Tyson's/Tyson's II.
I will stick with emacs org-mode.
Try Eigen, you'll agree that NumPy is an array library that had linear algebra support thrown in as an afterthought.
Landmark mall? Just walking in the place gives you an empty feeling.
New Intel NUC BIOS update fixes Linux installation woes
Gawking is not sexual, ogling is. You can gawk at a bus accident, you can't ogle it.

Anyway, another account of the incident paints a very different picture of the scene:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7408466

claiming that the gawking in question was undertaken by all present and not limited to men
Validate the books I'll read because I want to become a good software engineere
All my softwares end being a total mess. In summary, they become just a bunch of code. They work, but you know... something is missing because it's really hard to come back to them and add more features.

Please help me with the list below with suggestions, because I really want to invest in being a good software engineere, devoted to web development mainly.

1) Refactor (by Martin Flowler)

2) Domain Driven Design (by Eric Evans)

3) JavaScript Patterns (by Stoyan Stefanov)

4) Refactoring to Pattern (by Joshua Kerievsky)

5) Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler)

What do you thing of this sequence?
They aren't patenting life forms, rather their modifications to life forms.

> In the past we had heirloom seeds

In the past we didn't have genetic engineering technology that could beat the "heirloom" mixture of selective breeding and snake oil. Now we do, and it has to be funded somehow or society doesn't benefit from that technology.