skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to look vastly different, it just has to look 'designed' for each screen size. This isn't a difficult problem... I'm wondering if responsive web design is a foreign concept within facebook. :\
From my experiences in India, you might not find it clears your mind. India can seem like complete chaos to people from the West, and it kind of is. You don't have to go somewhere to find peace of mind, though. Have a look at Mindfulness - its central tenet - roughly - is that we spend too much time living in the past and the future, when we can be happy if we just accept where we are right now.
If "you think", please look it up instead of blindly confirming.

%s was never deprecated. str.format is said to be preferred, and maybe one day it will completely replace %s. Heaven knows if that'll even happen in 4.0, it's a bigger switch than 3.x's print() and unicode changes combined.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format
I use Gimp professionally for UI and web work, and it does have some UI difficulties. The biggest for me is the haphazard arrangement of tool icons. It sometimes takes me ages to find the right icon because they aren't categorized and don't have a coherent style.
I thought this was covered in my internet bill. You know network communication... if that was supposed to be free all this time some one let me know because then Ive got to call the police because some one has been scamming me out of 50 bux every month for the past 2 decades. I suspect there are more victims.
wow that site's still going. I remember reading his book when I first started learning web design. Always thought the bad design on that site was done ironically though..
If it's 0 confirmation, what exactly is checked?

I'm not convinced vendors are the important party here, they are making a sale and the onus is on them to provide an easy method of payment. Convincing customers to give up the protections of CCs or other digital cash payments would be a very hard battle. Escrow is not a viable alternative to verified identities in transactions, and for most consumers the slim advantages of Bitcoin are far outweighed by the numerous disadvantages.
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
"I know, I'll use MATLAB." Now they have two problems.

(Apologies to jwz.)
True, that. Its really hard to talk down addicts from their high.
Fascinating Charts Of Negotiation Styles Around The World
Wow, that Penn and Teller thing is horrible. About 3:30 when they're reading from the AA book -- "I admit that I am powerless over alcohol" as Teller makes fun like it's the stupidest idea ever. A lot of the people you'll find in AA really do need to admit they're powerless over alcohol. That's no joke.

But Penn and Teller readily admit they've never had a drink in their lives (it was a choice we made, a path we never decided to go down, so screw you losers that aren't total teetotalling illusionists).

The comments here in general demonstrate a general lack of understanding of addiction. It's not a choice, it's a disease, and the prognosis is generally shitty. I'm not saying AA is the end all be all (it's not), but holy shit, don't be so dismissive of an organization that saves lives by trying to give people strategies they can use to avoid drinking. I'll put it this way -- if alcohol (or any recreational substance) is fucking up your life, I don't see any harm in seeking out a support group of people who have dealt with similar issues and have gone on to lead normal lives. There's a lot of suffering people out there that refuse to take that first step because they believe bullshit like it's something they can fix themselves with magic.

And for all the people bitching about how AA is religious -- it's not! The "higher power" thing is more of a philosophy than a religion. This philosophy essentially says alcoholism is a disease, individuals are generally powerless to control it (as evidenced by the lack of an addicts ability to control it in the past), and they will need the help of some kind of "higher power" to avoid drinking. What's the nature of this higher power? That's for you to decide. It could simply be AA as an organization, a higher power that will help with support to prevent you from drinking. I dunno, there's a few books about it, but my point is -- it's not religious!
I too have found out that sports and especially endurance sports (etc., long distance running, cycling) helped me gain more control over my body. If nothing else whenever I go for a long distance bike ride I tend to be in more peaceful and steady state both mentally and bodily (e.g., steady heart beat). This in turn helped me keep focus and not be impulsive.
They are, but it's to those twelve countries :) - eight of them are still in Beta.

The US also has terrible credit card systems compared to any other developed nation.

What do you mean? Aren't the CC systems pretty much the same everywhere? We do have some alternatives to the CC system as a whole, and they work fine, except when we want to sell internationally :|
Most news stories are already being boiled down to < 140 characters by humans. The next frontier in journalism is an explosion in informed, opinionated analysis from multiple perspectives.

We're seeing this in sports (Grantland, Deadspin, 538, Baseball Prospectus), politics (Vox.com/Ezra Klein, 538 again, Politico), and tech (Thompson, Evans, Gruber, The Wirecutter, Anandtech, MG/Dixon/Wilson/Suster/Andreessen/Horowitz/etc/yesIleftamillionpeopleout).

Tech leads the way because those on the cutting edge are often interested in tech, and I believe it's a solid leading indicator of where all journalism is headed—a 'Cambrian explosion' of thoughtful, analytic, but not purely objective writing.
All my support. I lost my mother recently to alcoholism.

You have identified your problem. You can still recover, but get some external help!

You are probably aware that there is a very high risk that unless you get control of your habit you will die of it. Massive drinkers can develop memory issues - brain will develop lesions, short term memory will become poor. Not so good professionally. There are several high-risk medical complications that are likely. You might develop a liver cirrhosis. I hear this is extremely painful. You might get cancer. Also, painful.

Seriously, terminal alcoholism is something you really, really want to avoid. My mother spent the last month of her life psychotic in a hospital bed and before that she basically lost all control of her bowels. Reading had been one of the joys of her life but her memory became so poor that in the last years she could not really follow books (she did crosswords, though).

It's just not that you feel shit for drinking, the drink will turn you into a living husk in the long term. You will probably need psychiatric as well as physical treament. Get help. Any help.
I think we all have only so much willpower and the more we work the less willpower we have to resist temptation. I find it much easier to resist that choc chip cookie when I am not working hard than when I am in the middle of some huge project.
Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes
Indeed, it turns out that HN's own tptacek is a particularly clever Perl script.
How can this be corrected?
What are you fighting for?
I don't see why this blog post would give legal advice, it might well be plainly illegal, or half illegal. It's describing customs to newcomers, not law.

Remember, the law is often here to try to destroy "from now on" customs that are deemed toxic.
yeah that was it. first time it really mucked up a layout like this for me. Guess that's the downside of hosting your static assets on the facebook cdn :)
I tried to install Threes on Android, no ART support => I don't care anymore, playing 2048 and the clones :)
Posts like this always make me want to play with a layout engine trying to implement various features. Is there a toy layout engine made specifically for (self-) education? I couldn't find one. If there isn't, what is otherwise the easiest one to get started with?
If they plough well where you are, get winter tires for the bicycle. They are magical. For clothes, use double gloves and pull over pants. I can guarantee this down to less than -20C.

Caveats: Good winter tires are expensive, the magic isn't the spikes but the rubber. Be careful when you step off the bicycle, you have no clue how slippery it is. After bicycling a while with winter tires you can't bicycle without them, you lose all reflexes for handling slippery ice.
Facebook Joins Google In The Hunt For The Future
Source for the widespread knowledge?
Maybe your problem is you haven't yet designed a life to fit your odd sleeping habits. :-)
Am I the only person on the planet who vastly prefers the newer design?

Yes, the larger images were nice to look at - but they got in the way of actually viewing the content for me.

My personal viewing habits of the newsfeed are to give facebook a glance over once a day with my morning coffee. The purpose is to get an overview - quickly. The newer look got in the way of that, especially when viewing in smaller windows.

There are also all the folk who aren't looking at it on large displays, and maybe consistency of experience is important too.

Sure - maybe there's a metrics issue too. But I've seen more than my fair share of usability tests where things that my "design" persona like end up being disliked by the people who actually use the site.
People are awesome 2014
> The differences between how they and LLVM handle pointer is causing them trouble

Could you please elaborate? What is the difference in the way the Mill and LLVM handle pointers?
TL;DR -- Maintaining a small heap wins. Quicksort-style selection loses. Summary results appear at the end of the article.

Maintaining a small heap takes 105,714 to 106,452 comparisons.

Building a big heap takes 166,525 to 166,629 comparisons.

Quick select followed by a second pass takes 222,351 to 496,865 comparisons (widely variable results depending on lucky or unlucky pivots).

Quick select with intermediate small concatenated sorts takes 131,171 to 217,504 comparisons.
Journalists, media under attack from hackers – Google researchers
The only purpose for pharmaceuticals as a solution to this problem is to establish a viable industry. These drugs are not ever a solution - if they were, you could grow them in your own home. As it is, however, you have to join the right club, sign up with the right team, be a member of the right cult - to get your meds every month.

Legalized drugging of culture, is all it is. Utter, literal brainwashing.

(A real solution wouldn't require a prescription.)
That was a lesson on how NOT to launch idea you want to monetise — why anybody would want to pay fro something they have already for free? :)
fyi: "final release expected on April 17th, 2014."
> how do we know that LGBT people at Mozilla are getting fair treatment?

He's explicitly stated that he's committed to fair and equitable treatment of all employees. That's how you know.

https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/
Facebook.com isn't responsive (you'll see fixed width's, just check it out), so it does seem that responsive design is something they disregard purposefully.
TuneUp Utilities 2014 v14.0.1000.275
Dammit... why did I have to read this article? I was just about to post a rant in the comments of the original one about how evil and money-grabbing Facebook is, and now I find out the final design choice was made for perfectly-rational usability reasons that take into account the diversity of the user population.

How am I supposed to make myself feel superior now?
I had tried threes.. But I didn't like it.
I do like 2048
I feel like it's not really possible to be tested for ADD as an adult without just coming across as a person seeking amphetamines. Which is funny, considering how eager child psychiatrists are to hand out diagnoses.
How do you 'over-produce' phds... Society is getting 'too intelligent'? wtf?
Try Alan Carr's "Easy Way To Stop Drinking". Addiction perpetuates itself partly through false beliefs, this book goes through and debunks all of them. I used his guide to quit smoking, and it was really helpful.
It's not even that bad for many individuals - let's face it, many of us have more than one computer, so being able to install Office on all of them is quite nice. And I have to admit, the SkyDrive, er, OneDrive integration works quite well - I'm able to update documents on one of my computers and then not have to worry at all about getting the latest changes to another computer, my phone, or tablet.

And even the 60 Skype minutes has come in handy when I've needed to make international calls.

I'm still not a huge fan of applications I'm used to buying once every few years moving to the subscription model, but admittedly there are some positives with what MS has done here.
And when distance becomes to long for human-powered transport you can always use something like this: http://databikes.com/infophoto/ural/dnepr_mt_9-1969.html

It is what I use, summer and winter, in the Swedish countryside. While these older bikes might not be the epitome of efficiency (which is part of the reason why I'm trying to convert one to wood gas - plenty of wood here) they are easy to fix and a lot more fun than many other self-propelling vehicles. When it rains your clothes get wet, when it snows they get white. So what? When it is cold you dress up, when warm you do the opposite.

You might think this is impractical. You're probably right. Sometimes you have to trade in some efficiency and practicality for other, less tangible benefits.
What ratings? The article doesn't have any ranking lists, it discusses how Bogotá has become a more livable city.
All news is opinionated. Even the driest report has an implicit opinion on what facts were considered relevant to the audience and which ones should be left out. If in this case the algorithm is just turning data into English, they're just leaving the opinionating to whoever wrote the data report.
Ask HN: Where do people that talk about build robots hang out?
Is there a forum like HN where they trade tips on where to get parts and what kind of software they use, or what kind of problems they run into?
And what if providing different user experiences is the next thing Facebook should aim towards?
What if users would actually enjoy being able to choose from different UIs? "Which one do you use?"

I am not referring to responsive web here.
A very famous Harvard Nobel prize winning scientist had a phd student commit suicide while in his lab:

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/29/magazine/lethal-chemistry-...

Still there, still incredibly famous, still untouched.

Oh, and speaking specifically of chemistry, who can forget this brilliant gem?

http://www.chemistry-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/a40...

That's real by the way.
Based on your experience is it stable enough to upgrade to already? Previously some final betas were.
No trouble, I'm experiencing similar problems with trust trying to get my pentesting company started. The skepticism is frustrating, if understandable. :)

From what you've said, I'm inferring that when one utilizes an triangular arbitrage opportunity it is expended. If thats so, I would advise extreme caution. This could make scaling painful, as your customers would be using the same algorithm and finding the same opportunities, but only one of them would get the payout. The result would be that the value of your product decreases with the number of customers. Perhaps you could adjust your code so that it queries CEX no more than 600x/10min, and ever 6s on average, but the timing has a random element. This would prevent your clients from syncing with each other. YMMV.
My take on tone policing is it is a mechanism (whether conscious or unconscious) to tell people they shouldn't be as passionate and concerned about something as they are.

As such, it's relative to the tone of the forum (be it HN, tumblr, irl, wherever). If it's acceptable for me to say "goddamn NSA fucking ruining the internet" then it's acceptable for me to say "goddamn cis people who fucking ruin the internet" [1]

There are plenty of people on HN who speak passionately about many things, and who do so with expletives and curses, blunt and punchy statements. Personally I hope they can continue, but either way I hope it is explicitly allowed or discouraged in the guidelines.

Speaking to over-generalisations; it's a hard one. There is undoubtedly a need to talk about the commulative effect of oppressive groups, and there is definitely a need to talk a about subsections of oppressive groups who are actively doing opressive things (again, whether consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly).

Unfortunately we haven't yet figured out/settled on the language to use that differentiates between the two that doesn't involve a whole bunch of clauses and caveats. And given a forum where people are permitted to express their passion, extra clauses and caveats weakens the impact. When you are trying to communicate how fucked up a situation is to someone, it's exhausting and derailing to have to continually validate them and say "of course I don't mean everyone here, implicitly from the context I mean everyone who is engaging in this behaviour".

[1] I had to think a bit then for the phrasing where I could most easily argue "of course I don't mean every cis person" without also weakening the statement with extra clauses.
> There are a lot of hidden pitfalls in bitcoin security (such as - the above isn't guaranteed, if miners change their mind to be greedy and pick the transaction with the highest fee instead of the first one, that method breaks) so I'm not sure if it's bulletproof though.

Keep in mind that enabling this also opens up a counter-attack, against double spending: if User A sends 1 BTC to you with a fee of 0.0001 BTC, and you discover that, after sending this transaction to you, he sends the same 1 BTC to another address, this time with a 0.1 BTC fee, you can create a new transaction that spends the 1 BTC originally sent to you (with the 0.0001 BTC fee) which spends everything as a fee in this new transaction.

This way you don't actually get the money, the miners do, but you punish double spending. And if miners are greedy - and want to include whichever transaction makes them the most money - they will want include to include yours, as this makes them a whole 1 BTC in fees.

So in the end, while it may seem that miners including the highest-fee transaction increases the risk of double spending, it might actually prevent it, since merchants will also gain an effective way of punishing it.
Also, upgrading to the final release will happen automatically with your usual `apt-get upgrade`.

Edit: to clarify, I mean upgrading from this release to the final.
It would've been a really cool mindfuck if the article ended with something along the lines of "And this article was written by a bot"
I have become passionate tea drinker and can suggest it to anyone. I also spend time during tea drinking to meditate for a moment. Recently even perform gongfu style tea preparation.
Or.... you could practice moderation?

Alcohol does not make you into a problem. You make yourself into a problem, and lump alcohol in with all the other things that you could blame it on.

Grow up. Be accountable to yourself. Don't externalise blame.
Would that be the same case if I installed a daily build from a week ago?
151 days ago you said you'd been clean for a year and a half - what happened?
An alternative could be that the impact of an upvote is inversly proportional to its position on the page. You'd probably have to combine it with other metrics like age.
There was manual approval involved; I guess that's what took 3 minutes (or maybe 15 seconds for polling the data, 5 seconds for actually composing the article, and 2m 40s waiting for approval).
I care less about length and more about accuracy. Every news story I have happened know about personally has been totally wrong - this does not give me much confidence in journalism as currently practiced.

I guess we can look at this from a positive angle - the robots can't do any worse than the human journalists.
Quite likely, given that their online auction platform dominates the Japanese market (ebay eventually gave up).
Gnome 3.12 and FreeBSD (and a virtual machine)
Snuus is linked to mouth and throat cancer IIRC. I'd try prepacked ecigs such as green smoke, they're more expensive than liquids but very convenient and same form factor as a cig.
That looks great. No need for free, it looks well worth the $5!
But these kind of critics about known problems don't add any value.
I've been on it for a week now. It froze on me once on the lock screen, didn't notice anything else.
Should you take payments in Bitcoin?
Such a terrible article.

Just ask your friend. In 99% of cases, it's okay to ask. I mean if the guy or the girl want to leave, your friend is gonna to tell everything you need to know, what matters. And maybe, you aren't gonna to hire him because he is actually terrible or maybe your friend will just say he is fantastic and give you a green light.

> It is important to note that just about all of these kinds of policies violate the Right to Work laws in California.

There is no right to work in California. [1] It's the actual opposite. Coming from a VC, that's shameful.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
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Try living near a bunch of refineries. At night, the only things you'll see in the sky are a few planets and bright stars.... and if there are clouds, the flickering light from the stacks as they burn off gases.
Here is a great example of what not to do:

https://coingeneration.com
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I second that.

After having trouble with alcohol for over 10 years, I quit about a year ago. On my first day of not drinking I spent a long time reading rational.org, and parts of it were very useful to me.

I have to say, I've been feeling better and better over the entire year. Thinking more clearly. Better perspective on life. Hanging out with people I enjoy, and not spending too much time around people I used to drink with who drag me down.

In a way I could see that drinking was a problem at the time, but a year of not drinking (though also not complete sobriety ;) ) has put into perspective that it was a HUGE problem.

One side note that I think others here will relate to: Even when I was inebriated, I had very strong cognitive abilities in some areas, and I used that to convince myself that I could "handle it." I couldn't tell that my medium and long-term perspective was being thrown way out of whack.
Based on what does Amazon change the prices of their inventory?
One strong point for Ejecta is webGL support. Safari doesn't support webGL.
So their new design wasn't responsive? Am I missing something here?
OK this is a shame... but a quick look at the authors CV (on her webpage) shows that she graduated in 2007 and has two scientific publications, neither first author... which is OK for someone who appears to be 2 years into a PhD.

But reading her story I got the impression that she had been ground down or had been unfairly stepped over for years and was leaving in despair. I got the impression she chose to do an MS and PhD because she was being unfairly ignored despite a shining academic record ... but she started them in 2010 just 3 years after graduation.

So it reads like she has made a possibly sensible choice that academia is not for her. But it also seems graceless given here lack of experience to smear everyone around her.
> Of course, firefox is already bloody fast on any site I can think of.

That's because all the sites we can think of are designed to be fast in Firefox (and other current browsers). Once super-fast browsers become standard, we can start designing sites that would be unusable on today's Firefox :)
There are been rumours saying that it has been ready for months if not years.

The decision to release it is Nadella's.